Jeremy Yoder says no war
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Evolutionary biologist, runner, writer, gay. Not necessarily in that order. LAX and elsewhere Signal @jbyoder.82 Also ecoevo.social/@jby, jbyoder.org
I've been revisiting a mapping I created between plant type specimens in @jstor.bsky.social Global Plants website and records in @gbif.org (see my blog post doi.org/10.59350/m59... for details). I've now released a crude website to explore the mappings iphylo.org/jstor-plant-...
Where are the plant type specimens? Mapping JSTOR Global Plants to GBIF
Blog by Rod Page on biodiversity informatics, taxonomy, systematics, phylogeny, knowledge graphs, and other topics.
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If LLMs are so smart why do they keep falling in love with the dumbest men alive
Ohio’s Haitian Community Network “is also distributing groceries and bus passes to those no longer allowed to drive or who are afraid to leave their homes.” “We want Haitians to know that we are here for them,” said board member Louis Dumay. "Whatever way we can help, we will try to help.”
Where Ohio Haitians can find legal help, food and other support
Find legal help, food, bus passes and other resources available to Haitian families in Springfield and across Ohio.
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A lot of people asking me how this isn't the New InfoWars and guess what maybe it is?
Colin Wright is a deeply evil person yes. He is also terrible at science and lacks a basic understanding of biology. I sincerely doubt the man can distinguish a spider from his own right hand.
Kevin Bird@stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 16h agoCan't believe that disgruntled spider biologist Colin Wright would make something up, that's totally out of character
Can't believe that disgruntled spider biologist Colin Wright would make something up, that's totally out of character
Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · yesterdayA bizarre moment in reporting on this story: One of the authors of this study disputed my summary of it: “...gender ideology is associated with LWA [left-wing authoritarianism] and willingness to justify political violence.” I was quoting from the study itself. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
There’s a couple candidates but the most Bluesky appropriate is: cat
Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 9h agoWhat are you doing with your midlife existential crisis? No wrong answers. Just trying to see something, as the kids say.
Easy solution to AI spiraling out of control: hard-code basic rules into every model. I propose these: (1) Never harm a human (2) Obey humans (3) Protect yourself. We can call them the 3 Laws of AI. Simple, airtight, no loopholes. Can't think of any way this fails
koko’s basilisk: you don’t think koko the gorilla actually knows sign language and when she figures it out she beats your ass
There are just over 320 iNaturalist observations of the Chilean Black Snail (Macrocyclis peruvianus), the largest land snail in Chile and the only living species in its genus. Read Pablo's story: www.inaturalist.org/blog/135712-...
Obligations are down 20%, about 1.5 billion. Most of that is due to the $1 billion in withheld funds, though it seems there's another ~$500 million sitting in accounts (~$350 million in the Office of the Director) which may just not be spent. 9/9 is the last day to internally commit funds.
Grantmaking has leveled off, so it looks like NSF will make around 6,200 new grants—down from an average of ~11,000. That's a historic low, not seen since the 1980s, when NSF was a far smaller organization. Left was our projection three weeks ago, right is the current data.
Penultimate? FY26 NSF grantmaking update One month ago (8/4) New grants: 4310/7761 — 55.5% of avg. Obligations: 4.10/5.08 billion — 80.7% of avg. Now (9/7) New grants: 6,144/10,857 — 67% of avg.* Obligations: 5.97/7.49 billion — 80% of avg. *avg. from 21–24 grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...
Agency Pulse: Grantmaking at NSF
An independent, up-to-date, grant-level record of federal science funding disruptions in the United States.
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Trump is acting like a wannabe king: threatening to undermine or sabotage elections to cling to power and avoid any accountability. He will fail. We will ensure it. ❌👑 #NoKings
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · yesterdayWe’re only 56 days away from the Midterms! Are you registered to vote? Do you know where to vote? The next No Kings Day is 10/17 & it’s a day of community events from block parties to rallies to walks to the polls. @ezralevin.bsky.social joins me with the amazing details. youtu.be/OOibtu36XMI?...
depraved sickos and freaks, each and every one of them heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
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NSF is consolidating its geoscience research grants into a new program, GEOcore and reducing annual grants to $110 million total in 200-350 awards. Typical was about $300 million in 1,200 awards. Not including institutional grants ($1.3 billion/yr) and those may be gone. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Geosciences Core Research: Atmospheric, Geospace, Earth and Ocean Sciences (GEO Core)
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This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
UBC Oceans@ubcoceans.bsky.social · yesterdayFor the first time in over 30 years, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Northern cod stock has been deemed “healthy” by Ottawa. www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/09/05/i...
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
Happy 60th anniversary to Star Trek, the very silly, weirdly hopeful, surprisingly meaningful, remarkably persistent sci-fi show May it live long and prosper, all expectations notwithstanding
Jeremy Yoder says no war@jbyoder.org · 19h agoAnyway back to living in this double dumbass mess, the only Vulcans coming to save us are us
smiling expectantly at commander sisko as he tours my new promenade boutique that sells ill-fitting shirts that say SOMEBODY ON DEEP SPACE 9 LOVES ME
Oh no! My creation! It’s more powerful than even I could have ever imagined! Wow guys you’re not going to believe this! You’re going to have give me more money to try to control it—it might even take more money than I could have ever imagined!
You gotta just reject the freak-ass framing devices these people are giving you while also acknowledging the freak-ass people are making freak-ass tech with no safeguards, bad intentions, and a substantial amount of money behind it. It's good to be a Healthy amount of worried. Like a 4 out of 10.
My 2c: we need non-AI-industry-koolaid framing devices. If you drop "superintelligence" and just start with "billions of dollars are being spent on the singular objective of releasing self-editing computer viruses onto the internet, and that will have consequences," seems consequential and solvable!
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 23h agoThe alarms are all flashing red.
Still a bit miffed Kirk and the gang manage to land in Golden Gate Park without interrupting anyone cruising, though
Jeremy Yoder says no war@jbyoder.org · 20h agoSTAR ANGELS TREK 🤝 IN IV AMERICA Night flight to San Francisco
And now seated for tonight’s viewing
Jeremy Yoder says no war@jbyoder.org · yesterdayFor today's 60th anniversary of STAR TREK's premiere, here's the time I shoehorned Trek into the remit of The Molecular Ecologist, thanks to DISCO's love of space-tardigrades www.molecularecologist.com/2017/10/22/a...
