AKA NickleDave
@nicholdav.bsky.social
I'm interested in how animals communicate with sound and I try to make that easier for everyone to study: https://www.vocalpy.org/
Cat & dog dad, cold brew addict, video gamer, Florida boy, #altac, podcast fan, occasional espanglish. nicholdav.info
Cat & dog dad, cold brew addict, video gamer, Florida boy, #altac, podcast fan, occasional espanglish. nicholdav.info
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In Part 2 of “Sick in a Hospital Town,” we look at how a century-old community hospital in Albany, Georgia, became the only hospital in town — and grew into a sprawling health care system by waging a yearslong battle to eliminate its competition.
Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 2: The Making of a Monopoly
The story of how a century-old community hospital in Albany, Georgia, grew into a sprawling health care system by waging a yearslong battle to eliminate its competition.
projects.propublica.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
In Part 2 of “Sick in a Hospital Town,” we look at how a century-old community hospital in Albany, Georgia, became the only hospital in town — and grew into a sprawling health care system by waging a yearslong battle to eliminate its competition.
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This list is great. I went through it and was a little ashamed that I was unaware of aftermath.site #pcgaming
Marisa's list is definitely worth taking a look at and the @aftermath.site site is amazing.
Thanks Marisa.
Marisa's list is definitely worth taking a look at and the @aftermath.site site is amazing.
Thanks Marisa.
December 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This list is great. I went through it and was a little ashamed that I was unaware of aftermath.site #pcgaming
Marisa's list is definitely worth taking a look at and the @aftermath.site site is amazing.
Thanks Marisa.
Marisa's list is definitely worth taking a look at and the @aftermath.site site is amazing.
Thanks Marisa.
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now we're talking, hell yeah
most traditional Polish ones are about Jesus and all that, not Santa Claus; one 18th century carol is actually the basis for the Poland theme in Civilization V
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1yD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1yD...
Civilization V OST | Casimir Peace Theme | Bóg się rodzi
YouTube video by skummelhustler
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
now we're talking, hell yeah
December 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
December 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
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OMG, some of the fees are just ridiculous. Scientific Data, for example, is $2500 to publish an article describing your dataset. Data to be archived elsewhere.
I have definitely left some things as preprints for multiple reasons.
I have definitely left some things as preprints for multiple reasons.
December 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
OMG, some of the fees are just ridiculous. Scientific Data, for example, is $2500 to publish an article describing your dataset. Data to be archived elsewhere.
I have definitely left some things as preprints for multiple reasons.
I have definitely left some things as preprints for multiple reasons.
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I'm doing this for three reasons:
1. Most Americans don't know a living scientist, and essentially 0% Americans have seen the process of applying for funding from the systems that Trump, RFK Jr., etc. are destroying. Come take a peek behind the curtain with me: a guy who isn't very good at this.
1. Most Americans don't know a living scientist, and essentially 0% Americans have seen the process of applying for funding from the systems that Trump, RFK Jr., etc. are destroying. Come take a peek behind the curtain with me: a guy who isn't very good at this.
December 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I'm doing this for three reasons:
1. Most Americans don't know a living scientist, and essentially 0% Americans have seen the process of applying for funding from the systems that Trump, RFK Jr., etc. are destroying. Come take a peek behind the curtain with me: a guy who isn't very good at this.
1. Most Americans don't know a living scientist, and essentially 0% Americans have seen the process of applying for funding from the systems that Trump, RFK Jr., etc. are destroying. Come take a peek behind the curtain with me: a guy who isn't very good at this.
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So, it's Monday, and there's no way to say this that doesn't sound stupid, so I'm just going to come out and say it: I've decided to Twitch stream the entire writing of an NIH R01 proposal, and you can follow along at twitch.tv/ColinDoesScience
ColinDoesScience - Twitch
I'm only doing this because they messed up science real bad forever
twitch.tv
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
So, it's Monday, and there's no way to say this that doesn't sound stupid, so I'm just going to come out and say it: I've decided to Twitch stream the entire writing of an NIH R01 proposal, and you can follow along at twitch.tv/ColinDoesScience
IMHO Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band should reform with the sole purpose of covering this song
3rd kind: "Historic" European carols "Santa Claus lets naughty children freeze outside la la la - and wives, too, if they don't bake lots of delicious cakes, ho ho ho!" (Austro-Hungarian, c. 1822) ;)
December 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
IMHO Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band should reform with the sole purpose of covering this song
December 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Listen Europeans, I know you're there , roughly 10 hours in the future, in your relatively stable countries with more than two and change centuries of history, relaxing at the end of your day with an espresso and a vape pen and a vermouth.
Prove me wrong:
Prove me wrong:
The 2 types of European Christmas Carols:
1. Literal translation of an American carol, "Hev Und Holy Joly Krestfisk", recorded by the Icelandic Ersatz Burl Ives & His Bells Orchestra in 1952
2. Cover of Jingle Bells by the Fanta Girls at Eurovision, blasting out of a Monoprix at 830 am on Sunday
1. Literal translation of an American carol, "Hev Und Holy Joly Krestfisk", recorded by the Icelandic Ersatz Burl Ives & His Bells Orchestra in 1952
2. Cover of Jingle Bells by the Fanta Girls at Eurovision, blasting out of a Monoprix at 830 am on Sunday
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Listen Europeans, I know you're there , roughly 10 hours in the future, in your relatively stable countries with more than two and change centuries of history, relaxing at the end of your day with an espresso and a vape pen and a vermouth.
