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Please help my friend Ahmed support his family in the midst of the crisis in Gaza.

He desperately needs money for food, water and shelter. He has nothing. Please help by donating and sharing.
Donate to Help Ahmed And His Family Survive In Gaza Crisis, organized by Abi Lass
My name is Abi from Lincoln, NE, and I'm raising money for Ahmed and his fam… Abi Lass needs your support for Help Ahmed And His Family Survive In Gaza Crisis
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Another yellow-footed rock-wallaby image to cheer everyone up 🙂
Boolcoomatta Reserve.
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals.

This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Can’t wait for this news cycle
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Soundgarden: between the Hall of Fame, a new record, and a tour on the horizon

The Seattle legends are wrapping up Cornell’s unfinished record, while rumors swirl about a possible live comeback and the band’s future without their iconic frontman.

Read more: www.pearljamonline.it/en/soundgard...
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Creationists say SO many things and I'll think "that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard" based solely on stuff I learned in second year undergrad. At this point I think I need to make a tier list.
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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November 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I wish Bikini Kill would release a new album. One of these days. 😔
November 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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I'm busy loading my programs (oops, sorry, apps) onto my new laptop. Take a while. So here's something from my archives. A Port Lincoln parrot enjoying a cool drink at my friend's birdbath in Cleve.
November 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Every time I see one of those tournament bracket graphs I just think, damn, that is a well-resolved phylogeny. Sure would like to see the bootstrap values on that bad boy.
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Once again:
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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In case you missed it during Halloween shenanigans this weekend…
November 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
If you're a transphobe AND a creationist you don't get to talk about 'basic biology'. You're 170 years behind the curve, don't fucking pretend you care about biology or facts or science.
November 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Rob Stadler coming up with BS criteria to dismiss evolution as science while outright stating nested hierarchies in DNA are from God Just Doing It Like That a la Last Thursdayism is so hypocritical it's infuriating, especially when you add in how condescending he is

He's completely wrong AND a tool
October 31, 2025 at 10:24 AM
⚠️⚠️ Ahmed still needs support for him and his family in Gaza. Please help him by sharing and donating if you can.
October 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
⚠️⚠️ Despite the ceasefire, Ahmed is still in need of support. Please share and donate if you can.
October 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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When I cover mortality rates and life expectancy in populations:

xkcd.com/1520/
Degree-Off
xkcd.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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xkcd images I use in my classes: a thread

When I teach phylogenetics (part 1):

xkcd.com/1211/
Birds and Dinosaurs
xkcd.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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And she knows, because she warns him, and her instincts never fail, that the female of her species lives on longer than the male. 🧪

(Yes, I couldn't resist the temptation of borrowing from Julia Ecklar's The Female of the Species)

Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Respect to anyone who took time out of MIGW or Fringe to attend this week's demonstration
bsky.app/profile/dave...
Massive crowd in Melbourne/Naarm today (in case you thought this movement was going to be placated with more colonisation). Until the occupation ends. Until Western war criminals and their enablers face justice. Until Palestine is free.
October 12, 2025 at 4:41 AM