Here's an interesting piece on the use of metrics to measure academic performance. We all know that when a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure, but at least metrics distort behavior *visibly* & institutions can choose the ones to reward nicolaijfoss.substack.com/p/coara-and-...

This just keeps getting worse. For non-science people, we use commercial antibodies on a daily basis to detect proteins of interest using many methods. Bad antibodies mean bad results, which means a lot of medical research was wasted. I can't imagine the costs to trainees (their time), labs, etc.

We are finishing the day with the General Assembly of the #CodaAssociation and the gala dinner. #CoDaWork2026 #compositionaldata

We have started the third day of CoDaWork2026 by uncovering the meaning behind the logo: It's the University tower! #CoDaWork2026 #CoDaAssociation #compositionaldata

Ready for the Inauguration of the 11th CoDaWork in Coimbra (Portugal). The program is excellent and the atmosphere as nice as always. #CoDaWork2026 #compositionaldata #CoDaAssociation

Nice morning with (mostly) microbiome-style contributions. The afternoon starts with the Keynote talk of Paul-Gaulthier and a compositional point of view to Shapley functions and weights of evidence. After this, a geosciences session. #CoDaWork2026 #compositionaldata #CoDaAssociation

While we are starting the third day of CoDaWork2026, I'm sure this is going to be as interesting as yesterday's sessions. And the Social Program with the visit to the Joanina Library was amazing #CoDaWork2026 #compositionaldata #CoDaAssociation

At the end of the program on Tuesday we had the Poster session. Good contributions (my poster was there! :) ) and room for discussion. The day finished with the social program. A lovely dinner+ Fado night. #Compositionaldata #CoDaWork2026 #CoDaAssociation

We need a new publication model where I will pay an APC, but the journal pays me back for every citation my paper gets. I want residuals.

Congratulations on this well-deserved honour, Daniel!

"Terrorism" on the left. "Protest" on the right.

Says the Convoy's doughnut delivery boy.

This new paper provides economic evidence for Humboldt's ideal of uniting research and teaching. Students exposed to courses closer to the research frontier are more likely to complete their degrees, earn higher grades, attend graduate school, and achieve higher earnings later on.

Yeah, a reminder that I am aggressively anti Generative AI because I'm a consent educator. I know how consent works. And a world that says "You wrote a book? Cool, let me guzzle a lake's worth of water to steal that and repackage it" is a world I don't want to participate in.

Not a single word about protecting or compensating Canadian artists whose work has been stolen by tech companies and spit out again in a slightly altered form.

Janet Rossant to receive #UofT honorary degree for her world-renowned research & leadership in biomedical sciences #UofTGrad26 📜 uoft.me/crf

📢Faculty Position in Nucleic Acid Based Nanomedicine Available! 📆Apply by September 15! ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjo...

1.7 billion Canadian is about 1 billion- ish USD. or about 1/10 the YEARLY budget of (the underfunded) NSF. This ain't gonna solve the issue. No. We stay and fight.

Hard to walk down the street in Toronto these days without being struck by the breadth and depth of our crisis in lack of care for those with major mental illness

This only gets worse and still no apparent response from ThemoFisher. I'll certainly NEVER buy one of their antibodies

Carney is not making Canadian science stronger or more globally competitive by spending $80M to recruit researchers from outside Canada while doing nothing to improve stagnant funding for researchers here and gutting DFO, Environment Canada, Ag Canada, Canadian Space Agency, etc.

1/ Everyone’s chasing AI. But in bioinformatics, solid foundations still win. Here’s why mastering the basics matters more than ever. 🧵

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

HMMER, Pfam, and Rfam are critical to so many Bioinformatics pipelines. This is absolutely crazy

Explain to me how Editorial Manager can have so may different journal accounts, but not manage to let you log in with one password and switch between journals? Each time to try to login I am told the password doesn't work - but it did yesterday for a different journal 😡

You know, I'd be far more likely to get my reviews in on time if it wasn't absolute fucking torture to log in to every single Editorial Manager with new credentials every time a different journal requests I review for them

Are you curious about who is running political and social issues ads on FB/IG in the US right now and who they are targeting? We have an app that. app.polidashboard.org/meta_ads?cou...

And if you are interested in seeing who is trying to sway you on immigration and migration policies, we have an app for that, too. This one is unique in that it also shows you the frames & narratives these advertisers are using to target & sway you. migration.polidashboard.org/frames

Thrilled to announce that the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, School of Medicine is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)! The Pacific Northwest is an awesome place to live and do science 🧪🦠. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/185622 Applications due 8/1.

Incredibly disappointing that @mark-carney.bsky.social gov't reduced Canada's foreign aid by ~$2.7B over 4 yrs, despite earlier promises not to cut this. While also reversing a planned capital gains tax increase & easing luxury tax on yachts Priorities matter

this is insane — and perhaps also prior restraint?

this. is. bonkers.

It's a strange world when the Premier of the Province thinks that it's more important to give voice to maybe 20% of voters rather than the 80% who are satisfied with the status quo. The Premier may or may not be a separatist but she is certainly a deliberate enabler of separatism. #abpoli #cdnpoli

Brexit lessons: - An insurgent populist right will be invigorated by a referendum, not vanquished - They don't care about Leave/separate as a real policy. They possibly don't even want it implemented. It's a vehicle for grievances, racism, and graft - Crypto and dark money will sink you

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. www.terrygodier.com/the-borin…

Pleased to see Alberta learning critical lessons from Brexit about a flailing leader reliant on far right populist insurgents, promising a referendum on cession that absolutely will not lead to 10 years of economic decline, division and chaos www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

When the supposed Liberal we elected is more like Harper than Trudeau we have a problem!! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Freedom of speech died today. You silence one we are all silenced to a degree.

Smith pushes another word salad referendum opening the door to breaking up the country. So why would Mark Carney continue promoting a pipeline with her? Isn't Canada worth more than the interests of oil executives in Calgary and Houston? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

@johanduchene.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social Spent the last hour looking, found ten more apparently manipulated Western blots in Thermo Fisher's antibody verification data (across eight different catalogued products). Thread below. www.thermofisher.com/antibody/pro...

This is such a great idea and policy. #LLMs #AIslop #academia

Finally, here's an absolute banger of an article, published just last month (Hoffman et al. 2026), showing how incredibly powerful the cohort patterning of influenza deaths is, in regular (not pandemic) years, corresponding to how circulating strains match up w what people were exposed to as kids

10 years ago students were told they need to learn coding. Five years ago they were told to get good at stats. Two years ago they were told to become prompt engineers. Shoehorning industry-specific tech skills into a multiyear curriculum is a losing game but few institutions want to admit that.

Happy Constitution Day, Norway! Love your wonderful people and beautiful country! Sending best wishes from Georgia! 🇬🇪🫶🏻🇳🇴 poster: AllThingsNordic

#ScienceUnderSiege But #TheForceIsWithUs

Now out in Behavior Genetics: I track how fringe researchers weaponize preprint servers to disseminate pseudoscientific studies that advance scientific racism and eugenics links.springernature.com/f/a/Y0XN-XcL...

Alternate headline: Carney is selling off our public infrastructure to foreign investors. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...