Prove me wrong:
Prove me wrong:
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1/4 Cockatoos are winning the trash can war against Australians
Human motivation to protect them falls five times faster than cockatoos' motivation to open them, and increasing protections makes cockatoos better at it.
(paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
Human motivation to protect them falls five times faster than cockatoos' motivation to open them, and increasing protections makes cockatoos better at it.
(paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
December 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
1/4 Cockatoos are winning the trash can war against Australians
Human motivation to protect them falls five times faster than cockatoos' motivation to open them, and increasing protections makes cockatoos better at it.
(paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
Human motivation to protect them falls five times faster than cockatoos' motivation to open them, and increasing protections makes cockatoos better at it.
(paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
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New BW feature: While federal unions play defense elsewhere, a unionization wave is building in the National Park Service, driven by slash-and-burn Trump Admin. cuts, decades of prior bipartisan neglect, and worker-to-worker organizing www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... w/ @mslaurabliss.bsky.social
How Trump Pushed US Park Rangers to the Breaking Point—and a Union Drive
Galvanized by cuts to the federal workforce, park workers are organizing to protect their jobs and some of America’s most iconic places.
www.bloomberg.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
New BW feature: While federal unions play defense elsewhere, a unionization wave is building in the National Park Service, driven by slash-and-burn Trump Admin. cuts, decades of prior bipartisan neglect, and worker-to-worker organizing www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... w/ @mslaurabliss.bsky.social
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So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
as the world terns
Day 7 of #artadventcalendar
I can relate to terns. They will fly thousands of miles to enjoy summer. I do the same.
Painting of a common tern flying.
Mixed media on canvas
#painting #superseabirdsunday #seabird
I can relate to terns. They will fly thousands of miles to enjoy summer. I do the same.
Painting of a common tern flying.
Mixed media on canvas
#painting #superseabirdsunday #seabird
December 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
as the world terns
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I am incredibly honored to have been invited as one of the keynote speakers for the XIV PBCS! This long-standing initiative is very supportive of graduate students & early-career researchers, so I encourage everyone to submit their abstracts! See you in Madrid next year! #HPS #HPbio #cogsci #philsky
December 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I am incredibly honored to have been invited as one of the keynote speakers for the XIV PBCS! This long-standing initiative is very supportive of graduate students & early-career researchers, so I encourage everyone to submit their abstracts! See you in Madrid next year! #HPS #HPbio #cogsci #philsky
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Delighted to receive my own copy! Here is the press site where eventually the volume will be available as open access mitpress.mit.edu/978026255224... well done again @adrian-currie.bsky.social @phieveigl.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Delighted to receive my own copy! Here is the press site where eventually the volume will be available as open access mitpress.mit.edu/978026255224... well done again @adrian-currie.bsky.social @phieveigl.bsky.social
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Looking forward to this talk today. We're in a real "Somehow, eugenics returned" moment right now and scientists need to be ON IT!
Next week, we welcome @rebeccasear.bsky.social in our Lecture Series. Rebecca will talk about 21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the role of academia in promoting political ideology. Just register here to participate 👉 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#PhilSci #HPBio
#PhilSci #HPBio
December 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Looking forward to this talk today. We're in a real "Somehow, eugenics returned" moment right now and scientists need to be ON IT!
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
The 2 types of European Christmas Carols:
1. Literal translation of an American carol, "Hev Und Holy Joly Krestfisk", recorded by the Icelandic Ersatz Burl Ives & His Bells Orchestra in 1952
2. Cover of Jingle Bells by the Fanta Girls at Eurovision, blasting out of a Monoprix at 830 am on Sunday
1. Literal translation of an American carol, "Hev Und Holy Joly Krestfisk", recorded by the Icelandic Ersatz Burl Ives & His Bells Orchestra in 1952
2. Cover of Jingle Bells by the Fanta Girls at Eurovision, blasting out of a Monoprix at 830 am on Sunday
December 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The 2 types of European Christmas Carols:
1. Literal translation of an American carol, "Hev Und Holy Joly Krestfisk", recorded by the Icelandic Ersatz Burl Ives & His Bells Orchestra in 1952
2. Cover of Jingle Bells by the Fanta Girls at Eurovision, blasting out of a Monoprix at 830 am on Sunday
1. Literal translation of an American carol, "Hev Und Holy Joly Krestfisk", recorded by the Icelandic Ersatz Burl Ives & His Bells Orchestra in 1952
2. Cover of Jingle Bells by the Fanta Girls at Eurovision, blasting out of a Monoprix at 830 am on Sunday
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Just received Georg Striedter and @evoneuro.bsky.social’s new book. It’s a tour de force that covers a huge swath of avian ethology and neuroscience with wonderful figures and illustrations.
December 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Just received Georg Striedter and @evoneuro.bsky.social’s new book. It’s a tour de force that covers a huge swath of avian ethology and neuroscience with wonderful figures and illustrations.
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ok well my drawing tablet is packed away but here
December 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
ok well my drawing tablet is packed away but here
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Photographer Martin Parr just passed. If you don't know his work, the Guardian has a really nice introduction here.
h/t @wvschaik.bsky.social
h/t @wvschaik.bsky.social
Martin Parr: the photographer’s career in pictures
A look back at the career of Martin Parr who has died at the age of 73
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Photographer Martin Parr just passed. If you don't know his work, the Guardian has a really nice introduction here.
h/t @wvschaik.bsky.social
h/t @wvschaik.bsky.social