Is it "surprising research"? @dasharez0ne.bsky.social taught us all this years ago.

“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”

EPA To Monarch Butterflies: ‘Count Your Fucking Days’ https://theonion.com/epa-to-monarch-butterflies-count-your-fucking-days/

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

I moved east one timezone when the DST change happened last week, so I didn't have any time change, and then yesterday moved back to central time and got anOTHER hour back so my body is somewhere in mountain time now?

One of my undergraduate students is submitting a GRFP proposal today and I'm really proud of her resilience and determination to get one pulled together. 🤞 #NewPI life - always made better by the students

clawing back snap benefits like Good People do

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

A political message all branches of the tree of life can get behind

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

It's irritating that they describe the effects of his racism as limited to causing controversy within science and reputational consequences for himself rather than giving an immeasurable boost, false veneer of legitimacy, and idiot-friendly prestige to modern scientific racism and eugenics.

James Watson was a horrid, racist SOB and modern science will be better for his absence

As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month: “.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”

I might go back to being a planner notebook girlie in 2026

Cornell agrees to include Bondi's anti-DEI/anti-trans memo as a "training resource to faculty and staff" (see: www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...)

Cornell paid millions to get illegally frozen grants unfrozen, and effectively agreed to help the Trump regime's assault on academic freedom to get bad faith investigations dropped, while also agreeing the govt can launch new investigations! Full text here: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...

Cornell agreed to pay $30m, hand over admissions data with demographic breakdowns, produce annual "campus climate" surveys to check on antisemitism and changes "since October of 2023," and—here's the dumbest part they agreed to—that the govt can open new investigations whenever it wants. Appeasers.

fucking cowards

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Yesterday the dog had a dental procedure in Livonia that took most of the afternoon so I took myself to the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn. It was lovely! Since most Arab migration to the US has happened in the past 100 years there are SO MANY personal mementos and stories.

Wisconsin State Senator confirms SNAP recipients in the state have received their November benefits.

using Lin Manuel Miranda's appearance on this Mountain Goats album to get my mom into the Mountain Goats

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

god I have worked with SO MANY MEN who cannot handle conflict or constructive criticism

The nyt newsroom has tons of outstanding principled journos. I don’t know the reporter seeking the stories of young trans ppl denied care. I do know the newsroom leadership has a long record of spreading anti-trans disinformation and hate. The leaders will ensure any story furthers their bias

no YOU accidentally scheduled yourself to give two different talks in a 3-day span later this month

Our CEO @mayaajmera.bsky.social made over $600K in 2023. And yet here we are, on #strike for fair compensation so we can pay our bills. What gives, @society4science.bsky.social?

We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

make them answer for why they care more about checking a child’s underwear than whether you can afford your electric bill!

Don't have access to a university HPCC, tired of paying out the nose for AWS (also I hate AWS), what if I just bought a cutting-edge gaming PC tower for the hardware and made it my new personal high-performance computing center

I just watched a cluster of black walnuts drop in front of a squirrel, who looked straight up into the sky, as if in disbelief at Providence

don't tell me your software works on any species if it doesn't work on polyploids 😭

done with fruit done with grant time once again for bioinformatics cave

one of the few kinda nice things about this period of time is that it's revealed, often surprisingly, which influential political figures actually believe in something

got back from staff retreat and slept 12 hours

grant's in, back to laying on the floor

It’s even more extreme than that if you want full self-sufficiency. The average US diet requires ~2 acres of land (cropland + pasture)/person/year. So a family of 4 would need ~8 acres. (It’s less if you eat more plants/fewer animal proteins than avg American, but it’s still a looooot of land.)

there's gotta be a better way to do federal grants, documentation-wise

I FUCKING TOLD YOU ALL HOW STUPID THIS WOULD GET

I am always the shabbiest-dressed person at Ancora coffee shop

lmao @ getting an email about a webinar entitled "Optimizing your lab's efficiency"

got fed up with everything so i went and sat on a bench under a big fir tree, i recommend trees heartily to anyone feeling dreadful right now

we are trying to be innovators (good!) but you're not going to get a cultivar release until at least 2040 (fuck!)

Man, I wish I had a better idea of where the line is for funders between "interesting, novel specialty crop with potential worth pursuing" and "impractical superfluous pie-in-the-sky idea, total waste of time and money"

i really hope i live to see a time where it again feels like education for its own sake is seen as a social good

I took myself for a walk over lunch and regret to report that exercise does in fact make you feel better

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

my chronic stress has hit the point in the past couple weeks where it's affecting my ability to communicate well. It's harder to be nuanced, to be thoughtful, to be generous, to keep the big picture in mind when your body is in survival mode all the time.

Platner appeals because he seems to be a shortcut. Instead of (as @jamellebouie.net says) building local political parties helping people, building trust, slowly building networks and trying to reshape the possible … just elect liberal dudebro and we’ve solved populism!