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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

GISAID on providing data to @Nextstrain.org: "After consulting with our staff and advisors on the feasibility of keeping your global tree up-to-date, there was a clear consensus that continuing to generate, zip and move big files back and forth is not sustainable and a waste of resources." 🙃

For folks doing academic faculty hiring —  What kind of platform does your university require you to use? Interfolio? Avature? Something else? Are you able to batch-download the dossier PDFs, or do you pay for someone to hand-download them all?

Hope you can join us for three full days (June 2-4th, 2026) of great science in a beautiful setting!

Faculty on receiving tenure:

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Check out this analysis of vaccine data in @nejm.org by @jakescottmd.bsky.social and colleagues!

Microsoft Research New York City (www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...) is seeking applicants for multiple Postdoctoral Researcher positions in ML/AI! These are positions for up to 2 years, starting in July 2026. Application deadline: October 22, 2025

Could a “smoke alarm” for airborne contaminants monitor and improve the quality of the air indoors? (Where Americans spend 90 percent of their time!) An interdisciplinary research team led by @linseymarr.bsky.social will create such a system that could cut respiratory illnesses by 25 percent. 👏

This month, no colloquium but a special session about careers in network science! Join us and an all-star panel on October 29. Register here for a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Ahead of a cryptocurrency selloff, two accounts placed bets against the market minutes before tariff news broke and scored $160 million

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I have lost The Game.

10/10 💀 Children are wonderful. However, there are situations in which parents must minimize time spent on an activity while maximizing a child’s enjoyment of it. Here, we analyze the problem of a bedtime routine that involves playing CandyLand w a toddler who does not take kindly to losing... 👇

Wow. Less than six months after Misere Connect Four was solved [1], we now have a solution to Chess on Half the Board! 👏 → bowaggoner.com/papers/2025/... [1] arxiv.org/abs/2410.055...

The government shutdown interrupted CDC's disease updates, so Team Force of Infection spent our Saturday going to the websites of all 50 health departments to check on Covid-19, flu and RSV. caitlinrivers.substack.com/p/cdc-data-i...

This makes me so hopeful 🥹 Does anyone know of similar comparisons that focus on task-specific evals (like medical tasks)?

What is the impact of the HHS decision to no longer recommend COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy? In our new research letter in @jamapediatrics.com, we provide estimates on the number of infant hospitalizations under different vaccine scenarios here. @mathewkiang.com, @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

I'm thrilled to be leading, along with AJ Prussin II, an ARPA-H BREATHE team that will integrate new biosensors, risk assessment software, and engineering controls to bring clean and healthy indoor air to more buildings. arpah.gov/news-and-eve...

Message passing for epidemiological interventions on networks with loops https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21596

Influenza A virus RNA found in airborne particles from pigs across a range of particle sizes. For reference a 10 micron particle takes ~8 minutes to settle to the ground from a height of 5 feet. That's plenty of time for it to drift around and be inhaled by others.

Effective altruists propped up a bunch of meta scientists being fast and loose with methods and now we have this society wide myth that sciences biggest challenge are the scientists themselves, and they can solve it by filling out a pdf and uploading a csv. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

Just wow

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Come and work with us! Review of candidates will begin ~1 October with rolling consideration thereafter. If you are unable to apply early, contact the search committee chair (me) to discuss timelines.

Official data is in today, and America set a new record-high for solar power in July, with generation up 30% compared to last year!

🚨 New paper out in PLOS Computational Biology! 🚨 We're excited to share our new paper, serojump, a new probabilistic framework and R package for inferring infections and antibody kinetics from longitudinal serological data. 📄 Full paper: tinyurl.com/re7du3t2 R package: seroanalytics.org/serojump

Such a useful framing (which I first heard from @alexanderhoyle.bsky.social). The prompt is ultimately just a bunch of numbers that we input to the model, and why we should prefer one set of numbers over another set is hard to answer, as we can’t search the space the way we normally would in ML.

People with credit cards in their wallets, which they use as their default for purchases today which they pay off in a month, are so deeply, almost reflexively, opposed to "buy now pay later" services. What am I missing here?

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis gives an update after today's shooting at Evergreen High School. He says there are 2 victims, both of whom are hospitalized, as is the suspected perpetrator. State law enforcement is assisting at the scene while Polis is offering resources to families + kids.

www.denverpost.com/2025/09/10/e... "The shooting at Evergreen High is at least the seventh school shooting in Colorado since the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School that killed 12 students and one teacher."

I applaud workers at the CDC for standing up against Sec. Kennedy’s dangerous anti-vaccine crusade. We are witnessing a full-blown war on public health from the Trump Administration. History will not look kindly on those who stayed silent in the face of this assault on science.

“I think of antibiotics as infrastructure” @yhgrad.bsky.social interviewed for the Harvard Gazette, 'Racing against antibiotic resistance'. Read it here at bit.ly/47PdOqv

What a lovely online calculator from @upshot.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

2 x Postdocs (Berkeley, CA, USA) Infectious-disease modelling & phylodynamics for pandemic preparedness with ‪@charleswhittaker.bsky.social‬ at @petal-team.bsky.social‬ @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social‬ ‪@berkeleypublichlth.bsky.social‬ More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2351

New paper in PLOS Biology: as we raise the difficulty of our 3D printed puzzles, bees keep landing on combs with ever stranger hexagonal order! 🐝 Led by the brilliant Golnar Gharooni Fard, in collaboration with CK Prasanna & FL Jiménez journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

i'm the guy who invented the spike traps that pop out of temple walls. i hate my job. every day my boss says "why haven't we killed any archeologists" and i say "they haven't invented that yet." they pay me in tomb juice. i hate tomb juice. honestly i might just start working on my big boulder idea

Does anyone know if this was vivax or falciparum? I can't find any details...

Fascinating to read about - an real life epidemiological mystery unfolding, and the answers could have important implications for disease ecology in the US. gothamist.com/news/nj-heal...

No matter how hard you try, you simply cannot guess the journal withe the highest “impact factor” in organic chemistry last year. Really. Nor will you guess many of the other “winners”:

In a new paper with @didaoh and Jon Kleinberg, we mapped the family trees of 1.86 million AI models on Hugging Face — the largest open-model ecosystem in the world. AI evolution looks kind of like biology, but with some strange twists. 🧬🤖

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Or maybe it's even easier: instead of just socially engineering an AI agent, just attack lower in the stack via prompt injection. simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/b...

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In class this fall, I promise to continue to refer to algebraic simplification as math's "obsession with cancel culture" and the quest for explicit solutions as "gain of function research."

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