Terry McGlynn
@hormiga.bsky.social
Ecologist, entomologist, writer. Chair of Academic Senate and Professor at CSU Dominguez Hills. ScienceForEveryone.science and I'm the Small Pond Science guy.
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Black Lives Matter. In favor of DEI, justice, access, opportunity. Abolish ICE.
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Black Lives Matter. In favor of DEI, justice, access, opportunity. Abolish ICE.
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Terry McGlynn
@hormiga.bsky.social
· Aug 26
This is the account that auto-posts my blog posts. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
It's never too late to digest how the community is responding to this thread, give it some careful consideration, and make some apologies and amends.
Bluetorial-Jim Watson
I met Jim Watson a few times but did not know him well. However, I was greatly influenced by his book “The Double Helix”. He was a complicated human being with some very, very bad features, but some good contributions.
What follows is my personal perspective.
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I met Jim Watson a few times but did not know him well. However, I was greatly influenced by his book “The Double Helix”. He was a complicated human being with some very, very bad features, but some good contributions.
What follows is my personal perspective.
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a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
It's never too late to digest how the community is responding to this thread, give it some careful consideration, and make some apologies and amends.
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Jeremy, I have followed your science advocacy on this platform with respect, but I find this thread deeply hurtful and sad and I am going to tell you why. While my wife did her postdoc at CSHL, she and our many dear friends had to endure the racist rhetoric of this man, which did constant harm
On one evening, the speakers were divided up and went to dinner parties hosted by some of the wealthy folks who lived around Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island. My dinner was delightful, with good conversation with our host (the mayor of a nearby village), his friends, and some other speakers.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Jeremy, I have followed your science advocacy on this platform with respect, but I find this thread deeply hurtful and sad and I am going to tell you why. While my wife did her postdoc at CSHL, she and our many dear friends had to endure the racist rhetoric of this man, which did constant harm
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I'm heading off to EntSoc and here's my take on navigating your first scientific conference. Hope to see lots of you there!
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-... #EntSoc25 🧪
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-... #EntSoc25 🧪
November 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I'm heading off to EntSoc and here's my take on navigating your first scientific conference. Hope to see lots of you there!
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-... #EntSoc25 🧪
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-... #EntSoc25 🧪
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Great advice, and I loved the line, “And if you don't understand a talk, honestly that's not your fault, it's the person giving the talk who is doing it wrong”. My advice: it’s totally fine to take a nap or to leave early if you need to — some conversations are better fully awake than half asleep!
I'm heading off to EntSoc and here's my take on navigating your first scientific conference. Hope to see lots of you there!
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-... #EntSoc25 🧪
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-... #EntSoc25 🧪
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Great advice, and I loved the line, “And if you don't understand a talk, honestly that's not your fault, it's the person giving the talk who is doing it wrong”. My advice: it’s totally fine to take a nap or to leave early if you need to — some conversations are better fully awake than half asleep!
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also this would clearly be a field where the expertise of faculty from historically excluded groups would be a huge benefit, given the bias that has been consistently demonstrated in AI because of its source materials, killing two birds with one stone
But YOU KNOW that will not happen 🙄
But YOU KNOW that will not happen 🙄
This is fascinating because this is such a new field and somehow they are going to hire 100 tenure-track faculty in the next 5 years who specialize in it. And yet when asked to fill spots with faculty of color/women/marginalized groups, administrators often cry about how the pipelines don't exist.
100!!!
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
also this would clearly be a field where the expertise of faculty from historically excluded groups would be a huge benefit, given the bias that has been consistently demonstrated in AI because of its source materials, killing two birds with one stone
But YOU KNOW that will not happen 🙄
But YOU KNOW that will not happen 🙄
I'm heading off to EntSoc and here's my take on navigating your first scientific conference. Hope to see lots of you there!
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-... #EntSoc25 🧪
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-... #EntSoc25 🧪
November 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I'm heading off to EntSoc and here's my take on navigating your first scientific conference. Hope to see lots of you there!
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-... #EntSoc25 🧪
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-... #EntSoc25 🧪
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This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
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Stay hydrated, eat snacks, fan girl your science heroes, say yes to hanging out, introduce yourself to strangers, go to cool talks as well as ones in your field, and have fun!!!!
Let's help out our first-timers who will join us in a few days at Entomology 2025! If you've attended a past ESA Annual Meeting, what's your advice for navigating the program, making connections, learning, etc.? 💡🧠 #EntSoc25 Reply or quote to share your thoughts!
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Stay hydrated, eat snacks, fan girl your science heroes, say yes to hanging out, introduce yourself to strangers, go to cool talks as well as ones in your field, and have fun!!!!
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The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.
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understanding extreme events and #speciesonthemove is rarely possible with modern-day datasets. instead, we screened hundreds of papers and read agency reports (like these books from the UCSC library) to bring old observations of range extensions to light. some species shifted 1000s of km in a year!
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
understanding extreme events and #speciesonthemove is rarely possible with modern-day datasets. instead, we screened hundreds of papers and read agency reports (like these books from the UCSC library) to bring old observations of range extensions to light. some species shifted 1000s of km in a year!
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Can we set aside that crisis of young men being driven to the Right? From NBC’s exit polling for young men 18-29:
VA: Spanberger +14
NJ: Sherrill: +10
NYC: Mamdani +40
VA: Spanberger +14
NJ: Sherrill: +10
NYC: Mamdani +40
November 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Can we set aside that crisis of young men being driven to the Right? From NBC’s exit polling for young men 18-29:
VA: Spanberger +14
NJ: Sherrill: +10
NYC: Mamdani +40
VA: Spanberger +14
NJ: Sherrill: +10
NYC: Mamdani +40
“As Eugene Debs once said…”
SWOON!
SWOON!
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
“As Eugene Debs once said…”
SWOON!
SWOON!
Those five new California Dems that we’ll get in the midterms better damn not be more namby-pamby corporate Dems. The more folks who step up in the primary the better!
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Those five new California Dems that we’ll get in the midterms better damn not be more namby-pamby corporate Dems. The more folks who step up in the primary the better!
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This
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
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As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
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Y’all
I needed this
I needed this badly
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I needed this
I needed this badly
🤩🥰
June 25, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Y’all
I needed this
I needed this badly
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I needed this
I needed this badly
🤩🥰
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Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
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Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️
Mamdani is a generational talent, with clarity and values that connect with American voters of all backgrounds. He's a gift to the Democratic Party, ready to be embraced.
He and other young progressives are our future. I suppose it's up to corporate Democrats to decide if they want in on that.
He and other young progressives are our future. I suppose it's up to corporate Democrats to decide if they want in on that.
The framing of this is hilarious: Democrats deeply worried about the repercussions of a victory
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...
As Mamdani nears victory, Democrats worry about national fallout
The progressive candidate is on the cusp of a historic mayoral win. And that's adding to unease among Democrats looking for a way back to national power.
www.msnbc.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Mamdani is a generational talent, with clarity and values that connect with American voters of all backgrounds. He's a gift to the Democratic Party, ready to be embraced.
He and other young progressives are our future. I suppose it's up to corporate Democrats to decide if they want in on that.
He and other young progressives are our future. I suppose it's up to corporate Democrats to decide if they want in on that.
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They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.