Well, it just so happens I was an incredibly uncool teenager who was listening to early 80s music in the mid 90s

AAAAAAAHHHHH

I lost the post about recurring dream imagery, but this is one of mine. We live in a house just like this, but the tower is forbidden to us

neighbour

THIS INSECT CATHEDRAL IS ARGUABLY BETTER THAN THE REAL ONE.

Instrument approach procedure on a very misty morning at Richmond Park in Glasgow today. #birds

Microbiologist, army captain/missile inspector

Everything is scary, however, I was delighted to see that the new issue of Clarkesworld contains not a short story, but a whole frickin novella (or a novelette?) by @thomasha.bsky.social So that is nice

I am reminded of an anecdote of a modern child finding a floppy disk and saying, "Hey look, someone 3D printed the save icon!" 🫠

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

🆕 at @naturemedicine.bsky.social How does ChatGPT Health do for appropriately triaging a person as to whether to go to the emergency room or stay home? www.nature.com/articles/s41... Not very well. Under-triaged 52% of case vignettes that are considered gold-standard emergencies

This was the Starling murmuration, on Sinker's Fields, at Whixall yesterday. It was one of the most spectacular natural spectacles I have ever seen and is a must watch.

Gold for Canada in men's curling! We're 👆

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

Yes I'm sure taking loads of drugs must be great but what is also quite exciting is going for a walk in remote woodland and stumbling across a lone inexplicable brutalist pillar.

Glad that people _do_ recognize it :-) manuschwendener.ch/horses #LEGO #AliBati #SFW2025 #Skærbæk2025

Eating nian gao for lunar new year and I figure this kind of counts for Pancake Day too

holy shit haha

ok, sorry, this is now a thread for re-posting all my dumb survey-themed valentine poems from past years on twitter

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

Post a tree you photographed:

February walk

The thing about trying a new thing like drawing or writing is you have to be willing to suck at it, sometimes for quite a long time. In our age of instant gratification, people don't want to go through that stage but I'm here to tell you it makes the day you produce something you truly love so sweet

OK, the message is great, but I also love Mel Penner’s Björk poster

The Actual Star ebook is $3.99 again! An antidote for despair about where the human race is going (or, I hoped it would be):

Paging Dr. Chaucer

Lots of stuff is bad, but I get to work with really great genetic counseling students, and that makes me happy

Got an Amazon gift card for being in a research study and decided to treat myself

lovebot!

wait, what

Drinking my coffee before work, knitting my nisselue hat and reading up on distant Norwegian relatives who sabotaged Nazis. And soon I am going to email my accountant to get a head start on my Canadian taxes/funding the next season of Heated Rivalry. we all gotta keep our sanity somehow these days

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Passion, Pain, Perfection: Nineteenth Century Russian Literature Classics 2. Constructing the "Other" in German Cinema 3. Psycholinguistics - Child Language Acquisition 4. Lake Baikal - The Soul of Siberia 5. Histopathology

Do people actually not know what a central role fashion has played in social movements??????

Saw this on my feed and was like, "Wow, that is so familiar." And then I realized this was my old neighborhood when I lived there.

Shirley Raines and Catherine O'Hara this week, plus everything else

I've known Chad since livejournal days! He's a good guy, help him out

Sundogs and a circumzenithal arc this morning! Terrible phone pics tk

New enamel pins will drop on my site this Friday 1/30 @ 10 am PST! 💕 🔗 here to preview all the new designs: shop.fossilforager.art Reshares appreciated to get the word out! #sciart

this woman was so amazing, I am so sad for her family, friends, and communities ugh

sanity break

After a young woman develops mobility and speech issues, her grandmother seeks help from her genetic counselor, who flags a major shortcoming of the test provided to the family.

🖤

Mine is

Five phrases about the transitory nature of all things... 1. Nothing is eternal (Farsi) 2. No one’s candle is lit till dawn (Serbian) 3. No evil shall last a hundred years (Spanish) 4. All snowstorms eventually subside (Icelandic) 5. Everything has an end, except the sausage, which has two (German)

I just thought everyone should see this

I needed to job hunt today but I just made this instead. It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut. I have no regrets.

Finally got around to actually starting to watch the hockey show and man it’s a really nice escape

"Girl Sitting Alone in the 'Sea Grill,' a Bar and Restaurant, Waiting for a Pick-Up, Washington, D.C." Esther Bubley, 1943. www.nga.gov/artworks/110...