There has never been a moment when ending the oil industry has been more urgent or important. Here is a thread of seven tools that can help. Brief, readable 2-pagers, and a 30-page overview from @michealpodgers.bsky.social at @clicabedu.bsky.social.

A few years ago, through luck and vibes, I managed to produce this blue colored bean variety. This was an early step in trying to answer the question, [paraphrased] "Why isn't blue as common as red in beans, even though they're both anthocyanins and the plant has the genes for both?"

I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...

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Just bumping this up for Today's Discourse:

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

There are reports of an active shooter situation at Brown University, but if you try to look up information about it, Google will automatically fill in your search field, demonstrating how common this has become in the US.

every trans suicide is a murder every trans murder is a policy consequence and the bodies keep piling up as the elected officials who today tell us they care about us — ALL of them. — still label the hate against us as a “distraction” sorry, the funeral i went to last week was not a distraction

ZOMG LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE SHALE Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Are there mycologists or publishers out there who need a Mycological illustration artist? This is the only place I’d even ask this question. 😁 Putting it out in the world that I’d love to take on a detailed project & illustrate a fungi book! Willing to build a portfolio if this is a possibility ⬇️

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

Charlotte area voters on Tuesday approved a transpo tax that will raise an estimated $19 billion over 30 years. Funded transit projects include: • Red Line regional rail to Davidson • Silver Line light rail from CLT Airport to Coliseum/Ovens www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

NEW: this genetically engineered fungus lures mosquitoes to their death—by smelling absolutely divine my latest in @nytimes.com, with sharp edits from @michaelroston.bsky.social 🧪

🧪hey all, a friend and colleague, @maddoxfornc.bsky.social, is running for Congress in North Carolina. He is a scientist, professor, and parent, perspectives that are especially important right now. I hope you will support his run for Congress. Find out more here: www.maddoxforcongress.com/about/

I'm now in my 5th year and absolutely feel this. At least I know better how to fix my mistakes?

we were given a 1 month extension from the church that owns our house, so we are not being evicted until November 30th now. please please please share, we need to move AND stay housed, and we simply dont have enough time to save what we need. spot.fund/frwsm1bsc

For those of you still doing column purification for Sanger sequencing, save yourself some money and try enzymatic cleanup. Makes doing plate after plate a breeze (and cheap, <2 cents of reagents/rxn). dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro...

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

so uhh SNAP is apparently not going to be able to pay November benefits if the shutdown continues past 27 Oct fellow faculty- if that happens, we're about to see a lot of hungry students on our campus. now's a good time to look into what your institution has available if you don't know already

That's a new one! IS1 sequence inserted into my plasmid, fortunately outside the T-DNA so it should still be functional. Grows just fine in E. coli and agro.

Well it was an ordeal, first getting denied at CVS then trying to find anywhere that had novavax and then appointments booked out a week, but I FINALLY got my covid shot. If anyone is still looking for the novavax booster, Costco has it.

xkcd images I use in my classes: a thread When I teach phylogenetics (part 1): xkcd.com/1211/

Excited by this breakthrough work led by Dr. Lauren Stanley (now Assistant Professor at Central Michigan University). Lauren was able to develop for the first time floral dip/spray transformation methods in the yellow monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus). bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Just a reminder - if you run/recruit or have anything to do with an ecology & evolutionary biology PhD program, check out our database and update your departments salary here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

This is, and always has been, how we get biofuels.

By the time the US Civil War was over, so was the US cotton industry. Egypt had ramped up to growing so much cotton, nobody really needed any from the US South anymore.

And here we go! One more panel on its way, after which we'll have 200W solar and 768 Wh battery. I just need some of that Carolina sunshine!

It costs nothing to repost my art It doesn’t cost a whole lot to buy it either DM if interested

approximately three hundred of you have sent me this and you know what? Sure. I’ve got time today. Put 40 bulbs of garlic in my pasta, coming right up

Here are data on the percentage of FY2024 appropriation committed to date in FY2025. Most ICs are well on track, but four ICs (NIMHD, NINR, NHLBI, NHGRI) still appear to be under 80%. Note that values >100% reflect either a higher appropriation for FY25 or an increased % devoted to grants.

L'shana Tova, in the hopes of courage and endurance for the work it will take.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

I just read @billmckibben.bsky.social's "Here Comes the Sun", and am feeling inspired to try putting off-grid solar + battery on my balcony in sunny NC. Ideally I could run my plant lights, small appliances, and TV off a battery pack. Does this make sense to do? www.costco.com/ecoflow-rive...

For people in a state that is asking for a prescription, try a CVS MinuteClinic. Some MinuteClinic’s are getting around restrictions by having nurses on site who will give you a prescription during a visit. They ask to confirm if you are high risk but don’t ask for proof.

Hey NC folks, I got my COVID booster at CVS, fully covered with BCBS insurance. Quick, easy, done!

Mesquite 4.0 is a dream to use for manual alignments, thanks for the dev effort! @bembidion.bsky.social & @waynemaddison.bsky.social www.mesquiteproject.org

Please share! I'm looking for a postdoc. The position is to lead one of the following projects: 1) regulation of plant specialized metabolism by cell fate, or 2) foliar embryogenesis in the succulent plant Kalanchoe. Learn more abt projects: cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/res...

🚨 🐜 is there a Bluesky starter pack for researchers who don’t study ants but who get lightheaded every time there’s an awesome ant paper? CC @mariusw.bsky.social @jrichardalbert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

FYI folks, the Big Holidays coming up are: Rosh Hashanah is Mon 22 Sep-24 Sep Yom Kippur is Wed 1 Oct - 2 Oct And also? You don't have to KNOW who's Jewish to not schedule meetings these days. Just do it. (AND DON'T BE ALL "WE HAVE TO MOVE IT BECAUSE [PERSON] IS JEWISH" THAT'S TACKY & GROSS)

Romance Mycologists writers/readers 🤝 Appreciate good smut

I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

One lesser known fact about the sewers of Paris is they were not designed for sewage. It was in fact illegal to connect sanitary drainage with WCs into Parisian sewers until the 1880s. 🧵

A book name so metal and thus fitting for its ability to kill you. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows...

As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for: 1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature. 2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…

This weekend would be a great time for folks in the Triangle to come over to UNC's Forest Theatre for the amazing Paperhand Puppet Project show: the Gift. These are unforgettable www.paperhandpuppet.org

Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium! This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution Please consider applying and help spread the word! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...