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Jacob Cram

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Scientist studying marine microbial ecology and biogeochemistry

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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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Jacob Cram @cramjaco.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Wikipedia says this is the last book in a series. Do you recommend starting with this one or starting with one of the earlier books?
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Jacob Cram @cramjaco.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Now nobody will doubt @davidho.bsky.social 's credibility as a 2010s style hipster.
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Jacob Cram @cramjaco.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
@volts.wtf did a cool podcast once about how flywheels are an essential part of most power generation and how batteries are becoming an alternative, sort of. I enjoyed it. How inverters can stabilize a renewables-heavy grid share.google/MuksndKrdpX7...
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How inverters can stabilize a renewables-heavy grid
Daniel Duckwitz and Catarina Augusto explain how we can run stable electricity grids on inverter-based clean energy resources.
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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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Jacob Cram @cramjaco.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I think for it to actually confer SEAL status, per the rules of the navy, you have to bully a SEAL into giving the coin to you.
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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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Jacob Cram @cramjaco.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Oh no!
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Jacob Cram @cramjaco.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Anna! Im at cerf too. Hope to see you this week.
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 08/11/2025
Y’all these genzplyr PRs are off the hook: github.com/hadley/genzp...
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dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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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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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 21/10/2024
Python for R users blog.stephenturner.us/p/python-for... #rstats
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Python for R users
A Google search for “R vs Python” returns thousands of hits across sites like Reddit, IBM, Datacamp, Coursera, Kaggle, and many others.
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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Joining the race to the bottom has never been cooler... www.biorxiv.org/node/4580343... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A cellular entity retaining only its replicative core: Hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome
Defining the minimal genetic requirements for cellular life remains a fundamental question in biology. Genomic exploration continually reveals novel microbial lineages, often exhibiting extreme genome...
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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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Jacob Cram @cramjaco.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I think it would be reasonable to believe they number popes like floors in buildings and the pope before Leo 14 was Leo 12.
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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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Jacob Cram @cramjaco.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Me too. This is why I mostly listen to the Volts podcast. Totally add free. It's pretty enlightening to boot.
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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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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I have learned that some people have still not heard the Good News about Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. My gentle animated interactive explanation: elevanth.org/blog/2017/11...
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Markov Chains: Why Walk When You Can Flow?
In 1989, Depeche Mode was popular, the first version of Microsoft Office was released, large demonstrations brought down the wall separating East and West Germany, and a group of statisticians in the ...
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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
Respectfully, I don't think it's fair to blame the de-extinction crowd for this. I think Trump administration wants to pull species off the endangered list and are using whatever they can find as post hoc justification.
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Jacob Cram @cramjaco.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
In other news, Ive enjoued following @stephenturner.us for his enthusiastic views and updates on de-extinction in general. He provides a nice ballance to the views of many of my other colleagues.
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Jacob Cram @cramjaco.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
They argue that restoring these functions (1) meets some established definition of de-extinction and (2) may allow the Collosals dire wolf's to replace thr ecological niche of dire wolves if reintroduced to some environments.
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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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Jacob Cram @cramjaco.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Super helpful! Now can you please do: 1) Trilobites 2) El Chupacabra 3) Beluga whales 4) Spinach 5) Humanoid extraterrestrials 6) Microbial extraterrestrials 7) Manganese nodules 8) Argentine ants 9) Sturgeon 10) Talking frogs that turn into people under very specific circumstances
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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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