Mason Posner
@mason91.bsky.social
Biology prof @ #PUI, former dept chair, fish guy, developmental biologist, and vision researcher. Here for the science, football and #FPL. #COYB
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I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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43 years ago today
When punk met hip hop 🤝
The Clash and Kurtis Blow at the Akron Civic Theater, August 17, 1982
#punk #punks #punkrock #hiphop #theclash #kurtisblow #history #punkrockhistory #otd
When punk met hip hop 🤝
The Clash and Kurtis Blow at the Akron Civic Theater, August 17, 1982
#punk #punks #punkrock #hiphop #theclash #kurtisblow #history #punkrockhistory #otd
August 17, 2025 at 4:12 AM
43 years ago today
When punk met hip hop 🤝
The Clash and Kurtis Blow at the Akron Civic Theater, August 17, 1982
#punk #punks #punkrock #hiphop #theclash #kurtisblow #history #punkrockhistory #otd
When punk met hip hop 🤝
The Clash and Kurtis Blow at the Akron Civic Theater, August 17, 1982
#punk #punks #punkrock #hiphop #theclash #kurtisblow #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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Who has gone out on a limb to challenge Trump?
Lots of federal district court judges.
Whom did the Supreme Court choose at this moment to rein in (having passed on doing so under Biden)?
Federal district court judges.
Lots of federal district court judges.
Whom did the Supreme Court choose at this moment to rein in (having passed on doing so under Biden)?
Federal district court judges.
June 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Who has gone out on a limb to challenge Trump?
Lots of federal district court judges.
Whom did the Supreme Court choose at this moment to rein in (having passed on doing so under Biden)?
Federal district court judges.
Lots of federal district court judges.
Whom did the Supreme Court choose at this moment to rein in (having passed on doing so under Biden)?
Federal district court judges.
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No better way to build morale in the military than forcing troops to march down largely empty streets in a thunderstorm to celebrate a draft dodger’s birthday
June 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
No better way to build morale in the military than forcing troops to march down largely empty streets in a thunderstorm to celebrate a draft dodger’s birthday
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My tiny undergrad college town!
Participating in a No Kings peaceful protest in Wooster OH (pop. 27000). There are at least 1000 protesters- interesting signs and lots of support from drivers passing through downtown.
June 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
My tiny undergrad college town!
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If you love Daniocell, but wish it could generate analyses specific to YOUR genes & cell types of interest, check out DaniocellDesktop - a new point-and-click app for Mac and Windows that enables reanalysis of the Daniocell data without programming: daniocell.nichd.nih.gov/desktop/ (1/4)
June 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
If you love Daniocell, but wish it could generate analyses specific to YOUR genes & cell types of interest, check out DaniocellDesktop - a new point-and-click app for Mac and Windows that enables reanalysis of the Daniocell data without programming: daniocell.nichd.nih.gov/desktop/ (1/4)
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Yes.
This is like someone whimpering about the mean streets of the Upper East Side or the Hamptons, of Marin or Atherton, of Potomac or McLean, of 02138.
S Miller is an embarrassment to all Californians.
This is like someone whimpering about the mean streets of the Upper East Side or the Hamptons, of Marin or Atherton, of Potomac or McLean, of 02138.
S Miller is an embarrassment to all Californians.
This is so much funnier when you realize that the city he's talking about becoming a "failed third world nation" here is *Santa Monica*
June 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Yes.
This is like someone whimpering about the mean streets of the Upper East Side or the Hamptons, of Marin or Atherton, of Potomac or McLean, of 02138.
S Miller is an embarrassment to all Californians.
This is like someone whimpering about the mean streets of the Upper East Side or the Hamptons, of Marin or Atherton, of Potomac or McLean, of 02138.
S Miller is an embarrassment to all Californians.
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"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT.
I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up."
Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!
I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up."
Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!
June 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT.
I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up."
Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!
I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up."
Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!
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“Punishing campuses by cutting health research funding would destroy the equivalent of one-quarter of annual gross domestic product in the US.”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
jamanetwork.com
May 31, 2025 at 4:26 AM
“Punishing campuses by cutting health research funding would destroy the equivalent of one-quarter of annual gross domestic product in the US.”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
May 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
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McSweeney’s gets it.
