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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 16/02/2026

‘Green open access’ has existed for decades – and it’s not hard to get academics to use it more.

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Thousands of paywalled research papers could be freed with this simple fix

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Did you know that strawberries are not berries, and are actually mammals?

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Wrazn @wrazn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

www.youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0... A video from board-certified ophthalmologist a @glaucomflecken.bsky.social - FYI if you ever get pepper spray somehow onto you, in some manner.

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What To Do If You Get Pepper Sprayed

YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 15/01/2026

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Wow! Yay! The Senate just rejected Trump’s proposed science cuts, voting 82–15 to boost funding for NOAA, NASA, and the NSF. The bill already passed the House 397–28. Strong bipartisan support for science still exists.

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US Senate passes bill to boost federal science spending after White House sought major cuts

The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to approve billions of dollars in funding for federal science agencies, rejecting deep cuts proposed by President Donald Trump in space and other areas.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I'll take it 😎

Funding deal rejects Trump’s push for major science cuts
Congressional appropriators released a “minibus” of three bipartisan spending bills today that would pare back the budgets of some science agencies but largely reject Trump’s request for steep cuts. The minibus consists of the Commerce-Justice-Science, Energy and Water Development, and Interior-Environment bills, which cover a substantial portion of federal research funding for fiscal year 2026.
The package includes:
$24.4 billion for NASA, a 1.6% cut (including $7.25 billion for NASA Science, a 1.1% cut);
$8.75 billion for the National Science Foundation, a 3.4% cut;
$8.4 billion for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, a 1.9% increase;
$6.17 billion for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, roughly flat funding;
$1.42 billion for the U.S. Geological Survey, a 2.0% cut; and
$1.18 billion to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a 2.3% increase

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Jacob Cram @cramjaco.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

2025 recap: capping all the uncapped markers in my house.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.

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Jacob Cram @cramjaco.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Intrigued by the "Aquarium Liquid" scented hand soap refill. Anyone have experience with this variety?

Image of two hand soap refills available on Walmart app. One is for "aquarium scented" soap. The other is "aloe scented"

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Ben Schneider @bschneidr.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Excited to see this post by Heather Turner with more details on their recent RSMF grant for enabling future contributions to R. I'd encourage #rstats folks to give it a read: there are some much-needed modernisation ideas in here. blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...

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RSMF: Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R - The R Blog

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Chris Wallace @chr1sw.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I have seen many people say that no academic needs to use LLMs for writing, because of course we are all already excellent at writing. I fear that risks exacerbating imposter syndrome in early career researchers. I therefore want to raise my hand and say while I enjoy writing, I find it hard.

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 18/10/2025

What type of #microscopy would allow for watching real time cell division of an anaerobic bacterium (~1 x 0.5 um rod) at resolution high enough to view internal structure? Doubling time of ~2 days. #MicroSky

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 13/10/2025

Big news! We're hiring lots of new faculty here at the University of Virginia School of Data Science @uvadatascience.bsky.social! You can find all our postings here: datascience.virginia.edu/faculty-jobs

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11/07/2025

DO NOT GIVE UP! Our advocacy is working. A key Senate committee has indicated that it will reject Trump’s proposed cuts to science agencies including NASA and the NSF. Keep speaking up and calling your electeds 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Nature: US senators poised to reject Trump’s proposed massive science cuts

Committee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation and other agencies.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Indiana Jones and the Concur Travel Reimbursement System

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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

News from the NSF Division of Earth Sciences Informational Webinar: If US scientists want to support NSF EAR, they should continue to submit proposals. The number of proposals is an important metric for quantifying need and therefore influencing the budget

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Jacob Cram @cramjaco.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Well shoot. This foils my system/hack of having an accessible preprint version of every one of my closed source papers.

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

(Longish thread. Apologies) I have met many inspiring colleagues over the past few months, many of whom are in academic institutions targeted by the current administration, and many others who are about to be (the analogy to the ‘eye of Sauron’ has been invoked many times; gallows humor). 1/

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 03/06/2025

Are all muppets the same species just with wildly different phenotypes like dogs or are there a lot of different species of muppet

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 01/06/2025

by carefully mixing 10% cream with 1% skim milk, you can unlock forbidden milk percentages the government doesn't want you to know about, like 7.725%

some milk I used to make Forbidden Percentages. I didn't mention 2% in my post though. I gotta keep some secrets

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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 23/05/2025

the INCREDIBLE self-restraint, sustained across DECADES, that's kept anyone from slipping "calendar-makers day, the day when you high-five a maker of calendars" into their calendars qwantz.com/index.php?co...

T-Rex: We have Mother's Day, and we have Father's Day, but what about OTHER familiar relationships?

God: WE HAVE THOSE TOO THEY'RE JUST NOT AS POPULAR
T-Rex: Ah.

T-Rex: Okay, well - fallback topic, what about FRIENDS? How come there isn't a FRIENDS DAY?
Dromiceiomimus: There is a day for friends. There is a day for every relationship you can think of, T-Rex, because anyone can make one up. But as there's no central authority, most are desperately obscure and unpopular.

T-Rex: Aha! So to make a day celebrating what *I* want, I just have to make it popular!
Utahraptor: How hard could it be?

