Just got my covid vaccination booster and flu shot (thank you, City of Somerville!) and it could not have been easier. I wish everything I had to went as smoothly.

In the clearing

G303.9.6.2.1 Devil inflames saint's injured eye.

"The South Station Tower team expects its home buyers will range from downsizing empty nesters to graduate students to wealthy individuals looking for a pied-à-terre in the city." uhhhhhh, one of these things is not like the others

ORB

The area that I could see the rusty patch bumblebee daily is now totally bereft of any bumblebees Every other day I’ve been walking different areas, cursing honeybees and lowly singing “where have all the cowboys gone?”

You need to know what's really inormptant in life!

—chronically ill child to listen to their body (or their grown up to interpret their body’s signals). There is little leeway for parents to get chronically ill kids medical care they need because pediatric specialists don’t operate after school/work hours. And of course, in the US, parents—

Yep. This is, in part, why I resist "opportunity" frames (in health, education, etc) when *rights* are the goal.

I guess becoming the expert does mean you get to become wildly disappointed in your favorite online science communicators eventually

Ah, but the United States loves putting blame on individuals while ignoring systemic and structural problems

bus lane enforcement rolling out this year in spots: have a cry, josh kraft. www.boston.com/news/transpo...

Though you may not say Doggo, you bear the spirit of the word

I'm sorry to break this to you Zoomers but based on my interactions with you, you're just Long Millenials

Racism. Everything they are doing is rooted in racism.

god i hate these vacuous windsocks so much the actual problems at my small regional public university? - lack of money for research + instruction - adjunct precarity - students not being able to afford housing, food, medical care, and childcare - rampant genAI use admin encourages (cntd)

it's 602's world we're just living in it

For example, I feel a visceral aversion to writing LinkedIn-style Thought Leadership Pieces, and it’s probably because of The Algorithm and the performance aspect

one of the funniest things to me is that despite the fact I have 15.3k followers on Bluesky I worry I’m actually quite bad at professional visibility

Hour 25. Made it to Tvärminne.

Homemaking hack! Never dust and by every October, the decorating is done for you 🫶🎃

Golden, New Mexico Pop: 21 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden,_New_Mexico Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24309932 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18277549 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24309931

Scraping and synthesizing without attribution.

The cave brittle star Amphicutis stygobita is a small microphagous deposit-feeding brittle star that survived and grew in captivity by consuming detritus rich in microorganisms and a sticky biofilm containing extracellular polymeric substances. More about this species at doi.org/10.3897/subt...

surely we will learn from this and create a more stable, just economic order

The fact that they are going after so many different vaccines is a dead giveaway that they want disease and death They want to live in a post-vaccination world where they can peddle quack cures and snake oil

The reveal #InvertAdvent The Snake Star Ophiopsammus maculata. This is the largest known brittle star. It is a predatory species which ambushes prey, even very mobile species like squat lobsters. Probably not humans, but you never know.

A wonderful beast I identified as Ophiothrix foeveolata! It has DOTS! #echinoday

I was inspired to ask this question after getting 100% DUSTED by a young Mola mola on a dive in Monterey — love that my favorite blobby bois made the header image!

The Dr. Shin fandom is real stormininnorman.com/john-mateer-...

Oklahoma fans are making hype reels for hand surgeons, get on their level

Office Adds Area For Lactating Mothers To Discreetly Pump Iron https://theonion.com/office-adds-area-for-lactating-mothers-to-discreetly-pump-iron/

Or, in this part of the world, getting longer and same season

No more squinting down a dozen lines of code! inject this directly into my veins!!

this is why we need to bring back shame there need to be consequences for being a huge asshole, there need to be standards for how you behave in a decent society the rules cannot be set by the worst of us

INTERFACING - Not just any pinball machine. This is the pinnacle of pinball. 'Cornelius Gurdi and the Mountain Goats'. It's lit. You can't wait to get your hands on it.

finding someone shouldn't be a *cough* titanic endeavor

still looking for an iceberg researcher! is that you or someone you know? 🧪

Garlic is something you measure with your heart

The 40 cloves of garlic you put in this pasta recipe will be the best 80 cloves of garlic you ever eat, you certainly will not regret putting 120 cloves of garlic into your pasta

Treatment of Severe Asthma Is Not “Cookie-Cutter” Medicine @atscommunity.bsky.social #medsky 🔓 Open Access 🔗 tinyurl.com/5n6zu9vj

can confirm! the city clerk published the last meeting's journal, finally putting the parking reform ordinance into effect!

Seven years. Over 400 pages. About 750 references. Over 40 figures. Finally I get to hold the finished book. It’s a big day. #EpigeneticsBook @cshlpress.bsky.social

#Boston to offer free vaccines at series of clinics www.boston.gov/government/c...

And I thought boiling water was the stuff of crab's nightmares. Phew.

Blue Crab swimming through a huge school of Cownose Rays near Clearwater, Florida. He knows he's tasty! I was surprised the rays ignored the crab but there was a Hammerhead nearby so they had other concerns. #nature #amazing #animals #ocean #wildlife #florida

A cover letter can probably also fill the gaps as far as teaching, mentoring, and service are concerned. I love my teaching statement and have spent a ton of time on it, but I do wonder if it will genuinely make a difference for hiring that I try to keep my classrooms lighthearted through humor… 🤔

I think so too. Depending on the discipline and job ad, it may be possible to glean enough information in a cover letter + research statement to decide if the other documents will be read. They should make that the only required docs, and save people a ton of time and effort.

I was peripherally involved in a search some time ago and pointed out that it included a pointlessly restrictive requirement that would exclude a lot of perfectly qualified people. One of those on the committee said “Great! That means fewer applications to read!” 😒

I think a major side effect of most academics never working outside academia is that we mostly have no idea how objectively terrible our hiring processes are