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This is a cool chart. Much more useful than TTT. One thing I would be interested in seeing is dot size (or dot color using a colorbar) as total EPA or EPA/db on qualifying plays. It would be a way to account for positive production in addition to sacks taken.

Need to dig into nflfastR more! I was thinking about the AWS NGS one. The E in CPOE is a black box in what is already a noisy metric (because of the binary nature of the counting stat). And most analyses don't subdivide CPOE by target depth, so it's super hard to draw conclusions from the bulk stat.

Fair, but I come from a world (science) where this kind of data can be audited and that's how we validate the methodology. PFF (and other methods like CPOE) have asked us all to accept their methods without letting us look at their data. They provoke this discourse with their lack of transparency

Also, we don't know much about PFF graders but we do know people generally are susceptible to narratives. By midyear we know which offenses are good and bad (which is all EPA/db is), so slight grader bias could bend PFF grades enough for a 0.21-0.24 correlation to emerge

0.23 rsq could mean the top 2-3 performers and bottom 2-3 performers are consistent across datasets. The middle 80% (the slice we actually care about, since these players are harder to accurately assess with conventional metrics or the eye test) could still be an uncorrelated jumble.

Question: wouldn't it make more sense to only count under-center handoffs (Since those are the where run/PA duplicity is supposed to yield results)

Also curious about rushing and PA success rates for each team.

hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking

Trump's tarrifs won Carney an election. You're welcome Canada, I guess?

Metazooa Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

Personal achievement: new Metazooa record. Never gotten it this fast (ignore streak and average, browser doesn't have my history saved)

🦣 Animal #632 🐏
I figured it out in 3 guesses!
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Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...

NEW: In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies.

By @alecmac.bsky.social

The reveal! #2 is Glaucus atlanticus, sometimes called the blue dragon.

Sidenote: I don't love all the AI Ghibli going around these days. The timing here is a little unfortunate because I actually made this last year, so it looks like I'm stealing a trend. It really is just a testament to Miyazaki.

CREATURE #2

When preying on bluebottles, this creature consumes its stinging cells. From its stomach, specialized cnidophages transport these nematocysts the tips of its "fingers". These nematocysts can be expelled under threat, levying the stinging powers of its prey against potential predators.

WOW WEEK 2 LASTED 2 MONTHS. So sorry, life has been crazy

Because this creature is not highly motile, it cannot seek out its prey. To overcome this challenge, it crawls onto its prey when found and attaches its embryos to the prey, ensuring localization for its offspring when they mature.

CREATURE OF THE WEEK #2

This creature targets Portuguese man-o-wars (blue bottles) as its primary prey. In fact, scientists have found it in the stomach of loggerhead sea turtles, leading them to conclude that individuals were incidentally caught by the turtles as they were feeding on blue bottles

Together, Trump and Musk are trying to rewrite the rules of the American system. They are trying to instantiate an anti-constitutional theory of executive power that would make the president supreme over all other branches of government. They are doing so in service of a plutocratic agenda of austerity and the upward redistribution of wealth. And the longer Congress stands by, the more this is fixed in place.

Again, if Musk had been elected to some office, this would still be one of the worst abuses of executive power in American history. No one in the executive branch has the legal authority to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations. No one has the legal authority to turn the Treasury payments system into a means of political retribution. No one has the authority to summarily dismiss civil servants without cause. No one has the authority to take down and scrub government websites of public data, itself paid for by American taxpayers. And no private citizen has the authority to access the sensitive data of American citizens for either information gathering or their own, unknown purposes. The thing, of course, is that Musk isn't elected. He is a private citizen. He was neither confirmed for a cabinet job nor formally appointed to a high-level position within the administration. He does not even have a presidential commission; he has been designated a "special government employee." Musk says that he is acting on the authority of the president of the United States. Even still, it is not as if the president nftha lInitad Ctatachne the authoritietn

Clear-eyed, direct NYT op-ed by @jamellebouie.net using the kind of non-euphemistic language the headlines should embrace:

Iron-coated Komodo dragon teeth and the complex dental enamel of carnivorous reptiles - Nature Ecology & Evolution Chemical and structural imaging of Komodo dragon teeth reveals that they maintain their sharp cutting edges through iron-enriched coatings, a unique adaptation compared with theropod dinosaurs (for wh...

Sorry for the delay this week! Back to regularly scheduled programming tomorrow! Really excited about this one, as the owner of a small but might Ackie monitor named Mushu.

Here's some reading!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

WEEK 1: Varanus komodoensis

CREATURE OF THE WEEK #1

This creature's blood has passive antimicrobial properties conferred by a set of innately-expressed short (<100 aa) peptides. Scientists have engineered these peptides to increase their antimicrobial properties, observing higher predicted killing of bacterial pathogens

CREATURE OF THE WEEK #1

This creature has a parietal eye: an organ on top of its head with photoreceptors containing an array of ancient non-visual opsins that are conserved across many groups of animals. This third eye is implicated in spatial awareness, circadian regulation, metabolic rate, etc.

Ah shit it's a raccoon. You guessed it. Whole week is a bust.

CREATURE OF THE WEEK: Week 1

In spite of the high dental stress this animal experiences as a function of its diet, it only has a thin layer of enamel. However, its teeth sequester iron at the cutting edge, resulting in greater strength and durability during use.

You can try to guess along at what the creature is throughout the week, or just wait until the reveal! I want to have fun with this, so I’ll switch up the art styles pretty consistently. I plan to do 12 weeks for my first run of this series (“Season 1”), and will start tomorrow, on January 28th!

Hello! I’m starting a #SciArt series called CREATURE OF THE WEEK where I illustrate one creature every week. The twist is that I’ll trickle facts about the mystery creature throughout the week, until I release my illustration on Friday, along with the citations for facts.

Very exciting. Have you considered posting scoops, breaking news, etc directly there? With an 11M person userbase, the NFL subreddit feels like a real untapped information avenue for reporters. Sidenote, it's cool to see big people lean into Bluesky.

#NIH accounts for 47 billion = 25% of US federal research funding, essential for their world-leading position in bio-medical research.

Trump just shut it down.

No foreign adversary in their wildest wet dream could achieve such a devastating act of traitorous sabotage with a stroke of a pen.

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

Payton, Riggins, Martin the only backs to make the list for multiple decades?

remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week

and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it

Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better…
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)