One of the best things about Oklahoma. Listen to how the crooning soloist gives way to a full throated chorus that would take the chrome off a car hitch. youtu.be/hoVNMa29lgg?...

More of this please.

Wow.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller February 16,1946

Snowmelt with a hint of Spring, on a February afternoon in Greenbriar Park, Charlottesville Virginia.

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

I deleted my Instagram/Threads account. I don’t want to feed Zuck anymore. I hoped to follow culture accounts but found that, like Twitter/X before it, Z’s attention algorithms were predatory, blithely sending me down emotional rabbit holes. I’m down to BlueSky and Reddit. That’s plenty.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Older siblings can really mess up younger siblings, which is one of the few tangible benefits of being born earlier. /s

Ginger Scallion Sauce: One of the great recipes of all time from the (well-used) Momofuko cookbook.

It’s funny. Throughout most of my academic life, especially in Oklahoma, the concern was how many folks didn’t accept evolution. Nowadays, that problem seems downright trivial compared to all the other things humans are capable of.

Nuremburg

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

Much needed grace on an otherwise weird day.

Wise plan.

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller February 11,1944

“While the FBI field office in Boise initially said in a statement that claims of children being zip-tied were ‘completely false,’ officials there later amended that assertion, telling reporters that no ‘young’ children were zip-tied.” www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-zi...

Everyone had their pile. Mine was a combo of 3 years of Boy’s Life and a couple dozen Peanuts and Mad Magazine’s 25cent paperbacks. Gawd, I can still smell that old newsprint.

Spectacular reporting by @wired.com

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

Gotcha beat. Dan Janzen could be pithy when he wanted to be.

What this ad doesn’t show: Ring also rolled out facial recognition for humans. I wrote to them months ago about this. Their answer? They won’t ask for your consent. This definitely isn’t about dogs—it’s about mass surveillance. x.com/Phil_Lewis_/...

If you wonder why the uber-powerful GOP block of US farm states got that way, this 15 minutes tutorial is an eye-opener. Sarah Taber outlines one of the most interesting—and intractable—parts of the US political system. It’s the best 15 minutes you’ll spend this week.

Nothing like *two* reminders from Oikos waiting in the Monday morning Inbox. For the same paper.

Fortunately for me, the curriculum committee at OU gave faculty a lot of lee way in designing our courses. New Yorker cartoon by Gregory

Do fieldwork long enough and you will likely receive a similar message. This one pertained to a pop-up electrical storm during nocturnal fieldwork, then a long run down a steep dune, then unlocking a massive metal gate, then unlocking the pickup truck.

Nuremberg.

This this this. Litmus tests work pretty well in Freshman level biology labs. Not so much in a modern, effective political party.

Are they going to also "blame a staffer" for Obama permanently living, 24/7, rent-free in his head? #pathetic

What a cutie pie! And the toucanet ain't bad either.😉 Happy Friday everyone. #OTS88-3

Read it all please.

The Applied Incompetency Hypothesis (noun): A tactic in academia in which the best way to reduce one’s service and teaching workload is to perform so badly that they never ask you again. As a new prof I learned this from a mentor while quaffing drinks at an airport bar.

I hope you can read my latest essay on why the biological sciences needs resynthesis now more than ever. We've been stuck in old ways of thinking for far too long! 🧫 🧬 🪲 🪰 🪱 🪻 🏔️ 🌍 #CenturyOfBiology #ConvergenceScience #Biology #SystemsBiology #Science tnature.substack.com/p/what-comes...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Take 2 min to watch this. Then watch it again. Listen with intent. WE know enough... WE know enough. Chilling.

This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):

For those keeping score at home:

In the Neotropics, treefalls create light gaps in the dark understory. Gaps fill with treelets—like this Conostegia—carried by birds that are attracted to its fruit-flower displays—steady resources for birds which return daily. The seeds find other gaps via poop, where they are planted by ants.

This is an important day.

How did they redact abusers but not the victims? And they expect us to believe 40 nude photos went unnoticed? That’s exactly why people think the DOJ did this on purpose, to shame these women for coming forward.

Winner of the internet, 2025/02/03.

To paraphrase my friend Bill Mitchell “Sure, trust the numbers of a far-right think tank.”

Martinez ends her testimony with this: "If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."

To those LLM’s perching on my screen, waiting to “help”. Any message that takes longer to read than to write cheats both the author and the reader.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller 02,02,50

I had forgotten this existed. Gawdbless.

"She sustained a torn rotator cuff, concussion and bruised ribs during the incident and received medical treatment at a hospital..." www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...