Joshua G. Schraiber
@jgschraiber.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist, computational biologist, statistician. I like to develop mathematical models of evolutionary process and see how they fit to data. I also like cities where building apartments is legal.
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"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules
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Dickson is at worst a top-three option for MVP right now. Media in the press box have gotten very Punter Woke the past few years, too. I'm watching this space closely
February 9, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Dickson is at worst a top-three option for MVP right now. Media in the press box have gotten very Punter Woke the past few years, too. I'm watching this space closely
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Patriots acting like Republican voters in a special election.
February 9, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Patriots acting like Republican voters in a special election.
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Retraining the LLM; final score will be 12-0 Seahawks.
Trained an LLM on the first quarter, the final score will be 3-0 Seahawks.
February 9, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Retraining the LLM; final score will be 12-0 Seahawks.
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New paper by my lab! PhD student @fallonmeng.bsky.social set out to use whole genome sequencing of Spotted Lanternfly from China & the US to better understand the invasion... and discovered that adapting to the city may be the key to their invasive success!
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
February 8, 2026 at 9:23 PM
New paper by my lab! PhD student @fallonmeng.bsky.social set out to use whole genome sequencing of Spotted Lanternfly from China & the US to better understand the invasion... and discovered that adapting to the city may be the key to their invasive success!
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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“Living in America” isn’t some special award that we have to dole out carefully. It’s not a prize or a gold medal. It doesn’t hurt me to have neighbors like Liam Ramos. These people are such stupid freaks.
Gonzales on Liam Ramos and his family: "They're not gonna qualify for asylum. So what do you do with all the people that go through the process and do not qualify for asylum? You deport them. I understand that 5-year-old and it breaks my heart. I also think, what about that 5-year-old US citizen?"
February 8, 2026 at 5:30 PM
“Living in America” isn’t some special award that we have to dole out carefully. It’s not a prize or a gold medal. It doesn’t hurt me to have neighbors like Liam Ramos. These people are such stupid freaks.
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Sorry, Patriots fans: the permits have spoken.
February 8, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Sorry, Patriots fans: the permits have spoken.
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I also read him section 1 and 2 and was like “this part means the bill of rights (which he knows) applies to states and this part means states lose representation if they restrict voting and I’ll save the reasons those didn’t really apply for another hundred years for later.”
February 8, 2026 at 7:15 PM
I also read him section 1 and 2 and was like “this part means the bill of rights (which he knows) applies to states and this part means states lose representation if they restrict voting and I’ll save the reasons those didn’t really apply for another hundred years for later.”
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I think it's more fundamental than that. I noticed starting around a decade ago that young people were just obsessed with material wealth and glamor in a way that would have been considered trashy when I was their age.
February 8, 2026 at 7:14 PM
I think it's more fundamental than that. I noticed starting around a decade ago that young people were just obsessed with material wealth and glamor in a way that would have been considered trashy when I was their age.
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This is a good time to emphasize just how much the US still exploits Puerto Rico beyond just not letting Puerto Ricans vote.
First, we sold the island's sovereign debt to private equity, then forced them to privatize their infrastructure in order to collateralize that debt.
First, we sold the island's sovereign debt to private equity, then forced them to privatize their infrastructure in order to collateralize that debt.
www.cadtm.org
February 8, 2026 at 7:05 PM
This is a good time to emphasize just how much the US still exploits Puerto Rico beyond just not letting Puerto Ricans vote.
First, we sold the island's sovereign debt to private equity, then forced them to privatize their infrastructure in order to collateralize that debt.
First, we sold the island's sovereign debt to private equity, then forced them to privatize their infrastructure in order to collateralize that debt.
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Another case of zoomers being fascists, by the way
welp, IF she can keep her ultraconservative coalition together within the LDP, Japanese LGBT rights advances have likely been set back by another decade. siiiigh. (also, so wonderful that Tokyo has another WW2 revisionist in the seat of power cuz she's super old school like that.)
Japan's Sanae Takaichi wins a supermajority after gambling on a snap election
The Japanese leader's election gambit, fueled by the power of her personality and some unlikely help from young voters consumed by “Sanamania,” appears to have paid off.
www.nbcnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Another case of zoomers being fascists, by the way
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This is what Hess said: “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the US right now. I think it’s a little hard. There’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of. Just because I wear the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going on in the US.”
February 8, 2026 at 4:54 PM
This is what Hess said: “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the US right now. I think it’s a little hard. There’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of. Just because I wear the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going on in the US.”
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What is the over/under line for the number of times this image will appear in talks at [choose a conference about evolution and/or paleontology] this year?
xkcd.com/3204/
xkcd.com/3204/
Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs
xkcd.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:39 PM
What is the over/under line for the number of times this image will appear in talks at [choose a conference about evolution and/or paleontology] this year?
xkcd.com/3204/
xkcd.com/3204/
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If you know DOJ lawyers, use this article to help mock and shame them and urge them to quit.
