Reposted by Dr. July Pilowskysamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 23/09/2026after some in-depth discussions with my lab and also drawing on conversations on here, we've edited our new policy on AI usage in my lab feel free to adapt or re-use with attribution, or to reply to tell me how awful this policy is lol 1312838
Dr. July Pilowsky @pilowsky.me · 04/08/2026Mis traducciones a castellano van avanzando entonces me vas a encontrar en DMs pronto 🇪🇸 111
Dr. July Pilowsky @pilowsky.me · 03/08/2026I have uploaded my latest larp, which premiered at @makeascenemn.bsky.social , in fully boxed and playable form on my larp website. Enjoy! larp.pilowsky.me/project/the-...larp.pilowsky.meThe Language of Bones | July PilowskyRaise your monstrous ancestor from their grave with the power of dance, and uncover your past. 112
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyScience Magazine @science.org · 22/06/2026In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it. Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/4mM2aS9 419964
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyLaura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Sexier in the city? Urban male great bowerbirds decorate bowers with human-made objects, creating brighter and more varied displays than rural males. Males strongly prefer human-made objects over natural ones, possibly boosting their appeal to females! shorturl.at/lcNY2 @royalsocietypublishing.org 15621
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Viruses are highly abundant in the oceans, but there is one place you won't typically find them: in global ocean ecosystem models... until now. Introducing "vDarwin", an explicit integration of viruses into the MITgcm/Darwin global ecosystem framework: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... a 🧵 45625
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyJonathan Jacobs @bioinformer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026When life imitates art 1103
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/04/2026I find it fascinating that folks like Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are having 'Abundance' discussions about NIH while ignoring the pre-2025 state of play, self-critique of scientists, and the many ways in which American science is imperfect and yet (near) the best in the world (or was). 🧵nytimes.comOpinion | What We Got Right — and Wrong — in ‘Abundance’ 28425
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 09/04/2026“Emperor penguins, the world’s largest and perhaps most recognizable penguin species, have joined the list of wildlife endangered by global warming, the International Union for Conservation of Nature announced on Thursday… largely driven by shifts in sea ice levels and food availability”nytimes.comEmperor Penguins Are Now Endangered, a New Assessment Finds 11512
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyAaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 31/03/2026tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world 12729341
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyDavid Nogués Bravo @noguesbravo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Can rewilding save the planet? I gave my answer on BBC Radio's The Inquiry — and so did some of my colleagues. Tune in and see if you agree. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukThe Inquiry - How can rewilding help combat climate change? - BBC SoundsAs rewilding initiatives grow there’s a concern some risk doing more harm than good 013
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyEcoEvoRxiv @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social · 17/02/2026'Cities alter the latitudinal diversity gradient of birds in North America' DOI: doi.org/10.32942/X23... 001
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/ 21592224
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyDarren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 05/02/2026An example of how impacts of interventions can differ at individual and population levels, and are conditional on other events. Given a car hits you, the helmet helps. But mandating helmets could lower the # of bikes on the road & thus might increase the chance of getting hit in the first place. 913153
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyEmil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 30/01/2026I decided to give one of my most well liked project a bit of a make over, and I wrote about it too! See how I updated the visuals of r-color-palettes emilhvitfeldt.com/post/r-color... #rstatsemilhvitfeldt.comR Color Palettes RefreshTotal rewrite of R Color Palettes and new release of paletteer. 411127
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgU.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took officeA Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies 311620796
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyThijs Kuiken @thijskuiken.bsky.social · 23/01/2026First evidence in Europe of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 infection in a dairy cow. Antibodies against H5N1 detected in a cow with mastitis and respiratory signs on a Dutch dairy farm at the end of December. A cat on that farm had died from H5N1. www.tweedekamer.nl/downloads/do... 39669
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyNathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 23/01/2026This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc. 11583422946
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyFrancisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Oooh love this. Easiest way to parallelise anything in #rstats. Just add futurize() to your favourite function call www.jottr.org/2026/01/22/f... Thanks @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social HT @rstats.blaze.email 03710
Dr. July Pilowsky @pilowsky.me · 17/01/2026You may want to look into the Fastaval scene in Denmark. Many games there straddle the line between larp and TTRPG. 000
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyNaomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Academics, just use this simple LaTeX macro and you can avoid maintaining a separate CV just for 2026 federal grants. 2437
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 14/01/2026The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states. The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor. One collision and the whale is dead. We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍 23756319
Dr. July Pilowsky @pilowsky.me · 07/01/2026From your mouth to God’s ears. It can be like pulling teeth getting disease researchers to deposit data in a proper open science repository. 110
Dr. July Pilowsky @pilowsky.me · 07/01/2026This is a serious issue in my field. I am a researcher studying avian influenza and even I am not allowed to access flu sequences in GISAID. 140
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyDave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Love having “venture capital” reviewing my grants 32710
Dr. July Pilowsky @pilowsky.me · 17/12/2025I use the NCAR supercomputers to simulate disease outbreaks in wildlife. The impact of this terrible move will spread well beyond climate change research. 173
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyKat Volk @katvolk.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Wow. Grants might now be rejected/accepted based on a single outside review and no panel 387
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyEmilie Köhler @e-koehler.bsky.social · 11/12/2025My research on elephant conservation in the KAZA TFCA was featured by @mongabay.com in an article that argues for corridors, not culls, as a long term solution for Southern Africa‘s growing elephant population 🐘 news.mongabay.com/2025/12/corr...news.mongabay.comCorridors, not culls, offer solution to Southern Africa’s growing elephant populationSince being collared in Zambia two years ago, a young bull elephant known to researchers as Z16 has walked nearly 12,000 kilometers, or 7,500 miles — three times the distance between New York and Los ... 1138
