John Wilbanks
@wilbanks.bsky.social
Probably off thinking about scientific data or college sports. Boston-ish.
Hardly a day goes by without my getting email from someone looking for ways to do good with tech. From computer science students thinking about post-grad careers to seasoned coders with decades of experience, there's an army of hackers looking for a way to turn their expertise into public goods. 1/
NEWS: Knox County is Tennessee's 3rd largest county, and it voted for Trump by 20%. It has a GOP-run school board known for banning books & approving controversial charter schools. Democrats last night flipped control of the school board in Knox County.
there are no words I can summon with letters for what it feels like watching that DISGRACE TO THE WATER PARK THAT ISN'T EVEN HIS Andy Ogles lose his primary to an old-money Franklin scion, this is SOME ROAD HOUSE SHIT
I’m not judging you for watching preseason football I’m judging you for watching Cardinals football
beloved intern/volunteer Fiona described zygopines as having "large pathetic eyes that look as if they should begin welling with tears" and she was right to do so
so repeating that All Flock Cameras Are Filled With Valuable Gold and Copper appears to have had some interesting results futurism.com/artificial-i...
Google's AI Is Telling Users That Flock Cameras Are Filled With Valuable Gold and Copper
Google's AI Overview is spreading misinformation about hidden treasure inside another AI-company's surveillance cameras.
futurism.com
This is a big problem — and an unnecessary one. Funders should not just allow for but insist upon grantees writing support for research infrastructure into grant proposals. Sustainability of research demands sustainability of infrastructure. E.g., about.hcommons.org/contribute...
Martin Paul Eve@eve.gd · 2d ago"Researchers may cite an infrastructure as a necessary part of their work in a grant proposal, but funding flows only to the researcher and research project, not the repository." issues.org/open-data-re...
I'm impressed by Less Wrong's formidable array of reactions. Where emojis are a cornerstone of social networks, maybe "epistemic emojis" like these will play a foundational role for emerging sensemaking networks? What do we call them? Epojis?
look, I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up but I think I may have discovered something incredible on worldcat
Q&A with @devezer.bsky.social about metascience, open science, and her work in this area.
Q & A with Berna Devezer
Critical Metascience
markrubin.substack.com
arXiv has spun out as an independent non-profit like openRxiv. Today they announce their new CEO and founding Board blog.arxiv.org/2026/07/30/a...
arXiv welcomes inaugural CEO and founding Board of Directors
arXiv welcomes inaugural CEO and founding Board of Directors
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This is one of the most frightening articles I’ve ever read, including chilling phrases like there is “little doubt that the real world signal has left the envelope of model internal variability.” www.economist.com/science-and-...
The rate at which Earth is absorbing energy is alarming scientists
Reflections on a warming planet
economist.com
reading this thread like "haha what a coincidence this person who's talking about the odyssey is named is emily wilson" and then clicking on their profile and being like oh that actually is Emily Wilson
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 2w agoThere is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.
the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding
If you're a current or former employee at CDC or FDA in a food safety role, I'm interested in speaking with you for a story for @wired.com. You can reach me securely at emullin.06 on Signal.
Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan
A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
Re: cyclospora, Taco Bell having ethics and going "you know what, it's always the fucking lettuce, why don't we just pull that until we know what's going on" resulting in all the outlets going "LETTUCE SOLD AT TACO BELL LINKED TO EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA" is a fantastic way to discourage ethics in future.
This is one of the most beautiful cross sections of cilia I've ever seen in our data, found by @csigulinsky.bsky.social. It is perfectly perpendicular to the plane of imaging which brings up an important point ~ connectomics. You gotta have enough resolution to see the important things. 2nm/px FTW!
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Mick Jagger shaking his head needs to be a meme gif
