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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Having to pull an all nighter, because I agreed to supply a draft 5 days earlier that planned is wild.🖕 to past me

Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Deciding to anonymise data to a departement level is all fun and games until I have to type "Meurthe-et-Morselle" 20 times.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Deciding to anonymise data to a departement level is all fun and games until I have to type "Meurthe-et-Morselle" 20 times.

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IDDjobs @iddjobs.org · 07/09/2026

CLOSING SOON: 2 Postdocs (Coventry, UK) Mathematical modelling and health economics of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT MEPP) with Kat Rock at University of Warwick More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/2576

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Having data from the Channel Islands is really fun, because all spellchecks are having a little crashout about the fact that things are happening "on Jersey" in my report.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Today, there's a chill day of incorporating comments and turning off track changes followed by 3D printing training and a cinema trip. Tomorrow: finish the discussion before I leave for the Knife Bride concert

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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And finally—a bit of personal news: 🔬 I’m on the faculty job market this year! I’m looking for tenure-track opportunities where I can build a lab at the intersection of developmental biology, mechanobiology, reproductive biology & aging.

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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Come join us, PhD and postdoc positions! Please spread! Supervisor @patricepottier.bsky.social (patricepottierlab.com), me as co-supervisor. Impacts of climate change on different life-stages in fish.🐟🧪 PhD web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... Postdoc web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Summary statistics for spatiotemporal data in R is all fun and games until you work on a nocturnal species and you can't group_by(date)

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Stephanie Wang @sweiwang.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

🚨Elsevier forces out Games and Economic Behavior (GEB) Editor, entire editorial board has resigned, current board only handling new submissions until Nov. 14 #econsky

Dear Advisory Editor of GEB
We are very sorry to be the bearers of bad news for GEB.
I learned from Elsevier on Wednesday July 28 that, contrary to my expressed willingness to continue, my 3-year contract will not be renewed.
"Moving towards a closer alignment with Elsevier strategic priorities and publishing policies" was offered as the motive for this decision. Requests for explanations, first by me, then in a collective letter by the other six Editors, were dismissed by Elsevier which simply reaffirmed its legal power to make such decisions.
Elsevier then started precipitously its own search for new Editors without input of the Editorial Board.
By Friday August 14 all seven Editors have sent their resignation, requiring a 3-month advance notice.
Therefore, we will continue to manage as before the papers currently under review and the new submissions until Saturday November 14. After this date we will only complete the evaluation of papers still waiting an editorial decision.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

New thing I've done for research that sounds weird out of context: Dropped by the office on my way home to pick up reusable zip ties for fieldwork tomorrow.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The trains made for the Gatwick Express are so nice in comparison to the usual Southern trains, I'm sometimes scared I've accidentally sat down in first class on a work trip.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Data transfers are the bane of my existence. My surveys take 3 nights and each survey takes 7h to transfer to a desktop where the audio files have to be scrubbed of noise and processed in a 35h protocol.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Between haphazardly thrown together code and entire GitHub repositories without any comments within the code, I really wish people took more care in showing their work. 100% agree with Sam's take here

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Sometimes, I have to put my research "under embargo" (usually involved ticking a box that files can't be accessed widely) and it feels silly every time until I remember I actually do quite serious research.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Brought a bunch of printed papers to go through at times where I couldn't pull out my laptop during my trip to Paris: Got through them in an hour while waiting for the Bus in Bercy...

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Found out today that discord links to Wolfram, if you ask it to do maths. I don't know why, but this just feels neat.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The Paris metro has achieved something no public transport I've taken in the UK has: Consistent access to my mobile network enabling me to obsessively refresh my emails like a kid checking if Santa's come by already.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci #chemist & x-ray #crystallographer whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of #DNA, made important contributions to carbon & virus research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠

My linocut portrait of Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), in a gradient of magenta from her shoulders up through dark blue to her hair. Her necklace is a double helix of DNA. Her brooch is the Tobacco Mosaic Virus. The pattern on her jacket is based on her publication of the structure of non-graphitizing carbon. ⁠ Behind her in shades of robin’s egg blue is an image of the famous X-ray crystallographic Photo 51, produced by her grad student Gosling and important to deducing the structure of DNA.

