A new study of more than 8000 researcher parents in 119 countries finds only 21% of women and 27% of men started to have children during their Ph.D. program. And mothers face particular challenges when navigating parenthood while in graduate school, the research indicates. https://scim.ag/44vugt8

The diversity of parasitic soil protists is positively correlated with ecosystem productivity stability in arid and cold zones—as measured by remote sensing of greenness. The protists may regulate herbivory and nutrient cycling. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/OBq850Zfmmi

The most dangerous charts are the ones you agree with. 📊 "Motivation skepticism is the deployment of critical thinking not as a neutral tool, but as a mechanism to defend prior beliefs." nightingaledvs.com/we-taught-st...

From love songs to lullabies, songs spanning the globe—despite their diversity—exhibit universal patterns, according to the first comprehensive scientific analysis of the similarities and differences of music across societies around the world. Learn more on #WorldMusicDay: https://scim.ag/43Ct5Ib

Excited to announce my new quarto extension to add simple shapes. 80+ shapes. consistent syntax regardless of format (html, revealjs, pdf, typst) I naturally think this can go far with .absolute inside revealjs slides github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto #slidecrafting

Evidence suggests that AI-driven ‘deskilling’ is starting to happen in medicine, computer science and other fields go.nature.com/4vtwEN1

A feature in Nature reports how researchers are making headway in understanding the freezing process, including capturing the first few microseconds of the process. It turns out that disorder plays a bigger part in freezing than scientists had thought. ⚛️🧪

Opinion: How do #geopolitics and #war reshape international academic collaborations? When research partnerships become politicized, science pays the price. Read the PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/aaMc50Zbiko#geopolitics#war #AcademicFreedom #SciencePublishing #Ukraine #Gaza

When caterpillars attack, the common bean plant relies on a receptor in its leaves to sound a chemical rallying cry that recruits predatory wasps, a new #ScienceAdvances study finds. https://scim.ag/434rXN5

Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year. Measles used to be an extremely common disease. Just sixty years ago, over 90% of children would have been infected by it, and of those who developed symptoms, around a quarter would be hospitalized.

Managed to get {ggchord2} working with {ggiraph} so you can* have interactive chord diagrams with tooltips! *currently a bit hacky but technically does work Example: nrennie.rbind.io/data-viz-pro... #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

Certamente você já ouviu - inclusive aqui no Naruhodo - que algumas sociedades são organizadas de forma mais individualista e outras por meio de uma abordagem mais coletivista. Como a ciência define essas diferenças e quais as consequências? >> OUÇA (59min 25s): www.b9.com.br/shows/naruho...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Insect pollinator species are responsible for more than 40% of household income and a large proportion of key nutrient intake (for example, over 20% of vitamin A intake) in Nepalese farming communities, according to research in Nature. go.nature.com/4cWgp4g 🌍🧪

Marijuana is far from a “silver bullet” for various illnesses, but it has some promising applications, scientists say

“There is a general-purpose ceteris paribus—all else is equal or all else is right—assumption (e.g., Meehl, 1990). But how is one to know that all else is equal or all else is right? This is one of the many factors that renders science challenging.” David Trafimow (2026): doi.org/10.1007/s421...

Who speaks to whom in The Big Bang Theory? Mapping dialogue flow between characters: turn by turn, scene by scene. Built with Matplotlib Data: www.kaggle.com/datasets/mit... #30DayChartChallenge #DataViz #TheBigBangTheory #Visualization

Pesquisa é o insumo mais importante em várias ciências. Mas uma pessoa leiga consegue entender pesquisas científicas? Ou mesmo pesquisas de opinião, de mercado? Como fazer para entender? >> OUÇA (50min 51s) www.b9.com.br/shows/naruho... #ciência #sensocomum #curiosidades #naruhodo #podcast

A paper in Nature Health reports on a sample of 500,000 conversations between users and Microsost Copilot from January 2026 on health-related topics, showing nearly one in five conversations involved personal symptom assessment or condition discussion. go.nature.com/4eqgK07 🧪

Climate Change Can Generate Enemy‐Free Space for Crop‐Feeding Herbivores 🔗 buff.ly/PyqDhA1

"Destinamos vastas extensiones de tierra a cultivos que luego quemamos con nuestros coches. Es un despilfarro escandaloso. Los biocombustibles derivados de cultivos son probablemente la mayor tontería que se haya promovido jamás en nombre del clima” 👇 www.eldiario.es/ballenablanc...

📊 #30DayChartChallenge 2026 – day 02 . Comparisons | Pictogram . 🔗 : stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visuali... . #rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2

🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉 An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊 Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #DataViz

We model the average. Reality delivers the extremes… Low-probability, high-impact scenarios at 2C can rival typical impacts at 3–4C Key risks: Crop failures, extreme rainfall and flooding, increased wildfires Key lesson: plan for the extremes, not the mean www.nature.com/articles/d41...

En Galicia, en la última década, sólo hay un récord de frío por cada 10 de calor, lo que antes era 8 cada 10. #cambioclimatico #dataviz

Quando criança, o Altay já quis ser astronauta. Depois, passou. Vieram outras profissões e outros interesses, coisas novas foram sendo experimentadas e os gostos foram mudando... Por que gostamos de algumas coisas e não gostamos de outras? >> OUÇA (58min 47s) www.b9.com.br/shows/naruho...

Kurt Friedrich Gödel foi um austríaco que, em 1931, formulou teoremas que marcaram uma mudança profunda na lógica, na filosofia da matemática e nas fundações da computação. Afinal, o que é a teoria da Incompletude de Godel? >> OUÇA (53min 51s) www.b9.com.br/shows/naruho...

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds

"Tenemos un problema: las empresas, desde la agricultura hasta los data centers, dependen directamente de la naturaleza, pero los sistemas actuales incentivan su destrucción". La economía que devora el planeta👇 elpais.com/chile/2026-0...

This has been a challenge, but it's really cool! #TidyTuesday #ggplot2 #RStars

Except literally every data analysis or model I've ever asked AI to build has contained at least one error: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Common response: "But someone just needs to give AI detailed instructions..." But who is the "someone" in that sentence? And how did they get their expertise?

Afinal, o que é o Transtorno Obsessivo-Compulsivo, o famoso TOC? Como não confundir com outras condições relacionadas com rituais e repetições? Qual a relação entre TOC e hipocondria? O que a ciência tem a dizer sobre o tema? >> OUÇA (64min 19s) www.b9.com.br/shows/naruho...

My first #TidyTuesday !!

Air pollution isn’t just bad for us—tiny increases in ozone can scramble ants’ chemical signals, making them misidentify nestmates and unraveling their social order. 😮🪲 In Smithsonian Magazine: https://ow.ly/jYcx50Yh6vI In PNAS: https://ow.ly/EW2T50Yh6r4

I'm excited to share the next version of patchwork with the world, available on CRAN now. First class support for gt tables and even more freedom with `free()` #rstats #ggplot2