“Genes and environment both ‘make a difference’ for educational attainment in some general and unsatisfying way, but all attempts to identify either one as causal main effects wind up reducing them to zero.” Galton's [metaphorical] Grandma ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/galtons-gr...

We're 60 shirts away from getting our first bug mural of the fall funded. If you haven't already, get a shrimp shirt. Look cool as hell while supporting a project that's just as cool 😎 SquidFacts.net

TIRED: Missing pre-X Twitter INSPIRED: Missing pre-Russian owned LiveJournal

That’s weird. Why did money just leave my wallet? Note to self, pair with shrimp cardigan. It will be…. SHRIMPLY THE BEST! (credit to Cafe Sushi in Hahvahd Square for that one)

This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Ecologists! Check out this AWESOME paper using the newer (to us, anyway) Synthetic Control technique in combo w/ @inaturalist.bsky.social to show hurricane impacts on bees. From Asia Kaiser, @julianresasco.bsky.social, and @lauradee.bsky.social 🌍🧪 #causalinference www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I learned a lot from this for something I don’t pay a ton of attention to. Worth a read for anyone using quarto, rmarkdown, Hugo, and more.

I mentioned this as an aside in #Evol2026: applyingtoeeb.info . Hopefully helps expose the hidden curriculum of applying to grad school in ecology and evolution (and to lesser degrees in other fields). Please share with your summer students, REUs, etc. (and provide suggestions)! #AcademicSky

🚨 mayday mayday 🚨 We need an asl interpreter for today’s Q&A on marine geology online at 1pm. Is anyone free at 1pm eastern who has that skillset?

Wait, what? No! Don’t do what we did!

I realize I sound like old man yelling at clouds but... ...in my day WE READ ALL THE CITATIONS BEFORE WE CITED THEM. That's how you GAIN THE KNOWLEDGE TO CITE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE. Signed: Someone who literally read two whole books on the color blue just to write a single 1000 word article.

Google unveils an even worse Search aftermath.site/google-search-...

The beauty secret of Marine biologists is out!

There are so many opportunities for local communities, countries, and states to be powerful drivers of change. If you’re feeling despair right now, check out this series for some inspiration. Wins are blueprints we can use in other places!

We have launched a new article type! Data Notes: a way to preserve & share biodiversity data: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”

Wait who's making me the t-shirt that says WIVES SUBMIT in giant letters and then TO TOP-TIER ACADEMIC JOURNALS in smaller ones below it?

bloomy rind, hard pressed, blue, washed rind, lactic, pasta filata.

They are going after the National Academy of Sciences in a political witch hunt.

Normal, Binomial, Multinomial, Poisson, Gamma, Laplace

The May cover of "Ecosphere" wades into the messy side of giant otter life, highlighting new research showing otters' communal latrines draw in scavengers and other wildlife, boosting activity and reshaping local vertebrate communities in the Pantanal Browse the issue: tinyurl.com/uv7t9tnk

#rstats ALERT: Bad news for the Gentoos in the {penguins} dataset x.com/BirdGuides/s...

It's VERY important to understand what's happening with the NASA 🔭 budget. White House proposed cuts to everything *but* Artemis. The GOP-led House proposal restores the size of the budget BUT shifts spending, which is to say *House committee and White House agree on cutting NASA astrophysics* 🧪⚛️

Happy to share some new #OpenAccess coastal remote sensing work published this week in @ijremotesensing.bsky.social! A new method for improving tide modelling accuracy by ranking and combining models using satellite data 🌊 🛰️ 📊 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵 Thread below!

Good policy from arxiv: AI-spawned misconduct - hallucinations, plagiarism, or evidence of using an AI to write “your” article - will get authors a one-year ban and the requirement that future submissions must be published at a reputable peer-reviewed place. Don’t waste people’s time with dreck.

🌱🌎 #EcologySky #QuantitativeEcology 📈🌳

I'm please to celebrate that legendry 0.3.0 has hit the streets on CRAN 🎉 Legendry is a ggplot2 extension that lets you draw more guides. Read about all the guide goodness in this minor update here: teunbrand.github.io/teunbrand_bl... #rstats #ggplot2

SIGN YOUR SUPPORT for the Reinstatement of the National Science Board at this link: zurl.co/UPf5g 1/3

Years. Definitely years.

Lab past and present! A strong UMB-CSUMB connection.

When a crab gets a bit of squid on one of our BRUVs, it's tenacious. Fly free, little guy! SOUND ON! @stonelivinglab.bsky.social @umassboston.bsky.social #LivingItsBestLife 🌊🧪🌍

Great new account or greatest new account?

*SIGH*

Excited to see a new sign on the Boston Harborwalk by @umassboston.bsky.social with illustrations from Melba Torres Sosa boshw.us/sign/below-t...

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Search and Visualize NASA Earth Data in QGIS with OpenGeoAgent Learn how to search, stream, visualize, and download NASA Earth observation data directly within QGIS using the NASA Earthdata Plugin and the OpenGeoAgent Plugin.

Important dissent & like many NSF stories, the impact is evident in the image. 2415 Eisenhower Ave is no longer NSF HQ. It was taken over for the 'Golden Age of HUD'. Building (gone) Board (gone) Science (pending) Time to restore NSF & its independence. www.scientificamerican.com/article/nati...

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

I have many, many issues with this particular coverage of RFK Jr's latest crusade against antidepressants (wild how they only got comment from people who wanted to quit them). First, RFK's LANGUAGE www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

ggplot(ritual) + geom_sf() + theme_c̵̤͛̌̎̀͘t̶̡̨̯̝̼͗̂͒͊̀̾̇̾͜h̸̡̰͉̼̖͉̉u̶̡̗̮̜͍̠̯̙̍l̸̞̲̓̒̒̓̓̃̔h̶̛̖̣̲̩̖͉̠͍̬̄̔̊̽͜u̸̱͛̈̽̀̅() + coord_noneuclidean() #RStats #rayshader #rayrender

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...

Stoked to see this piece by Billie Beckley out looking at the tangled web of forces leading to giant kelp productivity! A lovely use of #SEM paired w/ FE models get at #causalinference based on decades of natural history knowledge in the system. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

More kelp, more impact: #UCSB marine scientists are exploring the connection between land and sea—through kelp. When kelp washes onto the beach, it provides nutrients to the sandy ecosystems, impacting different invertebrate groups based on the amount of kelp. Full story: https://ow.ly/6gpw50YUM2c

If you are interested in working with me on a PhD on the effects of killer whale fear on baleen whale ecology, behavior, and evolution... and you would be eligible for the fellowship below... contact me! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

On my way to #EGU26, perfect time to drop a new post! 🗺️ Something I've been wanting to write about: Mercator projections still showing up in high-profile journals. So here it is: projections you should stop using (for most things) 👇 #gis #rstats #dataviz dominicroye.github.io/blog/map-pro...

Went to my ford @bostonlegacyfc.com game yesterday and it was AWESOME!

Less than 800 NSF grants awarded over the first half of the fiscal year for the entire country. Previous years were already over 2-3k awards by now. It is not particularly overdramatic to say we are seeing the death of federally funded science research in the United States.