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. Marine scientist.
Hot take 🔥: two years after Tony Blair was elected as PM in 1997 🇬🇧, Labour saw a continuous [>50%] decline in council seats throughout their time in govt. What’s different now is that it’s not the Conservatives picking them up.
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I know everyone wants there to be a Giant Cretaceous Octopus but after looking at methods and tables, I really don't think this is a reality.
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Marc J. Lajeunesse
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Ecologists love response ratios for meta-analysis❤️ But… they can’t be converted into other effect sizes—making it impossible to have a unified dataset of all published effect sizes in ecology I fix this with a conversion to Hedges’ d to help unify our data! (Link to Ecology Letters paper below):
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I have a joke about philanthropy but it won’t have any impact.
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Tori Herridge
2 months ago
This response far better reflects my experience of how collections managers are really striving to do the best by the people they care for By
@sarahtarlow1.bsky.social
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@livnstutz.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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A duty of care to human remains | Letters
Letter: Prof Liv Nilsson Stutz and Prof Sarah Tarlow respond to an article on ethical questions about remains from overseas in UK museums
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/13/a-duty-of-care-to-human-remains
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AI generated presentations are the Comic Sans of our time. May future generations look back on us with grace.
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Flashbacks to first day as a grad student: “Imagine not an escape room, but an escape building. With enough challenges that it will take you a day to solve them so, not an hour.”
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Anil Seth
3 months ago
The danger of superhuman AI is not what you think. This essay in
@noemamag.com
by
@shannonvallor.bsky.social
is brilliant. Well worth a read.
www.noemamag.com/the-danger-o...
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The Danger Of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think | NOEMA
The rhetoric over “superhuman” AI implicitly erases what’s most important about being human.
https://www.noemamag.com/the-danger-of-superhuman-ai-is-not-what-you-think/
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Russell Garwood
3 months ago
We just don't end papers like this any more. Maybe the world would be better if we did? ⚒️🧪
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SPARC
3 months ago
We're glad to amplify the good work of
@bioone.bsky.social
! We celebrate this milestone of Subscribe to Open (S2O), a model that is emerging as a promising means of funding sustainable
#OpenAccess
for publishers & library systems of all sizes.
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BioOne Achieves Inaugural Subscribe to Open Target, Opening 71 Titles for 2026 - BioOne Publishing
BioOne is proud to report the achievement of a significant milestone in its mission to increase access to scientific research. BioOne’s Subscribe to Open (S2O) pilot has reached its sustainability thr...
https://bioonepublishing.org/press-release/bioone-achieves-inaugural-s2o-target/
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🪱Ekin Tilic
3 months ago
🚨 PhD position in annelid genomics (EuroWorm) 🚨 If you love biodiversity, evolution & bioinformatics — apply or share! 🪱🧬 Details here:
www.senckenberg.de/de/stellenan...
#PhD
#Genomics
#Annelida
#MarineBiology
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Stellenanzeigen Archiv | Senckenberg Naturforschung
https://www.senckenberg.de/de/stellenanzeigen/#job-01-26009
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Trevor A. Branch
3 months ago
When the original authors and those who find errors in their work, pull together for the sake of correcting the record and moving science forward, it's a beautiful thing Retracted paper:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Richard Sever
3 months ago
Linking the narrative with data, code, methods, and context is something everyone wants to see, but at some point most people most of the time want to draw a line under a project, mark it complete and move on. Will that change? 2/2
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The New York Times
3 months ago
During a dive last year in the Atlantic Ocean off Argentina, researchers documented a giant phantom jelly, a deep-sea species rarely seen since it was discovered a little over a century ago. “There was a mixture of excitement and disbelief,” said one marine biologist.
trib.al/HfkWfp4
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tomjwebb
4 months ago
“…as we use AI models, let’s keep asking ourselves if we are knowledge generating or merely output generating. Are we adding information to the world, or just words?”
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Conrad Hackett
4 months ago
Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data!
https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/
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Trevor A. Branch
4 months ago
Hallucigenia ate comb jellies
www.newscientist.com/article/2511...
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Fossil may solve mystery of what one of the weirdest-ever animals ate
Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - and now we may know what it ate
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2511711-fossil-may-solve-mystery-of-what-one-of-the-weirdest-ever-animals-ate/
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Dr Craig R McClain
4 months ago
Meet Duobrachium sparksae: a newly described comb jelly that looks like a glowing hot-air balloon drifting just above the deep seafloor. Transparent, delicate, and unmistakably transfixing, it reminds us how much biodiversity is in the deep oceans.
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...
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Andrew B. Watkins
4 months ago
Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
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So sad, but she achieved so much. An inspirational science leader.
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5 months ago
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Paul Scheer
5 months ago
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
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Nature Portfolio
5 months ago
A paper in Nature presents a detailed map of human chromosomes within the nucleus. This resource provides a foundation for an improved understanding of how the physical layout of human DNA is associated with biological expression.
go.nature.com/4pI8knB
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Karen James
5 months ago
I’m guessing most Americans don’t know this, but because I lived in the UK for 8 years and still watch the BBC via VPN, I can tell you that the BBC iPlayer’s volume dial goes to eleven.
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Andrew D Thaler
5 months ago
Something like 99% of all international data travels through subsea cables protected by UNCLOS. Freedom of Navigation and overflight are enshrined in UNCLOS. EEZs and sovereign rights over seabed resources are created and enforced through UNCLOS.
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Help us shape our grant making priorities for the future!
