I am enough of an institutionalist that I still generally believe that the facts reported by "old media" are factual, while saving my skepticism for what they choose to report or not. But this is gross. Clear and convincing evidence of an editorial double standard. Just 🤮🤮🤮.

you only have a short while, make your fall worth it (we all fall) @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social

Take it as a compliment. I am assuming (a) that you are doing it unintentionally, and (b) will want to modify your behavior if I point it out. If I'm not confident in both, I'm not going to say anything.

I AM HOARSE FROM YELLING THIS AT EVERYONE ALL THE TIME FOR YEARS AND NO ONE LISTENS TO ME

I don't have any words.

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pretty: He is .... the most INTERESTING DOG IN THE WORLD.

Mood.

These are FABULOUSLY fun books and you should BUY ALL THREE RIGHT NOW.

I admit that I did not know about this until recently. And I still haven't re-watched The Matrix. However, this speech of Lana Wachowski's is worth your time if you haven't seen it.

I needed this laugh.

Discovering I was demi (in my early 40s) explained a LOT about my life up to then. It was seriously one of those "wait, the rest of y'all don't feel like this?!" moments.

The second "p" in "apoptosis" is silent. Ah-puh-TOE-sis. It's the Greek prefix "apo" (away) and the Greek root "ptosis" (falling). The p in "ptosis" is silent for the same reason the p in pterodactyl is silent.

This thread says it better than I ever could. Existence is resistance! Happy Trans Day of Visibility, y'all!

/lolsob

I'll go one further. If you are in the ER with a friend who is in the ER being treated, I'll work with you to make up whatever needs making up. The only thing worse than being in the ER is being in the ER alone.

New paper out in Science Advances! I'm really (really) proud of this one. Let's get into it. doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Emergency puppy picture

My lil guy LOVES this thing.

You know, I've finally figured out why Newsom bothers me. "Be more culturally normal" means "don't rock the boat." It means "don't stand up for the poor, the racial and ethnic minorities, the queers, the people who make white middle class voters uncomfortable." 1/

Okay, I just finished Chilling Effect by @valerievaldes.bsky.social and I gotta burble about it for a moment. Swashbuckling space piracy? Yes. Will they/won't they romance? Found family? Yes. Psychic cats? Yes. 1/

All the college and university "leaders" who chose to surrender in advance on this, take a bow And then get in the fuckin sea

you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

What country are you living in? Cause it ain't this one. ICE CANNOT BE REFORMED, IT MUST BE ABOLISHED.

I just wanna say that THESE BOOKS ARE SO MUCH FUN. Bad-ass women who are out to make their world a better place by any means necessary. Get them from your library!

The United States uses FORTY PERCENT of its corn crop for fuel ethanol.

Saturday mood.

May as well dive right in. Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball? According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’” Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

My department informed me yesterday that next year will be my last year at Trinity. If anyone knows of a liberal arts college that needs a Genetics professor, let me know....

I think about this basically every day now.

Fascism does at home what imperialism does abroad and now's probably a great time to internalize the full implications of that.

A little bit of light in our cold, dark reality.

Antpoptosis.

I can't doom scroll any more, so here's Cooper living his very best life.

To every out trans person: Your visibility didn’t just show me who you are. It showed me that it’s possible to be exactly who I am too. Thank you for providing the roadmap that’s helping all of us find our way.

Went to a midnight opening of Serenity. Maybe half the audience was dressed up. The most raucous crowd too, cheering and hollering at Wash's flying and then.... Well. You could hear a pin drop.

Students, staff, faculty turning to ChatGPT? That means they are being asked to do things they don't have the time, resources, support, etc to do.

the meta-field we're all in is our shared survival truly

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.