Scott Galloway on The Bulwark: ““The Gini coefficient, zero means everyone has the exact same amount. A hundred means one person owns everything. The French Revolution and Marie Antoinette was when they were at 82. We hit 83 this quarter.”

Really important for so many things. "The value of patient observation compounds over time but remains invisible to short-term metrics" has profound implications.

The University of Florida's School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences is looking for a Forest Hydrologist. This is a 9-month, tenure-track, 70% Research / 30% Teaching appointment.

11 years ago today I broke my tailbone sledding at Walker. Never forget or whatever.

Used to joke about how we live in a Black Mirror episode but it's honestly more like we are living in all of the episodes of Black Mirror all at once.

The cross-cultural impact of the Goo Goo Dolls has always confused me.

It is insane to me how difficult it is to get an appointment at my regular doctor's office in this town. And if you go to urgent care, even with an appointment, it's a nearly 4-hour commitment and the costs are exorbitant.

📢PlotToSAT on-site workshop at ForestSAT conference (@forestsat.bsky.social)! Includes demonstration of new feature of extracting time-series at multiple regions defined in .shp & GEE intro. Check the details here: carlos-alberto-silva.github.io/silvalab/For... Github: github.com/Art-n-MathS/...

The first time I used an AI-detector, at the behest of a colleague and friend, I sat there and typed up about 600 words for an intro for a paper, dropped it in the checker and it came back 100% AI. I guess I use too many em-dashes?

Extremely frustrating to hear given that 1) data centers do not provide any meaningfully useful infrastructure and 2) nor do they provide any actual jobs. Issues before you even consider environmental impacts.

I am hiring a postdoc @ Univ of Iowa. Potential project focuses include flood-risk infrastructure planning, disaster recovery processes and outcomes, insurance program externalities, or uncertainty in climate damage attribution. Please consider applying/sharing! jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view...

Some second rate fullbacks in the NFL--both of whom are brothers actually. One got a super bowl ring with minimal time on the field.

As climate and disturbance regimes change, forest reorganization is key to maintain the forest carbon sink. Great new work led by @christinadollinger.bsky.social w/ @monicagturner.bsky.social, @akkym.bsky.social and many others. dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Job opportunities... Newly launched Quantitative Biology Initiative in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park seeks applications for three collaborative postdoctoral fellowships. Best consideration date 3/14. Full Details: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...

Two penis-related Olympic skiing stories in a couple of days is about two more than I anticipated.

The major issue with interacting with non-English is they don't get the William Carlos Williams icebox thing.

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But, as they say, there is no time like the present [OK, maybe the 1930s if you want to nitpick] But, with some data wrangling, my first NSF Funding Curves! 2/3

Looking for some interesting ecological data sets for some class projects. Want to go past the typical sets and expand some options. Ideally not large but not tiny, no time series, and include at least three factors. Let me know if you got any leads!

arxiv.org/abs/2602.02874 6: Provide cultural and historical context 7: Build a safe, inclusive, and welcoming community 8: Use checklists to focus and facilitate peer learning 9: Teach students to work collaboratively 10: Have students do projects

Ten simple rules for teaching data science arxiv.org/abs/2602.02874 1: Teach data science by doing data analysis 2: Use participatory live coding 3: Give tons of practice and timely feedback 4: Use tractable or toy data examples 5: Use real and rich, but accessible data sets

Guess I am going back!

Can't wait for my $2.87 check from yet another class action lawsuit I have been a part of due to corporate fuckery.

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

🌲 A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for the Integrating GLOBE Observer Tree and Land Cover Data with NASA Earth Observations for Environmental Monitoring Workshop!🌲 Registration for ForestSAT 2026 is now open: carlos-alberto-silva.github.io/silvalab/For...

Fast-growing trees are set to dominate the #forests of the #future — but at a cost🌳 Our Nature Plants (@natplants.nature.com) study shows a global shift toward "sprinter" tree species, while slow-growing, functionally critical #trees face elevated #extinction risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Get in there!

9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable

AI is the future amirite?

Nothing was done, and nothing seemed capable of being done

Our forecasted 2' of snow has turned into endless amounts of sleet.

We have already had Snowmageddon and Snowpocalypse so we need a new name for the coming storm here in central VA.

I just thought everyone should see this

Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

Beardsley should resign immediately. He's still got around an hour to make it easier on everyone. However, big fan of 2026 being the year we bring back consequences.

It's happening

What do you think Earl-Sears is up to this weekend?

We are never getting the next Elder Scrolls

I have a theory that those of us who were raised on IRC or AIM are absolutely insufferable in Slack to those who were not, because instead of writing a three-paragraph thing, we'll break that up into 15 comments.

Contemplating a lab sticker that's in a black metal font

Do trees have fingerprints? This cool new study uses terrestrial LiDAR to capture features of stems and branches that might allow timber to be identified and tracked from forest to lumberyard. 🧪🌲🌳 academic.oup.com/forestry/art...

Yes that classic food the chicken, broccoli, and one other thing taco.

Yadkin.

Anyone who played Sid Meier's Pirates back in the day already knew this.

Please tell me why I am supposed to take people like Chatterton and Yglesias seriously? Why does anyone read or listen to such empty vapidness?

I am unsure if there is a useful and concise guide for helping students figure out which plots/figures to make based on the kind of data they have. One main issue is that the guides that are informative often have the most horrendous looking figures with them. Soooooo.....yeah.

The agent, Jonathan Ross, was dragged by a vehicle and injured during a June operation in the Twin Cities, court records show.

🌱Quantitative Structure Modeling (QSM) from Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Open-Source Tools 🌱 Instructor: Jinyi Xia – University of Florida 📅 January 22, 2026 ⏰ Time: 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM (EST) 🔗https://event.fourwaves.com/forestsatworkshopseries

Tim, as usual, on point here

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of finding one constructive real world offline thing you can do to use your particular skills in service of fighting fascism as a psychological defense against the constant drumbeat of fuckery