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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 23h

BUT WAIT THERE's MORE!

Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 23h

That's right, folk! THREE TENURE TRACK JOBS IN BIOLOGY AT UMASS BOSTON! You might even be a good fit for more than one! Check 'em out! We'd love to have you!

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 23h

We also have an opening in the Biology Dept. at UMass Boston for a tenure track position for someone who's research centers on Biology Education and pedagogy! This candidate will take up our intro bio courses. Area of biology flexible! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 23h

We also have an opening in the Biology Dept. at UMass Boston for a tenure track position to teach #genetics! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us... - research area very flexible! Could definitely see candidates applying to both.

Page Up - UMass Boston

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 23h

BUT WAIT- THERE's MORE!

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 23h

Heeeeey #Microbial #Ecology folk! My department has a job opening for a tenure track Microbial Ecologist! Feel free to DM me with questions. Come join our awesome supportive whip-smart & kind crew in the Biology Department of @umassboston.bsky.social! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

The ISC - your new home at UMass Boston?

The view of Boston Harbor from front of campus

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 23h

OMG I have this problem All. The. Time. A great post outlining useful strategies. Did not know about label_wrap either! OOOO!

IBD Doctor @ibddoctor.bsky.social · 1d

Every once in a while I need to fiddle with long category labels in #rstats ggplot2.
It always helps me to refer back to this excellent blog post by #AndrewHeiss @cararthompson.bsky.social
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2022/06...

Quick and easy ways to deal with long labels in ggplot2 | Andrew Heiss

Explore different manual and automatic ways to rotate, dodge, recode, break up, and otherwise deal with long axis labels with ggplot2

www.andrewheiss.com

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 1d

This.

Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Prize is the wrong way to think about science.

My heroes aren't the people with the endowed chairs at the Ivies. They are the people who do the hard work, day in and day out, and who would take a bullet rather than inflate research findings or block others' competing research.

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Szymek Drobniak @szymekdr.bsky.social · 2d

Our recent paper looks at location-scale interfaces in comparative data. But predicting variance in variance extends much further - if you still have not have a look here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (another recent paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social). We show how extending the idea

Location‐Scale Meta‐Analysis and Meta‐Regression as a Tool to Capture Large‐Scale Changes in Biological and Methodological Heterogeneity: A Spotlight on Heteroscedasticity

Meta-analyses are widely used to understand how species and ecosystems respond to global change, but most assume that variability among studies is constant. This assumption can hide important biologi....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3d

Just because I can survive harsh conditions doesn’t mean I should have to.

Graphic: @standplaatskrk.pl

Tardigrade in neon rainbow colors inside a circle with the caption “Just because I can survive harsh conditions doesn’t mean I should have to”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 4d

You can also just buy large containers of cheese powder. 0 work to have mac and cheese with whatever noodle you want whenever you want (King Arthur has a good one, as does Hoosier Hill Farm)

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 7d

futzing.R

Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 7d

Mine is futzing.R

Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 8d

Something I jokingly said at work, but dang if it isn't actually true:
"Everyone needs an emotional support R script."

You know, those R scripts in your project where you test your freak code before you're confident it works?
#RStats

Screenshot of the top corner of the Positron IDE with three files open and their tabs are named "todo," "violence.qmd," and "play.R." The third one is circled with a pink line.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 7d

The Damage Done: @marianneguenot.bsky.social tells the story of clinical trials derailed by the administration's reckless science policy, across kidney disease, HIV, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer. Years of work and money thrown away, at times just short of a cure.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The damage done - Nature Medicine

When clinical trials are suddenly halted by US funding cuts, there are repercussions for investigators and patients, and they do not stop at borders.

www.nature.com

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 7d

Fed scientists are patriots, pass it on.

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 7d

Still plenty of time to submit papers to the Annals of Botany special issue on #Macroalgae and #EcosystemServices. Deadline for submissions is Nov 30th! #Kelp #Fucoid #seaweed #CCA @annbot.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @twernberg.bsky.social @chrisecornwall.bsky.social

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 12d

Still time to apply! Deadline tomorrow for postdoc on #NbS in salt marshes with fantastic Jim van Belzen & Tjeerd Bouma. Going to be fun project & team! 🤩 @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social @jngriffy.bsky.social @melaniejbishop.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @aec13.bsky.social @stonelivinglab.bsky.social

Jim van Belzen @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Come join us as a #Postdoc on BLUESHORES 🇪🇺 project at the NIOZ to test novel #NaturebasedSolutions to coastal defence 🌊 on saltmarshes 🌱.
workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po...

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 13d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Pete Manning @peteecology.bsky.social · 14d

Just 1 week left to apply to a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen (deadline Oct 1st) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... The postion is part of the Agroecology Partnership project SAFER www.agroecologypartnership.eu/safer Please repost!

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We Are R-Ladies @weare.rladies.org · 13d

Want to start off your Shiny app with a modern, sleek look? ✨

Use the {bslib} package for your UI: straightforward card system, Bootstrap 3/4/5 support, and tons of built-in components.

📦 rstudio.github.io/bslib/index....

#RStats

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 13d

Time for a snack!

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 13d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 14d

Cells, Gels, Organelles
Everything is beautiful in watercolor
artologica.etsy.com
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mitochondria watercolor in blue and green

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 14d

🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro
2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute
3) Center for Vaccine Research
🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

Faculty Professor Associate - Full-Time | Vaughn Cooper

We are recruiting Faculty microbiologists in three (3) different, complementary, and collaborative areas at the University of Pittsburgh associated with the School of Medicine. 1) Fundamental researc...

www.linkedin.com

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 14d

Tell me something you do when you code that other people would tell you that you shouldn't do.

Tell me the rules you break!

I'll go first: I work in untitled files in the wrong project directories all the time. Like, all the time. Yes, I do tend to lose things 😂 #databs #rstats #python

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