Copy-edits approved. Now, the blame for any remaining awkward phrasing rests squarely on me.

Looking for an engineering bio postdoc w/ two fantastic supervisors?

Today's academic challenge: making a poster, about words as scientific tools, without using too many words as scientific tools.

I haven't tweeted in 8 years but I'm so excited to work with the next generation of investigative reporters. Apply for the new Local Investigations Fellowship, which I'm leading for The New York Times. nytimes.com/localinvestiga…

Excellent advice, irrespective of your field/discipline.

Thanks Jef Boeke lab, Ran Brosh and Sudarshan Pinglay et al for hosting Rob, and for the chance to talk about future organisms & crossing kingdoms (w/ SymbioticA)

Second in line after the president survives an assassination attempt and the Old Grey Lady is running butternut squash soup recipes

My latest captcha required me to accurately distinguish a cactus from a succulent. In not-unrelated news: @[email protected].

I've not carried a poster tube on a US domestic airline since before the pandemic. Any advice on how US airline staff in 2022 are treating them in the carry-on lineup?

APCs are a barrier to interdisciplinarity, too. Social scientists sometimes lead on studies best published in STEM journals, but our grants are smaller & OA fees lower/less common in our "home" fields. High APCs --> interD published where STEM folks less likely to see it.

Colorado voters have the chance to join the modern world and permit themselves to *gasp* buy wine in grocery stores. Hey Colorado, Join the 21st Century! vinography.com/2022/10/hey-co… via Alder Yarrow

My favorite childhood poem is becoming a meme, and it's wonderful.

Fort Collins needs an airport.

Imagine: a system where people provide content for free, other people decide (for free) whether that content should be shared widely, the content provider often pays to provide that content, and someone else altogether profits. I am, of course, talking about academic publishing.

Share your model? Seems about right, but I think the % difference depends on who's selected *instead* of the obvious psychopaths (e.g. covert psychopaths, teacher-of-the-year-award nominees, etc.)

So, a person who’s been allowed to (and celebrated for) accumulating wealth without bounds seems to have used this wealth to singlehandedly destroy a public space. I am under no delusions that we’ll learn something out of this.

This has been lovely, everyone. Thanks for all of the inspiration, pointers, advice, and laughs. I'll hope to see you on the other side, whatever that means.

Dear Erika Szymanski - would really appreciate it hugely if you could let any potential candidates know. Marina

Really interesting piece by Erika Szymanski & Marie Turner. We often describe microbial communities through metaphors (explicit or implicit). How do these metaphors shape the way we think about these systems & the potential ways to engineer them? ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…