I was going to unload on Matt Yglesias' recent flow of utter bullshit re. data centers and western water, but Jonathan Thompson has saved me the trouble. Abundance mindset really fails in places where there really is not abundance.
#westernwater #drought
www.landdesk.org/p/no-there-i...

No Democrat should support military assistance for a government that is starving an entire population. This should not be a close call or some agonizing debate.

just saw a commercial featuring a dude who said he’s a marketer in Seattle, and sometimes he hits a wall creatively, so he likes using an A.I. tool to write marketing materials for him. in a just world, this would be a fireable offense and it would be too humiliating to admit this in public

Charles Elton wrote his classic book "Animal Ecology" nearly a century ago (1927). Much of it remains insightful, and the Conclusion still resonates.

An enormous part of the reactionary pushback has been men mad that anyone could contradict them, let alone call them out, so ofc they love the endless, unthinking fellatio offered by AI.

Now that we are being transported back in time to the rise of these contrarians - we need to be even more clear that these movements were never about science. Manufacturing doubt was/is sadly a highly effective strategy to undermine science and public health. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It's finally out! This paper took quite a while but I'm so excited to share now! For anyone who studies sex chromosomes, take note: we found a rare "slower X"! (dN/dS_X < dN/dS_Autos) 👀

Also point this out to anyone you can. These were not planned protests. These were normies getting the supplies for their weekend projects or at a restaurant and saw their servers getting hauled off and were like this is some bullshit.

HMMER is the bedrock of genomic annotation globally, and now its funding is terminated for no reason.

@cryptogenomicon.bsky.social is now on bsky:

There is no "science-wide replication crisis" because every word in that phrase carries unfounded assumptions. 🧵

1. There is no evidence that progress has generally stalled in the sciences. Also, no one has actually tried to estimate replicability across fields.

Native ecosystem, pioneer gravestone: hopes of resurrection.
#landscapephotography #palouseprairie #wildflowers #inlandnorthwest

In an age of triumphant managerialism, we must remember that giving researchers support, autonomy, and freedom results in miraculous things. Another point is that the government required AT&T to invest in basic research to avoid being treated as a monopoly. 1517.substack.com/p/why-bell-l...

In 2013 Liz Scordato & I did a ~6k mi transect of Russia. It was *part* of a larger study of how divergence in traits used in mate choice & competition affects the formation of new species. Today, we have a paper in Science, led by Drew Schield & Becca Safran 🧪🪶🦚
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

i did not spend my whole undergrad listening to speeches about the importance of using scholarly sources to now accept ChatGPT as a legitimate source of information just because technocrats have lost their minds

"what do we do about alienated young men?" i dunno, what do we do about anybody? let them flounder in shit work until they get disabled and die? we don't do anything for anyone. maybe the problem is the same problem that's driven all of us off a cliff and alienated young men are actually just humans

Science friends in the U.S.: we have two months to make sure data, code, and websites are saved somewhere securely. This isn't going to be pretty.

A reminder, and a very helpful guide, to lock down your digital life and getting yourself off as many unwanted websites as you can.

Now more than ever, give no more information than absolutely necessary

www.crashoverridenetwork.com/coach.html

New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

Getting fired in the Open Office Geodesic Dome, the Hurt Yurt, the Fear Sphere, the Dodecadownsizer