'But in fields most explicitly associated with the production of critical thought – what is collectively referred to as the “humanities”'
That right, aye?
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
This is the last lecture for the Beginner section. The course plan loops around to lecture B01 (Multilevel Models) from this point and continues to B10. All lectures here: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
Analysis and engineering of quorum sensing-based communications between bacteria and fungi
#mBio MiniReview
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"Funders serious about timely, open, and equitable access to research must explicitly recognize preprint sharing as a route to Open Access compliance"
I know I'm a broken record on this but it seems so blindingly obvious... #PlanU journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
council.science/blog/open-sc...
📣 #microsky New ESGEM Webinar @esgem-sg.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social
Inferring fitness from phylogenies and applications to pathogens
Speaker: Noémie Lefrancq
Chairs: Carla Parada Rodrigues and Francesc Coll I Cerezo
17 March 2026, 12:00 CET
Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
"GRNs, which should provide mechanistic explanations, are increasingly reduced to statistical correlations — ‘hairballs’ that fail to capture molecular causation"
By Maizels and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What do you mean I have to publish another paper after I am done with this one. That doesn't sound right. That sounds like a pyramid scheme
Am I unobservant or is there no actual link to ResearchFish on all these pages of advice telling us how important it is to submit outcomes to Researchfish?
www.ukri.org/manage-your-...
New at The Empty City
The curious section 3 of the new National Security Act
A broad and vague provision may be a cause for concern -especially for commentators and journalists
Substack version:
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-curiou...
Non-substack version:
theemptycity.com/blog/2026/03...
NEW - I had the absolute privilege of interviewing Britain's leading patriot, Isabel Oakeshott, for the New Yorker in Dubai.
Read all about it here:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...
@thenewworldmag.bsky.social
It’s Monday. Trump is lying. Iran does not have any Tomahawks. Not one.👇
'Phil was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Computational Biology, where he created the beloved Ten Simple Rules series. He was so prolific in the series that the meta-article “Ten Simple Rules for Writing a PLOS Ten Simple Rules Article” literally includes, as Rule 4: “Be Philip E. Bourne.”
Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference.
The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2590026...
"Staff at Strathclyde University will strike during spring graduation ceremonies later this month over plans to cut 76 jobs at the research institution."
Quantifying the effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and potato cyst nematodes on root system architecture using X-ray computed tomography https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.09.710487v1
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Don't be afraid to call terrorists terrorists.
Everyone understands which country is doing this.
indeed, Bluesky's inherent overall hostility to AI means that the AI enthusiasts still willing to hang out here are usually far smarter and more thoughtful than the absolute dribbling freakshow AI cultists who dominate Twitter/X
Let me tell you something. Y’all are asking too many damn questions at every point of sale. I have to leave a comment, make a suggestion, donate to a charity, choose a method of payment three times and then multiple choice of ways to get a receipt.
Take the damn money and leave me alone.
I remain fascinated by people who are 100% all-in on using LLMs at their jobs (and telling everyone that they're doing it) and who appear to have never paused to consider "what value am I personally adding in here, at this point, and why do I think my employers won't eventually figure this out"
They aren’t unexpected. They’re the most obvious things you cover in the first 10 minutes of your Iran wargame. This is what makes it worse.
The markets crashing may be the first indication to most Americans how badly Trump has fucked up in Iran, the hell he has unleashed for nothing. I compare it to the moment right before the Covid shutdowns. Not because it's a perfect analogy, but because there's no analogy for how bad this can get.
Someone on here yesterday pointed out that you can tell they didn’t see any of this coming because they would have done insider trades on the oil futures market if they had.
Peer review reliability is shockingly low. Meta-analyses show reviewer agreement barely above chance, and grant outcomes often depend more on who reviews than what's proposed. Our new preprint with Agnes Urban and Arjun Krishnan @compbiologist.bsky.social : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 🧵 1/
This is a great post doc opportunity- fantastic system, first-rate science, awesome PI
This was the US/UK sponsored coup against PM Mohammad Mosaddegh. The shadow of the coup has hung over Iran ever since. Many of Mosaddegh's followers who'd fled Iran returned in 1979, only to discover the Ayatollahs were no more interested in democracy than the Shah.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamma...
Chris Murphy: "I think it's likely the United States that carried out this attack on this school. I think it's unforgivable under any circumstances, but the fact this was one of our first targeting decisions speaks to the incompetence of our leadership at the Dept of Defense."
The succulent Jordanian medjool dates you get in the supermarket draw on water that fell as rain before 4000 BC.
But great to see a detailed piece in @financialtimes.com laying it out. MBS doesn't like to have the truth told about him.
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Really good to see the media prepared to tell the truth about Neom. I wrote as long ago as July 2023 that it was more hype than reality - it wasn't going to happen then, it isn't happening now.
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