This is important — and very heartening — news:
While about a dozen of the biggest firms bent the knee to Trump, hundreds of the most experienced DOJ lawyers have quit, refusing to participate in the abuse of government power for Trump’s illegal ends.
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
While about a dozen of the biggest firms bent the knee to Trump, hundreds of the most experienced DOJ lawyers have quit, refusing to participate in the abuse of government power for Trump’s illegal ends.
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
Demanding Support for Trump, Justice Dept. Struggles to Recruit Prosecutors
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:23 PM
If you know DOJ lawyers, use this article to help mock and shame them and urge them to quit.
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To me, the central fact is this: before her nomination to be AG, Bondi played a key role in legal efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election. That role was well understood at the time of her nomination.
They each put their reputations on the line for her knowing that.
They each put their reputations on the line for her knowing that.
February 8, 2026 at 4:03 PM
To me, the central fact is this: before her nomination to be AG, Bondi played a key role in legal efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election. That role was well understood at the time of her nomination.
They each put their reputations on the line for her knowing that.
They each put their reputations on the line for her knowing that.
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I hope some enterprising journalist asks Francisco, Garre, Rosen, Mukasey, and Wall if they think they were correct in assuring the Senate and the American people that Bondi’s leadership would benefit DOJ and the nation.
February 8, 2026 at 3:20 PM
I hope some enterprising journalist asks Francisco, Garre, Rosen, Mukasey, and Wall if they think they were correct in assuring the Senate and the American people that Bondi’s leadership would benefit DOJ and the nation.
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Those signatures are an indelible stain on the professional reputations of every one of them.
If time proves otherwise, shame on us.
If time proves otherwise, shame on us.
February 8, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Those signatures are an indelible stain on the professional reputations of every one of them.
If time proves otherwise, shame on us.
If time proves otherwise, shame on us.
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It is important to remember that the evisceration and degradation of the Department of Justice described today in NYT was enabled by prominent lawyers, Ds and Rs, who assured the country of their firsthand knowledge of Pam Bondi’s fitness to lead DOJ.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
Demanding Support for Trump, Justice Dept. Struggles to Recruit Prosecutors
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:20 PM
It is important to remember that the evisceration and degradation of the Department of Justice described today in NYT was enabled by prominent lawyers, Ds and Rs, who assured the country of their firsthand knowledge of Pam Bondi’s fitness to lead DOJ.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
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man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you
February 8, 2026 at 4:42 AM
man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you
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crickets from the free speech crowd, of course
FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
February 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
crickets from the free speech crowd, of course
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Lower speeds, more tickets would actually fix this, we just choose, as a society, to not only keep killing pedestrians, but making it worse
February 8, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Lower speeds, more tickets would actually fix this, we just choose, as a society, to not only keep killing pedestrians, but making it worse
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The thing about pedestrian safety post 2020 is that its one of the few areas that's massively worse than the norms that existed pre-covid, its bourne out clearly in the numbers, and the only way to solve it is traffic enforcement, sorry
February 8, 2026 at 2:52 PM
The thing about pedestrian safety post 2020 is that its one of the few areas that's massively worse than the norms that existed pre-covid, its bourne out clearly in the numbers, and the only way to solve it is traffic enforcement, sorry
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This is why the are already dropping the felony charges against the 22 folks arrested last week. They don't have the goods and no one to do the work to prosecute.
The top lawyer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota has left the agency, the same week an ICE attorney was removed after telling a district judge that “this job sucks” and that the Trump administration is “overwhelmed” with immigration cases.
ICE chief counsel in Minnesota retires amid growing number of immigration cases | CNN Politics
The top lawyer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota has left the agency, the same week an ICE attorney was removed after telling a district judge that “this job sucks” and that the Tru...
www.cnn.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:22 PM
This is why the are already dropping the felony charges against the 22 folks arrested last week. They don't have the goods and no one to do the work to prosecute.
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If you have ever considered running for a seat held by a Republican, now is your time.
Final results in the Louisiana #HD60 (Trump+13) special election:
Chasity Martinez (D)- 62%
Brad Daigle (R)- 38%
Martinez holds this Trump+13 seat for the Democrats and puts in a nearly 40 point overperformance from 2024 in the process
Chasity Martinez (D)- 62%
Brad Daigle (R)- 38%
Martinez holds this Trump+13 seat for the Democrats and puts in a nearly 40 point overperformance from 2024 in the process
February 8, 2026 at 5:50 AM
If you have ever considered running for a seat held by a Republican, now is your time.