🔥LIVE from the TDWG-SPNHC conference! 🇯🇵 Our publisher Pensoft's efforts in spreading the word about our brand new #journal just got us two new Editorial Board members!🤩 👋Warm welcome to Deborah Paul (University of Illinois & past TDWG Chair) and Alina Freire-Fierro (Universidad Técnica de Cotopaxi)! #TDWG2024

Are you a philosopher, historian or 'STS' scholar that is interested in exploring jobs in 'policy'? Here's my guide for on ways to explore working in federal government. I frame it for HPS types, but advice is general to all Please share/comment! philscipolicy.com/exploring-scie…

I love this nature article by Sam Jones, PhD on careful considerations to human microbiome research, especially on consent, benefit sharing, commercialization, avoiding stigma, questioning data ethics norms, and calling question to health and digital equity for Indigenous peoples.

🚨The AMNH is hiring at the post-baccalaureate level to assist with activities in support of an NSF collaborative research project (w/ us at Paleobiology Research Group at OU) investigating biogeography, turnover, and evolutionary dynamics of the Late Ordovician mass extinction careers.amnh.org/postings/4242

New pre-print on the presence of negative scaling between diversification rates and the duration of clades! Various explanations, such as incongruence between micro- and macroevolution, have been put forward based on molecular phylogenies, but the fossil record has been ignored

Introducing The Boring Fund. Alongside Arm, we’re supporting the essential but overlooked aspects of conservation technology—the “boring” initiatives that build a more resilient and effective #conservationtech ecosystem. Learn more and apply today: wildlabs.net/article/boring…

There is a major lack of microbial/music parody stickers. Thankfully I'm here to change that! pinkpetri.etsy.com

Calling all science/tech folks: Do you have thoughts about xkcd? Parker Bach & I are trying to understand the role that xkcd plays in the scientific/technical community. Will you share your thoughts? forms.office.com/pages/response… And since we are doing a snowball sample, please spread

🐰 Announcing new project on Zooniverse: Notes from Nature - Ranges: Mammal Traits from western North America! zooniverse.org/projects/md681…

turns out using copilot for coding, neither increases productivity nor reduces burnout but increases (by 41%) bug rate according to a study that assessed 800 developers

Tried to recreate this with a square headshot of my own and some open-source outpainting models and.... yep, they all definitely give me more cleavage than my original blouse (last picture)🫠 (They also erase my butterflies! What kind of bias is that?)

What happens when we break down DSM diagnoses into their individual symptoms and rebuild our classification system from the ground up? Do we see familiar DSM constructs, HiTOP dimensions, or something else entirely? New paper out today! ✨ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21… 1/🧵

This looks super cool. 2 postdocs on 1. philosophy of scientific method and philosophy of causality. 2. evidence review and research methods. Applications due Nov 4 jonwilliamson.uk/projects/isr

This story started 5y ago with my lab. Spearheaded by fearless 1st authors theopi and Olivia Leland. Theopi is now a PhD student at Brown University. Olivia is a physics PhD student at Brandeis University, a self-taught biologist, and made us love soft matter. A (very long) thread (1/24)

NativeBio & its many many friends and academicians are making the changes needed in this burgeoning and potentially harmful Big Data, Omics and Open Access landscape. The Common Rule needs a big overhaul and it needs to be applied to Private Corporations! science.org/content/articl…

New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

Why doesn’t evolution follow a path of constant adaptation? Over the past 50 years, punctuated equilibrium has expanded leading to a unified framework for punctuated evolution across scales—from genes to ecosystems & our planet. Our new collaboration at doi.org/10.1111/pala.1…

Exciting to see the list of former PurposeProject team members speaking at this year’s PSA conference, including Anya Plutynski, Armin Schulz Beckett Sterner Celso Neto, Charbel El-Hani, @DerekSkillings Ingo Brigandt, Justin Garson New Extinct Blog Pierrick Bourrat and Thomas

“It’s self-evident that generative AI competes with the work it’s trained on, and the people behind that work. But there is now a growing body of evidence to support this.” About that fair use argument…🤔