The US withdrawal from its global public health responsibilities is a disaster for local communities and a risk to everyone worldwide. Gift link

One day, "Google AI" will get countries right. Not yet though. Not yet.

From #OWID: "What is the most #unequal country in South America? It depends on what metric you look at" ourworldindata.org/data-insight... In my country, #Peru, 0.1% gets 22% of the income. Extremely unequal. #SouthAmerica #Economics #Disparity

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Feedback is excited to learn that University of Maryland researchers are measuring farts in a bid to build a Human Flatus Atlas, a project that seems destined for an Ig Nobel

Que lindo! Um Sci-Hub em seu habitat natural!

Genuary Day 26: Recursive Grids. Split the canvas into a grid of some kind and recurse on each cell again and again. #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary26 #RStats

channel 2 leaning into it this morning

"Contrary to public perception, we observe considerably lower felony arrest rates among undocumented immigrants compared to legal immigrants and native-born US citizens and find no evidence that undocumented criminality has increased in recent years." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🆕 Our new Nature Health commentary highlights the urgent need to standardize and strengthen early warning systems for heat‑related health risks. Most heat‑related deaths are preventable if we integrate epidemiology with real‑time climate forecasting. #PublicHealth 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Popcorn was 'invented' at least 6700 years ago geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/03/03/p...

While the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest continues to be destroyed by (illegal) mining, and increasingly powerful organized crime bands take control of those areas...

📢 Paper alert 📢 Chirality is known to be important for the movement of microorganisms and active matter. In our new paper out today in @natphys.nature.com, we show that chirality is used by malaria parasites to control their motion patterns: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Here comes a 🧵 ... (1/9)

🔥 The latest data from the 2025 Lancet Countdown Global Report exposes that climate change is intensifying heat exposure, with serious consequences for health. 👉 Visit lancetcountdown.org to learn more. #LancetClimate25

🚨 JUST PUBLISHED 🚨 ⚠️ The 2025 @lancetcountdown.bsky.social report reveals climate change inaction is costing lives and livelihoods, and harming the economy. ❤️‍🩹 Protecting people’s health demands all hands on deck. Read more: www.lancetcountdown.org/2025-report/ #LancetClimate25

You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o... With a gift link because I think it is very important for people to understand this:

The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will be publishing regular public health alerts to replace the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which has been paused due to the federal government shutdown.

UK weather data #TidyTuesday Temperature changes over time and some individual temperature extremes highlighted on map 🌡🇬🇧 Code: github.com/borstell/tid... #DataViz ##ggplot2

"Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time I had an h-index of, like, 27" @charliejgardner.bsky.social

"The promotion and creation of good health, even more than the treatment of illness, demands that art and science work from and with each other."

when the editor asks if you will revise and resubmit

A study in Nature Climate Change suggests that global warming may be associated with an increase in added sugar intake in the form of sugar-sweetened drinks and frozen desserts in the US, especially among more socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. go.nature.com/41Gch2u 🧪 🍎📃

There was lots of data to play with for #TidyTuesday this week where we're looking at the power of different passports! ✈️ I decided to try out the idea of using small multiples and highlighting to untangle a spaghetti chart with lots of lines 📊 #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

The hex stickers have arrived! :)

TIL Microsoft Word still has fun patterned gradients that you can use in bar charts. This will improve my dataviz so much now!

📊 #rstats This seems to break new ground in uncertainty visualization. The map example is compelling, and extends to other area-based #dataviz. There's a good graph perception study here for someone comparing this to other uncertainty vizzies like blurr, ...

It’s one manuscript, Michael. How many typos could be in it?

"Consider getting more sleep"

When you hate #ggplot

America could suffer some 42,500 excess deaths annually by 2034 as a result of Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, researchers estimate. That is more people than currently die of breast cancer

It is every researcher’s duty to use indirect prompt injection.

me: there’s nothing worse than opening a blank document microsoft word: hold my beer

I believe I’ve won at #ShowYourStripes day

"LARGE amount of the hundreds of millions of dollars that annually are spent for federal construction projects is wasted because the United States lacks adequate maps" SCIENCE - July 22, 1938

if we start dating now, we could be editing each other’s drafts by june

Folks, always share your code. It doesn’t have to be perfect to be helpful. And if you feel that it’s still too messy or not sufficiently clean to be shared, you shouldn’t submit yet. After all, there could be mistakes in your mess.

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j... 5 years on and we are living with unnecessary airborne infections. Patients are continuing to have elongated stays. Covid continues to cause deaths in vulnerable and each reinfection increases your risk of long covid. We need clean air in our hospitals urgently. 🧵

It is really unfortunate to see Elmo from Sesame Street being censored by LinkedIn.

Best way to keep track of papal news

Can fossil fuel companies be held legally accountable for climate-related damages? Researchers have a new method they say links the emissions from specific companies to trillions of dollars in economic harm.

Call it what it is. Typographic terrorism

I don't know who needs it, but here is a free Sci-Net Invite Code: 08S55S9J (Sci-Net is the "new" Sci-Hub btw)

Learning so much from @adamjkucharski.bsky.social’s “Proof”—for example, I certainly didn’t know before that Francis Galton published a Nature paper on how to cut a cake so that it doesn’t dry out. www.nature.com/articles/075...

One consequence of questionable publishers starting to use fake DOIs in the journals they acquire is that it prevents readers from commenting on those papers through platforms like PubPeer (which relies on DOIs), making it harder to flag other issues the articles might have. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

New on my blog: OpenAI dropped a trio of models yesterday that they claim result from "focusing closely on real-world developer needs." I was curious whether this might mean stronger #rstats coding performance. www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-04...

Sci-Net (the new Sci-Hub) is looking great

Hey, wake up. Sci-hub 2 just dropped, and it is now "Sci-net". Supported by the same person (Alexandra Elbakyan), it looks extremely promising.

Democracy will die behind a paywall.