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Frank Corso

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Data scientist and software founder who dabbles in biology. Makes small games over at @whivio.com frankcorso.me • Gainesville, FL

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
But arts businesses in the AI era might end up looking like the unrecoverable devastation of writing businesses in the internet era Social media caused a total collapse of publishers' business models, leading to an 85% drop in news & book employment that shows no sign of abating
a graph of written media employment
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 28/09/2026
Just saw this news now (looks like it is a few days old) arXiv has received private funding -- $17.2M to be distributed across the next 3-5 years to help it establish and transition to an independent not-for-profit. This is good news for the preprint server and open access resources! 🔭🧪
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arXiv receives Multiyear Philanthropic Commitments to Support Its Launch as an Independent Nonprofit
arXiv is pleased to announce that three leading philanthropic organizations have provided multimillion-dollar support for arXiv. These new multiyear…
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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pleased to see I've gained a few more followers through my inclusion in a Bluesky starter pack, 'Scientists Who Write Science Books.' For my followers, check out this list & find your favorite scientist authors who you might not have known are here! go.bsky.app/2LmKSDN
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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The shifting bell curve. Every summer since 1941, at every place on land, measured against how much that place's summers used to vary. In 1951–1980, a summer more than three standard deviations hotter than normal covered 0.1% of the land. In 2026 it covered 34%. #dataviz
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The shifting bell curve — summer heat on land, 1941 to now — celsius.earth
In 1951–1980, 0.1% of the world's land had a summer more than 3σ above normal. In 2026: 34%. Watch the whole distribution move, year by year.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Start to finish making of process for one of my porcelain tentacle handle cups! Throwing, trimming, glazing You can buy a unique cup like this on my website, www.roseschmits.com
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Michael Hiller @hillermich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy to share results of the @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social phase 1, providing reference genomes covering 21 bat families. New insights into bat phylogeny, ancestral genome reconstruction, European origin & ancestral echolocation. Great work by a team of 100+ colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - Nature
An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.
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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If @science.org is covering it, I guess I should share something here- we have for the first time definitively detected radio emission from a planet around another star! 🔭🧪🎢 What does this mean? Details in thread! (But TL;DR- still not aliens) 🧵 www.sciencenews.org/article/exop...
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First radio waves seen from an exoplanet hint at otherworldly auroras
The gas giant Beta Pictoris b, about 63 light-years away, has the mass of 10 Jupiters and a magnetic field thousands of times as strong as Earth’s.
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Nick Jourjine @nickjourjine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New preprint! TLDR: We mapped the genetic architecture of neonatal vocalization in deer mice, and found candidate genes expressed in the cerebellum that could be contributing to the evolution of temporal structure in infant cries #Bioacoustics #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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The Genetic Architecture of Neonatal Deer Mouse Cries Implicates the Cerebellum in the Temporal Control of an Infant Social Behavior
Vocal communication is a conserved vertebrate social behavior that begins at birth with the cries of infants. These neonatal vocal signals vary across contexts to elicit parental care that matches inf...
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wirepulleroo · Academic Publishing @wirepulleroo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🧠 Alzheimer’s may unfold in phases, not a straight line. This Nature review proposes inflection points that may explain pathology–symptom gaps. doi.org/10.1038/s415... #DementiaDiagnosisMatters #AlzheimerDiagnosisMatters #EarlyDiagnosisMatters #WorldAlzMonth #neuroskyence
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Inflection points and transitions in Alzheimer’s disease - Nature
Nature - Inflection points and transitions in Alzheimer’s disease
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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We're hiring! 🐾 Assistant Curator of Environmental Archaeology This is a 12-month, tenure-track position 👇 🔸 Full info: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/caree... 🔸 About the Department of Natural History at the Florida Museum: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/ 🏛️📌 Apply by Oct. 16, 2026
A woman in a striped shirt holds a fragment of pottery while standing in a storage area with shelves of archival boxes.An adult and two students examine seashells and small fossils in plastic bins in a classroom with educational posters on the walls.Four people work in a storage room filled with shelves of boxes, using laptops and lamps to examine specimens.A person wearing a cap sits on a beach, holding a sieve over a bucket with other buckets and nets on the sand.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart. medium.com/nightingale/...
