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being obsessed with IQ is a good sign that you have nothing in your life to give you actual meaning. (also a good sign you have bell curve-esque beliefs about human equality)

submitted 4 hours ago • 238 comments

One danger of embracing generative AI as a learning device and in language assistance is that you're letting the keepers of that AI have power over what you learn and how you write. It will be programmed with biases, unintentional but often quite intentional, that you will unknowingly adopt.

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

Want great summer plans? Look no further! The PSInet workshop is coming to Indiana University, to re-introduce the ecophys community to PSInet, a new open-access network database of plant water potential measurements. psinetrcn.github.io/posts/2025-0...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

It's not advanced. It's a glorified search engine at the absolute best. Y'all are delusional if you think otherwise and honestly, deeply anti-humanist.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

ok but like, how are we getting any work done. i'm trying to tippy tap away at my silly little keyboard but every fifteen minutes or so the new stupidest thing anyone's ever done happens.

submitted 8 days ago • 94 comments

Definitely an unoccupied space in the baking blogosphere for recipes that incorporate higher fiber and protein without wildly changing recipes to incorporate ridiculously expensive alternative ingredients.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 7 days ago • 382 comments

if I were writing stories about the gov "firing thousands of probationary workers" I would probably rewrite as "firing thousands of new hires -- who are often on a status called "probation" --" because I think the general understanding of "probation" is "in trouble for something they did"

submitted 9 days ago • 87 comments

Pretty much every single person among the 100,000s the Trump administration is summarily firing is someone who works hard at a job where they earn much less than they could in the private sector, precisely because they believe in public service.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

As a reminder, Charlottesville City Code requires that property owners remove snow from sidewalks within 24 hours of the end of snowfall. The City Manager has declared 6:00 AM on Wednesday, February 12, 2025 to be the official end of snowfall. Read more here >> bit.ly/3CKCjIw

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Is your NSF grant on this list? Reach out if so! Ted Cruz released a list of grants flagged for DEI or "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" from his Oct. report. NSF is using keywords from that report for their review, though Cruz's list is likely larger. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

submitted 11 days ago • 43 comments

Kids are passing the snow day with a coordinated speed run competition of Fallout: New Vegas

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Is it weird there were two unrelated flying moustache ads? That's weird right?

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Ecologists given the same dataset diverge in their statistical approach and come up with different answers. New paper by Gould et al. 🌏 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

the hostility toward civil servants says so much about these people. they cannot imagine people who would devote their lives, earn modest salaries, work without much acclaim, all to help develop, support, & promote american public policy. you know, ppl who believe in the public good.

submitted 16 days ago • 18 comments

apparently it is international "announce your festival lineup" day... stoked to announce our @brutalassault debut and our triumphant (well, hopefully) return to @post_festival this summer. we are gonna #postemostonerdeathgaze the fuck outta y'all and STILL MORE TO COME

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Job alert: Assistant Professor in Waterfowl Ecology and Management at Clemson University's Baruch Institute in Georgetown, SC. 9-mo 100% research position. Due Feb 16. Focal expertise in movement ecology, habitat, disease, genetics, or demography apply.interfolio.com/160483

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The Problematic Paper Screener filters 130 million new and old scholarly papers every week, looking for nine types of clues that a paper might be fake or contain errors https://buff.ly/4aB4FkM (@joelving.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com; @gcabanac.cpesr.fr, IRIT; Cyril Labbé, UGA) #AI

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Check out our new blog post to find out more about the article 'Ten practical guidelines for microclimate research in terrestrial ecosystems' by @pieterdefrenne.bsky.social and team! 🌎 🧪 Read the blog here 👉 https://buff.ly/4h32ybX

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

1/I have this letter. It’s not a buyout. www.axios.com/2025/01/28/t...

submitted 25 days ago • 21 comments

Interesting new paper on inference with observational data in ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

And so it was.

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

Misinformation about the presidential memo on Lumbee recognition is frustrating but not unexpected given the complexity of the issue. Here is a short FAQ followed by suggested readings to help clear the air.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

People not understanding the importance of the Humanities is precisely why we need the Humanities.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Hi! Quick note: The Onion accidentally posted a stock photo from a vendor with an AI generated image in it. We pulled the post down once we found that out. Our commitment to not using AI is very real. It's in the union contract to disclose it if we ever do. World is a slop minefield and we're sorry.

submitted 30 days ago • 732 comments

Spatial resolution for forest carbon maps www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

President Trump has signed an executive action ordering federal agencies to bring their workers back to the office full time. Roughly 1.1 million federal employees are telework-eligible.

submitted 33 days ago • 195 comments

A critical read for anyone who has used or is thinking of using #TRY plant trait data -- "Currently, ecological analyses using TRY data appear, at best, not as powerful as they can be and, at worst, wrong." -- We likely need to start anew and rebuild how we share, access, and cite #PlantTrait data

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

The Palisades Fire and Helene do make me wonder if there ever is an adequate level of preparedness we can reach.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

I feel seen!

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

As a reminder, Charlottesville requires property owners to remove snow from sidewalks within 24 hours of the end of snowfall. The City Manager has declared 6:30 AM on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 to be the official end of snowfall. Read more here >> bit.ly/41YZIjF

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Praise be for the one month in Virginia where I can wear sweaters and not die from overheating. I should definitely live somewhere much farther north. It was 13F this morning and I LOVED it.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Vegas police named the Cybertruck incident the 1st case of a bombmaker using AI, but a stack of US intel reports obtained by WIRED show domestic extremists have been sharing bootleg AI to aid lone wolf attackers build bombs & stage attacks on the US electric grid. www.wired.com/story/las-ve...

submitted 45 days ago • 20 comments

Happy New Year! For new Forest Ecologists here: A while ago I put together a Forest Ecology Starter Pack👇 to help build a network of forest 🌲🌳🌴 ecology researchers. The list is now full but you can use it to “seed” your own network: follow folks, get followed, re-post, enjoy! 🌎🧪🌐 go.bsky.app/8ZNK9jy

submitted 52 days ago • 4 comments