👏 👏👏@forbetterscience.bsky.social once again going where journals and mainstream outlets fear to tread in this excoriating expose of #bullying & abuse in 🇩🇪 #academia. @academicabuse.com, @21group.bsky.social, if you want to learn about the extent of impunity here, read on...👇
Wow — changing a government’s default IT system in six months is super ambitious. Are they funding a bunch of linux devs for all the migration and usability issues and just tech support (in French!!) the enormous government of France is going to need?
Gemini states 5.7M people, 20% of FR workforce.
What is it with (me) today? Dear editor, if you send a review invitation I can't accept or decline without creating/updating an account, I'm just going to delete it. With all due respect, you're asking for my time, I'm not asking for yours. This is doubly true for journals I don't publish in.
Man hört in diesen Tagen immer wieder: Die Ölkrise macht auch Düngemittel teurer und könnte zu einer Lebensmittelkrise führen. Aber warum ist das so? Wir düngen unserer Felder ja nicht mit Öl oder anderen fossilen Produkten! Was hat Erdöl mit Dünger zu tun? Sehen wir uns das mal an.
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Astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch in their orange astronaut suits as they sit inside the side of a helicopter after it has landed
LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me
"LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts ....
This one is worth it.
First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important.
#ArtemisII
Victor Glover and Christina Koch in orange spacesuits sit in the doorway of the rescue helicopter
Commander Reid Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen sit in the doorway of the rescue chopper
Going to get some great images from NASA in the coming days. Here’s a couple of post-splashdown snaps of actual heroes.
The Integrity capsule floating in the water surrounded by small boats a side hatch is open and someone is going in
The #Artemis II crew capsule Integrity’s side hatch is open and recovery crew are going in to assess the astronauts and (hopefully soon) pull them out
something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.
Important.
National GHG inventories call most lands “managed” and thus include huge amounts of CO2 removals from tree growth, resulting in net-negative emissions.
Bookkeeping approach quantifies emissions and removals only directly linked to human activities, resulting in net-positive emissions.
In German and Dutch, the word for village is Dorf or dorp. Such a cute word, gives us the great "Dorfdisco". Where is the English version?
French "village" replaced English "throp" or "thorp" (ðorp). Lots of place names in UK that end in -thorpe. But those were named by Vikings I think.
Es ist schade, wenn jetzt bei der Artemis-Mission immer nur von der NASA die Rede ist. Europas ESA hat mit dem European Service Modul direkt an der Raumkapsel, das für Energie und Steuerung im Weltraum sorgt, einen ganz zentralen Beitrag zu Artemis geleistet.
Verrückter Fakt des Tages: #vfdt
Die erfolgreichsten Raubtiere der Welt sind nicht Wildkatzen, Bären oder Haie - sondern Libellen. Je nach Beutetier können Libellen eine Jagd-Erfolgsquote von deutlich über 90% haben. Bei Wildkatzen sind oft weniger als 50% der Jagdversuche erfolgreich.
A Haplotype-resolved Telomere-to-Telomere Pig Genome www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...
![Looking through one of the four windows of the Orion spacecraft, a tiny crescent Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. Part of the window edge is visible; the rest is darkness. [Alt-text slightly revised from ESA/NASA version]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:62gdkmpwa7xme36getyqnem3/bafkreigksp6ynzr4oxga34viyko2fgg47c6262zz7rqj3khvz3y24pz4by)
Looking through one of the four windows of the Orion spacecraft, a tiny crescent Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. Part of the window edge is visible; the rest is darkness. [Alt-text slightly revised from ESA/NASA version]
We are so, so small. #Artemis
Do horses want cake? We conducted an investigation into statements published by @bencollins.bsky.social in the print edition of @theonion.com.
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
Resequencing hundreds or thousands of individuals from the same species has become routine... but processing all those genomes efficiently? Still a headache!
Here's my solution that used to be lab-internal but that I am happy to share:
crolllab.github.io/genomepanel_...
Issue 38 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬
Includes:
➡️ Data Stewardship Handbook @elixir-europe.org
➡️ From CSV to Database with Python @brandonrohrer.com
➡️ Practicing Open Science with Qualitative Research in Education @drrachel.bsky.social @cnsyoung.com
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
My main gripe with the alphafold example is how it shows you need decades and decades of high quality data, well structured, open and accessible to train a model -- and yet they always gloss over it and pretend it's just AI and magic. No, we need to continuously invest in real data and FAIR data.
This. A thousand times this.
Heritability is a statistical description of sources of trait variation in a specific set of people under a specific set of environmental conditions. It doesn’t show how malleable the trait is, doesn't index an underlying feature of human biology, & can’t say anything about you as an individual.
In the science of human behaviour, nature & nurture aren't competing accounts that we must choose between. Each individual person is the outcome of the interweaving of genetics, environmental factors & random events, cascading through development.
Illustration showing RNA polymerase and four laser lights. Credit: Daniela Velasco/EMBL
(1/2) EMBL researchers led by @olivierduss.bsky.social have developed a microscopy technique that enables them to observe individual RNA molecules being produced and folding into different shapes.
Learn more: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
👀 Have a new #bioinformatics project idea in your mind? Want to work and discuss your ideas with other bioinformaticians? Don't miss the chance to submit your project proposal for #BioHackEU26!
🔗 Submit by 15 April: https://loom.ly/5gopDeQ
The cover of the hardcover von "Milk: The Biology of Lactation" by Power and Schulkin. It's a photo of a meerkat.
New book just arrived, "Milk: The Biology of Lactation" by Power and Schulkin.
I've been excited about how well Claude does creating a data dictionary first draft when I provide a template, a copy of a survey form, and a few clarifying prompts.
I was thinking about writing about it but then I came across this blog post from Britt DeVries!
medium.com/@brittdev31/...
Some ways to reduce fertilizer prices & demand:
- Increase nitrogen use efficiency (eg precision application, shifting fall applications to spring, nitrification inhibitors incl. thru crop breeding)
- Reduce excess crop demand (minimize food waste, eat less meat/dairy, cut crop-based biofuel use)
Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
