I'm beginning to think that even the Third Amendment's undefeated streak might be legitimately threatened.

Every military movie I have ever seen suggests that this is going to end with Hegseth doing push-ups.

Coffee break

Wishing sunbeams to you all.

When I talk about global health projects, I often put $ amounts on the programs to help folks appreciate the scale. A hilarious proportion of folks assume that I am getting some kind of residual on that.

My favorite branch of behavioral ecology is optimal foraging theory. I'm particularly fond of Charnov's marginal value theorem which states that a leopard should move on quickly to eat someone else's face after eating your face, since it is less expensive than consuming all of you.

If you were going to plagiarize a plot line, would it be Jack Reacher? Really? It's on TV 24h a day. Surely you'd use something fewer people have seen.

in all seriousness, where did "writing on bullet casings" come from? is that common practice somewhere? It seems very odd from anyone not wanting to be caught.

There is only one major company in the world that makes monovalent measles vaccine: Serum Institute of India. The only reason it continues to do so is that, until recently, 19 countries in the world had not yet introduced rubella vaccination to their national schedules 1/

I'm OK if Kimmel is the last straw. I'm not OK if he's the last stand.

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you know what reduces the need for paracetamol in children and adults ... measles vaccine ... and rubella vaccine.

Apparently Yale, Columbia, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins carry some weight all of the sudden.

I finally watched The Mirror Crack'd, about an actress who murders a fan who reveals that years before they had met when the fan was infectious with rubella, and the actress was newly pregnant, leading to the developmental disability of her child.

I don't know a ton about football. But a club that has these two as members is a club that I'd be kind of suspicious of.

Does anyone know what time the rapture is going to be on Wednesday? Because I don't want to waste my Sunday writing an exam for that day if it's going to happen before my class. (Yeah, I know it's Rosh Hashanah. I've got accommodations.)

In a time where there is rarely very good news. I just got some fantastic news. I look forward to explaining it later, but for the moment, know that something good just happened in our world.

I saw 4 bald eagles on my bike ride today. So there's that.

6 ish? Stroll

Comedians across the world don’t owe us anything. But also we’re giving them a lot of great material, and they should totally use it.

This week was a long year.

Am I spoiling her. Or is she spoiling me?

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A story about how complicated something as simple as vaccination is, everywhere. In Fall of 2024, I was part of a team that argued to the WHO to recommend that rubella vaccination be added to the national schedule for all countries. That recommendation was approved, and we were elated. 1/

It seems the lesson that "they started it" is not an excuse for bad behavior is not as common as lesson in kindergarten as I had thought.

It is deeply frustrating how cheap and effective vaccination is. 10% of the cost of the renovation of a university football stadium is enough to move the needle from despair over preventable lives lost to optimism about the feasibility of elimination.

I know it feels like we're getting our butts kicked. But also, these guys have control of every arm of government and still have to resort to parlor tricks.

As if agreeing with Tucker Carlson and Karl Rove wasn't weird enough. I'm also thanking Mark Zuckerberg for making my day a little bit easier to handle.

I tell my students that nobody great does things off the cuff. The great ones train and practice. Th greatest make the finished product look easy. I’m so glad that now all I have to do is show them the is video to make the point.

As so many cower in fear of slowing their accumulation of millions, I am inspired to work alongside the quiet and anonymous many who fight to minimize the damage caused.

I honestly had to ask. So now you get the answer too.

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There are folks that read into facial expressions and body language a whole lot ... I wonder what their take on this picture is.

ratio ... somehow I always, always, even just now, put an "n" at the end and then have to delete it.

A buddy of mine once gifted me a 2" lift kit for my jeep. I cost me the equivalent of a month's rent to install. Anyway, not all gifts are free, even if they seem cool.

Protests shut down the final stage and the formal podium presentation for La Vuelta a Espana. But the riders did a makeshift podium, standing on coolers, labeled in sharpie, with dachshund. The protests were warranted. As was the riders' celebration of their accomplishments.

If you have to qualify your science as "gold standard", then it isn't.

Did I take my emotional support puppy to work today? Yes, yes I did.

I managed to get my university to sign an NDA to let me talk to a company about maybe doing a project together ... it took 3 months. You may express your awe.

Ask yourself whether SCOTUS would be OK with ICE detaining everyone who asks for maple syrup at IHOP because they "seem Canadian"?

sometimes it is disconcerting to be the expert that people listen to

The phrase "the school shooting industry" is where an editor should have stepped in and done something ... well, editorial.

That this is about Dean and Dept Head being fired, and not just about the faculty member, speaks to their strength and character.

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Lecturing about life history strategies and I referred to the offspring of species with high parental investment as "nepo babies"

The NY Times, and the opinion section, has done more that most to march us towards totalitarianism. But it's good to see a subversive metaphor for US politics sneak through. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/o...

It's worth noting that there hasn't been a congressional declaration of war since 1942. If you're going to call it the Department of War, fine. But every action should be subject to congressional approval. Every. Action.

I'm just a professor, standing in front of a student, asking them to understand that my office hours are not for me to give you a private lecture because "something came up" and you couldn't make it to Friday afternoon lecture before a home football game.

Talking to my classes about cuts to global vaccination programs today and the choices about which kids will have less chance to see their 5th birthday. Explaining to them that I am one of the people that has to weigh in on that choice.