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Grant Haines

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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

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Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 2h

Wrong house of congress

Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 12h

Miller also does not intend to deliver anything to most of the people whose resentments he is exploiting

Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 20h

Miller's is pretty similar to Lee Atwater's though. (And Atwater was a partner at Stone & Manafort's consulting firm).

There also really isn't a way around the fact that the DHS (and ICE and CBP) was established in 2003, and accumulated powers over 20 years due to justices Bush put on SCOTUS.

Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 21h

if someone has a valid hypothesis opposed to the consensus, I would hope they would submit it to a medical journal so it can be considered and rigorously tested by doctors."

kills 2 birds with 1 stone
1) doesn't cede expert authority
2) politely makes him look like a doofus for asking the Q

Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 21h

Hey lawyers, the next time Alito does this "aren't doctors wrong sometimes?" BS here is what you say:

"Yes, and like all sciences, medicine works best when any hypothesis supported by evidence is presented, so that it can be tested. Given the gravity of this public health issue,

Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 1d

It's Philly, Coach. That's a sign of respect.

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Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · Dec 9

I love Philadelphia

Wikipedia screenshot: “Music career
Dick Allen sang professionally in a high, delicate tenor. The tone and texture of his voice has drawn comparisons to Harptones' lead singer Willie Winfield. During Allen's time with the Sixties-era Phillies, he sang lead with a doo-wop group called The Ebonistics. "Rich Allen and The Ebonistics" sang professionally at Philadelphia night clubs. He once entertained during halftime of a Philadelphia 76ers basketball game. The Philadelphia Inquirer printed a review of his performance:”

Continued with excerpt from Philly Inquirer article: “Here came Rich Allen. Flowered shirt. Tie six-inches (152 mm) wide. Hiphugger bell-bottomed pants. A microphone in his hands. Rich Allen, the most booed man in Philadelphia from April to October, when Eagles coach Joe Kuharich takes over, walked out in front of 9,557 people at the Spectrum last night to sing with his group, The Ebonistics, and a most predictable thing happened. He was booed. Two songs later though, a most unpredictable thing happened. They cheered Rich Allen. They cheered him as warmly as they have ever cheered him for a game-winning home run."”

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 4d

Dartmouth response to the Trump Administration Compact

president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...

Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President

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Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 4d

There are adult volunteers who are counselors (usually adult leaders in troops for most badges or sometimes other people who do more unusual stuff like keep bees). Many of them are also taught at summer camps, where the camp staff can sign off on requirements.

Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 4d

I taught it as camp staff!

Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 5d

When do we think the last time you could buy Arctic charr in Union Square was? www.gbif.org/occurrence/1...

screenshot from gbif database specimen page for an Arctic charr collected at an unknown date. Map shows that collection was made at Union Square in NYC.

Specimen record info showing coordinates and a locality listed as "New York Market"

Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 6d

If you think an author's association with a university compromises them, and if you can even see the authors' university affiliation (which won't be the case if there is double-blind review!), there is a place at the end of a paper where you can suggest to the editor that a CoI be noted.

Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 6d

Your premise here is that not being an employee of a university puts you outside of the academic community. That is that is simply not true.

Also, the university board won't know or care if you delay review for a paper.

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 6d

The university board still wants there to *be a university* and the message has to be that signing this letter means you are no longer a university, you can't be in the academic community if you betray it.

Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 6d

It’s directly relevant. If your contention is that the paper shouldn’t be reviewed because it doesn’t come from a university, that makes no sense because papers don’t have to come from university researchers to be reviewed.

Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 6d

because they don’t like author 3’s institution, **I** am the person most hurt by that, and the higher ups at A3’s institution do not notice, and if they do they don’t care. You have to actually game out the consequences of your protest, here!

Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 6d

Sure, I think not doing invited talks or workshops or whatever is fine and sends a clear message. But like, I’m the lead author on a manuscript right now that has 3 other authors from 2 other institutions. I’m also applying for jobs. If a potential reviewer decided to boycott review of our MS …

Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 6d

You can write papers and get them published even if you don’t work at a university, though. Whether your papers get reviewed and whether or not you work at a university are unrelated concepts.

Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 6d

Also, this is not what citations are for! They are there so readers can trace your work, not as a tool for distributing demerits that university boards will not notice or care about!

Come on people, get it together.

Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 6d

Some of these response to this particular problem are good, but refusing to review or cite papers is only going to hurt people who had nothing to do with these decisions, including students, co-authors at other institutions, and editors.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 8d

That's quite the chart annotation.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A chart of "Major concerns of PhD candidates." The top text says, "Financial pressures top the list of concerns faced by PhD candidates, but concerns differ among the sexes. Those studying in the United States rank the political landscape as their main worry." The chart shows that in the full survey, political landscape is the biggest concern for about 20% of students (a bit higher for women than men) but there's an annotation saying "In US PhD students, this rose to 64%". Overall, the highest-rated concern was financial pressures at around 40%.

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Andrew Dacks @adacks.bsky.social · 9d

Case Western Reserve Department of Biology is hiring! We're recruiting for a tenure-track position focusing on eukaryotic microbiology, especially microbial/environment interactions. Please share widely: apply.interfolio.com/174456

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Emily Kerns @emilykernss.bsky.social · 12d

2 years ago the first PhD student from my lab graduated. Last week we submitted his second chapter for review, a project that we collaborated on from start to end after the two of us independently converged on the same idea to test thermal tolerance in benthic & limnetic stickleback

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 21d

Heritable differences in metabolic stability underpin thermal tolerance of threespine stickleback (Gasterostues aculeatus) ecotypes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.15.676414v1

Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 13d

It means that just playing in Citizens Bank Park *doubles* the Phillies’ chances of winning, compared to any other park.

Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 13d

Better than 2-to-1 home field advantage with an even record on the road is nuts

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Jean-François Cudennec @jfcudennec.bsky.social · 14d

major traffic incident

Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 15d

Is this a bit?