Today is a day that will go down in the annals of sandwich history

This is quite cool - finding lichens using drones, which tell you where dinosaur bones are.

A visit to Southern Utah’s only giant sequoia - a peaceful timeline cleanser from Tom Bennett www.instagram.com/reel/DQj78aU...

Just jumped over to Threads so I could get live updates from yesterday’s game

Weirdest treats(?) of the night my daughter got trick-or-treating

Just had trick-or-treaters come to the door eating a plate of brie and sliced melon they had gotten from a house down the street. Things that happen in #Alameda I guess.

The aptly named scaly tree fern (Sphaeropteris cooperi) from a rainy day hike on Kauai. #fernfriday

Feeling seasonal, might delete later...

Careful out there, folks (academia edition)

In my headcanon understanding of "Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)" Robert Palmer is in love with an actual doctor

Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year. If you know, you know

What happened in September 2020 to make people search for the word "aesthetic" more than ever before?

Leading up to Halloween we ask, Why do some gummy brands rock, and why do others feel like you're chewing plastic? 🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...

Random recommendation: This is a remarkable piece of filmmaking from a guy who can’t seem to stop listening to Gimme Shelter over and over and is trying to break the cycle: www.instagram.com/reel/DQQMgtk...

Really good deal for anyone who has a vendetta against barbers

I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖

Fox News encounters the word “tuchus” for the first time

Come for the tentacles of Damocles, stay for the moist egg flap

New game: Add “and should parents be worried?” to every headline phrased as a question

If only this was a metaphor for something

For almost 10 years, artist Klari Reis created a petri dish painting every day #sciart www.adailydish.com?m=1

Just over here watching U tube

#NoKings #Oakland Puppies and pandas and purple hippos!

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

My recent backpacking trip in the eastern Sierra was only a 2-fern hike. (This isn’t a rating system, I only spotted two ferns because it was autumn and at 10k ft. elevation.) #fernfriday

women don't like the vehicle

The strangest thing about this interview is his insistence on using the word “vehicle”

Let’s not beat around the bush… California now has an official state shrub www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/09/a...

🧪Did I really have time for this story? No, I did not, for reasons I'll be sharing soon. Did I absolutely feel compelled to write it anyways? You know I did! A viral mystery solved by science. Read on @sciencenews.bsky.social Also, I have a new to-do for my trip to Chicago for #SciWri25 next month!

Lyrics to an unreleased Damn Yankees power ballad

This flick from Jun Endo is UNREAL 🤯

Bari Weiss appears to be the only person on Wikipedia described as a “US media mogul.” Who gets to declare mogul status?

Now up to 44 locations of Robert Bechtle paintings identified in #Alameda, plus 4 from mystery locations: www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...

Maybe if we all just stare at our phones and nobody presses the crosswalk button we can start a new civilization right here on this street corner

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

Sure why not! Support indies by ordering America’s favorite #roadecology masterpiece through Bookshop and I’ll send ya a free signed bookplate (DM w/ proof of purchase and address). Bezos will be absolutely *furious.* bookshop.org/p/books/cros...

Sometimes you find treasures in Little Free Libraries #nkotb

I feel like people need to go to Portland once in their lives just so they can laugh at this nonsense

The @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Department of Biology is searching for tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Now I really want to try some giant yucca petals

Time to play *Find the Ptarmigan* (there are at least three in this photo)

Only Muggles in the Bildungsroman

Would watch

Just a normal day on a National Forest website 👀 www.fs.usda.gov/r05/inyo

I go on LinkedIn every time I want 50 strangers to tell me how my life could be better if only I devoted all of my energy to crafting AI prompts

In Mexico, September means chiles en nogada season. But one key ingredient, a candied barrel cactus called biznaga, is now illegal because it's vanishing in the wild.