I'll be helping out for this event. Sitting on one of the activity tables and co-leading one of the educational cruises on the Angus.

Why does this idiot keep failing up? Why is our government filled with idiots who keep falling up?

Does anyone going to Evolution next week want to sit down with me and help me understand why my invasive species populations have a Tajima’s D value of 4? They are clonal if that helps.

People. @ksamuk.bsky.social and others have made this argument before. There’s good software to do this right. Here’s the argument again: Invariant sites matter! They’re not in your standard vcf and many programs pretend they are anyway. academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

I miss these days

Label me radical, but I don’t think destroying the night sky and burning an enormous amount aluminum and other materials in the atmosphere should make anyone a trillionaire.

american idiot by green day, a punk classic

New Yorkers singing Empire State of Mind

i love new yorkers. i love humanity! humanity is full of people who have songs in their hearts and dances in their feet. it is the opposite of "efficiency," the opposite of "ai." there are enough resources and time in the world for all of us to express joy and celebrate often!

So happy for you New York City, leaders of the free world in democratic socialism and basketball!!

Yay!!!!

My anxiety could never handle basketball.

The richest man in the world did this, not for any reason, just for the fun of it.

🚨SSE members: check your inbox!🚨 SSE has sent an important email regarding the OMB's proposed overhaul of federal grant regulations--changes that could affect peer review, publishing, conferences, professional societies, international collaborations, and more. @sse-evolution.bsky.social

It can't be overstated how he really doesn't know how anything works but was mythologized as a supergenius engineer by a shitty press

There’s a lot going on but it’s still important to keep an eye on the eugenics-driven policies the goblins running our HHS Department are putting in place

I love educational posts

Trying to find the hilarity in the fact that I fractured my tooth on a nerds gummy cluster.

As someone just learning how to play chess, the fact that a stalemate is a draw is dumb.

This explains why my entire body hurts for no reason.

I just keep telling myself that progress is not a straight line; it is a bendy straw.

Please Use AI

eDNA for the win.

Live view of me trying to mail anything to or from Canada.

Are you an animal behavior researcher that uses federal funding for your work? Now is the time to comment on the OMB's new proposed rules about grant funding. @aibsbiology.bsky.social is coordinating a response but individual comments also highly encouraged! www.aibs.org/news/2026/26...

There is a good chance I’m completely fracking up this lterature but I’m trying my best.

This is a really good point for those of you writing comments to OMB on the harm of the proposed funding rules changes. Make it specific, make it count! Avoid form letters, which can be batched.

It is weird knowing that people see no value in having their own lived experiences. I literally took off work Friday morning, flew to NYC to see my favorite band play for 2 hours, and then flew back home Saturday. Could I have watch youtube videos? Yes. Would my soul have been refilled? No.

I just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵

ALL text needs to be AT LEAST 28-point font to be reliably readable on a screen by all in the the room (yes, really!). There was so much tiny text on screens this week! (7/11)

Finally made the permenant move to duckduckgo. I know I’m late but I really like it.

After Russell’s temper tanrum today, I hope he loses so bad.

90% sure my labrum repair surgery failed. I guess I need to schedule another MRI.

Kimi & Lewis anywhere on the podium just makes me happy.

Well, this post didn’t age well.

At least all the billionaires get the most boring as f*ck race.

The good thing about Monaco is that you only need to watch the 1st 2 minutes since no one can ever pass.

It is funny but I would 100% do something like this.

This is a dream job for someone very specific:

In the end the doctors and researchers were not arrested but escorted out of the building: "Researchers who were removed from the conference said that their badges had been taken away and that they had been told not to come back to the convention center"

To be clear, it looks like the conference organizers called the cops. They may have been worried because Jay Bhattacharya, the pro-Trump NIH director, was scheduled to speak (and he did in fact cancel). Looks like a case of "obeying in advance" - people fearing the state's reaction.

Police pushed out a couple of the attendees at a diabetes scientific meeting. The crime: Passing out printouts of a recent publication calling out the administration for destroying our research infrastructure. The right to free speech was infringed upon. Censorship is real. We have to stand up.

It timely that this just popped up on my feed.

The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free. www.youtube.com/@misterroger...

I'm about to be 'old man yells at cloud' but the video recording culture at concerts have gotten out of hand. If you are just going to sit there for two hours with a phone stuck in your face, what is the point? Just go watch it on youtube.

I'm about a 1.5 blocks away from Madison Square Garden. I can't tell if this is just normal NYC horns or if people are happy.

I went to a concert tonight in NYC. The concert was in one of the theaters in Madison Square Garden. It was kind of crowded. But I guess I'm a Knicks fan now.

Well that was a stressful hour. I just realized one of my $10K orders was doubled and the only reason I know is because purchasing said there wasn't enough money in my grant to cover the overage. Then my hotel didn't have my reservation. Everything is sorted out now but....

Bottom line, computers do exactly what people program them to do. Nothing more, nothing less.

People: OMG, computers are so much smarter than humans!! They know everything. Me: head n 100 Computer: I have 0 idea what you are talking about. What does this mean? How do you expect me to do my job when I don't understand your language??? Me: head -n 100 Computer. Oh okay. Why didn't you say so?