Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit

Imagine the AI future you wish to see: Fewer nonsense AI-native startups, more sushi robots.

DID YOU KNOW? Base pipe (|>) cannot be escaped in Rmarkdown headers, but magrittr pipe (%>%) can. I broke a bunch of my teaching slides with a grep pipe replace, and yes, of course, I waited until day-of to check them 😎 magrittr for life and I will die on this hill #rstats 🧪

GTA2026 starts next week! Join us May 18–22 for a free, virtual week of Galaxy training and community support. Explore tracks in assembly, single-cell, proteomics, machine learning, transcriptomics, microbiome, climate, and more. Register now: training.galaxyproject.org/training-mat...

Yo, anyone want to be a Bird Identification Machine Learning Software Engineer for the wonderful Cornell Lab of Ornithology, home of the Merlin app?!? It’s remote! I do not have these skills but maybe you do! #jobs jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

🗓 Join us at #ACC26 on 8/31 - 9/1, 2026, at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard in Cambridge, MA. Keynote speakers, invited talks, poster sessions, and collaborative workshops await! Register: bit.ly/regsiteranvil26 Get updates: lists.anvilproject.org/lists/acc202... Learn more: bit.ly/anvil2026

Do I sign up for my next half based on ease of effort (flat) or coolness of shirt? Baltimore has excellent swag, but the hills are just disrespectful 😮‍💨

Interested in teaching data science for environmental health? We're offering DaSEH's first NIEHS-funded Virtual Instructor Training on May 29! 🍎🧪 Learn our tips and tricks for teaching domain-focused data science! 📝 Register here: bit.ly/teach-daseh-26 💡 Learn more: daseh.org #rstats #edusky

We have summer internships y'all! Come work at Posit on the PyData, tidymodels, shiny, or Connect teams: grnh.se/tigz810a3us. You will have an awesome time, learn a ton, and help advance our open source and pro tools 🧰 #rstats #pydata

Applications are now open for the NIEHS-funded Data Science for Environmental Health (DaSEH) short course! Help us study data science education 🍎🧪 💻 Online Portion: June 8-12, 15-18 🧑‍🏫 In-Person Codeathon: June 29 - July 1 Learn more & apply by March 15, 2026 at daseh.org #rstats #EduSky

Me? I'm just happy to be here #rstats

what's a "pipes" ?? #rstats

“Soil is one of the last frontiers on Earth,” says @avahoffman.com. A new project aims to map it.

Excited to share our first BioDIGS paper! This is one of the coolest, most impactful projects I've ever worked on 🤩 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Trustworthy data visualization is a cooperative accomplishment” - Kieran Healy #PositConf2025

"How many of you have opened RStudio, one of the most advanced data science IDEs ever created, to add two numbers?" - Jonathan McPherson at #positconf2025 😆🙋‍♀️

"Global health programs are not charity. They are insurance policies and the most affordable protection we have against future pandemics. Containing outbreaks at their source costs millions. Letting them spread costs billions — and lives."

Shoutout to the true mvp of every scientific manuscript: `cowplot::plot_grid()` #rstats

never change, Baltimore

That’s a wrap! Thanks for joining us for ACC2025! 🧬💻

Hey are you looking for a postdoc focusing on microbial ecology/bioinformatics? Hit me up - it’s not my lab but trying to help someone else staff their lab. If you have a student about to defend, this could be a great chance to get a ton of papers.

If you want to try out AnVIL, join the AnVIL Virtual Workshop on Tuesday September 2 from 3-5 pm ET! You'll learn about the platform, how to bring & find data, and use the analysis tools on the platform! To sign up, create a free AnVIL account and register here! bit.ly/anvil-virtua....

Really appreciated how @sethf.bsky.social described using AI in the evolution class that we co- teach: “ it’s like paying for a gym membership and then using a forklift to raise and lower your weights.”

How the heck does scientific funding even work?!? I had a lot of fun on this episode of EIPH 🤓

💫FREE💫 AnVIL training alert! Look out for the AnVIL 101 workshop if you're brand new.

Annual pilgrimage to paradise

Hinge for bedtrash

Come Data Wrangle with me this July! This is one of my favorite classes to teach 🧠 #rstats #datascience

heartbreaking.

New blog post www.datapedagogy.com/posts/2025-0...

Join us this fall for ACC2025! The AnVIL Community Conference brings together researchers, developers & the cloud genomics community. 🗓️Sept 3–5, 2025 📍Nashville, TN Highlights: 👥Networking 🎤Talks, Posters, CoFests 💬Community Forum 📩Stay updated: lists.anvilproject.org/lists/acc202...

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

"Academics tend to be averse to discussing mental health openly, and higher education’s mental health safety net is patchy—a forgotten footnote that all too often fails its students." #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth scim.ag/4m61iaU

I served on an NIH panel earlier this year. All told, I spent almost an entire work week (38.25 hours) outside my normal work training, writing critiques, and participating in the panel. W/ the stipend, I made $5.23/hr. There's a lot of unpaid labor in science, but this one feels especially icky.

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Sharing the latest from biodigs.org at AGBT tomorrow! Can't wait! #AGBTGM 🧪🧬🦠

Excellent classroom resource for understanding historical inequity and the environment. #EduSky 🍎

Registration for Evolution 2025 is now open! Come join us virtually from May 29-30, and/or in-person in Athens, GA from June 20-24. @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social #Evol2025 www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration...

People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency. (Photos shared with me)

Need a coping strategy in the face of *waves arms around*? After seeing more misinformation accounts here, I've been doing a dive on #scicomm best practices. We scientists should triple down on this and dial up our prebunking and debunking efforts. Here's a 🧵 of strategies and resources: 🧪 1/

Excellent training today with our collaborators in Sri Lanka! Check out the recording here: youtu.be/MH2GDqsbUCs

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Like data science outreach? I’m looking for a postdoc to join our team. Anyone interested in developing data science / informatics outreach and training materials would be perfect! We are a remote team, so no relocation necessary. careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/26362/p... #datasciencejobs

"When it comes to large language models, there’s one for every occasion. Find the most appropriate match for you in our AI speed-dating feature." Jeff Leek, Elizabeth Humphries et al in Nature. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...