This was from banning trans girls from girls sports. Just so you understand the reality of what's going on here.

The new XKCD has to be a reference to the ant paper where ants just casually lay eggs of a different species, yes? Maybe? There are so many weird bugs its hard to know.

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

8 years of notes from research meetings, lab meetings, seminars, brainstorming sessions and to-do lists from 4th year undergrad to now. For most of this period finishing this PhD felt mostly impossible and overwhelming, glad to have made it through with the help of my slightly illegible scribbles.

even more on the flight attendants' side after spending an hour on AC's website trying to rearrange my travel days

Air Canada consoles stranded passengers with pictures of their executive bonuses

I'm a Dr. now!!! Very grateful to my supervisor, committee, labmates and everyone else who helped me get to this stage!

#Viewpoint: Measuring #NaturalSelection on the transcriptome John R. Stinchcombe & John K. Kelly 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #LatestIssue

Legend says the ancient Babylonians once tried to sequence and annotate God's own genome, and for their ambition and hubris they were forever cursed to have different annotation formats and standards so they could never do genomics with ease again.

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes Let’s break it down (1/10) github.com/OrthoFinder/... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

chat are we cooked

Wrote a whole thesis, and not once did I spell 'dioecious' correctly on the first try

Elsa Lam continues to prove & document how corrupt & full of lies the Doug Ford closure of the science centre was & is. Read & share widely - not that it matters in Ontario, a province that seems ok w a high level of this. www.canadianarchitect.com/draft-engine...

There's nothing on Earth like a genuine, bona fide, electrified, six-bath thermal spa. What'd I say? 🎵Thermal spa. Thermal spa. Thermal spa. Thermal spa.🎵

We found Therme misrepresented itself in its bid to secure the Toronto lease. The company has intertwined itself with its German namesake, with the full knowledge of the German side by the way, weaving a narrative over the best part of the past decade. We unspooled that.

The NY Times has published an investigation into the Therme development at Ontario Place. It found that while the company told the province it had a proven track record of operating six spas around the world, at the time it had only ever operated one. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

The only question for Doug Ford (and Ontario voters) on Ontario Place: is this your government‘s incompetence or your government’s corruption?

Sabrina Imbler spoke to fish biologist Sara Hugentobler about the extraordinary life of salmon, the warning signs of her termination, and the threats the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service layoffs pose to endangered species. defector.com/an-interview...

Interested in gene expression, machine learning, natural selection, and evolution? My former student, Georgia Henry just published a paper that may interest you. Her goal: understand how natural selection acts on the transcriptome, within a single generation experiment, *in the field*.

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

New harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) features **1720** new awards with significantly increased values compared to historic Tri-Agency awards. 🇨🇦 🧪 #PhDsky #academicSky #NSERC #CIHR #SSHRC www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

check out my new paper from last week! we found that copy number variation contributes to rapid adaptation in the invasive common ragweed. think dad would be proud :) #popgen #evolution #invasionbiology www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Thousands of protestors marching around the Wisconsin Capitol right now. My favorite sign so far: "no science, no cheese"

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

Trudeau: "Now I want to speak directly to one specific American. Donald...it's not in my habit to agree with the WSJ, but Donald, they point out that even though you're a very smart guy, this is a very dumb thing to do. We friends fighting is exactly what our opponents around the world want to see."

Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.” www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

No love lost between Toronto and Doug Ford

Doug Ford celebrates majority win by demolishing closest hospital

BREAKING: Ontario has lost the 2025 provincial election

Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump. www.sfgate.com/california/a...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chimed in online after Canada beat the United States in the 4 Nations Face-Off final. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...

Four Nations has been fun but would be better if called HeBelieves just spitballing

SMBE job posting - Social Media Editor to represent SMBE and its journals Part Time (0.5 FTE) Salary: $40,000 yearly We're seeking a dynamic and creative Social Media Editor to represent SMBE and its journals. evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi... Details on our website soon as well.

Here’s a big moment between Ontario Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie and Ontario NDP leader Marit Stiles: Stiles questions how Crombie can protect public healthcare given she accepted $25K donations from private healthcare insiders Crombie: ”I think the NDP leader is envious of my fundraising record“

Doug Ford's face when Marit Stiles asked him why Ontario households are paying $400 each for a luxury Austrian spa on public land at Ontario Place. #OnPoli

Trudeau announces high-speed rail network in Toronto-Quebec City corridor

Link: democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

I'm going to take solace in posting actual science is a simple form of resistance. This is another must read from Robin Waples. #PopGen #ConsGen onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Newsletter: A major crypto scandal tarnishes the reputation of Solana bigwigs, crypto influencers, and Argentine President Javier Milei. “This is FTX type of shit,” said a crypto founder confronting Meteora’s Ben Chow over alleged insider trading. www.citationneeded.news/issue-77/

I just found out that my first book 📗, LAB GIRL 🌱🌿🌳, was challenged by a parent and subsequently removed from the shelves of the library at Walworth High School in Elkhorn, Wisconsin. So I decided to write a 🧵 on book 📚 #censorship 🚫 in American 🇺🇸 schools 🚸 1/n

SIGN OUR PETITION ✍️ ⬇️ Danielle Smith needs to fire Adriana LaGrange NOW. www.albertasfuture.ca/take-action/...

The circumstances are “we’re not sure if there is a Federal Trade Commission anymore and we’d like to try something”

A few years ago, I gave a lecture about how the Soviet Union denied genetics for years as "bourgeois perversion." There are lessons to be learned about what can happen to science. carlzimmer.com/lets-not-los...

(2/2) Giant sex chromosomes were discovered in Silene latifolia more than 100 years ago. Two papers back to back now show the sequence of the 550 Mbp Silene Y chromosome helping to understand sex determination www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience

Former Premier Peter Lougheed knew then what Albertans know now: These mountains are ours, not the UCP's, and certainly not for coal mines. It is embarrassing to see the MLA elected for the riding named after him actively repealing Lougheed’s own policy to protect the Eastern Slopes.

RENATA FAST CALLS GAME! 😲 In an epic finish, her goal secures @pwhlsceptres.bsky.social's first OT victory this season.

"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders." Charles Darwin, who had a pretty bad day every now and then, was born #OTD in 1809. 🧪 The letter to Charles Lyell with the quote above: www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter?docId...