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BF Francis Ouellette @bffo.bsky.social · 13d

From @jdrakephd.bsky.social & @bahanbug.bsky.social in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | How to write a scientific paper in fifteen steps | #Education #Science 🧪 🔓 #GoodReadingForAll CC/ @ppalagi.bsky.social
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How to write a scientific paper in fifteen steps

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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · Aug 27

Breakthroughs happen when diverse expertise is woven together. Collaboration can be messy—different vocabularies, different tools—but it’s worth it. We made a video with @MinuteEarth about it. 🎥 @fviromics.bsky.social @payeldas.bsky.social & Drew Kramer #EEID

MinuteEarth @minuteearth.bsky.social · Aug 27

Weaving = Coding !?!

For the Apollo Guidance computer that took America to the moon, those two are pretty much the same.

Watch our video to see how unusual collaborations led to breakthrough discoveries: youtu.be/prYQlxH6ypA?...

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · Aug 21

Multiple ecology faculty positions at @notredame.bsky.social. Apply at apply.interfolio.com/171650. (1/2). 🌎🌐🧪

Multiple Early Career Faculty Positions in Ecology

The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for multiple, tenure-track assistant professor positions that will enhance existing institutional excellence in ecology. We are searching broadly for creative and collaborative individuals (1) working at any spatial scale, from local to global, in any system, (2) studying any level of biological organization, from genes to ecosystems, and (3) using any mode of inference, from empirical to theoretical. Applicants should demonstrate research excellence that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries; ongoing growth in the department will emphasize new hires that use quantitative and/or integrative approaches to study ecological processes. Postdoctoral experience is desirable in applicants. Successful candidates will engage with and benefit from UNDERC, Notre Dame’s 8000-acre environmental field station and home to NEON’s Great Lakes domain, superb on-campus chemical and genomic analytical facilities, an experimental research facility located close to campus, cross-disciplinary interactions through multiple centers and institutes including the Environmental Change Initiative, and a unique Interdisciplinary Graduate Training Program in Environment and Society. New faculty will benefit from Notre Dame’s recent campus-wide Strategic Framework that included the Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative. Modern research facilities exist in a new environmental research building, which opened in 2025.

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Steph N. Seifert, PhD @stephseifertphd.bsky.social · Jul 14

🚨 Our team just released a reproducible Docker pipeline for RNAseq assembly and annotation designed for nonmodel organisms!

We're using it to explore how bats manage viral infections, but it's built for broad utility in wildlife transcriptomics. @viralemergence.org

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

TATAT: a containerized software for generating annotated coding transcriptomes from raw RNA-seq data

Motivation: Many transcriptome creation workflows are not standardized, are difficult to install or share, prone to breaking as dependencies update or cease to be maintained and are resource intensive...

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Kiran Basava @incertaesedis.bsky.social · Jun 22

Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · May 28

BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses.
In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics

HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.

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America's Lab @americas-lab.bsky.social · May 24

we're crowd-sourcing a searchable repository of tangible benefits stemming from federally-funded research. Come enjoy the great stories; or send in an idea; or volunteer to join the team.

publicusaresearchbenefits.com

please re-post so we get more great stories in there!

Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.

A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.

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Marc Lipsitch @mlipsitch.bsky.social · May 22

Time Sensitive: Public comment on Schedule F (removing civil service protections for many federal employees INCLUDING THOSE WITH AUTHORITY OVER GRANTS) ends tomorrow. Notice is here: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... . Comment here (green button) www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... .

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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · May 21

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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · May 21

Slashing $23B from NIH & NSF isn't fiscal responsibility—it's a $32B economic loss. Science investments return 140–210%, compounding over time. No single administration can claim the credit, but any can cause the damage. Cuts like this aren’t just shortsighted—they’re bad business. bit.ly/dogefail

Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually

Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself

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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · May 19

Happy to announce that @alexvespi.bsky.social joined the list of amazing invited speakers at the 2nd British NetSci Symposium! If you are a PhD student or Post-doc send us an abstract! The morning of the event will be entirely devoted to you! All info: www.netsci.uk/events.html

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · May 16

Calling all virologists: my lab is hiring a tech for high containment work! Come work with our amazing team at 🇨🇦's National Pandemic Research Centre, using experimental, systems biology, & AI-driven approaches to study infection & pathogenesis of emerging viruses.

VIDO - USask @vido.org · May 16

VIDO is hiring a Research Technician to join Dr. @angierasmussen.bsky.social's lab studying emerging viruses (avian flu, Ebola, mpox, MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2). Help advance pandemic preparedness!