"It just really comes as a shock that such accomplished intellectuals, who’ve spent their entire careers pushing the upper bounds of human achievement, could be judgy about a machine that runs the entirety of human imagination through a shredder and glues together what comes out."
A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine
Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mou...
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
McSweeney’s gets it.
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I'm asking a favor of everyone here.
Please click this AEVR/NAEVR (vision research advocacy group) link to oppose Schedule F Reclassification of Federal Science Roles by the Trump administration: www.votervoice.net/NAEVR/Campai...
It will help you auto populate fields to your elected reps.
Please click this AEVR/NAEVR (vision research advocacy group) link to oppose Schedule F Reclassification of Federal Science Roles by the Trump administration: www.votervoice.net/NAEVR/Campai...
It will help you auto populate fields to your elected reps.
Oppose Schedule F Reclassification of Federal Science Roles
On April 23, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would allow for the reclassification of tens of thousands of federal employees, including those...
www.votervoice.net
May 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I'm asking a favor of everyone here.
Please click this AEVR/NAEVR (vision research advocacy group) link to oppose Schedule F Reclassification of Federal Science Roles by the Trump administration: www.votervoice.net/NAEVR/Campai...
It will help you auto populate fields to your elected reps.
Please click this AEVR/NAEVR (vision research advocacy group) link to oppose Schedule F Reclassification of Federal Science Roles by the Trump administration: www.votervoice.net/NAEVR/Campai...
It will help you auto populate fields to your elected reps.
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Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!
May 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!
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Cross-posting from LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/kevin-...
These are useful (and free!) websites that I found in my search for all things #zebrafish as part of my Bioinformatics Bootcamp. If there’s enough interest, I may do a blog post on the Node. Enjoy!
These are useful (and free!) websites that I found in my search for all things #zebrafish as part of my Bioinformatics Bootcamp. If there’s enough interest, I may do a blog post on the Node. Enjoy!
#zebrafish | Kevin Thiessen, Ph.D.
A while back, I put together a Bioinformatics Bootcamp for #zebrafish researchers. Here are some of the helpful links & resources that I've come across in my search:
Disclaimer: This is not a...
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May 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Cross-posting from LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/kevin-...
These are useful (and free!) websites that I found in my search for all things #zebrafish as part of my Bioinformatics Bootcamp. If there’s enough interest, I may do a blog post on the Node. Enjoy!
These are useful (and free!) websites that I found in my search for all things #zebrafish as part of my Bioinformatics Bootcamp. If there’s enough interest, I may do a blog post on the Node. Enjoy!
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NIH just cancelled the STEP-UP summer research program and they alerted students today.
One of my students accepted their offer, turned down other REUs, and is now screwed for this summer.
One of my students accepted their offer, turned down other REUs, and is now screwed for this summer.
April 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
NIH just cancelled the STEP-UP summer research program and they alerted students today.
One of my students accepted their offer, turned down other REUs, and is now screwed for this summer.
One of my students accepted their offer, turned down other REUs, and is now screwed for this summer.
Very good description of how the Trump administration is dismantling US science and harming public health, and a message that we can't acquiesce. Supporting medical science in the USA - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Supporting medical science in the USA
The pursuit of rigorous medical science is not compatible with capitulation to government
demands aimed at weaponising and eroding science. On April 14, Edwin R Martin Jr,
the Trump-appointed interim ...
www.thelancet.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Very good description of how the Trump administration is dismantling US science and harming public health, and a message that we can't acquiesce. Supporting medical science in the USA - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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📊 tidyplots: Publication-Ready Plots for Scientific Papers
By Jan Broder Engler — Create clean, consistent, and accessible plots in R with intuitive syntax. Great for scientific publishing!
🔗 Package: buff.ly/AEeUq0Z
🔍 Examples: buff.ly/vFpLqna
More R resources 👉 buff.ly/MSQa1kh
#RStats #DataViz
By Jan Broder Engler — Create clean, consistent, and accessible plots in R with intuitive syntax. Great for scientific publishing!
