dawg i am so sick of capital

dr. evil from the movie dumb and dumber is sitting in a chair . ALT: dr. evil from the movie dumb and dumber is sitting in a chair .

Real life view of facilities management responding to me asking for the cost of modifying/fixing anything in my lab:

It's good to be reminded these days that science, and scientists, still fucking rule. 🚀

Thinking like a mountain in the age of AI Click on the article title to read more.

In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own.

Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think.

We must not give away that gift.

doi.org/10.1002/fee....

Heading into conference abstract / presentation season, I 100% recommend Kathryn Langin's (@kangin.bsky.social) "Tell me a story! A plea for more compelling conference presentations". It's short, sweet, and not just for ornithologists. I can get behind every word!
🔒 academic.oup.com/condor/artic...

Protip: Those of us that have been doing this for a while can tell who hasn't put in the work. We won't ever tell you that, though. We just won't ever read your stuff or hire you. So go on and fill your boots, if you want. It's your tuition $

At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion).

Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."

Downscaling daily solar radiation in the Canary Islands with GAM Researcher in climate science at MBG-CSIC

🆕 BLOG POST
There’s so much more to spatial downscaling today than classic LM or kriging. In my new blog post, I show how flexible and powerful GAMs can be for this task. #rstats #dataviz

➡️ dominicroye.github.io/blog/canary-...

Rep. Brian Steil: "I flew home to my home state of Wisconsin, went to buy a 6 pack a beer, the clerk asked for my ID, confirmed it, and then I was allowed to buy the beer. I just think it's nuts that we protect our beer more than our ballots."

Can't wait for the measles or other nearly-exterminated-disease mascots to help normalize "natural immunity"

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

Grant Witness is tracking SAMHSA Grant Terminations – Grant Witness

Last week, the Trump administration cancelled >$2B in mental health + addiction treatment funds. Only massive, rapid pushback caused them to reverse the decision.

But these programs remain at risk. So Grant Witness is now tracking SAMHSA grants. What found so far:

grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

A 🧵 1/n

I mean I’ve got lots of hot takes. I know some stats. I’m ready for my opinion column.

A PhD does not a universal expert make. Why must we hear from economists about dietary advice? Because they can do meta analyses?

The image shows the hourglass shape of the length of the day and night over the 365 days in 2025. Diagonal bands indicate when the Moon was up in the night sky.

Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.

First ever evidence that multi-actor collaborative conservation produces biodiversity benefits (as far as I know) doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

A paper published in Nature in September suggests a quarter of heatwave events from 2000-23 would have been near impossible without anthropogenic climate change. The paper also indicates that major carbon emitters are responsible for around 50% of the increase in intensity of these events. ⚒️ 🧪

There are great places for these *tools* to help us, and I have a lot of optimism about many applications of AI in entomology and ecology. But writing and dedicated, deep-thinking ain't one of those places.

This thread 1000x. And I have 0 patience for the "but there are so many problems to solve we need AI to help solve them all" argument. Since when has any *tool* developed by humans solved all of the problems we face?

Boxing up the NSF at Eisenhower Av for the forced relocation. Boxes have “Details Matter” signage.

NSF

- Forced reorg

- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)

- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)

I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃

"Ever since the landmark invention of statistical techniques 100 years ago that allow us to properly compare the difference between the averages of two groups, we have deluded ourselves into thinking that it is such differences that are the... important difference between groups.... We should stop."

Snapshot of US EPA's "causes of climate change" webpage as of 12/8/2025. Human causes are no longer mentioned anywhere on the page.

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

Forecasting range shifts of dioecious plants under climate change | PNAS Global climate change has triggered an urgent need for predicting the reorganization of Earth’s biodiversity. For dioecious species (those with sep...

Excited to share our paper in @pnas.org with Aldo Compagnoni and Tom Miller !
Climate change may push dioecious plants toward female-biased sex ratios which will impair seed production. Ignoring this feedback underestimates range shifts. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Other great researchers like Michael Dillon, Jenna Walters, Sarah Waybright, Gigi Melone, Clara Stuligross, and Mitzy Porras will be sharing work. Hope to see you there. @entsocamerica.bsky.social

For #EntSoc2025 folks interested in insect responses to extreme weather, Neal Williams and I are hosting a session, "Hot Bees" in D133/134. We'll focus the methods and tools we can use to understand how heat waves impact wild pollinators across ecological scales. Join us! 🌡️🐝💨🌼

#EntSoc2025

🚨 PSA to all those attending #entsoc2025; be sure to update your time zone in your profile in the conference program. Mine was, unbeknownst to me, showing all CST even though we're in PST here. 🙃

Sky cats are the best cats. 🤗🤗🤗