Jeremy Van Cleve
@vancleve.theoretical.bio
Associate Professor @ University of Kentucky. Evolution / Ecology / Math. Biker. Aikidoka. #BlackLivesMatter Editor in Chief of Theoretical Population Biology http://vancleve.theoretical.bio
BREAKING NEWS! The Senate has paused the OMB rule that would put Trump appointees in charge of federal spending. Next step - Contact your MoC and tell them to permanently REVOKE THE RULE: zurl.co/1SXEN Article: zurl.co/23mF8
Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul
Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.
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Officially recruiting postdocs at GW. If you are interested in genetic novelty, structural variation, or evo genetics please get in touch! We have data sets on mulitple organisms with large population sizes (Drosophila, Megalonaias nervosa) and species in decline (fireflies, mussels, elephants).
Just submitted my comment on the disingenuously named proposed "Promoting Employee Accountability" rule. Please add yours! www.regulations.gov/document/OPM... I focused on how civil service protections exist to protect all Americans. They aren't really for us feds at all. A quick history lesson:
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This is such bullshit. During the pandemic, we were down here reporting on how the University of Mississippi Medical Center had to turn its PARKING GARAGE into a makeshift ICU to handle the COVID surges. Lying about history I lived pisses me off. www.mississippifreepress.org/ummc-preppin...
UMMC Prepping Garage For Field Hospital, Requesting Federal Support To Staff It (Updated)
UMMC is clearing out space in a parking garage for a field hospital as the delta wave of COVID-19 continues to batter Mississippi.
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Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d agoRFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>
Right now, Vought is trying to silence scientists through his OMB Proposal and the NSF Proposal. We have built the tools you need to take action, access them at the link: zurl.co/aJJnC
THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul
Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.
politico.com
This may dramatically slow down the attacks on science. It also provides a template for how to prevent the federal government from becoming a patronage state. It’s a big deal!
Politico@politico.com · 3d agoSenate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul
Yaaas! Good news on a Sunday! The senate moves to temporarily ban the OMB proposal that would allow political appointees in charge of approving federal grants, especially #NIH grants. Recall that the OMB rule yielded 500k comments, 95% of them against it. 🧪 www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul
Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.
politico.com
Nature did a short piece on our preprint about how LLMs will affect the practice of science; my more detailed thread is below.
Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts
Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.
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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.
I recommend this article about AI reasoning, where the author lets us in on his struggles w/ AI cognitive dissonance. Plus some priceless quotes from @rao2z.bsky.social. (My recommendation has *nothing* to do with the fact that I'm quoted in it too 😇) www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reason...
Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine
The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.
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Breaking News: Prosecutors are dropping charges against an Olympian accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, saying damage was due to “botched” renovations.
Charges to Be Dropped Against Ex-Olympian David Hearn Accused of Damaging Reflecting Pool
President Trump had repeatedly accused vandals of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. On Friday, federal prosecutors acknowledged it was “the result of flawed installation.”
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Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...
Study Reveals How Avocados Reverse Sexes Throughout the Day
Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. How avocados do this has been unclear — until now, thanks to a UC Davis study.
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We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!
Jonathan Wosen@jonathanwosen.bsky.social · 7d agoWith academic jobs few and far between, the NSF is testing a new approach to graduate education: Giving Ph.D. students industry experience — and dollars — as part of their training. For more, see my latest for @statnews.com. www.statnews.com/2026/07/29/h...
I really hope someone checks my math and memory of public university starting salaries. The idea that inflation adjusted numbers reflect starting assistant professors making 20% less now than they did 25 years ago is….. whew.
Drug Monkey@drugmonkey.bsky.social · last wk.The academic culture of compensation drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/t...
It’s official: Data centers are slowing America’s shift away from coal grist.org/energy/data-...
It’s official: Data centers are slowing America’s shift away from coal
New federal data shows that AI demand helped push U.S. power sector emissions up last year.
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I will keep self promoting on these stories until they make a tiny difference to how Rufo gets treated in organs like the NYT, so maybe until I die www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...
Activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to ‘scientific racism’ journal
Christopher Rufo recommends a newsletter to his readers that has published several supporters of discredited genetics theory
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Dan O’Sullivan@osullyville.bsky.social · last wk.Had to scroll and scroll and scroll to find one (1) paragraph covering the only relevant details about the Manhattan Institute, a deeply creepy racist organ of plutocrats
My alma mater (College of the Atlantic) is hiring faculty in Field Ecology, Agroecology, and Chemistry. If you're looking for a very cool small liberal arts college on the coast of Maine with a strong environmental focus, check it out (happy to answer questions!): www.coa.edu/human-resour...
Career Opportunities | College of the Atlantic
Career opportunities at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor Maine.
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I am sick of some media uncritically repeating Rand Paul's misrepresentation of Fauci's journal about the Huanan market. In late Jan 2020, it was a common commentary that the market may not be the origin of the outbreak, b/c of a Lancet paper on early cases ▫️1/6 www.paul.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
Finally posted an ad for the postdoc position on my new NSF-funded project—come help build a new method to study plants' responses to environmental variation in space and over time, and figure out interesting ways to use it! Apply by 23 August to ensure consideration. Details: buff.ly/qTvaqvD
Here is a classic example for why we need public funding in scientific research. Corporates & Big Wellness can't profit from studying social determinants of health - if poverty or racism were found to be real factors affecting health, they can't sell you anything to solve that problem. #HealthSky
Long-Term Money Problems May Accelerate Brain Aging
Decades of financial hardship were associated with poorer cognition and brain health later in life.
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Our paper on how better amino acid substitution matrices trained on cleaned alignments improve gene tree inference, and on best practice for cleaning MSAs more broadly, is now out academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-.... New options in both IQTree and Muscle5. @phylowheeler.bsky.social
Improved gene tree inference from removing alignment errors both from focal genes and when training substitution models
Abstract. Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) is a key step in phylogenetic analysis and is prone to error. Unfortunately, algorithms that remove likely alig
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Joanna Masel@joannamasel.bsky.social · 8mo agoSequence alignments are notoriously prone to error. Our latest preprint offers a new tool for filtering errors out, assesses it and other filtering tools, and recommends new best practice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @phylowheeler.bsky.social 1/10
We are at #ESA2026! Our group is presenting some very exciting work across theoretical and quantitative ecology throughout the week. 🧵👇
I recommend doi.org/10.1126/science.caredit.aay0523 by @jananiharan.bsky.social for a good intro to the hidden curriculum. "If you know these things, you barely notice them. If you don't, they are completely bewildering" is the most visceral way I've heard it described, and that resonated with me.
I felt lost in a new academic culture. Then I learned about the hidden curriculum
Navigating unspoken norms and expectations was a challenge for this international student, but she eventually found the support she needed
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I hate to keep asking for help, but it's still going to be months before I get paid through Illinois's Crime Victim Reimbursement program Paying the bills is really tight right now while I've been recovering physically and mentally Please consider donating if you are able
Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️⚧️🧬@jeymccreight.bsky.social · 4w agoMy GoFundMe is still up. Every little bit helps pay for medical bills and being unable to work for a couple months following being violently attacked Thank you to everyone who shared and donated already. Any extra signal boosting to your networks is appreciated www.gofundme.com/f/help-trans...
"Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actua...
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Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18
Neo's Iconic Matrix Dodge
Alt: Neo's Iconic Matrix Dodge
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Joshua G. Schraiber@jgschraiber.bsky.social · last wk.Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18
This is NOT AN EDITORIAL FROM SCIENCE. @dereklowe.bsky.social is a blogger whose blog is hosted on the Science site. He is not otherwise affiliated at Science or AAAS. It is a good piece, the most recent of many by @dereklowe.bsky.social
James Hawley, PhD@jrhawley.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2w agoFinally, an editorial in Science that isn't just hedging its bets and trying to play nice. This is a long overdue piece. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/assault-science-funding-continues The US government is out to destroy US (and possibly global) science and they do not know nor […]
The irony is killing me... "“It’s almost like someone went to the lectures, read the textbook, and did all the hard work of doing the homework,” said Pukar Hamal, founder of AI security firm SecurityPal. “Then some other student is like, ‘Hey, I didn’t do that. Can I just copy your work?’”"
From Silicon Valley to DC, the tech world is suddenly obsessed with one concept in AI: Distillation
Distillation has long been a topic for AI wonks, but it's become a hot-button issue of late as techies and lawmakers debate how it should be regulated.
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