Bluetorial-Jim Watson I met Jim Watson a few times but did not know him well. However, I was greatly influenced by his book “The Double Helix”. He was a complicated human being with some very, very bad features, but some good contributions. What follows is my personal perspective. 1/41

Does anyone have a gift link to this Atlantic article? (And yes, i'm aware of the irony of asking for a gift link so I can read an article about bypassing article paywalls)

Want to give a shout-out to Pollock et al. (2014) 👇. I'm learning JSDMs right now, and this is an absolute gold-tier introductory article: Concise, inclusively written (wrt non-stats readers), and covers all the fundamental math. #rstats #sdm What an absolute joy to read!

Is anyone old enough to remember how videogame piracy protection worked in like 1994? On my Amiga, to play "Indiana jones", I had to open the instruction manual to the stated page and read off a code. This is basically how the "new" 2-factor authentication works at Freie University (Berlin) now...

Congrats CD on your well-earned achievement! (This is _actually_ on the "journal" website) ＼(〇_ｏ)／

Has anyone heard of "The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences"... reviewing job applications and this journal came up at least twice... Is this a sketchy predatory journal? Or is it a legit remote sensing journal with a weirdly specific name? #GIS

Elon Musk has damaged science in the U.S., and here he is this weekend undermining democracy in the U.K. Yet @royalsociety.org still has him as a Fellow. If "a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists" doesn't stand up to fascism, something is very, very wrong.

Just discovered the subreddit r/AdamDriverCats

This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

My google newsfeed was already like 90% grocery store tabloids... But now it's AI boosted grocery store tabloid trash 😮‍💨

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Didn't read the article... But this plot seems to validate my negative opinion of Elsevier. *Note the sample sizes are quite small here

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Great analysis of Macedo and Lee's "In Covid's Wake," revealing it to be cherry-picked storytelling that is often disconnected from evidence. Their institutional affiliation doesn’t make any of their arguments more true 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Theres a new multi-disciplinary journal launching: stacks. It aims for more streamlined, transparent and generally better peer review. You can register to be a reviewer below 👇 Can we give this a shot and support ppl trying to improve our awful publishing systems? #academiclife #fishsci #fishsky

"And while some thinkpieces argue that Bluesky is bad because many of the users there are politically liberal, I don’t care about this, because I don’t use social media to argue with strangers about politics. I use social media to talk about fish"

Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works. tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows

I just learned about nightshade: A filter for images that "poisons" AI training by passing misleading feature information. #rstats does anyone know if this also works on plots? I'd be very happy to put this on figures in papers if it means AI has a harder time scraping my work.

Just got a 🧪pitch from a PR claiming to work with Colossal (de-extinction chancers). It was a pre-written article claiming the science sector is carrying out "coordinated attacks" on the co. Spy the headline. They asked if I'd publish it on my Forbes column. Not enough eye rolls on Earth for this 🙄

If a scholar of petro-masculinity said that men lust for coal, it would be seen as an exaggeration. But here we are...

🧪🦣🏺 Who wants to hear a story about biotech billions, unscientific claims, and shoddy smear tactics attacking women in science*? Thread 🧵 *which, for legal clarity, are totally denied as being connected

4,000 NASA workers are leaving through deferred resignation. "The cuts amount to an estimated 20% of NASA's workforce" www.npr.org/2025/07/26/n...

Why I didn't retract this paper when I was Editor-in-Chief at Science (THREAD 🧵)

Does anybody have a podcast recommendation for a technical overview of convolutional neural networks and transformer models? Something to serve as a primer before jumping into the primary literature, aimed at scientists? #deeplearning

Nature News has a short piece on the survey we did in conjunction with the FAIRS meeting on responding to serious research misconduct www.nature.com/articles/d41...

15 years later: After a reporter contacted Science "that's when I started talking to the authors about retracting". - editor in chief Can we stop feeding these "high impact", methods-last journals that don't give a shit about science, and are only interested in media headlines?

Please stop calling the power-to-be-generated from new mega-dams "green", "clean" or "climate-friendly" because it's not @bloomberg.com 🧪🌏

“...some [fellows] concerned [disciplining Musk] could raise questions about the position of others who have aired controversial views" What exactly is the point of a code of conduct then!?

CAPTCHA for Birders #birding #birds #birders

Last Aquatic Noise conf. post... Slide from John Potter's keynote. Like 9/10 ppl see only squares in this image... But in cultures where they live in round huts surrounded by round livestock fences, most of them can only see circles. Yes, I promise there are infact circles in this image...

I asked a #oceaninstruments rep (@Aquatic Noise) if they could share their SDK so i could write custm linux software for their soundtrap... They said yes AND offered to send me the .dll source code 😍. Quite a contrast from my experiences with #innovasea... #bioacoustics #acoustictelemetry

(1/5) Comments on the 2025 Aquatic Noise conference, Prague #bioacoustics

A depressing closing, aquatic noise conference (Prague). #bioacoustics #academiclife Discussion on the confrnc's past funding from US agencies and how it's gone for the foreseeable future. Next conf will need to signif cut costs and there are discussions on alternate funding models.

Best poster at #AN2025. Tillman Spellauge used lasers to measure the resonance frequency of superficial sensory hair cells on snapping shrimp. He showed the hairs are sensitive to sounds around 2kHz. This supports previous observations that they can hear *without* their statocysts (i.e. ears).

#AN2025 conference, Prague: William Wu just presented some underwater measures we made in the river Spree, Berlin. The spectrogram shows what a passing ubahn sounds like from the perspective of a fish in the Spree. #bioacoustics (Repost as i wrote the wrong last name for William the first time...🤦)

(1/3) Johannes Baltzer (i believe?) presents the most beautiful example of modal dispersion i have ever seen. A seimsic airgun recorded at a far distance. (See thread) #bioacoustics #AN2025

Wtaf is this now?!

I know I'm out of touch from most of society with my hatred for all things AI... ...but if there is 1 place on the internet I expect to read/listen to human beings, it would be the fucking github documentation page for open source bioacoustic analysis software.

#Rstats Does anybody know a PDF that describes: The distribution of great circle distances between randomly sampled point pairs along the surface of a sphere? I feel this should be a well known thing... but I'm having trouble finding anything.

If I wanted to reproduce this excellent figure (Bucker 1964) in my own paper, what would be the proper etiquette? Can I just remake a high-res version, then mention in the caption its a remake of Bucker 1964, or are there more complex copy-right issues here?

I despise the rapid adoption of AI... But this feels very wrong: Going to a large media organization to get positive PR about your study before it's reviewed & accepted?

#bioacoustics folk. I'm looking for recorders that handle ultra sonic frequencies... like recording frequencies up to 125kHz. Are there commercial recorders that can handle this? All I can find are all-in-one bat detectors. I just want to make field measures with a high-frequency hydrophone.

I want to give a shout-out to modern CSV. It reads and edits csv files... and *NOTHING* else. This means no stupid errors in your csv files due to formatting you never asked for --- yes, you can go to straight to hell excel auto date formatting! #rstats #academiclife www.moderncsv.com

TIL that deer can swim. I gotta rethink my deer-proof moat.

Put this on your reading list: Continuous-time HMMs for animal movement data. I saw Dom present a great intro to this work at ISEC 2024. The gist is it's a very fast model for fitting HMMs to temporally irregular data (based on maximum likelihood).

Only half!? I'm still completely confused about what these MPAs are supposed to be.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Is this just a British thing, or is it a global norm that the most destructive fishing practices are allowed in protected areas?

WHO using AI slop?