Grant Haines
@gehaines.bsky.social
evolutionary bio postdoc at Hólar University.
fish stuff mostly, but not exclusively.
Skip emeritus of Colgate University curling team.
Formerly: McGill, W&M, Colgate
Bethlehemite (PA)
gehaines.weebly.com
fish stuff mostly, but not exclusively.
Skip emeritus of Colgate University curling team.
Formerly: McGill, W&M, Colgate
Bethlehemite (PA)
gehaines.weebly.com
nobody thinks you are dim enough to believe this
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
nobody thinks you are dim enough to believe this
consumer goods are not really the issue
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
consumer goods are not really the issue
Isn’t the focus on electoral behavior misplaced when it lags behind legislative polarization? This is just voters more accurately recognizing the stakes of elections.
November 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Isn’t the focus on electoral behavior misplaced when it lags behind legislative polarization? This is just voters more accurately recognizing the stakes of elections.
this report contains some of the worst data interpretation I've ever seen.
Wow, could it be that there is a slight negative relationship between social media following and electoral performance because congressional districts contain a finite number of people???
Wow, could it be that there is a slight negative relationship between social media following and electoral performance because congressional districts contain a finite number of people???
October 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
this report contains some of the worst data interpretation I've ever seen.
Wow, could it be that there is a slight negative relationship between social media following and electoral performance because congressional districts contain a finite number of people???
Wow, could it be that there is a slight negative relationship between social media following and electoral performance because congressional districts contain a finite number of people???
some fun biogeography going on in this region, btw doi.org/10.1139/f78-...
![title and abstract of "Rombough et al. 1978. Life history and taxonomic
status of an isolated population of Arctic char, Salvelinus alpinus, from Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland. Res. Board Can.35: 1537-1541"
last sentence of abstract is highlighted: "It is proposed that Arctic char from Candlestick Pond are descendents [sic] of an aboriginal form of S. alpinus that has been largely displaced along the Atlantic coast of North America."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7twy4ipd4u4pzzge5k2afnln/bafkreiepkzmb6j5hkxwchft5w2zzfxza577e4sla52gbu7uo3f2cc7zjpa@jpeg)
October 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
some fun biogeography going on in this region, btw doi.org/10.1139/f78-...
We can only show this change because of a short (basically 1 page of text) 1983 paper in the Canadian Field-Naturalist. As far as I can tell, this paper is only available online via @biodivlibrary.bsky.social www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2800903...
October 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
We can only show this change because of a short (basically 1 page of text) 1983 paper in the Canadian Field-Naturalist. As far as I can tell, this paper is only available online via @biodivlibrary.bsky.social www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2800903...
Now that I have time to explain this a little more: since 2021, @sarahsanderson.bsky.social and I, and some other folks from @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social's lab have been working in QC's Parc national du Lac-Témiscouata on some odd stickleback populations rapidly evolving in response to stocked trout.🧪🐟
October 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Now that I have time to explain this a little more: since 2021, @sarahsanderson.bsky.social and I, and some other folks from @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social's lab have been working in QC's Parc national du Lac-Témiscouata on some odd stickleback populations rapidly evolving in response to stocked trout.🧪🐟
Could you please elaborate on this part of the story? King Cove already has an airport.
October 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Could you please elaborate on this part of the story? King Cove already has an airport.
No idea where this is, but let me tell you this stream has soooo many stickleback in it.
October 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
No idea where this is, but let me tell you this stream has soooo many stickleback in it.
As a salmonid biologist from Pennsylvania, it is impossible for me to describe how infuriating this is.
I have emailed the state about undocumented native, wild brook trout populations that they wouldn’t even put on their maps without doing a survey that they were too understaffed for.
I have emailed the state about undocumented native, wild brook trout populations that they wouldn’t even put on their maps without doing a survey that they were too understaffed for.
October 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
As a salmonid biologist from Pennsylvania, it is impossible for me to describe how infuriating this is.
I have emailed the state about undocumented native, wild brook trout populations that they wouldn’t even put on their maps without doing a survey that they were too understaffed for.
I have emailed the state about undocumented native, wild brook trout populations that they wouldn’t even put on their maps without doing a survey that they were too understaffed for.
When do we think the last time you could buy Arctic charr in Union Square was? www.gbif.org/occurrence/1...
October 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
When do we think the last time you could buy Arctic charr in Union Square was? www.gbif.org/occurrence/1...
Here's some bird pics from Látrabjarg in the beginning of July. It turns out puffins are incredibly easy to photograph, so I like how these came out despite me having no idea how to work my camera.
September 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Here's some bird pics from Látrabjarg in the beginning of July. It turns out puffins are incredibly easy to photograph, so I like how these came out despite me having no idea how to work my camera.
Many people whose job it is to write about politics seem to be unaware of anything that has happened in the past decade or any of the prominent political actors of that time period.
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
September 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Many people whose job it is to write about politics seem to be unaware of anything that has happened in the past decade or any of the prominent political actors of that time period.
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
Not 100%, but pretty sure this is a short-eared owl I saw this evening
September 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Not 100%, but pretty sure this is a short-eared owl I saw this evening
![Text from article: But following the initial outreach, many creators expressed concern about some stipulations. According to copies of the contract viewed by WIRED, creators in the program must funnel all bookings with lawmakers and political leaders through Chorus. Creators also have to loop Chorus in on any independently organized engagements with government officials or political leaders.
