Just preprinted my work on rapid evolution in fluctuating environments! When many linked mutations with different environmental tradeoffs compete, I found that mutations with stronger tradeoffs systematically outcompete beneficial “generalist” mutations. Read more here: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Record baby boom brings world’s heaviest parrot back from the brink www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/k...

Record baby boom brings world’s heaviest parrot back from the brink

A record 90 chicks have been added to the population count of the kakapo parrot in New Zealand, delighting conservationists.

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I recommend to you this podcast series about Dolly Parton by Jad Abumrad (creator of Radio Lab). You may ask: how did a MacArthur Award winning pub radio guy meet Dolly? Because she personally funded his father's vaccine research, that's how. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...

Dolly Parton's America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts

The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.

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So I guess my best advice is, follow real people who love wildlife & want to protect it. People whose joy shines through. Who share their stories about being out in nature. People who interact with other nature lovers, photographers & artists. They’re way more likely to be showing you the real thing

Get To Know Nature@gettoknownature.bsky.social · last mo.

Concern about generative ai is absolutely everywhere. So I thought I’d do another thread on spotting ai wildlife “photos.” Get down to the specific details of how to tell. So I went to look at a whole bunch of them and my conclusion is: oh shit, they’ve gotten really accurate. 😬 😡

At today's press conference, Bhattacharya stood by impotently as Miller, Kennedy, and Trump lied unabashedly about vaccine safety, demanded that the MMR be split into three separate vaccines despite overwhelming evidence of safety, and reduced number of shots in the US childhood vaccine schedule.

Any politician who says we couldn't avoid coming climate disasters but voted for £millions in oil & gas subsidies is lying "This week the temperatures in Nino 3.4 are the warmest ever recorded for early august and almost the most above the average for any day of the year." via Dan Satterfield

Global sea-surface temperatures just reached their 50th consecutive record hot day and are expected to continue to rise for another month. This is so far beyond 'bonkers' (technical climate science term) that the Climate 8-ball has decided to start drinking early today.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

If only someone could figure out how to make milk safe to drink! It'd be such a big deal the process would be named after them.

Kyle Pfannenstiel@pfannyyy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Idaho health officials are investigating how nearly 60 people got sick after drinking raw milk in the past two weeks. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare says they didn't name two dairies potentially linked to the outbreak “because this is a potential risk for any raw milk producer.”

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

Lyme disease spreading is just one teeny-tiny aspect of how climate change intersects with human health.

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · last yr.

This is a map of Lyme disease cases in 1995 via CDC. Keep it in mind when I show you the 2023 map in the next post.

Add enough environmental noise to a mosquito-borne disease model and epidemics that R0 says should happen simply don't. But at intermediate noise, you get the biggest outbreaks. New paper in PLOS Comp Biol with Kyle Dahlin, Karin Ebey, and John Vinson. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Nonlinear effects of noise on outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases

Author summary Climate change is expected to cause drastic changes in the spread of mosquito-borne disease outbreaks, both in where they occur and in their size. A key aspect of climate change is an i...

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🐟🦐 Come work with us! We’re offering a PhD position in marine life-history modeling as part of the Arctic Ocean 2050 program. The position is based at the Theoretical Ecology Group at the University of Bergen in Norway. www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...

Ph.d.-stipendiat i marin livshistoriemodellering (298243) | Universitetet i Bergen

Stillingstittel: Ph.d.-stipendiat i marin livshistoriemodellering (298243), Arbeidsgivar: Universitetet i Bergen, Søknadsfrist: søndag 12. april 2026

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Timeline cleanse: Baby tapir getting scritches for their itches. If you want to scritch your very own tapir & you live outside of Central or South America or SE Asia, you'll need to visit a zoo. But these little guys are (evolutionarily) from around here, in North America. Let's talk about it.

Re-upping this @uio.no starter pack. Let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/EMD9mq2

Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved. 
 It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪

Rare, dangerous side effects of some COVID-19 vaccines explained

“Groundbreaking” study uncovers why adenovirus-based shots caused life-threatening blood clots and bleeding in some people

science.org

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

nature.com

Really interesting and confounding trend reported in Dynamic Ecology - ecology citations peaked in 2021 and have been declining since. Continued impact from the pandemic? 🧪🌐🌾 dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/s...

Science (all of it) peaked in 2021

An ecologist friend* noticed that the annual number of times he’s been cited grew throughout his career up until 2021, when it peaked. It then declined for a couple of years straight. Then it…

dynamicecology.wordpress.com

We seek a highly motivated, enthusiastic candidate who has completed a #PhD in #ecotoxicology or related fields. Candidates with experience in experiments with soil invertebrates, especially #springtails, and publishing papers in leading journals are highly encouraged to apply! #SoilStress

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Soil Invertebrate Ecotoxicology (292636) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Soil Invertebrate Ecotoxicology (292636), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, February 8, 2026

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📖 Big news! We just released the first five chapters of our new book, Hello Data Science. It is a fully open-access resource written for beginners. Please help us spread the word! A few points about the book are below 👇 🔗 www.hellodata.science #rstats #datascience #tidyverse

Can't pass ACA extensions but don't worry. We're going to probe whether Lyme disease is a US bioweapon instead.

RFK, Jr.–Backed Lyme Disease Conspiracy Theory May Be Probed under New Bill

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a defense bill this week that orders an investigation into whether the U.S. military bioengineered Lyme disease

scientificamerican.com

Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.

"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

huffpost.com

Dette er en stor dag for meg! Min spalte nummer hundre som spaltist for @dagsavisen.bsky.social! Jeg skriver om KI-boomen sett gjennom svindelens briller. Har vi egentlig råd til å være det mest lettlurte offeret for amerikanske tek-sjarlataner? Del gjerne, så flest mulig LLMer skraper teksten!

Pass deg, tek-sjarlatanene kommer

Hvem blir lurt i vår tids største svindel?

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Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

bbc.co.uk

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.” Among those RIFd: —leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases; —leadership of global health center —leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

substack.com

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother

Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

go.nature.com