Good interdisciplinary work still requires interacting with actual experts, but it does help alleviate some of the friction of such collaboration by removing the need to hold frustrating and inefficient "subfield 101" lessons for people just confused by the terminology and application, not concepts.
It's a good translator between fields, just like it's a good translator between languages. The situation there is that there are two bodies of knowledge that speak different languages and you are naive to one of them. That's a sizable fraction of science right now just doing translation work.
Maybe if radical liberals just wrote a book directly stating their contempt like Hillbilly Elegy, they'd get their full support.
Narrator: It is almost unbelievable that the Director of the National Institutes of Health would would pass judgement about a grant including assuming it didn't have a control group.
This is AFTER he and NIH had been found to have terminated grants in an "arbitrary and capricious" manner.
41/n
Below is the response to my question. The funny part of his response is that my research needed a control arm. My study actually did have a control arm (about 80% of the sample never reported discrimination).
So the answer itself makes me even more confused.
In what world is it even helpful to treat this guy like he's not a vicious, churning, petty, malignant, Internet-rotted psychopath
I had to renegotiate my F99/K00 award twice in 6 months, and on both occasions I asked what specifically “DEI activities” means. I didn’t get clear answers, so I was hopeful the person that directive came from could specify (the NIH Director). I asked the on @whyshoulditrustyou.bsky.social podcast
“DEI activities” are any activities that refer to, or surface, information that causes members of current group in power any amount of discomfort due to their privilege.
There is no definition, because they know it when they see it.
This post is about biologists' obligation to speak up for trans rights, in case I need to spell it out directly.
Government enforcement of an individual's gene-to-phenotype mapping on the basis of normative and essentialist arguments is eugenics. If you don't see how dangerous that is you know nothing about biology.
Reinstate the Fired Six at VSU!
Six tenured & tenure track faculty members were abruptly fired at Virginia State University without cause or any semblance of due process.
Sign this petition to demand their reinstatement & a public commitment from VSU to honor tenure & end arbitrary dismissals.
you caught me
Yeah, requiring violation of academic conduct and terms of service. If you sell login access that gives access to malicious parties I feel like there should be legal liability. This shouldn’t be different because it’s not.
I'm not really big on awards in academia but my students got together and put in a successful nomination packet to give me an outstanding mentor award from my college and it's the most meaningful and humbling recognition I've received in my career. 🥹
Even if this is a mechanical turk situation, it motivates students to surrender their logins, access their personal information, and access all their course materials. Surely a violation of the students' TOS agreement, but what prevents the company from then using/selling the data they get?
As I work on making all my class digital content ADA accessible and machine readable in accordance with federal law (good)--even with decent agreements between Universities and Canvas--I am keenly aware all digital course materials will inevitably be slurped up through backdoors like this.
Coming to #evol2026 this summer? The SSB Early Career Travel Funds competition is now live! Apply by February 27 for this years’ Tri-Society meeting.
More info:
www.systbio.org/early-career...
Congrats @sckup.bsky.social !
and I had to redownload it
I can still get them on the app
Taxonomy and phylogeny are two sides of the same coin, but that doesn't mean they are always in agreement. I wrote a blog post on why the new Phylogeny Explorer in @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social is such a big deal in that regard, and what's in store next for us.
eliotmiller.weebly.com/blog/birds-o...
Examples of mispredicted taxa and their estimated probabilities of woodiness estimated under the MK and different threshold models estimated using MCMCglmmRAM.
Modeling trait heterogeneity and inferring causal links in the macroevolution of growth habit in eudicot angiosperms
Neupane et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/W5JBKK...
10 billion is the yearly budget of NSF.
if it's any consolation: your boss's plan was for YOU to get shot so he could invoke the insurrection act. Not the other way around. Hope that helps.
Alex Pretti… This is who Trump’s secret police killed today in Minnesota. He was a VA nurse.
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
NYT video analysis confirms victim’s gun was removed before he was shot. So he was unarmed. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/minneapolis-shooting-federal-agents-video.html
