What is invertebrate conservation — and Xerces — all about? You can get a crash course from Xerces’ executive director @scotthblack.bsky.social in this conversation with fellow naturalist Scott Harris! 🐝 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OZc...

Best way to ruin my day is to go on grad cafe ;-; coping by trauma dumping onto my secretary (pictured below)

Very on the nose that in the US, a rodent has replaced scientists. It currently feels like 6 more years of winter.

Bad Bunny at the Grammys: "Before I say thanks to God, I want to say ICE out. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens, we are humans, and we are Americans."

right?! "umm bill gates is good he gives most of his money away" THEN WHY IS HE RICHER THAN BEFORE HE STARTED 'GIVING IT AWAY' HOW DID THAT HAPPEN YOU CLOWNS

Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:

Extremely relevant tweet I just scrolled by in a buzzfeed compilation

"It's less harmful to me to make sure that they can do the things without the AI than to try and push the AI into my classroom knowing that, at least for some of them, it's going to mean that they don't get to acquire the skills that they need." This this this this this this this this this this 🙏

Kill me now. Take me from this planet.

I'm raising $ for Maine Solidarity Fund, to help our community members affected by ICE. Grab some stickers! ❌🧊 campmustelid.shop

“The French government announced that it will stop using American video conferencing platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom, and replace them with Visio, a French platform.”

I post this link merely as a cultural curiosity and not so that anyone could print one if, say, whistles were banned. Obviously that would be wrong.

People at this event know what’s up

📒 NEW STUDY “supports abolition of Daylight Saving Time and adoption of permanent Standard Time to minimize negative consequences including migraines.”

fake berries, what

Listen to Alaskan Natives about drilling on the Alaskan coast. I am with Elaina Richards. In my region we depend on the coastal water for food, transportation, and our connection with our ancestors. Drilling feels like yet another way to "kill the Indian". www.tiktok.com/t/ZThUm3nkt/

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Meet these wide-ranging cuties, the Snailfish! #LetsChangeThat

who cares Fuck ice Epstein files?

Something a little different. Some cartoonists put out a call for comics about local ICE experiences. This one happened a few months ago so it's a little older than current events, but it's a story that I never stopped thinking about. #ICEoutcomics

Getting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I don’t have great answers. I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states. The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor. One collision and the whale is dead. We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍

"we can touch you anywhere at any time of our choosing" (known as the "Trumpstein Doctrine")

Always love it when I mention something from natural history in passing and a friend asks “What’s that?”, so I get to explain a little. Last night it was ‘whalefall,’ a good excuse to share one of my favorite short films.

the picture of the stuffed animal sticking out of the glove compartment just inches away from the blood spattered dashboard is gonna be one of those images that haunts me forever. even when your whole job is looking at the horrors on purpose and you get good at forgetting, some things are seared in.

Good intentions.

A six year old child will now grow up without their mother

I am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Welcome to the American petrostate By Michael E. Mann | Nov 7, 2024 @BulletinAtomic The U.S. is now a failed Democratic state. With the reelection of Donald Trump..the U.S. is now poised to become an authoritarian state ruled by plutocrats & fossil fuel interests. thebulletin.org/2024/11/welc...

Those of you who believe in mortal sin ought to recognize this for what it is.

burning the planet for this. trillion dollar business

In November, I sat with two Venezuelans who fled the country after protesting Maduro. Trump's masked ICE agents had just taken their son. The boy's mother told me, "In Venezuela, if they take you, you don’t come back. This left me with the same impression.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-a-h...

It’s darkly humorous he can’t even muster the ability to give some lip service to democracy or allowing the Venezuelan people to choose their leader.

This poem has always captured the alienating appetite of imperialism so powerfully for me - it’s unfortunately even more topical than usual. “Now neighbors, invited guests, / starving beggars, all claim us as their own.”

For no reason whatsoever, I’m reminding you that before the US invaded Iraq in 2003, the Bush administration said that Iraq’s oil revenue would fund everything. www.meforum.org/middle-east-...

Excited to be presenting the first parts of my dissertation research at #SICB2026 on how urbanization affects house sparrow physiology and behavior! Come visit me at my poster (P41) tomorrow during the DCE Best Student Poster Competition! @sicb.bsky.social

Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

The mask is off. Its been off, and this is only the beginning. Many will cheer, until they realize that nothing will change other than which way the oil and gold flows. Maduro was bad, but Machado will be worse.

“Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!” Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves. My latest for Zeteo:

Brianna Ghey wasn't killed because she was unsafe online. She was murdered because two of her classmates decided that it would be fun to murder a trans girl.