Thrilled to share that my first dissertation chapter is now published at Ecology! dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... We embed TPCs into population dynamics to show how changing temperatures' ordering — not just its distribution — increases extinction risk (i.e. heatwaves matter!) @esajournals.bsky.social

Come work with us!! Great group and super cool work 😎

The Carlson Lab @ Yale@carlsonlab.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We may have a one-year postdoctoral position opening! We're looking for someone with experience in attribution science OR very strong skills in climate epidemiology to come help us launch a Global Burden of Climate Change Study. Remote possible for the right person; aim to raise $ for a second year.

🚨 Very, very big news. Today, a global coalition - including members of the IPCC, IPBES, and WHO expert advisors, as well as independent virologists, epidemiologists, and lawyers - started the process of creating an "IPCC for Pandemics." 🔓 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧵 Five things to know 👉

It's hard to overstate how devastating these cuts will be for our incredible group of people working on these important questions.

Verena@viralemergence.org · last yr.

An update from the team on the uncertain future of our program and the impact of NSF budget cuts. Please share and reach out 🦠

An update from the team on the uncertain future of our program and the impact of NSF budget cuts. Please share and reach out 🦠

Do you write code? Do you wonder why we don't review code like we review writing? Well, we should :) Led by @jpeters7.bsky.social, we wrote some guidelines and resources for reviewing code, check it out! ecoforecast.org/resources-fo...

Little known, recently discovered fact: Measles wipes out immune protections OTHER diseases: many who recover actually face big future risk. Earlier measles may be implicated in HALF OF ALL LATER CHILDHOOD DEATHS from ALL infectious diseases before vaccines. Gift🔗👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

Tony Almquist@tony-almquist.bsky.social · last yr.

by @zey.bsky.social "Before vaccines, measles infections may have been implicated in as many as half of all childhood deaths from infectious diseases. The true harm of measles is far greater than its death toll, & the legacy of this outbreak may still be felt years after it’s officially contained"

FWIW, the reason "academia had it coming" is usually some thinly veiled version of (1) my colleagues keep making fun of my shitty race science, (2) people called me an asshole for saying false things about COVID, or (3) mommy says I'm a very clever boy but my professors didn't appreciate my genius.

This a summary of last part o my Ph.D. We investigated how temperature can affect the outcome of dengue infection. The study covers a 10y period in all five regions of Brasil and all sub-climates of the country We conclude that higher temperature makes risk of hospitalizations due dengue bigger!

Otavio Ranzani@otavioranzani.bsky.social · last yr.

Does heat have a short effect on Dengue, increasing risk for severe cases? We know meteorological factors affect dengue incidence, with lag effects on weeks/months. Here, led by @rafalpx.bsky.social, we found also a short effect of heat for Dengue Hospitalisation journals.lww.com/environepide...

The Data Life Cycle is a useful narrative device to understand how data flow within a project. But understanding how it fits with complex model pipelines has been awkward. So we wrote a thing! It's called the Model Life Cycle, and it's now out in PLOS Comp Biol: 🧪 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Ten quick tips to build a Model Life Cycle

journals.plos.org

NEW: Census Bureau working papers on poverty measurement--research the public paid for and has a right to access--have been removed. Example analysis of "Alternative School Lunch Valuation in the 2022 Supplemental Poverty Measure" is missing www.census.gov/content/dam/...

Just got a story approved to run on Monday on the crisis happening at the NSF. If you are an NSF-funded scientist and have been personally impacted by the funding pause this week, I'd love to hear from you. Reach me securely on Signal: 3162958947

Kevin Bird@stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm begging a major news org to cover the fact NSF is defying the courts to enact Trump's unconstitutional executive order

Agree! The NIH and academic institutions are rushing to implement changes and freezes in response to executive orders that could be illegal or rescinded in days. Maybe we should push back a little, yeah?🧪

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2y ago

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

If you're a non-UK scientist who wants to come to the UK for a postdoc, this year's Newton Fellowships are now open. You'll need a lab to host you (which could be me, but truly, could be any PI, so get in touch with someone you'd like to work with!) royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society

This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.

royalsociety.org

Chat, is science political now?

Who is Russell Vought? “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains....We want to put them in trauma.” www.propublica.org/article/vide...

NSF PRFB POSTDOCS: Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs. If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite

If you are an environmental researcher and have been negatively affected by the pause / suspension of federal funds (for research or programs) — please LET ME KNOW. I am writing a story about this ASAP for The New Lede / The Guardian.

Gabriel Filippelli@gabefilippelli.bsky.social · 2y ago

And just like that, my new award from the @StateDept to help Pakistan grapple with air pollution and climate change is no more, thanks to this new administration

"where are all the protests?" read our series showing the legacy of both the Trump and Biden admins—from BLM in the 2010s, to Standing Rock, to George Floyd, to the Palestine encampments—as protest suppression and criminalization. politicians want to call blocking traffic and masking "terrorism."

Welcome to the United States of Suppression

Our new series documents the recent crackdown on dissent and protests in the U.S.

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While all this insane grant freezing is going on, Kansas currently has the largest TB outbreak in US *history* going on right now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis...

Kansas tuberculosis outbreak now largest in US

Sixty-seven active TB cases and 79 latent TB cases have been reported in 2 Kansas counties since the beginning of 2024.

cidrap.umn.edu

This is truly insane to see happening. Not all that surprising, but definitely insane — cannot imagine how folks are supposed to deal with this

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here's a short piece with a bit more on the apparent purchasing freeze/hostage situation at NIH

Canadian (or any) epidemiologists and biostatisticians: the @cseb-sceb.bsky.social annual meeting is in Montreal (aka the best city in North America, don't @ me) summer 2025. Abstract submissions here: cseb.ca/fr/evenement...

The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data

Hey everyone…had a conversation with the @uoftpandemics.bsky.social SM manager about why they should get off twitter A plea: their bsky account is a shell right now, but if we could get them some followers here I bet we could get them to switch Please consider following 🙏🙏🙏

Ecologists (or similar)!!! Apply for the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Research Awards by March 14!! Ten awards of $2K each will be given to research that advances the the conceptual unification of ecology, evolution, or behavior. More here: bit.ly/asn_grant_25

Back 2017 I wrote about a just-leaked style guide for a popular neo-Nazi publication. I call it “Strunk and White Power” and “The ‘half-joking’ advice and much else in the guide is: ‘Don the Magic Cloak of Plausible Deniability and come with us!’”

Neo-Nazis are no joke—they just want you to think they are - Macleans.ca

A style guide for a neo-Nazi publication reveals what should be obvious, writes Tabatha Southey: darkness lurks behind their self-parodying 'humour'

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Kara Swisher@karaswisher.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is perfect explanation

Today the Trump admin abruptly and indefinitely terminated many of the activities of the National Institutes of Health, the $50B/year collection of agencies that power the US biotech and health ecosystems. Even if these orders were lifted tomorrow, the disruption would be enormous. Why care? 🧵

Josh Barocas, MD ⭕️@jabarocas.bsky.social · 2y ago

Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better… -For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return. -Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)

As we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today, we reflect on his legacy of advancing equity, dismantling systemic injustice, and serving those in need. 1/10