Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a warning -by @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/09/11/e...

Wrote up some thoughts about LLM chatbots that I haven't, I think, quite seen expressed in these terms: as they exist right now, they're really just another attempt to corral internet users inside one tech company's walled garden denimandtweed.jbyoder.org/2025/09/the-...

New review out in @thelancetplanet.bsky.social from our rodent-borne zoonoses workshop @ciddpsu.bsky.social 🐭🌍 Humans & rodents share a long history and many pathogens -from plague to mpox. Outbreak prevention needs socially + ecologically grounded solutions 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint. This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.

"Quienes tienen el privilegio de saber, tienen el deber de actuar."

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Falsehood Firehose

As a follow-up to _Calling Bullshit_, Jevin West and I developed the course about LLMs that we think every college freshman should take. Yesterday I talked about the course in a seminar at UNSW. And thanks to my colleagues there, 24 hours later the video is already online.

NEW! 🎉 We need wildlife disease surveillance to predict epidemics, but data sharing is rare - we found that only 2-3% of studies share raw data. So, we spent three years developing a data standard and R package to help get wildlife disease data into FAIR repositories. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Among corresponding authors — who take responsibility for a manuscript as it goes through the publication process — just 17% of those who disclosed their gender identified as women” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Elon Musk wanted to buy Wikipedia so that he could determine our society’s collective view of truth. He couldn’t, so he created grok. Do not let these machines be arbiters of truth. It is abundantly clear that they are being used to push absurd far-right conspiracies.

No angle needed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It's a useful reminder that repeat measurements still depend on underlying assumptions. 'Consistent findings could take on the status of confirmed truths, when they actually reflect failings in study design, methods or analytical tools,’ as Munafò & Davey Smith have put it:

"But when the next crisis hits, we’ll wish we hadn’t forgotten how to move as a unit." www.statnews.com/2025/04/08/m...

Max consumption rates of non-native species were 70% higher than those of natives. Differences in consumption rate between native & non-natives were particularly pronounced in freshwater species. phys.org/news/2025-04...

Yet, international initiatives have typically tackled those challenges separately, says @achughes.bsky.social That has to change. Raina Plowright: “Halting deforestation and climate change will help address the root cause” of disease emergence. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... 11/

Important piece by Gittleman - “It’s impossible to separate human health from health of the natural world. Ecology is the unifying science that integrates knowledge..[the] One Health approach is unlimited, exciting, & necessary for the health of life on our planet” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪🌎🌐🌾