The universe gave me a gift I've been wishing for for years – Someone called out, "Whose cup of tea is this?"

Did I do this right? Merry #Christmas!

An introvert at Christmas

Oh, ChatGPT, you knew exactly what I wanted!

Hoping Santa brings you all the B horror movies you've been wishing for!

On a more serious note, you do cook elements of no-bake cookies. So, ironically, no-bake cookies are perhaps the best contender for the title of "bakies".

But, sadly, the complementary act of cooking bakies has been lost to history...

It’s that time of year again. #dinosaur #palaeontology

If you get Artificial Light at night, then does that mean Natty Light is for the day? 🤔💡🍺 🌞

It's ironic that Henry VIII had so many wives. Not really what you expect for someone who is a "Power of Two."

With my dinner, they served a type of bread that I didn't recognize. I hesitated to start eating my meal, but then I decided to roll with it.

When you really need to sit down and you manage to find an empty bench, that's a moment to chair-ish.

A short thread about how sloth pooping behavior helps them maintain algae on their fur vital for their nutritional health 🧪

@amsterdammed.bsky.social I might have missed it, but did I just hear on today's Unexpected Elements that you don't know about the amazing mutualistic symbiosis responsible for sloth algae?! It's why they come down trees to poop! www.instagram.com/reel/DA5JbYB...

Statistics show that myopia is on the rise. Scientists are baffled. They didn't see that coming.

Perhaps nurturing early rising wunderkind specialists is betting on wrong horse. From primary source: "By contrast, adult world-class performance is associated with limited discipline-specific practice, increased multidisciplinary practice, and gradual early progress" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/w...

Whenever I see "UHD", a nostalgic part of my brain longs for there to be a set of "VHD" options too...

Wheelchair fraud?! That's a thing?! If people are doing this, then from now on, every pet we have will be a "service" animal! "They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus.’" www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

It really raises my blood pressure when someone tells me to take something with a grain of salt

No program officer rotators. No need for more than one external review. No more than a few sentences of feedback on rejected proposals. "NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists" www.science.org/content/arti...

I knew a guy whose office was right next to Big Ben. Busy guy. He was always working around the clock.

The 2026 Guarda Summer Course in Evolutionary Biology is now accepting applications. Amazing place, amazing course, amazing opportunity for early grad students. tb.ethz.ch/education/gu...

Those clever canucks are taking our clever everyone elses. "‘Come North!’ Canada Makes Play for H-1B Visa Holders With New Talent Drive" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...

I don't envy State Dept IT. Seems kind of wasteful to arbitrarily switch away from a (former) Microsoft default, no? When former State Dept switched to Calibri, it was the default MS font. There's an argument for using Aptos (or staying Calibri), but switching to TNR? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

For my Australian friends who aren't banned from social media...

Latest on community spread... from South Carolina, an exemplar of where the US is heading: ever closer to losing its 'measles eliminated' status, declared in 2000. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Early career academics: Remember that if you hope someday to "get noticed" by way of a meritorious award independently recognizing you for all of your contributions, then you really need to either *submit an application* for it or *convince your friends to nominate you*...

To all of the Australian teens who are now banned from social media and cannot see this, we will miss you. Be careful exploring outside!

"Working in academia can be stressful. Laurel Raffington suggests treating it as ‘just a job’ to reduce performance pressure and advocate for structural improvements." "Academia is just a job" by @laraffington.bsky.social (2025, Nature Human Behavior) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Seems like #Instructure's Canvas drop policy has fatal flaw when you designate a certain assignment to not be dropped. If a student happens to miss that assignment, then Canvas drops the SECOND lowest, which means it usually leads to a WORSE score than not dropping. #CanvasLMS

The new Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) Program page is posted. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have questions. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

People have been citing this #glyphosate paper for 25 years!

"The #retraction notice cited documents made public through litigation in the U.S. that suggest employees of Monsanto, which makes Roundup, may have helped write the article without proper acknowledgment [...] Monsanto may have paid [authors]." #ghostwriting #glyphosate www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Thursday night fun in #Phoenix! Just enough time for them to cut on Friday and air the episode on Saturday! #waitwait

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If @workday.com is really "Powered by AI" or whatever they say in their marketing, they would have a "Search" feature in their dropdown boxes that doesn't require you to type in an exact prefix match. The "Search" all across this system is terrible!

*Guaranteed funding* PhD opportunity in my group. Work with damselflies, UN global biodiversity targets, genetic data, and NatureScot policy groups; the project will advance comparative population genetics and provide evidence feeding directly to policy. www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

Analysis of the DNA and proteins of a range of animals has revealed that sperm’s molecular toolkit arose in our single-celled ancestors, perhaps more than a billion years ago

We are looking for PhD applicants! ‼️Interested in genomics, ecophysiology and adaptation? Look at our TREES DLA project: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/und... We also offer more projects via ROUTE2. Get in touch and let’s have a chat 💬

Oh, boy. #GoogleScholar is experimenting with blending AI with your favorite literature search engine. I worry that the results you get are not an improvement over standard search, and the process makes it harder to teach students how to do good searches. scholar.google.com/scholar_labs...

ARTISTS! I need your help! In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend. Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

Interested in the neurobiological basis of social behaviour and its dysfunction? Join the Ferreira and @wolfhuette.bsky.social groups at Northumbria University for a fully funded PhD opportunity studying group behaviour in flies. Further details are available here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Don't miss "Edge of Tomorrow," at 7 PM MST on Wednesday at Tempe's Majestic Neighborhood Cinema Grill! Before the film, enjoy a discussion with @tedpavlic.bsky.social , a professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence. 🔗 www.majesticphx.com/movie/Histor...

This Wednesday, SCAI’s @tedpavlic.bsky.social joins ASU’s History of the Future series to introduce Edge of Tomorrow! 🎬 He’ll share how swarm intelligence & AI are turning sci-fi into reality. www.majesticphx.com/movie/Histor...

#SfN25 Monday morning we present FERAL: a video-understanding tool for animal behavior detection without the need for tracking or pose estimation! FERAL detects single animal, social and collective behavior in the lab and the wild! Visit our poster at board ZZ5 and check more here: www.getferal.ai

I'm really sick of the prisoner's dilemma. It's not relevant to most problems (temptation is too high -- which gives it THREE Pareto efficient outcomes) and gives the impression a Nash eq is always unique. Use stag hunt (one Pareto/more realistic) & hawk–dove (two Nash) instead.

"And where are we putting the pirates again?"