I still chuckle at @alexjholt.bsky.social on our drive up to AK just out of the blue saying "I have never been this far from an ocean" with a tone of can't-compute-this awe in the middle of Montana

It's the annual First Day of Spring Big Day, so time to find some birds! If we are extraordinarily lucky, we might break the record of *checks notes* 40 whole species

Very excited that I will once again have a dishwasher on Monday, like legitimately thrilled lmao

OH MY GOD ANOTHER ONE

Oh no, cookbooks have started appearing, I really am a 30-something with dinner party aspirations

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

Here's a nice photo of an Argentine ant.

I don’t live in Israel I don’t have family in Israel I have never been to Israel but if I mention anything about being Jewish? well you’d better believe I’ve got to clarify that I don’t approve of Israel immediately stop conflating all of Judaism with Israel’s government but leftishly

and honestly, folks? the fact that half the comments on this thread - which did not mention Israel until I felt like I had to respond - are along the lines of “ah yes all of this antisemitism is the Israeli/zionist plan”? that’s part of the problem, even if you genuinely don’t mean it That Way

DIPPER ON CAMPUS AHHHHHH

Duke's rationale was it served the function of enabling nazis to hide their antisemitism behind anti-Zionist sounding language, allowing them a backdoor into leftist/pro-Palestine movements and while simultaneously alienating anti-Zionist Jewish people from those same movements.

The word "Zionist" already identifies Zionism as violent, colonialist, and morally indefensible. It's inherent to the ideology. Here's a brief reply thread on the subject of why the slur "zio" doesn't mean "Zionist", is antisemitic and bad, and the Left and pro-Palestine movement shouldn't use it.

I'm not a girl and this guy went from "it's the first three letters" to "Jews are not a structurally oppressed class in the US" in one tweet. Tell that to the synagogues that have to have security for every shabbat service because people keep fucking shooting them.

Chuck Norris doesn't sleep. Because he's dead.

Hey all, I wanted to share this GoFundMe for @cassieclearly.bsky.social for her bottom surgery. Cassie is one of the biggest fans of my podcast and I'd love to repay her for all her support over the years by asking you all to contribute to her surgery fund. gofund.me/efe04d035

Also not only does the term "women's health"ignore that trans-masc folks also can have these same issues (hi, it me!) but by doing so, it forestalls any inquiry into how these issues can impact trans masc bodies differently. How does HRT impact pelvic floor dysfunction? Endo pain? Who knows!

If you are passing through Trinidad along 101 in NorCal, I highly recommend stopping at the small Stone Lagoon Visitor Center at Humboldt Lagoons State Park. First tribally-run (Yurok) state park visitor center I've seen, and you can tell the difference, great spot 💫.

For the record, the Nazis are spreading terms like “zio” and “zog” into leftist spaces intentionally as an on-ramp to fascism. This is what cryptofascism means. They explicitly talk about doing this on their forums and telegram channels. You’re being played.

I feel like many folks would get some mileage from this

Shopping for appliances is hard because my criteria are 1) does it reliably work 2) can it be repaired 3) what's the price and 4) it would be nice if it came in like blue or something but I can settle And yet all anyone wants to do is sell me an AI-enabled dishwasher or whatever?

This is antisemitism If you're going to track AIPAC, you should TRACK AIPAC.

oh, he's a tunicate then? because he almost had a spine?

i literally check every day i walk into my building that the pride flag in our lab window is still there. i'm increasingly worried that the day will come that it won't be there anymore.

This made it out of committee. You do NOT want to let it go to a vote. Go make your voice heard right now right now

"communities with vegetable bans had 30.4 percent fewer Black, 28.5 percent fewer Asians, 7.8 percent fewer Hispanics, and 12.6 percent more white people than the population of their state. Those communities were also richer, with a 73.5 percent higher median income."

Here it is! HARBOUR OF HUNGRY GHOSTS my new Babel x Buffy the Vampire Slayer historical fantasy novel out 28th July Cover by Toma Nguyen, art director Ella Garrett

Setting up the Foundation for Really Neat Science. We'll have a retreat center in the mountains somewhere in AK and we'll fund basic science based on how niche and specific your special interest is. "I want to study birds because they're cool". Awesome, here's $100K and a grad fellowship.

I went to read the article and of course immediately saw this popup asking me if I wanted to receive notifications. ☠️

i particularly love the part where a bunch of people have been shouting about this exact thing happening and no one took it seriously, and then- and you'll never believe this!- it happened 🙃

You absolutely cannot separate the artist and the art without contributing to the persecution of trans people. Boycott everything Potter.

A number of Jewish organizations are shrilly insisting that any criticism of Israeli genocide and warmongering is an illegitimate attack on Jews. At the same time, an increasing number of non-Jewish people are insisting that any attack on Jews is a legitimate attack on Israel. This sucks, man

Spread the word, remind your friends, and show up! #Alaska #AlaskaSky #Fairbanks #AkLeg

Wow I didn't know I could hate LLMs any more than I already did and then I found out that they hurt someone I care about, and I think it might be in the interest of humanity to dropkick Sam Altman into the sea.

Only two more days to submit abstracts for the Bay Area PopGen conference! Registration still open for the low low price of $0. bapg-conference.github.io

I have a tandem repeat joke, but I have a tandem repeat joke, but I have a tandem repeat joke

Do you, right now, have literally a dollar that you won't miss? A dollar helps. Not just materially - and yeah, materially, it helps a whole lot - but emotionally. It helps to know that there is someone out there who cares if you live or die. Help Wylder, please.

Glow-up

Pretty stoked that I managed to find our target number of reviewers and then some for grants, especially given how thin most people are stretched rn. We'll be able to reduce the workload per reviewer with additional people stepping up 🙌

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters “‘Don’t you want to die nobly for a just cause?’ ‘I’d much rather live quietly for one.’”

I have a frameshift mutation joke, but oy fprdm:y zslr drmdr

I was supposed to have a bird joke but forgot to prepare one beforehand. Guess I'll have to wing it.

The meningitis outbreak at the University of Kent in the UK has grown to 15 cases, including a linked case in France. Two people, aged 18 and 21, have died. All of the cases had been at a nightclub called the Chemistry Club over a 3-night period from March 5-7.

"The accumulation of evidence from birders, museum scientists, and genetics is steadily increasing our knowledge of hybrid birds, and at a time of growing appreciation for the importance of hybridization to evolution." #ornithology

This gives me an opportunity to yell about one of the coolest museum studies I've ever seen: using BIRDS to quantify pollution Bird specimens from the early-mid 20th century are literally more grey from the sheer level of pollution!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Re Chavez: Thread for sexual assault survivors/victims (however you see yourself is ok!) and people supporting them today. Here are some things that I think are useful. I am not an expert, just someone who has been navigating being public about my experiences, including in media interviews. 🧵

Ages ago @vivschwarz.bsky.social told me about these bug-noculars, & I'm eternally friggin grateful (& also to Kitty for gifting me them!) If you like looking at bugs/lichen/things in rock-pools but have shitty eyesight? They're amazing.

to take another London example, the Thames is a clean river! do you know how astonishing that would have seemed to our grandparents

Update: Dolores Huerta has released a statement. In it, she confirms the Times's reporting, and supports the other women who have come forward. "I have kept this secret long enough. My silence ends here."

When your tendinitis is bad but you have to improvise a solution from what's in the intro bio teaching lab