🔗 Package: buff.ly/AEeUq0Z
🔍 Examples: buff.ly/vFpLqna
More R resources 👉 buff.ly/MSQa1kh
#RStats #DataViz
Tidy Plots for Scientific Papers
The goal of tidyplots is to streamline the creation of publication-ready plots for scientific papers. It allows to gradually add, remove and adjust plot components using a consistent and intuitive…
buff.ly
April 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
📊 tidyplots: Publication-Ready Plots for Scientific Papers
By Jan Broder Engler — Create clean, consistent, and accessible plots in R with intuitive syntax. Great for scientific publishing!
🔗 Package: buff.ly/AEeUq0Z
🔍 Examples: buff.ly/vFpLqna
More R resources 👉 buff.ly/MSQa1kh
#RStats #DataViz
By Jan Broder Engler — Create clean, consistent, and accessible plots in R with intuitive syntax. Great for scientific publishing!
🔗 Package: buff.ly/AEeUq0Z
🔍 Examples: buff.ly/vFpLqna
More R resources 👉 buff.ly/MSQa1kh
#RStats #DataViz
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We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.
April 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.
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If you feel like being inspired by a big law firm, here's the opening to Sussman Godfrey's lawsuit against Trump and his executive order targeting the firm. It still is amazing other firms caved quickly to Trump's mob-like and unconstitutional shakedown.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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April 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
If you feel like being inspired by a big law firm, here's the opening to Sussman Godfrey's lawsuit against Trump and his executive order targeting the firm. It still is amazing other firms caved quickly to Trump's mob-like and unconstitutional shakedown.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The budget proposal eliminates:
NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research office
Stops funding regional climate data, climate competitive research or sea grant programs
Severely defunds the Natl Ocean Service & the NMFS
www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...
NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research office
Stops funding regional climate data, climate competitive research or sea grant programs
Severely defunds the Natl Ocean Service & the NMFS
www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...
Trump’s draft budget eviscerates weather and climate tracking and research | CNN
The move would devastate weather and climate research even as weather is becoming more erratic and extreme, and would cripple the US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate ...
www.cnn.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The budget proposal eliminates:
NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research office
Stops funding regional climate data, climate competitive research or sea grant programs
Severely defunds the Natl Ocean Service & the NMFS
www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...
NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research office
Stops funding regional climate data, climate competitive research or sea grant programs
Severely defunds the Natl Ocean Service & the NMFS
www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...
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This sounded even more ridiculous in the original North Korean.
REPORTER: President Trump looks healthier than ever before. I'm sure everybody in this room could agree. Is he working out with Bobby Kennedy and is he eating less McDonald's?
LEAVITT: I can confirm the president is in very good shape
LEAVITT: I can confirm the president is in very good shape
April 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This sounded even more ridiculous in the original North Korean.
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The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Playing around with CBP airport processing data this morning to see how much air travel by non-US passengers is cratering.
April 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Playing around with CBP airport processing data this morning to see how much air travel by non-US passengers is cratering.
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Wow!
Three scholars at Columbia, Michigan, & Maryland just introduced a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the U.S.
The data is constructed by linking voter registrations to online worker profiles.
VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8M workers across 2.6M employers.
Three scholars at Columbia, Michigan, & Maryland just introduced a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the U.S.
The data is constructed by linking voter registrations to online worker profiles.
VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8M workers across 2.6M employers.
April 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Wow!
Three scholars at Columbia, Michigan, & Maryland just introduced a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the U.S.
The data is constructed by linking voter registrations to online worker profiles.
VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8M workers across 2.6M employers.
Three scholars at Columbia, Michigan, & Maryland just introduced a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the U.S.
The data is constructed by linking voter registrations to online worker profiles.
VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8M workers across 2.6M employers.
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We must stand up for all of our students. The federal government's targeting & treatment of international students is completely unacceptable. International students are core members of the Buckeye community and we won’t be silent as they are scapegoated in this way
www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...
www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...
5 Ohio State University international students have visas revoked by Trump administration
Ohio State University is the latest college to report having international students whose visas were revoked by the Trump administration.
www.dispatch.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
We must stand up for all of our students. The federal government's targeting & treatment of international students is completely unacceptable. International students are core members of the Buckeye community and we won’t be silent as they are scapegoated in this way
www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...
www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...