Minnesotans really be out there thinking Albert Lea is a normal name for a town

This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.

Getting Sony to rerelease Morbius cos of it being Morbin time is the internet's greatest achievement.

I’m old enough to have lived through the rise in the sufferfest training mindset where everyone went all out high intensity but with new power meter numbers and it turns out fitness marketing can’t overcome people getting their brakes beat off by the folks who just do tons of riding for fun

much of fitness culture in the US was developed by people who literally entered sports and physical education instead of going to therapy and the attitudes around intensity and effort kinda reflect that. the smiling Jazzercise folks were right and your football coach / PE teacher was wrong

Headline says "could be why" but the data says "is why"

Elite free speech discourse has culminated in state action to compel labor

I respect Nolan's commitment to the Crocs despite the obvious discomfort.

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

Very excited to share the capstone of my postdoc work with @stepheniwright.bsky.social, co-led by Wright lab grad student Cassandre with contributions from many others. We combined new methods with high-quality Rumex assemblies to dive into the remarkable history of rearrangement in this genus.

It did not "go viral". It was intentionally filmed and disseminated using a network of coordinated bots, amplified by an algorithm designed to spread this kind of content quickly. This was a harassment campaign, intended to silence everyone. Call it what it is.

Congrats @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al. Some avocado trees open female-phase flowers in the morning & then male in afternoon. Others show complementary pattern (m->f), to synchronize pollination of two types. Jeff show this to be a >45Mya polymorphism at a transcription factor across 100s of species.

Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies an ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.22.695989v1

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

okay if we’re going to do academic job market discourse, can we talk about the fact that virtually every English department has big-draw classes in science fiction but you almost never see TT lines for a specialist in science fiction studies?

The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.

we aren't powerless! never forget that outrage and pushing back works, even if it just buys time until we have more power. this is a marathon, not a sprint

"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to."

It’s the time of year when your bougie grocery store has the most fkd-up novelty cheeses imaginable. Goat cheese with gingerbread in it. Pesto gouda. Mango Wensleydale. Cheese law means nothing out there this week.

a bike shop guy was bemoaning to me how everyone always wants more kickstand as “a lot of focus on the experience of not riding your bike” and it exactly how I feel about bioinfo pipelines that are like 95% read and qc filtering

A quantified explanation for why women make up more than 50% of biomedical graduate student cohorts but occupy only about 1/3 of faculty positions 🧪

c'mon man these people are weird

Help the internet is roasting postdoc me

Dark times call for desperate measures, and with my career being a little hosed, I'm writing a book! It's about teaching R users to write code like software engineers do, and the hope is that I can use it partially as content marketing for my coaching offerings. Here's the first chapter: #R #R-lang

so if you personally pay donald trump you get a fast track to a green card

Based on this from the article: "he received an offer to be a research assistant last February, meaning his funding was secure to become a Purdue grad student this academic year. But, in April or May, he said, the Office of Graduate Admissions told him that his application was denied."

yeah I'm involved in unethical non monogamy. no no, nobody's cheating on anyone else; me and my polycucle just operate a whaling ship.

Some top-notch Rhode Island reporters to follow: @tednesi.bsky.social @iandonnis.bsky.social @amandamilkovits.bsky.social @fitzprov.bsky.social @waveelection.bsky.social @antoniafarzan.bsky.social @steveahlquist.bsky.social

As someone who grew up down the road from Aplington take my advice: don’t move to Aplington

This map always makes that point well.

Swedish cyclist & mountaineer Göran Kropp is most famous for doing a solo, supplemental-oxygen-free ascent of Mount Everest, in which he rode from Sweden to Everest Base Camp on a bicycle. #BicycleBirthday December 11 (1966-2002)

New facultative foliar embryogenesis species confirmed! We acquired a Kalanchoe (?)species from @zimdjskinner.bsky.social that only produce foliar embryos when leaves are detached/wounded/stressed.

None. None more metal.

"The only reason I don’t have this funding is because my last name is Rodriguez,” he said. “It has nothing to do with the science." STAT on the betrayal of early-career researchers: www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...

Landowners demand infrastructure be built by someone else??

TIL frankincense and myrrh are both Burseraceae

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

New post: Under resilient ridge, prolonged tule fog episode brings cold & damp weather to Central Valley but anomalously warm/dry weather elsewhere. Plus, update on what turned out to be record-wet autumn in some spots & PacNW flood risk this wk. elsewhere.

One of the dilemmas of living through the second Trump administration is that saying these things out loud seems crazy. But yeah, the death penalty is an established, well-documented thing we have on the books for precisely these kinds of crimes; they obviously did it; and it's not hard to prove.

Check out our review/perspective piece on phylogenetic diversification analysis, intended for the 75th anniversary of @systbiol.bsky.social. I had the privilege of working with great coauthors, @fhenaodiaz.bsky.social, @tvasconcelos.bsky.social and @roszenil.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

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