Noam Ross
@noamross.net
Computational disease ecologist. Executive Director of @ropensci.org. Co-founder of https://grant-witness.us/. Brooklynite. One Health, open science, #RStats, cities, civics, bikes, fun, love, progress + justice. he/him
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PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown
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Good news.
Faculty expressing their concerns seems to be having effects.
If you are in academia, make sure your administration knows your views on the compact.
Faculty expressing their concerns seems to be having effects.
If you are in academia, make sure your administration knows your views on the compact.
UNC-Chapel Hill's chancellor says the university will not sign on to a higher education compact from the Trump administration.
www.wunc.org/education/20...
www.wunc.org/education/20...
After faculty raise concerns, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor says university will not sign Trump's higher ed compact
Lee Roberts called the "preferential treatment" proposal a clear infringement on academic freedom.
www.wunc.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Good news.
Faculty expressing their concerns seems to be having effects.
If you are in academia, make sure your administration knows your views on the compact.
Faculty expressing their concerns seems to be having effects.
If you are in academia, make sure your administration knows your views on the compact.
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Why? Because the book is the worst kind of COVID revisionism. 2/ bsky.app/profile/josh...
"COVID Revisionism Has Gone Too Far"
Ya think?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Fascinating given that "In Covid's Wake" is unable to grapple with (i) the extent of COVID mortality and morbidity; (ii) lives saved due to interventions; (iii) missed opportunities to align health + the economy.
Ya think?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Fascinating given that "In Covid's Wake" is unable to grapple with (i) the extent of COVID mortality and morbidity; (ii) lives saved due to interventions; (iii) missed opportunities to align health + the economy.
COVID Revisionism Has Gone Too Far
If the center and left succumb to the view that “nothing worked,” no one will remain to defend sensible public-health measures the next time a pandemic comes around.
www.theatlantic.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Why? Because the book is the worst kind of COVID revisionism. 2/ bsky.app/profile/josh...
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It's sad to see @scholars.org giving credibility to "In COVID's Wake" once again. 1/
November 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
It's sad to see @scholars.org giving credibility to "In COVID's Wake" once again. 1/
I can't emphasize how much this whole shakedown would make me feel less safe at Cornell as a Jew, puts Jews in danger as pawns in the authoritarian program of this administration, and is profoundly antithetical the humanist ethical and moral beliefs that are core to my Jewish identity.
November 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I can't emphasize how much this whole shakedown would make me feel less safe at Cornell as a Jew, puts Jews in danger as pawns in the authoritarian program of this administration, and is profoundly antithetical the humanist ethical and moral beliefs that are core to my Jewish identity.
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Add Cornell to the list
November 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Add Cornell to the list
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Cornell agrees to "invest" $30 million in things like AI farming.
Cornell also agrees to pay $30 million to the U.S. for no clear reason or purpose.
Cornell also agrees to pay $30 million to the U.S. for no clear reason or purpose.
November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Cornell agrees to "invest" $30 million in things like AI farming.
Cornell also agrees to pay $30 million to the U.S. for no clear reason or purpose.
Cornell also agrees to pay $30 million to the U.S. for no clear reason or purpose.
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BREAKING: Cornell caved.
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
BREAKING: Cornell caved.
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
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[blog] Computo - A Journal for Transparent and Reproducible Research in Statistics and Machine Learning
Authors Julien Chiquet, François-David Collin, Marie-Pierre Etienne, Pierre Neuvial, Aymeric Stamm, and Nelle Varoquaux are excited to introduce Computo to the rOpenSci community as a road to […]
Authors Julien Chiquet, François-David Collin, Marie-Pierre Etienne, Pierre Neuvial, Aymeric Stamm, and Nelle Varoquaux are excited to introduce Computo to the rOpenSci community as a road to […]
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November 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
[blog] Computo - A Journal for Transparent and Reproducible Research in Statistics and Machine Learning
Authors Julien Chiquet, François-David Collin, Marie-Pierre Etienne, Pierre Neuvial, Aymeric Stamm, and Nelle Varoquaux are excited to introduce Computo to the rOpenSci community as a road to […]
Authors Julien Chiquet, François-David Collin, Marie-Pierre Etienne, Pierre Neuvial, Aymeric Stamm, and Nelle Varoquaux are excited to introduce Computo to the rOpenSci community as a road to […]
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🌈 The website for the inaugural rainbowR conference is now live! 🎉
🗓️ Save the date: Feb 25th-26th, 2026
📣 Call for submissions is open
👯 We're bringing together LGBTQ+ R users to promote our work and foster connections among community members
conference.rainbowr.org
🗓️ Save the date: Feb 25th-26th, 2026
📣 Call for submissions is open
👯 We're bringing together LGBTQ+ R users to promote our work and foster connections among community members
conference.rainbowr.org
– rainbowR conference
conference.rainbowr.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🌈 The website for the inaugural rainbowR conference is now live! 🎉
🗓️ Save the date: Feb 25th-26th, 2026
📣 Call for submissions is open
👯 We're bringing together LGBTQ+ R users to promote our work and foster connections among community members
conference.rainbowr.org
🗓️ Save the date: Feb 25th-26th, 2026
📣 Call for submissions is open
👯 We're bringing together LGBTQ+ R users to promote our work and foster connections among community members
conference.rainbowr.org
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"earlier this year, the Trump administration quietly dismantled the external peer review procedure that assured that CDC-funded extramural research reflected the “most meritorious ideas and projects,” and maintained public accountability."
