Reposted by Dr. Vaskar Nepal🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 30/06/2026This sport is the beststatic.klipy.comfootball is lifeALT: football is life 0276 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 24/06/2026Sports Commentary xkcd.com/3262/ 363494455 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalConvention on Migratory Species (CMS) @cms.int · 24/06/2026Many animals rely on darkness to rest, feed, move safely and find their way. But artificial light can disturb these natural rhythms, including for migratory species like sea turtles, bats & birds. Watch this video to learn how small changes at home and in our communities can help protect wildlife. 24326 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalNick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Finally finished @philipcball.bsky.social's wonderful "How Life Works"! When I hit the part on the 2nd Law felt compelled to share my comic on Entropy from a few years back, bits of which I'm expanding on in the new work (& one reason I read this brilliant book!) spinweaveandcut.com/sketching-en... 89330 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalDemetri @phdemetri.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Don't fall in love with your paper drafts 1122 0
Dr. Vaskar Nepal @nepalvaskar.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Harry Kane is the most complete and versatile player I have ever seen. 111 0
Dr. Vaskar Nepal @nepalvaskar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026If this trend keeps, I and my coauthors won’t be able to publish in the MDPI journals. And that’s okay with me. 😁 010 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalDaniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Measles cases have accelerated alarmingly over the past couple of years. From the Washington Post editorial. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... 25125 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalAndrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 07/06/2026A presentation is not a comprehensive overview of the whole accompanying paper. It’s the key methodological points, results highlights, and essential take-away messages. Lots of people have started including QR codes to their preprints at the end. This is a great idea! (9/11) 1652 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalNatee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I hate painting epoccipitals almost as much as I hate painting teeth. In fact, no, more than teeth. I can at least choose to hide the latter. 😅 722635 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 04/06/2026your feedback was kind gentle and correct and still i resent you 5749 0
Dr. Vaskar Nepal @nepalvaskar.bsky.social · 02/06/2026At the Chesapeake Community Research Symposium, where I will be presenting some work looking at common gotchas when using bioenergetics models to calculate habitat suitability indices for fishes. 000 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalNoppy @thomasnoppers.com · 23/05/2026Today is my birthday. If you wanna give me something: Spread my art. Thank you. 45254177 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalProf. Martin Solan @profbenthos.bsky.social · 18/05/2026*JOB* We are seeking a marine ecologist to investigate how physical disturbance - bottom trawling - influence carbon, nutrient and greenhouse gases. The advert is now live until 08/06/2026. PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY. jobs.soton.ac.uk/3416326HNjobs.soton.ac.ukJob Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellow in Marine EcologyWe are seeking a highly motivated Marine Ecologist to join our collaborative research group at the University of Southampton. This position is funded by the NERC C-FLOOR highlight topic and offers a u... 1511 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Hey Gandalf, what animal is closely related to maize? 78112 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalThe Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 13/05/2026Gift link: The drops in U.S. scores go beyond the pandemic and cut across income, geographic and racial divides, new data shows. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...nytimes.comYour School District Is Probably Scoring Worse Than 10 Years Ago 1166 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalDr. Dominic Royé @drxeo.eu · 04/05/2026On my way to #EGU26, perfect time to drop a new post! 🗺️ Something I've been wanting to write about: Mercator projections still showing up in high-profile journals. So here it is: projections you should stop using (for most things) 👇 #gis #rstats #dataviz dominicroye.github.io/blog/map-pro...dominicroye.github.ioMap projections: a practical guide to common mistakes and how to fix themResearcher in climate science at MBG-CSIC 29141 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalInformation is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 22/04/2026World's most contagious falsehoods See all 70 bit.ly/IIB-Mythconc... data & sources bit.ly/KIB_Mythconception 1186 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalRetraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 21/04/2026An author in China with nearly 500 preprints has continued to add his daughter’s name to papers – despite her insistence she was not involved.retractionwatch.com‘I asked him to stop’: Father adds daughter’s name to over 100 preprints without her permissionAnja/Pixabay An author in China with nearly 500 preprints has continued to add his daughter’s name to papers – despite her insistence she was not involved. Shifa Liu, whose papers list affili… 0214 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalSpace @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter... 2113803650 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalKatie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Following completion of the largest dam removal in US history in 2024, the Upper Klamath River saw its first naturally hatched Chinook salmon this year - a promising sign of recovery for both the fish and the tribes that historically relied on them www.ijpr.org/wildlife/202...ijpr.orgChinook salmon are hatching in Upper Klamath for first time in a centuryThe Klamath Tribes are celebrating evidence of Chinook salmon spawning in Klamath River tributary. 06818 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalAnthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 17/04/2026phys.org/news/2026-04...phys.orgMosquitoes reach Iceland for the first time as the Arctic heats upIn what is possibly another sign of climate change, mosquitoes have landed in Iceland for the first time. For many years, the island was the only Arctic country that could claim to be mosquito-free. B... 044 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalChelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 09/04/2026This is another great example of a rule that resonates with me: When someone asks you to send more time consuming/interacting with material than was spent creating it, it is SOUL CRUSHING 0351 0
Dr. Vaskar Nepal @nepalvaskar.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Students in my ichthyology class made these posters on sensory systems in fishes. Rather happy with most of these. 011 0
