Study links working while sick to higher risk of future absence
Employees who work while sick have a roughly 30% higher likelihood of later absenteeism than those who donβt.
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On International Womenβs Day, we celebrate the many women who shape rOpenSci every day. π
From software development and peer review to mentorship, community leadership, and training, women are building and strengthening open science across our global community.
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Grant Witness is hiring! We're seeking a full-time data scientist to join our team building data resources to support journalism, litigation, and activism protecting science, public health, and the rule of law. grant-witness.us/apply.html #rstats
Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.
Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.
R6 vs RC - the object oriented wars
The second #kakapo chick of the #kakapo2026 breeding season hatched this morning: Hine Taumai-A1-2026 on Ako's nest on Te KΔkahu. We transferred the egg from Anchor two nights ago. This is Ako's first-ever chick, which is just a few hours old in this video. #conservation #birds #parrots
Darnell and Manassa opened a travel agency
Reading this for my ecological genomics class. Pretty mind-blowing stuff, even identifying insect-bacterial symbionts from high covariance in airborne eDNA!
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π’ Applications are open for the 2026 Modern Meta-Analysis Research Institute (MMARI).
This 5-day workshop funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) is tailored for early-career education researchers with little to no prior meta-analysis experience.
Apply by 3/15: www.meta-analysis-re...
β€οΈ Happy Love Data Week! #LoveData26
Coming up 2/11: Improving Data Sharing w/ GREIβs Submission Checklist
Learn to plan, prepare, & publish data in a generalist repository. This webinar shares steps to more FAIR data, ft. examples from NIH-funded researchers.
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"Ten simple rules for teaching data science": arxiv.org/abs/2602.02874
A new preprint by @minecr.bsky.social and myself. We'd love any feedback!
π¨ GAMs have moved onβso itβs time for an update.
On March 3, 2026 (17:00β19:00 CET) Iβll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R
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ROR Annual Meeting sessions begin tomorrow! Join us for our 7th anniversary edition of the ROR Community Update, for a session on ROR and funders, and for a session on the role of ROR in the national strategies of Japan, Australia, and Korea. ror.org/events
Have you had lunch? Maybe better to get money on a full stomach
we all want you to get two million dollars today
Zotero 8 is out in stable: www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/
A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero
Attempts to pay medical expenses with a different payment method.
Gets warning saying wait 24 hours to ensure declined card was not actually accepted.
Stares into the soul of the payment processing site and despairs.
Sets up HSA to cover medical expenses.
Uses HSA card to pay medical expenses.
HSA card declined by medical provider.
Checks HSA website, card active, has sufficient fund.
Sees payment option directly via HSA website.
Discovers HSA payment option is mailing a check to someone.
Gnashes teeth.
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"For over a year now, more than a dozen groups have been working together to rescue environment and climate dataβand the majority are being led by women."
Do you have data on wildlife pathogens? The days to publish them on PHAROS before it was cool are counted.
@danjbecker.bsky.social is tirelessly advocating for the adoption of better data curation/archival practices: Proc. B is now the 2nd journal to list PHAROS as an archive for these data.
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With the help of the ROR community, ROR has very carefully worked out a robust method of storing both structural and temporal organizational relationships. Read more in ROR technical documentation. ror.readme.io/docs/relatio...
Great new paper!
Many stinging wasps, bees, and ants have controlled the sex of their developing eggs for millions of year using an ancient segment of their genome- always the same segment- but what's weird is, *the exact DNA sequence of that segment doesn't seem to matter*.
Exciting news to start 2026: for the first time ever, the PHAROS repository for wildlife disease surveillance is a journal-recommended home for your archived data!
Thanks to Integrative and Comparative Biology for taking the leap with us π¦ π’β‘οΈππ»π« academic.oup.com/icb/pages/Ge...
