Rep. Brian Steil: "I flew home to my home state of Wisconsin, went to buy a 6 pack a beer, the clerk asked for my ID, confirmed it, and then I was allowed to buy the beer. I just think it's nuts that we protect our beer more than our ballots."

Can't wait for the measles or other nearly-exterminated-disease mascots to help normalize "natural immunity"

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

Last week, the Trump administration cancelled >$2B in mental health + addiction treatment funds. Only massive, rapid pushback caused them to reverse the decision. But these programs remain at risk. So Grant Witness is now tracking SAMHSA grants. What found so far: grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

A PhD does not a universal expert make. Why must we hear from economists about dietary advice? Because they can do meta analyses?

Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.

First ever evidence that multi-actor collaborative conservation produces biodiversity benefits (as far as I know) doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

A paper published in Nature in September suggests a quarter of heatwave events from 2000-23 would have been near impossible without anthropogenic climate change. The paper also indicates that major carbon emitters are responsible for around 50% of the increase in intensity of these events. ⚒️ 🧪

This thread 1000x. And I have 0 patience for the "but there are so many problems to solve we need AI to help solve them all" argument. Since when has any *tool* developed by humans solved all of the problems we face?

NSF - Forced reorg - POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements) - Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …) I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing. “Details matter” 🙃

"Ever since the landmark invention of statistical techniques 100 years ago that allow us to properly compare the difference between the averages of two groups, we have deluded ourselves into thinking that it is such differences that are the... important difference between groups.... We should stop."

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

Excited to share our paper in @pnas.org with Aldo Compagnoni and Tom Miller ! Climate change may push dioecious plants toward female-biased sex ratios which will impair seed production. Ignoring this feedback underestimates range shifts. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

For #EntSoc2025 folks interested in insect responses to extreme weather, Neal Williams and I are hosting a session, "Hot Bees" in D133/134. We'll focus the methods and tools we can use to understand how heat waves impact wild pollinators across ecological scales. Join us! 🌡️🐝💨🌼

🚨 PSA to all those attending #entsoc2025; be sure to update your time zone in your profile in the conference program. Mine was, unbeknownst to me, showing all CST even though we're in PST here. 🙃

Sky cats are the best cats. 🤗🤗🤗

If you've ever wanted to learn how to make beautiful websites with #QuartoPub and #rstats , check out this workshop I'm giving in a couple weeks! It'll be a blast (and we're covering Quarto's brand new _brand dot yaml system!)

I know this is going to result in me getting spammed - but we're looking for an artist to commission for a lab logo and reusable (bumble) bee vector graphics. Please get in touch if that's you, or recommend anyone you've worked with in the past. frsbeelab.org is our research group!

Dutch solar parks approach pollinator & plant biodiversity levels of extensive grasslands, but only on the surface not covered by panels. Soil-emergent arthropods and butterflies lack behind. Proud of Timea for leading besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jappliedecology.bsky.social

Millions of currently farmed acres hold opportunities for biodiversity conservation that are hidden in plain sight!

One in six species on Earth experienced extraordinarily high temperatures across more than 25% of their range in 2024--the hottest year on record. For most, this was the second year of extreme heat, likely compounding risks. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings

Important reading as you prepare for your semester

Interviewing children about a trauma of this magnitude is un fucking conscionable. Fuck all the news agencies that thought this is appropriate or magnify it. Interview the fuckwads who endlessly defend guns over children and make them answer for this absurdity and upside down work we live in

Fresh global-analysis admirably lead by @eeraertsmaxime.bsky.social (+ @oliviabernauer.bsky.social PhD data) indicates native bee pollination services leads to higher-quality apples = improved weight & seed set. How do you like them apples? 🍎 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We want to thank our logo designer Jeremy @jhemberger.bsky.social for this awesome logo! We hope you all joined our neighborhood this weekend. 🐝 Check out more of his work here: jhemberger.github.io/graphic_art/

Light pollution is causing birds around the world to sing for longer each day, prolonging their vocalizations on average by 50 minutes, according to a new study in Science. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Uz7vzP

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out! Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos... Experimental parallel processing ⚡ New assemble() for building plots 🎨 Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪 Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨ 👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/ #Rstats

Updating my comparative public admin seminar class—which was decimated by AI last year—to maybe be a little more LLM-proof by adding a 20–30 minute start-of-class writing & discussion activity. Will it work? Who knows! Full details and PDF here: governancef25.classes.andrewheiss.com/assignment/c...

🐞 🐝 I'm recruiting students to join my lab at the University of Minnesota! Hoping to bring on 2-3 MS or PhD students (MS a pre-req for PhD students). Take a peek at the opportunities available and feel free to reach out with questions. Please share widely! jhemberger.github.io/ibug_lab_web...

From weather balloons to radar to satellites in space, we broke down all the ways data gets collected and turned into the forecast on your phone’s weather app www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is absolutely the thing we should reorient the entire economy to focus on

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A meta-analysis found that high-density managed honeybee populations can: 👉disrupt local biodiversity🌏 👉reduce pollinator richness🧪 👉alter plant-pollinator relationships🐝 ...all with minimal benefits to crop yields! Calls for evidence-based hive density guidelines 📑 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

It's unethical how AI is being forced into our lives without real understanding or informed consent. Last year I saw a specialist who used a similar tool. He just asked if he could record our appointment, I didn't know it was via an AI tool when I said yes. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

More bad news for butterflies. Our new paper led by Wendy Leuenberger shows common species are declining even more rapidly than rare ones. @ZipkinLab Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501340122

Motherfucking wind farms…

Please, please, please-submit to good journals (society + reputed publishers), respect peer review, and do your reviews with integrity. So important. Thanks to all of you who do. @steve-carpenter.bsky.social @esajournals.bsky.social #Ecosystems

Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...

🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average. 📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

After a decade of insincere trolling about “isn’t college about being exposed to challenging ideas?” conservatives have gotten universities to install an anonymous and unaccountable Instantly Kill Your Professor button. Brown University… you are my Chump Of The Week

I recently came across the idea of adding a /ai page to your personal website—similar to /now and /uses—to explain your LLM use (see this for a bunch of different ones slashai.page and this for the overall idea www.bydamo.la/p/ai-manifesto), so I created my own here

🌲 New R package: forestdata makes it easy to download forestry and land cover data from multiple sources (Copernicus, ESRI, EU-Trees4F, and more). Supports sf, SpatRaster, and tidy outputs. Explore it here: cidree.github.io/forestdata/ #rstats #rspatial #forestry #landcover

🔥 Belief in extreme weather drives climate action A new study across 68 countries shows people who believe extreme weather is driven by climate change are more likely to support climate policy, regardless of actual exposure. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪 #Weather

{tinytable} is a dead simple, ultra-flexible, and dependency-free #Rstats 📦 to turn data frames into beautiful tables: html, word, pdf, latex, typst, markdown, etc. v0.10.0 has cool new features and important bug fixes. Check out the detailed tutorials at: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

Very good timing for this publication by my colleague Mansi Nagpal et al. on crop yield and revenue impacts of extreme weather events: nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...

Science friends, journal editor request here: If you can't peer review a paper, please take 3.5 seconds to click "decline to review" so we know that you can't do it and can ask someone else. It'd be great if you could also recommend alternatives. But at least indiciate "sorry I can't do it."