At last, I received my author copy… kind of exciting, even though my chapter is terribly out of date given the delays the pandemic put on the publishing!

It's Don't Argue Inside Your Head With Other People Friday. Today, if you find yourself arguing inside your head w/someone who's not present, or whom it's not safe or not fair for you to argue with, gently move your mind away. Do this as many times as you need.

South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu). The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us? (📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)

For #genechat, make sure you read about this!

As I continue to work my way through this volume, it’s such a delight to discover so many writers who are new to me. One of them is @loriostlund.bsky.social, who se stories feel like they were written just for me.

An inviting autumn landscape. Might've been yesterday, but it's actually an autochrome from 1912. "Autumn Gold" by Hugh C. Knowles From the V&A's collections: bit.ly/42Fh4Bv

If you mash the audio example buttons on the wikipedia page for the IPA vowel sounds you can create a choir of mildly disgusted men

Today’s birding spot

Went for a quick walk and spotted a Nashville warbler, a gray catbird, and a hairy woodpecker. surely the day can only go downhill from here.

Peak enjoyable summer evening times

I very much agree, and I’ve never been quite so excited to read the stories in one of these best of collections. I read my first Edward P Jones story this year and was completely blown away, so I’m not surprised he put together a selection like this.

I carry a shovel in my car for snow in the winter, and for moving turtles to safety out of the road in the summer 🐢 Cuteness ahead:

Now this is a timeline cleanse 🌩️

The sound of wind in trees is known as psithurism (pronounced sith- err-iz-um) The word comes from the Greek word psithuros, meaning whispering #psithurism

I also love fairs, especially county fairs with their delightful food and craft competitions. I used to enter them and I've won a few! ugh I miss that about my current life

More cute:

Today, my targeted ads included a board game called Publish or Perish, where you are encouraged to embrace your inner reviewer 2. Between this and a clothing company making shirts emblazoned with the words “stay home” and pictures of cats, my targeted advertising is finally starting to hit the mark

Want to watch a viking ship get s l o w l y moved to a new place in a museum? Well by god, Norwegian media has a live stream just for you: www.nrk.no/kultur/flytt...

More birds than bugs, but basically

Oh no!

Blue cohosh berries, so strange how the rest of the plant dies but they hang out here looking juicy and ripe (do not eat, btw)

My favourite weird plant

shoutout to this iNaturalist user who appears to be an ROV pilot in the gulf of mexico and posts occasional biological observations, including A GODDAMN TANINGIA ATTACKING THE ROBOT ARM OF THE ROV www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Rather enjoying this whole crochet thing. And it was great to buy yarn made from Canadian wool, manufactured by a Canadian company, from a local Canadian store. (The yarn was milled in Peru, but we don’t have mills in North America that can produce yarn on a commercial scale.)

Friend’s 8 yo is in hospital in Malaysia. This is how lunch comes. Different smiley face every time. Why aren’t we doing this?

People pushing you to test for MTHFR polymorphisms are trying to sell you supplements, exhibit 9 million:

The speed with which I dropped everything and ran outside to get a better look at the red breasted nut hatches meeping outside my window

sublime

My day was greatly improved spotting this Broad winged hawk this morning before work

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Your daily horoscope: Today you will feel like an old pond in the forest - murky, stagnant, and holding on to secrets and old bones.

Oh, I can’t wait to read this!

Saw this last year and it made me pause then too

Always love a story by @chayab77.bsky.social, but The Monolith so perfectly captures the toxic world of medical training 🤌

hey @monicabyrne13.bsky.social you directed and starred in a very compelling dream of mine last night. I think this is a sign you need to publish again

Is this technically my job? I guess it is, isn’t it

this kid is ensuring humanity gets another week every time I see him. you owe him your lives.

Today has been A Day(tm) but how lovely to get an email from a genetic counselor I tutored for the board exam, letting me know she passed! “I couldn’t have done it without you” 🥹

Hey folks @torreypeters.bsky.social is a hell of a writer; damn I enjoyed Stag Dance very much #BookSky

Today I spotted a turkey with four little babies! A little hard to see, but you can see you their tiny little long legs

Turns out the 1940s NYC Tax Department photographs (by WPA photogs) include outtakes, and they are so wonderful! 1940s.nyc/outtakes

I don’t crochet much, but I rather like this evil eye granny square that I just finished

In these trying times, it's good to treat yourself. - procure some enchanting pants - throw a party for your mind goblins - color your hair to match your favorite nebula - eat a block of cheese the size of a car battery You deserve all this and more.

Becoming mildly concerned that people think I’m serious, when in fact, I have been boiling water in a kettle for tea since I was four years old. Recently, my mom conceded that I was maybe a bit young to be doing that, but she also needed her cuppa.

Importantly, the guidance highlights that using augmentative and alternative communication systems, or AAC, “does not decrease the use of natural speech and may promote an increase in verbal expression expertise, which should provide reassurance to physicians and families.”

The eugenics of the present-day GOP is alarmingly similar to the eugenics of 100 years ago. We should have feared the resurgence of classic eugenics more than CRISPR designer babies

Not worried about AI completely taking my job just yet

Very timely clip to share with my students in my US healthcare policy class

don’t forget to get out there and touch grass

perhaps if the bread’s been sitting around a while