Dr. Vaskar Nepal @nepalvaskar.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Great news. Just yesterday, I tried fitting some of the models on the vignette pages, but the package didn’t have those models. I was perplexed, but this makes sense. 100 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalScientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The intermediate value theorem shows us how to find an even center on an irregular shapescientificamerican.comThe mathematically correct way to slice a pizzaThe intermediate value theorem shows us how to find an even center on an irregular shape 1376 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalReuters @reuters.com · 07/04/2026Thousands of small fish defy gravity to climb Congo waterfall reut.rs/4tx89gsreut.rsThousands of small fish defy gravity to climb Congo waterfallA species of small fish has been observed by the thousands climbing a vertical waterfall 15 metres (50 feet) tall in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a behaviour that illustrates the surprising and ingenious ways animals can adapt to extreme environments. 0497 0
Dr. Vaskar Nepal @nepalvaskar.bsky.social · 31/03/2026This is how I learned that lme4 now has ar1(). How did I miss this awesome update? 000 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalDavid Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Claude is amazing. Just two years ago, my youngest was crying all the time and acting like a baby. But then Claude came out and now she’s crying less and acting more like a toddler. 019318 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 29/03/2026You ask: "Where's my flying car?" I ask: "Where's my omnibus p53 cancer drug?" 2259 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalDanielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 21/03/2026Decided that the time has come to wrap up the series of #rstats art pieces I've been posting recently. As usual, the pieces themselves are released under CC-BY licence, and the source code is linked to from the gallery pageart.djnavarro.netNautilus – Art by Danielle Navarro 33710 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalPhysicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 21/03/2026@simonmaechling.bsky.social #medsky 18579321939 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalNick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Students wrestle w/Why Superheroes Matter (to them)? Some fantastic responses – comics, videos, songs. Some of the strongest ones, saying a lot in rather short comics (if hard to share format-wise here). I struggled to define this project, but these really sang! spinweaveandcut.com/superhero-cl... 1265 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalBraasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Happy St. Patrick’s Day 🍀 from the emerald bowfin! It’s not easy being green! How does it do it? We don’t know for sure, but suspect it is biliverdin. More research in the works… 🧪 #EndlessFishMostBeautiful 12410 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalRJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 12/03/2026Every field needs someone who keeps it from forgetting itself. @datavisfriendly.bsky.social has spent decades doing just that: giving data graphics a memory. My latest for CHARTOGRAPHY: www.chartography.net/p/data-graph...chartography.netData Graphics Need a MemoryHow Michael Friendly gave charts a history. 094 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalRamin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/03/2026Another day, another stupid Excel chart. 142091458 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12/03/2026The #1 threat to sharks and rays, by far, is unsustainable fishing practices (not just shark finning). But the #2 threat is habitat loss. Learn more about it: saveourseas.com/worldofshark...saveourseas.comHow does habitat loss affect sharks and rays? - Save Our Seas FoundationWhen an area of ocean or coastline is changed or degraded beyond the point that it can serve as a home for the species that live there, or is even destroyed entirely, that’s habitat loss. 1348 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 11/03/2026This still sounds kind of crazy to me, but I'll be speaking at the TED Conference this year. They have written a very nice bio of me. 617212 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalMethods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Published📖 Validating a low-cost alternative to body surface area estimation: Implications for energy budgets and scaling relationships of ectotherms 🦎 🐍 🔎 Read more:buff.ly 042 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalNPR @npr.org · 09/03/2026For decades, parents were told to help children build willpower like a muscle, to resist things like junk food and too much time on their screens. But new research suggests a better strategy. n.pr/40g9n3gn.prKids' willpower is no match for fast food and screens. Try this insteadFor decades, parents were told to help children build willpower like a muscle, to resist things like junk food and too much time on their screens. But new research suggests a better strategy. 418331 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalOur World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 09/03/2026One and a half million people are killed by animals every year. Almost one million by other animals, and more than half a million from direct conflict among ourselves. Almost all of these deaths from other animals are caused by just two types: mosquitoes and snakes. 1513846 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalMatt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I started making this R package 6 years ago. I finally have it in a state I'm happy with, thanks to Claude Code #Rstats github.com/MattCowgill/... 820541 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea @icesmarine.bsky.social · 09/03/2026"Wait, R can do that?" Yes! Vector data, raster analysis, interactive maps, spatial queries. All reproducible, all documented. 📢Sign up for our training course now Intro to mapping & spatial analysis with R 📅25–29 May📍Copenhagen ⏰Deadline 30 March www.ices.dk/events/Train... 0115 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalAppendix N Entertainment @appendixn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026 1203828768 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/03/2026In 1550, one Elephant Power (EP) was the equivalent of 10 Horse Power (HP). 615439 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalProf Andy Field @profandyfield.com · 05/03/2026Publication date looms ever closer ... physical copies exist (at the @sagepub.com London office, I await my own copy with excitement). 1635 0
Dr. Vaskar Nepal @nepalvaskar.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Here with the Western Illinois University Department of Biological Sciences for the annual Illinois AFS Conference! 🐟🎣 We had two students holding podium presentations, and three presenting posters! 🐠 000 0
Reposted by Dr. Vaskar NepalJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10 30675445 0