Just in time for Halloween, I made a Marine Heatwave dashboard. It's unintentionally horrifying. 😱🌊🥵 Hourly water temperatures from California's buoys, moorings, tide gauges, and shore stations, together on one map. #Oceanography #ClimateScience #Science tini-scientific.github.io/beach-thermo...

Meet Loki the Sea Cucumber, One of 57 Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Species 🧪🦑🌎

Meet Loki the Sea Cucumber, One of 57 Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Species - Nautilus

It looks friendly at least

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Incredible work from @katieworth.bsky.social @amywestervelt.bsky.social and @themadstone.bsky.social on how unproven carbon capture and storage (CCS) came to be legitimized. Popular CO₂ removal (CDR) methods, bioenergy w/CCS (BECCS) and direct ocean removal, also rely on CCS actually being a thing.

How a Secret Vote by U.N. Scientists Legitimized Carbon Capture and Skewed Decades of Climate Policy

A U.N. report concluded carbon capture could offset fossil fuels’ effect on climate change. Two decades later, the process has failed to meaningfully scale up, and it’s proving hard to take the promis...

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Finally learning python. The inline for loops are throwing me for, well, a loop (although interesting!) and the extensive use of with and renaming is fascinating from a cultural/linguistic perspective. Trying to shake off years of functional programming and remembering OO. It's a wild brain ride!

Here it is, my first ever Op-Ed, everyone! I talk about why I think NSF's new Office of Metascience is a bad idea. Enjoy!

Holding Science to a Gold Standard Will Hold It Back | The Scientist

A metascientist pushes back against the unified and idealized vision of science embodied in NSF’s new Office of Metascience.

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🌊 Great to see this CIEE-funded Working Group in action! Researchers came together to explore how kelp forests vary across the Northwest Atlantic, from Long Island Sound to the Arctic, and what the future might hold. Collaborative synthesis at its best!

Jarrett Byrnes@jebyrnes.bsky.social · last wk.

Amazing week with OUTSTANDING colleagues thinking about kelp forests in the northwest Atlantic - how are the similar & how are they different from Long Island sound to the Arctic, what have we learned from watching them change, & what does the future hold. Thanks to @ciee-icee.bsky.social!

I've been using a version of this prompt for a few years now in consultations, and I find it so useful to figure out what someone's research question is. From Jessica Young's wonderful paper: www.ovid.com/jnls/epidem/...

My newest #Rstats package, {bartisan}, was accepted by CRAN today! {bartisan} implements Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART), a machine learning method that has the benefits of Bayesian posterior inference and automatic regularization. #statssky #episky #causalinference #ML

bartisan: Generalized Bayesian Additive Regression Trees

Fits Bayesian additive regression trees (BART) models for likelihoods outside the conditionally conjugate Gaussian case, using the Laplace-approximation reversible-jump sampler of Linero (2025) &lt;<a...

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Heeeey plant folk who work in plant ecology, evolution, and global change (yes, this includes you, seagrass, mangrove, & marsh plant folk) - wanna be my colleague? We're hiring for an Assistant pProf in the Dept of Biology here at @umassboston.bsky.social!!! jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/680928/a...

Assistant Professor- Biology - Boston, Massachusetts (US) job with University of Massachusetts Boston | 680928

The Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Boston invites applicants for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor to pursue a...

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I want a Dropkick Murphys cover of The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald.

"[Using] randomized experiments... We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, & debugging abilities, w/o delivering significant efficiency gains on average. Participants who fully delegated coding tasks showed some productivity improvements, but at the cost of learning"

How AI Impacts Skill Formation

AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively su...

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Quick thread of the many crabs named for Halloween related topics. This one is Gecarcinus quadratus, aka THE Halloween crab 🦀 1/

Jo Wolfe, PhD@jopabinia.bsky.social · 3y ago

Interested in carcinization? 🦀🧪🦑 #invertebrate Check out the Crab Time feed by liking/pinning here, bsky.app/profile/did:... and let me or @lucidillusions.in know if you want to post crabs! How can you say no to this face?

