‘Tis the season for the traditional holiday drag #Jinkx&Dela

I would 💯 decorate my toilet with a Hor Rat Summer mosaic.

Pope Leo calls for kindness to strangers and the poor in Christmas message

We went from Hot Rat Summer to Wet Rat Winter. 🐀 🚽

Where does Cookie Monster live? I’m watching “Christmas Eve on Sesame Street” and Santa filled Cookie’s stocking at Gordon & Susan’s place. #CookieMonster

Disaster Cash Assistance is available Dec. 17 to Jan. 15 for eligible households affected by flooding in Benton, Chelan, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, King, Kittitas, Lewis, Pacific, Pierce, Skagit, Snohomish, Thurston, Yakima and Whatcom counties.

This is a beautiful piece:

Alright scientists! It's that time again! Time to sign up for Skype a Scientist's spring semester. Want to get matched with a classroom in 2026? Sign up now 🥰 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

SEATTLE: Heavy winds and rain are continuing throughout this week, with potential floods. Here are some resources and information on how to prepare yourself and your home: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Diving through the purple sulfur bacteria layer of Fayetteville Green Lake with our ROV last month. This is the most intense density of PSB that I've seen in many years!

I finally took some photos of my Halloween “Advent” yarn calendar and Helena decided to “help.” Yarn by Lambstrings Yarn.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Many thanks to Seattle City Lights for working throughout the night and continuing to work to turn the lights back on. ⛈️

Tomorrow afternoon Councilmember Hollingsworth and I will be restoring “Hot Rat Summer” in Cal Anderson Park. This mosaic was wrongfully painted over and we are going to fix it.

This is opening of an Octavia Butler novel

He’s already demolished everything in sight, but I’d still be happy to see him go. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tonight in Art Therapy with the Plucky Shrimp, we are speaking on behalf of the ocean, and are VERY mad, not only at the evil guys in charge but also at every evil person who enables the evil guys in charge. Every last one. May they know no peace for the rest of their miserable lives.

Yay!! A federal judge in California sided with a coalition of unions, temporarily barring the Office of Personnel Management from ordering federal agencies to terminate probationary workers, stating that the firings were ‘illegal, should be stopped, and rescinded.’

Call to Action: The Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent federal agency that safeguards federal employees in employment disputes, has paused the terminations of six probationary federal workers across various executive branch agencies and departments for 45 days.

Please amplify, share, repost. This USAID ad is running to counter Musk’s Super Bowl BS ads re USAID #Voices4Victory youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8

I'm a researcher funded by NSF. The indirect funds that are being slashed to 15% at NIH, and probably NSF soon, are not some kind of markup or profit. These pay for essential things like rent for a building to work in, lab space, salaries of people who manage benefits for the organization... 1/

Live your life in such a way that you end up on the “DEI Watch List.” #Resist

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

Can still read Ocean Climate Action Plan outlining actions to meet three goals: (1) Create a carbon-neutral future (2) Accelerate nature-based solutions (3) Enhance community resilience to ocean change bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Ocean-Climate-Action-Plan_Final.pdf

To anyone who has ever thought “If I had a Time Machine, I’d go back and stop H!+ler,” now is your moment.

Crazy cakes for current times 🍰

NIH supports boatloads of scientists at your state universities. Call your representatives to protect the funding of critical science in health and biomedicine.

And now for some GOOD news. First 100 packs of LOVE BUGS valentines have been sold! 10% of the way to the goal. Trying to get *lots* of animal facts into mailboxes, classrooms, and offices this Valentines day (while supporting @skypeascientist.bsky.social!) Get 'em here: squidfacts.bigcartel.com

With the convicted felon Donald Trump returning to office, environmental data face threats, including deletion and budget cuts. People are scrambling to archive and update crucial datasets to ensure access, but concerns remain about the impact of limited access on environmental research and policy.

See a duck, post a duck. Mallards in South Lake Union, Seattle. They hope you brought frozen peas! #birds

I get that a) Annette Funicello is no longer in the American pop culture consciousness, and b) the human brain tries to fit things it doesn’t understand into understood patterns. But Why would you persistently hear my name as Emmet? After I spell it? After I finger-spell it with a hard “A?”

I think this is the first positive H5N1 report to come out of Nebraska.

I had the chance to take a long walk and the Seattle sky did not disappoint.

Take my money and my blood, please! A promising blood test for #endometriosis 💛🌻💛 academic.oup.com/humrep/advan...

Merry Jinkx & DeLa to all! 🎄💋 #JinkxAndDela

I love all the lights that brighten the Big Dark. #Seattle

Whenever I hear “Gunne Sax,” my brain imagines dresses made from gunney sacks. Rock that burlap, ma’am!

It’s McRibb season. Once again I’m reminded of the time when I was a kid and we were visiting my grandma in a house bursting with aunts, uncles, and cousins. My dad did a food run, and I requested my beloved and ephemeral McRibb. 1/2

Our snowfall outlook for the winter is live! Check it out on @seattlemet.com.web.brid.gy! www.seattlemet.com/news-and-cit...

NEW: President Biden has commuted 1500 sentences and pardoned 39 individuals; the largest grant of clemency by an American president in a single day. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

Your name in #Landsat. 😎 #AGU24 landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...

Bomb Cyclone 2: The Cyclone Strikes Back As this low pressure system moves offshore, another one is forming to the south. Then, according to Windy projections, they do a little reverse do-si-do. 🌀🌀😵‍💫 #Seattle #PNW #BombCyclone

We are delighted to share our manuscript describing hundreds of hours of phytoplankton abundance and size data from Station ALOHA near Hawaii using the continuous flow cytometer SeaFlow. #Phytoplankton #UW #Oceanography #HawaiiOceanTimeSeries #FlowCytometry doi.org/10.1002/lno....

Join Qabila as we explore home, community, and resilience through dance! Tickets by donation. #Seattle #dance