Evan Adams
@ecoevan.bsky.social
Quantitative Ecologist, birder, disc golfer, qwerl.org
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new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Same. Great to see my friends and colleagues back in my inbox.
I've been through a few long shutdowns, first as a USGS Coop Unit PhD student, then with a USGS co-advisor for my postdoc, and now this one.
I had forgotten how today feels, as the emails from federal colleagues start to roll in, I've missed them so much, welcome back friends
I had forgotten how today feels, as the emails from federal colleagues start to roll in, I've missed them so much, welcome back friends
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Same. Great to see my friends and colleagues back in my inbox.
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Pour one out for the Federal IT folks today, who have to deal with 42 days of updates and backlogs and expired certifications.
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Pour one out for the Federal IT folks today, who have to deal with 42 days of updates and backlogs and expired certifications.
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scoop: one of the largest renewable energy projects in the u.s. is quietly getting killed
say goodbye to leading light, the latest casualty of trump’s war on offshore wind
(also means there is essentially no more offshore wind in progress at all for new jersey)
say goodbye to leading light, the latest casualty of trump’s war on offshore wind
(also means there is essentially no more offshore wind in progress at all for new jersey)
Scoop: Giant Wind Farm Off New Jersey Coast Is Getting Killed
Leading Light can’t move forward, a legal counsel wrote to state regulators.
heatmap.news
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
scoop: one of the largest renewable energy projects in the u.s. is quietly getting killed
say goodbye to leading light, the latest casualty of trump’s war on offshore wind
(also means there is essentially no more offshore wind in progress at all for new jersey)
say goodbye to leading light, the latest casualty of trump’s war on offshore wind
(also means there is essentially no more offshore wind in progress at all for new jersey)
Bond is like Zelda. Who cares about the timeline? Just have adventures or whatever.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Bond is like Zelda. Who cares about the timeline? Just have adventures or whatever.
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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Huge thanks to Sarah Stenbins and @downeast.com for featuring The Forest Revealed in the upcoming December issue!
November 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Huge thanks to Sarah Stenbins and @downeast.com for featuring The Forest Revealed in the upcoming December issue!
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an incredible obituary for an odious man
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
an incredible obituary for an odious man
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As one of the greatest writers of our age said, “venom with a new twang, same swagger, new thang” - the lab has changed a lot over ten years, and after thinking about who we became, we decided to re-do the website. And write about our theory of change.
Follow us - @epic-biodiversity.org !
Follow us - @epic-biodiversity.org !
👋 Bonjour hi!
We've built a whole new website, and @ctrlalttim.com has thoughts about the long-term dynamics of research groups to share.
epic-biodiversity.org/blog/2025/11...
We've built a whole new website, and @ctrlalttim.com has thoughts about the long-term dynamics of research groups to share.
epic-biodiversity.org/blog/2025/11...
Bonjour hi! | ÉPICBiodiversity
epic-biodiversity.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
As one of the greatest writers of our age said, “venom with a new twang, same swagger, new thang” - the lab has changed a lot over ten years, and after thinking about who we became, we decided to re-do the website. And write about our theory of change.
Follow us - @epic-biodiversity.org !
Follow us - @epic-biodiversity.org !
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we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
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Interested in a PhD studying the evolutionary ecology of animal behavior in Barcelona?
Final days to apply for this open PhD position in our lab! 👇
For more information about the position:
creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...
Final days to apply for this open PhD position in our lab! 👇
For more information about the position:
creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...
November 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Interested in a PhD studying the evolutionary ecology of animal behavior in Barcelona?
Final days to apply for this open PhD position in our lab! 👇
For more information about the position:
creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...
Final days to apply for this open PhD position in our lab! 👇
For more information about the position:
creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...
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i never judge before all the facts are in but my working hypothesis is these people are morons
Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system"
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
New College of Florida shows soaring expenses as state targets 'woke waste'
A report by Florida DOGE found that Sarasota's New College is the most financially inefficient school in the university system.
www.heraldtribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
i never judge before all the facts are in but my working hypothesis is these people are morons
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This is so cool. Putting on formal dress and standing around on a Thursday night talking about how dope the president is. Laughing in unison at stuff that isn't quite a joke. It's on TV so everyone can watch and think about how fun it'd be to be there, doing that, too. Cash bar. No food of any kind.
