Dive into a #KelpForest, no wetsuit required. We offer VR kelp forest experiences and educational talks for classrooms, organizations and events, designed to build understanding, curiosity and care for these vital ecosystems. Email us at [email protected] to find out more!

Biologists must display their most marvelous plumage if they are to be accepted by a flock of fellow biologists. We are now witness to this rare yet beautiful phenomenon at the Society of Integrative of Comparative Biology conference in Portland, OR #SICB2026

The poles are some of the most dynamic—yet fragile—regions on Earth. Explore more wonders of our ocean planet, brought to you by science: go.whoi.edu/ocean-world #ItsAnOceanWorld

Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Don't Krill My Vibe sticker. Unfortunately, a blue whale might krill his vibe when it suddenly eats him and 40 million of his friends in a single day. collabs.shop/uejvtk

You guys! The original show is now on Prime!

Spending the weekend with a bunch of gen alpha, and listening to how they parse sentences to find a 6-7, I’m convinced when they are in their 20s numerology is going to make a HUGE comeback.

#rstats ANNOUNCE: The {ggCheysson} 📦 brings the graphical styles of the Albums de Statistique Graphique to R and ggplot2. Not yet on CRAN, and still under development. friendly.github.io/ggCheysson/

This package has data that can be used instead of nycflights13 to teach joins, and also to look at temporal trends and draw maps. It has to coolest hexsticker vahdatjavad.github.io/ecotourism/ and cute creatures: mantarays, gouldian finches, glow worms and orchids

My best photographs of 2025, a short thread. A tobacco hornworm on one of its favorite foods, a garden tomato plant (Texas, May 2025). This one makes the cut because it is more aesthetically pleasing than I was aiming for, somehow.

found some festive crustaceans in London ✨🦀🦞🎄

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

Highly interesting podcast on robust causal inference. Richard Hahn is an expert and a great communicator!

The first 3 words you see will define your 2026 Hopebutter Pizza Judo Huh. Huh. Well, it’s gonna be interesting. (Bonus, Chipotle as #4)

Prince of Christmas? Although if current, shape shifting monster just trying to find a good home (body) for her offspring?

Cutie!!!

‪ Meta-analysis in R (2nd edition) — registrations open 🚀 Hands-on systematic reviews & modern meta-analysis in R with @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social & @shreyadimri.bsky.social 📅11–14 May 2026| Online |Ecology & evolution www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #MetaAnalysis #SystematicReview #Rstats

Look these baby crabs 🦀✨️

Advice I now give to grad students and postdocs in the sciences: Don’t just try to meet and impress senior scientists. They’ll retire soon. Get to know your fellow students - make friends where possible, be colleagues at least. These are the people you’ll be sharing the field with for decades.

On the 12th day of #Crustmas the Oregon Coast gave to me... 12 Gooseneck barnacles 11 Dungeness crabs 10 Acorn barnacles 9 Pink shrimp 8 Purple shore crabs 7 Pygmy rock crabs 6 Buckshot barnacles 5 Razor clams 4 Isopods 3 green crabs 2 Sand fleas And a kelp crab looking at me #crustmas 🦀🦑

To those who celebrate #barnacles, Merry #Crustmas ⭐

There is an unfortunate error in this newly published @globalchangebio.bsky.social paper. The caption for this image reads "upper panel with dragon icon symbolising all tetrapod" but this is incorrect. That is either a wyvern (with two wings and two legs) or it is not a tetrapod (6 limbs).

Today I'm sharing one of my favorite drawings I did this year. It's ink on watercolor paper, and is inspired by kelp. vis.social/@kristinHenr... #ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt #ink #drawing #art

#academiclife goldengatexpress.org/114511/campu...

#gllvm is constantly evolving and expanding, so Pekka Korhonen wrote a paper demonstrating new features in the package since Niku et al. 2019. peerj.com/articles/203... We've already been working on even more features, so I suppose eventually a 3.0 paper will have to follow... 🙃

As I'm building my new lab web page, I'm also compiling a list of places for post-grad job opportunities. If you have some I should be listing, send them my way, or check out byrneslab.github.io/celp-lab/und... for what is already there.

