Thomas Pollet

Explainer: UK government has announced a suspension on student visa applications from nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan. Details here www.gov.uk/guidance/vis...

Trump could inadvertently be boosting prospects of European tech sector
• There are now more tech folks moving from the US to Europe than the other way around
• US Visa restrictions and hostility towards elite universities could compound trend
www.economist.com/business/202...

Please repost!

I have a wonderful colleague seeking a postdoc with expertise in *Bayesian Network Analysis*

Position for 1 year in Liverpool, starting as early as next month (April)!

Informal EOIs to Angelika Stefan: astefan1.github.io

Last year, J. Endler published an inspiring essay in @behavecol.bsky.social on what we should be doing as behavioral ecologists 👉 doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araf029. According to him, "we need to put Ecology back into Behavioural Ecology: we need to make a lot more use of Natural History" (1/5)

📢 New preprint out!

tl;dr: Publish your code, add clear README's!

138 participants assessed data & code archiving practices across 1861 papers published at 7 @britishecologicalsociety.org journals, identified gaps & offered recommendations for improvement

🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X26...

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Exeter Immersive Network Conference: Immersive Technologies in Sport and Exercise Conference

We are hosting a free conference at the @exeter.ac.uk on the 20th July, with a focus on immersive technologies in sport and exercise. Sign up, and spread the word!

www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai...

Low fertility may persist and could be good for the economy - Nature Human Behaviour Nature Human Behaviour - Low fertility may persist and could be good for the economy

"we argue that persistently low fertility is not only likely but, under plausible economic and demographic conditions, may also be socially and economically advantageous"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Elon tweet saying Grok speaks the truth and Grok tweet saying Elon is a pedophile.

Today's frog is the giant rain frog.
>:(

A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year

I love the internet

Don't be so careful in time of death ✊😔

What if you could automatically transcribe children's speech sounds from their first babbles to full sentences?

Screening for speech delays. Comparing how kids learn to talk across languages. Following how sounds evolve month by month.

We're building toward this with BabAR🧵 (sound on 🔊)

Job ad🌱: PhD position on climate change and cooperation in rural Asia, with Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Vigyan Ratnoo (Utrecht University) & Nina Hansen (University of Groningen) in an interdisciplinary project. Deadline: April 1, 2026. socion-program.org/vacancy/phd-...

IT Guy Warns Employees Not To Trust Emails He Sends After A Few Drinks

IT Guy Warns Employees Not To Trust Emails He Sends After A Few Drinks https://theonion.com/it-guy-warns-employees-not-to-trust-emails-he-sends-after-a-few-drinks/

✨️Preprint: Awareness & Use of Open Research Practices: An International Survey of Researchers Across Disciplines

📝We surveyed >3,000 researchers (45 countries; 24 disciplines)

📌We show variation in open research adoption across regions, disciplines, methodology, & career level🌎

lnkd.in/e6Ddw-UT

the most annoying shift in my academic career

People bragging about their .md files...

What a ridiculous chart. If AI can replace 3/4 of the education profession, that's not just a recession for white collar workers. That's just a massive hollowing out of the public good (education and schooling) that most people have the most contact with.

All Silhouette Images on PhyloPic Browse all the free silhouette images in PhyloPic.

By the way, we are very close to 12,000 silhouettes: www.phylopic.org/images

Happy women's day! Today's frog is the beautiful dancing frog.

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

The Norwegian Consumer Council with an amazing video on enshittification and how to resist it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

library(tidyplots) spendings |> tidyplot(x = category, y = amount, color = category) |> add_sum_bar(alpha = 0.2) |> add_sum_dash() |> add_sum_value(accuracy = 1, color = "black") |> adjust_x_axis(rotate_labels = TRUE) |> sort_x_axis_levels()

This is how you can add data values in #tidyplots 🏆

#rstats #dataviz #phd

Johns Hopkins lecturer paints 1,150 cigarettes after psilocybin trip Nate Brown joined a Johns Hopkins psilocybin study for cannabis dependency. He came out painting 1,150 cigarettes.

Johns Hopkins lecturer paints 1,150 cigarettes after psilocybin trip boingboing.net/2026/03/06/j...

Immigration, Innovation, and Growth (March 2026) - We propose a novel identification strategy to isolate exogenous immigration shocks across US counties, by interacting quasi-random variations in the composition of ancestry across count...

Immigration causes an increase in per capita patenting activity (primarily by _native_ inventors), per capita wages (including wages of _natives_), and productivity--with _positive_ spillovers for nearby counties.

CC: Trump, Miller, etc
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Um pequeno pássaro vibrante pousado em um galho espinhoso. Sua plumagem exibe um padrão marcante de preto e amarelo na cabeça, com uma faixa laranja brilhante no peito. As asas são uma mistura de branco, cinza e amarelo. O corpo é predominantemente amarelo, com algumas manchas pretas. O pássaro está ereto, olhando para a direita, com garras agarradas firmemente ao galho marrom. O fundo é um verde escuro e desfocado, sugerindo folhagem densa. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

🇧🇷Mariquita-papo-de-fogo
🌎Setophaga fusca
Conservação: Pouco Preocupante

A mariquita-papo-de-fogo é uma ave passeriforme da família Parulidae.

📷 Geraldo Hofmann

if you look closely, these snake bars are also waffle charts, which raises the question, what food item are they really?

funnel cake chart?

"wakefield" will forever be my favorite name for an #rstats package
#stats

github.com/trinker/wake...

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!