Richard C Lewontin lab 1976: See Russ Lande, top left; Jerry Coyne bottom right. Who are the three others? Help me folks!

march

Waxing Gibbous Moon. 2019UT 28 February 2026. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

tuesday, but no pancakes

In celebration of #DarwinDay, here are his decidedly mixed first impressions after landing on the Galápagos (17 Sept 1835; from 'the Voyage' Chap X): "Nothing could be less inviting..."

The revised Schedule F policy, finalized last week, will kick in next month. It could reclassify career government scientists—potentially those involved in grantmaking at agencies like NIH and NSF—into at-will employees, and would strip them of whistleblower protections.

Bad bunnies from long ago www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

GMT-5 timezone not good

tired

How many tigers do you think is in a jar of tigers balm

sunday

snow & stairs, Berlin

Minotaur in the labyrinth, Roman mosaic at Conímbriga, Portugal Frank Stella, Labyrinth, 1960

Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...

Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961

'”Modern man has lost the option of silence.” William S. Burroughs.

Shout out to everyone currently experiencing everything

This is not a model. This is a "fossilised" taxidermy of a Woolly Rhino, discovered in Starunia mine in Carpathian Poland (now Ukraine) in 1929. Dating to the Pleistocene, its exquisite preservation is owed to a mixture of brine, oil and clays. 🧵

mislaid species — the latest "tortured phrases” in scientific publications?...

Not apocalyptic looking at all

Gratuitous X-ray microscopy imaging, a "bouquet" of developing soybean flowers. @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social @danforthcenter.bsky.social

Roundleaf sundew leaf. One of the #carnivorous plants we have here in #newfoundland, Canada. #botany #plant

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Joining a research project mid-cycle like:

evergreen

😬🥔

amsterdam, NYE 2025

christmas moon over koenigssee

Happy Christmas! 🎄🎅 'Christmas day is one of great importance to the men: the whole of it has been given up to revelry, at present there is not a sober man in the ship' - Charles Darwin, 25 December 1831. 🍾 thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/c... #Christmas #histsci #histbio 🗃️

christmas trifle 2025

Weihnachtsmorgen, Berlin

winter solstice, Potsdam

hand ball event

riesenrad, Berlin

Have you ever wondered: just how strong *is* the evidence for Muller's ratchet on mtDNA? Well, wonder no more! (Project led by Yu Mo, with @smishra677.bsky.social and @yadirapga.bsky.social) "No molecular evidence for Muller's ratchet in mitochondrial genomes" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!

Thinking of all the colleagues and friends I have who are connected to Brown University. What a devastating day for Brown, and for all of us.

Hello, Susan

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Christmas spiders (Austracantha minax). Photos by Lee Murphy & Zartok. #SciArt #NaturePhotography

Illustrations of snow crystals as "actually observed and sketched with the aid of the microscope”, from the 1863 book Snowflakes: a Chapter from the Book of Nature — https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/illustrations-of-snowflakes-1863/

I don't want your spotify wrapped I want to know what were your top 5 intrusive thoughts this year

twin fox kits, grunewald berlin

Not now, carnivorous death ball

OTD in 1880, Charles Darwin published The Power of Movement in Plants. D believed that plants are active agents in the world: “A radicle may be compared with a burrowing animal such as a mole, which wishes to penetrate perpendicularly down into the ground.” 🧪🌱🐋 #philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫

If you know an undergrad that would like to spend the summer doing research in my philosophy of biology lab, encourage them to apply to the U’s SPUR program. Includes a $5,000 stipend and subsidized housing to work in my lab. Details and how to apply here: tinyurl.com/SPUR-PhilBio...

I like to think that I personally ruined the workplace.