Oh hey, the Harpy paper is out. The software's been available, but it's nice to have something in writing! It also works with other linked read data and non-linked data (wgs, rad) 😁

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6pqmkfcnw2sqbfvga7fifn5p/post/3lruqxdwbvf2d

Seen on Bluesky:

Guy explains to CEO of Signal (messaging) that it's going to add "AI" to the service. She says no. He insists, not knowing or caring who he's talking down to.

Seen on bsky:

Of course asking someone what genitals they had at birth is a breach of the right to privacy. They’re called “private parts” not “private unless you suspect the person is transgender and then be as invasive as you want parts”

I ended up writing a thread:

https://bsky.app/profile/djnavarro.net/post/3lrtgg5ucb225

it has been my experience over the last 10 years that cis people do not consider any part of a trans persons body private, and they literally cannot understand why we might need or deserve the same privacy that they have

it’s died down a lot for me because i’ve been out for so long but in the early days oh my god. everyone had questions about my genitals, my breasts, my sex life, everything. they would ask these questions in my *workplace* without a care in the world, because a trans persons body is public property

and let’s be clear, the people asking these intrusive borderline-sexual-harassment questions in my workplace weren’t “the bad people”. it was academics, progressive lefties, professional folks. the ones who pride themselves on being allies. those people were actually the worst in this respect

i often think about this behaviour, because in some ways it was formative for me. i just sort of accepted that this is how it works if you’re trans. your body is not your own, it belongs to everyone else who has a question or opinion about it. you become desensitised to privacy violations,

so much so that you learn to disclose in advance, you start to view your own body and your own sex life as something that others are entitled to. why not be open on social media about all the dicks you’ve sucked? after all, you’re probably going to get asked about it around the water cooler anyway

it’s crass, yes, and often people find it confronting how open trans people are about these topics. but that’s not our fault: we are this way because you made us this way. cis people don’t permit us privacy in any form, and the only way we can have any dignity is to just say “ah fuck it” and be open

believe it or not i used to be an extremely private person. before transition i tried not to disclose any details about myself. the person i am now? that’s the person i had to be to cope with cis intrusiveness

Les transports d’une grande partie de l’Europe sont maintenant dispo sur @cartes_app https://cartes.app.

Auparavant restreints à la France via notre serveur Motis maison, on jongle maintenant avec le serveur 🇪🇺 Transitous, projet collab' qui envoie du rêve et complète merveilleusement OSM.

Voilà, il y a des jours qui débloquent en 15 minutes un travail préparé depuis des mois par des centaines de personnes 💫

Bon voyage 😃 !

NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @PeerCommunityIn / @pcirr

Read here ➡️ https://osf.io/tn8mh

Cette taxe "Zucman", du nom de l'économiste qui la défend, prévoit un impôt plancher sur le patrimoine des plus aisés. Elle était débattue jeudi dernier au Sénat et a été rejetée par 188 voix contre 129.

Soutenez Les Répliques : https://fr.tipeee.com/les-repliques

In today's "seagulls being absolute menaces" news: Gull samples man's coffee, before stealing the mug and dropping it in the sea. (An actual china mug, not some paper thing.) Could argue the gull was justified, as the man had been installing anti bird spikes on nearby houses, before stopping off at a pub for lunch. 😉

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g71pvzn5jo (Link corrected.)

Our new forum piece is out now in TREE 🥳

We argue that existing & expanding regulations to protect specific animal groups from light pollution 💡 (e.g. bats 🦇 marine turtles 🐢 insects 🦋) might co-protect many other organisms—we think this potential umbrella effect needs to be explored & evaluated

Nocturnal pandas: conservation umbrellas protecting nocturnal biodiversity

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.05.006

Thanks to coauthors @andreas_jechow S. Schroer & F. Hölker @LeibnizIGB

#biodiversity #openaccess