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Exclusive: The Trump administration dismantled the CDC’s peer review system. Staffers scrambled to salvage it.
The CDC sends hundreds of millions of dollars to outside researchers each year. Would the Trump administration let that happen in 2025?
insidemedicine.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"earlier this year, the Trump administration quietly dismantled the external peer review procedure that assured that CDC-funded extramural research reflected the “most meritorious ideas and projects,” and maintained public accountability."
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
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Defend Public Health is hiring an Organizing Director (full time), and Organizing and Operations managers (part time). Apply!
www.defendpublichealth.org/jobs-defend-...
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www.defendpublichealth.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Defend Public Health is hiring an Organizing Director (full time), and Organizing and Operations managers (part time). Apply!
www.defendpublichealth.org/jobs-defend-...
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I’m looking for folks with IDD and their families who rely on SNAP and want to talk to a journalist about it. DM me here, email me at sluterman dot 19thnews dot org, or hit me up on Signal at slooterman.18.
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I’m looking for folks with IDD and their families who rely on SNAP and want to talk to a journalist about it. DM me here, email me at sluterman dot 19thnews dot org, or hit me up on Signal at slooterman.18.
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Direct File is survived by its code, lovingly preserved on GitHub for potential revival whenever the leaders of the executive branch are no longer bent on looting the country.
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Direct File is survived by its code, lovingly preserved on GitHub for potential revival whenever the leaders of the executive branch are no longer bent on looting the country.
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Defend Public Health is hiring an Organizing Director (full time), and Organizing and Operations managers (part time).
www.defendpublichealth.org/jobs-defend-...
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social #jobs
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Jobs at Defend Public Health | Defend Public Health
See the paid positions we have open to build the Defend Public Health movement.
www.defendpublichealth.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Defend Public Health is hiring an Organizing Director (full time), and Organizing and Operations managers (part time).
www.defendpublichealth.org/jobs-defend-...
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social #jobs
www.defendpublichealth.org/jobs-defend-...
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social #jobs
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Now I'm also looking for a research software engineer to implement a pile of research results to R packages loo, posterior, bayesplot, projpred, priorsense, brms or/and Python packages ArviZ, Bambi and Kulprit. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact info at users.aalto.fi/~ave/)
I'm now also looking for a postdoc with strong Bayesian background and interest in developing Bayesian cross-validation theory, methods and software. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact information at users.aalto.fi/~ave/).
Others, please share
Others, please share
I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University.
Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Now I'm also looking for a research software engineer to implement a pile of research results to R packages loo, posterior, bayesplot, projpred, priorsense, brms or/and Python packages ArviZ, Bambi and Kulprit. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact info at users.aalto.fi/~ave/)
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NYC and adjacent friends: I'm thrilled and terrified to be giving a public lecture in Manhattan at 6pm on Wednesday, 19 November. If you feel like coming into the city* for the evening, I'd love to see you there!
*Yes, NYC = "the city" for Jersey girls.
www.simonsfoundation.org/event/trade-...
*Yes, NYC = "the city" for Jersey girls.
www.simonsfoundation.org/event/trade-...
Trade, Borrow, or Steal: How Acquired Metabolism Drives Evolution
Trade, Borrow, or Steal: How Acquired Metabolism Drives Evolution on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
NYC and adjacent friends: I'm thrilled and terrified to be giving a public lecture in Manhattan at 6pm on Wednesday, 19 November. If you feel like coming into the city* for the evening, I'd love to see you there!
