Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

The idea that humans sit atop an evolutionary hierarchy dates back to 1866, when a scientist drew the first tree of life with "Man" at the top. This inaccurate view still shapes how we think of the animal world, despite decades of genomic evidence proving evolution has no hierarchy. buff.ly/055hdSo

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

lol had thought this week how it had been a while since I received a manuscript review request... woke up this morning to one in my inbox

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

As a botanist, this isn’t funny. Plants are sessile and only do this when they’re in extreme distress

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

In case you missed the moment. Art is powerful

super bowl champion

it's the AI PRFB now 🙃

horrifying moment: haven't coded in Julia in long enough I'm starting to think in R 🫠

so proud of @laymonstera.bsky.social!!! she's an incredibly accomplished scientist (so many grants! published dissertation chapters already!) but she's also an incredible friend :)

R.I.P. Catherine O’Hara. Absolute icon.🥺🥀

Feels great to finally get to write about some good news. defector.com/heartwarming...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Oh, you know, just a metro daily newspaper running a service journalism roundup of munitions the government has used against its own people

We are all drowning in a pool of systemic propaganda so I understand why the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti feel esp shocking and I think it is important to do the internal work of asking yourself, if this applies to you, why the deaths of immigrants/Black folks don't shock in the same way

Mood in minneapolis right now

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MINNESOTA NICE MEANS PROSECUTE ICE

Outside the Twin Cities this morning, where it is -19F— Minnesotans are gathered early outside the Whipple Federal Building. ICE and DHS agents currently arriving at work to much disapproval.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

In a dog walk around my Minneapolis neighborhood, 14 degrees but feels like 7, I encountered three people in high viz vests patrolling, 2 people heading to a meeting of local businesses, too many anti-ICE signs to count and children happily sliding down a steep hill of pure ice.

Happy #SSB2026 from the #LagoLab and #ZeFeLab, descendants & friends! @tribblelab.bsky.social @laymonstera.bsky.social @racheljabaily.bsky.social @oschwery.bsky.social @evoyeyo.bsky.social @nicolas-cr.bsky.social @justkathe.bsky.social @laufran.bsky.social @ixchelgr.bsky.social @roszenil.bsky.social

The re-analysis of this #sponge #ctenophore study made me realize how important it is to really *look* at your data. Their filtering pipeline was meant to retain "strong" genes, but many of them had NO ctenophores and most had polyphyletic sponges. Time to put down the pitchforks for a while.

It appears ICE murdered someone in cold blood today and their plan is — per usual — to create a fog of lies so the killer does not face justice. We simply can't let that happen. The shooter has to be arrested and so does Bovino. They can't just kill people on the street.

they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.

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New preprint modeling biogeo diversification of Hawaiian Kadua 🌱🏝️🌋 w/ @ca-naturalist.bsky.social @sswiston.bsky.social @fabiology.bsky.social @phylogeny.bsky.social Warren Wagner, Bruce Baldwin, Ken Wood @ninaronsted.bsky.social @fzapata.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.694722

Desert lily flowering on a dune at sunrise on Sunday (Photo: Sicco Rood).

I covered this in my premium last week, it’s laughable! www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...

Emily Dickinson's herbarium – a forgotten treasure at the intersection of poetry and science www.themarginalian.org/2017/05/23/e...

ahhhh, nothing like the excitement of setting up your bash (or I guess zsh now) profile & prompt on a new work laptop

More journals should do this! Art is inherently a part of science and this helps to normalize that. Also... IT LOOKS SO COOL.

it's official: UW-Madison will no longer have a department of Botany as of summer 2026, and will be in a new department of Biology. ls.wisc.edu/news/science...

Should ecologists be worried about the carbon footprint of their own use of “AI” and LLMs? esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

once again joining the many people who have observed how much of a world-historical problem it is that Trump is so fucking funny

A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

Zohran is cool and awesome and I’m thrilled for him and all of us but at my core this is who I am: the Jewish guy who shows up to be a world class hater in support of his friend

not to brag but i can generate slop with natural intelligence

i fear coffee may not be as effective for increasing my productivity as compared to a Bruce Springsteen live album... i am a living, breathing raised in New Jersey stereotype

that abstract