I think this is pretty remarkable, but it's a bit of a story.
Jonathan Dushoff
@jdushoff.bsky.social
Theoretical biologist, recreational mathematician, anti-fascist*. * I had planned not to be political here, but when circumstances change, decisions sometimes have to change.
It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...
Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 3w agoMy pre-write turned out to be 70% a. CDC's comms have been wildly irresponsible; b. If I couldn't prove lettuce is not from Taylor Farms, I wouldn't eat it; c. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...
A timely puzzle: four teams enter a tournament structured like the World Cup Final Four (there is a bracket, the two first-game winners play for first and the other two teams play for third). What is the probability that the second-best team will take second place? ...
Now out in Virus Evolution! CpG content is higher in carnivore-associated rabies virus clades than in bat-associated clades. Coauthors on here: @jdushoff.bsky.social @matt-arnold-bio.bsky.social @khampson.bsky.social
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This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
404media.co
Led by @rowandurrant.bsky.social, we're trying to develop rules of thumb to estimate under-reporting from sequence data. Today rabies, tomorrow the world! With @khampson.bsky.social, @kirstynbrunker.bsky.social and others.
![Comic. [Person with bun gesturing at informational sign as she talks to person with ponytail, another person, person with shoulder-length hair, and a person with a white hat] PERSON WITH BUN: In some places, the bay is more than 182.8 meters deep. [thought bubble above another person’s head] PERSON: *”More than”?* Why would they use that for such a precise... Aha! 100 fathoms! [caption] My hobby: reverse-engineering original units](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreietzkk2q6orvtivslzksr7ex2gytqoqon5zjz6ourowsspulp6asi)
The parable of the polygons is a super-cool way of thinking about pedagogy, a super-cool way of thinking about the usefulness of dynamical modeling, and a super-cool way of thinking about how our world became so polarized (maybe even a thought about how to address that): ncase.me/polygons/
Parable of the Polygons
A playable post on how harmless choices can make a harmful world.
ncase.me
The Callais ruling is the latest evidence that the real problem with #SCOTUS is that it can do whatever it wants without any fear of pushback from Congress. The way to fix that is by making the Court *accountable* again, something that expanding it or imposing term limits won't actually accomplish:
Bonus 223: "They Are Who We Thought They Were"
The Callais ruling has prompted renewed calls for Court reform. It's also a reminder of why the most popular proposals *aren't* how we should fix the Court.
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In our recent EID letter: Serial Interval and Intervention Efficiency in Pertussis Outbreak, South Korea, 2024, we re-analyzed Cho et al.'s outbreak data to recover the unmitigated serial interval — what would be expected without case isolation. wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/... @jdushoff.bsky.social
you are creating a culture of violence against us by accurately reporting on the culture of violence we're gleefully inflicting on others
Liverpool FC is not mathematically out of the EPL title race! They've been on the knife's edge since last week, but still survive. (1/3)
What do British people even think "clear" means? For that matter, what do they think "ahead" means, if anything? If the other team has two games in hand, you're not 9 points "clear" -- you're merely 9 points ahead-for-now. More like 3 points clear. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!
A student told me the other day that I reminded him of Phil Jackson. He knows about Phil Jackson from The Last Dance, so maybe Jackson reminded him of me. In any case, other than tall, old, white guy, I'm really not seeing it.
My whole family is Eastern European Jews. We got out decades before the Holocaust, but there's still a connection. 1/3
Protip: If you're wearing a golden noose on your lapel, you're not one of the good guys. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...
Israeli parliament approves the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis | CBC News
The bill's passage marked the culmination of a years-long push by Israel's far-right to escalate punishment for Palestinians convicted of nationalistic offenses against Israelis.
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Remember this when the Supreme Court rules against Trump on this one: they've done a lot on the way that will make things worse in the future. When right-wingers rage about the decision, it will be in part to cover that up. Poopoopoo
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4mo agoIn @nytopinion.nytimes.com “When the Supreme Court rules against the Trump administration’s attempt to constrict birthright citizenship, we should applaud that result,” Stephen Vladeck says. “We must not lose sight, however, of the opportunities the court won’t have to rein in the administration.”
Not sure I've ever seen anything like this: a predicted 10°C increase in three hours – after dark! Curious to see if this will happen in reality.
I like it when people handwrite "Out of courtesy to others" on signs, because I can choose to read it to myself as "out of courtesy to otters".
This legislation is disgusting on many levels. The Analysis link is also worth reading. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...
Israeli parliament approves the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis | CBC News
The bill's passage marked the culmination of a years-long push by Israel's far-right to escalate punishment for Palestinians convicted of nationalistic offenses against Israelis.
cbc.ca
This article from @uk.theconversation.com makes some interesting points, but I find the statistical philosophy horrifying. theconversation.com/truth-or-mis....
Truth, or misinformation? A statistician explains the challenge of assessing evidence
The word misinformation is loaded, and overused. The difficulty of assessing evidence is partly to blame.
theconversation.com
When I woke up this morning the centigrade temperature was three times the fahrenheit temperature. But by 9 AM it was already 10 times the fahrenheit temperature and the ratio was climbing at a dizzying rate!