Alyssa is an amazing scientist and collaborator. I have so much respect for her commitment to scientific integrity and this award is so well deserved. Congrats @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social!!

Alyssa Smith@cetaceanneeded.bsky.social · yesterday

I'm incredibly honored to be one of the inaugural winners of the Ctrl-Z award. The sequence of events preceding and following this retraction were harrowing (and are honestly still stressful), but I hope this will be an opportunity for more open dialogue about mistakes + self-retraction in science.

my dept chair, Eric Ruggieri, for reacting so compassionately when I told him about the retraction; @nwlandry.bsky.social, for reminding me over + over that I was doing the right thing and for writing the nomination letter; and @jkbren.bsky.social for helping me track down that fatal coding error.

I also want to convey my gratitude to so many people: my coauthors @jongreen.bsky.social, @davidlazer.bsky.social, and @foucaultwelles.bsky.social, for their encouragement and wisdom; the editorial staff at @pnasnexus.org for their thoughtful, kind handling of the retraction/resubmission process...

I'm incredibly honored to be one of the inaugural winners of the Ctrl-Z award. The sequence of events preceding and following this retraction were harrowing (and are honestly still stressful), but I hope this will be an opportunity for more open dialogue about mistakes + self-retraction in science.

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · yesterday

The Center for Scientific Integrity is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Named for the universal keyboard shortcut for “undo,” the Ctrl-Z Award this year honors @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social and @katelaskowski.bsky.social for choosing transparency over reputation.

#ic2s2 2026 bike ride was a big success! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Huge thanks to our Vermont Complex Systems Institute volunteers Mohsen Ghasemizade, João Franco, and Michael Robinette for hosting a bike ride to the Burlington causeway tonight, and cheers to all… | ...

Huge thanks to our Vermont Complex Systems Institute volunteers Mohsen Ghasemizade, João Franco, and Michael Robinette for hosting a bike ride to the Burlington causeway tonight, and cheers to all the...

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First paper from the Kasimatis Lab is now online! We investigate of the maintenance of mate plugging in C. elegans along with its function www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A Male Expressed Copulatory Plug Increases Female Fertility in Caenorhabditis Nematodes

The genomes of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites offer a unique opportunity to probe why some genes with sex-specific functions are lost while others are maintained. In the androdiecious species, Caenor...

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Really cool preprint demonstrating reproductive cooperation in Caenorhabditis. First paper from the lab of @katjakasimatis.bsky.social 👏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A Male Expressed Copulatory Plug Increases Female Fertility in Caenorhabditis Nematodes

The genomes of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites offer a unique opportunity to probe why some genes with sex-specific functions are lost while others are maintained. In the androdiecious species, Caenor...

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1️⃣ First up, we are honored to welcome @lhd.bsky.social from the University of Vermont! 🦖 He explores the fascinating puzzles of network theory and nonlinear dynamics to understand how things spread across social systems, epidemiology, and ecology. 📊🌐 🔗 laurenthebertdufresne.github.io

📣 NEW ISSUE 📣 Our July issue is out now! 🔍️ On the cover: leaf surface glandular trichomes on a CRISPR-edited tobacco plant containing a HAIRPLUS (NtHAP) gene knockout. 📷️ Michael P. Timko @uvabio.bsky.social Read it in full 👉️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14677652... #plantscience 🧪

Having a great time at #Evo2026 with @uvabio.bsky.social 🐍🪱🪰🪲🌸🦠🧬

My friend's NSF CAREER received the highest possible score (Excellent, Excellent, Excellent: High Priority) and it was rejected today. This would have been my friend's first extramural award, 5 years after starting their lab, exactly when grant $ is make or break for an Assistant Professor's career.

Jeffrey Mervis@policyhound.bsky.social · last mo.

Been wondering why NSF isn't spending most of its FY26 appropriation? A $1.5B tech initiative may be the reason. And big cuts to hundreds of research programs could be just the beginning of the bad news. www.science.org/content/arti...

Excited to be presenting my work at #Evol2026 @evolmtg.bsky.social ! I will be talking about how adaptations that allowed persistence in former LGM refugia can make rear-edge populations more resilient to future warming! My talk will be Sunday 21 at 10.15am in the Adaptation I session (room 25B)

"The reported mean of 7.7 is misleading because it appears that close to half of your participants are scoring below that mean"

Man Calculating with Math Equations Overlay

ALT: Man Calculating with Math Equations Overlay

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NEW: The Kennedy Center is a reminder that we can win, it will be messy, and Trump will be petty. The illegal effort to put Donald Trump's name on the Kennedy Center has always been a metaphor — but, this weekend, it became a story of how we get through this. Tonight, at Law Dork:

The Kennedy Center is a reminder that we can win, it will be messy, and Trump will be petty

The illegal effort to put Donald Trump's name on the Kennedy Center has always been a metaphor — but, this weekend, it became a story of how we get through this.

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Exciting news! Marco Fernandez da Silva (right) is the 25th recipient of the Zachary's Karate Club CLUB prize. For his talk @netsciconf.bsky.social NetSci 2026, he was awarded the trophy of legend from @nwlandry.bsky.social on behalf of @arash.network. #networkscience networkkarate.tumblr.com

One of my proudest accomplishments at @netsciconf.bsky.social was getting A LOT of people to take this vegetable quiz (H/T @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social!) Feel free to post which vegetable you are on this thread! Quiz is here: sophie006liu.github.io/vegetal/. I'll start! I'm a green bean!

The 2026 Erdos-Renyi prize goes to Laurent Hebert-Dufresne!! #NetSci2026 @netscisociety.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social

Screwworm confirmed in Texas in the midst of having the worst imaginable people in charge. I guess we’re gonna have to keep getting hammered by infectious disease until we realize public health has a point.

Amazing sunset at @netsciconf.bsky.social last night!

Making this hackathon happen with @philchodrow.bsky.social and @nwlandry.bsky.social was an absolute delight, and I loved watching the delightful teamwork showcased by every team of hackers! Thank you so much to all our participants and speakers!! @netsciconf.bsky.social

Nicholas Landry@nwlandry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Higher-order hackathon starting out strong!

Higher-order hackathon starting out strong!

The lab (@kaiserdaniel.bsky.social and @abhay-gupta.bsky.social) is on its way to @netsciconf.bsky.social! You can listen to what we've been up to at the following sessions:

TIL that UVA has a division of perceptual studies... med.virginia.edu/perceptual-s...

Division of Perceptual Studies - University of Virginia School of Medicine

The Division of Perceptual Studies challenges mainstream views by evaluating evidence suggesting that consciousness survives death and that mind and brain are distinct and separable.

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The secret fourth genre of Bluesky posts is "Lol, we all suck right?" the hidden fifth genre is:

Winnie the Pooh & Tigger: Eating Recursion

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Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · 3mo ago

the three types of posts on here are "eating hits different when being hungry is the vibe", "here's why you need to panic now about the slovenian election polls (1/57)", and "no I didn't say it's misogynistic to be attracted to human women instead of AI girlfriends, let me explain what I meant"

The interplay of network structure and correlated infectious traits in epidemic models https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12773

The interplay of network structure and correlated infectious traits in epidemic models https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12773 Individual contributions to the spread of an epidemic vary widely due to an individual's location in a social network and their intrinsic ability to spread or contract disea...📈🤖

Abhay Gupta, Nicholas W. Landry: The interplay of network structure and correlated infectious traits in epidemic models https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12773 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.12773 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.12773

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school

Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs

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I went to a barber for the first time yesterday, and I had no idea that they SHAVE YOUR EYELIDS? Mind blown. 10/10