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If you're connected with me on Discord, be warned that my account was hacked this morning
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In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p
I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
Follow these awesome women ocean scientists, many of whom I'm proud to call colleagues and delighted to call friends.
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go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo
We are on faculty job application #27 of this cycle, fam. No interviews yet. Please tell me it gets better?
Mayor Mamdani stands behind a podium with other administration officials and community leaders with large signs saying Free Tax Prep.
Dr. Nichola Davis smiles at Mayor Mamdani while speaking behind a podium.
Mayor Mamdani speaks to reporters while behind a podium.
Yesterday we kicked off NYC’s Free Tax Prep season. That means filing your taxes at zero cost, keeping every dollar of your refund, and not getting ripped off by for-profit companies.
Nearly half of all New Yorkers qualify. Get help—virtually or in person—at nyc.gov/TaxPrep
🧩Human modification does not always lead to a biotic homogenisation.
Using a scenario-based approach, we found that beta diversity increased despite reductions in local alpha diversity, thereby maintaining gamma diversity, when relatively natural landscapes were modified into mixed landscapes.
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.
So it's a small point in the *everything* that's going on right now.
But the MN DNR dudes protecting ICE? A supremely bad look, friends.
Those of us who love and protect the green and growing places MUST love and protect our neighbors with just as much passion.
Ever played the board game Pandemic?
I think it contains a surprisingly good lesson for tackling the #climate crisis, especially in a moment of rising far-right politics.
Here's why🧵
Species shift their ranges in response to climate change, but many can't keep up. The resulting "community-climate disequilibrium" can impair ecosystem function and cause counterintuitive dynamics, like short-term gain but long-term loss onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Okay, so, I've never had the dream where there's like a math test I forgot to study for.
But it's the 2nd week of the semester, and last night I had a dream that the class I'm *teaching* has an exam scheduled that I forgot to write 😅
Is this a common professor experience?!?
The number 64 created out of plant material. The 6 is made of yellow petals and the 4 is made of blades of grass
In Arda episode 64, the party deals with two ships, both scary, but for very different reasons.
YouTube: youtu.be/BpJyqwKlbfQ
Podcast: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-7f5rh...
PLEASE do this. Folks don't always want to speak up in a crowded room to ask for reasonable accommodations.
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“If you are a 75-year-old professor reading this, now would be a good time to take emeritus status. It’s something that a lot of people could do that would contribute enormously. The job market for young people would be in much better shape if most people over 75 retired.”
Our first livestream of 2026 will be starting in 1hr! Come see @lucaszellers.bsky.social and 4 amazing players in the first part of a 3-part journey in the wilderness 🐻🦉
Join us on twitch.tv/naturecheckdnd
The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.
The number 63 constructed of yellow flower petals and reddish leaves
We're back and publishing content weekly in 2026! To start us off right, here's Episode 63 of our Arda campaign.
Catch the Arda campaign LIVE on Jan 11th starting at 2pm Eastern!
YouTube: youtu.be/raliRpQWkbs
Podcast: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-2kgqu...
I don't know who needs to hear this, but opposing GenAI is not about opposing technology, it's about opposing capitalists.
GenAI is not a technology: it's a massive automation of theft, masquerading as an industry, run by grifters.
Don't hate computers, hate the capitalists behind the curtain.
If you can't be bothered to actually write the peer review yourself why should the reviewee have to listen to it? Why write anything at all, ever? If you don't have enough time, fight for better working conditions instead of faking your work
Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
This has been a tough year for early career scientists including grad students.
If you had a professional success this year, no matter how small, share it with us so we can celebrate with you!
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...ecologist? Interdisciplinary ecologist?
I've been enjoying "The Invention of Nature" telling the story of Humboldt 😁
The post office changed their postmark rules, potentially disqualifying votes in upcoming elections.
Postmarks indicate when the USPS processed mail now, not when you dropped it off.
To ensure a same-day postmark, you must visit a post office and ask for a manual stamp.
Omg this happened to me 2 months ago! Could swear I heard her footsteps on the carpet and then felt her jump up onto the bed next to me. But nobody's there 😭
I promise I'll talk about something else soon but I'm so deeply deeply furious to see scientists playing around with genAI like it's no big deal, as if they do not know better than anyone else in the world how dire the climate situation is. I wish them a lifetime of shame.
I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.
#BES2025 come talk to us about how to make grey literature more accessible at lunch today :)