T-Rex: NOT HARD AT ALL, Utahraptor - I need simply BUY A CALENDAR COMPANY and then get my day added to all their calendars, and then people will be like "Oh hey, it's 'Hug A T-Rex Day' today. Makes sense: THEY can't hug back with those tiny arms, they must need all the help they can get, hah hah hah!"

T-Rex: Okay, so even in my fantasies I'm dunking on myself??
T-Rex: ...I need to get to the bottom of this, STAT

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Rich Abdill @richabdill.com · 19/05/2025

We wrote up the process we've developed for processing microbiome data in bulk! Workflow management tools are miraculous for processing a project with lots of samples, but when you have lots of *projects* too, as we do when pulling data from NCBI databases, it gets hard to juggle. #microbiomesky

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Compendium Manager: a tool for coordination of workflow management instances for bulk data processing in Python

Compendium Manager is a command-line tool written in Python to automate the provisioning, launch, and evaluation of bioinformatics pipelines. Although workflow management tools such as Snakemake and N...

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Important piece from a voice outside the biomedical research space amplifying a view in accessible terms into political deal-making corridors that need to raise the alarm...

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 12/05/2025

Still struggling with closure here. Trycycler, unicycler, raven all resolve to 2 large linear contigs ~ 3.5 Mbp and 1.3 Mbp. High GC (70%). GC skew does not look like a typical circular chromosome. It's not a streptomyces, but should I be thinking of linear chromosomes? How would I identify this?

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We Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 09/05/2025

Exploring themes in {ggplot2}? 🎨 Check out: bit.ly/4d9jtbH It lets you preview different themes before adding them to your code - so handy for picking the perfect vibe! ✨ It features packages like: 🖌️ {ggthemr} 🌙 {ggdark} 👩🏽‍🔬 {ggtech} ⚙️ Setting an active theme globally #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Long read sequencing experts: what lysis method would you recommend for skin punch samples? (To be followed by phenol/chloroform extraction) In this case they are whale skin punches but I'll take any recs.

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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Excited to share our new mSphere paper describing ssRNA viruses associated with Karenia brevis harmful algal blooms in southwest Florida in mSphere led by Jean Lim - a 🧵(1/10) 🧪🦠🌊 #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky #USFCMS @asm.org @cmarinescience.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

Image of the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis under the microscope. The dinoflagellate is heart shaped and the chloroplasts are clearly visible around the edges of the cell.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Alright I need to use this website for something that this website is actually good at: brainstorming examples of things in a category. The category is: mechanisms of small-scale information delivery. Examples: Fortune cookies Advent Calendars Jokes on popsicle sticks What else is there?

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Jacob Cram @cramjaco.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I've been enjoying the dire wolf discussion on here but hadn't really seen the pro argument spelled out fully until this video. Apparently, Collosal identified 20 key functional differences between gray- and dire wolves, added those back into gray wolves to make essentially a"functional" direwolf.

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Giles @gdeejay.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I've been browsing random TV channels and it makes me think of when Rick was channel surfing on inter-dimensional cable on Rick and Morty. It's so much fun!

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 29/03/2025

In our latest blog post we discuss why "Shadow Mentors" are important in careers. I've been fortunate to have many—too many to list here. Check it out below and please share with someone who might find it useful. uncultured.carinilab.com/p/beyond-off...

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Beyond Official Advisors: The Power of Shadow Mentors

Build a Cabinet of "Shadow Mentors"

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Lennart Bach @bachlennart.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Postdoc position available studying the biological carbon pump within Jan Taucher's team at GEOMAR 🌊 www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...

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Postdoc (m/f/d) position in ocean biogeochemistry

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/03/2025

It is disheartening, vis a vis abundance, to see everyone rushing to draw lines & choose teams. That gets you past the difficult part of thinking, into the easy part of yelling at your opponents online, but ... maybe this is a good time for thinking! Gathering evidence. Withholding judgment.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Please enjoy part 1 of a series of blog posts written by myself and @brettfavaro.bsky.social offering our advice on how scientists can effectively speak with jouranlists about our areas of expertise. Part 2 is coming next week. Please read and share! www.southernfriedscience.com/advice-for-t... 🧪

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Advice for talking to the media as a conservation scientist: Part 1

By David Shiffman and Brett Favaro. Many environmental scientists understand that there is value in communicating about their work through the media, as publicity can help raise public awareness of…

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

If you’re in New Orleans for the Aquaculture meeting, join me for a #SciComm workshop on Saturday at 1:30! 🦑🌎🧪🐠

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/02/2025

Remarkable thread offering guidance to current and prospective NSF grantees about how to navigate the times ahead — from an NSF program officer who was fired in yesterday's DOGE purge (!)

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Katie Langin @klangin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025

I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment. Humor me?

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨 It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax. This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types. Check it out! grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/02/2025

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

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INTRODUCTION

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me. Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

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Jacob Cram @cramjaco.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I'm looking up at the moon right now and not seeing Mars. Breathtaking.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/01/2025

brb packing for my move to the cloud cities of Venus youtu.be/0az7DEwG68A?...

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A way to explore Venus

YouTube video by NASA Langley Research Center

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/01/2025

Here’s a fun (short) paper by a NASA scientist explaining why we should go build cloud cities on Venus because “At cloud-top level, Venus is the paradise planet” ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation...

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