“Relax your Tight End” could be a microbiome ad

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On this #SuperbOwl Sunday, the best place to get a Superb Owl fix is @inaturalist.bsky.social. #Birds Go to this link: www.inaturalist.org/observations... and you will see all the Owl observations that have been reported. Currently 437, 534

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“Senior management at The Post were livid when they discovered that Lewis was attending festivities around the Super Bowl in San Francisco around the time of the news of the jobs cuts,” the source told FT. “It came off as ‘callous.'” You think? But this does not improve my perception of Bezos.

Reading and really liking this #openaccess paper by Ary Hoffman and @brandonscooper.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Describing endosymbiont–host interactions within the parasitism–mutualism continuum

"A recent example is the term “hologenome” that forces the genomes of the host and associated microbes into a single genomic unit. As clearly noted by others, this term and broader framework may add little more than confusion to the field (Douglas & Werren, 2016; Moran & Sloan, 2015)."

Reading and really liking this #openaccess paper by Ary Hoffman and @brandonscooper.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Describing endosymbiont–host interactions within the parasitism–mutualism continuum

Say hello to my little friend #birds

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

Depends … heard any mermaids recently?

Out of season. Bound to be disappointing. Roll up those trousers and hit the beach.

Do I dare to eat a peach?

They're trying to tell us that they always get what they want. That there is nothing so hideous that they won't do it, even if it's kidnap a five year old child and then, when they lose, really try even harder to make him suffer more. Fuck them.

Here's an idea. Maybe people like Reid Hoffman & Deepak Chopra & Bill Gates and others who say they "are so sorry" for hanging out with Epstein but swear they didn't do anything bad - how about rather than Tweeting/Posting/Commenting about it they FUCKING DO SOMETHING.

“It seems our university leaders cannot even say that it is wrong to murder a former student in broad daylight … because some people might disagree,” said Kate Derickson

Like donating a fuck-ton of money to the victims and victims' support organizations?

Agreed, and university administrators should stop these elite access for pay schemes in general. I’ve seen it multiple times beyond this dude. Not sure how but something like putting their cash in an aggregated pool by athletic conference and splitting it by need/merit.

Men are so disappointing. The bar is so low for doing something about it when you see it. And none of them did. None of them.

This is an excellent point. They could *Reveal what they know about Donald Trump's relationship to Epstein *Arrange to share their knowledge with the Epstein survivors. *Give all their money above $100 million to organizations helping abused women Lots of other possibilities too.

Here's an idea. Maybe people like Reid Hoffman & Deepak Chopra & Bill Gates and others who say they "are so sorry" for hanging out with Epstein but swear they didn't do anything bad - how about rather than Tweeting/Posting/Commenting about it they FUCKING DO SOMETHING.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protistsonsky

Top statistics lesson here

I do appreciate a good quantitative data set. Let me do some statistical analysis... Oh wait, no need. It is effing obvious what is going on.

Compiling Some 2019 posts of mine about Jeffrey Epstein, Scientists, and Harvard phylogenomics.me/2025/09/09/c...

Its destruction came as Israel said it will ban Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, from operating in Gaza, after the charity refused to provide Israeli authorities a list of its Palestinian staff. MSF currently provides at least 20% of hospital beds in Gaza.

New preprint by recently graduated PhD student Marisano James: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... "Insights into strepsipteran flight". Mind you -- I do not work on Strepsiptera or vision but he was in my lab ... he just needed to find help / advice elsewhere.

Reposting w/alt text. Iranians are experiencing collective trauma. Thousands have been killed/injured, the economy is crippled & the threat of a wider conflict is real. It’s especially difficult for those living in Iran, as many have lost (or fear losing) loved ones. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I recommend everyone listen to / share / download / buy / suport this protest song "Fuck my bleeding heart" by my college classmate Susan Levine theliedtos.bandcamp.com/track/fuck-m...

A college classmate of mine ...

Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.   Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.   They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.

Rereading these two papers: Holes in the hologenome: why host-microbe symbioses are not holobionts. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... The Hologenome Concept: Helpful or Hollow? journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... And I still find myself in general agreement with most of the points in them

I did my PhD at Caltech and I can tell you it is just not surprising AT ALL to see some Caltech names in these emails.

Not even Caltech is immune from Epstein. Chasing money? Depraved? Who knows… "Frances Hamilton Arnold (b. 1956) [1] is an American chemical engineer and Nobel Laureate…the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering & Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology."

Rereading these two papers: Holes in the hologenome: why host-microbe symbioses are not holobionts. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... The Hologenome Concept: Helpful or Hollow? journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... And I still find myself in general agreement with most of the points in them

We know exactly who the DoJ considers to be the "real victims" of the Epstein files.

Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me 5 classes you took in college. 1. Lit of Social Reflection (R Coles) (+ snr seminar w R Coles) 2. Renaissance Images of Man (S Slive) 3. Justice (M Sandel - TA: Zeke E.!) 4. History of the American Revolution (B Bailyn) 5. Organic chemistry (G Whitesides)

Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me 5 classes you took in college. 1. Jesus and the Moral Life (Harvey Cox) 2. History of Earth and of Life (Stephen J. Gould) 3. The Origin of Life (Jennifer Doudna) 4. Building the Shogun's Realm (Boltiho) 5. Tropical Ecology (Ashton, Solbrig)

Weekly #regenerative & #stemcell reads: proposed human SCBEM framework, reporter self-injects peptides, ASD, organoids & NAMs ipscell.com/2026/02/week...

Just in case you didn’t need another parallel between Trump fascism and Nazi germany, enter the Melania movie which would surely be cheered by Leni Riefenstahl www.npr.org/2025/09/08/n...

BREAKING: One of the tipsters from the Epstein docs that DOJ pulled down and put back up has reached out to me. I'll tell you what we know on @meidastouch.com in one hour. As always, we have receipts. Link: www.youtube.com/live/xiSmcNV...

"Among the hires at CBS News announced by Weiss is a doctor who claims he reduced his biological age by 20 years with cold plunges; that cod liver oil treats autism; and that Alzheimer’s and dementia can be reversed with supplements he sells on his online store." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ICE and Border Patrol have come to resemble militias that answer to the president and operate with seeming impunity. That is a liability for America

The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires. Anyone can sign the petition — link below!

I recommend everyone listen to / share / download / buy / suport this protest song "Fuck my bleeding heart" by my college classmate Susan Levine theliedtos.bandcamp.com/track/fuck-m...

A college classmate of mine ...

My friend Susan wrote & recorded this great protest song. 🎵 theliedtos.bandcamp.com/track/fuck-m...

Lots of correspondence between Robert Trivers and Jeffrey Epstein mentioning money and a predatory view of women 🤮https://www.justice.gov/epstein

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.