I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Sometimes you get a nice shot in dreadful light. Unfortunately the water was reflecting the sun right back at me as this great blue heron picked up a baby American alligator. #birds

You still have 5 days to apply for this awesome postdoc opportunity in the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact Lab at the University of Colorado-Boulder! This could be your backyard!

Two years post-doc position on viral phylodynamics available at CERP. cerp-epi.com/fr/careers/

Introducing my new #rstats package {kitchensink} Not sure what the right model to fit is? Should you allow random intercepts, slopes, both? What do Bayesian methods say? Just call {kitchensink::throw} to fit every possible model and see how your results differ!

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

New paper out! A common computational approach to predict organismal fitness and distributions in the field could vastly overpredict the potential range of thermal suitability for malaria transmission relative to performance characterized at constant temperatures: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Mean daily temperatures predict the thermal limits of malaria transmission better than hourly rate summation" new paper now out in NatComm, led by @martashocket.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414...

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

Don't miss this week's MIDAS Webinar Series featuring Dr. Jacob Barhak. Date: Friday, March 28 - 1:00 - 2:00p EDT. Topic: Lessons Learned from Modeling COVID-19: Steps to Take at the Start of the Next Pandemic Register in Advance: pitt.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

This is a great resource! I just watched the first video and it inspired so many ideas for the quantitative ecology course I’m designing for the fall semester.

At this point, it is obvious that it is not safe for scholars to travel the US. There are no easy solutions for conferences scheduled in the US this year but it should be cleary to everyone involved that they cannot just go ahead as planned.

1/35 New paper out! @jamesTstroud and I dive into why long-term studies are crucial for understanding evolution. They reveal processes impossible to detect in short timescales and capture rare events that transform our understanding of evolutionary dynamics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said, at a time when top officials have emphasized their determination to curb the incidence of such chronic conditions.”

This was a fun review to work on with James deMayo. We highlight genome-enabled studies from the last ~20 years that provide lab and field perspectives on (often rapid) thermal adaptation. Thanks to JEB for fantastic editorial support!

Hi there, my student is making a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology, could you please spend two mins on filling it 🥹 Very appreciated! And if you could spread it further (RT), that would be just awesome. ❤️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

An album of over 200 pressed seaweeds collected by an anonymous Victorian collector. A transcribed poem is pasted as title page, it begins: "Oh call us not weeds, we are flowers of the sea." I saw this at UW-Madison Special Collections 🌊📚 CA 19285 #seaweed #herbarium #naturalhistory

** Upcoming quantitative conference: ** 📈 Environmental and Ecological Statistics Conference 📈 1-3 July, Lancaster, UK. Contributed abstract submission closes 1st April.

Interested in ecological/environmental #stats? Join us at the EnvEcoStats conference at Lancaster Uni 1-3 July 2025 envecostats.wordpress.com 14 days left to submit an abstract - come on ecologists! @bes-quantitative.bsky.social @besmacro.bsky.social @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social #RStats

And some fun pictures from the field in Surat, India.

“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social. “This is direct censorship of scientific research.”

Disease ecologist starter pack -- reply with people/organizations to be added or with related lists/feeds #diseaseecology 🦠🐀🦠🦇🦠🦭🦠🦆🦠 go.bsky.app/RwAuiNT

🧵 Now it's time for another R thread. So let's talk about the .data pronoun from rlang/dplyr. #R #dplyr #rlang

The populist right is damaging US science. Here's what I think we should be doing to ensure that the UK does not suffer the same fate. 🧵 1/37

Proud to be part of this awesome team! Thanks to @balachaudhary.bsky.social and @khadlily.bsky.social, unstoppable forces in EcoEvo 💜💜 @wocineeb.bsky.social has done a lot for me and other POC in EcoEvo so please help us protect groups like this www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Trump and Musk are absolutely destroying Indian colleges, which are federally funded as part of the government's trust obligation to tribes. Haskell, which is here in Lawrence, is the oldest Indian college in the US. DOGE even fired the women's basketball coach, during the season!

Do they understand that getting rid of the people who track hurricanes and other extreme weather events fueled by climate change doesn’t make the extreme weather events go away? They are modelers and forecasters, not sorcerers.

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.

🧪 NOAA lost numerous extremely talented and committed scientist civil servants today. Their careers were committed to making all of our lives better: predicting weather and effects of climate change, monitoring and managing sustainable fisheries, and recovering endangered species. 🤬

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?

This on-the-fly policy making from the US administration is clearly so poorly thought out and will end up costing lives.

"Musk is a key figure within a US administration that is attacking science through executive orders that have systematically targeted the scientific community, cut funding, restricted research and silenced scientists" My op-ed in @resprofnews.bsky.social www.researchprofessi...

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

We're excited to see a bunch of LTER sites making their way over to BlueSky! Our sites are the heart of our network—they're the places advancing our understanding of ecology, one 40-year study at at time. You can follow all of our sites on BlueSky using our starter pack here: go.bsky.app/MrcEQVV

We're hiring an ecosystem ecologist (open rank) @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social It's a great place to work and live! Lots of opportunities for collaboration including with @kbslter.bsky.social KBS Long Term Agroecosystem Research careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

🧵 As we're in catchup week, here's the second of my weekly threads. This time it's just some spider web information to ease us in (I really am a biologist I promise, not just an R guy)!

I've decided to try and do one post a week for the whole of 2025, exploring a diversity of topics I think would be interesting to the generality of science bluesky. So to start off (and catch up) let's talk about R and why you should probably use it as a scientist. [1/16]

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

Our collaborative work with our Brazilian partners was dropped. www.cell.com/iscience/ful.... Great work by Dr Hendy and the team. @createneo.bsky.social @bahanbug.bsky.social @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social

Join us at UGA Entomology! We are searching for an assistant professor in quantitative insect ecology. Applications due January 31. www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/406...

Exciting PhD opportunity with @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social , @padpadpadpad.bsky.social (Exeter) and myself (Bristol) on gulls, their microbiomes, and role in transmitting disease. Details below - deadline 13 January!

Only 8 days left to apply for our fully-funded 4 years #PhD position in island biogeography for plants! Work with Prof Rampal Etienne and me at @unigroningen.bsky.social & Macquarie University in #Sydney. Don’t miss this unique opportunity! Please share widely!

The program for #ASN2025 at Asilomar is finalized, and I'm super excited for the roster of speakers joining the symposium I've organized, "Not ‘when’ but ‘how’ — towards a process-centered view of species evolving together", on Sunday afternoon docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction Graphic from Edward Tufte More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

This is something that I'd always taken for granted, but it's nice to see someone put it down in words. I think that there is a lot more room for remote sensing and VBD models, especially around microclimates, vector behaviour and environmental variation. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Great job opportunity for Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Life Sciences (esp Medicine & #BioMed) at the Department of History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge #PhilJobs #HPS #hpbio ⤵️