The most American shared value is looking at your neighbors doing something you've never seen before and going HEY THAT'S NEAT TELL ME ABOUT IT.

A student walked into my office, closed the door, and said "Dr. Teague, I want to tell you something that nobody else on this campus knows. I'm trans. And interacting with you at an admissions event is the reason I'm here."

"Everyone should smoke a little grass" has always been the Boomer mindset. Now we're trying to convince them to have a small edible instead, for their health. Just one. A small one. This ain't 70s weed, Barbara.

Someday, I will, breathe in. Not a gasp, or a prelude to some unrelenting scream… And it won’t be for you, it won’t be for anyone. It will fill my lungs, and fill them for me, and that’s it.

I agree with EVERY SINGLE ONE of these rules. I came to most of them on my own because I never had any mentorship for my mentorship. And despite being published in PLOS Comp Bio, they apply to EVERY undergraduate and masters student project.

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

Hey this post is about me!

I would be angry but I would still eat it.

I met Jim Watson once, at a Cold Spring Harbor conference in 2005. I gave a talk under a portrait of him that was at least 15 feet tall. He drove a big silver land-boat and parked it wherever he damn well pleased. In case you were wondering what he was like.

STOP having "conversations" with ChatGPT and START talking to your stuffed animals like a normal person

the reason you don't need dysphoria to be trans is because dysphoria can be impossible to realize without first accepting your own transness

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

New awareness campaign

A student of mine watched a friend get taken by ICE yesterday.

COOPER SAYS HI AND HAPPY FRIDAY

If you haven’t read A Girl and Her Fed webcomic, now’s a good time. Read it for its writing, its philosophy, its weirdo characters that you can’t help but love. Even its evolving art style. Just read it—you’ll enjoy it.

The kids are alright!

I just attended a Pedagogy of Kindness workshop with the fabulous Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social , and I'm really looking forward to reading her new book! www.oupress.com/978080619385...

PUPPY BREAK

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

I just learned that as of October 14, I will no longer be allowed to travel on a commercial airline out of the United States. Customs and Border Patrol uses a system called APIS to verify travelers' credentials. The airlines collect this data and it must match your passport exactly. 1/

Watching so many people in high places go through the motions of polling and median-voter whispering can make you feel like you're in Bodysnatchers. It's worth a reminder that the typical experience of tyranny is...basically normal life. Which means we have to will ourselves to fight harder.

Interested in joining the Biology faculty at selective liberal arts college with a rising national profile? Come be my colleague at Trinity University! We are searching for TWO positions this year! (1/3)

Y'all, Hades Calculus is SO GOOD. Absolutely a unique world -- I am SO looking forward to the next chapter of Persephone's story.

This is particularly difficult because the Gender Unicorn was INSTRUMENTAL in my coming to understand my own experience. And if you haven't met them, here they are in all their glory: transstudent.org/gender/

Just finished @emilystjams.bsky.social's Woodworking. This is one of those books that I'm going to need to enlarge my heart to carry, one whose characters' examples make me want to be the best version of myself.

Your daily dose of WTAF.

I remember very clearly the first time I asked myself "am I trans?" It was in the dark, on an interstate highway, with a dear and trusted friend, and that thought was almost intolerably scary. There was no way I could have faced that question alone the first time, and I'm forever grateful to her.

NO S*** SHERLOCK.

Y'all who live in these states, feel free to feel smug. I'm happy for you, I really am. But please don't forget that the rest of us ALSO DESERVE TO LIVE IN A HEALTHY, REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY AND NOT IN A FASCIST NIGHTMARE.

Paging @badmedicaltakes.bsky.social

I do love me some uncommon SI prefixes!

they *did* promise PhD level performance...

I just LOVE papers like this! Ones that make me go THAT'S WILD when I read the abstract. Wow.

one small consolation of being a 60+ year old investigator is the ability to submit to 𝘔𝘈𝘛𝘜𝘙𝘌 family journals — sure they’re low impact (for our knees) but they have an early bird special if you submit between 4:00 and 5:30 on weekdays

We're hiring TWO (two!) tenure-track assistant professors in my Biology department: cellular/molecular biology and plant biology. Within those categories, we are very open to research focus. Come work with me! And please spread the word! fa-exer-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Transmisogyny is just patriarchy in a Scooby Doo mask.

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

"LLMs are bad!" posts usually make me grind my teeth, but this is HILARIOUS

Please accept this cat. He was purring as I took this.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

This story is an absolute gem, as of course was Tom Lehrer himself. (And if you don’t know the referenced song, please listen here:)

There is a lot of darkness on the skyline today. Here, have a cat.

THIS is the kind of paper I wanna read.

🚨🚨🚨PUI TT Job Alert!! My dept at TCNJ is hiring a tenure track cell and molecular biologist. Come join my supportive colleagues, helpful staff, & fabulous students! We're surprisingly well resourced w/excellent equipment (confocal, SEM etc) and research w/students counts towards our teaching load!

SACCHAROMYCES REPRESENT.

I've seen some posts suggesting day drinking to deal with today's news, and I want to offer some suggestions for how to get through today if you don't want to drink, or use drugs. I'm going to suggest these things as someone who hasn't drank or taken drugs in over 9 years. I hope they help.

It's almost like making assignments WORTH STUDENTS TIME is good pedagogy!

The highest courts of the US and UK have come to the consensus that trans people do not deserve to be recognized as an extant part of variation in human existence. They are corrupt, ideological, bigoted, and most importantly: Wrong.