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I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 21h

Network. 1976. Paddy Chayefsky.

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 21h

With more and more websites going down, whether overwhelmed by bot traffic or starved of ad revenue, it is time for scholarly referencing guidelines for citing a website to include an archived version, just as Wikipedia has long recommended en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... #metascience

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Wikipedia:Archiving a source - Wikipedia

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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 21h

All of this is awful but the line saying that *geneticists* don't understand genetics and, btw, have much in common with Nazis reflects the trifecta of arrogance and ignorance and racism.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Small interview by @tumorijournal.bsky.social where I discuss the main current problems of scientific publishing, where you can learn about the strain (direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...) & drain (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820) of scientific publishing, and hear my horrible Italian accent in English. Enjoy!

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The Drain of Scientific Publishing

The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...

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Tumori Journal - TJ @tumorijournal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thank you so much, Prof. Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social, for accepting our invitation and for your thorough, engaging contribution. We truly appreciated it. youtu.be/cOhw4Jk6vF0?...

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The strain on scientific publishing: a scenario with various players, but only one benefits

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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I know she's now an Icelandic citizen but Anne's response is still very Canadian - in the kitchen (the kitchen party!), in a colourful sweater (of course!), shocked that she won the big prize.

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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Great piece; new title even better.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 08/10/2026

Not sure why anyone bothers with anti-AI activism when the most effective strategy would be to just point as many microphones as possible to its most vocal champions.

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Most animals change proportions as they grow. A coiled shell doesn't have to. Add one turn and the whole shell is just 2.2x bigger, same shape. Watch this one grow forever without changing at all. 🧪🐌 #HowToBuildAGiant #MarineLife

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 08/10/2026

Presentations and videos from a network of 30-plus pro-fossil fuel groups show a coordinated effort to influence public opinion on climate change, and challenge environmental groups, journalists and First Nations land defenders. @meyer.bsky.social has the exclusive.

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‘Knowing our opponents’: how a pro-oil-and-gas group tracks journalists, First Nations and environmentalists

New research by Greenpeace Canada lays out a web of pro-oil and gas groups working together to influence public opinion on climate change.

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Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Our new research, shows the current fuel load in some Australian forests is not “natural”. It is a product of colonisation, which loaded Australian landscapes with fuel a century before human-made climate change began." theconversation.com/colonisation...

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Colonisation, not climate change, first primed these forests to burn

For more than 800 years, frequent cultural burning kept this land as stable, open woodland.

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

New research happening to test how prescribed fire shapes plant-soil feedbacks in oak savannas Tree seedlings are growing in soils collected from plots with/without recent management with fire, within our long-running prescribed fire experiment at the MSU MacCready Reserve

A greenhouse filled with white oak, pignut hickory, black cherry, and red maple seedlings, in pots.

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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thanks for amplifying this excellent study in our journal @eos.org

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Tanya Cheeke @tanyacheeke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Excited to share that our soil microbes & prairie restoration work is featured on the cover of the current issue of Ecological Applications! with co-authors Reb Bryant, Gunner Davies, @lizkoziol.bsky.social, & Jim Bever esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19395582...

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Ecological Applications: Vol 36, No 7

<em>Ecological Applications</em> is an applied ecology journal discussing the applications of ecological science research for policy, management, and solving environmental problems.

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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sheesh. I am part of a low-stakes 40+ years annual baseball pool with great friends. I managed to win this year but the whole point is that we get together, have some laughs and enjoy pretending to be baseball experts for a few hours. Then we watch how random the outcome is (which explains my win).

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Post-doctoral fellow in global forest dynamics! TreeChange combines life history traits from field observations with demographic modelling to understand the future of forests and the carbon sink. Based at Lund in Sweden you will work with researchers across the world lu.varbi.com/what:job/job...

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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gonna tell the restoration ecology class on Wed about your work :)

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

📣 📣 📣 UPDATE: The 2026-2027 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resource! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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ecoevojobs.net 2026-27

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In the last couple of years, we've seen multiple critical collections (museums, herbaria) close. The IUCN--the global authority on the status of biodiversity--recently published on how important these kinds of facilities are in conservation. Every day, the dead are working to protect the living.

