Noreen needs help desperately to feed her children. She and her husband cannot get work due to a disability, and they are also caring for her sick father. Please share and donate if you can!

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

Even tiny amounts go a long way for families in need. ♥️

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

pls read my ecomodernist manifesto—we could make a massive dent in our planetary crises by reducing our dependence on the two great efficiency sinks in American life: meat and cars. And we can do so in a way that's consistent with growth and democratic principles www.vox.com/future-perfe...

💥 Check out this new #AJB essay! 💥 Urban #lichens as an emerging model for urban #evolution By Ann Evankow, Jeremy Howland, James Lendemer & Jason Munshi-South doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #plantscience #fungi

This is fascinating.

A nice cluster of Cladonia #lichen spp...plus the remains of what was a cloudberry flower. #fungi #fungifriends #wildflower

READ: Israel keeps blocking aid into the strip, delaying reconstruction efforts, and leaving hospitals short on supplies, while people go hungry every day. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/a-ne...

Noreen and her family are still in dire straits - southern Gaza is experiencing extreme flooding and its fallout. Please donate and share to help them purchase a new tent and warm clothes for their kids!

Look, I know that STEM faculty might not pay attention, b/c the bill focuses on non-STEM research. But this is just a foothold into crushing tenure and academic freedom. Anyone whose research doesn't pass muster w/ administration will be stopped, e.g. climate researchers, mRNA vaccine researchers...

🚨Urgent: as you may have heard, Khan Younis has been hit by flooding in the past 24 hours. Noreen and her family's tent was completely destroyed. They have already gone many days in the past several weeks without eating & with inadequate clothing. Please donate & share!!! chuffed.org/project/emer...

🚨Urgent: as you may have heard, Khan Younis has been hit by flooding in the past 24 hours. Noreen and her family's tent was completely destroyed. They have already gone many days in the past several weeks without eating & with inadequate clothing. Please donate & share!!! chuffed.org/project/emer...

Absolute nonsense. Researchers who are already here punch above their weight despite low levels of support. We do not need to spend a billion dollars recruiting Americans, we need to fund the excellent scientists we already have.

The situation in Gaza is desperate for many, as the cold sets in and the weather damages tents. Most of Noreen and Khalil's supplies are damaged or too wet to use, and they need help buying new blankets and clothes for their children.

Today I'm talking about contributing to base R 💻 Are you curious about how to improve the language we love, at its core? This is a thread for you! #RStats

Noreen's father is not doing well and needs medication, which is wildly expensive. Please donate if you can, share if you can't. ♥️ chuffed.org/project/emer...

The deadline to apply to the Access, Inclusion, and Community (AIC) Committee has been extended to December 15!

Noreen's father is not doing well and needs medication, which is wildly expensive. Please donate if you can, share if you can't. ♥️ chuffed.org/project/emer...

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

Here's the reality this example illustrates: It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).

Not everyone can make it to a theater, so Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, author, and policy expert, is hosting a special one-time-only online watchalong of The Last Class on Mon, Dec 8 at 5:30pm PT / 8:30pm ET. Join here,

Along Israel’s expanding Yellow Line, the war in Gaza never ended Israeli forces are advancing beyond stipulated boundaries, where Palestinians say supposedly safe neighborhoods are coming under fire without warning. By Ruwaida Amer www.972mag.com/gaza-yellow-...

A reminder for some of what these folks are facing right now: 1) Calling the situation a "ceasefire" has led to a significant drop in donations. 2) Very little aid is getting in. 3) What is getting in is often diverted by bad actors. 4) Resulting prices at markets for good food is scary high.

I am Nourin from Gaza. I have three children and my husband is injured. My children and husband need your help. We haven't eaten for two days and urgently need $300. Please donate before it's too late. 💔😭 chuffed.org/project/emer...

