Anji Ballerini
@anjiballerini.bsky.social
imperfect but concerned citizen of planet Earth, biologist, professor, caninophile
This is fun!
![Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic4f56ywseq7bqc7zza3y76pxyzn5c5htebrior6jdbrfszhuiquy@jpeg)
July 23, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This is fun!
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The fantastic work of @kampova.bsky.social is finally out in PNAS: weather sensing and programmed cell death in anther dehiscence and opening. Cool science and awesome microscopy! @svosolsobe.bsky.social @handle.invalid @moritznowack.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Rümeysa Öztürk spoke briefly at a press conference held when she arrived at Logan Airport tonight.
"My dear professor and lab mates are here today. I just want to highlight that. ... My advisor sent my dissertation proposal to the prison. My lab mates have been reading me books on the phone."
"My dear professor and lab mates are here today. I just want to highlight that. ... My advisor sent my dissertation proposal to the prison. My lab mates have been reading me books on the phone."
LIVE NOW: Rümeysa Öztürk and her legal team
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Tufts student and lawyers speak at Logan Airport after returning from Louisiana
Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk and members of her legal team spoke at Boston Logan Airport on Saturday evening, after they arrived home from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention fac...
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May 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Rümeysa Öztürk spoke briefly at a press conference held when she arrived at Logan Airport tonight.
"My dear professor and lab mates are here today. I just want to highlight that. ... My advisor sent my dissertation proposal to the prison. My lab mates have been reading me books on the phone."
"My dear professor and lab mates are here today. I just want to highlight that. ... My advisor sent my dissertation proposal to the prison. My lab mates have been reading me books on the phone."
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Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
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This is what a rigged economy looks like:
In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker.
In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker.
This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker.
That has got to change.
In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker.
In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker.
This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker.
That has got to change.
April 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is what a rigged economy looks like:
In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker.
In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker.
This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker.
That has got to change.
In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker.
In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker.
This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker.
That has got to change.
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There's been credible info of intent to delete National Science Foundation (NSF) awards from Research.gov databases during planned downtime, so I grabbed all awards from 1960 to present and uploaded them to a free and open research repository. Please share!
dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
April 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
There's been credible info of intent to delete National Science Foundation (NSF) awards from Research.gov databases during planned downtime, so I grabbed all awards from 1960 to present and uploaded them to a free and open research repository. Please share!
dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
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I want a president who is tougher on Putin than he is on Harvard.
April 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I want a president who is tougher on Putin than he is on Harvard.
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Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after.
But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
RFK JR: ADD, ADHD, Tourette syndrome, Narcolepsy, Autism.. All of these are injuries that I never heard of when I was a kid.
April 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after.
But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
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Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu
Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
www.harvard.edu
April 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu
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“…science is the only way to generate the foundational knowledge that enables technology, medicine and an understanding of how the world works.
The extraordinary success that has been American science makes it especially distressing to now witness its destruction.”
The extraordinary success that has been American science makes it especially distressing to now witness its destruction.”
We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz
If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be invented
www.theguardian.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
“…science is the only way to generate the foundational knowledge that enables technology, medicine and an understanding of how the world works.
The extraordinary success that has been American science makes it especially distressing to now witness its destruction.”
The extraordinary success that has been American science makes it especially distressing to now witness its destruction.”
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April 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
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Tariffs get all the attention, but ask economists what they're really worried about and many will point to the Trump administration's cuts to federal support for the sciences, including canceling grants and revoking student visas.
#EconSky
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...
#EconSky
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...
Trump’s Science Policies Pose Long-Term Risk, Economists Warn (Gift Article)
Since World War II, U.S. research funding has led to discoveries that fueled economic gains. Now cutbacks are seen as putting that legacy in jeopardy.
www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Tariffs get all the attention, but ask economists what they're really worried about and many will point to the Trump administration's cuts to federal support for the sciences, including canceling grants and revoking student visas.
#EconSky
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...
#EconSky
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...
Post a ship that’s not Star Wars or Star Trek.
March 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Post a ship that’s not Star Wars or Star Trek.
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There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
March 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
Excellent interview by @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social who kept pushing for answers to questions that should be easy to answer
In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
March 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Excellent interview by @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social who kept pushing for answers to questions that should be easy to answer
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A recent study found that cervical cancer deaths in young women have plummeted since the introduction of the human papillomavirus vaccine.
As Cervical Cancer Deaths Plummet, Experts Credit HPV Vaccine
HPV can cause a variety of cancers, including cervical. New mortality data for women under 25 point to the success of the HPV vaccine.
buff.ly
March 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A recent study found that cervical cancer deaths in young women have plummeted since the introduction of the human papillomavirus vaccine.
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technically speaking it's no longer doomscrolling if you scroll with a corndog. not many people know this
February 26, 2025 at 4:11 AM
technically speaking it's no longer doomscrolling if you scroll with a corndog. not many people know this
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🔥 CROCKETT: “Facts matter.”
February 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
🔥 CROCKETT: “Facts matter.”
Quote post with a picture you took in a National Park.
Catching “firefall” aka the evening light reflecting off Horsetail Falls in Yosemite National Park in February 2025 - photo enhancement **may** have occurred - rumor has it DOGE turned the lights off, or maybe it was just hazy
Catching “firefall” aka the evening light reflecting off Horsetail Falls in Yosemite National Park in February 2025 - photo enhancement **may** have occurred - rumor has it DOGE turned the lights off, or maybe it was just hazy
February 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Quote post with a picture you took in a National Park.
Catching “firefall” aka the evening light reflecting off Horsetail Falls in Yosemite National Park in February 2025 - photo enhancement **may** have occurred - rumor has it DOGE turned the lights off, or maybe it was just hazy
Catching “firefall” aka the evening light reflecting off Horsetail Falls in Yosemite National Park in February 2025 - photo enhancement **may** have occurred - rumor has it DOGE turned the lights off, or maybe it was just hazy