Keith Eric Grant

bioRxiv Community Voices graphic featuring Jacob Scott, from Case Western Reserve University (USA). The post has a headshot of Jacob and the quote "Scientific advances are too important to hide behind paywalls." The footer says "bioRxiv and medRxiv are preprint servers of openRxiv."

Jacob Scott, a founding bioRxiv and medRxiv Affiliate with 73 preprints posted, loves the community of open science advocates around the preprint servers. Thanks to Affiliates like him, preprints are posted ~48 hours after submission.
#bioRxiv #openRxiv #OpenScience #preprints #CommunityVoices

Excited to work with @agu.org, @ametsoc.org, @costasamaras.com (and our colleagues not on Bluesky) to develop this special collection, which aims to advance climate assessments within the US at all scales.

Home From Multiscale Immune Modeling to Medical Digital Twins 5th Anniversary Global Alliance for Immune Prediction and Intervention(GLIMPRINT) & IMAG/MSM Open Virtual Conference October 16–17, 2025 10 am...

An email from the SIAM special interest group on Computational Modeling & Engineering alerted me to an upcoming online workshop on "From Multiscale Immune Modeling to Medical Digital Twins" sites.google.com/view/website...

Quanta Series Marvels at 'The Achievement of Climate Science'

.@quantamagazine.bsky.social has devoted a whole issue to the fundamental science of climate. Can't wait to read this – we hear so much about climate change, but so little about the basic science.

Press: www.newswire.com/news/quanta-...

Issue: www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...

Flying to Boulder CO tomorrow (Sunday) for the American Geophysical Union Chapman conference on the Energy Balance Closure Problem: Causes, Corrections, and Implications

Histogram aligned with PCA main axis (matplotlib figure from the book "Scientific Visualization: Python + Matplotlib" by Nicolas Rougier)

A schematic view of a slice of the basal ganglia (matplotlib figure from the book "Scientific Visualization: Python + Matplotlib" by Nicolas Rougier)

This thoughtful and beautifully illustrated book is about creating good scientific visualizations with Python & Matplotlib
github.com/rougier/scie...

Erin vaults from tropical storm to Category 5 hurricane in just 25 hours » Yale Climate Connections Erin's overnight surge in strength was one of the fastest ever recorded in the Atlantic.

#Erin is a textbook case of the explosive intensification rates that pose an increasing problem as the planet's oceans and atmosphere heat up.

Saving grace this time: Erin is on track to avoid making landfall anywhere. Next time: who knows?

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/08/erin...

Rapid intensification of tropical cyclones in the Gulf of Mexico is more likely during marine heatwaves - Communications Earth & Environment Prolonged periods of high sea surface temperatures can substantially increase the probability of rapid intensification of tropical cyclones in the Gulf of Mexico and the northwestern Caribbean Sea, ac...

Some recent literature on rapid intensification
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Now Cat 5 with 160 mph just as I expected.

Immigration crackdown causing ‘Trump slump’ in Las Vegas tourism, unions say International visitors to one of the world’s largest tourist destinations dropped 13% in June as workers face layoffs

Turns out, unsurprisingly, that American fascism is bad for tourism and U.S.-based conferences. (You'd have to be an idiot to organize an international gathering inside the U.S. at this point.)

Insurers face tipping point as climate losses climb and capital strains deepen New World Economic Forum report, others, paint a dark picture – with the US taking the biggest hit

www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/cata...

Look who's here now

RealClimate: National Climate Assessment links RealClimate: For some reason, it has become hard to locate the various National Climate Assessments (NCAs) that have been produced by the USGCRP over the decades (and it's pretty hard to find the USGR...

If you are having trouble finding National Climate Assessment reports, they are here.

www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

I had to delete and repost a couple of prior posts because I realized that Bluesky doesn't recognize a hashtag if a left paren immediately precedes the has mark. (#SMB2025) doesn't work but ( #SMB2025 ) does.

(3) Mark Lewis ( #SMB2025 ). Wolves would diversify their hunting locations, despite moving into the unknown, to avoid hunting hyper-vigilant prey in recently hunted areas. An exploration of predator and prey memory plus prey fear response.

(2) Mark Lewis ( #SMB2025 ). The step length benefit occurred when prey presence was low, but not when prey were plentiful. Although prey were more plentiful in buffer regions between wolf packs, the penalty of adversarial encounters created buffer zone avoidance.

At #SMB2025, one could so worse than having The Sherlock Holmes pub just a block away from my hotel; shepherds' pie, fish and chips, and chicken pot pie among other food. Not to forget Coleen's Amber ale.

Yes, That Fire-Induced Tornado In The Viral Video Is Real Did you see the stunning viral video of the "fire tornado" in Utah. A meteorologist explains how they form.

By now you may have seen the stunning video of the "fire tornado" in Utah. Some say it is the apocalypse. Others think it is AI. It's real, and I explain it here.
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

In the 2nd #SMB2025 plenary, Marisa Eisenberg explored modeling for public health, decisions despite antiquated data systems and imperfect data. She moved from multiple mechanistic models to using such in ensembles to train AI for predictions. She noted identifiability matters for inference.

(1) In yesterday's opening plenary at #SMB2025, Mark Lewis explored three aspects of wolf movements and hunting using the Fokker-Plank equation. Step length and step direction were taken to be independent. Larger step lengths along roads overrode higher likelihood of being killed

As NASA's budget shrinks, Europe doubles down on Earth science: 'Climate change is the defining challenge of our generation' If NASA must pull back, Europe is ready to step up — and do so with open arms.

As NASA's budget shrinks, Europe doubles down on Earth science

Arrived in Edmonton Alberta yesterday for the Society of Mathematical Biology annual meeting #SMB2025 2025.smb.org

Opinion | I’ve Covered Authoritarians Abroad. Trump’s Actions Look Familiar. (Gift Article) Trump’s actions remind me of authoritarians I’ve covered for four decades around the globe.

"Authoritarians try to crush independent referees and civil society institutions, including news organizations, universities, statistical agencies and central banks." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...

Grouping newsrooms with central banks, universities, the Bureau of Labor Statistics gets it right.

I've completed all of my arrangements (flight, hotel, and registration) to attend the Society for Mathematical Biology meeting in Edmonton Alberta (#SMB2025) next July. 2025.smb.org

Valid considerations of actual biology, which are far from simple.

Urban ‘firestorms’: the science behind their ferocious spread Research also suggests how to make homes more resilient in the aftermath of California’s deadly blazes.

From my home smack in the middle of the wildland-urban interface, I've been thinking about the more urban nature of the Los Angeles-area blazes. So I wrote about it. #wildfire

Some tips on turning off location tracking on your phone