1 day until pitchers & catchers report #STLCards

We had 3 special visitors in our Communicating Science class today. Huge thanks to my friend and colleague Erin Bell for bringing in Griff II (George) and Griff III (Gus) to visit with the students. Plus we shared some evolution facts with the Griffs about how they descend from wolves.

YAAAAASSSSS Bluesky has drafts now! techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/b...

Holy crow these are SO GOOD. I'm a big fan of #SciArt especially when owls are featured. 🪶 🧪

Get fucked, Tom.

I think the ‘less obvious’ politics here is that the entire thing started off with workers in the fields and ended with community dancing and emerging in solidarity from the fields. I think it’s beautiful that he named every country and all the peoples voices rising up- AND-

"A sword day, a red day. ERE THE SUN RISES!" #STLCARDS

Make the Seattle kicker and punter co-MVPs, you cowards.

what a shot

“It’s illegal not to like me” part ♾️ bsky.app/profile/jake...

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

Someone yelled something at Kid Rock in Spanish during the TPUSA fiasco and he turned into a pile of half-smoked Marlboros

hey siri has the halftime artist ever won super bowl mvp?

This is one of my favorite sci-fi books of the past decade and the final trailer is so damn good. LFG and save some stars. #AmazeAmaze youtu.be/P0XN3-n-2Lo?...

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Remembering New York City's Flaco the Eurasian Eagle Owl on this #SuperbOwlSunday

Just cancel the rest of this snoozefest game and let Bad Bunny perform until the Sun comes up

Hope you're all enjoying #SuperbOwlSunday @raptororg.bsky.social

I never noticed this either.

it's #SuperbOwl Sunday! Best day of the year. For your consideration, the Blakiston's fish owl. Largest owls in the world (six-foot wingspans, weigh close to a bald eagle), salmon eaters, live year-round in remote forests of northeast Asia. 🦉

Happy #SuperbOwl Day

Here’s your regular reminder to wash your water bottle. Those things get gross fast so go give it a good scrub & stay hydrated!

In celebration of #SuperbOwl Sunday, check out these majestic owl pics from National Geographic Kids 🦉 💯❤️ kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bird...

Today's the day! Make sure to pin the SuperbOwl feed to your account so you can enjoy Superb Owls every day.

Happy Superb Owl Day to all! Here I am with Buzz the Tawny Owl. She was talkative and very friendly. (1/5) 🪶

2 days until pitchers & catchers report

The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

At what point does a governor, or a group of governors, consider sending in their national guards to rescue these people?

The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.

60 years ago today, mild-mannered jim bowl was bitten by a radioactive spider

Iowans: light up all your state reps' lines of communication 📚 📜

Post a ship that's not Star Trek or Star Wars The Discovery "2001: A Space Odyssey"

No way Kid Rock could pull that off

Renee Good's widow shared this statement with us today. It's absolutely heart-wrenching. 💔

Eddie wishes you a happy Saturday night

"Epstein class" has the stickiness to it to become an amazing slogan for democrats to use that will land solidly with people. It's perfect and whoever wrote it should be very proud.

Posting a photo of Rod Carew every day until ICE is out of Minneapolis (and St Paul). #Twins #Minnesota

Tomorrow is a big day for one of my favorite Bluesky Feeds 🪶 bsky.app/profile/did:...

RIP to Terrance Gore, a guy I admired a lot and wrote about in the early days of Defector. Quite possibly the last of this particular kind of one-tool player, and one of the most fun to watch that I encountered. defector.com/its-terrance...

Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover

Each Friday night, I write about what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪 Year 2, Week 6: Feb 6 - civil servants face Schedule F - NSF disappoints on pre & postdoc research fellowships - Oklahoma ends tenure - Dept of Ed Civil Rights Office fails & much more - buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Terrible news

NBC can send all the takedown requests it wants, nothing in the rulebook says you can’t post Olympics Spuds MacKenzie

Time for some Olympics & coffee

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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.