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Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization
How do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably can’t. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try
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Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Curious about Zenodo as an OSF Project alternative? Here's a short video to get you started: File Uploads, Communities, and generating links for Anonymous Peer Review. youtu.be/jW84PxuJTMw
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Getting Started with Zenodo (transitioning from OSF Projects)
YouTube video by AMANDA MONTOYA
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 07/09/2026
📝 New article on Our World in Data: A never-ending childhood of malaria. Read accounts from those who have had a severe case of malaria, and many will describe it as one of the worst experiences of their life.
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Frank Corso @frankcorso.me · 03/09/2026
One thing I want to get better at is sharing the dataset I put together when working on my data stories. If 8 weeks of Apple Podcasts charts sounds useful to you, you can check out the dataset here: www.kaggle.com/datasets/fra... #DataAnalysis
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8 Weeks of Weekly Apple Podcasts Charts
Weekly Apple Podcasts charts for 21 countries from 2026-04-19 to 2026-06-07
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Frank Corso @frankcorso.me · 02/09/2026
A while back, I looked at how the top 20 podcasts in Science on Apple Podcasts change each week, which made me wonder which category changed the most. It turns out the top 25 podcasts in Comedy and News are the most stable, while True Crime and Society & Culture are the least stable.
A chart with title of "Which Apple Podcasts Category Charts Has The Most Stable Top 25 Podcasts Over an 8-Week Period" with a subtitle of "A look a the number of unique podcasts that appeared in the top 25 podcasts in a given category over the 8-week period. Fewer unique podcasts means the category is more stable". The chart shows Comedy, News, and Religion categories as being most stable and True Crime, Music, and Society & Culture as categories that are least stable.
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Michael Totty @mictott.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Incredibly proud to share our newest work where we developed a multiscale spatial transcriptomic atlas of the human amygdala using three complementary technologies! 1/12 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Multiscale spatial transcriptomics resolves the cellular and molecular architecture of the human amygdala
The amygdala is a central hub for emotional learning that is dysregulated across numerous psychiatric disorders, yet its molecular architecture in humans remains poorly defined. We here present a spat...
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Solar power made up 12.1% of US electricity this June, up from 10.3% last year Over the last twelve months, solar has made up 9.3% of US electricity, another record high!
A graph of solar's share of US electricity
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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
An international team of scientists collected and carbon-dated more than 7,500 marine fossils to understand time averaging—in which organisms from different time periods are preserved together in the same fossil bed. Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/pale... Study: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
close up of an oblong of sedimentary stone with many small shells embedded in it as well as several larger shells and an ancient sand dollar
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Thought it’d be nice to just have a simple vid without the fast editing to just show off the pots currently still available on the website. So enjoy a nice slow look at the pots and some smooth jazz 🎷 these pots are available on www.roseschmits.com Free UK shipping, worldwide available
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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Museum Resource 🐠 Fish Families of the World Gallery NEW resource! Searchable gallery of fish families of the world, with photos of specimens, CT scans and 3D models, x-rays, and notes on characteristics, habitats, etc. Browse: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fis...
a small preserved fish specimen is somewhat wrinkled and orange brown with a prominent head and mouth, a very short body, and a tail that is just a brief folded pale fan. It looks like it had a short appendage on the tip of its snout. It is  photographed on a gray background next to a ruler
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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A large, international team of scientists has determined that one in ten butterfly species globally has shifted its distribution range, with climate change & extreme weather driving ~80% of documented movements. Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/butt... Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
a black butterfly with yellow bands on its elaborately tailed black wings is trying to land on a large frond of a purple flower with a park or garden out of focus in the backgrounda shimmery blue butterfly is at rest on a drooping wet palm leafa large butterfly with elaborate black and white patterns on its wings it trying to feed from a small cluster of tiny red flowers against garden foliage
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10/08/2026
Color trends used to come and go—but the color recession that began this century threatens to turn our world permanently gray, Amogh Dimri reports:
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The Color Recession May Be Permanent
Consumers are so afraid of getting colors wrong, they don’t use them at all.
