Now seems like a fun time to remind everyone that GWAR did an NPR Tiny Desk concert

I'm currently teaching a class for new graduate students. We were talking about vaccines & pandemics today. One of the students mentioned that when COVID started they were a junior in high school. I thought "that can't right, you're a grad student!" Then I did the math and died a little inside

Boycotts work

Anyone else having a really hard time talking to students about careers in science? I talked to an undergrad, technician, & grad student about careers today & floundered when comparing industry to govt to academic positions, how to prep for any of them, or what those jobs will look like in 5 years

Well, well. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/22/d... Source: CNBC

Look at that! 🤩 It reminds me of Lantana camara, one of many plants that change color upon pollination: bc it’s easier for bees to see yellows than reds, yellow are young unpollinated flowers, red ones are older and pollination triggered production of more anthocyanin. #plantjoy #iamabotanist 🧪🌿🌸

Bluesky GOURD FEED! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring. So Science did a study. ChatGPT failed. Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." www.science.org/content/blog...

Since I pulled it up to assign as a reading for my shark biology course: Remember Charlotte the stingray, who appeared pregnant despite being the only stingray in her tank? www.southernfriedscience.com/no-a-shark-d...

Reminder: seasons are a unit of climatology, not meteorology. Happy climatological Fall!

I just got this yesterday and it gets dog hair out of my car seats. It's original purpose is to brush the undercoat of cats. I run it over the car seats and the dog hair that wouldn't come out with clothes rollers or tape, or with vacuuming, and heated up rubber gloves, comes off easily.

I just want to plug my wonderful research assistant for the #economics #econsky: Yvan N'guettia is the best research assistant I've ever worked with. He is dedicated, attentive, skilled, entrepreneurial, and kind. I'm looking forward to seeing who gets an opportunity to train him post-graduation. ✨

I am actively searching for a remote internship or graduate fellowship (in 2026) in social, demographic, health, or social policy research. I would appreciate any ideas, suggestions, recommendations, or leads. Thank you!🙏🏾 #internship #social #demography #health #research #fellowship #datascience

It's that day! #September21 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

This is excellent, and pithy, and very generalizable, and entertaining to boot.

Do you remembah?!

One thing I always try to do as a reviewer/editor when recommending a change is to think about whether or not the resulting improvement to the paper/software justifies the amount of time I think it will take the author to address it. The bigger the ask, the greater the need in order to justify it.

What's better than pizza in New Haven? Pizza with @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social and @napaaqtuk.bsky.social! Nothing better than great food and interesting conversation with smart and lovely people. 😍

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law banning most law enforcement officers from wearing masks during some operations.

New film follows five years of Alaska Native families seeking justice for murdered loved ones, reports Corinne Smith for the @alaskabeacon.com

Somehow at post number 262 this thread is reaching new heights.

Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead. We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.

It’s ok, it’s not like Arkansas has federal research grants to service…..whoops reporter.nih.gov/search/hiiNr...

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Samuel Bird, 14, has been missing since June 1 last seen in Edmonton’s Canora neighbourhood. His family & volunteers have been searching the N. Saskatchewan River & other areas he’s been known to frequent in both west & south Edmonton. Keep his family in your thoughts www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

“With a single post or video, we can influence thousands of guests to try a food, drink, or experience in the parks,” she says. “I couldn’t, in good conscience, keep giving them free publicity knowing they don’t support free speech and are willing to bow to fascism."

When a manuscript has serious concerns raised about its scientific validity and integrity, it should be carefully examined, particularly when it’s being used to justify anti-vax quackery.

I’ve got a busy fall ahead and still booking! Upcoming Events: -Flights of Foundry (Sept 28) – Honoring Indigeneity + Indigenous Horror -Screamdiego (Oct 4) – Never Whistle at Night -IndigiReel Resistance (Oct 9) – The Smudging + Q&A w/ Mike J. Marin -GeekGirlCon (Nov 8) – Sometimes Dead is Better

Yes. This is not news to scientists. We only needed basic genetic sequencing and analysis to discover that. That’s why there is no biological basis to race per we

My quote of the day There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. Paramahansa Yogananda

Important thread for people planning on taking action

Don't apologise for your dog showing up during the Zoom, apologise for hiding him all this time

The state of money (and much more) in Gaza from @planetmoney.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/09/20/n...

Love crabs? Get a Crab facts (or eel facts or frog facts) advent calendar here! Squidfacts.net They fund my science education nonprofit @skypeascientist.bsky.social!

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.

NDN Girls Book Club is so powerful, they distribute truckloads of books to tribal communities, they have merch, they have workshops, they are also authors & poets & do queen shit in their own right individually. Best book club tbh

I feel very lucky to have heard Ryan Emmanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social talk yesterday and to have a one-on-one chat this morning. I could have talked to Dr. Emanuel for hours. Such cool work, and excellent perspectives on how to work close to and for your tribe while in academia.

Excited to be part of this event with Kirsten Squint next month, hosted by Erica Abrams Locklear as part of UNC Asheville’s Rising Waters series. Come join us! Registration link: www.unca.edu/events-and-n... #OnTheSwamp #Indigenous #EnvironmentalJustice

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

In case you are wondering why Jerry left Ben and Jerry's ice cream. freebenandjerrys.com

“We're not here to point fingers—yet. But we will have answers. The possible constitutional violations of releasing Trey's name to the media immediately after it happened—we'll get to that. But for now, the family is asking for answers," Jones said.

We have some full length 16S data from isolates that we'd like to match to ASV-level V4-V5 microbiomes from the same samples. It's pretty messy, especially for strains with multiple copies of 16S rRNA genes. Has anyone encountered this in their work, or in the lit? Any ideas how to approach this?

Me last night: I'll close my laptop and hop back into the work I'm doing and know exactly what I was working on bc all these tabs will be open. My laptop, thanks to University requirements:

They also have DVDs full seasons of TV shows and movies. And if you don't have a DVD player you can get a DVD/Blu-Ray for under 100 bucks or an external drive for your computer for around that if you don't have a TV

New Otter just dropped. www.earth.com/news/scienti...

I’m headed to Miami to lead a shark research expedition for the Natural History Society of Maryland! They’ll get to help our team to catch, measure, sample, and tag sharks. Yes, I can do this for your group, too! Interested? Let’s chat!

Updated map of the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. Health departments who have officially confirmed that they are part of the collaborative include Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and New York City.

I got my dragon!

Larrabee State Park, WA

I listened to the first episode of Alive with Steve Burns and it is a breath of fresh air. His first guest is Julie McFadden the hospice nurse I listened to on Dr. Mike back in June. He also just released a second episode with Jamie Lee Curtis about our unapologetic selves. It’s great stuff.