Alexa Fredston

The air is really bad in Toronto. Particulate matter levels are really high due to #wildfire smoke. This is a @visiblair.bsky.social Model E unit.

Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!

🎉New preprint!

"TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing"

tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk

We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA!

Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.

Flash flood warning was just issued for Bronx/Queens.

Nearly all parts of the five boroughs will be at an extreme risk for flooding the rest of the afternoon and evening.

Get your friends and neighbors out of their basement apartments if flooding is happening.
forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatx...

if you live in a Democratic district / state, you might think on most issues "it's not worth me calling my Senator, they agree with me"

this might be an exception for you ⬇️

BOEM Rescinds Designated Wind Energy Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf BOEM announced it is rescinding all designated Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). This action is being taken in accordance with Secretary’s Order (SO) 3437

BOEM is scrapping plans for US offshore wind.

DOE climate report response form We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.

🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨

Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.

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Wiley's market cap is USD$2,100,000,000 yet I can't unsubscribe from Table of Contents alerts

Thank you!!

this post brought to you by the fact that there is no way for me to edit my email alerts from any Wiley-managed journal, and every time I write to them about this, they send me a link to an unrelated help page, mark "case completed", and ask me to rate their customer service

of all the things about academia it blows my mind that we pay billions of dollars to companies like Wiley to provide absolutely garbage services that also make science inaccessible

for the first time, I've been asked to write a tenure letter, for a stellar scientist in my field.

for folks who've done this—what makes a great tenure letter?

(1) Hierarchical models in genetics, (2) A Stan model with 400,000 latent parameters, (3) Super-scalable penalized maximum likelihood inference for biome problems, (4) “In the end, I basically gave up working on biology because of the politics.”
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/31/b...

Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...

New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

six Rob Colwells in a trenchcoat

do it!!!!

this week is really getting to me, so here's my family banana bread recipe

it's the best one you will ever bake. my Mom copied it from a prof she had at Cornell (onto an index card with a typewriter). you're welcome

Applications are open for SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships

If you’ve recently earned a Ph.D. in any scientific field and want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research, consider applying.

Deadline: October 1, 2025
Apply here: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

✨Dream job alert!✨ Come join our Oceans Department at Stanford University! We are hiring an Assistant Professor. This faculty search focuses on 3 major areas: Oceans & global change, Ocean technologies & solutions, or Human dimensions of oceans 🌊
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

the problem with "have foundations fund science" is that the federal government was willing to fund anyone. foundations fund a VERY few people at a very high level for a very long time.

not one foundation in my field had a major open call for research in 2025. zero new grantees.

One thing very few people know, even in the climate-health research space, is that - in addition to NIH / NSF / NASA / EPA blocking any new research on climate change and health - all the philanthropies have decided to take NGO-shaped roles rather than fund research, and so they aren't stepping in.

thank you, I'll look into this!

Loaves and fishes is a great idea (and gives me an excuse to go to Salinas). thanks!!

Niche post but does anyone in Santa Cruz have suggestions for where to donate a 2016 Macbook Pro locally?

same here! the start of instruction is still a ways away, for us. but you would think the HSIs particularly would be planning for this. I get no one is happy about going hybrid but the safety issues are pretty !#$%ing obvious

delighted to report that I got so annoyed with the thing I've been putting off that I finally started working on the other thing I've been putting off

Come work with us! We are looking to fill a PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc position (forest adaptive capacity):
PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
Postdoc:
www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
Please feel free to share this opportunity with anyone who might be interested!

A fantastic job opportunity for someone to work at the interface between Atlantic salmon habitat modelling and management. Cutting edge research as part of an excellent project team.

okay TRANSMISSION NERDS ON BLUESKY i am working on some
big stories about the future of your big wires in the united states

do you work in transmission dev? transmission policy? some secret third thing related to transmission?

hit my line jael@heatmap.news

#greensky #energysky #climatesky

Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2026 Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2026 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live!
PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn...
Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please share! 🧪