Very excited to announce the inaugural Evolution in the Public Eye Award Ceremony and Lecture. Our first winner, Ed Hagen, will be speaking about "The Evolution of 'Recreational' Drug Use" on Oct. 24 @ 5:30pm at the Ann Arbor District Library. More info: sites.lsa.umich.edu/ehap/evoluti...

I see it's gonna be Lucy and the football. Again.

Thanks for the hlighlight @thetransmitter.bsky.social! @jbeehner.bsky.social and I are very excited to further explore some of the ideas put forth in this article.

Check out this new NPP 🔥 Hot Topic 🔥 from @flagel-lab.bsky.social & @jbeehner.bsky.social 👇

Rachel and Robin winning me over forever by matching Tupperware tops and bottoms. In this uncertain world, take control of the things that matter.

Hi, I’m God. Jesus and I are very much against the defunding of childhood cancer research.

Breaking news: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals won a federal election Monday, the country’s public broadcaster, the CBC, projected, a comeback that was fueled in part by President Donald Trump’s tariff policies and attacks on Canada.

Love love my Aunt Bethy Boo. Resist.

This NYT-driven nonsense bugs me every time I see it. Let's set the record straight (again). Our DEI office was *very* effective. thread

rather pleased with my quote in the WaPo

Can anyone help me understand why this generation of undergrad writers use “amongst” instead of “among”? Please explain.

Brown-headed Cowbird message to host species everywhere:

Bless you, Greenland! 🇬🇱

FBI Kash Patel says he wasn't briefed on the war plans Signal group chat until last night??? was he in a coma all day?? if i had time to write a poem he had time to get briefed imo

Late notice, but oday at 4pm, EHAP happily welcomes Kasja Malkoc to our speaker series. Please join us for her talk on variation in physiological plasticity (featuring songbirds!).

“The subjugation of universities to state power is a hallmark of autocracy. Columbia University’s immediate submission and betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that seems intent on destroying US higher education.”

Excellent editorial by Silke-Maria Weineck: "[Institutional] neutrality is a policy designed to shield the right-wing from the critique of one of the most powerful institutions in American life — the home of expert researchers and rigorous thinkers." www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

Could not agree more. The Prez & VP are shameful, embarrassing Putin puppets & a disgrace to our country. 🤮 #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

DOGE By The Numbers theonion.com/doge-by...

Siri, what are some things that happened to kings

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

For 16 years, U.S. aviation had a perfect record—ZERO major commercial plane crashes. Then Trump returned and in just 29 days the USA has had seven crashes, 15 aviation disasters, and 85 dead, on pace for this over 1,000 dead this year via plane crash.

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

Elon's the kid who had a Super Nintendo AND a Sega Genesis, but still no one wanted to come over.

Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...

Go to Google Search "Gulf of Mexico" Click the 3 little dots next to "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" Choose "Send feedback" Click "Gulf of America" Click "Inaccurate content" Click "Incorrect" Tell Google the correct name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of...

Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being. www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

Johns Hopkins officials said the NIH funding cut puts at risk approximately 600 current and ongoing clinical trials at Hopkins, including open clinical trials in cancer, pediatrics and children’s health, heart and vascular studies and the aging brain. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

Can stress help monkeys survive? New research shows that on wild capuchin monkeys with stronger stress responses during previous droughts were more likely to survive an extreme drought. Study by Leakey grantees @sccarrera.bsky.social @irene-godoy.bsky.social @jbeehner.bsky.social & colleagues.

If you can, do something, speak up and act up. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy Black History Month. Listen to, support, fund, and uplift Black people. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth Black journos: go.bsky.app/QvS5FNb Black scientists: go.bsky.app/Ao3Qt9a Black academics: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb Black democracy experts: go.bsky.app/6WTBzhX Black in tech: go.bsky.app/2RAbS3g

After 9 years in the making, it's finally out (!) White-faced capuchins with a stronger stress response to previous droughts were more likely to survive a severe El Niño drought. Kudos to the heroic efforts of first authors Sofia Carrera and Irene Godoy. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

How to procrastinate productively: cheat on work with other work www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

The preprint also also mentions by favourite spoof paper: "What's the Deal with Birds" by @evornithology.bsky.social. The abstract is fantastic ....

Tis’ the season!

Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :) Link for application: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Proud of our grad student, Jordan Lucore, for her study out in Sci Advances: The immune performance of wild capuchin monkeys declines when they experience higher temperatures, with youngest monkeys the most vulnerable to heat. news.umich.edu/warming-temp...

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