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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 2d

okay, the figure on the right for this paper reminds me of @palaeoiris.bsky.social art in the best of ways! #paleoart #palaeoart #QueerInPaleo #QueerInSTEM 🌈🧪

Sticker from the Etsy store of the queer art collective, Palaeoiris, featuring a foraminifera test (or shell) in the colors of the progress pride flag. The sticker appears on a very light gray background.

Enamel pins from the Etsy store of the queer art collective, Palaeoiris, featuring a foraminifera test (or shell) in the colors of the progress pride flag. The pin on the left is made of gold-colored metal, while the pin on the right is made of silver-colored metal. Both pins rest against a rock that is shiny and gold, on a bright orange surface.

Button pins from the Etsy store of the queer art collective, Palaeoiris, featuring a foraminifera test (or shell) in the colors of the progress pride flag. The background of each pin is solid blue. Buttons are equally spaced apart from one another on a white background, depicting full or partial images of twelve pins.

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Sandra Nogué @sandranogue.bsky.social · 13d

Help us spread the word! PhD offer @creaf.cat #islands #fossil 🏝️

Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · 13d

🚨PhD offer 👩‍🎓:
Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years.
Deadline: 27 Oct 2025
Selection: ~November
Starting: ~January 2026
Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me
More info👇

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Adam L @lauretig.bsky.social · 28d

Simon Wood, the GOAT of generalized additive models & creator of the mgcv #rstats package, has an Annual Review of Statistics essay on GAMs, available open access #statssky #mlsky

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · Sep 5

Worrying long term hidden fiscal drag

The family income threshold at which English students maintenance loans start to get reduced is just £25,000/yr.

It has been this level since the 2008/2009 academic year. We have had 64% (CPI) inflation since then. So it's been slashed hugely in real terms

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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · Aug 18

this slide is from a colleague's introductory stats course, I think it fits many statisticians' experiences

Slide titled: "Assumptions of the model and model checking"
with a scatterplot with axes how much people should worry vs how much people do worry.

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Steph Henson @stephhenson.bsky.social · Aug 8

🌊 I’m hiring! Research Scientist in Marine Ecology & Machine Learning at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK). Got experience with machine learning techniques applied to marine ecology, biogeochemistry or climate change? Apply by 5 September! careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Careers | National Oceanography Centre

careers.noc.ac.uk

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Nicolas Galtier @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social · Jul 17

Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)

figure showing nine data points (each for a distinct publisher) in a graph where Y-axis is our open science index and X-axis is academia friendliness (=proportion of published journals co-owned by an academic entity); strong positive relationship

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · Jul 31

This should be a lot of fun! Help us find out if BES journal data and code sharing policies are actually working, with a little side bonus quest about data equity 🤓

Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · Jul 31

We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)

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Anieke Brombacher @aniekebrombacher.bsky.social · Jul 7

The final paper of my UoS postdoc is out now in PNAS! How to detect developmental plasticity in the fossil record:

Featuring
@tomezard.bsky.social
@jamesmulqueeney.bsky.social
@katsamenis.bsky.social
@clivetrue.bsky.social
@thefosterlab.bsky.social
among others

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

www.pnas.org

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Dr Anna Sturrock @otolithgirl.bsky.social · Jul 6

Hiring a marine biology lecturer at @universityofessex.bsky.social! Permanent position. Deadline to apply= 20 Aug. We have aquaria, lots of mass specs/genomic facilities, field trips to Crotia, Indonesia, Scotland and a super collegial department. Pls share!

vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

vacancies.essex.ac.uk

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Orestis Katsamenis @katsamenis.bsky.social · Jul 6

Very proud of this project! Scanning thousands of forams was no small feat, but five years on, the team is delivered something truly groundbreaking.

@tomezard.bsky.social @thefosterlab.bsky.social

www.linkedin.com/posts/muvisx...

Our high-resolution scanners and targeted chemical analysis have come together to reveal something extraordinary: the ability to peer into the day-by-day growth of plankton shells from millions of… | ...

Our high-resolution scanners and targeted chemical analysis have come together to reveal something extraordinary: the ability to peer into the day-by-day growth of plankton shells from millions of yea...

www.linkedin.com

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University of Southampton @unisouthampton.bsky.social · Jul 1

Our researchers have conducted a groundbreaking analysis of prehistoric plankton 🔬

They have revealed how these microscopic organisms adapted to their environment not just across generations, but on a day-to-day basis.

Find out more 👉 tr.ee/1ESp0h

@sotonoceanearth.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk

Washed foraminifera being picked for computer tomography and geochemical analysis.

CT models of internal or external growth structures, as well as shell thickness, of individual foraminifera.

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Tom Ezard @tomezard.bsky.social · Jul 3

Nice write-up at phys.org/news/2025-06...

Analysis provides day-by-day insight into prehistoric plankton's capacity for change

Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a new way of analyzing fossils, allowing them to see how creatures from millions of years ago were shaped by their environment on a day-to-da...

phys.org

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Tom Ezard @tomezard.bsky.social · Jul 3

New paper led by @aniekebrombacher.bsky.social using x-ray CT and laser ablation to detect plastic environmental responses in fossil individuals www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2421549122 featuring @jamesmulqueeney.bsky.social @clivetrue.bsky.social @thefosterlab.bsky.social

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Marcio Pie @marciopie.bsky.social · Jul 3

This is gold.

Matthew Kay @mjskay.com · Jul 3

These are the design guidelines I teach. From halfway through this deck: www.mjskay.com/presentation...

These days (for academic vis) I'd add "ensure natural visual operations correspond to meaningful operations in data space". Need to make slides for that.

Some rough design guidelines*

1. Match effectiveness with importance
2. Avoid ambiguity
3. Locality is king / eyes beat memory
4. Establish viewing order
5. Layer, layer, layer
6. When in doubt, grid
7. Treat visual attributes like adjectives

* These guidelines are drawn largely from my experience + personal preferences + the literature.
Design is messy, these are not perfect, others will disagree with me, etc. Caveat emptor.

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Tom Ezard @tomezard.bsky.social · Jun 25

Interesting piece, full of learning on the importance of institutions

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Jun 25

New post just out:

"History Restarted: the radical right and the problem of "successful" autocracies."

In which I look at the growing threat to liberal democracy from a new strain of capitalist authoritarian governments.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/h...

History Restarted

The radical right and the problem of "successful" autocracies

open.substack.com

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Dr. Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareemcarr.bsky.social · Jun 20

Don’t learn AI because it can replace you. Learn AI because, whether it works or not, your boss is trying to replace you with it anyway.

The more you understand the flaws, the better your chances of fighting back.

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Tom Ezard @tomezard.bsky.social · Jun 18

Loved @geodianna.bsky.social's and @clivetrue.bsky.social's inspiring inaugural lectures this evening on topics spanning the breadth of planetary health work that folks in FELS do

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · May 23

Charles Elton wrote his classic book "Animal Ecology" nearly a century ago (1927). Much of it remains insightful, and the Conclusion still resonates.

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Lee Hsiang Liow （廖珕庠） @lhliow.bsky.social · Jun 5

I am thrilled to be granted a CAS year (Centre for Advanced Studies 2026/2027) in Oslo to work on population dynamics using the fossil record. Looking forward to hosting Steve Ellner, @tomezard.bsky.social Tiago Quental, Stephen De Lisle and others cas-nor.no/news/announc...

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Each year, CAS hosts three interdisciplinary research groups within humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The groups consist of leading academics from around the world, led by scholars fr...

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