“Emperor penguins, the world’s largest and perhaps most recognizable penguin species, have joined the list of wildlife endangered by global warming, the International Union for Conservation of Nature announced on Thursday… largely driven by shifts in sea ice levels and food availability”
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
Three scientists standing around in a lab. One of them says, “These days, if you’re not a mad scientist, you’re not paying attention.”
From the New Yorker.
Can rewilding save the planet? I gave my answer on BBC Radio's The Inquiry — and so did some of my colleagues. Tune in and see if you agree.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
'Cities alter the latitudinal diversity gradient of birds in North America'
DOI: doi.org/10.32942/X23...
Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/
An example of how impacts of interventions can differ at individual and population levels, and are conditional on other events. Given a car hits you, the helmet helps. But mandating helmets could lower the # of bikes on the road & thus might increase the chance of getting hit in the first place.
Thank you so much, I use this on a weekly basis
I decided to give one of my most well liked project a bit of a make over, and I wrote about it too!
See how I updated the visuals of r-color-palettes
emilhvitfeldt.com/post/r-color...
#rstats
First evidence in Europe of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 infection in a dairy cow. Antibodies against H5N1 detected in a cow with mastitis and respiratory signs on a Dutch dairy farm at the end of December. A cat on that farm had died from H5N1. www.tweedekamer.nl/downloads/do...
This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.
Examples of how to use the new futurize package
Oooh love this. Easiest way to parallelise anything in #rstats. Just add futurize() to your favourite function call
www.jottr.org/2026/01/22/f...
Thanks @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social HT @rstats.blaze.email
You may want to look into the Fastaval scene in Denmark. Many games there straddle the line between larp and TTRPG.
Academics, just use this simple LaTeX macro and you can avoid maintaining a separate CV just for 2026 federal grants.
The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states.
The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor.
One collision and the whale is dead.
We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍
From your mouth to God’s ears. It can be like pulling teeth getting disease researchers to deposit data in a proper open science repository.
This is a serious issue in my field. I am a researcher studying avian influenza and even I am not allowed to access flu sequences in GISAID.
Love having “venture capital” reviewing my grants
I use the NCAR supercomputers to simulate disease outbreaks in wildlife. The impact of this terrible move will spread well beyond climate change research.
Wow. Grants might now be rejected/accepted based on a single outside review and no panel
My research on elephant conservation in the KAZA TFCA was featured by @mongabay.com in an article that argues for corridors, not culls, as a long term solution for Southern Africa‘s growing elephant population 🐘
news.mongabay.com/2025/12/corr...
Tired: Publishing a ton of papers by breaking stories into small pieces and always shooting too high and working the way down the journal cascade
Wired: Publishing complete stories in more substantial papers and submitting them to society journals, and not exploiting the peer review system.
screenshot of my post
Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
"Participatory science" is similarly inclusive of non-citizens and would make my Web of Science search results cleaner. I think I'll use that term in my own scientific writing.
I do prefer the term "community science" to "citizen science" but man does it make it hard to search for papers about monitoring communities as in ecological communities.
Applied to COVID-19 in California, the approach yields more accurate and more stable short-term forecasts than RNNs, LSTMs, GRUs, Transformers, and naïve baselines.
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
In times like these, the trans community relies on its community organizers, who bring people together for activism and mutual support. June Lewis is one of these trans community organizers, and she needs help. I just donated; please stand up for us, too.
www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
I'd guess that 85-90% of American scientists would be ineligible for future funding under this law, maybe close to 100% in the R1 universities. So much for funding proposals based on scientific merit.
Apart from being sinophobes, the people pushing this have no clue how science or higher ed works.
