Funnily enough that was also Rommel at Normandy

tried drawing a brine fly guy but turns out that's just a muppet

"Democrats need a theory of constitutional power: a sense of what the Constitution is and how it both authorizes and legitimizes the kind of government they hope to build ... [and] of what they want the American Republic to be, versus a sense of the kinds of policies they hope to institute."

Leaving behind the daily political grind (why do Italian deli meats have such confusing and bougie-sounding names) to explore life's deeper questions (what makes research assistants so irresistible).

I've seen this reposted at least four times by different people all day and I only now just realized that's not what it actually means to say

This rules. Absolutely the funniest possible outcome. The president of the United States filling in as the headliner of a concert because Milli Vanilli canceled.

I think there's a connection there to how their worldview on industrial regulation went from "pro-industry, even if it's bad for the environment" to "anti-environment, even if it's bad for industry". (Case in point: Trump's war on water efficiency standards.) They're like Captain Planet villains.

"The plan is to kill off publicly funded academic science in this country." Correct. And that means killing off the whole US science and innovation industry. Because it's all built on a foundation of basic research—which. can. only. be. funded. by. public. dollars.

This functionally ends science in the United States.

Leonard's malasadas are some of the worst fried dough items you will come across. Oil literally seeping out of them, like they don't know how to operate a fryer.

I am having the wonderful wax models repaired by a brilliant student conservator - Iona Rimmer Elks, who is undertaking a placement at @nhm-london.bsky.social This sandfly model is approx 75 years old - she has determined what it’s made from & fixing the cracks accordingly @natsca.bsky.social

Great news for bug fans @bedupolker.bsky.social @franzanth.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Punchbowl National Cemetery. Seeing the results of war so starkly and tangibly only makes you more angry at those who treat it as a game and view human life as worthless.

I love the logo, it says the name but also looks like a little grad student standing next to their conference poster while their soul slowly exits their body

Pope Leo quoting Tolkien in his encyclical on AI seems like a pointed reference for the tech oligarchs who have appropriated LOTR for their own ends.

Making some bug slides and holy cow clove oil is just the best. I’m sensitive to a lot of scents so I don’t generally don’t like to smell anything, but leaving a vial cap on my desk with a couple of drops of clove is just right to get a whiff now and then.

Samson and Delilah, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1528–30 (flipped), 📸 by Jason Miller

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

You can’t even read the conversations because Elon turned off the ability to view threads. Even on the most basic usability level it doesn’t work! Sorry to contribute to this eternally stupid discourse, but just, what the fuck are you talking about?!

One of the people I looked up to as I was coming up in my field had a saying: “conservation isn’t really about managing ecosystems, it’s about managing ego-systems.” Applies to pretty much everywhere science and evidence intersects with policy.

Would be very funny to see Colbert on OC16

Oh, a land nudibranch

Whoa, just had an earthquake in Honolulu! Not something you get every day…

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In Washington state and Hawaii, residents can now get mifepristone and misoprostol from Planned Parenthood to keep in their cabinets in case they need to end a pregnancy at a later time. n.pr/4dq7b0x

Our new paper led by Christian Weinrich (PhD student, Andrew Forbes' lab at University of Iowa) is out in Insect Systematics and Diversity. We used unsupervised machine learning + UCE data to infer species limits in eurytomid parasitoids on US oak gall wasps—all initially thought to be Eurytoma.

Here's the thing: I do not want Gmail to do complex queries. I want it to do SIMPLE queries: list messages where the string I'm searching for is in is, and – and this is key – DO NOT show messages where the string is NOT present. Right now it's inexplicably incapable of doing that.

Oh my god AI has become self-aware

Not now, Elder Gods From Outside Reality Frozen Under The Ice For Aeons

The second thing is, every social system develops parasites. If resources amass, someone shows up to skim them, and a society better have defenses as parasites can quickly be fatal to a society. The parasites often arise from within, a queen who no longer lays worker eggs, for example.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

DAMMIT I went to Kaikoura a few years ago and all I saw were stupid birds and seals, I didn’t know about the marine caddisflies in starfish!

Authorship isn’t really treated differently, but in philosophy you don’t normally have one person who read an older text, two who came up with a critique of it, and five more who wrote different sections of the actual paper based on their specialized expertise.

A holographic cerebral thriller with CLEONYMIDS?!?! Sign me up!

Up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom.

The tech industry is gutting our public science infrastructure and hijacking the NSF to be their own R&D department. Not paying taxes is apparently not enough; they need both hands in our pockets. (There’s nothing wrong with funding those fields; it’s funding them only at the expense of others).

glyphosate is essentially nontoxic to humans. The amine it is often complexed with in formulations is a bit toxic but still not a carcinogen. The alternatives to glyphosate, however, are very very toxic to humans. Look up diquat and paraquat

apropos of nothing, the consensus amongst the science community is that 1) glyphosate does not cause cancer in humans and 2) there is no conceivable chemical mechanism by which glyphosate could cause cancer in humans

The same way the government paid farmers not to grow crops in the 1930s they should pay annoying people not to become influencers. I have no personal stake in this idea btw

I think female mealybugs look kind of like fuzzy trilobites

Sick of arguing about it, sick of hearing about it

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

New paper! A long overdue update with the first identification guide to the non-native psyllids of Hawaii. 🧪 🦋

You do not hate the DOGE people enough. Boys with toys breaking things they were too arrogant and lazy to understand.

War going badly, so WH investigates trans students at @smithcollege.bsky.social Good time to recycle this: "My trans students have made me think hard about transformation and identity, about nature and convention, about character and performance." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

You have to nip it in the bud immediately. The first one comes in and it’s always a nice polite one. Then after a while they bring a friend. And then they start having kids and they stop being cool and you realize, oh shit, this is a chicken yard now.

I'm normally against franchise reboots, but this RoboCop one might be ok now that they've got a good villain

This is true in Hawaii as well, where I've seen honeybees foraging for myrtle rust spores. It's responsible for the near extinction of one endemic nioi species, and probably impacts ohia as well even though it rarely kills them.

Would broadly subscribe to this at university level, too. We can invest in giving people the time and resources to do what we already know works well, and then find ways to experiment around the edges. Or we could change the VLE every 5 minutes and integrate expensive AI contracts, ymmv.

Praying for Rudy Giuliani. Complicated man, but he taught me that marriage and family don't mean anything. You can just do whatever you want. Humiliate and lie to everyone you're supposed to love whenever you want, or are bored. Honestly fuck them. Also he taught me everything else is like that too.