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 11/08/2026
COS is announcing important changes to the Open Science Framework (OSF). OSF Projects—used for project collaboration, file mgmt, & storage—is being phased out as an active workspace over the next 6 months. This change does not affect persistence & accessibility of existing public projects. (🧵1/2)
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I can’t say enough good things about this book, which my entire lab read together several years ago. It was hugely helpful to me even after tenure, and I consider myself to be a strong writer who usually loves writing!
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
✨Its the Porcelain Pots of your dreams ✨ Avialable on www.roseschmits.com Free UK shipping, worldwide available
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Helen Barron @helencbarron.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
***New preprint from the lab*** showing “Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits”. In sleep we show spiking sequences in V1 (sensory neocortex!) that represent information that has not been directly experienced www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @bndu.ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social
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Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits
To make flexible decisions, the brain needs to make inferences between events that were not directly experienced together. In sharp-wave ripple (SWR) events, during periods of rest and sleep, spiking ...
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Frank Corso @frankcorso.me · 28/07/2026
Shipped a small update this week to spf-validator, my open-source Python library for validating SPF records. Version 1.4.1 fixes 2 bugs and improves some checks related to the SPF record's redirect mechanism. Check it out on PyPI: pypi.org/project/spf-...
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spf-validator
Validates Sender Policy Framework (SPF) strings to ensure they are formatted correctly.
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I sound like a broken record, but if you can only do one sanity check before sharing your data, let it be this. Check your rows. 1. Do you have the correct number of cases? 2. Are any cases duplicated or missing? 3. Are the unique identifiers valid? Thank you for your time. 🙏
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PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“What a beautiful universe, hon" says a telescope as gazes upon an aurora borealis. “It really is”, responds the telescope's partner, who it turns out is not a telescope, but a microscope. Hands full of algae, she wades waist deep in a disgusting swamp, amazed by the heavenly microscopic life all around them.
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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Work with us! 🐟 Assistant Curator of Ichthyology This is a 12-month, tenure-track position 👇 🔸 Full info: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/caree... 🔸 Apply via @ufl.edu: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/54... 🔸 About us: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/ 🏛️📌 Apply by Aug. 21, 2026
Museum storage room filled with shelves of jars containing preserved specimens, with two women examining them.Person photographing a fish in a tank with white reflector boards, outdoors near a vehicle.Two people examine a large tank containing preserved specimens, possibly fish, in a research setting.
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
When sharing data, does anyone package their dataset with an actual validation script? Something that a computer can run to confirm that column level attributes are met? So beyond a data dictionary, something like a JSON Schema or maybe a YAML file with validation code?
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 11/07/2026
woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.
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Sarah Gollust @sarahgollust.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.
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Laura K. Jennings @laurakjennings.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
📢 We're hiring! The Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology at Montana State University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Microbiology. We welcome applicants working in microbial pathogenesis, immunology, genetics, microbial evolution, and related areas. Apply: jobs.montana.edu/postings/52009
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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I’m so sad to share that yesterday was my last day at Scientific American. It was an honor to work alongside my incredible colleagues and to speak with researchers across the sciences. If you’re looking to hire staff or freelance, please consider me and my other laid off coworkers (🧵)
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It's finally PREORDER DAY for The Psychology of Software Teams!!!!! Which means you are just a few clicks away from your own personal guidebook to being more human in tech 🥰 www.drcathicks.com#book
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Dr. Cat Hicks
Leading the science of software success
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23/06/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We're hiring! 🐟 Assistant Curator of Ichthyology This is a 12-month, tenure-track position 👇 🔸 Full info: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/caree... 🔸 Apply via @ufl.edu: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/54... 🔸 About the Dept. of Natural History, Florida Museum: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/
Group of people in a studio setting observing a clear container with an object inside, some taking photos with phones.Man in blue shirt holding a large fish and a tray of smaller fish, with a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission vehicle behind him.Two women working with animal specimens in a storage room with metal shelving and a forklift.Group of people looking at small fish and amphibians in a water tank during an outdoor educational event.
