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Jeremy "abiding in the fields" Yoder 🌲⭐️🐑🌙🌟🌲
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Evolutionary biologist, runner, writer, gay. Not necessarily in that order. LAX and SEA


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It's in print! My opinionated dive into the definition of "coevolution" is officially out in the December issue of @journal-evo.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/evol...
Don't ask “when is it coevolution?”—ask “how?”
Abstract. Coevolution has come to be widely understood as specific, simultaneous, reciprocal adaptation by pairs of interacting species. This strict-sense
doi.org
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We have hit 32% towards our goal. It's an incredible amount to have raised for a publication our size. Thank you all so much for your continued support. Happy Holidays! gofund.me/6a59f06f4
December 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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I missed this week’s #ThursJay, so here’s a California Scrub Jay wishing you a happy Friday
#birds
December 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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My little chickadee. 🪶
December 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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the duality of man (1.3 ears)
December 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
California (and I would guess other states) has actual DMV kiosks in like grocery stores, I can fully renew my auto registration online without leaving my bed
Guy who has never set foot in an American DMV: they haven’t even been updated since the 1970s
December 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Guy who has never set foot in an American DMV: they haven’t even been updated since the 1970s
December 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A ring-billed gull — Larus delawarensis, second winter, I think — at Sandy Point Bird Sanctuary outside New Haven, Connecticut🌿🪶

buff.ly/lt7MmHC
December 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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the president is not popular. the civil society-based opposition is very real. the vibes and stories out there are not appreciably different than 2018; it’s the media environment that has decidedly shifted/balkanized.
“.. The concert had been held at the Kennedy Center for 20 years ..”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...
December 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Norwegian Christmas Tree Dressed for the Boxing Day Party, drawing by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1934.
December 26, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Congrats @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al. Some avocado trees open female-phase flowers in the morning & then male in afternoon. Others show complementary pattern (m->f), to synchronize pollination of two types. Jeff show this to be a >45Mya polymorphism at a transcription factor across 100s of species.
Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies an ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.22.695989v1
December 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Incredible what you find when you start looking for data on the "white men can't get jobs anymore" phenomenon
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...
What Does the Census Data Say About “The Lost Generation”
Savage appears wrong, but the reality is potentially bleaker.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org
December 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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when u lose a brain cell after a sneeze
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Happy/holy day
December 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Finally, NOAA SPC has indicated for rare third day in a row that risk of severe thunderstorms continues along CA coast as well as Sac. Valley. Additional strong wind gusts & torrential downpours in squall lines is greatest risk, but brief tornadic spin-ups remain possible. #CAwx
December 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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In fact, NOAA WPC has characterized today's flash flood risk in SoCal as "moderate" (level 3 of 4). This still indicates notably elevated risk; although flash flooding would be more isolated today vs Wed, it could be just as serious especially given now saturated soils.
December 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Although atmospheric river portion of CA storm has ended, a much colder & unstable/sheared airmass will continue to bring Intermittent waves of strong to severe t-storms--w/widespread strong wind gusts, scattered flash flood/isolated tornado potential, plus heavy mtn snow. #CAwx
December 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Merychippus to all who celebrate!
December 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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💯 THIS is the best thing written since David Sedaris took that fateful job at Macy's.
December 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Never give up, never surrender! Galaxy Quest was released 26 years ago today.

NSEA Protector, NTE-3120, filming model by ILM (NTE for Not The Enterprise 🤭)
December 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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I sold my bird feeder to buy my wife a binocular strap, but she sold her binoculars to buy me some bird seed 😤
December 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
American robin, Turdus migratorius, in downtown New Haven, Connecticut last month 🌿🪶

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December 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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The things she knew, let her forget again—
The voices in the sky, the fear, the cold,
The gaping shepherds, and the queer old men
Piling their clumsy gifts of foreign gold.
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.
December 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM