Trying out the features in Claude for education. Join me as I see how it "helps" me write a research paper. My chosen topic: "AI and education". /1
Ryan Martin
@ryanamartin.bsky.social
Associate Professor researching evolution and plasticity, often in cities. https://www.martinevolutionaryecologylab.com/
Colorado wildflower expedition day 5. Now its time for the back story of this trip. I'd been vaguely thinking about Colorado's mountains & then went to the retirement celebration of my amazing colleague, the ecologist Joel Kingsolver. Pictures from his field sites looked cool 1/n jgking.web.unc.edu
@science.org and @retractionwatch.com partner on a feature today on a clinical trial death that's the saddest, and longest, science story I've edited. But it's also one of the best IMO. Beautifully written and reported by @bborrell.bsky.social We’re grateful to the parents of "Mei" 1/
Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
nytimes.com
let's say, hypothetically, someone isn't *that* into sports but does typically have a lot of fun following the World Cup every few years and is considering maintaining their Peacock subscription to watch Premier League games which team should they invest in, and why? asking for a friend
New paper out! Limited evidence that butterflies are capable of changing their thermoregulatory performance or thermal tolerance in response to local climatic conditions. Instead, poorer thermoregulators have shown stronger upwards elevational range shifts in response to climate change rdcu.be/fuSJE
Butterflies with low thermoregulatory capacity show greatest upwards range shifts along an elevational gradient
Communications Biology - Lack of variation in thermoregulatory capacity or thermal tolerance in butterflies across an elevational gradient suggests limited adaptive capacity. Poorer...
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Actual faculty getting silenced and fired for their work from the right, and the big issue for a whole bunch of the commentariat is whether there is political discrimination against imagined faculty.
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 3w ago
Please share! This fully-funded postdoc position at the UCLA La Kretz Center allows candidates to design their own projects in California conservation, and offers mentorship from both academics and conservation practitioners. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Qi...
LKC 2027 Postdoctoral Fellowship.pdf
drive.google.com
There are extremely winnable Senate races in AK, NC, OH, GA, MI, and even IA this year If you are pretending to be a wise political observer and are still pushing this “Democrats can win KY!” bullshit, please stop
Alright read the actual post. Astonishing ignorance of the most basic facts of this issue by the politico reporters. A quick look at their bios shows neither reporter has any background in voter rights, election security or voter suppression coverage. A wild embarrassment.
Politico@politico.com · 3w agoDHS says it found thousands of non-citizens on voter rolls in four states
Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
Tim Harford writes about me in the Financial Times. He claims I think it’s hopeless for scientists to try to explain their work to the public. That’s false. I suspect link rot and Harford’s faulty memory are to blame. I’ll explain my actual view below. 🧪 1/10 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Explain it to me like I’m 10
Simplifying how we explain complex concepts can lead to surprising benefits
giftarticle.ft.com
so this is how the portal closed in the other timeline
Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 3w ago
Oregon State University's Department of Integrative Biology is currently hiring up to three tenure-track faculty members, with an emphasis on organismal biology. Note: Previous links are no longer active due to a change in our hiring system. oregonstate.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/OSU_Careers_...
Assistant Professor
Department: Special Instructions to Applicants: To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by 10/1/26. Applications will continue to be accepted after the full consideration date, unt...
oregonstate.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com
New: The National Science Foundation is preparing to claw back some $500 million in funds from some of its core science programs in physics, math, computer science, and engineering in order to fund a project from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative
A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency’s budget is already squeezed and it struggling to clear a backlog of grant applications.
nature.com
It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.
I’m not tired of the Reflecting Pool Jello models everyone took to their relatives’ houses for the 4th yet. They’re so creative! Although this one I’d prob not eat. A bit too realistic.
who can tell me what this is a fossil of, my mom found it. it weighs nothing because it's chalk
This is the heart of it. The privatize everything crowd pretends industry is an alternative to government funded academic research when in reality it relies on academia. Industry gets free training, preliminary research, and a lab supplies market from academia but now they want to burn it all down!
Alex Wild@alexwild.bsky.social · last mo.The absolute dumbest thing about Scott Atlas’s opinion is that nearly all industry scientists are trained on NIH funds, trainee salaries are a huge part of the NIH budget. Industry doesn’t want NIH cut, their costs would be immense if they had to run biomedical schools on top of drug development.
if you haven't seen any photos of what the US used to look like before the clean air/water acts, you should take 30 seconds for a quick image search
Ken Vogel@kenvogel.bsky.social · last mo.NEW: Trump's flurry of pardons to Clean Air Act violators were the latest move by his administration to undermine laws intended to fight climate change & curb air pollutants that harm human health, @karenzraick.bsky.social & I report.
‘A society that loses science loses the future’ says Neil Shubin, as he starts his tenure as the NAS President @neilshubin.bsky.social - thank you for speaking to us @nature.com 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Incoming US science academy chief vows to ‘double down’ on research
New leader of the National Academy of Sciences Neil Shubin warns: ‘a society that loses science loses the future’.
nature.com
🧪 Do voters want the scientific community to have a say (i.e. via notice and comment) about OMB's proposed rule giving White House officials final control over scientific grant funding? 🧪
Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · last mo.🧪 New from @dataforprogress.org: 77% of voters think the scientific community — including research labs and universities — should have a say over whether this rule [to give White House officials final approval over all grant funding] goes into effect. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/7/...
🧪 New from @dataforprogress.org: 77% of voters think the scientific community — including research labs and universities — should have a say over whether this rule [to give White House officials final approval over all grant funding] goes into effect. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/7/...
This is Scott Atlas, the guy behind Trump's herd immunity covid approach, reflecting an ideology where public problems are best solved by doing nothing. "Give way to the market": The reality is that the market depends upon NIH-funded innovations. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...
Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · last mo.Right, so here is the Hoover Institute saying we should abolish the NIH: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Just immense levels of looting. He’s starving our parks to redesign DC as his personal palace.
