NYT feature on their website's front page about our local C. elegans colleague Will Mair and NIH funding www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

When D3 was released in February 2011, it transformed how we build data visualizations for the web and ushered in a new age of unbridled creativity in information design, data journalism, and beyond. Today, it remains the backbone of modern, interactive data viz. Happy 15th birthday, D3 🎂 d3js.org

No context side project 👀

DHS is holding a 2-month-old BABY at a detention facility in Texas. Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe. This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.

The FDA has refused to accept an application from Moderna to review its first mRNA seasonal flu vaccine, the company said, in another setback for the technology that’s been a target of some Trump administration health officials. https://cnn.it/4kt8iyn

v1.116 is rolling out now! For all the overthinkers and perfectionists out there, we're launching Drafts.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.

The new updates for Charles McAnany’s preprint “Positional Interpretation of Cis-Regulatory Code and Nucleosome Organization with Deep Learning Models” (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) are up! We introduce PISA, a tool to visualize the cis-regulatory code. See a recap below:

First ai ruined dashes, now it has also ruined UIs with gradients and rectangular divs with lots of padding and large corner radii

Been calling senators/reps offices a lot lately but just had a real human staffer pick up for the first time to listen to my comment. This tells me their lines are not busy enough! Fill up their voicemails!

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Any one of these daily atrocities should result in a full congressional investigation and a disbanding of the agency. The fact that it’s all just shrugged off by those with the power to stop it is a national disgrace.

Wrote a summary of a great keynote by @zey.bsky.social at NeurIPS, arguing that we’re having the wrong nightmares about AI: not AGI or superhuman benchmarks, but good-enough genAI at scale threatens "load bearing frictions" society relies on to signal effort, authenticity, sincerity, credibility.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

Introducing VoxCSS: a DOM based voxel engine github.com/LayoutitStud...

A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

🔬 pertpy: a unified, scalable framework for single-cell perturbation analysis, now out in Nature Methods Designed for modern perturbation data - CRISPR, drug screens, patient treatments - scaling to millions of cells and 1000s of conditions. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new paper from Stanford adds further, incontrovertible evidence that LLMs memorize training data. The authors showed that copyrighted works can be extracted from every LLM they tried: GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Grok 3, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet. 🧵 1/3 arxiv.org/pdf/2601.026...

Too lazy for 2 clicks, here you go: tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

🎉 New year, NEW PREPRINT! Bacteria exhibit astonishing genetic diversity, but where do new genes come from? My best friend Arya Kaul (/labmate in the @baym lab) investigates how advantageous deletions can spawn new genes - "deletion-born fusions." 🧵:

7/ Here's the bottom line: This is an unprecedented shift that risks weakening protection against preventable diseases at a time when outbreaks are rising and children are already being hospitalized. Vaccines don’t work without strong supporting systems...and the U.S. doesn’t have Denmark’s.

Hello moths, The harvest has arrived: anisota.net/harvest It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for Bluesky and the ATmosphere. 🌾 See your most-used words, discover who you interact with most, explore your posting patterns, and find all sorts of fun insights.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

New record year for renewable electricity in Britain - thanks especially to strong solar output. Read our analysis of 2025 here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#MLCB2025 proceedings are up at proceedings.mlr.press/v311/ !

This exists 😁

App idea: rover, but for sourdough starters and leivito madre. it will be called doughver

See 👇 our new manuscript introducing SpaCEy, an explainable method for predicting clinical outcomes from spatial omics data 🧬 📄 Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 💻 Code repo: github.com/saezlab/SpaCEy

The structure of the bacterial genotoxin colibactin bound to DNA shows how it might contribute to cancer risk. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/4iJPFVS

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered? GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now THOMPSON: What does that mean?

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Massive single-cell study by Kanai et al (www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...): - Once statistical power is high, constrained genes have more (though weaker) eQTLs. - Chromatin-QTLs near constrained genes have "normal" effect sizes, colocalize more with disease, but exhibit attenuated peak-gene effects.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

When reading a long stream-of-consciousness-type message on github or slack

My paper "Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse" is now published in ANZJS. This paper calls attention to the importance of UI/UX principles & approaches to statisiticians and #rstats developers. Many thanks to reviewers who made this paper better! 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Many people hours, calls and messages later: OSTA is now “in (pre)print”, though the real thing lives at bioconductor.org/books/OSTA. Check it out, get in touch. We welcome any feedback, suggestions, wishes (& contributions). It’s been a joy working with you @estellayixingdong.bsky.social!

Do not use density-based visual encodings for non-density-preserving embeddings/dimensionality-reductions

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Trump administration demands states "undo" efforts to provide full SNAP payouts for November amid court battle

The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

Peer review seems like one of the last places AI should be used. The main args in-favor seem related to volume and bad-faith submissions of non-science content. More transparent approaches such as AbstractExplorer from @elglassman.bsky.social should be preferred doi.org/10.1145/3746059.3747773

Now this is how you detect whether an election was stolen. Humans choose rounder numbers. by @TheEconomist

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Do we think the developers of the various 2FA apps put the "Yes" and "No" buttons on different sides on purpose

[corrected link] LLMs are often used for text annotation in social science. In some cases, this involves placing text items on a scale: eg, 1 for liberal and 9 for conservative There are a few ways to handle this task. Which work best? Our new EMNLP paper has some answers🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2509.03116