We hope BAT will help molecular biologists to think in terms of gene trees. Evolutionary signal within gene families is often the first clue that there is amazing, novel biology to be found. Check out our repo and try out BAT analyses of YFGs (Your Favorite Genes!) github.com/steinbrenner...

I'm looking to hire a postdoc. Please share if you can!

I’m trying to convince my institution that’s it’s worthwhile to be on Bluesky, so I volunteered to setup an account and posted at @soest.hawaii.edu. Please do me a favor and follow the account, share and like some posts before my meeting to discuss the account tomorrow. @joshuajfriedman.com

I was an intern at the Forest Service in Hilo when I was in college 20+ years ago. It was that experience that led me to decide to become an ecologist. Ecologists there have been lifelong mentors. Closing this would be incredibly shortsighted and a huge loss to STEM workforce development in Hawai'i.

The Forest Service’s proposed closure of research facilities in Hawaiʻi, including the Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry and a biocontrol lab, threatens years of research on biocontrol agents and disease-resistant ʻōhiʻa strains, impacting efforts to protect Hawaiʻi’s forests and watersheds.

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

Every term without a fault an undergrad tells me "I spent 2 hours on this problem and you identified it in under a minute", and every term without a fault I answer "it took me over a decade to identify it in under a minute"

For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals. The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10

"Ten simple rules for teaching data science": arxiv.org/abs/2602.02874 A new preprint by @minecr.bsky.social and myself. We'd love any feedback!

Thanks for the love! This was a bright spot to my day (and unexpected!) @phytobio.me @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

When all your PCRs fail, except for the negative control 😱

Yeah this caused quite a bit of consternation yesterday

Just announced from @anthropic.com This stuff is moving very fast. www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

I’m going to start doing “wholesome graphic of the day” posts lol. The maps and infographics have been veering political Anyhoo, here’s every apple

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Saddened to learn of the passing of Moselio "Elio" Schaechter—Distinguished Professor at Tufts, SDSU and UCSD—humanist and visionary leader in the fields of microbiology and scientific communication—mentor, friend, and inspiration to me and so many others Small Things Considered Big Things Achieved

I spoke with Kari Jordan and Erin Becker of The Carpentries about why they declined a $1.5M NSF grant intended to expand data science training. Their decision highlights the growing intersection of #science, #DEI, and federal policy. Read the full story on Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Do you love alpine plants, ancient DNA, and/or population genetics? My lab will be hiring a postdoc soon to be based at the University of Maine! We’re looking for someone who uses genetic tools and thinks like a community ecologist. Happy to chat at #ESA2025 if you’re interested.

ICYMI: In September 2024, The Carpentries submitted a proposal for 1.5 million USD to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program, and were extremely pleased to learn that the proposal was recommended for funding. However...

Know any soon to graduate or recently graduated postbac researchers interested in / with experience working with phages? We are hiring a junior specialist/research tech! Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04863 (start date more flexible than stated in ad!)

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Started a Theoretical Ecology starter pack. For from complete. Respond if you want to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/PwpvZLb

Open Science and Open Source only with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility. Inclusion is essential to science, and science is only worthwhile if it lifts everyone up together. ropensci.org/blog/2025/02... #OpenSource #OpenScience

Looks like the following programs in #NSF BIO have been 'archived': BRC-BIO - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... BIO-LEAPS - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... PRFB - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

{rix} is an R package that leverages Nix, a package manager focused on reproducible builds. With Nix, you can create project-specific environments with a custom version of R, its packages, and all system dependencies (e.g., GDAL). github.com/ropensci/rix

Happy New Year! 🎉 A new year means a lot of uncertainty. However, one thing remains certain: each month, we will continue to bring you awesome resources and relevant news via our newsletter! 🧵#ECEnewsletter

Where are all the field studies? This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer. A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork) www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Today I learned that combining a density plot with a jitter / dot plot is called a "raincloud" plot. And also discovered the {ggrain} package. Very nice, I remember doing it almost by hand in base R. #rstats www.njudd.com/raincloud-gg...

Hi #rstats Twitter. Since many of you were on other platforms for a while, wanted to share that we have been busy building Tidier.jl for #JuliaLang. The goal? All of tidyverse, written in 100% Julia. Check it out: tidierorg.github.io/Tidier.jl/dev/ JuliaCon 2023 intro: youtu.be/ZVvP7rAIvkE?...

My postdoctoral colleague 🙌 Stephanie Wilson of SERC led this great #rstats package paper — fluxfinder: An R Package for Reproducible Calculation and Initial Processing of Greenhouse Gas Fluxes From Static Chamber Measurements agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

'The {messy} R package takes a clean dataset, and randomly adds these features of real datasets in - giving students the opportunity to practice their data cleaning and wrangling skills without educators having to change all of their examples.' nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Why does hyperspectral reflectance work for tracking plant physiological dynamics? I recently wrote a commentary for @newphyt.bsky.social about that, targeted for a broad audience of plant scientists 🍃🌈🧪 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Pleased to share the latest version of my paper with Arthur Spirling and @lexipalmer.bsky.social on replication using LMs We show: 1. current applications of LMs in political science research *don't* meet basic standards of reproducibility...

🌱 🦠 🔬 Job -- Assistant Professor of Practice in Biotechnology and Plant and Microbial Sciences at University of Arizona arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

♻️GasanalyzeR: advancing reproducible research using a new R package for photosynthesis data workflows by Danny Tholen and co-authors Full #openaccess 👉 https://buff.ly/4c92gx2 #PlantScience

We’re excited to advertise the Microbial Friends and Foes REU program! Please share info with your undergrads, for 10 weeks paid research experience at Cornell. Apps due on Feb 1. @heatherfeaga.bsky.social cihmid.cornell.edu/academics-pr...

Starterpack of WoC and non-binary PoC in EcoEvo. Specifically, those of us who are members of the #WoCinEEB slack community. I'll keep adding people in the next few days. Please let me know if I missed you! Happy to provide info on how to join our community 💜 Please share! 🙏🏽 go.bsky.app/9iCneeT

Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I have a YouTube playlist (10 videos) for #MolecularBiology for my undergrad interns in the lab. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... I usually have my interns watch these videos to get introduced to the basic concepts before I go show them how to in the lab.

Obligatory plug for PUI science slack. Many of us very happy to take questions from students and PDs about PUI jobs ranging from elite slacs to branch regionals wright-lab.com/2020/02/02/p...