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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"The software is free. The ecosystem is not." Benjamin Arancibia explains why organizations invest in the future of R. Learn why organizations join the R Consortium: r-consortium.org/about/join Views are Benjamin's own. #RStats #OpenSource

quote from Ben Arancibia, director of Data Science, GSK Biostatistics, R Consortium board member: "The software is free. The ecosystem is not."

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Just signed up! Incredibly hyped to see people's research highlighted. The online editition I went to was phenomenal.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I was going to have this aesthetic academia experience of handwriting some modelling notes on my journey to Paris. Instead, the air con was on max, there wasn't enough light for hand written, and the person in front of me leaned back so far, I couldn't even code.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Folks! It's so good to see this back. If you are any flavour of queer doing any flavour of science, tech, engineering, or maths - come along! It's free and a lovely time, I promise. Their taste in plenary speakers is also impeccable...

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I wish I did not have to bring up this old tweet from ‘that other place’ every now and again but here we are (again) and here it is…

A reminder: the scientific accomplishments of serial sexual harassers do not make up for the grievous injury caused to science & young scientists over generations (even if this were a simple math argument which... WTF!). This 'genius myth' protects such folks in the first place.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Popped on the Tomorrowland Livestream in the background while my analysis runs. This is honestly the best.

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IDDjobs @iddjobs.org · 17/07/2026

Postdoc (Coventry, UK) Infectious disease modelling and statistical methods for Neglected Tropical Disease elimination. with Emma Davis at University of Warwick More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/2566

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I keep on getting sidetracked from my first year report by doing more research which then in turns means I have to write more in the report, because first year isn't over yet.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The paperwork today is going smoothly, so just to make up for that: - I have to redo a 20h data transfer after my data corrupted during an unplanned Windows update - I can't find my keys and my housemates are going to the England game

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Tried to run the last 20h of a 39h analysis pipeline on my laptop over night and it autoupdated. WSL is still broken and the files corrupted, so today, I get to copy the backup over to rerun everything from scratch.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

There's a special irony that I, with a German passport and a valid UK student visa, have bureaucratic trouble to go on a last minute holiday in France, because I'm studying in the UK and the UK border control needs 2 additional forms of paperwork to let me re-enter with my valid student visa.

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Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"... since this tropical heat has enveloped me, I really have been fit for nothing - neither for working nor thinking..." Same, August 1819 Edward Jenner, same.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I just realised I haven't really outlined what work I have left over from previous studies that's getting finished in the background, so here we go (1/3)

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Presenting contact rate work at #IDDconf has been amazing. Stay tuned.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Getting a proper throwback to my 2019-2021 Lassa virus work at #IDDconf Fingers crossed this motivation gets me to actually finish the follow-up on that work.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Having an absolute blast at #iddconf so far. It's delightful to be at another conference again.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm having a bit of a moment: Due to the pandemic and delays, I wasn't able to present any of my master thesis research at conferences making this upcoming @iddconf.bsky.social the first time I get to present modelling results. #EpiSky

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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

While scientists have long braced for climate change, the growing severity of its impacts is shocking them. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Extreme Heat Stuns Even Climate Scientists Who Saw It Coming

Record-breaking heat waves are even stunning scientists monitoring the acceleration of climate change.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

To continue the series of unfortunate events, the sweet treat drink I got myself was not made lactose free as requested.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If you're vaping inside Euston station, just know the hall isn't ventilated well enough for my asthma not to get triggered.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

About to be on trains until 4pm and I got sunscreen in my eye while waiting at the first station

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Realisation of the day: 10kg of field equipment in the Natural History Museum Pokémon backpack is fine while 10kg of field equipment in an Under Armour rugby bag painfully cuts into my shoulder

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I'd like to formally complain about two species with similar sonograms foraging at the same site simultaneously and thereby prolonging my data analysis.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Moving my audio files to the Box drive before vetting the bat auto ID was a mistake.

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Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl @palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Not gonna lie, PhD chapter outlining and writing is actually quite a lot of fun.

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Stephen Wild @stephenjwild.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

exactly. weights have a lower bound of zero and are discrete, so we should use a poisson distribution smh

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