reading about derelomine weevils, simply charmed by this lil man

Two pages into Bleak House and this is what I'm picturing life in London was like at the time. #dedlocked

At the rabbit and cavy show at the MSU Paviolion!

I would encourage this generally for anyone in the #bsbookclub. If you're commenting on a specific book that already has a dedicated feed, please don't post in the main feed unless you're saying something that you think might be of wider interest.

Now published in Perception (@pec-ipe.bsky.social)! Schulz-Hildebrandt, H. (2026). When purple perceived only at fixation: A fixation- and distance-dependent color illusion. Perception, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/0301...

lazy fucker couldn't even fly his ass to the White House to commit atrocities like a normal president

What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.

Breaking: Scientists discover that straight women have been lowering their standards for tens of thousands of years. www.science.org/content/arti...

Heads up MD fam! Haven’t listened to this episode yet but am really enjoying this podcast. Has a lot of the same energy as our book club. Check it out! 🐋

It’s probably fine 🐋

In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.

Gift link from the NYT story about Axel and Epstein. When I was at Columbia he ran a lab where sexual harassment of women was business as usual. We all knew. We all warned each other. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/n...

Who speaks for the 🐋?

this is amazing

What an embarrassing take for an academic to have: "The quality of my thinking is no better than the output of a word prediction machine." Ay ay ay.

Oh - this woman is spot on and takes the US men’s hockey team to task for , well, being assholes and not distancing themselves from Patel and laughing at the gold medal winning women’s hockey team. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Love me some Dan-Eric Nilsson. Absolute legend. (Gift link.) #neuroethology www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/s...

A great illustration of the multifaceted ways the administration’s wars on science and on marginalized groups are wreaking havoc. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

her speech

One of the first things we were taught at Quantico was that there is never a moment in which you are not representing the Bureau; but, then again, we earned our place there, and weren’t granted its directorship as a sinecure for partisan malfeasance and a willingness to disregard the constitution.

Who's ready for some SPONTANEOUS HUMAN COMBUSTION? #dedlocked #bsbookclub

#Bsbookclub fam! The OGs know that we've been discussing reading Dickens's Bleak House for a couple of years. Well, @rnrhamster.bsky.social and I have decided to do that, at a moderate pace, through March and April. The rodent has made the schedule public; feel free to join! bsky.app/profile/rnrh...

Man, Herman, you ain’t kidding. 🐋

The tell is they refuse to write down what you're not allowed to teach any more, you have to wait to be fired for teaching it to find out. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/19/t...

Fuck these fucking fucks.

So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE. And this is what they called it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

The other day I saw a video of an historian (maybe?) saying he didn’t understand why billionaires are opposed to being taxed more because “taxation is the compromise.” And that last ~500 years teaches us what happens when that compromise is not struck. Can’t stop thinking about it.

Really interesting new paper!

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

Alita is the real deal, y'all. Excellent opportunity. #scijobs

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Also I'm assuming this was posted bc today is Ivy's birthday. Either way, happy birthday, queen!

Honest to gawd, seeing The Cramps in "Urgh a Music War" changed my life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIQR...

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew https://theonion.com/aide-wearily-begins-5th-explanation-of-why-trump-cant-pardon-prince-andrew/

This is seriously fucked up taskandpurpose.com/news/army-wa...

Exactly, David. They did what they wanted to do when Trump admin was more than willing to take the blame.

This aged pretty well.

Go birds

Mid-Michigan peeps! Trying to fill the void between now and Lamafest? The MI rabbit breeders spring show is only 10 days away! www.canr.msu.edu/events/2026-...

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own. I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history. 1 square = 1 year.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

I know many people have already said this but holy shit I never thought I'd see the day when I see posts from Bill Fucking Kristol and say "THAT GUY KNOWS WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT."

the Black Panthers were right

Epibatidine, the frog toxin in the news because of the murder of Navalny, was discovered by this remarkable NIH chemist, John W Daly. His technique? “Touching the frog, sampling it on the tongue. If you got a burning sensation, then this was a frog to collect.” !! www.oregonlive.com/history/2021...

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i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions