Bought Aldi's garlic sage spätzle and was not ready for the sauce to be in little frozen pucks 😂

my car battery has died twice today so my plans for a relaxing weekend aren't working out quite as I'd hoped 🙃

The AOS has launched a Bridge/Completion Grant program to support AOS members who recently lost previously awarded funding as a result of U.S. federal policy changes and grant cuts. Applications due by 15 May 2026. americanornithology.org/awards-grant... 1/3🧵

NSF LTER program “archived”. LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”. This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings. My heart is breaking.

hey birds feed 🪶, can anyone help out?

Are you an early career biologist looking for a position (Masters up to Faculty) and looking for community? I started a Discord server to help us find opportunities, build a network, and support one another! We're 40 strong as of posting this, come join us! discord.gg/nmktHJhUPH

According to internal communications reviewed by @sfgate.com and interviews with multiple national parks employees, the Department of the Interior has blacklisted SFGATE. One employee was told SFGATE isn’t “in line with the administration’s views.” www.sfgate.com/national-par...

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Legitimately shocking, Grady Judd is INTENSELY conservative and otherwise very pro-MAGA/Trump

little too real right now duolingo 🫠

1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit. An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans. It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling. Subscribe to support our journalism.

One was a mechanical engineer, the other was an accountant-type with the state power company and also a disability rights advocate (a passion of his after brain surgery left one leg partially paralyzed).

I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames

would have left a slightly different message about Iran when I called his office if I had seen this nonsense first 🙄

This is a great set of articles on how the slashing of federal programs and grants across agencies (USAID, USGS, EPA, just to name a few) has affected global conservation. I still think the US has a lot of influence in the conservation realm, but we have lost so much in just one year.

ecstatic that my part of FL will get a bit of rain tonight and tomorrow! we're in a roughly 8in rain deficit and tho we def won't get caught up on that, every little bit helps. very concerned about how much lightning I'm seeing already this evening however. ⚡️🔥

Research biologist position at Clemson for work on forest wildlife/habitat recovery post-Hurricane Helene in western NC. Full time, multi-year position. Will be working with David Jachowski & myself, includes field work, analysis, writing. **Apply by March 9** Job posting bit.ly/cuhhftpos 🧪🌎

"But many Floridians — particularly those who have moved here since 1998 and have no prior experience with wildfires on a massive scale — don’t see these signs and don’t comprehend the omens. They arrived ready to worry about hurricanes, but might not think of fire in the same hazardous terms."

what's the nest searcher equivalent of zugunruhe (migratory restlesness)? every year as the Florida Scrub-Jay breeding season approaches, I start getting antsy to find nests & become wildly suspicious of darker areas within shrubs (even in non-scrub).🪶

There are two parts of this article: 1 - Historical funding trends & Congressional appropriations. * Requires a longer conversation on levers of power 2 - "The Republicans Made Peace With Science". * No, they did not & no they have not. This requires more than a conversation, but a reset. 🧵

there's an ant inside my computer monitor! 😳 I've heard stories of this happening with tropical fieldwork computers and actually have a friend who ended up with ants in her laptop after a summer visiting family in Korea and Thailand. Never expected it to happen inside my apartment!

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance. bsky.app/profile/pron...

hammocks are apparently 'against community guidelines' at my apt complex now, so anybody have a foldable lounge chair they love?

Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.

Today is a good day to follow and support news outlets that avoid generative AI slop: bsky.app/profile/alex...

Tell me five classes you took in college: The Jews of Germany Intro to Latin American Studies Invertebrate Paleontology History of Rock Art of the Western World (Renaissance to 20th Century)

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

bought a new ink cartridge for my work printer and the printer won't recognize it so now I get to waste at least an hour dealing with HP support to get them to replace the defective cartridge, yay 😑

Hey cuties. Everything sucks ass. Get some valentines and send them to your friends. I'm sad. You're sad. They're probably sad. Send them a valentine. It keeps Skype a Scientist running, which hey, is very good too. squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/deep...

Projects for tonight include making soup and bringing all my plants inside for the next ~week, southeast FL isn't supposed to get this cold! 🥶 (these will be the coldest temps south FL has seen since 2010! www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/s...)

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

I went for a run in a neighborhood park this morning and passed a woman hand-feeding a little blue heron with lizards from a sandwich baggie. 😳 I knew feeding the squirrels was popular at this park, but this was a new one for me!

For those who can, here are links to donate directly to local efforts on the ground resisting ICE's terrorizing of Minneapolis. Let me know what you donated to where, and I'll match it until I get a panicked call from my bank! linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

A man was murdered today for filming the American Gestapo. There's no other way to put that. I watched the footage, it is horrifying. The only reason ICE initiated violence was because he was standing in place filming their lawless actions.

How to get into nature.

Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes. #AcademicChatter

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

NOOOO!!!! Teen Vogue’s political reporting was one of the last holdouts of actual political journalism left as mainstream outlets caved to fascism… this does not bode well.

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Please share, only 4 hours left: the giving circle has a special dose of hope: one of the families is expecting a baby very soon (🧿) !!! With lack of food, shelter, medicine, we MUST step up for this malnourished mom. Anything helps. 8 hours left ⚠️ 769/1000

I'm 100% with Ryan on this (and not just because I was on the same trip)!! Anthropomorphizing can of course go too far, but I've seen over and over again in my outreach work that a little bit can really help people connect to nature more!

I have a lot of complicated feelings about the Catholic Church after growing up in it, but they do get some things right.

For friendsofabracadaver on tumblr, a Least Bittern! Big thanks once again for the #Waymakers donation. The challenge is over for this year but I'll be wrapping up bird art for donors over the next couple weeks. Much appreciation to all of you who joined in! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

it's time I finally step up my shorebird ID skills (I live by the beach afterall!) so I was looking at guides but oof I didn't realize the weight of shorebird knowledge 😅

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