I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

There were two girls at Wawa just now talking about funny movies and one said, “Have you ever seen the movie Office Space? It’s an old people movie but it’s funny”

Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

Do you have a project that exemplifies open science in ecology and evolution? If so nominate your project for a SORTEE Commendation Award: More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

There have always been dysfunctional families and marriages, but in the past, it wasn't socially acceptable to separate. People stayed together, were miserable, and argued a lot. That's why there are so many transgenerational traumas.

This study demonstrated the insidious nature of parental alienation and parental alienating behaviours and provided further evidence of these behaviours as a form of emotional abuse.

Studies indicate that children exposed to parental alienation may experience anxiety, trauma, and emotional pain, with long-term effects persisting into adulthood. #ParentalAlienation

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

Children of narcissistic parents may benefit from therapy to address self-esteem issues, emotional regulation, and boundary-setting. Family therapy can also help in alienation cases, though it’s challenging if the narcissistic parent refuses to participate. #ParentalAlienation

The community note

Eliminating red dye in processed foods is not going to do much to improve the health of children. Why? Food deserts. Poverty. Homelessness. Lack of healthcare. Widespread COVID A healthy diet is a privilege not afforded to everyone. Tackle inequality first if you want to create a healthy society.

This is one of the best videos I've seen that perfectly describes what it's like to be a targeted, alienated parent.

Because of its counterintuitive nature, many false assumptions are made by professionals who are involved in cases of parental alienation. #ParentalAlienation www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fgR...

Heads-up that Genome Biology is starting a new benchmark collection ("Benchmarks v2.0"): www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...

Tennis Balls xkcd.com/3080

Words to live by.

The emotional distress caused by alienation can impair a child’s focus and performance in school. Socially, they might withdraw from peers or struggle with conflict resolution, mirroring the dysfunctional dynamics they’ve experienced at home. #ParentalAlienation

Do you have a project that exemplifies open science in ecology and evolution? If so nominate the project for a SORTEE Commendation Award 🏆 More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

The world is shit, but yesterday, my nonspeaking autistic son used his AAC device to tell my wife, "I love you, mom" for the first time.

To prevent deer from being hit by cars Finland has tried using reflective paint. (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/avoid-deer-strikes-finland-painting-deer-antlers-reflective-paint-180949792/) File this under "solutions to modern problems that summon the old gods."

Enmeshment: A condition in which two or more people, typically family members, are involved in each other’s activities & personal relationships to an excessive degree, thus limiting or precluding healthy interaction & compromising individual autonomy & identity. #ParentalAlienation

Parental alienation is a deeply damaging phenomenon, with effects that span emotional, psychological, and relational domains for children, targeted parents, and even alienating parents. #ParentalAlienation

My husband @onekdog.bsky.social just suggested we show the boys Watership Down as a lovely Easter Sunday film and I can only assume he doesn’t like our children anymore.

OTD 2 years ago in OK, I chased the most incredible storm of my life. I documented 8 tornadoes, including two sets of twins and the widest tornado I've seen (1.3 miles). The structure and lightning was unlike anything I had seen. It was a true behemoth of the plains. Real time clip:

Sad graphs on the squeezing of outdoor play and school playtimes in England. Maybe rather than showing Adolescence in schools we could improve play facilities for young people? on.ft.com/4cx4Rm2

Big updates for the Nextflow @vscode.dev extension! 🚀 🔍 Workflow view – Visualize logical structure of pipelines ⚙️ Process view – See all processes in one place 🌐 Seqera view – Manage connected CEs directly in the IDE 📚 Resources view – Quickly access Copilot, AI tools & training

HOLY SHIT! This might be the coolest thing ever.

Wild that 28% of Tory voters don't believe humans are causing climate change. The figure is quite high for UK population as a whole, at 17%. Yet it's 4yrs since the IPCC upgraded its certainty on our role in causing climate change, calling it "unequivocal". Lotta people didn't get the message.

This is shocking. Before anyone says it's the biggest failure ever seen in science communication, it's not (all) our fault! It's politically driven disinformation

How is this Python package real pypi.org/project/tari...

Not 1, not 2, but 3 new papers by @conesalab.bsky.social published today in the special issue on long-read sequencing. Find our latest work on SQANTI-reads, genome annotation with lrRNA-seq evidence, and a Perspective in Transcript Divergence. tinyurl.com/GRLong @longtrec.bsky.social

Do you know the difference between “$2 trillion” and “$150 billion”? About $2 trillion.

When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.

On the ancestry and evolution of the extinct dire wolf 🐺 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 Sequencing data: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/P...

All of these spoke to me, deeply.

Let’s be clear. He sold $2.4 billion of his stock the day before he announced tariffs. He’s now crashing the stock market deliberately. He will then buy stock when it’s fallen through the floor. All this is is him stiffing everyone to get richer. That’s it.

Just in case anyone is interested, last year (2024) there were ~3200 incidents of child knife crime in the UK, so that's ~0.02% of kids. Of those, 99.7% were for possession, 0.1% for threatening behaviour, & 0.2% for actual violence... 1/2

In more uplifting news, 1,000 people protested ICE’s abduction of a mother and children at the home of the agency’s acting head Tom Homan. Notably, the entire population of the town is just 1,450. www.syracuse.com/state/2025/0...

Who did this?

My periodic reminder to people who are challenged by WotC and the "corporatization" of D&D. dwelleroftheforbiddencity.blogspot.com/2022/12/buil... "You don’t need them. You never did."

when you have airplane autism not animal autism

Review: Transcriptomics in the era of long-read sequencing www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/efBjP) 🧬🖥️🧪

Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

The Honourable Tulsi Gabbard

Something to think about

The new EULICD data release is AMAZING! 🔭 Here's a before / after of a random galaxy I found in one of the new images, comparing against the Digitized Sky Survey. I highly recommend taking a look around on ESA Sky - it's fun! Link: sky.esa.int/esasky/?targ...

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

PROBAST+AI is out! A risk of bias tool for prediction models developed using any kind of analytical approach (stats/ml/ai/ds) Really proud of this collaboration with many prediction model experts around the world www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Wonder what to do with all these 1000s of novel transcripts found by #long-reads sequencing? Adam Frankish, @carolinamonzo.bsky.social and myself discuss this in our @genomeresearch.bsky.social Perspective. @pacbio.bsky.social @nanoporetech.com @longtrec.bsky.social tinyurl.com/274zkdfz