“If I want to work with another politician, I have to fully collaborate with them,” said one creator who was offered the contract but ultimately declined to take it and asked not to be named. “If I get Zohran and he wants to [do an] interview with me, I don’t want to give that to them.”
Creators in the program are not allowed to use any funds or resources that they receive as part of the program to make content that supports or opposes any political candidate or campaign without express authorization from Chorus in advance and in writing, per the contract.
The contracts reviewed by WIRED prohibit standard partnership disclosures, declaring that creators will “not publicize” their relationship with Chorus or tell others that they’re members of the program “without Chorus’s prior express consent.” (A screenshot from a slideshow was shared with WIRED following this article's publication by Graham Wilson, a lawyer working with Chorus, that offers several talking points if a member of the cohort wanted to discuss Chorus publicly.) They also forbid creators from “disclos[ing] the identity of any Funder” and give Chorus the ability to force creators to remove or correct content based solely on the organization’s discretion if that content was made at a Chorus-organized event.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7twy4ipd4u4pzzge5k2afnln/bafkreihrgo6bwuiwwou4vog6nk3oal7gneaje3octgfbw6izgjcf644fru@jpeg)
doi.org/10.1128/jvi.... J Virol. 2024 Aug 1;98(9):e01240-24.
The harms of promoting the lab leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 origins without evidence
The harms of promoting the lab leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 origins without evidence
August 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
doi.org/10.1128/jvi.... J Virol. 2024 Aug 1;98(9):e01240-24.
The harms of promoting the lab leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 origins without evidence
The harms of promoting the lab leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 origins without evidence
August 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The title of this engraving is “The Fruits of Arbitrary Power, or The Bloody Massacre”
August 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The title of this engraving is “The Fruits of Arbitrary Power, or The Bloody Massacre”
Whether or not this event landed as centrism, the explanation of the rally by Stewart was much more consistent with the rest of his work at TDS (where most of his criticism of democrats was from the populist left)
August 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Whether or not this event landed as centrism, the explanation of the rally by Stewart was much more consistent with the rest of his work at TDS (where most of his criticism of democrats was from the populist left)
You should alert your colleagues at the Opinion desk.
August 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
You should alert your colleagues at the Opinion desk.
Hey, @springernature.com, why did your peer review/preprint platform, Research Square, automatically feed my manuscript into an AI language checker trained on other people's submitted manuscripts?
[also, have you considered that your robot just sucks if it is finding an error every 9 words?]
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[also, have you considered that your robot just sucks if it is finding an error every 9 words?]
🧪
August 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Hey, @springernature.com, why did your peer review/preprint platform, Research Square, automatically feed my manuscript into an AI language checker trained on other people's submitted manuscripts?
[also, have you considered that your robot just sucks if it is finding an error every 9 words?]
🧪
[also, have you considered that your robot just sucks if it is finding an error every 9 words?]
🧪
Loony tunes experimental setup.
July 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Loony tunes experimental setup.
Good news!
“The court DECLARES that the National Science Foundation’s 15% Indirect Cost Rate and the Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate, NSF 25-034 are invalid, arbitrary and capricious, and contrary to law.”
cases.justia.com/federal/dist...
“The court DECLARES that the National Science Foundation’s 15% Indirect Cost Rate and the Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate, NSF 25-034 are invalid, arbitrary and capricious, and contrary to law.”
cases.justia.com/federal/dist...
![UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN
UNIVERSITIES, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION and
BRIAN STONE, in his official capacity as
Acting Director of the National Science
Foundation,
Defendants.
FINAL JUDGMENT
June 20, 2025
TALWANI, D.J.
For the reasons stated in this court’s Memorandum and Order [Doc. No. 78], IT IS
HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED:
1. Judgment is entered in favor of Plaintiffs Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, the American Council on Education, Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University, Brown University, California Institute of Technology, The Regents of the University of California, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Chicago, Cornell University, Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Regents of the University of Michigan, Regents of the University of Minnesota, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, and The Trustees of Princeton University and against Defendants National Science Foundation and Brian Stone on Counts I (to the extent it alleges that the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, 42 U.S.C.
§§ 1861, et seq., and 41 U.S.C. § 4708 do not expressly authorize the challenged action), II, III, and IV of Plaintiffs’ Complaint [Doc. No. 1].
2. The National Science Foundation’s 15% Indirect Cost Rate and the Policy Notice:
Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate, NSF 25-034 are VACATED.
3. The court DECLARES that the National Science Foundation’s 15% Indirect Cost
Rate and the Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate, NSF 25-034 are invalid, arbitrary and capricious, and contrary to law.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
June 20, 2025
Indira Talwani
United States District Judge](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7twy4ipd4u4pzzge5k2afnln/bafkreigkb3jidejdijoa3hgcm734aushxrn6vyy2dnltqk3zafntqjoxwi@jpeg)
June 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Good news!
“The court DECLARES that the National Science Foundation’s 15% Indirect Cost Rate and the Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate, NSF 25-034 are invalid, arbitrary and capricious, and contrary to law.”
cases.justia.com/federal/dist...
“The court DECLARES that the National Science Foundation’s 15% Indirect Cost Rate and the Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate, NSF 25-034 are invalid, arbitrary and capricious, and contrary to law.”
cases.justia.com/federal/dist...