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊 🎂Dec 21, 1889 Sewall Wright born in Melrose, MA, USA 🇺🇸 1920: invention of the path diagram to show relations among a network of endogenous and exogenous variables forming a system of structural equations [Revolutionized thinking about systems of linear models]

#rstats #package #modsem provides researchers the simplicity of assessing #latent #variable #interaction #moderation in #SEM modsem.org

2013 was the first time in 30 years the Maine shrimp season was canceled. It never reopened (if you had Maine shrimp in the intervening years, it was from the small "test catch" done to see if they could reopen. This year's catch was < 7 pounds). This is just so sad. We did this.

I've been writing a lecture which is going to feature a wide range of different invertebrate taxa. At some point, I realised that instead of trying to source photos/images for all those taxa, it'd be easier (+ more stylistically consistent) for me to just draw them all myself. #Invertebrate #SciArt

But seriously, happy solstice, Bluesky peeps. Here is the last light today over Eagle Lake in Acadia NP, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot territory.

This trick saved me many times: copy a table from website or spreadsheet, paste to a dataframe in r github.com/MilesMcBain...

I have become a slop collector. 😮‍💨 Dirty job, but someone has to do it. I’m compiling gen A.I. images in academic journals. This is an ongoing project, and version 1 is here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... Version 2 in January with at least three 3️⃣ new illustrations. #AcademicChatter

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

They’re stealing from us. They are stealing from us and we have to put a stop to this. This cannot stand.

"Alex Kleytman, an 87-year-old Ukrainian Holocaust survivor, was celebrating Hanukkah with his wife of 57 years, Larisa Kleytman, also a Holocaust survivor, when the attack began. He was killed while shielding Larisa from the bullets with his own body." www.timesofisrael.com/chabad-rabbi...

Wins for title.

I'm concerned the folks don't seem to know that there is a whole ass album of Hanukkah folk songs written by Woodie Guthrie. Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah by the Klezmatics. m.youtube.com/watch?v=XpcS...

Chag sameach from our plague house to youre! Ok, hopefully yours is not also a plague house.

"The Trump administration in May canceled a $700 million contract with Moderna to develop a human bird flu vaccine. Secretary Kennedy has cut other funding for vaccine research and scrapped long-held federal vaccine guidance." www.reuters.com/business/hea...

As Dick Van Dyke turns 100, it’s important to give thanks to the sea creatures who made that possible.

We’ve got to give it up for our dive team! From collecting to outplanting to monitoring, they spent A LOT of time working underwater this year. Our #kelp forest restoration wouldn’t be possible without them! #2025recap #ScienceDiving #ScubaDiving

Sharing a hugely impt study representing 5+ yrs into getting a data standard addressing biological inventories adopted through Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)/GBIF, then adopted by the community. We often have to play the long game folks! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Game changer.

Nominate a species for the WORMS top 10 marine species of 2025! form.vliz.be/en/form/worm...

Here's an opportunity to lead research at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station (northern Finland, but close to the border with Norway and Sweden). An amazing place and job. Please forward to Arctic-focused folk. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Putting together a weekly book club for "Regression and Other Stories" (reply if interested!) and this page, "Common statistical tests are linear models," is a key motivation. If you git gud at regression, so much else comes along for free. lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-lin... #statsky

Hey hey! My new package 'bpvars' is on CRAN now! 🖤💙 It's for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions doi.org/10.32614/CRA... #bpvars #bsvars.org #bsvars #rstats

A new ornament recognizing employees of federal agencies who have dissented against ongoing damage to their agencies. NSF, NIH, USAID, VA, EPA, FEMA, CDC, NASA in place of honor next to Heinz ketchup bottle. Courage is Contagious @standupforscience.bsky.social #BethesdaDeclaration

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I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills! I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.