Is anyone able to help Noreen today? The Bluesky mods are ruthless with deleting Palestinian accounts ... Winter has hit Gaza, adding costs for shelter and winter clothes to the already difficult task of scraping together enough money for food. chuffed.org/project/emer...

Khalil is Noreen's husband, for whom I have been sharing the past while. Donations to them have slowed and they currently have no other way to get money - Noreen, her husband, and her father all have illnesses/injuries preventing them from working. Please share and donate if you can!

Their fundraiser is here: chuffed.org/project/emer...

In my inbox: "Want to improve your pipeline? Get Ferret IgA Native Protein!" I don't know how I managed to land on this mailing list but honestly at this point I'm interested in how ferret proteins will improve my pipeline.

Geneticist here. Anyone telling you that they can just change intelligence (which isn't what IQ measures well anyways) by fiddling with a few genes is just straight-up grifting, it doesn't work like that. And yes it's basically definitionally eugenics.

The situation in Gaza is becoming more dire as winter arrives. There is basically no change in how much aid is coming in, and so food and medicine prices are exceedingly high. Even $5 helps their situation. If everyone who saw this shared or donated $5, Noreen could feed her children today.

I know we are numbed by constantly seeing fundraisers for Palestinians, and worried about which ones are scams, but we can't let that stop us from acting. Noreen and her family are real people suffering under the genocide. I have spoken with her daily. She is verified by RadioWatermelon.

I’m 56 years old, and for my whole life we’ve been asking some version of the question “what would WE, our generation, have done to stop the Nazis, either in Germany as they were rising, or around the world to fight for freedom. Now we’re answering the question in real time. Each of us & all of us.

A version of this exact sequence of events is happening to a friend right now. It is terrifying and stupid and they just want to be able to do their job.

A challenge for us. You know Ruaa (now DELETED, itsmeio.bsky.social) relies on this app to feed her family. Asking for help was already so degrading + she barely has internet. So...how many $5 weekly pledges can we get by Friday to ensure help even when banned? #SaveRuaa chuffed.org/project/help...

Did you know that less than 0.5% of philanthropic giving goes to Native Americans. Here are Native-led places you can donate this #GivingTuesday.🧵

Honestly one of the most underreported stories in higher ed is the degree of anger that many faculty feel about accommodations. People I like. In some cases it’s because its another administrative burden dumped on us (I had to find the rooms for all the students on the final with quiet required). 1/

Ding . It’s a sign of contempt . “You have to convince me you care while I am patently showing you I don’t”

The most embarrassing thing about me is I love academia despite its toxicity. For years I’ve been unable to recommend it as a career path. But today as more institutions are relinquishing what ever made these institutions worthwhile I am not sure the enterprise as a whole will last much longer.

It is Giving Tuesday - what better way to mark it than helping a family directly? It is a daily struggle for Noreen to get food and medicine for her children, with soaring prices caused by artificial scarcity. Help make it easier for her today!

Can't recommend this lab enough! If you know any students interested in freshwater fish, bioinformatics, evolution, popgen, hybridization, or conservation, this is an awesome opportunity in a beautiful location.

I have a new preprint demonstrating a genome-architecture-aware approach to inferring species trees and introgression landscapes from a small number of genomes. If you are interested in phylogenomics, birds, or hybridization, this is for you! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’ve got another wastewater mystery. This one from Southern California, and it’s pretty fishy. 1/

A mother in need of support 🍉💓

Sharing again for Noreen and her family. Thanks to some generous donors she was able to get some of the winter supplies they need, but everything is so expensive. What a single person spends on groceries here is the same $ it costs Noreen to barely feed her kids for a day. Please give if you can!

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Porcupine Moose Piping plover Dolphin Horseshoe crab

This touches on a few of the biggest sources of low morale for me: - flood of AI slop lands in my inbox as peer review requests - my critical reviews of said AI slop are then ignored by editors at Journals that won't give my work consideration - all while I'm expected to ⬆️ research output