Local hs jazz band MC: this is our first group in years… My thoughts on the first two songs: wow this bass player is loud and pretty good… MC: our next song is by the famous fusion player jaco pastorius The pieces are falling into place

coordinating with my neighbors to turn trick-or-treating down my block into a sort of walking baked potato bar

Mayor Johnson is cooking

People on twitter are losing their minds over this, including several scientists who I have to assume have either brain poisoned themselves or were always like this. People don't always cite what's best; they cite what they know & researchers from historically excluded communities get the short end.

cannot stop laughing at the louvre heist escape video as they’re slowly lowered down the ladder in a bucket

OH: Monte Carlo is a place? It's not just an algorithm?

we don’t talk often enough in our little corner of the universe about the time Giugiaro designed pasta, “lined for maximum sauce and flavour retention…designed to remain well ‘structured’ after boiling, and to be ‘displayed’ in nouvelle cuisine dishes” www.italdesign.it/en/project/m...

California condor range expanding into the Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mountains, further south into Santa Barbara County too. 🪶 www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...

i am not a harvard administrator but if i had to guess i would say these cuts were in the offing once the first grad student union contract was signed (cf. BU) but all these government shenanigans gave them cover to slash students without looking like mustache-twirling gilded age magnates

A fun little side project I've been working on with @stepadenisov.bsky.social , Mato Lagator, and Andreas Wagner: "Strong promoters are mutationally robust". Briefly... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Every day that I’m remote working from here on I’m going to be like “I wonder if the neighborhood cat is going to come piss everyone off again today”

Update: our visitor made the mistake of returning when The Big Boss was around

Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained. These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.

so if you ask a model to summarize the current conversation in emoji, it will be able to give you a really condensed summary of the entire context. if you then paste that into another LLM, it will probably understand and also the safety filter will quickly trip

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

We planned a trip to Point Reyes 6 months ago but didn't want to miss the protests today. Luckily we were able to join the #NoKings protest in Point Reyes Station! The turnout of 500+ was approximately the size of the town

We showed out y'all. Source unknown but its an aerial shot of the Missoula No Kings rally.

“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

ex-punter turned pilates instructor with a pilates studio called puntius pilates

anyway, the people who got this kid to kill himself? bigballs was their VPN provider. :)

Shouts out to Max Scherzer, doing it for all the guys over 40 who experience neck, shoulder and back pain because of the violent repetitive movement of their bodies, whether that's Pitching to Major League Hitters or Shifting Slightly in Bed

Congratulations to @jeffgroh.bsky.social on the publication of his paper on an ancient balanced polymorphisms controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts. The paper shows the putative turnover & reversal of dominance of a mating type polymorphism www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I feel seen and attacked at the same time

We have a bunch of new job ads out @arcadiascience.com. If you haven’t checked them out, take a look! www.arcadiascience.com/careers

finally AI comes for my job, a guy who writes erotica containing heavy use of the phrase “as a result”

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

This is a real “or barbarism” situation. Value the work you wish to reward. With dollars and clicks and attention and time. Or suffer the consequences of the world you’ve built.

Seriously, if you have access to ProQuest, you can read how the "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" dude helped cure AIDS www.proquest.com/docview/2071...

Take a saltine. Put butter on it. Eat the buttered saltine. Repeat about 37 more times and you'll feel better, probably

The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does and reader: a fried egg sandwich cures hangovers. Mystery solved.

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

Checking in on Andy Glaze’s attempt to finish the Moab 240 ultramarathon

"The liberty and security of our fellow citizens is our great object, and not the prompt execution of the laws. Indecision, delay, blunders, nay villainous actions in the administration of government, are trifles compared to legalizing the full exertion of a tyrannical disposition."

Out to lunch today, got my first instance of Listening To Zombies On A Halloween Playlist so happy that to all who celebrate

Wahoo! Our Molecular Ecology paper on the evolutionary history of domestication in hops won ‘Best Academic Writing’ in the 2025 North American Guild of Beer Writers Awards! Congrats to all my coauthors, and do check out the paper! reportersnotebook.org/uncategorize... Paper: doi.org/10.1111/mec....

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

good morning to the bike lane big finish designers

The consequence won't be that open data will fail to become the default. The consequence is that you'll hear more funders say things like "we got the 90% carrot 10% stick proportions wrong and we'll have to switch them" out loud.

Run. The. Damn. Ball.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

put the computer back in the enclosure. we are no longer asking.

elder millennial news director ending his big speech with "now lets go do the heckin newserino"

I made it 2 1/2 years but finally broke down and bought the baby synth