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From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Walker sums up the state of stupidity of the world

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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The most awesome Anthromes viz EVER! Interact with it here: twosides.earth/src/anthromes/

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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is NOT directed at Jenna here of course - but rather the bizarre syntax she highlights from the spammy invite she got (GIF is from one of the worst Star Trek TOS episodes, Spock's Brain for those who are not old and nerdy like I am)

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Brain And Brain Star Trek Brain And Brain What Is Brain

ALT: Brain And Brain Star Trek Brain And Brain What Is Brain

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Julian Resasco @julianresasco.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m recruiting a grad student to join our lab at CU-Boulder in Fall 2027. I’m especially interested in students excited about insect community ecology and biodiversity, sp. interactions, and landscape connectivity. Please share with students who may be interested! www.colorado.edu/lab/resasco/...

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Chris Terry @christerryecology.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New Review out today in @natecoevo.nature.com with @callejas.eurosky.social, @andreatabi.bsky.social and Virginia Domínguez-García, where we take a critical look at the role interaction matrices play within community ecology. Sharing link: rdcu.be/bzD2oYUVKYMa... and short thread: (1/n)

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Ihor Gowda @ihorgowda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8

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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t

New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 04/10/2026

Interesting “resurrection experiment” with flowers by @gbaucom.bsky.social and colleagues shows emergent constraint and environmental mismatch over a decade. Their conclusion: not great for climate adaptation academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

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A resurrection experiment reveals reduced adaptive potential in a common agricultural weed

Adaptive evolution is essential for populations facing rapid anthropogenic change, yet realized evolutionary responses often fall short of expectations. Us

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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Agree, and in ALL CAPS: DON'T PUNCH DOWN ON YOUR STUDENTS For the record (and I tell my students this): My average at the mid-point of my 1A term was my shoe size (7; yes, as in 7%). By end of 1B, it was 59% - putting me on academic probation but getting to 59% was a good trajectory so I stayed.

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Jess Marsh @jessmarsh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

New paper! Insects and other inverts are vital for ecosystems, but threats to them are little understood. This means we cannot effectively conserve #biodiversity. Great to be part of this work where we review the direct and indirect causes of insect decline to inform #conservation and #policy

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Drivers of insect decline: direct, indirect, and combined pressures

Abstract. Reductions in insect biodiversity are widely documented and result from numerous pressures that operate from local to global scales. Identifying

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 02/10/2026

What will our world feel like when the Climate collapses? Sci-Fi authors partnered with artists and scientists to imagine. They created the prototypes of our uncertain future #ManufacturedEcosystems is funded by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca New Frontiers in Research books.lib.uoguelph.ca/manufactured...

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Manufactured Ecosystems

Manufactured Ecosystems offers seven visions of ecosystems services in the future by science fiction writers from across Canada and North America. Featuring stories by Chinelo Onwualu, Jennifer Gougé,...

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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As an EIC with a journal published by Wiley (and worked with Steph in her role as an Associate Editor), totally concur.

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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Via Dr. Baker's excellent thread, a hugely important paper from @lilymasonphd.bsky.social

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"In other words, the people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists."

Screenshot of article which reads: These numbers are relatively similar between Democrats and Repub-
licans, which often leads political pundits to claim this is more evidence
of “polarization,” and that both sides are equally to blame. However,
a closer look tells a more interesting story. The people who are most
likely to vilify and dehumanize their partisan opponents are Republicans
who are high in racism and sexism and Democrats who oppose racism
and sexism. The people who are least likely to vilify and dehumanize
their political opponents are Republicans who are low in racism and sex-
ism. One explanation for these patterns is that those Republicans who
are racist and sexist vilify and dehumanize Democrats because they see
the Democratic Party as a party of racial minorities and women; and
Democrats who score low in racism and sexism will vilify and dehu-
manize Republicans because they consider Republicans to be racist and
sexist. In other words, the people who are the most “polarized” in the
U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who op-
pose racists and sexists.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 30/09/2026

POLITICAL SCIENCE JOB AD: Tenure-track position in International Relations at the University of Waterloo. We're *very happy* to announce this. Applications due Nov. 1st; job start date July 2027. Details here (pdf): uwaterloo.ca/arts/sites/d...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The techno-dystopia I actually fear is a future where most people think truth is whatever Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok say, and the very small number of people who control those systems use that to manipulate for their own ends, making our current epistemic crisis seem small in comparison.

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