Dan Gates

Related. You can buy a 19.5 oz can of Lagunitas on the capital corridor in Northern California and no I’m never going to look up why that is because I’m always going to be enjoying my special train beer

“Cyclists are often perceived as recklessly flaunting road laws. A new study challenges this perception. The study found only 5% of cyclists broke road rules while riding on bike infrastructure versus 66% of motorists who broke rules while driving.” Safe bike infrastructure fuels rule-following.

while you port and emulate games, I ported Jira to my PSP

Davis was a pioneer in adding bike facilities, but it layered them on to auto-oriented zoning that includes strict minimum parking mandates & bans apartments on most land. The resulting housing shortage and parking surplus pushed many workers into long-distance car commutes from other cities.

Maybe we can quit taking all that deextinction noise seriously and treat them like all the other tech companies that lied to credulous VC funders for 5 years and after failing to develop the product they were promising ran to the safety govt contracts

The latest from my lab is an announcement in MRA for our new R package {rchime} which is an R version of the popular uchime chimera detection algorithm journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Exciting news!! I'm chairing the search in my department @lsubiosci.bsky.social for an **Endowed Chair in Lichenology**! The candidate should be tenured (or equivalent), and have a documented track record in excellent in collections-based lichen research. lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...

Incredible

Please share! Our department has two tenure-track job ads up today. Here is the #botany job, with an open mind towards multiple subdisciplines. Fantastic facilities, perfect-sized institution, easy living. Come work here! bsu.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job... @botsocamerica.bsky.social

Species with U-shaped geographic ranges as an opportunity to study early stages of divergence: The case of #Ipomoea microsepala New #AJB research by Itzel Piña-de la Rosa & N. Ivalú Cacho doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #morningglory #biogeography #Convolvulaceae #neotropics

I have to go patch my PH*briefcase full of jellybeans falls open

The new APG V has just been published @journalsysevo.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... An updated classification of Angiosperms It includes a poster! www.tudelft.nl/en/hortus-bo... 🧪🌸🌳🌱🍁🌱🌴🌾🌿 #plantsci botany #plantbiology

plugging second monitor in to home desktop: the weekend is upon us. good times are back forever plugging second monitor in to work laptop: the yoke of tyranny weighs heavily upon my cursed shoulders. the long dark midnight of the soul is here.

Get yourself a 3d printer and you too can take up Quality Assurance/Quality Control as a hobby

New paper. Heterosis in crosses between remnants of a rare species in the initial stages of a restoration. Led by former undergrad. student extraordinaire (Isabelle Turner) with a big assist by @juanrojasg.bsky.social bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Botany #Evolution #PlantScience

PSA: For anyone writing a recommendation for the NSF grad fellowship this year, recs are due on Fri Oct 16, 8pm Eastern, cleverly *before* the actual application deadline. This tidbit isn't on the NSFGRF front page anymore; it's buried inside the program solicitation:

We read @johnjschenk.bsky.social lab's hugely informative paper on the myriad "Modified" CTAB protocols, and that led to the snipe hunt of trying to hunt down the original. Which has the same provenance and publication history of, like, a mimeographed 'zine from the 80s. doi.org/10.1002/aps3...

The offense getting BayesTreePrior banned? Apparently, not changing the previously approved Maintainer field to an Authors@R field. So no one can install it from CRAN in the usual way any more, and links to its PDF of functions are broken. #Rstats Pkg info: ajolicoeur.wordpress.com/bayesiantrees/

To start with, this is happening because the president has targeted a member of Congress as part of a broader explicitly racist hate campaign against Americans of a particular ethnic origin. There's no other way to put it.

@rodger.bsky.social I think this is for you

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Obligatory UC Davis mentioned but also what’s the lore on Pittsburgh here? Ok, thought about it, I actually would rather not know

30,000. Thirty Thousand. That's how many AI game recaps FanWord wrote for college sports programs last year. www.foiaball.com/p/fan-word-a...

Over time we evolved to a system where students simultaneously compete for admission while institutions compete over enrollment. What has this competition done to benefit either party?

I have been curating all of my Nature pictures from around the Davis and Yolo County area in the hopes of making a book or such. Here is an example of something that has come from this - all of my pics of borrowing owls in Davis over the years jonathaneisen.smugmug.com/Nature-Pics/... #birds

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

Often, corporate practices that steal time and money from workers and consumers are designed to push the limit of prohibited practices. We will equip New Yorkers with new tools to take on predatory companies, bad landlords, scammers, and other actors who exploit them.

Postdoc opp; the Katherine Esau Fellowship @UC Davis funds 2–3 years of work on plant structure and function. Curious how plant structure shapes plant-microbe interactions? Get in touch! Due Nov 1, international applicants welcome. www-plb.ucdavis.edu/about/fellow...

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

I am giving a seminar for the Mathematical Biology Seminar at UC Davis this Monday and instead of making substantial progress on my presentation, I made a math superhero whose main goal is to help ecologists understand mechanisms of coexistence. I think this is likely a good use of time... maybe...

*people* make the design & engineering & business decisions that are behind every one of these types of stories…

not falling for that shit again!

It’s wild how everything was domesticated 10k years ago. Even though it’s literally not wild anymore.

Do you ever think about how society looped back to medicinally branded sodas

I am delighted to share our new preprint, led by the amazing @stressedbranch.bsky.social! This paper was a real Herculean effort by four amazing postdocs across three labs and a small army of extremely talented undergraduates. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

The way universities handle (& by that I mean permit) sexual assault is a stain on all of Academia. Why can’t we be better. Why can’t we expect more. Why can’t women be people. Everyone read this:

Iowa GOP governor candidate Zach Lahn is facing fresh questions about whether he actually lives in the state after a reporter found a Strava account showing frequent bike rides around his Kansas estate.

JOB ALERT: UNC Bio is hiring 2 tenure track assistant profs doing molecular, cell, and dev bio. The search is intentionally broad, so please share widely and spread the word! Find more information and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Application review begins Nov 1.

Ospreys are disappearing along the US East Coast due to a shortage of Atlantic menhaden, a crucial food source for ospreys. One company alone harvested nearly 300 million pounds of the fish in 2024 but somehow claims they’re not at fault. 🧐

bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers

Easily the strongest I’ve seen the US team in a road race in my adult life

Is Brandon McNulty actually going to win WC?

"Our results highlight the limits of using extant, species-depauperate lineages to infer deep ancestors and the importance of fossils and other evidence that more directly sample early evolutionary history."