Tony Yannarell

Gov. Greg Abbott orders Texas agencies to cut DEI policies. Here's why. With an executive order Friday, Gov. Greg Abbott again took aim at diversity, equity and inclusion programs, mirroring Trump's new federal policies.

This new executive order goes far beyond DEI. We have serious concerns about how this executive order may affect the ability of students to learn the history and implications of race in Texas, the US, and the world.

#AcademicFreedom #FreedomToLearn

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Hey science friends?

I know that many of you are concerned about the perceived neutral and apolitical role of science in decisionmaking.

But scientists are being targeted. We didn't start it.

And advocating *for the role of scientific evidence in policymaking* is not unprofessional advocacy.

R package development - YouTube Join Pat as he creates a new R package

Every bit of this package was developed as part of my Riffomonas YouTube channel. You can watch its development through this playlist www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Soil Ecology We are seeking to recruit a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the [Predictive Community Ecology Group](https://www.jyu.fi/en/research-groups/predictive-community-ecology-group) at the Department of Biol...

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Microbial Ecology of Permafrost Soils: Populations, Processes, and Perspectives Permafrost microbial research has flourished in the past decades, due in part to improvements in sampling and molecular techniques, but also the increased focus on the permafrost greenhouse gas feedb...

Check out our new perspectives paper exploring microbial ecology in permafrost, led by Mark Waldrop (not yet on this platform) and a host of other amazing researchers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

What's your favorite plot that you've seen recently?
What's the most 🔥💩 plot that you've seen recently?

I'm getting headaches looking through 42 part figures that are full of over bolded prism plots, 58 by 287 heat maps with attached dendrograms, or balls of yarn attempting to show interactions

Apply to host the GSBI — Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative

The GSBI is looking for a new home 🏠 by April 2026. We encourage individuals, institutions, and organizations to submit a bid to host the GSBI by March 1st 2025!

See the full call 👇

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The Leipzig discussion session for my course is beginning this week. If you aren't lucky enough to live in Leipzig, you can still access all the lectures free of charge, work at your own pace. github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Uh, mine was “toxic.”

The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...

Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Quietly renames “interesting papers to read in 2024” folder to “interesting papers to read in 2025” folder

What does it take to craft a high-quality Review that serves as an essential resource for those interested in your field? As Review articles are our bread and butter, we would like to offer some insights on how to craft an authoritative assessment of a field: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The value of long-term ecological research for evolutionary insights - Nature Ecology & Evolution This Perspective discusses using long-term ecological research networks to advance our understanding of fundamental evolutionary processes and evolutionary responses to global change.

Long-term ecological #research projects apart from being highly demanding, it deserves extra respect from the scientific community; funding agencies should consider the benefits of such projects

#ecology #science #nature #evolution @ipbes.bsky.social @esci.bsky.social

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Save Science, Save Lives Please join science supporters, scientists, and experts in signing an open letter asking Congress to stand up against attempts to politicize or eliminate scientific roles, agencies, and federal resear...

Please sign on to the letter from the Union of Concerned Scientists asking Congress to stand up for Federal science and scientists secure.ucsusa.org/a/2024-save-...

genuinely the real existential threat of AI is less skynet or an ubermind smarter than people, but just a growing part of population with major gaps in their fundamentals of understanding how to do things correctly catching up to us, which isolated wouldn't be a big issue but system-wide will add up

Yes. Yes. Do it

Me, a journal editor, this morning: "Why are people submitting papers now? There's no way we're going to find reviewers between now and the new year."

Me, a paper author, this morning: "Thank god I got that paper off my desk and into review before the holidays!"

At this point, I think the dance that best explains my research would be a person standing absolutely still in the middle of a giant mosh pit

At some point the world will remember that there should be more to human life than mere survival. I hope I survive long enough to see it.

Microbial ecology brain trust: can anyone suggest a good paper where a mock community control was used in a bulk sequencing study, and the number of spurious reads in the output were documented? Any sequencing platform will do - I suspect a lot of this may be happening in the initial PCR stage