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Evolutionary biologist, programmer, crappy musician. Assistant professor at the University of São Paulo. Formerly a postdoc at Princeton EEB. damelo.net
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surely you are better ready than this! "Bullshit Job" isn't about bureaucrats managing extremely complex social machinery, for Christ's sake. i It's primarily about store greeters, in-house workplace magazine editors, and telemarketers. This association with DOGE is completely dishonest.

Did this guy read Bullshit jobs? He DEFINITELY did not argue that cancer research and environmental protection were examples

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

agora eu vou falar uma coisa aqui bem polêmica mas 100% convicta ~influencer de esquerda que voltou para o twitter eu até achava compreensível pela necessidade de divulgar os trampos. agora Esses caras ABANDONAREM COMPLETAMENTE o bsky pra voltar engajar rede social de nazista pra mim é inaceitável.

Pensando no SENHOR TCC comparar isso aqui com as manchetes da Lava Jato.

It's hard to express how cool this work is, so I'll just say that if you crave beautiful experiments and rigorously done theory to match, @fernpizza.bsky.social is your guy. Go read this amazing paper right now!

No sign of this kind should last 24 hours without being defaced. Make them regret every penny they spend putting these up.

I'm so happy that I can finally share the results of my first postdoc paper with @baym.lol!!! Turns out plasmids are an amazing system to study multi-scale evolution and we can track within-cell and between-cell dynamics! (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/earl...

E hoje saiu episódio novo do Foro de Teresina, com os meus amigos @anaclara-costa.bsky.social e Fernando de Barros e Silva discutindo a denúncia contra o Jair e os problemas do governo Lula. Digam aí o que acharam!

Sextou 🥳

This is basically right in my view. A 6% annual growth rate in published articles has been slow-brewing crisis in science. It's created an ocean of publications where too many dubious claims can find support in peer-reviewed research. This is unsustainable. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

I'm incredibly excited to announce that I'll be joining the Institute for Disease Modeling at the Gates Foundation in Seattle! I've long admired the Gates Foundation's impactful work in global health, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to be a part of the terrific IDM team.

Week 7 of my Bayes stats course, now deep in multilevel models, correlated effects, centered and non-centered parameterizations, diag(σ)LZ ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn (link to lectures: github.com/rmcelreath/s...)

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

lerias duas mil e seiscentas palavras sobre o pior livro do ano?

It's kind of a cliché, but it really is true that if you're usually the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room (or you're completely delusional, or both).

I am hiring a lab technician! If you know anyone who has experience with field studies, enjoys working with plants, and is a good communicator and hard worker, pls pass this along! The position is for one year with the possibility of renewal. Please re-skeet! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

This is incredible reporting that must shock the conscience of each and every one of us.

All social media apps need a feature that places all users in a two-dimensional space where the x axis is left-right politics and the y-axis is shitposter-earnestposter.

One of the coolest and most novel findings I’ve seen in years. This is why I work in worms. To find things no one even really knew to look for. Like a conserved system that splices transposons out of mRNAs to prevent otherwise lethal insertions in essential genes! - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Já que a pandemia não foi suficiente para educar a humanidade. Talvez o processo de pasteurização climática seja. Não beba água. Não use protetor solar. Faça exercícios ao meio-dia. Quebre o seu ar-condicionado. Hahahahahhaahhaahahah 🔥 o pré inferno precisa ser vivido no pelo

Lol this sign "Do not bring food into the library Food residue will attract mice Mice will acquire knowledge in the library Get into university Then replace you" 😂

WHAT

I'm happy to see my latest preprint out on stratigraphic intervals, a topic I've been interested in since my first year as PhD student. Available in the brand-new StratIntervals.jl (github.com/gaballench/S...) @julialang.org package. Preprint on @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Great to see new search tools appearing. No need to be constrained by native PubMed and Google Scholar. We _want_ people to create search tools for alternative ways to find bioRxiv/medRxiv papers 😊

Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵

Undergrads: apply to NYU's Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Biology! 10 weeks of research in a structured setting, featuring terrific mentors, exciting biology, housing in New York, and a stipend. as.nyu.edu/biology/outr...

What a fascinating insight into Musk's paranoid delusions. Freud would likely have a field day with Musk's castration anxiety...

The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt. Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires? We have our answer. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Biden: - let's end cancer Trump - let's _double_ cancer

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

There's a small contingent of people online who get angry when you say this but: Wikipedia is unquestionably the most successful utopian project of the internet age, and its destruction would be a crime against humanity

Galera, abri o Google Maps e apareceu isso aqui pra mim, aí procês tá a mesma coisa?

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private email server or Elon Musk giving full access to all government information to a nineteen-year old named Big Balls with ties to a child pornography collective known for its extortion techniques, both sides have played loose with security.

I got nothing for this. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

Four FEMA officials were fired for not following illegal orders to withhold spending. The White House is saying of judicial decisions: "These unlawful injunctions are a continuation of the weaponization of justice against President Trump." These are not warning signs. This is happening now.

not a new observation but Elon Musk genuinely isn't very bright, genuinely has no idea how most things work, and his entire supergenius engineer persona is a tech press-enabled mythology (they've never been held accountable for)

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-...

Wel, no surprise that Coyne used his blog (whyevolutionistrue) to argue with the SSE/SSB/ASN letter about definitions of sex. I'm not going to engage deeply with the letter here. Like any committee-drafted text it reflects compromises; I agree with some phrasing but some could have been clearer 1/N

Que tristeza, TUDO ERRADO.

Prefeito maldito. O mais importante pra acabar com trânsito é investir em transporte público. É a única solução pra uma cidade dessa, sem falar que é mais barato e com menos impacto ambiental. Essa cidade vai implodir

Penn State has halted submission and *acceptance* of NIH grants pending the resolution of the overhead rate cut. This lost time will never be recovered. The economic cost to Pennsylvania is enormous and the cost to humanity immeasurable.

1st reaction: Oh yeah, because all Irish people look like this, blah blah blah. Very funny. 2nd reaction: On closer inspection, he undeniably does look like both of them combined.