Christie Bahlai

🎉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.

one of my student collaborators spent last summer vacuuming bees, in a cross-campus pilot led by @cbahlai.bsky.social 's team. Here's our #RIT findings: www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....

Lots of (appropriate) outrage about the Brown student survey meddling but I’ve heard less nationally about what’s going on in Ohio (state inserting a required “bias” question into our surveys & requiring we be reviewed on it).

S4 Episode 3: What do non-religious scientists think about their religious colleagues? - International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society In the third episode of our new series, Dr Rebecca Catto, Associate Professor of Sociology at Kent State University (USA) who was for a decade a Principal Investigator on the Science and Religion, Exp...

A podcast interview with me on science & religion research just dropped: scienceandbeliefinsociety.org/s4-episode-3...

I'm not a regular middle-aged professor with a part time university administration appointment. I'm a cool middle-aged professor with a part time university administration appointment.

(literally actually how I teach. But I'm the real deal. I have a nose ring. A NOSE RING. LIKE REBELIOUS CHARACTERS DO IN 1998 LIFETIME MOVIES TO SHOW HOW PUNK THEY ARE.)

Okay so maybe a bit tho. Whatever, I'm still going to wear the chucks and sit backwards on the chair when I jam with my junior colleagues about radicalizing our approach to frequentist statistics.

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants

I've reviewed many NSF proposals, and I've been on a few NSF proposal review panels. Those experiences helped me see that while some good proposals aren't funded, bad proposals definitely aren't.

It's an insult to all scientists that DOGE is now doing additional reviews of funded proposals.

So: In 2017, Congress made this happen:

NIH: Proposed 22% cut --> 9% increase
NSF: Proposed 11% cut --> 4% increase
NOAA: Proposed 16% cut --> 4% increase

Obviously, 2025 is not 2017. A lot is diff now. But still:

💰 Congress, not WH, sets budgets.

📞 Public support & calls to Congress matter.

A mostly white cat and an all black cat spayed out like they have actual problems on a beige floral area rug

My cats' worst problem is when I get the wrong brand of roast beef. See? Dispair. I *wish* I had the wrong beef.

Call me crazy---I think everyone should be able to eat.

I knew the U.S. higher education system was a massive draw for foreigners, but I did not know the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it did natural gas and coal combined. Great piece by @crampell.bsky.social

So excited to work with this super team!!

Meta-synthesis reveals interconnections among apparent drivers of insect biodiversity loss Abstract. Scientific and public interest in the global status of insects has surged recently; however, understanding the relative importance of different s

So excited for this paper by the Insect Loss RCN led by Chris Halsh! #insectloss @cbahlai.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Live your life so that when you visit the Pope and he dies the next day everyone’s first thought isn’t “bet he killed him”

Hegemonic masculinity is a cornerstone of fascism. So we can see the same dynamics in an altercation with a schoolyard bully.

If a bully forced their victim to submission, it only makes the bully more powerful. It gives him legitimacy in the eyes of other peers who care about masculine domination.

Booker telling the story of his father's experience with Parkinson's and using it to speak about the importance of funding research on science and health.

Booker, after speaking for more than 24 hours and breaking Thurmond's record, is still standing and still speaking--using his time to warn his colleagues and his country about the dangers of defunding universities and defunding scientific research.

The rhetorical victory is this: the proposal that we can and will outlast them.

I'm sure y'all are fucking tired of me but one thing I wanna say upfront is that I am brainstorming on here how to talk about what we as academic scientists and experts do so that other people in our country can understand what will be lost.

Yep. This is just awful.

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hello ok i am awake what did i miss
tell me every thing

we believe we are special and we simply are not

The LTER is great because we can support ecologists through their whole career. Next community call is about getting folks into the network!

Recruiting and Retaining Scientists in the LTER: How to find and keep the best and the brightest! 🌟

March 26, 9am PT—register!
lternet.edu/events/recru...

hey that's fascism

Appropriate time to bring back my 5th grade winning essay: “Libraries change lives. I should know. Both my parents were poor growing up. But because of libraries, they became successful college professors. With the help of libraries, they found the books they needed, and those books were free.”

See How Butterfly Numbers Are Dropping Near You (Gift Article) Populations are falling in the United States, a new study has found. Look up what’s happening in your area.

🦋 In 20 years, the contiguous U.S. lost 22 percent of its butterflies, according to a groundbreaking new study published today.

We got the data, and I made a tool that lets you find out what's happening with butterfly species in your town.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights.

Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.