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Christie Bahlai

@cbahlai.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of computational ecology at Kent State. Armchair data science philosopher. Bug doctor. Cat person. 🇨🇦/🇺🇲. She/her

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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Over/under on how long until faculty somewhere get an admin email blaming them for grades not being submitted because they didn't preemptively download student work from Canvas in case of a global hacker attack
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Christie Bahlai @cbahlai.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Latest paper with @kbslter.bsky.social data 🙂
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Kristin Briney @kbriney.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I can't believe that my new book, The Data Management Workbook, comes out in less than 2 weeks. I'm very grateful to @cbahlai.bsky.social for writing this wonderful endorsement for it. Christie is not only a great scientist, but also an advocate for data management and open science.
Most researchers will acknowledge that data management is important, but it’s the details and the daily practices that trip them up. The Data Management Workbook takes us from knowing to doing and provides concrete exercises to build the habits, practices and skills we need to better preserve, document and store our note, data and analyses at all steps in the research process. I can’t wait to use this in my lab!
—Christie Bahlai, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Kent State University
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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Had a great and productive Status of #Insects #RCN working group meeting! Thank you @cbahlai.bsky.social and Eliza, Matt, Dave, Chris E and Chris H and everyone there! 🦋🐝🐞🐜🦗🦟🪰🪲🪳
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
As a native Ohioan, I'm still struck by the lack of stories on SB1 as the academic year in Ohio begins. Ohio is operating under the most restrictive higher ed law in the nation but you'd never know it based on reporting from Ohio.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 22/08/2025
ladies and gentlemen, the weekend.
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Christie Bahlai @cbahlai.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Hey everybody! I'm on sabbatical next semester and I've...been utterly negligent in planning it. What I'm saying is, if you were thinking about asking me for a department seminar etc between January and May 2026, I will put on a show for you. I'll talk about sampling theory, but cool!
Middle-aged white woman with glasses gives a thumbs up and a manic smile to the camera
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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
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Christie Bahlai @cbahlai.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Nevertheless you can buy my awesome friend @mapesgeog.bsky.social 's fantastic book at wvupressonline.com/New-American... and if she gets rich we'll be able to buy a much nicer isolated retirement commune for grumpy professor ladies.
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The New American Small Town
The New American Small Town Jennifer Mapes
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Jen Mapes @mapesgeog.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Gave a community book talk tonight and I am reminded that people don't realize the university pays us to write books. Like, we don't write them to get rich or even make money. I wrote a book 1. to share info more broadly 2. as part of my job. One of many reasons higher ed matters.
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Christie Bahlai @cbahlai.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Hey everybody! I'm on sabbatical next semester and I've...been utterly negligent in planning it. What I'm saying is, if you were thinking about asking me for a department seminar etc between January and May 2026, I will put on a show for you. I'll talk about sampling theory, but cool!
Middle-aged white woman with glasses gives a thumbs up and a manic smile to the camera
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 08/08/2025
LOL Musgrave
One side says that LLMs lack knowledge of the world because they’re extensively trained on text and have no model of the real world, the other side says LLMs have PhD-level intelligence. Guys, guys—you’re both right
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Christie Bahlai @cbahlai.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
"okho" I see no lies
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Edward R. Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
🎉New preprint! "TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing" tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA! Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.
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TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing
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Jen Mapes @mapesgeog.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Lots of (appropriate) outrage about the Brown student survey meddling but I’ve heard less nationally about what’s going on in Ohio (state inserting a required “bias” question into our surveys & requiring we be reviewed on it).
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rebeccacatto.bsky.social @rebeccacatto.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
A podcast interview with me on science & religion research just dropped: scienceandbeliefinsociety.org/s4-episode-3...
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S4 Episode 3: What do non-religious scientists think about their religious colleagues? - International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society
In the third episode of our new series, Dr Rebecca Catto, Associate Professor of Sociology at Kent State University (USA) who was for a decade a Principal Investigator on the Science and Religion, Exp...
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Christie Bahlai @cbahlai.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Okay so maybe a bit tho. Whatever, I'm still going to wear the chucks and sit backwards on the chair when I jam with my junior colleagues about radicalizing our approach to frequentist statistics.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I've reviewed many NSF proposals, and I've been on a few NSF proposal review panels. Those experiences helped me see that while some good proposals aren't funded, bad proposals definitely aren't. It's an insult to all scientists that DOGE is now doing additional reviews of funded proposals.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
So: In 2017, Congress made this happen: NIH: Proposed 22% cut --> 9% increase NSF: Proposed 11% cut --> 4% increase NOAA: Proposed 16% cut --> 4% increase Obviously, 2025 is not 2017. A lot is diff now. But still: 💰 Congress, not WH, sets budgets. 📞 Public support & calls to Congress matter.
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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enrich12 @enrich12.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Call me crazy---I think everyone should be able to eat.
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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I knew the U.S. higher education system was a massive draw for foreigners, but I did not know the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it did natural gas and coal combined. Great piece by @crampell.bsky.social
Colleges and universities are among America's most competitive international exporters. In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined.
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What are America's most competitive exports? By dollars, not coal or corn.
