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1st post on bsky - about bsky! I was fascinated with academic starter packs and made an interactive network to see academic communities and how they connect - a map of knowledge! link to an interactive & searchable network: ketikagarg.github.io/blueSkyAcade...
Excited to share our review in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social , where we synthesize 20 years of rear-edge evolutionary research!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mo0RcZ3X7...
There is a postdoctoral Research Associate position available in my lab to work on identifying genes and mechanisms underlying Wolbachia-fungus interactions in fruit fly hosts. Please share with anyone who may be interested. Candidates may apply here: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
Wow, those look awesome! This is R Markdown rendered to HTML, right?
I've started to play with this and it's very cool! I plan on using this platform to create an interactive version of our lab's next preprint. I strongly encourage you to give it a try. Nice job, Leo!
What if your paper's figures were interactive? I rebuilt one of my papers as a web page. Drag a slider: control the threshold for graph reconstruction. Click a button: run link prediction. Check it out: scroll.press/2026/glee
We are very excited to have launched the establishment process for a global professional society for infectious disease dynamics. Join us!
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.
What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.
Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
Looking for something ✨network-y ✨ to do the Sunday before NetSci 2026 starts? How about 𝗔 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿-𝗢𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻? We'll explore the Bluesky starter pack dataset from 𝘼 𝘽𝙡𝙪𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩 (doi.org/10.3886/ICPS...).
🚨Fill out this form by March 13🚨 tinyurl.com/26warr3n
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Great perspective by @philipcball.bsky.social.
Elementary genetics teaching (HS/college) focuses on Mendelian traits (single gene => single trait). However, it is now clear that polygenicity and pleiotropy are the norm. Curriculum must change accordingly.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Joshua Weitz giving a talk titled, "Confronting Covid's Wake: Quantitative Approaches for Prevention and Control of (Re)emerging Pathogens"
@joshuasweitz.bsky.social giving a great talk at @uvabio.bsky.social! Lots of cool stuff related to asymptomaticity, breakthrough infections, heterogeneity, and science communication. Definitely gave me a lot to think about!
Call it "ouroborous"?
Being an assistant professor these days is like trying to build a house while it's on fire.
I created a tool, snaketail, a snakemake wrapper that fixes workflow and restarts itself automatically when failed.
The idea—feeding the tail (error log) to the head (system input) to self-heal—has practical values to create robust automation system!
skojaku.github.io/snaketail.html
Then, you'll have the opportunity to try some cool analytical techniques on this dataset, and we'll share what we learned with fellow participants at the end of the day. In short, you won't want to miss this!
We'll hear from invited speakers @allisonwan.bsky.social, @captainkirk1041.bsky.social, @tslarock.bsky.social, and Yanna Kraakman on different network science methods that we can apply to this dataset.
We will be leveraging the "A Blue Start" dataset (doi.org/10.3886/ICPS...), which is a huge (anonymized!) social media dataset from Bluesky (yes, this post is meta).
🚨🚨🚨 NetSci Hackathon PSA!!!
Are you at NetSci this year? Wanna come a day early and hack on a cool new dataset? Join our hackathon which will take place on May 31.
We have limited space, so please indicate your interest through our application form by Mar 13: www.philchodrow.prof/higher-order...
Help us develop new guidelines for reporting network research! ⬇️
Be involved in the future of network science through this cool initiative! It'll be...GRAND 😉
We'll be sending a new round of invitations later this week ⏱️. Use the link below to register your interest in getting involved.
Want to promote transparency and clarity in network research by helping develop 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 (𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃)?
Sign up to get involved here: tinyurl.com/help-with-GR...
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All user IDs/starter packs are still anonymized, yet provide enough metadata to answer some really interesting questions about community detection, network formation, correspondence between higher-order and pairwise network structure, etc.
Revision now posted on the ArXiv! We collated and cleaned EVEN MORE DATA. 39M accounts, 365K starter packs, and 2.4B following relationships. All accounts, follows, and starter packs now have timestamps! Check it out at arxiv.org/abs/2505.11608.
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
