Voted early for @amyactonoh.bsky.social and @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social! You should too!!

After seeing that despicable ad, I had to pitch in some more to get The Doc, @amyactonoh.bsky.social, over the finish line. Would be so proud to have her as my governor!

Voted. Get out there and do the same.

Hmmmm.

Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · last wk.

So the current ad situation in Ohio is beyond crazy, as there's an ad circulating where Amy Acton's mom calls her a liar and tells people not to vote for her. But Amy Acton's mom's second husband sexually abused Acton and she lost custody of Amy as a result. It's a horrific story.

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

Today was the first time I got to do outreach, and with a middle school robotics team no less! We chatted about ecology and the challenges facing biodiversity, and got asked really insightful questions! Had so much fun 😊

New paper! Our analysis on the nutritional content of under ice phytoplankton communities is live in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Ecosphere! The analysis uses data from the LTER lakes to show that phytos under ice are productive & nutritious! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Nutritional content of phytoplankton communities under ice

The effects of winter environmental conditions on lake ecology can be highly variable. Ice and overlying snow isolate the water below, impeding exchange of materials among water, atmosphere, and the ...

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Labor of love published! We integrated fatty acid database created by @awegalloway.bsky.social with under-ice freshwater phytoplankton data to understand how nutrition available to lake food web shifts seasonally! Under-ice plankton are nutritious! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Michael Meyer@mishafredmeyer.bsky.social · last mo.

New paper! Our analysis on the nutritional content of under ice phytoplankton communities is live in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Ecosphere! The analysis uses data from the LTER lakes to show that phytos under ice are productive & nutritious! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

An armed man charged at the Democratic candidate for governor in Ohio less than a week ago, and yet Republicans aren't being yelled at to turn down the temperature. The double standard is maddening.

Hecklers shout ‘hE should be shot’ as Ted Cruz calls out El-Sayed and Talarico

Republicans increasingly seek to tie Democrats to left-wing members of the caucus and personalities like Hasan Piker

independent.co.uk

For those keeping score at home: The Ohio GOP Senator who long refused to denounce his MAGA son-in-law who allegedly abused the senator's daughter and granddaughter is a *different Republican* from the Ohio GOP Senator who has long employed a white supremacist who likes to cosplay as Nazis.

Fenit Nirappil@fenitn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

EXCLUSIVE: A top staffer to Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) appeared to wear an SS uniform while marching near Nazi flags in photos. He also created a public Spotify playlist called “Tales From Rhodesia," the White-run African colony embraced by white supremacists. Gift link: wapo.st/4xkuEa0

Couldn't agree with this more. I downloaded this document for a reason, Adobe!

Helen Czerski@helenczerski.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

Check out this new computer vision tool for detecting predator prey encounters in video! And see Braden’s rotifer video too

Braden Charles DeMattei@cyanobacteria-boy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am so excited to announce that my first first-author, peer reviewed paper was just published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social! The PrED model aims to save researchers time and resources by finding points in their videos where potential predator-prey encounters have occurred. doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

I am so excited to announce that my first first-author, peer reviewed paper was just published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social! The PrED model aims to save researchers time and resources by finding points in their videos where potential predator-prey encounters have occurred. doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

The Predator–Prey Encounter Detection (<fc>PrED</fc>) Model: Detecting Interactions Between Rotifers and Algae Using Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Using a simpler predator-prey pairing of a semi-sessile rotifer and motile algae, the Predator-Prey Encounter Detection (PrED) model aims to streamline and semi-automate video analysis of species int...

doi.org

BREAKING: OMB PROPOSED RULE IS PAUSED UNTIL DEC 11th. This is a direct result of OUR ACTIVISM! It's a critical step in the right direction AND the fight continues. NOW, it's time to revoke the rule. Email here: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/rev... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

House passes funding bill to avoid shutdown before midterms

Continuing resolution to approve government spending until 11 December passes 370-48 and will now go to Trump

theguardian.com

It's awesome to see this come out! It was a pleasure to have helped with this project.

Michael Meyer@mishafredmeyer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Very excited to share that our Zooplankton International Geospatial (ZIG) data paper is out in @aslo.org LO Letters! We harmonized data across decades from 311 lakes and released it to the wild for folks to dream up their own analyses! doi.org/10.1002/lol2...

That’s a lot of lying.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests. BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you keep questioning it

1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.

Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

nytimes.com

My zooplankton scanner is coming along nicely! I did a test run with a Daphnia individual in a drop of water on an Epson Perfection V550 photo scanner and it turned out great. The tray (Pic 2) should hold enough water to prevent that color distortion. Best part is everything came to less than $200

This was a really interesting read! Glad this came across my timeline.

Kevin Mitchell@wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Excellent overview by @philipcball.bsky.social on why the concept of "agency" is both central to biology and hotly contested www.quantamagazine.org/is-life-just...

Treasure Planet is fantastic and in a just universe Long John Silver would be among the greatest Disney Villains of all time.

Treasure Planet: You Got the Makings of Greatness

ALT: Treasure Planet: You Got the Makings of Greatness

static.klipy.com

“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” ~Neil deGrasse Tyson. Image: Jessica Koscielniak/Reuters.

*slaps pool* This baby's got so much microplastic and cyanobacteria in it *frantically washes hands*

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Here at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.

As a physicist I find this hilarious. The angle of the photo is so shallow that it’s almost impossible to see the color of the water; at that angle, in that lighting, the water almost 100% just reflects the sky. So congrats to Dept of Interior for figuring out how to make the water blue, I guess?

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 4mo ago

they're baghdad bob'ing the reflecting pool btw

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...

This means that hundreds, if not thousands of labs all over the country will close. Tens of thousands of jobs will be lost. This is in defiance of Congress's will and in defiance of good stewardship of the US economy. This is entirely because Russ Vought hates science

telescyote 🔭@cosmicyote.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Less than 800 NSF grants awarded over the first half of the fiscal year for the entire country. Previous years were already over 2-3k awards by now. It is not particularly overdramatic to say we are seeing the death of federally funded science research in the United States.