Nice one, from @drg.bsky.social and @jamesheathers.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Wake up babe sesame street just dropped some new iconic scicomm

Any published papers in the wild with a declared use of AI for analyzing the data yet? We know people are doing it. Probably quite often. So there must be one where use was declared?

Native Americans used gar scales as arrowheads, native Carribeans used gar skin as breastplates, and early colonizers wrapped gar skin around their plow blades. In other words, it's really hard to get through gar skin 5/8

The gar swim bladder functions as a lung and they must surface periodically to gulp air. Studies have shown that gar switch between breathing air and breathing water based on temperature. Warm water holds less oxygen, so they breathe air more in warm temps 6/8

Yikes. I talk about this every time I teach my students about DNA structure.

Scientists filmed bats to see how they communicate while swarming. They found a surprise: In urban settings, rats attack bats. What are the implications for bats ... and virus spread to humans? n.pr/3WNy2KL

I read through a few lectures, and I am very impressed with how clear this is. This should be very useful for beginners. I may refer my students to this as a resource.

Metric Tip xkcd.com/3164/

Nice story. Should read.

Hey we all blunder into doing hard things, and some of us reluctantly do hard things on purpose, but none of us do them because they’re hard.

Personally, I do things not because they’re easy, but because I incorrectly thought they’d be easy

deep cut! `fortunes::fortune("dog")`: "Firstly, don't call your matrix 'matrix'. Would you call your dog 'dog'? Anyway, it might clash with the function 'matrix'." -- Barry Rowlingson, R-help (October 2004)

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

Another #GarWeek spotlight species is the Bowfin. Check out this young of the year bowfin from a Green Bay coastal wetland. #GreatLakes

Read about the Bowfin, the gar’s closest living relative. #GarWeek

Hey Gar (and other toothy fish) enthusiasts, my lab group is looking for length, weight and location data for alligator gar and emerald/eyetail bowfin from across their range for a study. If you have any, can you share? #GarWeek

Oxygen supersaturation has been reported to protect aquatic animals from heat waves. We tested this in a large collaborative experiment on many species of fish and crustaceans. Our new paper in @plosbiology.org shows that the effect of hyperoxia on thermal tolerance is negligible. Unfortunately.

New to Bluesky. Let's see if this is better than the garbage I have to wade through in X.