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyTerry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Tired: Publishing a ton of papers by breaking stories into small pieces and always shooting too high and working the way down the journal cascade Wired: Publishing complete stories in more substantial papers and submitting them to society journals, and not exploiting the peer review system. 0171
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskySaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/12/2025Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu... 28806313
Dr. July Pilowsky @pilowsky.me · 02/12/2025"Participatory science" is similarly inclusive of non-citizens and would make my Web of Science search results cleaner. I think I'll use that term in my own scientific writing. 010
Dr. July Pilowsky @pilowsky.me · 02/12/2025I do prefer the term "community science" to "citizen science" but man does it make it hard to search for papers about monitoring communities as in ecological communities. 230
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyJohn M. Drake @jdrakephd.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Applied to COVID-19 in California, the approach yields more accurate and more stable short-term forecasts than RNNs, LSTMs, GRUs, Transformers, and naïve baselines. 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 033
Dr. July Pilowsky @pilowsky.me · 30/11/2025In times like these, the trans community relies on its community organizers, who bring people together for activism and mutual support. June Lewis is one of these trans community organizers, and she needs help. I just donated; please stand up for us, too. www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...gofundme.comDonate to Stand with June: Legal and Housing Support Needed, organized by Kassandra TomarasJune L. is a dear friend, a committed community-builder, a proud J… Kassandra Tomaras needs your support for Stand with June: Legal and Housing Support Needed 021
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyKim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 14/11/2025I'd guess that 85-90% of American scientists would be ineligible for future funding under this law, maybe close to 100% in the R1 universities. So much for funding proposals based on scientific merit. Apart from being sinophobes, the people pushing this have no clue how science or higher ed works. 8357144
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyEcoEvoRxiv @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social · 12/11/2025The Queer & Trans Field Safety Assessment: a tool for protecting minoritized field scientists doi.org/10.32942/X2W... 011
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 07/11/2025am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin’s notes. 16917279
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyDavid Nogués Bravo @noguesbravo.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Today we publish a new paper at The British Medical Journal on the links between biodiversity, climate and health in relation to the hashtag#COP30 in Brazil Here we argue that climate resilience depends on nature—and both are vital for the health of people. www.bmj.com/content/391/...bmj.comThe Amazon is one of Earth’s major climate stabilisers—we must protect the rainforest and its biodiversityThe twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change have clear implications for human health and must be central to discussions at COP30, argue David Nogués-Bravo and Helena Alves-Pinto The acce... 093
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyDave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 05/11/2025It's important for Europeans, and others from visa-waiver countries, to understand they don't have freedom of speech rights when visiting the United States. The Trump regime is still deporting visitors for critical comments made online, because they can.newyorker.comHow My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My DeportationAs an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against. 14620
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyHelen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Wow. I did not know that Alfred Russell Wallace (co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection) wrote a book in 1904 about the biological potential for life on other planets, and I've just found this extraordinary paragraph setting out the insanity of atmospheric pollution [1/3]. In 1904! 717454
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyJan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 30/10/2025A paper for the #eDNA crowd, in particular those using flies for terrestrial biomonitoring. We show that massive pooling works well, reducing costs + time, bringing us a step closer to scalable terrestrial eDNA biomonitoring. doi.org/10.1002/edn3...doi.orgAn Exploration of DNA Extraction Methods of Fly iDNA for Scalable Biodiversity MonitoringMetabarcoding of invertebrate-derived DNA (iDNA) is an excellent tool for assessing terrestrial mammal diversity, but the time and costs associated with sample processing constrain its wider adoption.... 1129
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyGreg Albery @gfalbery.bsky.social · 03/10/2025I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026... 05763
Reposted by Dr. July Pilowskydr Katarzyna Nowak @katzyna.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Sadly, the conservation outlook for #BiałowieżaForest World Heritage Site is now "critical" largely on account of state border barriers, #militarization and breakdown in #transboundary cooperation. The IUCN released the assessment some days ago: worldheritageoutlook.iucn.org/explore-site...worldheritageoutlook.iucn.orgBiałowieża Forest | World Heritage OutlookSituated on the watershed of the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, this immense forest range, consisting of evergreens and broad-leaved trees, is home to some remarkable animal life, including rare mammal... 012
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyHannah Thomasy @hannahthomasy.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Recently came across Lisa Taylor's amazing work on coloration in jumping spiders, including using eyeliner to give them teenytiny makeovers to see whether these colors helped them attract mates/avoid sexual cannibalism. Sometimes in science, there aren't standard tools for the thing you want to do🧪 67530
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyRoyal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 20/10/2025We are pleased to announce that throughout Open Access Week, from 20 – 26 October, all Royal Society journal content is freely available. Explore our journals here: royalsociety.org/Journals/ #OAWeek #OAWeek25 14934
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyLachlan Kermode @ohrg.org · 17/10/2025Very grateful to @nsaphra.bsky.social for making their (successful) job market materials publicly available: nsaphra.net/post/jobmark.... It's very handy to be able see what these things are supposed to look like!nsaphra.netFaculty Market Portfolio | Naomi SaphraStatements from my faculty applications. 083
Reposted by Dr. July PilowskyHannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 15/10/2025I'm working on a story about this policy change regarding X gender markers on passports. If you have an X gender marker and want to discuss, please DM me! papersplease.org/wp/2025/10/1...papersplease.orgCBP changes procedures for airline passengers with “X” passports – Papers, Please!CBP regulations require would-be airline passengers to identify as “M” or F”. These regulations were never changed, even when CBP was accepting “X” gender markers. 03120