i love finding out about a new bug we have to get his name out there (toxodera integrifolia)

There are seemingly a zillion people already reading and *loving* Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Strife, and I have never been sadder not to be one of the cool kids with a time machine.

I’m not sure I have *ever* laughed this hard at a news article. Ever.

“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”

I was literally just talking at length yesterday about how I don’t think about my gender much until I run into a wall, usually via a cis dude locked into rigid scripts. It doesn’t even have to be violent, sexual, or extreme — it can be banal & “harmless” exclusion of women from camaraderie & trust.

Add the CIA World Factbook to the long and growing list of disappearing government datasets: www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

Ascent in elite circles is typically a selection process for maintenance of some pretty fucked norms. this selection was disrupted, by demands for diversity, equity and inclusion and the inclusion of more marginalized people, and we are living through the backlash

The number of people who’ve apparently blocked me for saying I don’t give a flaming crap about a candidate who *disappeared* after the election is honestly funny. Especially since her announcement is that she’s just now going to set up an “organizing hub”. 🙄

TAKE YOUR BACKPACK OFF ON THE SUBWAY

🎧 “You say not all cops You say not all men Yeah you insist it's only 99% There's nothing new for you to learn Ok, sit back, relax, and watch it all burn”

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

I am Deeply Concerned that there is a virulent combination of institutional distrsut and collective amnesia leading to undervaccination, but at least I had a measles vaccine. There is no such opt out for the threat of nuclear war.

I can’t stop wondering how many of the women that were in these labs and offices are reading these emails and realizing - maybe for the first time, or potentially again - just what kind of people they worked for.

I didn’t even catch the first time that it says it “may help reinforce your INMUNE system”. 🙄

I honestly could not possibly give fewer fucks about what Kamala Harris is doing today, tomorrow, or any other day. Except that if it’s making me have to start listening to presidential campaign ads fully two and a half years before the election, I shall go mad.

Being a science writer right now is like… 9am - Coffee and constitutional crisis! 10am - Read a neat study on 5000-year-old beads. 11am - US science funding is off/on/off/on! Noon - Email a researcher about Iron Age skeletons. Afternoon - More constitutional crises and screaming into the void!

Firefox: Check it out, we’re going to add all these AI features users never asked for into our browser! Aren’t we so great? Users: *angry screaming* Firefox: Check it out, we’re making a no-AI browser with an “AI killswitch”! It turns off all the new AI features! Aren’t we so great?

The Washington Post became famous for exposing corruption—and is now being destroyed by it.

fiona the hippo just turned nine (9). truly, time is fleeting

Look at this adorable little thing. It just plops down right over a Mac mini

The drama and infighting is so think on here tonight that I just caught myself wishing I had tabs to keep track of it all. And THAT is the sign that I’ve had more than enough internet for tonight.

Link from People because they got the most pants-on-head wtf statement ever from the husband: “Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact.” I couldn’t make this shit up if I tried. DON’T DRINK RAW MILK!

Snowy egret and friend, Colorado. #BirdOfTheDay #Reflections #EastCoastKin #bird #birds #birdphotography #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #snowyegret

Both chambers of Congress have now passed the FY26 minibus with NIH provisions. The President will sign. (1) $48.7 billion for NIH (2) Full IDC recovery (3) No more multi-year funding (4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

today both the Bad Writer Man and one of the all-time worst anti-abortion movement leaders both were hyping their Substacks and I am not sure what else y'all need to know to get the fuck off that platform

Religious nuttery, the desire to eat things that weren’t potato or polenta, and, quite literally, anti-fascism.

There’s no safe level of exposure to lead—but a small, strange study shows we’ve made incredible progress in recent decades

reading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum define term “eplungulate” - lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous

I was going to do stuff, but J *and* Curie have somehow connived to *both* fall asleep in my lap. There’s synchronized snoring. …book it is.

the way I “fuck no”-ed so hard I almost physically flung my phone….

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? indeed.

Huh. At what point does an 800-pound gorilla officially become a monopoly? The decrease in the price of the assets is interesting too - $60M cheaper than PacBio bought them. Tech that didn’t prove out? Or just a reflection on the market? 🦍🧪

Absolutely wild: massive variation can arise in just a single person in just a single year. This is one reason long-term infections - and all those sub-clinical infections people ignore - are so concerning. Monitoring these infections, through wastewater surveillance or otherwise, is necessary. 🧪

happy groundhog day (1993) to all who celebrate

Sudafed, coffee, and shutdown… what a lovely Monday morning.

And Arizona too…

Measles! At The Moral Abomination

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look

Unnecessary, all of it. Inexcusable.

Ok here is a list of all the anti-ICE indie nail polishes that I know of, so far. Disclaimer: I haven't tried any of them* so idk how they are in practice, and this is not a thread of reviews

BOOM best moonrise yet? 5 minute time lapse coming in HOT above the Port of Long Beach tonight.

Don’t worry guys, everything is very cool and normal at the Wegman’s parking lot!

If you need me, I’ll be over here screaming into a pillow.

Bike shops. Dangerous. (In my defense, it was ̶o̶n̶ ̶s̶a̶l̶e̶… ̶c̶h̶e̶a̶p̶… pretty. And light, so light.)

Local Trek-owned bike shop *still* doesn’t have the tube for my bike - local indie shop does, and are finally dug out of the snow. Deliverance! No more gaffer tape!

I am really angry about all of the scientists who cozied up to Epstein even after it was known who he was. I am nearly as angry at how many people are justifying this as "they had to, it's how academia works" NO IT FUCKING WELL ISN'T

Adult zebrafish gill vasculature. Credit to @mathpreu.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

A new database to open the week with. One of the things that worries some of us about climate change is the loss of oxygen in the ocean. This database tracks long-term dissolved oxygen globally, and seems a handy tool study how things have changed. 🧪🌊 essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...