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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 23h

#ScienceSky, tell your colleagues to leave X, delete those x buttons on your lab page and replace with a butterfly. I declare #Bluesky the official social network for science and by scientists (you and your network of colleagues operate as your own algorithm determining what you see here). 🩺 🧪

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍

“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant

My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

www.southernfriedscience.com

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 23h

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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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

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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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 22h

Diving into the deep: fungal diversity in the newly discovered hydrothermal vents of Hatiba Mons, Red Sea

www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

Frontiers | Diving into the deep: fungal diversity in the newly discovered hydrothermal vents of Hatiba Mons, Red Sea

IntroductionHydrothermal vents are among Earth’s most extreme ecosystems, characterized by high temperatures, elevated metal concentrations, and steep chemic...

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 22h

First oarfish sighting in Sri Lanka highlights citizen science in marine protection

news.mongabay.com/2025/10/firs...

First oarfish sighting in Sri Lanka highlights citizen science in marine protection

COLOMBO — In the shadowy depths of the ocean lives a ribbon-like giant crowned with a fiery red crest — long mistaken for a sea monster. Rarely glimpsed alive, the oarfish holds the record as the worl...

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 1d

Ctenophore at 2845m
@nautiluslive.org dive L1008 #CookIslands #MarineLife

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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 22d

IOB - out now!
Twist and Snout: Head and Body #Morphologies Determine Feeding #Kinematics in Substrate-Biting #Fishes

Tal Perevolotsky, Jacob M Brotman-Krass, Yarden Ratner, Yael Avigad, @fishguy.bsky.social , @cmdonatelli.bsky.social , Roi Holzman

doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

#morphology #science

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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 4d

This was a great read. I feel similarly.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 5d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

scienceforeveryone.science

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The Coral Reef Research Hub @coralreefresearch.bsky.social · 5d

JOB OPPORTUNITIES with the Pacific Community - Multiple Positions!!

Check out full details here: careers.spc.int

#coralreefs #pacific #pacificcommunity #coral #fisheries #biologist #fisheriesbiologist #jobs #livelihoods #careers #marinebiology

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 4d

This kinda looks like one of those black ctenophores, just pale. 4413m @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social check that one out! From @nautiluslive.org #CookIslands #MarineLife

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

www.science.org

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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 4d

three cheers for slow science, each Nobel representing decades of inquiry that paved the way for the technology, treatments, & toys of tomorrow:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

www.nytimes.com

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 4d

This one looks more like benthodytes than Enypniastes to me. 4290m(sh) @nautiluslive.org #CookIslands #MarineLife

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Alex Nelson @alxnelson.bsky.social · 9d

Roseate spoonbills will splash their wings through the water as part of their beauty routine. Here's one doing so mid-splash, facing straight ahead towards the camera. I really love this shot. #birds

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 4d

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

www.nature.com

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 3d

Here, we use the jerboa and mouse to understand the temporal growth dynamics that establish adult vertebral proportion, the cellular drivers of differential growth, and candidate genetic mechanisms that determine and diversify vertebral proportion.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cellular and genetic mechanisms that shape the development and evolution of tail vertebral proportion in mice and jerboas - Nature Communications

Vertebra lengths differ from the neck to the tail tip and differ between species, evidenced by extreme differences in mouse and jerboa tails. Here, Weber and colleagues identify cellular mechanisms and candidate genes that shape vertebral proportion.

www.nature.com

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ljconrad @ljconrad.bsky.social · 3d

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment h/t @mollyjongfast.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u... #timetotapthoseendowments

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 4d

We will be writing more of these. If you’re a scientist and your science has been disrupted, we want to hear from you: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.

www.nytimes.com

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 3d

OTD in 1881, Charles Darwin published his last book, on earthworms.

It reflected a long interest in animal minds: “One alternative alone is left, namely, that worms, although standing low in the scale of organization, possess some degree of intelligence.”

🧪 🌱🐋🦋🦫 #HistSTM #philsci #pschsky #cogsci

Caricature by Edward Linley Sambourne from Punch in 1882 titled “Man is but a Worm,” depicting human evolution, commencing with Chaos, through worm, monkey, culminating in Darwin himself.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 3d

Opposing a power mad despot is literally the most American thing an American can do. These guys got a lot wrong but they nailed that one. It is fundamental to the core of this country.

Signing of the Declaration of Independence

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 3d

Public universities serving the public!

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 11d

Dr. Matt Girard, a Research Biologist in the NMNH's Department of Vertebrate Zoology, introduces us to the little-known world of marine-fish larvae, which can be as different in appearance from the adults they will become as caterpillars and butterflies. 🐟

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGSn...

Big Discoveries from Little Fishes: Dr. Matthew Girard, Research Biologist

YouTube video by Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History

www.youtube.com

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Sam Bogan @snbogan.bsky.social · 3d

Duplication–translocation played an unexpectedly large role in the associations we found between gene copy number, temperature, and depth. Variation in copy number at tandem arrays formed by inter- and intrachromosomal translocations drove environmental gradients in AFP copy number.

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Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · 4d

🚨🔊 Fully funded PhD!! 🚨🔊

Are you interested in wildlife gut microbiomes? Love birds, fieldwork and bioinformatics? Want to join a collaborative and supportive team? Looking for training to become an independent scientist?

Please apply!

Informal enquiries welcome!

www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 3d

Field demo from rapidly changing northern ecosystems. This shows a violent stream of methane bubbles venting through thawing permafrost soils to the sky. Video credit to Tom Douglas and Torre Jorgenson. Curious bog dog is a Friday bonus.

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