Many journals require data and code sharing. Yet code is still rarely shared and datasets are often hard to reuse.
Our new paper introduces the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code quality control in ecology & evolution, developed by 26 experienced data editors.
๐ doi.org/10.24072/pcj...
It was a mistake to leave me unsupervised.
The Boynton Health Dental Clinic on the University of Minnesotaโs East Bank campus has abruptly closed after more than a century, leaving patients surprised and 21 employees wondering if they still have a job.
I promise, I will be infinitely more charmed if you use some earnest scribbles in your presentation.
Guys. All hands on deck this is not a drill. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. The Pokรฉmon Company has a job posting for PhD-level ecologist ๐งช
hrmos.co/pages/pokemo...
A photo collage showing various posters I illustrated/designed, featuring various organisms found in a particular biome or of a specific group. They are on colorful backgrounds. A rounded orange rectangle with text reads โBirthday Print Sale! Take 20% off all prints, applied automatically at checkout!โ, along with a link to my shop (shop.fossilforager.art). The sale ends 3/15 at 11:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time.
Itโs my birthday and (almost) the 6th anniversary of Fossil Forager!! To celebrate Iโm doing a print sale - take 20% off all art prints until this Sunday! ๐
๐ shop.fossilforager.art
#sciart
#UMN has closed their dental clinic with no warning or explanation, and in flagrant violation of their contract with UMN grad workers - this is the only dental care covered by our health plan!
If associated w/ UMN, please sign/share the petition to stop this: actionnetwork.org/petitions/um...
NO NO NO YOU DONโT
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step โdesigned for normiesโ kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
digital artwork of Suicune, drawn using only black, blue and white. Suicune leaps across water, surrounded by sparkles.
Suicune .. โจ #pokemon
Love this from @stephenbheard.bsky.social on how to prioritize learning and useful discussion over tearing apart papers, and look forward to using some of these question prompts in future lab meetings: scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/h...
A cute anthro black labrador dog gives the peace sign in front of a pink toilet. The dog is wearing a collared shirt in trans pride colors. They are surrounded by the phrase "I deserve to pee!"
A frog is looking and smiling at the viewer as they lean out of their car window. The car is a compact blue car with a trans pride bumper sticker. It is surrounded with the phrase "I deserve to drive!"
An anthro black and white cat is holding a ballot and a pencil. She is wearing a pink dress with the trans pride colors at the waist. She is surrounded by the phrase "I deserve to vote!"
An anthro bear is smiling with his hands in the air. He is wearing a bandana around his neck in trans pride colors, and he is surrounded by flowers blooming around him. Around him is the phrase "I deserve to thrive!"
Stand against the invalidation of trans rights! Protect our trans siblings!!
The bitterest pill about AI cheating for me is that AI'ed assignments take much longer to grade than honest assignments because they turn grading into an investigation.
So when the student spends less time, I spend more. Fun!
kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it
Anyways.
Fellas you gotta dress like Rihanna and get your own rain machine for the musical number, it works
Once again, I feel like I need to prove the humanity and beauty of the people of Iran. Because it feels like people donโt care. Itโs far away in a land youโve only seen propaganda about. Iโve been there. People I love are there.
So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the โExample...โ button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).
An historic black and white illustration of a paper nautilus floating on the ocean. There are boats, a city and hills in the background.
๐ Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHLโs website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more:
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL ๐ ๐ ๐งช
I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.
At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.
Iโm transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img
acefoundationict.org
A digital illustration of a seemingly Kaiju-sized pangolin attacking a ant city. Cartoonish looking ants panic in the foreground, one is holding an ant larva.
#WorldPangolinDay
#2026sketches Day 8
#art #illustration
Actually laughed out loud when I saw this as a standalone image
A quote tweet of my post from someone named malADHDroit saying "these people have no idea what they're talking about, and it's scary how much damage they're going to cause neurodivergent and disabled students. LLMs are more perfectly aligned with the social model of disability and than any other assistive tool" (yes, the extra word was also in the original, idk what they meant to add there but it probably wasn't going to save the post)
Ah, the "being anti-AI is ableist!" crowd has found this.
Just so we're clear! Telling disabled and neurodivergent students that they have to get their education from the Lie Machine bc we can't bother to invest in real assistance is what is *actually* ableist.
A very large pile of Parmesan cheese on a cutting board with a cheese rind and grater in the foreground
New normal distribution just dropped (my son cooking on Valentineโs Day)
it's not easy breeding deer for gigantism, but that's why I make the big bucks
nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up
Hey folks! Street Medics in Minneapolis have reached out to us asking for help boosting another wishlist!
Everything on this list is going straight to Columbia Heights.
(If you hate amazon, please visit www.standwithminnesota.com and find a different way to help! just help, that is what matters)
Photo of two tiny mushrooms growing from a green, algae covered stick. The mushrooms are tan/yellow in colour with dark ridging on the caps.
Lichenomphalia umbellifera on an algae-covered stick. This species of mushroom is a basidiolichen lichen. Fungal hyphae integrate with algal cells, using the food produced by the algae through photosynthesis.
Newfoundland. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends #mushroom #algae
Largest shroom ~ 4cm high.
There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.
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