One of the funner moments from my South Africa trip occurred when these two little borbs decided to chase each other on the edge a lagoon. (They're Black Crakes, btw.)

I started re-reading The Witness For The Dead today and @pennyvixen.bsky.social has such a gift for worldbuilding - these books are captivating in a way I don't know how to describe. (Also I can indulge in the fantasy of commuting by tram to the 600 year old building I work in)

If I'm the same height as him I feel like I should also have access to his stylist

Sandhill Cranes flying past on a foggy morning.

from now until the end of time i have my answer to why i hate chatgpt: a million people discuss suicide with the suicide-encouraging robot a WEEK. a MILLION a WEEK

Check out this cover paper and its related perspective in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ope lemme just scootch by ya there

Bad AI supplanting human expertise is an issue that transcends any one field, but man—not many people on earth whose knowledge and dedication deserves respect like LIBRARIANS.

Globules of what Ishmael 😏

I can't believe they made The City We Became real

Since I took over as lab manager in 2023, I've had to teach Every Single Undergrad who comes through our lab about file directories and how to navigate them, up to and including copy/pasting files from one location to another

I was surprised to see a Sora still around. Most of these marsh birds have migrated, and I imagine this one will very soon with the temps going below freezing at night in the next few days.

Thinking about Blornet

Wow November means I can start relistening to death blart

Why am I not surprised the nazi tattoo guy worked for fucking blackwater

Kind of getting the itch to play cyberpunk again

I want zohran to win so bad

Once again, diabetes researchers have published something that immediately makes me go "hm what about in sepsis?"

What makes us feel "fight or flight" may be less adrenaline and more of something else—a hormone that seeps out of our bones. Learn more on #Halloween: https://scim.ag/4hDR7sw

Everyone I work with is very scared anyways 💀

This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true. _This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/

Moby Dick, or, the Whale Illustrated by Rockwell Kent

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

Low impact is relative of course. I'm an entomologist - PLOS ONE has a higher impact factor than the highest-ranked entomology journals. This is just one example of why IF is not a great metric

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

fat squirrels for low morale

It continues to be so wild that Erika Ishii's sister is the mayor of Berkeley

The BIGGEST Alligator Gar I’ve ever encountered!!! Truly GARgantuan, tagged and released!

People with public venmo transactions - why are you Like That lmao

@butchfag.bsky.social #mybitch

Sexy collecting tissue for oil red o staining

I've finally cracked open Days of Shattered Faith and @aptshadow.bsky.social stays the king of including weird bugs in his novels

CORY DOCTOROW BAYBEE got it in one

Australia's humpback whales are doing so well that their population is expected to reach carrying capacity and plateau in the near future--they have not just reached but exceeded pre-whaling numbers. For this to happen with such a long-lived, slow-reproducing species is near miraculous. #goodnews

When I say replication crisis is rhetoric, this is what I mean. It uses scientific resources and tools for rhetorical purposes, not scientific. Many do this knowingly, intentionally bec they believe it is necessary and no other approach will fix science. That's too cynical and hubristic for me.

I need the cgpgrey video about the flag the mcelroys made this week

I've made a single Shiny app and unfortunately now all I want to do is make data browsers

S/o to the guys putting extra insulation in my attic earlier today for vacuuming my closet

My $0.02 (without actually reading the article lol) is that everyone I know who went to a small primarily undergrad school had a WAY better experience being introduced to research compared to my experience at NYU

Now do one for NMR lol (All spectrometers should have audio rate converters & speakers imo because turning your spectra into sound is very cool and fun)

Wow the jazz dj set I was listening finished at exactly the same time as I finished my crossword

recovery going pretty well so far ✌️🤖

Gay people in my phone - I need you to do gender essentialism about Choco, Seeker of Paradise

Don’t miss tomorrow’s ASBMB Lipid Research Division seminar! Topic: Triglyceride cycling in adipocytes with Anand Sharma & Shannon Reilly 📅 Oct. 15 | 12–1 p.m. Eastern | Free ➡️Register: ow.ly/N7Tw50X5m8j.

R power users - is there a good way for me to make an interactive plotting app to share with people? I'm liking Shiny so far but ideally the final version wouldn't involve any R use at all by the user (i.e. just opening a single file without having to launch the shiny app from inside of RStudio)

Wow I can't believe Scott pants is back

Aferah, for a personal project, 2017

Idk y'all I get that the machines are doing a bioterrorism but also like. Have more than 22 doctors in a single city?????

A White-breasted Nuthatch doing a floof at me because I am taking photos and not offering peanuts. (I did offer peanuts after this photo.)

Unfortunately extremely into the idea of the new Predator movie