RIP Aaron Swartz 🥺

AHHHHH!!!!!

Being an almost 50 yr old obsessive fangirl is hard, y'all. People expect me to act like a professional adult and I just want to talk about this new things I'm fangirling over.

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I really need to do more eDNA work on threatened species rather than invasive species. That way, when we get detections I can send out happy emails instead of sad emails.

Great resource. Still gives me anxiety just looking at it.

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

What's a nutrient budget? Can you mow aquatic plants? Can p-binding treatments reduce algal blooms in your local pond/lake? Read Part 1 of our "HABs 101: Lake Stories" recap for tips to understand the flow of nutrients into your lake/pond and a menu of options to reduce algal growth:

Neither the Cowboys or Packers won. America is healing :)

The abortion pill is safe. But why should Trump let facts get in the way of his agenda? | Moira Donegan

Today I learned that the Ryder Cup is a golf thing and not a boat thing.

If you want to experience my new obsession and the greatness that is ONE OK ROCK, may I present the following.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxCE...

My entire personality is now Taka's 30 second note from 'Clock Strikes' during the Luxury Disease 2023 tour.

We're all dunking on this post, but we really need to ask ourselves if we would do any better in his position. Would any of us do better? Would we? Yes. Yes, we would. We would *all* do better than this. My GOD

I need to work today, but I've discovered a band and I have 20 years of their music to go through. So, those two things are in conflict.

Join us at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht to start your research group! Fantastic scientific environment, strong support, and nice colleagues :) Apply and please share broadly in your network.

Lots of coughing & sniffles going on around you? Stay purr-fectly protected by wearing a mask! 😷🐈 Wearing a high-quality N95 mask protects you from respiratory viruses like flu, COVID-19 and RSV. 📲 https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Respiratory-Viruses/When-and-Why-to-Wear-a-Mask.aspx

my feelings probably

We have been working on this manuscript for so long. I feel like we just need to submit it and let the reviewers give us some ideas as to how to fix it. We are just way too close to it.

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

🌟 Now available! "Aquatic Invasive Plants: A Field Guide for Michigan's Lakes, Streams, and Ponds" is now available for purchase! spartanspiritshop.msu.edu/products/aqu...

It seems the GRFP solicitation is FINALLY released (like 5 minutes ago)! Due dates have also been pushed back, thankfully! 🧪 🔭 www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Things I'm irrationally mad about today: One OK Rock does not get airtime on the radio in the US.

The influence of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program really cannot be overstated. The fact that there is still no solicitation for this year is unfair to students and risks damaging the future of American science. Please take 30 seconds to sign the open letter to US STEM Leadership 🧪🌎

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

They've lost the 9yos

One day I will learn not to prep a qPCR plate while listening to this album.

Huntington’s disease treated successfully for first time in gene therapy trial

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

Great news! Experimental gene therapy for Huntington’s markedly slowed disease progression in key trial www.statnews.com/2025/09/24/h... via @statnews.com

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

To anyone wrestling with impostor syndrome, here’s a reminder of what impostors are really like… claiming totally false experience/knowledge or denying that it is even relevant

I'm giving a EcoLunch seminar on Friday and my talk is just full of invasive species memes.

Science is dominated by male native-English-speakers with elevated affluence. It's a demographic that makes up less than 3% of the total global population. If someone wants to keep politics out of science, they are comfortable enforcing the status quo that benefits them (a small privileged group).

Does anyone know what time the rapture is happening? I'm trying to optimize my 'things to do' list.

Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

This is the most anti-science thing I have watched today. What is most shocking about this is all of these statements are being made without any scientific evidence to back it up. There are very few safe options to treat pain and fever in pregnancy so this is also an attack on women's health.

So.... why is the rapture tomorrow? Is this a tiktok thing?

Pregnant women can't access the #COVID vaccine. If they get #COVID and develop a fever, they can't take Tylenol? 🫠. Both COVID infection and untreated maternal fever increase the risk of bad outcomes for both fetus and mother ranging from preterm delivery to death. None of this is pro-life.

Europe should tell Trump and RFK Jr. it exports an amazing alternative to Tylenol called paracetamol and use that as leverage in tariff negotiations.

I'm sorry, but I'm going to need to see the data, along with the effect sizes.

The university is trying to change the name of our campuses for 'marketing' and now I have no idea where things are being held.

I really need to put up an 'out of office' reply for the rest of the day that says, "I'm sorry. Min Yoongi just posted on Instagram for the first time in 2 years and my brain can no longer handle complex thought."

I know Bluesky is my social media home base because 'BTS Yoongi' is trending.

With everything going on the world, I just need to cleanse my timeline with this photo. 😍 #LoveHim #UltBias

Things that are no joke: QL muscle trigger points. Holy bejesus!

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

My university is looking for a Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, in case you are interested. www.gvsu.edu/clasdeansearch

they should invent a kind of news that is good