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Li Han Chan @mimilovesmilo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"oh R can be fun" -friday evenings

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This is us. All of us. Sitting comfortably while the planet burns.

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Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

So apparently, University of Nebraska has “discontinued” my masters student, who has been working on her thesis, has active paperwork, and has an advisor (why else would I still be adjunct there after their actions??). I am furious. So much for “protecting” students as they eliminated our programs.

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I'm a cognitive scientist with an interest in epistemic vigilance, and this essay that's been going around gave me pause. I don't think it's straightforward to apply the concept of epistemic vigilance to interactions with LLMs, as this essay does. 🧵/ sbgeoaiphd.github.io/rotating_the...

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Amplifiers of Epistemic Posture

Essays and writing on AI

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

“What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?” Weissman told the New York Times.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Anyway, public service announcement for anyone going to AGU next week: if you see a Nebraska geoscientist, you're morally obligated to give them a hug, buy them a beignet, offer to mail an envelope of glitter to a UNL regent of their choice, or something like that.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/12/2025

“I just remember a bunch of people started screaming.” An 18-year-old who was shot in the leg at Brown University on Saturday afternoon described the moment that shots rang out in a classroom where students had gathered to prepare for an economics exam. nyti.ms/48FrxAo

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Hospitalized Brown Student Describes Hiding from Shooter

The student, in his first year at Brown, was shot in the leg. He described helping others who were more seriously injured as they hid in their classroom.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Crocheted a geode, like you do 🧶 #crochet

A soft crocheted geode made of yarn and pink beads on the inside to imitate crystals

A soft crocheted geode made of yarn and pink beads on the inside to imitate crystals. It is shown from the side to show the outside “rock”

A soft crocheted geode made of yarn and pink beads on the inside to imitate crystals. It is sitting on a marble counter

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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The scientific process...

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 24/06/2025

If you don't support Heated by @emorwee.bsky.social, you really should. She has a great piece today about the current heatwave, which climate change made many times more likely, and how to think about it in the context of the Big Beautiful Bill heated.world

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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated". #climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience

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Jeff Perez @jeffperez.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Big thanks to @mimilovesmilo.bsky.social for a great collab during her @daadworldwide.bsky.social RISE internship at @gfz.bsky.social! And grateful to @diamondlightsource.bsky.social for beamtime at I20-scanning that allowed us to "look" inside the crystal structure of these minerals. 💡💠

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

If you’re an undergrad or recent graduate and think more support and advice can help you take the next step, this is for you. Please pass word on to folks in ecology, evolution, and organismal biology.

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Sarah Guest @sarahmoeba.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

An amoeba movie I made: "hungry" #protistsonsky #amoeba

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/05/2025

“Life is better when we leap together.” Kermit the Frog delivered a commencement speech at the University of Maryland on Thursday, the alma mater of his creator, Jim Henson. nyti.ms/4dwMuhQ

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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

So -- What are Ralstonia and why are they goopy? Ralstonia are bacterial pathogens of plants. They colonize and clog the water-transporting xylem vessels, causing rapid-onset wilt disease—they can fatally wilt plants within days. This timelapse by Jonathan Jacobs shows a sped-up time-course.

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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.

The Women going to the Sepulchre, 1912, Robert Anning Bell
Painting of women in blue garments walking leftward, one woman, and then five behind her, on a flat plain, hazy sky ....

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Dr. Elise Gornish @restorecal.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Hi Folks! Myself and the Barberan Lab at U of A are still looking for a PhD student to work on an NSF funded project exploring effects of fire and invasion on soil microbes. We are looking for someone to start in Fall! SOON! Email me if you are interested! PLS Repost! @EsaSeeds

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

You want to see an octopus riding a shark. 🎥: University of Auckland www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🥁 We are happy to announce the release of a new version of curatedFoodMetagenomicData (cFMD) 🔗 Get it here: github.com/SegataLab/cFMD 🧵👇 1/5

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GitHub - SegataLab/cFMD: Public repository for cFMD - curatedFoodMetagenomicData

Public repository for cFMD - curatedFoodMetagenomicData - SegataLab/cFMD

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Ok who wrote this headline. WHO DID IT. I would like to give them a prize. Also yell at them. Country toads, take me home To the place, they belooong They took Australia, caused all the drama Take me home, country toads.

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Rachel Poretsky @rporetsky.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

“Many grad programs are pausing and reducing admissions in response to NIH funding pauses and pending EO’s on indirect cost reductions. These workforce reductions have the potential to imminently and irreversibly harm research labs & grad programs”

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Josh Barocas, MD ⭕️ @jabarocas.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better… -For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return. -Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/11/2024

When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit. Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention. Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"

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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

"Even though I walk through the valley of humongous genomes, I will fear no evil, for PacBio HiFi is with me"

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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Tips for properly handling **tabular data** MUST READ for 🧪+ 📊 & kind of which my past self would have had this 😢 Part of the "Simple Rules" in @plos.bsky.social computational biology: PLoS Comput Biol 20(11): e1012604. doi.org/10.1371/jour... by Hertz MI, McNeill AS.