Dollar value of exports in select sectors, 2024
Education-related travel
$56B
Natural gas
34B
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Christie Bahlai @cbahlai.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
So excited to work with this super team!!
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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
So excited for this paper by the Insect Loss RCN led by Chris Halsh! #insectloss @cbahlai.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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Meta-synthesis reveals interconnections among apparent drivers of insect biodiversity loss
Abstract. Scientific and public interest in the global status of insects has surged recently; however, understanding the relative importance of different s
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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Live your life so that when you visit the Pope and he dies the next day everyone’s first thought isn’t “bet he killed him”
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Hegemonic masculinity is a cornerstone of fascism. So we can see the same dynamics in an altercation with a schoolyard bully. If a bully forced their victim to submission, it only makes the bully more powerful. It gives him legitimacy in the eyes of other peers who care about masculine domination.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/04/2025
Booker, after speaking for more than 24 hours and breaking Thurmond's record, is still standing and still speaking--using his time to warn his colleagues and his country about the dangers of defunding universities and defunding scientific research.
Booker telling the story of his father's experience with Parkinson's and using it to speak about the importance of funding research on science and health.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/04/2025
The rhetorical victory is this: the proposal that we can and will outlast them.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I'm sure y'all are fucking tired of me but one thing I wanna say upfront is that I am brainstorming on here how to talk about what we as academic scientists and experts do so that other people in our country can understand what will be lost.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
hello ok i am awake what did i miss tell me every thing
the classic windows xp wallpaper with your friend darth the red panda, a red panda wearing a darth vader outfit and with blue sky butterfly wings, flying above
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/03/2025
we believe we are special and we simply are not
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Long Term Ecological Research Network (United States) @uslter.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The LTER is great because we can support ecologists through their whole career. Next community call is about getting folks into the network! Recruiting and Retaining Scientists in the LTER: How to find and keep the best and the brightest! 🌟 March 26, 9am PT—register! lternet.edu/events/recru...
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Recruiting and Retaining Scientists in the LTER: How to find and keep the best and brightest! - LTER
Please join us for a lively conversation - bring your ideas, success stories, and favorite resources to share how we can collectively work to recruit and retain the best and brightest across the LTER ...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16/03/2025
hey that's fascism
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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Appropriate time to bring back my 5th grade winning essay: “Libraries change lives. I should know. Both my parents were poor growing up. But because of libraries, they became successful college professors. With the help of libraries, they found the books they needed, and those books were free.”
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Harry Stevens @harrystevens.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
🦋 In 20 years, the contiguous U.S. lost 22 percent of its butterflies, according to a groundbreaking new study published today. We got the data, and I made a tool that lets you find out what's happening with butterfly species in your town. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 1/3
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See How Butterfly Numbers Are Dropping Near You (Gift Article)
Populations are falling in the United States, a new study has found. Look up what’s happening in your area.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 04/03/2025
BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights. Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.
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Christopher Mootham @chrismootham.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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Christie Bahlai @cbahlai.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
How's your weekend been going? I replaced a broken tap in my bathroom! And in the process, I stripped the shutoff valve on the cold water supply and unglued the sink from the counter top. This feels like a metaphor but it isn't.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge in California has ordered OPM to rescind memos calling for the mass termination of probationary employees, saying the agency overstepped its legal authority and must inform other agencies it lacked the authority to issue such a directive.
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
We’re hiring! Looking for a seasonal insect job? Come survey butterflies and bees with VCE! vtecostudies.org/about-us/emp...
Bumblebee visiting a flower
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itati santamaria de Collins @itativcs.latinsky.app · 24/02/2025
If they are really cancelling NSF REUs, then we need to change graduate admissions to exclude or minimize the importance of past research experience. There's just no way to compete unless you are well connected or monied otherwise.
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Halaylah @halaylah.com · 24/02/2025
I've been screaming this for years.
"Listen, if a Bad President can come in and take away our rights and we're dependent on a Good President replacing them in four years to give us back our rights, then we do not have any rights.

"If politicians can take or distribute them, then they're not 'inalienable' and they're not 'rights.'

"We don't have inalienable rights we have conditional privileges, divvied out according to the whims of whoever currently holds the reins.

"And if we want to have actual rights, then we must build a system in which no one has the power to take them away to begin with."
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Sara Koopman @spaceforpeace.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
recap of things to learn from Korean movement, including a website making it easy to send text messages to anti-impeachment parliamentarians, effectively rendering their mobile phones unusable due to the overwhelming volume of incoming messages. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/02/less...
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What the US can learn from South Koreans who stopped an authoritarian power-grab
South Koreans reversed a martial law decree in just 6 hours, showing how ordinary citizens and politicians can take fast action to uphold democracy.
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
CNN made FOIA request about DOGE—only to learn FOIA staff was fired flip.it/tjEKRX
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CNN made FOIA request about DOGE—only to learn FOIA staff was fired
"Definitely never seen this type of response to a FOIA request," quipped one journalist.
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