Will James
@mountainmicrobio.bsky.social
ColoState PhD Student. I study disturbance and microbial ecology in mountain freshwater systems. He/Him
This was good for morale
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This was good for morale
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In 2023, students at Ohio State blocked the doors to the president's office.
Little did they know, live video from campus CCTVs were being fed straight to DHS.
It's part of a little-known, decades-long surveillance effort built on the back of college football.
www.foiaball.com/p/dhs-colleg...
Little did they know, live video from campus CCTVs were being fed straight to DHS.
It's part of a little-known, decades-long surveillance effort built on the back of college football.
www.foiaball.com/p/dhs-colleg...
Scoop: Inside DHS's vast college football surveillance effort
If you go to a college football game, the feds have cameras on you.
www.foiaball.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
In 2023, students at Ohio State blocked the doors to the president's office.
Little did they know, live video from campus CCTVs were being fed straight to DHS.
It's part of a little-known, decades-long surveillance effort built on the back of college football.
www.foiaball.com/p/dhs-colleg...
Little did they know, live video from campus CCTVs were being fed straight to DHS.
It's part of a little-known, decades-long surveillance effort built on the back of college football.
www.foiaball.com/p/dhs-colleg...
Tis the season!
September 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Tis the season!
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One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “AI–AI bias: Large language models favor communications generated by large language models.” Explore the article here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.
For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.
September 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “AI–AI bias: Large language models favor communications generated by large language models.” Explore the article here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.
For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Checked Norman off the list.
September 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Checked Norman off the list.
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236 metagenome-assembled microbial genomes from rivers along a latitudinal gradient www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
236 metagenome-assembled microbial genomes from rivers along a latitudinal gradient - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - 236 metagenome-assembled microbial genomes from rivers along a latitudinal gradient
www.nature.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
236 metagenome-assembled microbial genomes from rivers along a latitudinal gradient www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
Wrapped up field work for 2025 today!
Blown away by just how dramatic the impacts of restoration efforts have been already.
Blown away by just how dramatic the impacts of restoration efforts have been already.
August 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Wrapped up field work for 2025 today!
Blown away by just how dramatic the impacts of restoration efforts have been already.
Blown away by just how dramatic the impacts of restoration efforts have been already.
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I joined together with @CIGLR scientists from across the Great Lakes basin to explain the critical value of Great Lakes research and how investing in it directly impacts our health, wealth, and well-being. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Investing in Great Lakes Science is critical for safety and prosperity
Scientific research plays a crucial role in supporting the safety and prosperity of tens of millions of people who live, work, and recreate in the Lau…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I joined together with @CIGLR scientists from across the Great Lakes basin to explain the critical value of Great Lakes research and how investing in it directly impacts our health, wealth, and well-being. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Might be June, but still some good turns to be had!
June 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Might be June, but still some good turns to be had!
Some pretty dramatic planform shifts following large wood installation. First time point for the field season in the books!
June 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Some pretty dramatic planform shifts following large wood installation. First time point for the field season in the books!
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Santa Ono will NOT be the next University of Florida president after a contentious confirmation process before the Florida Board of Governors that resulted in a split vote to sign off on his hire. Story to come.
June 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Santa Ono will NOT be the next University of Florida president after a contentious confirmation process before the Florida Board of Governors that resulted in a split vote to sign off on his hire. Story to come.
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🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now!
Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...
actionnetwork.org
May 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
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Cutbacks have gutted the staff at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, who work to protect the public from toxic algal blooms.
Severe spending limits have made it difficult to purchase ordinary equipment for processing samples, such as filters and containers.
Severe spending limits have made it difficult to purchase ordinary equipment for processing samples, such as filters and containers.
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals…
www.propublica.org
May 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Cutbacks have gutted the staff at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, who work to protect the public from toxic algal blooms.
Severe spending limits have made it difficult to purchase ordinary equipment for processing samples, such as filters and containers.
Severe spending limits have made it difficult to purchase ordinary equipment for processing samples, such as filters and containers.
Cuts to research are far reaching and will have immediate negative impact. Folks who work at CIGLR not only help facilitate fantastic work at University of Michigan but provide crucial HABs forecasts for recreation, fisheries, and water utilities.
www.propublica.org/article/noaa...
www.propublica.org/article/noaa...