Above: hallmarks of well managed tabular data; Below, a negative examples. Contains examples how data should be presented in tables/dataframes to be fully reproducible and legible.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

very funny to be worrying about trans women in the white house washrooms while rapists and pedophiles freely roam the halls

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I first read this years ago when it was given to participants in an environmental leadership training, and it's been hugely helpful. They also offer this cheat sheet of evidence-based practices to help give our nervous systems a break and manage burn out.

A tiny survival guide to avoiding burnout, including: protect your mornings, go outside, be active, cultivate relationships, nurture gratitude, detox (navigate addictions), spend time with animals, simplify, admire art, laugh, foster humility and extend grace, sleep and clarify intentions.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

I keep seeing the clip of a meteorologist breaking down when discussing Milton. As a glaciologist, I say: Getting emotional about the effects of climate change is not unprofessional; it is a rational reaction based in scientific and cultural knowledge of the past, present, and future of the planet.

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

Prague, 23 November 1911
Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie,
Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say.
But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you!? that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling. However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism!
I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin(3) too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom i

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Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

Teaching intro data science or stats in environmental sciences / ecology this fall? The lterdatasampler package is now on CRAN, with curated real world datasets from the US Long Term Ecological Research program! Check it out: lter.github.io/lterdatasamp...

A hexagonal design with the words lterdatasampler at the top. Within the border are plants, animals and weather patterns representing the different datasets currently in the package.

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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

📣 Introducing 📣 microPublications in Ecology and Evolution! Please help support this effort by spreading the word and submitting and reviewing papers! #evolution 🌎 🌍 🌏 🧪 #PlantScience #conservation

We are thrilled to announce the launch of an Ecology and Evolution section of microPublication Biology! Please support this new venture as an author, reviewer, and/or promoter!

microPublication Biology publishes single, validated findings that may be novel, reproduced, negative, or are the result of small projects that may not fit into a larger article. The major goal of microPublication Biology is to rapidly place research findings into the public domain. microPublication Biology only accepts original, high-quality data and work, independent of perceived impact. Review and publication standards align with COPE ethical guidelines. All published articles are published in English and are peer-reviewed by at least one expert reviewer.

Articles typically include a short abstract, a main section approximately 1000 words in length, a methods section, one figure (which can have multiple panels), and tables if appropriate.

What types of papers are suitable for microPublication?
- Exciting new research findings or methods that you want to publish rapidly in the public domain.
- Experimental findings derived from small projects.
- Preliminary data to cite in grant proposals.
- Findings included in an existing publication as “unpublished observation” or “data not shown”.
- Publishing results instead of burying them in supplemental materials.
- Nature notes and natural history observations.
- Successful or unsuccessful replication of published work.
- Cautionary information.
- Negative results.
- If the amount of your data does not fit within one microPublication, you can prepare several submissions, each focused on an independent result, and tie the articles together with an Integrations article, which serves as a summary narrative article (see here for an example).

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. " - Rumi Lottie wishes everyone a good weekend.

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

M 7.4 - 18 km SSW of Hualien City, Taiwan Landslides and liquefaction are likely to be widespread. According to USGS PAGER 23+ million people may have experienced moderate to very strong shaking & an additional 16 million could have felt light or weak shaking. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Map showing areas of shaking around the earthquake.

Map showing areas of potential landslides. Most areas are close to the location of the quake and along the mountain front.

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Michael Roast @roasty247.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

Seems like solid best practice advice to me! Four principles for improved statistical ecology: @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social #ecology #stats #research #Rstats #ecoevo besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

What if It Didn’t Happen: Data Management and Avoiding Research Misconduct | Journal of eScience Librarianship publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/artic... Good morning! My last piece for 2023 with Kristin Briney and Heather Coates! #DataManagement #ResearchMisconduct #RDM #Data

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Microbial life in slow and stopped lanes Trends in Microbiology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

I wrote an op-ed for the NYT about what reporting on long COVID has meant to me—how I approached it, the impact it had, and how it taught me to be a better journalist. This piece is sort of a manifesto for a journalism grounded in compassion, rigor, and care. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/o...

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Opinion | Reporting on Long Covid Taught Me to Be a Better Journalist

Covering long Covid solidified my view that science is not the objective, neutral force that it is often caricatured to be.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 27/11/2023

One word at a time.

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Li Han Chan @mimilovesmilo.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Curiousity and empathy for one another, congrats again!

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27/10/2023

Whether it's caused by an airborne virus, guns, or war, refuse to normalize mass death.

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Kristen DeAngelis 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @kristenobacter.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Our paper on thermal adaptation of bacterial growth in response to long-term warming is out, and I want to tell the story bc it still blows my mind that we were able to do this science in a pandemic. 🪡 🧵

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