📍 Saskatoon, SK
🔗 vido.applytojobs.ca/research/38682

#Virology #WorkAtVIDO

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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · May 16

I love this. Let’s illuminate the reverberating impacts of our scientific enterprise.

Carlos Brody @carlosbrody.bsky.social · May 7

we're crowd-sourcing a searchable repository of tangible benefits stemming from federally-funded research. Come enjoy the great stories; or send in an idea; or volunteer to join the team.

publicusaresearchbenefits.com

please share and re-share so we get more great stories in there!

Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.

A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.

publicusaresearchbenefits.com

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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · May 14

NSF is stating that DOGE has the authority to give thumbs up or down to grant applications that experts have systematically vetted. Closed-door deliberations are being observed by DOGE 'consultants', who have accessed the NSF awards system to block the dispersal of approved grants. bit.ly/3Szvv4D

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

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Kaushi @onehealth-kk.bsky.social · May 5

🌱📊 Join the FAO One Health ICT CoP! 🌍
Launch: 21 May 2025 | 14:00–15:30 CET 💻
🔗 Register: fao.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Connect, share, and innovate with peers using ICT to boost One Health data flow & early warning.
#OneHealth #ICT #GlobalHealth #Innovation

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Launch of the One Health Knowledge Nexus Community of Practice on Information and Communication Technology for One Health Intelligence. After registering, y...

This project is funded with UK International Development from the UK government.

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Avery @averypickford.bsky.social · May 11

An interesting story about the psychology of changing people's minds, with a dash of data visualization. ♾️

Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · May 11

This is very cool. grist.org/science/brea...

Scientists just found a way to break through climate apathy

In a field of muddy results, it's among the clearest findings that one cognitive scientist has seen in his career.

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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · May 10

“The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — hardly a partisan institution — finds that nondefense government R&D yields long-run economic returns of 150% to 300% …“Our findings therefore point to a misallocation of public capital, and substantial underinvestment in nondefense R&D.”

The NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American Economy

The economic consequences of cuts to the National Science Foundation and restricting scientific inquiry on this scale could be far-reaching.

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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · May 8

Join us for the launch of this new Community of Practice that aims to support technical exchange and co-development of solutions to One Health data flow and interoperability across sectors - a multistakeholder collaborative platform to enhance One Health Intelligence. bit.ly/43bI9f7

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Join us for the launch of this new Community of Practice that aims to support technical exchange and co-development of solutions to enhance On...

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IDDjobs @iddjobs.org · Apr 30

Postdoc (Washington DC, USA)
Rodent-borne virus risk in heterogeneous landscapes
with @clfaust.bsky.social @jraghwani.bsky.social @bahanbug.bsky.social
at @ox.ac.uk @uofglasgow.bsky.social @royalvetcollege.bsky.social @ilri.org...
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2307

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · Apr 25

France opens its doors to science researchers and scholars, including those fleeing the United States.

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Choose France for Science: launch of the dedicated platform for applications to host international researchers

As the international context creates the conditions for an unprecedented wave of mobility among researchers around the world, France aims to position itself as a host country for those wishing to cont...

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · Mar 12

Excellent resource: christinapagel.substack.com/p/eight-thin...

Eight things scientists can do right now to stand up to the Trump administration’s attacks on research, public health, and the environment

A guest post by Dr Anne Toomey, author of the book "Science with Impact: How to Engage People, Change Practice, and Influence Policy".

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Erik Karlsson @eakarlsson.bsky.social · Feb 25

The Virology Unit at IPC has 3 positions open in #OneHealth:

*Postdoc – Reconstructing Past Outbreaks

*Postdoc – Environmental Surveillance

*Clinical Manager

These aren’t just jobs. They’re front-row seats to global health in action. Ready?

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#ViroSky #IDSky 🦠🔬🧬🥼🧪

Institut Pasteur du Cambodge on LinkedIn: The Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) is looking for: -…

The Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) is looking for: - 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 – 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧-𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐥…

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · Mar 7

Today at the “Stand up for Science” demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial.

A crowd of people demonstrating outside in front of the Lincoln Memorial on a clear, sunny day. Some of the signs read “Science over Stupidity,” “Science Makes America Great,” and “Team Public Health, Not Team Measles.”

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · Mar 3

@asn-amnat.bsky.social is proud to be a signature on this letter and grateful to UCS for putting this together.

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Mar 3

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.

It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science

48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Mar 4

DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases on key weather buildings www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...

DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases at critical forecasting centers

NOAA's nerve center of national weather forecasting is on a lease cancellation list.

www.axios.com

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