When you feel immobilized, remember: there is a world outside these apps. Sometimes, when we feel helpless, the best thing is to look to our own communities. Reach out to a friend going through it. Feed someone. Ask a shelter what they need. Spreading the light somewhere helps it grow everywhere.

i am frankly not sure the falcon is even aware of the falconer anymore

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it’s even more wretched in many parts of the scientific ecosystem I lose count of the number of highly innovative scientists of all ranks who depend on winning grants like trapeze artists with no safety net to catch them

Happy new year from Seattle! Up close view of the fireworks from the Space Needle.

This year I get to explain how I’m not an academic anymore because funding ran out and no one with NIH grants was hiring. Still, grateful for where I landed.

In what could plausibly represent a Christmas miracle* SFU Geography has two (2) new tenure track hires. One is urban/climate, which I will repost below. The other is a Landscape Ecologist. Please share ... #academicsky *actually just the good decisions of our new Dean www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...

My boss told me today that he doesn’t want to hear from me until my vacation is over.

I’m flying to Tehachapi for Christmas with my dad and family. I keep getting Tehacapi and Temecula mixed up in my head. Discovered yesterday that I have been consistently telling people I’m going to Temecula. Flight is delayed so I may be spending the night in San Francisco.

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The day before everyone takes the week off for the holidays:

Trump & RFK Jr. are threatening hospitals to stop providing care for trans youth—including in WA state. This is dangerous & wrong.   Families & their doctors know what’s best for them. NOT the federal government. Democrats will fight back.

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

"Must deliver societal benefits"....the research that found T. aquaticus would never be funded under these rules. Imagine the breakthroughs that won't ever happen because some (seemingly niche) basic science never received funding.

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

Today is a good day to donate to The Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ young people.

The most important news of the day is that a week and a half after surgery Delilah kitty’s daughter Josie has finally accepted that Delilah really is her mama and they are having their first post-surgery kitty pile.

Oh yikes.

Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

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The average person has little idea of the total collapse of CDC leadership, and most won’t read past the headline. They will be left thinking that legitimate scientists support something they most certainly do not. Ultimately this means that the media will contribute to declining vaccination.

The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”. NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC. ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr. Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.

In a highly unusual move, the EPA is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Some days it’s just better not to be online.

I would be *furious* if I found out that this happened to one of my manuscripts - which I *didn’t* use AI to write, and which I sent out for review by a human expert, not a stochastic parrot.

I did the very, very best I could through some incredibly difficult times with external causes. I was battling major depressive disorder and constantly trying to be better for my kids. Did I make mistakes? Absolutely. Have I tried to make amends? At every turn.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to inter library loan a canonically cited paper because it doesn’t exist electronically and may not say what people cite it for saying. Which is to say many people don’t read the papers they cite and that is the problem.

Trump is often discussed as one of the worst presidents in modern American history, but it’s important to remember that such a categorization is far too narrow. Donald J. Trump is one of the worst people in modern American history.

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These have been some terribly dark days. Such tragedies.

I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.

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A week after mama Delilah kitty’s surgery I thought her favorite baby Josie was ready to accept her again. They went nose to nose. Then Josie hissed “You’re not my mom!” Sigh. She still thinks I brought home the wrong cat.

Do you want to drive hordes of women to the gay church? Because this is how you drove hordes of women to the gay nightclubs.

If you do a google search for “Vim” it asks if you meant “Emacs,” and vice versa. This is pure chaos agent stuff.

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Here's what Tumwater Falls looks like today. There’s flood warnings and watches all over the state with 26 rivers at risk of flooding. Make sure you’re following weather alerts near you. Put your ZIP code in at weather.gov to find the latest.

As TX is not so much a Red state as an extremely voter suppressed State, if she can get the Base fired up, there's a good chance she could win. I mean, Rep Allred wasn't too far behind Cruz, and his political strategy sucked (as much as I liked him...he was aiming for white folks' vote, not BIPOC).

Zena Cardman, currently at the space station, was a poetry double major at UNC. She was chosen as an astronaut partly due to her creative side which would help inspire others to enjoy space. Yes, her other degree was science, but the poetry is what got her "hired".

Half an hour I get to go pick Delilah up from the vet. Her surgery went well. She only has a few teeth left & had a lot of work done. She’s been done for an hour & a half but she’s groggy. My poor girl. She never let on that anything was wrong until there was a broken tooth hanging out of her mouth.

Holy CRAP. Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle. Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it. And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪

You know what will make LLMs even more popular Having them deny medical care to Granny and disabled kids

My Delilah kitty is in dental surgery today and I’m going to worry about her until she is back to me. And then some until she is recovered.

Dissecting mouse retinas.

And just like that he tries to wash his hands of the children’s deaths he helped enable. RFK being grossly unfit for the position wasn’t a close call! It was all out in the open!

OPINION: "As a Black woman living in Trump’s America, I can’t help but wonder if Pantone’s choice of Cloud Dancer was much more of a nefarious harbinger than they perhaps realized." — Inquirer columnist Elizabeth Wellington