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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 10h

Layoff notices at JPL are going out today.

About 11% of the Lab, or 550 people, are being let go.

I'm thinking of my friends and colleagues there, some of whom will still be employed after today and some of whom won't.

I'm sorry you're having to deal with this.

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 1d

Just noticing there was a new book by Lawrence Krauss out this year (yes that one).

My response can be summed up by these Florence & The Machine lyrics:

You said that rock and roll is dead
But is that just because it has not been resurrected in your image?

sciencebasedmedicine.org/warscience/

The Book “The War on Science” Reveals How 39 Renowned Scientists and Scholars Enabled the War on Science

While many "progressives" tried to warn about Trump's threat to science, these renown scientists and scholars sat on the sidelines and undermined them.

sciencebasedmedicine.org

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 14h

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 1d

If you are applying for a faculty job in Texas, argue for a higher salary than you'd get at other institutions. The lack of real tenure protections is a de facto compensation cut and you should negotiate accordingly.

Texas search committees know that getting good candidates is an uphill battle.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

If you make "controversial statements" outside of classroom, that the President of the university dislikes, you can be summarily fired even if you are tenured.

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 1d

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 1d

Cal Poly is hiring! We are looking for multiple tenure-track colleagues, including animal physiology, cell biology, and microbiology! Please spread the word. Links in thread. bio.calpoly.edu

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 1d

It’s worth noting that both California and Massachusetts have asked to join the IUCN. It’s heartening to see global-scale conservation leadership at the state level. iucn.org/story/202510...

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 1d

New blog post!

Let's say you have two measures meant to capture the same confounder. They're highly correlated. Can you still proceed with your regression analysis?

(I admit, the title is a bit of a spoiler)

www.the100.ci/2025/10/13/i...

If you have two measures of the same confounder, you can just include both of them in your regression model

Sometimes, researchers worry about multicollinearity in situations where it’s actually a non-issue. Here’s one such scenario. Imagine a situation where you are interested in the effect of X on Y (X...

www.the100.ci

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Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown.com · 2d

Ever since I made a video about Fourier Transforms, one of the most requested topics on the channel has been its close cousin, the Laplace Transform.

I've been having a lot of fun animating a mini-series about this topic, and the main part is now out.

youtu.be/j0wJBEZdwLs

But what is a Laplace Transform?

YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown

youtu.be

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 2d

January 2025 was warmest on record as climate change ‘overwhelms’ La Niña’s cooling

January 2025 was the warmest January on record, surpassing the previous record set by January 2024, according to satellite data from the EU’s Copernicus program. The findings were unexpected as…

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tiddlydump.bsky.social @tiddlydump.bsky.social · 2d

4 word horror story for an R user:

"has a Java dependency"

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 6d

⚡Shocking truth⚡ about fish lice:
I've written a post about Dolops discoidalis, a species of fish louse which also happens to be the first ectoparasite to be documented from the electric eel 🧪
#Invertebrate
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/10/dolo...

<i>Dolops discoidalis</i>

The electric eel , also known as poraquê , is a formidable animal. Not only is it capable of stunning its prey with an electrifying shock, ...

dailyparasite.blogspot.com

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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 3d

I want to see a reboot of Battlestar Galactica except the Cylons are all LLMs.

I.e, they can generate realistic-sounding speeches on the future of the human race at the drop of a hat but struggle with basic math 😅

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 3d

The specifics of the RIFs I’ve seen in group chats have been staggering. Bracing & reminding myself these are specifically intended to cause fear & distress.

Please share URLs for any good trackers you seen as they emerge. (I want more than OMB’s version) fedscoop.com/trump-federa...

Table of how many federal employees have been laid off in the latest RIF (Reduction in Force). This is from an OMB legal filing from Oct 10. For each agency, it lists number of fired employees, RIF notice date, and whether the administrations has recalled any of those employees to do work. Total headcount is 4,100 across 8 agencies. Treasury (1446) and HHS (1200) are the most affected. EPA (30) had the fewest layoffs this time.

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 3d

Donald Trump's tariffs are harming American fisherman -- not fisheries management and protected areas

youtu.be/asqwD16y2Z0?...

China stops buying spiny lobsters due to trade tariffs, hurting San Diego fishermen

YouTube video by CBS 8 San Diego

youtu.be

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3d

Russ Vought wasn't lying when he said he wanted to inflict "trauma" on our public servants.

This is what he is doing...with RFK Jr.'s permission at HHS. Last night, they destroyed our nation's ability to track and report emerging diseases/potential pandemics, among other things.

This cannot stand.

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 6d

FIGHT FOR SCIENCE RALLY ✊🌏
⏰ WHEN: October 17th, 2025
📍WHERE: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC!
RSVP to JOIN THE FIGHT IRL: zurl.co/LayiM ‼️

📲 Join us Virtually!: zurl.co/Um47l

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Moriaki Yasuhara @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social · 3d

Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core

Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project

www.cambridge.org

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Healthy Regions + Policies Lab @healthyregions.bsky.social · 4d

🗺️ Upcoming Workshop: “Intro to Spatial Data in R”

🗓️ Thursday, October 23, 2025
🕤 9:30–11:30 AM CDT
💻 Virtual; Register here: go.illinois.edu/GCCP-OCT23

This workshop is presented as part of the JCOIN Geospatial Consortium & Community of Practice (GCCP).
👉 gccp.healthyregions.org

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 4d

Best bagels in California are Grateful Bagel in Sebastopol. That area of Sonoma county oddly has the highest number of Jews per capita in the entire state. Although you’d never know it. Only good bagel I’ve had in the west coast save one place in LA. And believe me, I searched.

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 4d

#Kelp, illuminated. #Egregia #PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🦑🌊

Golden blades and bladelets of the feather-boa kelp with the sun shining through them.

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 5d

₍₍⁽⁽🦐₎₎⁾⁾

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 6d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 7d

BUT WAIT THERE's MORE!

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