The Europeans and Chinese when faced with Americans in denial about decline

This whole administration continues to be an object lesson in the catastrophic folly of letting unserious people have authority over serious things

1/ Apply for an inter-disciplinary postdoc position in Heidelberg with the Health & Life Science Alliance Deadline: **31 March** Project proposals can be self-designed or adapt one of the outlines on the website ("List of project outlines for download") www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie...

“we are trapping 21st-century minds inside 19th-century academic hierarchies.” This essay gets a lot right about problems with German science. I would add that the hierarchies and precarious contracts lead also to systemic abuse and scientific misconduct. open.substack.com/pub/realimag...

A reminder that next week we will have this workshop by @masalmon.eu , register if you haven't already! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

That’s a wrap on #EESAIBio! 🧬🤖 A few great days of talks, discussions, and new ideas at the intersection of AI and biology. We wrapped things up with a lively panel discussion on where the field is heading and celebrated some fantastic work with the poster prize. See you next time! #AI #AIbiology

When you're actually right about an association being causal, but you're way off mark about the mechanism.

“What I think is actually important for everybody to understand is that the US has been very clear that they want to divide Europe. They don’t like the European Union” @kajakallas.bsky.social told @financialtimes.com. “This is a very complicated relationship we are having" as.ft.com/r/a418af29-b...

Anglosphere agony vs Nordic nirvana. (PS Can't believe I'd never seen this graph before, so grateful to @stephenkb.bsky.social for sharing in his fab morning newsletter (www.ft.com/inside-polit...)

Impeccable timing with these @financialtimes.com headlines on the same day highlighting the Trumpian US approach to its allies. On the same day, the US is - further easing sanctions on Russia - starting probes to raise tariffs on EU, UK and Canada

The world of a 7y old

Dream Job Alert! @unituebingen.bsky.social is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) for EXPERIMENTAL BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH! You work on soil fauna/fungi/food webs and their relations with environment, plants, ecosystem processes? Come and join the @terra-cluster.org and our institute! Please re-post!

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026

The sheer strategic stupidity of bailing Russia out of its economic hole by launching a war that entirely foreseeably spikes the oil price - and then having no minesweepers in place to deal with the foreseeable fallout. Rank incompetence.

The next #ScienceatDKFZ event will take place on Thursday, 19 March 2026, at 4 pm. In addition to the keynote lecture by Sigrid Carlsson, there will be four 5-minute short talks by DKFZ junior scientists on recent highlight publications. 👉 dkfz.de/en/news/even...

How did we get here. And why.

We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.

Minkowski's question-mark function en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkows...

It would be nice if people remembered this piece of wisdom from the greatest economics tweet in history (and the one I am most insanely jealous of not having written, especially because it was a reply to me).

“As software becomes commoditised, it loses its power to differentiate,” writes Paul Achleitner, Deutsche Bank’s ex-chairman, in a guest essay. “What is becoming scarce again is hardware”

How can we tap into the enormous functional diversity of microbes on this planet? Join us at EMBL Heidelberg (8–10 Dec 2026) to learn about ongoing efforts to decode gene function and organisation in human gut microbes, and present your science.

Investitionen in Forschung und Innovation sind Investitionen in eine gute Zukunft unseres Landes. Das sollten wir auch die nächsten Jahre so fortführen. (2/2)

Congratulations to the colleagues at Heidelberg University! and all the others.

Claude will be representing itself.

BBC Visual and Data Journalism cookbook for R graphics https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/data%20visualization.html#bbc-visual-and-data-journalism-cookbook-for-r-graphics #RStats

The brain drain continues – the U.S. has lost arguably its most important scientific awards ceremony: arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Cloudflare introduced a new /crawl endpoint - one API call and an entire site crawled. No scripts. No browser management. Just the content in HTML, Markdown, or JSON. developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/po...

Announcing {freestiler}: a high-performance vector tiling engine for R and Python. Generate vector tiles for your maps directly from R/Python spatial data, @duckdb queries, and local spatial files. Check out the docs here: walker-data.com/free... Some highlights:

What a cool job

We know a lot is going on right now, but we just realized that: cabinet/board/panel = things made of wood cabinet/board/panel = terms for organizations

Using Quarto to write (and typeset) a book.

It would be one history‘s great plot twists if Trump has now managed to alert the entire world to why they should transition away from single-use fossils to renewables as quickly as any possible - even while having dismissed global warming. And Hormuz isn‘t even Asia‘s biggest risk.

Polls have closed in the first of this year's five German state elections, in prosperous Baden-Württemberg. It's looking like a remarkable win-from-behind by the Greens under @oezdemir.de. Full results over the course of the evening.

BaWü!!! 😊

Am heutigen Tag denke ich an all die Frauen in meiner Familie, die geschuftet und gekämpft haben, um sich und ihren Nachkommen ein besseres Leben zu ermöglichen. Sekretärinnen, Heimarbeiterinnen, Fabriksarbeiterinnen. Sie alle kämpften für ein Stück materieller Gleichstellung.

We Are R-Ladies 200+ chapters. 60+ countries. 100,000+ members. Since 2012, we've been promoting gender diversity in the R community — building a global network of R leaders, mentors, learners, and developers. This is who we are. rladies.org #RLadiesIWD2026 #IWD2026

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies. www.ft.com/content/ac77...

Happy International Women's Day! To mark the occasion, I sat down with ELLE Magazine for a wide-ranging interview on women's economic independence, my career and our @ecb.europa.eu EuroSteps Challenge. Read the interview www.ecb.europa.eu/press/inter/...

I am glad that Bluesky has now captured all the best parts of #rstats twitter: dank memes, sick burns, hot takes, and flame wars.

“Iran is run by religious fanatics.”

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11. www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

If you are interested in PDF accessibility, there has been some big progress in Quarto. Take a look at the latest blog post: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... #Quarto #Accessibility #LaTeX #Typst

Jetzt geht es um jede Stimme! 💚 Neuste Umfragen kurz vor der Wahl zeigen: Es gibt die große Chance, dass die Grünen in Baden-Württemberg 1. werden. Und Cem @oezdemir.de Ministerpräsident. Dafür müssen jetzt aber wirklich alle zur Wahl gehen. Eure Stimme macht einen großen Unterschied!

These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats

Did this a while back but forgot to share: the Danube basin. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

The time to register for this is now! It's a great opportunity for biological / biomedical researchers who want to get better in analysing their own data.

We are one of the potential host labs for a Lecturer position in Molecular Genetics & Genomics — please share, and get in touch for more info! 🧬📣

@russcd.bsky.social ushers in a new era of academic metrics with the core-pivotal author index, which assigns all credit to authors that occupy the exact center of the author list, while non-central peripheral authors receive no credit whatsoever. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag026 #evobio #molbio

Ascona workshop "Statistical and AI methods for multi-modal multi-scale modeling of biological systems", 28 June - 3 July. Deadline for registration Mon 16 March, 23:59 CET. There are ~10-12 places left.