*Yes, NYC = "the city" for Jersey girls.
www.simonsfoundation.org/event/trade-...
*Yes, NYC = "the city" for Jersey girls.
www.simonsfoundation.org/event/trade-...
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Here's my latest contribution to the "Lost Science" series at the New York Times: Jay Falk, a scientist who studies why some female hummingbirds look just like males. Gift link: nyti.ms/4qF7Qje
October 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Here's my latest contribution to the "Lost Science" series at the New York Times: Jay Falk, a scientist who studies why some female hummingbirds look just like males. Gift link: nyti.ms/4qF7Qje
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TIL about Faculty First Responders, a group that offers "peer-to-peer counseling and advice to academic workers experiencing media attacks, campaigns of harassment, doxing, or other threats to their academic freedom and free speech."
facultyfirstresponders.com
Thanks @hormiga.bsky.social !
facultyfirstresponders.com
Thanks @hormiga.bsky.social !
October 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
TIL about Faculty First Responders, a group that offers "peer-to-peer counseling and advice to academic workers experiencing media attacks, campaigns of harassment, doxing, or other threats to their academic freedom and free speech."
facultyfirstresponders.com
Thanks @hormiga.bsky.social !
facultyfirstresponders.com
Thanks @hormiga.bsky.social !
Defend Public Health is hiring an Organizing Director (full time), and Organizing and Operations managers (part time).
www.defendpublichealth.org/jobs-defend-...
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social #jobs
www.defendpublichealth.org/jobs-defend-...
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social #jobs
Jobs at Defend Public Health | Defend Public Health
See the paid positions we have open to build the Defend Public Health movement.
www.defendpublichealth.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Defend Public Health is hiring an Organizing Director (full time), and Organizing and Operations managers (part time).
www.defendpublichealth.org/jobs-defend-...
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social #jobs
www.defendpublichealth.org/jobs-defend-...
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social #jobs
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In interviews with THE CITY, members of a local representing environmental workers criticized their national leader’s call for Democrats to pause health care demands in order to reopen the government.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/31/g...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/31/g...
Amid Shutdown, Federal Workers in NY Slam Union Leader’s Break from Dems
In interviews with THE CITY, members of a local representing environmental workers criticized their national leader’s call for Democrats to pause health care demands in order to reopen the government.
www.thecity.nyc
October 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM
In interviews with THE CITY, members of a local representing environmental workers criticized their national leader’s call for Democrats to pause health care demands in order to reopen the government.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/31/g...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/31/g...
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This is one of the many things the Continuing Resolution needs to place guardrails on.
I wrote an explainer about the mass firings—the RIFs.
The RIFs all year have been clearly illegal. Russell Vought is using them to lawlessly clean out federal agencies. Lower court judges have said so. But the Calvinball Supreme Court has allowed them. 1/
The RIFs all year have been clearly illegal. Russell Vought is using them to lawlessly clean out federal agencies. Lower court judges have said so. But the Calvinball Supreme Court has allowed them. 1/
The mass firings have been lawless: now and all year
The first step in stopping a lawless Supreme Court is being clear about what it’s doing
scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This is one of the many things the Continuing Resolution needs to place guardrails on.
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I wrote an explainer about the mass firings—the RIFs.
The RIFs all year have been clearly illegal. Russell Vought is using them to lawlessly clean out federal agencies. Lower court judges have said so. But the Calvinball Supreme Court has allowed them. 1/
The RIFs all year have been clearly illegal. Russell Vought is using them to lawlessly clean out federal agencies. Lower court judges have said so. But the Calvinball Supreme Court has allowed them. 1/
The mass firings have been lawless: now and all year
The first step in stopping a lawless Supreme Court is being clear about what it’s doing
scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I wrote an explainer about the mass firings—the RIFs.
The RIFs all year have been clearly illegal. Russell Vought is using them to lawlessly clean out federal agencies. Lower court judges have said so. But the Calvinball Supreme Court has allowed them. 1/
The RIFs all year have been clearly illegal. Russell Vought is using them to lawlessly clean out federal agencies. Lower court judges have said so. But the Calvinball Supreme Court has allowed them. 1/
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New story up on the non-existent banned words from NIH grants (based on my grant title, word cloud analysis)
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Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next
The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official
www.statnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
New story up on the non-existent banned words from NIH grants (based on my grant title, word cloud analysis)
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
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