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Jonathan Dushoff
@jdushoff.bsky.social
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Theoretical biologist, recreational mathematician, anti-fascist*.

* I had planned not to be political here, but when circumstances change, decisions sometimes have to change.
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joshuasweitz.bsky.social
Amidst a government shutdown in which the White House has proposed slashing federal support of science by billions of dollars, our #SCIMaP team continues to assess the impact of research cuts on communities nationwide.

Learn more about our efforts: scienceimpacts.org

With more to come...

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October 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Launched in March 2025 as a joint project between the University of Maryland & the University of Pennsylvania and now supported by a grant from Open Philanthropy, #SCIMaP focuses on assessing the impacts of federal cuts to science on communities nationwide:

cmns.umd.edu/news-events/...
Open Philanthropy Awards $336K to Map the Impact of Scientific Funding Cuts | College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences | University of Maryland
Researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Pennsylvania are jointly leading efforts to comm
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October 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.
3fecta.bsky.social Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 23d
Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.
October 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/not-all-wa...

from @joshuasweitz.bsky.social
Screen grab from the substack post, focused on the bolded phrase: “I began to wonder whether the title was a hidden signal that this book was actually part of the war, with essayists carefully chosen to wage a battle against science, scientists, and institutions in need of a comeuppance so that higher education and science can get back to the classics (aka the good old days).”
October 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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me: it's okay to be a person struggling with productivity during a prolonged crisis my brain: not u though me: not me though
October 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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From global health leader to global health pariah. #ThanksDonald! healthpolicy-watch.news/un-declarati...
UN Declaration On Noncommunicable Diseases Fails To Win Approval After US Foils Consensus - Health Policy Watch
NEW YORK CITY - A painstakingly negotiated Political Declaration on Noncommunicable Diseases with overwhelming support from UN member states failed to win
healthpolicy-watch.news
October 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
jdushoff.bsky.social
Working with @rowandurrant.bsky.social on ways to visualize the amino-acid table and better understand viral evolution.

We started with a two-by scheme for nucleotides (small square), where bond partners are horizontally adjacent and transition-connected nts are vertically adjacent.

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A blackboard with a drawing in several colors of chalk showing 16 squares, some subdivided, with one-letter abbreviations for amino acids and other annotations. Above is a small white square divided in four, showing ATCG (clockwise from upper left). More description provided in the thread.
September 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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The #DAIDD2025 deadline has been extended to 10 Oct!
jdushoff.bsky.social Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · Sep 8
An "dynamic" workshop with an exciting group in a fun place!

docs.google.com/document/d/e...
A screenshot of a flyer with a picture of Muizenberg beach with changing sheds in the foreground and the Cape of Good Hope in the background; some text information similar to the information in the link; and logos from SACEMA and ICI3D.
September 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this:

“These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview

open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...
September 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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September 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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September 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases
Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases
WASHINGTON, UT—As he described a massive backlog of murders that continued to stump the agency he leads, desperate FBI director Kash Patel reportedly asked the family of alleged Charlie Kirk assassin ...
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September 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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charlotteclymer.bsky.social
If you're a firm conservative and you believe this path doesn't eventually lead to your own speech being censored by the Trump regime, you are sorely mistaken. That day is coming. I promise you. And if you ignore that longterm consequence out of favor for short-term schadenfreude over someone liberal being censored by the government, you need to ask yourself whether you really support the First Amendment. I'm not asking you to support liberal opinions or refrain from boycotts of entertainment you don't like. I may find that position ridiculous, but that's your right. Boycott movies and shows. Boycott businesses. Criticize Kimmel and Colbert and everyone else you don't like. By all means, leverage your capital in the marketplace of ideas. But the moment you support or enable the government to punish people with wrong opinions, it only becomes a matter of time before your own opinion is being punished by the government. I don't give my money to anti-trans people. I don't watch their shows. I don't buy their products. I don't think they deserve my money or my attention. That's my right. But if the government were to directly punish someone for expressing an anti-trans opinion, I would be the first in line to defend them. Even if I believe they're an insufferable clown, I will still defend their First Amendment rights. Either you believe in First Amendment protections, or you don't. Either you believe the government has no business punishing someone's speech, or you don't.
September 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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lshtm.bsky.social
Missed out on a ticket for LSHTM’s Health Misinformation UNPACKED?

Our event is proving so popular we’ve released EXTRA online tickets so more people can learn how to fight dangerous health #misinformation!

Get your ticket👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
September 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
jdushoff.bsky.social
This cartoon from October 1953 reminds me of something. Or someone.
Peanuts cartoon strip Panel 1: Patty and Violet are smiling at Charlie Brown, who says "Go ahead! Make fun of me! You just wait. Panel 2: Charlie Brown shakes his fist in foreground, girls play in background. He says "Someday I'll get to be President, and then you'll all be sorry!" Panel 3: Girls say in unison: "I'll say we will!" Panel 4: Charlie Brown walks down the sidewalk saying "Somehow that didn't come out right."
September 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT!

Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889
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September 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
jdushoff.bsky.social
Had a reasonably restful, reasonably fun, reasonably productive weekend. Biked to the gym this morning, not too early, had a nice bike ride in nice weather, and did gym stuff for an hour. Got to my desk around 10:30, and I'm feeling _so_ ready for another weekend.
September 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
jdushoff.bsky.social
An "dynamic" workshop with an exciting group in a fun place!

docs.google.com/document/d/e...
A screenshot of a flyer with a picture of Muizenberg beach with changing sheds in the foreground and the Cape of Good Hope in the background; some text information similar to the information in the link; and logos from SACEMA and ICI3D.
September 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
jdushoff.bsky.social
Post-doctoral position in forest demography at U. Florida. docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Postdoc in Demography of U.S. forests, U. Florida
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September 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
jdushoff.bsky.social
Mike Roswell made a poster, with weitz-group.bsky.social, based on a really cool result about SIR models. There's more work to be done here, too!

Poster at drive.google.com/file/d/1Wk5B..., and proof supplement at github.com/mikeroswell/...
Figure in the upper left-hand corner of the attached pdf. Text available there. It shows two very-similar frequency plots of case reproductive number, labeled respectively R0=2 and R0=8
September 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Gift link. Ask your Congressperson what they think about 9 former CDC directors (including acting directors) calling on Congress to save the CDC. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Some days this one just hits so hard:

xkcd.com/722/
Computer Problems
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August 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Had an excellent time at this bioAsia event. I had no idea how big a deal exosomes and other extracellulal vesicles were. It was also fun to be grouped, even temporarily, with Dr. Buzás and Dr. Ochiya.
A flyer advertising a symposium in Nangang, Taipei on 27 Jul 2025, with invited speakers Prof. Jonathan Dushoff Prof. Takahiro Ochiya, and Prof. Edit Buzás.
August 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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These water machines in Japan really amused me. narita-airport.imagewave.pictures/wdBRDqg6B6cR...
My first thought was: is the warning because you might scald yourself, or because your tea or noodles might not cook right?
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August 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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This hyphen from #CIHR really upsets me. That's normal, right?
Screenshot of proposal instructions, reading: __Your research proposal should stand-alone__ (i.e., it should contain a complete description of your project and all the information required to support your research plan, without any hyperlinks) The page limits for a research proposal are:
August 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM