thank god the vote failed but yet another example of lib cities bailing out far-right rurals extra funny bc you’d think that “overpopulation” would be a bigger concern in the expensive cities when in reality it’s just the paranoid NIMBY schizophrenia of rural fascists

Pretty sure Scotland is winning the World Cup

Have a concise report for a genome assembly (or allied dataset) you'd like to publish? I am Senior Editor for the open access Genetics Society of America's G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics @genetics-gsa.bsky.social and I handle Genome Reports. Our team of academic editors is superb. Consider submitting!

www.popsci.com/environment/... #fungi 🍄🌳

With June runs in for all the ENSO models and the "spring predictability barrier" mostly behind us, the odds of a record-breaking El Niño event this fall have continued to increase. Here are all the latest runs (including today's C3S updates):

the german soccer tourist guy has discovered bucees

From the #AppsPlantSci Phylogenetic Networks issue Ancient hybridization & #phylogenetic discordance: Exploring evolutionary complexity in #Asteraceae (Ellestad, @erikarmoore11.bsky.social @carolsiniscalchi.bsky.social @jennifermandel.bsky.social et al) doi.org/10.1002/aps3... #evolution #botany

the first guy to try and describe déjà vu was probably killed by his community so fast

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Playing a World Cup in college football country threatens to create heretofore unimaginable of levels of sports fandom

Our team at @arcadiascience.com is hiring! We're looking to hire a computational evolutionary biologist interested in asking how and why protein sequences/structures/functions differ across the tree of life 🧬 jobs.lever.co/arcadiascien... Please share widely!

“let the pizza rest for five min-“ the pizza can rest when it’s dead

Have you ever wondered if fish yawn? (and if they do, what that tells us about yawning?) The first preprint from the lab and a serendipitous observation ⬇️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

“Trenchant Analysis” here absolutely outs Hugh Laurie as being one of the accounts On Here that somehow incorporates Andor, Seahawks football, or both in to most every post by @proptermalone.bsky.social and @golikehellmachine.com

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

Please circulate: I will have a postdoc opening soon, ideally with a start date sometime this summer or fall. If you're interested in empirical population genetics, computational methods development, and/or evolutionary modeling via simulation, don't hesitate to reach out. For more info on the lab:

After consulting with my attorney I’ve been advised that what I actually want to say about this would be ill-advised so I’ll just say that he couldn’t possibly be clearer about which side of D-Day he’s identifying with

He's 100% correct about both of these things.

Excited to share our new paper in which we test how competition alters adaptation at a warming range edge @science.org We find that competition can increase adaptation to warming when there is a shared evolutionary response to both biotic and abiotic drivers of selection: tinyurl.com/3j8s9t8b

Op-ed by CSEE council members Laurence Feyten, Simon Joly and CSEE member Fanie Pelletier in response to the discussion paper of the Government of Canada, which proposes significant setbacks in the environmental assessment processes for major economic projects. @lapresse.ca

I had heard the (kinda racist) earlier version of the Xiaohe story, but these two episodes, which rely on modern genetics, are so much more gloriously weird than that story ever could be

"models cannot be owned and operation of one requires disgorgement of virtually all your attributable profits into a trust for journalism, science, and the arts."

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.

The rage I feel when someone is in the kitchen while I’m in the kitchen should be studied

Part of the social contract is having your shit together and not pitching a fit when, say, you want to go somewhere that might be ruined by an unwashed mob of dumbshits flooding it but can't because you failed to plan ahead.

Dont drink Brugmansia tea! #Solanaceae en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brugman...

Eze...

Could just one journalist try to not be a credulous rube with these obvious con-artists?

Paying attention to birds supports a person’s health. Moving around in nature tends to correlate with lower levels of stress. You’re not only moving around, but you’re listening; you’re noticing signs of birds, you’re enhancing your cognitive flexibility. buff.ly/T2Ef4E8

“Doing a PhD shouldn’t make people feel like failures if they choose a different path.” A really thoughtful conversation with Andrea Betancourt & Gideon Bradburd on careers beyond academia, mentoring, transferable skills, and what PhD training is really for.

This is heartbreaking. Jey is a Boilermaker and contributed to science communication and improving the culture of Purdue enormously while here as a student. Please consider helping out here gofund.me/ee804efbf

🇮🇹 Top 5 cutest stops of all time. #Giroditalia

"Good thing we've still got politics in Texas -- finest form of free entertainment ever invented" - the late, great Molly Ivins

Somewhat hilarious review left by a guy who bought plants from me

Proud of this subtle paper from the lab. Went out to test for cryptic eco-evo dynamics in response to the urban heat island. Found evolution, ecological change, and local adaptation, but no feedbacks (and that woodlice have been common in NA at least 200 yrs? Read to learn more.

the silicon valley vision of labor is an utterly abject class of employees surveilled in every particular by a set of tools loyal only to the C-Suite, which spends all its time relaxing in a warm bath of automated sycophancy

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

Hey PSA: IF you put a tube in a tubeless setup to get out of the woods. Check for thorns in the tire. Because there will be something there, as we're being reminded and all of us forgot to check.

please stop booing I have a lot of speech to go

Iowa state has a barn with horses giving birth all spring (and postin limericks about each one) in the middle of campus! Students (who take care of them) live in the upstairs of the barns!

Trying to explain that a mummy known as the "Princess of Xiaohe" isn't a princess because she had high social status but because she's perfectly preserved and her features are striking, but without trying to imply that a mummy is hot, which would be weird as hell

Razorbills have the slickest design in the animal kingdom. They look like they were made by Yves Saint Laurent

these reactionaries are happy to take the taxes that black families pay to maintain these colleges and universities. they just don't want those institutions to have black students.

too soon

BEAR ON CAMPUS DAY

FhMYB4: a dual‐pathway repressor coordinating floral color and scent in Freesia hybrida 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Zhang et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

I cannot stress enough how much anyone who complains about the government spending money to give new parents free diapers should never know one single moment of peace

*scientists frantically calculating the exact speed you need to jog through a museum in order to cheat death*

I am excited to share my first paper, our new preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... with @arbelharpak.bsky.social and @docedge.bsky.social. Family GWAS provides direct genetic effect estimates and is increasingly important. But how much can we trust these estimates? (1/15)