The groan I grumpt when this finally clicked. 😄

@rogue151.bsky.social and I went axe-throwing three days after I moved to Louisiana and three weeks after she had. This was January 3rd, 2020. We had sixish weeks of normal dating and then navigated pandemic dating. Decided to stay apart “a few weeks until things died down”—> lollllforever

Okay these are awesome!

Darwin speaking for us all re: species and varieties.

Another NIH Institute Director is leaving... Alison Cernich (NICHD) www.linkedin.com/posts/alison...

🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...

Opal takes surveillance duty seriously.

If you are in Baltimore, and you haven't had an adult MMR booster or recent titers, now is the time to get that booster! Mumps immunity is more susceptible to waning than measles and it needs a single adult booster after age 18 or so for maximum efficacy!

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare 👇 https://goodlaw.social/kyob

It’s a little known fact that Fangorn Forest maintained less-lethal forces for crowd control.

Botany 2026 having some weird field trips this year…

My parents didn’t have power for three months and my mom drank water out of a jug that she filled from a stream and my dad ate breadfruit that fell off his trees and they’re white and have money

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

That was...not the lyric.

Malinin puts in an amazing performance just in time to return as Steward of Gondor.

I wonder how many plant species have gone extinct, but their genomic legacy lives on as intact subgenomes of extant allopolyploids.

The Washington Department of Natural Resources makes a good point.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

BOTANY 2026 abstract submission is open!!! @botsocamerica.bsky.social

Register for the Smithsonian's National Botanical Symposium, “American Botany: 250 years of Discovery” 29 May '26. I'll be speaking on American oaks, w/ several greats: @barbarathiers.bsky.social, Caroline Strömberg, Wes Knapp, & Rose Bear Don't Walk. Join us! naturalhistory.si.edu/research/bot...

Plants thriving on neglect, spring ephemeral division champion: Some Claytonia virginica pots that got misplaced for over a month last spring and I wrote. Decided on a whim to stick these very VERY dry pots back under lights and water them. They went unwatered for eight months!

Glad to hear this account is in the hooves of a take-charge mammal who knows which end of the broom is which!

With the @rokaslab.bsky.social, three novel whole genome duplication (WGD) events were discovered in the Saccharomycotina yeast species in the Dipodascales clade. Before now, only four WGD events were known in fungi. This work suggests WGD may be underreported. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What Darren said. Criminy.

Really hoping the two blind students I saw trying to navigate half-cleared walkways around @georgemasonu.bsky.social's campus today made it to their destinations safely. And hopefully this cold spell is making the administration take stock of their winter weather plan...

A tidally-locked rocky #exoplanet orbiting close to its host star could have tidal waves of lava sweeping around the planet. Simulations show this effect would complicate the search for an atmosphere. 🔭☄️ News report by @elisecutts.bsky.social from the @rockyworlds.bsky.social meeting #RockyWorlds4

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards! www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...

If we can’t get a temperature above freezing for eight days, at least the full moon and bare trees are doing pretty things to the backyard ice shell.

Letting my wife, a Federal proofreader, check over my grant proposal. This is far more stressful than anticipated…

Dr Glaucomflecken, an actual ophthalmologist, with helpful instructions for dealing with pepper spray to the face. youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...

"And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." - Matthew 25:40

Find you someone who stares down your persecutors the way Don Lemon's husband does his.

Maybe nearly killing someone while trying to show off how smart he is will teach Ogilvie some humility! #thePitt

If you are a student whose NSF GRFP application was returned without review for vague 'eligibility' reasons: 1) Let your department chair & Graduate School know. Encourage them to contact NSF & congress 2) Write to your congressional reps. 3) Write to [email protected] to request re-consideration;

So glad they pixellated this image to protect the identity of this completely unrecognizable guitarist!

“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.

Just Beautiful. 🥹🥹 #saytheirnames #pinks

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

Just saw this new preprint - includes flow ctyometry on 45,000 silica-dried samples for 1135 species - this is amazing and such a great resource for anyone attempting to do flow cytometry: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A good friend who served in the US military is raising funds to help some British military veterans who are living with PTSD. They have another $27,000 to raise out of a $50,000 goal. If you’re interested in donating, the link is below. Thank you! Donation Link: bit.ly/49COKnn

Next round, a new reviewer will take issue with them self-citing too much.

*something something stop complying in advance*

Map here of 215 solidarity actions with the Minneapolis General Strike paydayreport.com/donate-to-tr...

‘SINNERS’ has broken history as the MOST-NOMINATED FILM OF ALL TIME at the Oscars with 16 nominations See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham jail: "We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.

I didn’t know that bus driver was also a pilot

The CIA active in South America? The hell you say!