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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 11h

I really want a new CRAN release to reflect these changes but it currently fails its R-CMD-Check on GitHub actions and I cannot work out how to fix it. To take advantage of all the new models, install it from GitHub. 😀

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 11h

@franwin.co.uk drove a massive rework of rTPC this year, making package maintenance much easier. rTPC now supports 49 different model formulations, vignettes are updated, & you can parallelise model fitting using new purrr & mirai, which is DOPE. #rstats 🧪

padpadpadpad.github.io/rTPC/article...

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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 3d

Three Bicentenary research fellowships on offer at @officialuom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social for exceptional ECRs with <3y postdoc experience

3yrs salary + £30k pa research expenses

Do you have a great idea & want to join @mermanchester.bsky.social?

www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/sup...

Bicentenary Early Career Research Fellowships | Biology, Medicine and Health | University of Manchester

Find out about and apply for a Bicentenary Early Career Research Fellowship.

www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk

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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · 9d

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.

Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 9d

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026.

Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years.

Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

Independent Research Fellowships Leading to Tenured Faculty Positions | John Innes Centre

The John Innes Centre (JIC), is a world leading centre of excellence in plant and microbial sciences based on the Norwich Research Park, UK. We are inviting applications from outstanding researchers…

www.jic.ac.uk

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 19d

Soph's phone is her whole life. Her only window to the outside world. And last week it stopped charging. Even though we solved it, the stress of potentially losing stuff made her worse.

#pwME #severeME #MECFS

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 26d

Eeeeee congratulations Rachel. Much deserved.

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 26d

It is very similar to previous projects but the UKRI DTP system in the UK is so competitive that I have not been lucky enough to get a student, but I know the idea is still good! With Anne Leonard, Angus Buckling, and @edfeil.bsky.social.

Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 26d

I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky

Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.

A teal flyer for a PhD opportunity to investigate how warming may change antimicrobial resistance. The project will use experiments on Klebsiella bacteria to answer questions about how temperature affects their response to antibiotics, plasmid transfer, and fitness costs. The research involves microbiology lab work, bioinformatics, and mathematical modeling. The flyer includes contact details for Dr. Daniel Padfield and the logos of the sponsoring institutions.

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Kaia Mattioli @kaiamattioli.bsky.social · 27d

what postdocs actually want:
- to not have their grants canceled
- reasonable chances at getting an academic position
- job security
- a thriving private sector so the entire research system can flourish <3

higher ed institutions in 2025:
- best i can do is an origami night

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Mridul K. Thomas @mridulkthomas.bsky.social · 27d

@raviranjan.bsky.social & I are teaching a free online workshop with on experimental design for environmental scientists on the 23rd.

We'll focus on using simulations to evaluate how well different experimental designs help achieve your goals.

Please sign up & share! forms.gle/MZTxeQs4UpMr...

Poster for 90 minute workshop on HOW TO DESIGN BETTER EXPERIMENTS, by Mridul Thomas & Ravi Ranjan.

Details: September 23rd 16:00 CEST ; 14:00 UTC

Description:

Experimental designs can make or break an experiment. A good experiment has a clear goal and efficiently uses experimental resources to achieve that goal. In this workshop, we will review what experiments are for, basic and advanced principles of designing experiments, and how to use simulations to evaluate designs before actually doing the
experiment. We’ll do a moderate amount of coding in R and so experience with this would be helpful but is not required. We intend to have small-group discussions to help participants develop their own experiments, and encourage participants to think of a specific question they would like to answer with an experiment.

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 27d

Does it at least change the codebase to have rude names? Although MasterBayes actually exists and pretty much wins that category.

Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 27d

Today in the AI hellscape we are building for ourselves, people are easily creating "official looking" websites of popular bioinformatics software that are not at all linked to the developers.

Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · Sep 9

minimap2.com is potentially a phishing site. Please don't use anything from that website.
github.com/lh3/minimap2...

Phishing site : minimap2.com · Issue #1316 · lh3/minimap2

Not sure how to label this one, but I have come across a website minimap2.com which appears to be AI generated but is serving it's own copy of the Github repository. If you search the address or em...

github.com

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · Sep 12

Are you going to have a declaration of what AI they used and for what or do you have directed questions about what parts were done with AI, why do they think it is appropriate. Essentially is the reflection just the declaration? Interested as think this could be a nice way of doing it.

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · Sep 9

Presumably lots of the code is these days.

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · Jan 5

Time for my annual repost of this banger by Australian artist Denis Lushch.

Ever-more relevant with each new horrible year.

Three men sit at a table.

At left, a destitute man sits with no plate.

At right, a working man sits with a plate containing one cookie, listening to the man in the center.

Sitting in the center is an old man in a business suit (looking suspiciously like right-wing media tycoon Rupert Murdoch) who is pointing at the destitute man, while speaking to the working man, saying:

"Careful Mate... that foreigner wants your cookie!"

Sitting in front of the man at center is his own plate, which contains MANY MANY COOKIES.

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · Sep 1

This is a great cartoon of the illogical narratives I hear refuting climate warming. As I have said many times, it's not "either/or" when it comes to natural variability and human contributions, it's "both/and." Grass grows naturally and it grows differently when you fertilize the lawn....

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · Sep 1

I hope this is a very niche Simpsons reference.

Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · Aug 31

If someone spoke to a teenager and mentioned suicide thousands of times and told them how to make a suitable noise, then yes action should be taken.

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · Aug 31

Do you think LLMs and other large broad models could/should be legislated to make them more regulated/predictable. The teenager committing suicide after speaking with chatgpt a lot is horrendous.

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Anne Hilborn @annewhilborn.bsky.social · Aug 30

Wildlife science is a big one for this too. Paying for work experience and working for free or for a small weekly stipend is distressingly common. Many entry level paid jobs are barely living wage

Thaddeodrome 📼🥵🤯😵 @thaddeus.zone · Aug 28

this "passion tax" appears all over the place & should be talked about more. you see it in book stores and game stores all the time

excitement for particular work is constantly weaponized to depress wages & pit workers against each other

screenshot of a paragraph from op's linked article

Claudy pointed to what he calls the “passion tax.” Game workers, he said, often get paid less than their tech industry counterparts because they’re passionate about what they do, and passion can be taken advantage of. Microsoft is a tech company, making discrepancies all the more arbitrary.

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · Aug 26

Severe ME just keeps taking things from us. This trip included the first lunch she has needed to have a meal replacement drink instead of soup. There are no words for her suffering. But here are a few anyway.

#pwME #severeME #MECFS

padpadpadpad.netlify.app/posts/caring....

Caring for someone with severe ME – DanPadLab

A running journal of the realities of caring for someone with severe ME.

padpadpadpad.netlify.app

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · Aug 25

Ah sorry! If we wanted to reduce inequality isn't taxing the richest exactly what we should be doing? Although increasing tax on the richest could be selecting for increased pre tax inequality.

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · Aug 25

This is super interesting. How have relative changes in earnings changes during the same period? Have the richer also got relatively more rich in terms of income, and we're taxing that more? Tried to find data quickly to no avail.

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Erik Postma @erikpostma.bsky.social · Aug 22

With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!

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