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Posit @posit.co · 16/06/2026
Organizing a community data science event or workshop? Posit wants to help! If you need event funding, awesome swag, social media signal boosts, or guest speakers/mentors, please reach out. Learn more: opensource.posit.co/about/commun...
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Community event and initiative support
Posit is committed to supporting the open-source community through conferences, community events, and educational initiatives. The wide adoption of open-source tools depends on the people who organize...
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 15/06/2026
Your infrequent gentle reminder: I would like to share your art/photos/activism if you have alt text on it! Alt text lets people with vision impairments, screenreader users, people who have connection issues/slow internet/not much data/etc, and people like me (Squint Kings) enjoy it!
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Science Magazine @science.org · 14/06/2026
A new Science study shows that bumble bees can position a ball underneath a fake “flower” to reach a reward, suggesting they can exhibit spontaneous problem-solving and challenging the notion that such advanced cognitive abilities are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates. scim.ag/4vs08dC
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Joshua Grochow @joshuagrochow.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A good, short read. “In a nutshell, this is the issue: PDFs are not written to be accessible content for all audiences. Instead, they are designed for creating print-ready documents for fully sighted readers.” The recommendation: HTML is way better than PDF for accessibility. #🧮 🧪
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Frank Corso @frankcorso.me · 09/06/2026
‪For those in tech in the Gainesville, FL area, we have our next GNV Tech Chats Coffee Social tomorrow at Resident Coffee. Check it out: luma.com/8udtxz2e #Gainesville #UF
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Tech Coffee Social - GNV Tech Chats · Luma
Join GNV Tech Chats for a morning coffee social and kick-start your day with great conversations and connections. Are you passionate about technology, design,…
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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 05/06/2026
We investigated which gaming hardware companies did their due diligence in 2025 to make sure their Xbox, PS5, Switch, PC, and accessory supply chains aren't funding armed conflict. Some...did far better than others. kotaku.com/gaming-companies-hardwar…
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Sony, Amazon Unsure If Their Supply Chains Funded Armed Conflict In 2025
Do PlayStation 5s and Amazon Basics headsets fund armed conflict? Who knows!
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Valentina Di Santo @vdisanto.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Introducing the undulating tripod gait, the walking strategy used by many fishes. We tracked the fishes, built a model, a robot, and found that 3 body segments, 2 fins, and friction are all it takes. No specialized anatomy required. Out today in Nature Communications www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Anthony Caravaggi @thonoir.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Survey data is a bit like a town. At first glance it's a crowd. Then you realise it's actually many crowds, a secret society, and a small dog wearing a hat. That is to say - I've written a blog post on analysing survey data in R. arcaravaggi.github.io/posts/2026-0... #rstats #Statistics
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Analysing Respondent Attitudes from Surveys in R
Wildlife management decisions are rarely settled by ecological data alone. They live or die in the messy human world of competing values. Understanding what people think and why is as much a scientifi...
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Now is the time to make your thing. Stop motion with LEGO, webcomic, walking sim game, weird Halloween costume, backyard water feature, container garden. This is your sign. Make your thing. Stop waiting. Do it.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
SPLICECRAFT v1.0 IS LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!! Open your terminal and type in "pipx install splicecraft" if you want to try it out, then spam "splicecraft update" often as I push updates frequently. A labor of love for the community I adore. Enjoy! 💚
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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Bark Beetle Calligraphy 🪲 Can insects create art? In huge numbers, bark beetles inscribe their life stories onto dead wood. It is beautiful, and it lets you peek into a universe where life pulsates fast and at a tiny scale. Online exhibit with Jiri Hulcr: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/onl...
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