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and...
www.propublica.org
May 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Cuts to research are far reaching and will have immediate negative impact. Folks who work at CIGLR not only help facilitate fantastic work at University of Michigan but provide crucial HABs forecasts for recreation, fisheries, and water utilities.
www.propublica.org/article/noaa...
www.propublica.org/article/noaa...
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Predicting the future of glacier-fed streams and their microbiome by @riverepfl.bsky.social, @layeb.bsky.social, @susheelbusi.bsky.social and friends in www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Well, well done dear Massimo!!!
Predicting climate-change impacts on the global glacier-fed stream microbiome - Nature Communications
Little is known about how climate change impacts glacier-fed streams (GFSs) microbiomes. Here, using a modelling framework based on global GFS metagenomic, climatic and environmental data the authors ...
www.nature.com
February 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Predicting the future of glacier-fed streams and their microbiome by @riverepfl.bsky.social, @layeb.bsky.social, @susheelbusi.bsky.social and friends in www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Well, well done dear Massimo!!!
Super fun to toss on the sticks and help out with the Fraser Experimental Forest’s Annual Snow Survey this year!
March 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Super fun to toss on the sticks and help out with the Fraser Experimental Forest’s Annual Snow Survey this year!
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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
March 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
Sitting heart rate was elevated this afternoon.
March 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Sitting heart rate was elevated this afternoon.
ColoState Colleagues, come out at noon this Friday outside the LSC to Stand Up for Science!
March 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
ColoState Colleagues, come out at noon this Friday outside the LSC to Stand Up for Science!
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Nice to see this important work make the news cycle when there is a lot of news in the world. Kudos to @laurenhart.bsky.social, @zepernickbn.bsky.social and others.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
And very nice of Newsweek to pick it up!
www.newsweek.com/lake-erie-la...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
And very nice of Newsweek to pick it up!
www.newsweek.com/lake-erie-la...
Worrying signs for Lake Erie uncovered 7,500 miles away in Africa
New research from Africa's Lake Victoria has revealed critical clues about toxic algal blooms and their potential impact on Lake Erie and beyond.
www.newsweek.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Nice to see this important work make the news cycle when there is a lot of news in the world. Kudos to @laurenhart.bsky.social, @zepernickbn.bsky.social and others.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
And very nice of Newsweek to pick it up!
www.newsweek.com/lake-erie-la...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
And very nice of Newsweek to pick it up!
www.newsweek.com/lake-erie-la...
Some nice light reading with the National championship in the background.
January 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Some nice light reading with the National championship in the background.
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NEW: Springer Nature — the prestigious publisher of scientific journals like Nature and the 1845-founded magazine Scientific American — is imploring published journal authors to buy $49 AI-generated "Media Kits" that summarize their own work.
futurism.com/springer-nat...
futurism.com/springer-nat...
January 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
NEW: Springer Nature — the prestigious publisher of scientific journals like Nature and the 1845-founded magazine Scientific American — is imploring published journal authors to buy $49 AI-generated "Media Kits" that summarize their own work.
futurism.com/springer-nat...
futurism.com/springer-nat...
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"you'll be visited by three spirits"
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
December 25, 2024 at 12:52 AM
"you'll be visited by three spirits"
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
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The Biden-Harris Admin released the U.S. carbon pollution reduction targets for 2035 under the Paris Agreement: 61-66% below 2005 levels. They won’t last, but glad they did it. I presented at #AGU24 on setting these targets under uncertainty, & had a similar range. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
FACT SHEET: President Biden Sets 2035 Climate Target Aimed at Creating Good-Paying Union Jobs, Reducing Costs for All Americans, and Securing U.S. Leadership in the Clean Energy Economy of the Future ...
The U.S. Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) is an economy-wide, all greenhouse gas target of reducing net emissions by 61-66 percent below 2005
www.whitehouse.gov
December 20, 2024 at 2:52 AM
The Biden-Harris Admin released the U.S. carbon pollution reduction targets for 2035 under the Paris Agreement: 61-66% below 2005 levels. They won’t last, but glad they did it. I presented at #AGU24 on setting these targets under uncertainty, & had a similar range. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...