Jonathan Dushoff

Just look at the difference

At some point tomorrow the centigrade temperature is projected to be only 1% of the fahrenheit temperature!

When I woke up this morning the centigrade temperature was three times the fahrenheit temperature. But by 9 AM it was already 10 times the fahrenheit temperature and the ratio was climbing at a dizzying rate!

I think that every single time.

Science Advocacy: The Risks of Playing the Long Game vs. Playing the Game For Too Long Reflecting on the establishment view of recent ‘wins’ for research and what real winning looks like when public-facing advocacy is credited and included in broader coalitions.

In a long-form piece, I address recent claims by the Editor-in-Chief of @science.org that "quiet" insiders rather than "heated" activists should be credited for passage of top-line budget numbers for science and medical research.

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Do you-all have a good explainer of the role of CBP, ICE and other relevant agencies? What effects would abolishing ICE have (and not have) on realized immigration policies?

Accounting for heterogeneity among hosts, even if done very simply, can have dramatic effects on models' ability to parse out patterns.

Why indeed? Because it's exactly what you would expect. The shots are excellent -- and led to "measles-elimination status". But they're not perfect.

Measles is spreading. The number of cases in vaccinated people will continue to go up (although not as fast as the number in unvaccinated people). These "breakthrough" cases will be used for #antivax propaganda. Public health needs to be ready.

This is exactly why there used to be processes for making decisions, and protocols for carrying them out. The _way_ they do things like cut USAID is actually worse than the _fact_ that they do them.

The post author is on blue sky: @stevevladeck.bsky.social

‘I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’ President says morality ‘the only thing that can stop me’ in New York Times interview on limits to his authority

Except I guess Trump's "own morality", and the acolytes' clumsy attempts to guess what that might be. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

205. Chief Judge Schiltz and the Department of Justice Every federal judge (and justice) should read the two letters from Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz in the church protest case—and what they tell us about the Department of Justice's litigation behavior.

I need somehow to recast how I think about the US Executive branch: I have to stop being horrified that they cross this line or that line and just accept that they are the enemy, and that nothing is holding them back except public opinion -- no law, no morality www.stevevladeck.com/p/205-chief-...

It also dovetails with something that stuck in my mind: you can now be called a “domestic terrorist” simply for _observing_, before you even say anything. That seems pretty revealing.

We Should Talk About The Morality of Political Violence What Are The Best Moral Arguments Against It?

This post about violence and norms www.popehat.com/p/we-should-... from @kenwhite.bsky.social is both perceptive and bold.

Trump is Making China Great-er than it's ever even been! #ThanksDonald

No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto For millennia, the circle has been considered the most perfect of shapes, and the circle constant π captured the geometry of the circle in a single number. But π is wrong, and it’s time to set things ...

Any continuous function that is both non-increasing and non-decreasing attains its global maximum at exp(τ), and its global minimum at -exp(-τ)!, where τ≈6.283 is the circle constant.

You can read actually interesting perspectives on τ at www.tauday.com/tau-manifesto.

The first time, but certainly not the last. A big step in the regime's war against the press, and against a key American tradition of freedom.

‘Tip of the iceberg’: The FBI search of a reporter’s home has newsrooms bracing for more | CNN Business Inside The Washington Post, the impact was immediate. Reporters called the search “incredibly disturbing.” Hannah Natanson, whose home was raided, urged her Post colleagues to keep reporting.

I know it's everything all the time these days, but this feels like a big deal:

Until now, [the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press] said, the Justice Department had “never executed a search warrant at the home of a reporter in a national security leak case.”

www.cnn.com/2026/01/15/m...

Differences in codon usage between host-species-specific rabies virus clades are driven by UpA and purine content Viral genes sometimes use certain codons more than others due to their nucleotide content, translational efficiency, and selection pressure from the host immune system. The rabies virus (RABV) is a ne...

New preprint! We had a look at the codon and dinucleotide usage of rabies clades that circulate in specific host species, and found some interesting differences, particularly between carnivore- and bat-associated clades 👀

Coauthors on bluesky: @jdushoff.bsky.social @matt-arnold-bio.bsky.social

Can interactive web apps help biology students become better modellers?

Stephan Peischl's group is running an ethics-approved study. Learn more at: peischllab.github.io/MEEW.html
Contact ana-hermina.ghenu@unibe.ch to receive the survey link. @spei.bsky.social

YouTube video by Federal Reserve Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
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9,999 Maniacs

Some nice press coverage from our #DavidEarn-led article on CANDID (Canadian Notifiable Disease Incidence Dataset) archive.ph/jRBfz

See also journals.plos.org/globalpublic... bsky.app/profile/jdus...

@davidearn.bsky.social @cfts.bsky.social

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

The Public Health Heroes of 2025 The Trump administration wants to destroy our health infrastructure. These warriors aren't letting that happen without a fight.

Many thanks to cofounder @asinclair.bsky.social & the entire SCIMaP team (scienceimpacts.org) for collaborative work to confront federal cuts to science and medical research; together, our effort was recognized as a 2025 Public Health Hero in @thenation.com.

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Co-authors on bluesky include, and may or may not be limited to: @davidearn.bsky.social and @cfts.bsky.social.

GitHub - canmod/candid: This repository contains all code used to produce the CANDID manuscript and associated figures, tables, and statistics. This repository contains all code used to produce the CANDID manuscript and associated figures, tables, and statistics. - canmod/candid

It's not as neatly tied up as at should be, but there are packages for accessing the data (and we^H^H they used them to make the paper). See github.com/canmod/candi... for details

A century of weekly notifiable disease incidence data by province in Canada Canadian notifiable disease surveillance programmes have recorded communicable disease incidence data, dating back to the late 19th century. A Public Health Agency of Canada web-portal provides summar...

Here is a direct link to the article, for those that roll that way doi.org/10.1371/jour...

McMaster research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease data The new, publicly accessible database contains more than a million infectious disease incidence counts dating back to 1903.

This is a really cool project, I was lucky to have the opportunity to participate.

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