I wonder if there could have been hybrid sterility for XX due to disordered meiosis as well or instead? Pretty common in hybrids. In Evolution, a lot of stuff gets thrown at the wall and the diversity we detect is what happens to stick. 🧪

This would be a good prompt for an epidemiology exam question on the sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic methods 🧪

People seem to think space makes the heat waste problem easier, while also imagining their data center is in direct solar radiation. In the convection-free ‘insulation’ of a vacuum an AI data center in space is going to melt down to GPU slag after about 3 bad memes. 🧪

Honey? Could you tell them about how my junk is cool?

If only Alex Garland took a stand about who is good in Civil War we’d have some idea how to feel about an unprecedented military takeover of DC.

Seeing some "A.I. brain" mistakes on wikipedia that are pretty worrying for science 🧪 education.. e.g. on the page for "Mammalogy" you can see the impact of the kind of hand-wavy way neural nets handle meaning. Mammalogy ≠ Mammography ≠ Mastology but you can imagine how ChatGPT would get there.

"..and then they came for the dropshippers and I did not speak out ..."

Footloose but Kevin Bacon teaches a downtrodden Defense Contractor how to play Jenga again.

Yeah we're going to Bruenig Man, why do you ask

DoD Medical Research is legitimately very important for public and military health without directly contributing to lethality. This workforce includes many many civilians b/c its a civilian skillset.

Oh God WIRED is going to need a whole series on the hazards of Deadpan Irony aren’t they …. Jerry is appears to be the first friendly millennial edgelord a lot of these Grandpas (and kids) have met.

This--my best post ever--has finally found it's statistically accurate audience size.

Thanks to @thewildlifesociety.bsky.social for sharing! Non-invasive molecular disease surveillance won't ever be as high-resolution as lethal sampling of tissues for histopathology, but when you want your study species to stay alive.. what're you gonna do? 🧪 wildlife.org/the-microbio...

🧪 New bat disease study! No, not that one! I've been using next-gen sequencing to discover and describe scary bat pathogens for over a decade but this study was a fun opportunity to develop molecular surveillance tools for the sake of bat conservation with the inimitable Dr. Joy O'Keefe!

Kurt Gödel and Albert Camus high-fiving so hard

You don't even have to name the drug. It's ALL the drugs. If it is modern medicine it exists b/c the NIH publicly funded essential research that made it possible.

Just by chance, is anyone on BSKY here "to meet new friends and maybe more" + share a link to some spyware?

This Sam Amidon electro-folk record kinda slaps: youtu.be/jpO8OEkiORc?...

It's really amazing that "The Album" by Latyrx was put out by Lyrics Born and Lateef in 1997.. and not by Hercules Mulligan and James Madison in 1776.

When Zoom background blur cuts off the tip of my massive shnoz I believe it is anti-Polish bigotry on par with the time the EU shut down the screen-door factory at the Gdansk Shipyard.

'How Bad For The Environment Can Throwing Away One Plastic Bottle Be?' 30 Million People Wonder theonion.com/how-bad-for-...

And many of them are now permanently integrated in our genomes! Endogenous viral elements are BASICALLY like a billion year old bacteria had a baby with a human.

no one: sea lions: let’s kith

Hang on... why have I never heard of any OTHER peanut farmers...

Folks tend to overestimate how much variety a pet is looking for too... ...if you eat ENOUGH un-seasoned house mice you realize these little idiots aren't guided by a complex palette or mulling over terroir.

This was an outrageous way to start a day. This creature is one of the best things on the planet.

"I am here, with 50 hot young YouTubers, to see who can cross the dark rubicon of the Duat, face the 'Weighing of the Heart' and not be found wanting, and slay, Osiris, Lord of Silence, so that I may break the spine of Sarapsis and rise as the new God of Death."

guy who is a bit TOO into home humidity management

NIST keeps one crinkly, 1980s motel standard TP roll under a glass globe somewhere in Maryland.

If anyone has had to decommission a dead parents laptop, they understand why we leave twitter

pondering yon orbs ^.^

This is the BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN SINCE…. I mean.. Hrmm.. just WOW!

She has all 4 little legs under there but in case anyone wants to feel sympathetic toward a 3-legged cat (without the MESS), enjoy!

We should have stayed "house-proud" and kept calling our arms and legs lobes. Shopping would be easier. We would just say "please show me to your lobe coverings" and then we'd have covered lobes: no problem.

Daniel Dennett passed away this year, and I don't know many other 82 year olds who I would say without hesitation died too young. He understands and explicates how fundamentals of biology underly, and are threaded through, our understanding of so many disciplines youtu.be/AZX6awZq5Z0?...

At the foot of a massive ficus in a forest in Uganda - 2017

In Kibale National Park, Uganda during my PhD... did not expect the elephant to turn off its path toward me. I was certainly F-ing around, but I'm glad I didn't wait to find out.

At the foot of a massive ficus in a forest in Uganda - 2017

Bluesky heard your criticism that its user base skewed too heavily toward the elder millennial demographic and compensated by adding ten million even older users

Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies. #bydhttmwdi

Here's a photogenic lil Vampire bat caught near Guadalajara Mexico as part of a survey of ectoparasites and emerging infections.. the lil guy was released the same night, not long after after a freeze-frame voice-over said: "Ese soy yo. Probablemente te estás preguntando cómo llegué aquí."

This is now one of my favorite news paragraphs ever

Sometimes my cat sits like a muppet on a cheap set, but she does have her complete original cat body

Precious Bean

Finally free to be my authentic self on Bluesky

I'm totally done with X/Twitter. I will still be doing my banking there, though.