Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

If I could give one piece of advice to new scholars, it's to keep meticulous track of your Editorial Manager username and passwords. 😵‍💫

The best way to learn is to earnestly ask your lecture hall, and when they groan, apologize for cringe.

One thing I love about being a professor is constant contact with the youths who help you navigate the difference between mogging and maxxing, between glazing and dragging, and whether we still say lit, cooked, or the skull emoji.

Feature idea for @overleaf.com — search option checkbox to exclude text that is commented out in the source.

Yes. This resonates! And not just when appropriate but when stylistically valuable! Also, lots of others used to use endashes or used spaces around their emdashes, neither of which lines up with my own style guide… but which was helpful is differentiating my preferred way to write. Also gone now.

It's really a bad time to be someone who liked writing with em-dashes *before* AI thought it was cool. I can no longer write in my IRL voice without wondering whether someone's going to raise an eyebrow.

Pity the poor writers who were all in on delve, too.

NIH proposal half-inch margins are what happens when we stop respecting each other, stop respecting ourselves.

Forget reviewer 3, folks, our real enemy is whoever decided on half-inch margins for NIH proposals

I'm deep down the rabbit hole on FROGFISH, 60 species of anglerfish in family Antennariidae.

They are deeply, utterly WEIRD & MARVELOUS.

Most walk on modified fins.
Others use jet propulsion.
Some are capable of air-breathing.
Some are "hairy", others blend perfectly in sargassum.

I was frustrated that CDC no longer issues many health alert network (HAN) alerts, so I started my own. Weekly outbreak updates + as needed info for clinicians. As seen on Medscape, NPR. Most recent alert on extended RSV season. www.foiclinical.com

Amen. If I could, I'd do it all in Google Docs, tbh!

Complaining into the void:

When you open something in MS Word now on OSX, it automatically marks the file as changed (and asks if you want to save changes) even if you're just reading and scrolling. This is obnoxious and obviously confusing.

Finishing up conference reviews & here's my take:

sociology (the study of social human behavior) has never been more popular but it's mostly being done outside of Sociology departments and Sociology journals

sociology is thriving while Sociology is dying, and both fields are worse off for it

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era A new initiative to secure the world’s most critical software and give defenders a durable advantage in the coming AI-driven era of cybersecurity.

www.anthropic.com/glasswing

Profoundly weird to see these charts in the science mainstream, but if you want to remake them it's all in the code

side note: the color palettes for the above linked reproducibility and replicability papers were based on samples from Weezer album cover art. you're welcome.

whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

This is madness.

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

Concerned about the possible dismantling of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Directorate of NSF?? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Find out what's happening and what we can do to protect behavioral science with @fabbs.org Friday April 10th at 1:30 ET. Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Last day to submit abstracts to the International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation! April 6, 11:59 PM AoE!

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Modeling the impact of respiratory disease outbreaks on the United States agricultural workforce Emerging respiratory disease outbreaks pose a major threat to food production systems. Agricultural workers live in larger, more crowded households than the general population, amplifying their potent...

New manuscript! Agricultural workers in the U.S. face huge health disparities, and living conditions in particular make agricultural workers more vulnerable to respiratory infections. But just how much more vulnerable - and how might outbreaks impact food production? tinyurl.com/ms7tv2pf

Tonight we remember and celebrate our people's freedom from Bondiage, and teach the story to our children.

my main take away from the claude code leak is WHY am i being denied my mystical creature tamagotchi daemon code buddy, i want it now!

Honeybee swarms do not come together and fall apart in the same way 🐝

In this new preprint led by Danielle Chase, we report how to trick swarms to repeatedly assemble and disassemble in front of our cameras, while tracking individual bees in 3D!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

TIL what vagueposting is so I wanted to try it out.

Wow vagueposting much?

tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world

Boulder, CO — The Location of ICSSI 2026

The abstract submission window for ICSSI has been extended by a week to April 6, 2026 @ 11:59 PM AoE!

Find guidelines, templates, and submission link here:
icssi.org/guidelines/

See you in Boulder June 29 - July 1, or come on June 28 for the hackathon!

I was hoping it would get trapped in some kind of hilarious algorithmic feedback loop and people would overbid just on momentum to some absurd price. :(

I wish there were a message board where I could hype it up and see how high it could be pushed. :(