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"Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will remember. Involve me and I will understand."

I think people should get a library card and read more books. bookshop.org

Monarch butterfly hatched from its cocoon today. I wish could have seen it and that I had a camera that could catch these things.

I had had this book on my shelf since 2019 and had yet to read it until now. It's a short read. I had high hopes for it when I got it. He didn't discuss creativity at all. He wrote that the humanities were incoherent but it was this book that was aimless. I do not recommend this book.

WE ARE... hiring! Penn State Biology & the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is recruiting a tenure track or tenured neurobiologist (Assistant or Associate Professor rank), and the committee is open to a broad scope of scientific questions. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Robotixx Lab at George Mason University

Learned earlier tonight from the class rep that a classmate of ours, Cory Walls, passed away from cancer last Friday evening. He leaves behind his wife and three children. Cory graduated from the US Merchant Marine Academy in 2006 as a marine engineer and naval officer. He sailed as Chief Engineer.

Extremely glad I stayed up to watch this, there might never be another finish to an elite marathon like this one. I grew up in Tanzania, incredibly happy for its beautiful people and for Simbu, who I’ve seen come close several times. Mungu ibariki Tanzania!

We're looking for a technician at Institut Pasteur for experimental work on satellite-phage-bacteria interactions, working directly with @jmouradesousa.bsky.social and myself in the lab of @epcrocha.bsky.social ! ANR funded. Link to the job emploi.pasteur.fr/offre-de-emp... Thx for sharing!

Willing to join us @pasteur.fr for a PhD for a project on how interactions between mobile genetic elements shape bacterial adaptation? Subject to be tailored to candidates with keen interest in evolution, genomics, computational biology, microbiology. Check www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLIE... Thought this was interesting.

PhD opportunity in Bodø! You’ll sequence genomes from invasive and non-invasive slug (A. vulgaris) populations to uncover the molecular basis of invasion dynamics. Supervised by Prof. Les Noble & co-supervisor by me. Fully funded, cutting-edge science, great team. Apply by Sept 21: shorturl.at/zJT06

📢 We offer a fully funded 4-year #PhD position to work on tick #microbiota 🦠 dynamics using #genomics 🧬 at @irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social, supervised by @sdiazsanchez.bsky.social. For requisites and contact info, please check 👇 www.irec.es/noticias/pro...

MSc position in my lab. Come study the evolutionary & behavioural ecology of insects! @stfx-university.bsky.social

Great PI, great department, great city!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGaZ... New song for Halloween by her ladyship Gaga

Tomorrow we head to Lake Louise and Banff for two days of camping

Anyone here more American than a Paw Paw plant? Me neither🙂 Only fruit native to North America that is tropical. It is always a delight to forage some each year. Durham, NC, USA. Sep 2025 #flora #fruit #native #American #photo #photography #forager #botany #eastcoastkin #nature #northcarolina

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s0z... This Week in Microbiology #ElioSchaechter #Mushrooms #Microbiology www.microbe.tv/twim/twim-339/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBqs... Getting genetic testing to see how your medications affect you might be a good idea. This is an episode of This Podcast Will Kill You that I listened to during my long run yesterday. Very interesting. Also, the voices have faces! @tpwky.bsky.social

Monarch butterfly cocoon 🦋

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...

"The mystery is inherent to the poetic enterprise, which is: How do I say what can't be said?" Damn, Dave Duchovny, I agree with every word of this.

“When I get that frustrated about a topic, I write a review paper about it.” - Alan Kazdin, Sterling Professor of Psychology (Emeritus) @ Yale University. [From Early Career Researcher's Toolbox by Andres De Los Reyes]

Animals have sensory perception, some kind of cognitive evaluation (do I like it or not?) and they choose which one they like.” Have to think to about Prum’s description of animal intelligence. Also, apparently stilettos are not practical for survival.

I was able to finish up O'Brian's Post Captain early this morning before the Fall semester got rolling. It was a good read. Quite a bit of early 19th century English language and seadog slang to it. My favorite phrase from Aubrey on the HMS Polychrest was "Quick's the word and sharp's the action."

Finished Arendt's, The Human Condition.It was an education. She argued that humanity is best served by having a plurality of voices engaged in face-to-face public conversations and to collaboratively act toward building a shared world that is durable in memory and living more than just for survival.

Saddened to learn of the passing of Moselio "Elio" Schaechter—Distinguished Professor at Tufts, SDSU and UCSD—humanist and visionary leader in the fields of microbiology and scientific communication—mentor, friend, and inspiration to me and so many others Small Things Considered Big Things Achieved

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. - Sir Francis Bacon

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. When Is It Genocide? Philippe Sands discusses how to think about the tragedies in Gaza through the lens of international law. open.spotify.com/episode/0ZBm... youtu.be/RrhBypHFYPY?...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=orxB... Après moi, le déluge

Nature walk at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia with GMU Robotixx Lab and University of Catania Robotic Systems Group

"The monuments to the "Unknown Soldier" after WW1 bear testimony to the then still existing need for glorification, for finding a 'who', an identifiable somebody whom 4 years of mass slaughter should have revealed. The frustration of this wish and the unwillingness to resign oneself to the brutal

Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia

According to the United Nations, more than 20,000 children were hospitalized in Gaza for malnutrition between April and mid-July.

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Just happened to look out my kitchen window

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These are the first vegetables I have ever grown.

A lot of people have been asking how to help public radio/TV weather this current storm. One of my concerns has been making sure the most vulnerable stations that serve small populations in rural areas get the support they need to keep going. This new site offers a roadmap. adoptastation.org

In the latest episode of “Lives Well Lived”, Kasia and I speak with filmmaker Meg Smaker about the limits of our understanding of terrorism and why that matters. We explore why moral labels like “good” and “evil” often obscure more than they reveal, how time and circumstance shape human...

Finished reading Dr. Edith Eva Eger's book, The Choice. I read it concurrently with Viktor Frankl's book. It felt like one complemented the other. I highly recommend this book. I believe this should be included in everyone's education. I heard about her on the Lives Well Lived podcast.

The latest episode of “Lives Well Lived”, the podcast I co-host with Kasia de Lazari-Radek, is now available. This is an inspiring episode featuring Edith Eger, a Holocaust survivor, psychologist, and author, who shares her remarkable journey of resilience, healing, and forgiveness. (1/2)

Just finished reading Viktor Frankl's book, Man's Search for Meaning. I need to ruminate on his thoughts on collective guilt. I believe he was ultimately right on opposing it. Singling out individuals for guilt is much harder. I wonder how much apathy or willful ignorance contributes to guilt.

My newest coloring book comes out in just 5 days! Filled with science and nature diagrams inspired by the biology in your own backyard! More here: rachelignotofskydesign.com/garden-color... #sciart #coloringbook #scicomm #adultcoloringbook

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT51... "Listen to take a gun and shoot is no great thing; but if the SS leads you to a gas chamber or to a mass grave to execute you on the spot, and you can't do anything about it - except for going your way with dignity - you see, this is what I call heroism."