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6 months ago
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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨
6 months ago
Still think this was one of the best power moves of all time
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Me: “Oh cool - the Amazon forest is bouncing back” 🌳☁️ Also me: “Ooooooh… 🙄”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Amazon reports strongest cloud growth since 2022 after major outage
Amazon Web Services (AWS) sees 20% increase in revenue year over year, topping Wall Street estimates
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/30/aws-revenue-outage
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Surely emphasis should be cracking down on LLM generated papers (and their authors) rather than the
#openaccess
datasets themselves. Bizarre precedent that proprietary data would be seen as more trustworthy.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Journals and publishers crack down on research from open health data sets
PLOS, Frontiers, and others announce policies trying to stem the tide of suspect research
https://www.science.org/content/article/journals-and-publishers-crack-down-research-open-health-data-sets
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C. Chen @ Jamsteeeec
7 months ago
[New Paper] names Chaetoderma naga, a gigantic (>13 cm) new worm-mollusc from a cold seep! Like its sister-species C. shenloong, it probably relies on endosymbiotic bacteria for energy. We named it after Nāga, a snake-god from Asian mythologies! Out now in Moll. Res., LINK:
doi.org/10.1080/1323...
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🇧🇸 Conch 🐚 Cay 🏝️ Nassau 📍
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Blue lobsters might not be as rare as once thought:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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8 months ago
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Rebecca R Helm
8 months ago
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 🧵)
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The Royal Society
8 months ago
Climate change is not a con-job. If you want to know more about the evidence for and causes of
#ClimateChange
, head to our website:
royalsociety.org/news-resourc...
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Climate change: evidence and causes | Royal Society
Supplementary information for the project 'Climate Change: Evidence and causes'.
https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/basics-of-climate-change/
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Check out MARMORIS - a new NGO founded to explore
#deepsea
habitats in The Bahamas
ewnews.com/new-bahamian...
Beyond excited too see a fellow Bahamian passionate about deep-sea research. Way to go Denley,
@katycroffbell.bsky.social
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New Bahamian Non-Profit “Marmoris” Embarks on Deep-Sea Discovery Mission
NASSAU, BAHAMAS – A new era of ocean exploration is unfolding in the Caribbean with the official launch of Marmoris, a Bahamian non-profit organisation dedicated to uncovering, documenting, and conser...
https://ewnews.com/new-bahamian-non-profit-marmoris-embarks-on-deep-sea-discovery-mission/
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John Rowan
8 months ago
This used to be an absolute plague in Brussels. Until the council said the companies were responsible for it and they'd start fining them. And then - as if by magic - the problem got solved, pdq.
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Dan Killam
9 months ago
Lucinid bivalves are chemosymbiotic, partnering with microbes which oxidize sulfide and give them food. How do they breathe in such a sulfide-rich environment? In their burrows, one end leads up to oxygen, while another set of branching burrows lead downward, mining sulfide (203)
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Templeton World Charity Foundation
9 months ago
Dr. Berry Billingsley at Swansea University is reimagining how classrooms engage with questions that transcend subject boundaries. On
@storiesofimpact.bsky.social
, she discusses how to equip students to explore queries on life, the universe, and existence. 🎧
bit.ly/47BzVAL
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Big Questions That Change How We Learn with Berry Billingsley (podcast)
Interdisciplinary approaches to learning are reshaping religious education and science classes in schools.
https://www.templetonworldcharity.org/blog/big-questions-in-the-classroom-with-berry-billingsley-podcast
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Matt Bracken
9 months ago
This *Osedax* comic by
@thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
is just amazing! 🤩
#MarineLife
#Invertebrate
#SciArt
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Deepest know chemosynthesis-based ecosystems!
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10 months ago
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Nature
10 months ago
This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
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Ned Richardson-Little
10 months ago
“Digital asbestos” is such a perfect descriptor!
bsky.app/profile/katr...
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This thread on storytelling from
@toriherridge.bsky.social
keeps haunting me…
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10 months ago
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Tori Herridge
11 months ago
“Data is like people. If you torture it for long enough, it’ll tell you more or less whatever you want to hear.”
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Junior researchers are often given poor [or no] advice about trans national shipping of scientific samples. Academic societies could really help their members by commissioning good advice on this topic, e.g. @ASMicrobiology helpful document:
asm.org/guideline/pa...
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Chinese nationals accused of smuggling 'biological pathogen' into US
Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu allegedly brought a fungus into the US which damages a variety of crops and is toxic to humans and animals.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gkdppymk4o
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Harvard was partly founded on a donation from overseas immigrants from the nascent colony of Eleuthera (Bahamas) - 'It was the largest gift the college had received (up to that time) since the original Harvard donation, and is known as the Eleutheran donation’
www.harvardmagazine.com/2010/05/cast...
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12 months ago
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Chloë R McKenzie
12 months ago
Success in academia often has more to do with luck, patronage and the job market than “hard work”. Good academics acknowledge this. I worked hard, but I was in the right place at the right time on occasion. Historians far more talented than I have fallen between the cracks.
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Adam Summers
about 1 year ago
Not sure how other folks pick journals. When I was starting out I wanted a breadth of journals. Now I prioritize ones that are owned by scientific societies. I have no interest in paying APCs to anyone other than a society. That makes
@royalsocietypublishing.org
one of my favorites
#OA
or not.
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I once held a door open for Sir David Attenborough…
about 1 year ago
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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin
about 1 year ago
The hypothesis that land-dwelling iguanas rafted across the Pacific Ocean helps explain how iguana lineages from South America dispersed so easily throughout the Caribbean & The Bahamas, with some reaching small islands surrounded by deep-ocean environments.
theconversation.com/we-discovere...
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