At the Fox Patriot Awards tonight, Hegseth tells a story about how Trump makes Truth Social posts after bombings.
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 AM
This is so cool. Putting on formal dress and standing around on a Thursday night talking about how dope the president is. Laughing in unison at stuff that isn't quite a joke. It's on TV so everyone can watch and think about how fun it'd be to be there, doing that, too. Cash bar. No food of any kind.
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
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I have a Grand Unified Theory of Recent Polling Errors
-there is a crucial population of people who occasionally vote, usually only in presidential elections, but don't pay attention to politics and never answer their phones
-they are the dark matter of polling, visible only by their absence
-there is a crucial population of people who occasionally vote, usually only in presidential elections, but don't pay attention to politics and never answer their phones
-they are the dark matter of polling, visible only by their absence
Good summary of why pollsters whiffed in VA and NJ. TLDR: electorate looked like 2017 when pollsters assumed it would look like 2024, plus Latino turnout exploded.
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Pollsters Didn’t See the Blue Wave Coming in New Jersey and Virginia
Pollsters say they miscalculated who would show up to vote and a leftward shift by Latino voters.
www.wsj.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I have a Grand Unified Theory of Recent Polling Errors
-there is a crucial population of people who occasionally vote, usually only in presidential elections, but don't pay attention to politics and never answer their phones
-they are the dark matter of polling, visible only by their absence
-there is a crucial population of people who occasionally vote, usually only in presidential elections, but don't pay attention to politics and never answer their phones
-they are the dark matter of polling, visible only by their absence
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My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’
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(to the tune of Eleanor Rigby) 🎶socialist muslim🎶
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
(to the tune of Eleanor Rigby) 🎶socialist muslim🎶
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scientists have discovered falling asleep
A paper in Nature Neuroscience proposes a conceptual framework to study the phenomenon of falling asleep and shows that a tipping point marks the brain’s nonlinear wake-to-sleep transition and that the unfolding process can be tracked in real time. go.nature.com/4oiDp0J #neuroskyence 🧪
November 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
scientists have discovered falling asleep
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No other group of birds in New York sparks such heated emotions as the owl. defector.com/the-owl-code...
The Owl Code Tearing Apart New York's Birders | Defector
We followed the Owl Whisperer around the gun battery toward a grove of pitch pines, where he had seen the saw-whet owl. Then I heard someone ask behind me, “Where are they going?” I turned around and…
defector.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
No other group of birds in New York sparks such heated emotions as the owl. defector.com/the-owl-code...
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We're hiring! Florida State University’s Department of Biological Science is seeking a tenure-track Evolutionary Geneticist. Our E&E group is outstanding - join us! Please share with anyone who might be interested! #Evolution #Genetics #EvoDevo #FacultyJob
jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675930/a...
jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675930/a...
November 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
We're hiring! Florida State University’s Department of Biological Science is seeking a tenure-track Evolutionary Geneticist. Our E&E group is outstanding - join us! Please share with anyone who might be interested! #Evolution #Genetics #EvoDevo #FacultyJob
jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675930/a...
jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675930/a...
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Years ago, I attempted a self-assessment of my potential gender biases in an academic research setting:
ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2016/04/subt...
Today, I happened on a very nice summary of how to avoid such biases in letters of recommendation, which provides an comprehensive outline. Check it out
ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2016/04/subt...
Today, I happened on a very nice summary of how to avoid such biases in letters of recommendation, which provides an comprehensive outline. Check it out
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Years ago, I attempted a self-assessment of my potential gender biases in an academic research setting:
ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2016/04/subt...
Today, I happened on a very nice summary of how to avoid such biases in letters of recommendation, which provides an comprehensive outline. Check it out
ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2016/04/subt...
Today, I happened on a very nice summary of how to avoid such biases in letters of recommendation, which provides an comprehensive outline. Check it out