Amazing week with OUTSTANDING colleagues thinking about kelp forests in the northwest Atlantic - how are the similar & how are they different from Long Island sound to the Arctic, what have we learned from watching them change, & what does the future hold. Thanks to @ciee-icee.bsky.social!

This is taxpayer-funded research data and info that belongs to the public and is not this administration’s to erase.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · last wk.

In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web.

📊Warming up for Halloween, with the Axes of Evil

"'There’s no way to sugarcoat this,' Lau [SciAm president] told them. Springer Nature felt that Scientific American’s criticism of Trump was threatening their broader business—selling subscriptions to their scientific journals. The federal government was a major client."

Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · last wk.

Science is inherently political and when our government is actively hostile to science as a whole, publications should be able to write about it without being censored. Alas. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

My department at GW is hiring a Teaching Assistant Professor for Intro Bio. Apply here! www.gwu.jobs/postings/129...

How your email finds me.

Sarah Archer@sarcher.bsky.social · last wk.

He just falls asleep like this and it’s like…I know.

WHAT IS THIS DARK MAGIC?

Ben Bolker@bbolker.bsky.social · last wk.

reformulate() !

Yeti crab 🦀🦑🐡

Exciting news!! I'm chairing the search in my department @lsubiosci.bsky.social for an **Endowed Chair in Lichenology**! The candidate should be tenured (or equivalent), and have a documented track record in excellent in collections-based lichen research. lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...

Dr. Shirley C. Tucker Chair in Lichenology

All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...

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🧪 “The National Science Foundation, one of the biggest sources of federal research funding, withheld $1.4 billion that Congress had intended for research over the course of the past year, according to internal data reviewed by The New York Times.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

nytimes.com

Duke Biology has two faculty positions we're searching for: 1) Assistant Professor in Cellular and Molecular Systems 2) Assistant Professor of the Practice with a focus on Ecology. See here the following link for more details and how to apply: biology.duke.edu/about-us/jobs

I needed to know what day the semester ends at my own university; it only took me a web search and 8 separate clicks to find

Ahead of the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP17) next week, our latest Editorial reflects on the latest global stocktake on progress towards implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“The culmination of my life’s work may have been targeted by an AI-assisted censorship tool & terminated by a politically-motivated AI hallucination” If you care in any way about science, you need to read this thread from my friend Kelton Minor.

Kelton Minor@keltonminor.bsky.social · 2w ago

Together with other scientists I’m suing the 🇺🇸 US National Institutes of Health for violating our 1st Amendment rights & censoring our health science. I’m ready to shine a light on the darkest days. Buckle up, read on. This gets pretty wild… THREAD

targets is one of my favorite things in #rstats.

Nick Tierney@njtierney.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hey folks! Stoked to be giving a 3 hour workshop "A Gentle Introduction to Targets" at WOMBAT in Melbourne, November 30. Sign up at wombat2026.numbat.space/program/tuto... Early bird registration prices ends Sunday, 18th October! See the full program wombat2026.numbat.space #rstats #targets

A new mixtape, I've been gathering links for three frigging months, including a bunch of new peer-reviewed papers about DEIJ in STEM. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/academic-mix...

Academic mixtape 40

It's Friday, we've made it this far, we deserve some links

scienceforeveryone.science

I have started to consider budgeting a personal assistant type of role into grants for this very reason. Has anyone done so? It feels...... weird, as it's not a cultural norm, & yet, I feel like it would make me a better professor. There are remote part-time personeal assistant business out there...

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 2w ago

Email, I'd argue, has similarly shifted norms in ways that individualize work that used to be shared (i.e., most professors no longer have their own secretaries to handle correspondence) and that create more of it (since the expectation is that we can respond immediately and field more requests).