Ah sorry. The article went on to talk about out the outsized impact that high vehicle prices (and ballooning repair costs) are having in rural communities.

Opinion | The Affordable Car Is Dead. What Happened? This is how cars got so ridiculously, forbiddingly expensive.

This was an eye opener
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ecologists love response ratios for meta-analysis❤️

But… they can’t be converted into other effect sizes—making it impossible to have a unified dataset of all published effect sizes in ecology

I fix this with a conversion to Hedges’ d to help unify our data!

(Link to Ecology Letters paper below):

I have a joke about philanthropy but it won’t have any impact.

A duty of care to human remains | Letters Letter: Prof Liv Nilsson Stutz and Prof Sarah Tarlow respond to an article on ethical questions about remains from overseas in UK museums

This response far better reflects my experience of how collections managers are really striving to do the best by the people they care for

By @sarahtarlow1.bsky.social & @livnstutz.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Congratulations!

AI generated presentations are the Comic Sans of our time.

May future generations look back on us with grace.

Flashbacks to first day as a grad student:

“Imagine not an escape room, but an escape building.

With enough challenges that it will take you a day to solve them so, not an hour.”

The Danger Of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think | NOEMA The rhetoric over “superhuman” AI implicitly erases what’s most important about being human.

The danger of superhuman AI is not what you think. This essay in @noemamag.com by @shannonvallor.bsky.social is brilliant. Well worth a read. www.noemamag.com/the-danger-o...

The few observations that I have made are necessarily imperfect, but I send them, as they afford a method which might lead a naturalist to notice habits otherwise difficult to observe, and so to arrive at conclusions which I in my ignorance of natural history must leave to others. C. V. Bovs

We just don't end papers like this any more. Maybe the world would be better if we did?

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BioOne Achieves Inaugural Subscribe to Open Target, Opening 71 Titles for 2026 - BioOne Publishing BioOne is proud to report the achievement of a significant milestone in its mission to increase access to scientific research. BioOne’s Subscribe to Open (S2O) pilot has reached its sustainability thr...

We're glad to amplify the good work of @bioone.bsky.social! We celebrate this milestone of Subscribe to Open (S2O), a model that is emerging as a promising means of funding sustainable #OpenAccess for publishers & library systems of all sizes.

🚨 PhD position in annelid genomics (EuroWorm) 🚨

If you love biodiversity, evolution & bioinformatics — apply or share! 🪱🧬

Details here: www.senckenberg.de/de/stellenan...

#PhD #Genomics #Annelida #MarineBiology #EuroWorm

When the original authors and those who find errors in their work, pull together for the sake of correcting the record and moving science forward, it's a beautiful thing

Retracted paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Linking the narrative with data, code, methods, and context is something everyone wants to see, but at some point most people most of the time want to draw a line under a project, mark it complete and move on. Will that change? 2/2

During a dive last year in the Atlantic Ocean off Argentina, researchers documented a giant phantom jelly, a deep-sea species rarely seen since it was discovered a little over a century ago. “There was a mixture of excitement and disbelief,” said one marine biologist. trib.al/HfkWfp4

“…as we use AI models, let’s keep asking ourselves if we are knowledge generating or merely output generating. Are we adding information to the world, or just words?”

To encourage reuse of our data, Pew Research Center, with support from the John Templeton Foundation, invites researchers to submit proposals for new research publications that use one or more of the following datasets (collectively, Datasets) from the Global Religious Futures (GRF) project: Global Restrictions on Religion 2007-2022 dataset. This cumulative dataset includes measures of government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion in nearly 200 countries and territories. Spring 2024 Survey. This dataset includes measures of religion and spirituality in 35 countries. (Comparable data was also collected in 2023 and 2024 for the United States. The downloadable materials which accompany the international dataset include additional information about U.S. data.) Dataset of Global Religious Composition Estimates for 2010 and 2020. This dataset includes estimates of the size of seven major religious groups in more than 200 countries and territories. We encourag

Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data!
www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-resea...

Fossil may solve mystery of what one of the weirdest-ever animals ate Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - and now we may know what it ate

Hallucigenia ate comb jellies
www.newscientist.com/article/2511...

Meet Duobrachium sparksae: a newly described comb jelly that looks like a glowing hot-air balloon drifting just above the deep seafloor. Transparent, delicate, and unmistakably transfixing, it reminds us how much biodiversity is in the deep oceans.

www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...

Image of my timeline with a post about a new comb jelly immediately followed by a post that says the enigmatic fossil Hallucigenia ate comb jellies.

My timeline right now thanks to @trevorabranch.bsky.social & @drcraigmc.bsky.social

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

So sad, but she achieved so much. An inspirational science leader.

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

This is figure 1, which gives an overview of the approach to generate and integrate genomic data on the 4D nucleome.

A paper in Nature presents a detailed map of human chromosomes within the nucleus. This resource provides a foundation for an improved understanding of how the physical layout of human DNA is associated with biological expression. go.nature.com/4pI8knB 🧬 🧪

A pink and white volume dial that goes to eleven

I’m guessing most Americans don’t know this, but because I lived in the UK for 8 years and still watch the BBC via VPN, I can tell you that the BBC iPlayer’s volume dial goes to eleven.

I was terrified when walking in a US city recently when someone drove past while I was on a crossing (when the crossing signal was active). Completely violated my assumptions. I just don’t understand the mentality.

Something like 99% of all international data travels through subsea cables protected by UNCLOS.

Freedom of Navigation and overflight are enshrined in UNCLOS.

EEZs and sovereign rights over seabed resources are created and enforced through UNCLOS.

Editors?

I feel like that slash carries a lot of weight

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