alden
@luciferous-papaya.bsky.social
phd candidate, NCSU
community ecologist
find me among my Colorado wildflowers 🌼
community ecologist
find me among my Colorado wildflowers 🌼
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DEVASTATING: every snack requires a follow-up snack
April 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
DEVASTATING: every snack requires a follow-up snack
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TIL parks and rec is in the MWCU
March 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
TIL parks and rec is in the MWCU
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I’m somehow on a Heritage Foundation mailing list (😂) and they sent a survey to see what we think of DOGE.
Who wants to offer some m-fing feedback?!?
secured.heritage.org/the-heritage...
Please share with a friend or a thousand :)
Who wants to offer some m-fing feedback?!?
secured.heritage.org/the-heritage...
Please share with a friend or a thousand :)
secured.heritage.org
February 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I’m somehow on a Heritage Foundation mailing list (😂) and they sent a survey to see what we think of DOGE.
Who wants to offer some m-fing feedback?!?
secured.heritage.org/the-heritage...
Please share with a friend or a thousand :)
Who wants to offer some m-fing feedback?!?
secured.heritage.org/the-heritage...
Please share with a friend or a thousand :)
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please stop sending me this
February 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
please stop sending me this
just had a conversation about how to improve public-facing communication about climate change (depressing), so here are more of my mountain wildflower friends to spread some positivity 💙
2nd one is Old Man of the Mountain, Hymenoxys grandiflora 🌼, and 4th is an Erigeron sp.
2nd one is Old Man of the Mountain, Hymenoxys grandiflora 🌼, and 4th is an Erigeron sp.
February 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
just had a conversation about how to improve public-facing communication about climate change (depressing), so here are more of my mountain wildflower friends to spread some positivity 💙
2nd one is Old Man of the Mountain, Hymenoxys grandiflora 🌼, and 4th is an Erigeron sp.
2nd one is Old Man of the Mountain, Hymenoxys grandiflora 🌼, and 4th is an Erigeron sp.
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#Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
BAD ASS WOMEN OF HISTORY
Since the GOP wants to rid us of women’s history, I will highlight amazing women of history daily.
Today in 1918 an amazing female geneticist was born! She was a major innovator in cancer genetics.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
BAD ASS WOMEN OF HISTORY
Since the GOP wants to rid us of women’s history, I will highlight amazing women of history daily.
Today in 1918 an amazing female geneticist was born! She was a major innovator in cancer genetics.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Ruth Sager — Harvard Gazette
Ruth Sager should be remembered above all as a gifted, original and imaginative scientist who loved her life of exploring nature and in her later years brought her gifts and passion to investigating t...
news.harvard.edu
February 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
#Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
BAD ASS WOMEN OF HISTORY
Since the GOP wants to rid us of women’s history, I will highlight amazing women of history daily.
Today in 1918 an amazing female geneticist was born! She was a major innovator in cancer genetics.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
BAD ASS WOMEN OF HISTORY
Since the GOP wants to rid us of women’s history, I will highlight amazing women of history daily.
Today in 1918 an amazing female geneticist was born! She was a major innovator in cancer genetics.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Building evolutionary trees for undergrads using Lego people and other randomly assembled toys. They seem to be getting it! 🧪🦑🌎🇦🇶🐧
February 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Building evolutionary trees for undergrads using Lego people and other randomly assembled toys. They seem to be getting it! 🧪🦑🌎🇦🇶🐧
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Antarctic Fur Seals fill my heart with joy.
#pinniped #seal #furseal #antarcticfurseal pup #antarctica #southgeorgia #southgeorgiaisland #grytviken #leucism #leucistic #silversea #silverwind #expedition
#pinniped #seal #furseal #antarcticfurseal pup #antarctica #southgeorgia #southgeorgiaisland #grytviken #leucism #leucistic #silversea #silverwind #expedition
February 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Antarctic Fur Seals fill my heart with joy.
#pinniped #seal #furseal #antarcticfurseal pup #antarctica #southgeorgia #southgeorgiaisland #grytviken #leucism #leucistic #silversea #silverwind #expedition
#pinniped #seal #furseal #antarcticfurseal pup #antarctica #southgeorgia #southgeorgiaisland #grytviken #leucism #leucistic #silversea #silverwind #expedition
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This is true insanity. Destroying science because it goes against their hateful ideology.
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This is true insanity. Destroying science because it goes against their hateful ideology.
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New malware traps "AI crawlers... sending them down an 'infinite maze' of static files with no exit links, where they 'get stuck' and... can be fed gibberish data...designed to poison AI models."
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.
arstechnica.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
New malware traps "AI crawlers... sending them down an 'infinite maze' of static files with no exit links, where they 'get stuck' and... can be fed gibberish data...designed to poison AI models."
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Fellow federally funded scientists, CALL your representative and senators and tell them the shenanigans at NIH are endangering scientific progress, health security, and jobs. Then badger your colleagues to do it too!
Find phone numbers via house.gov and senate.gov
Find phone numbers via house.gov and senate.gov
More from inside NIH:
Per a source with knowledge, for all internal research (of which there is like $10 billion worth or so), ALL purchasing shut down as of yesterday.
That means gloves, reagents, anything involved with lab work, which means a lot of that work will stop.
Per a source with knowledge, for all internal research (of which there is like $10 billion worth or so), ALL purchasing shut down as of yesterday.
That means gloves, reagents, anything involved with lab work, which means a lot of that work will stop.
January 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Fellow federally funded scientists, CALL your representative and senators and tell them the shenanigans at NIH are endangering scientific progress, health security, and jobs. Then badger your colleagues to do it too!
Find phone numbers via house.gov and senate.gov
Find phone numbers via house.gov and senate.gov
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If you’re a federal govt employee targeted for leave or termination on the basis of your DEI work, please file an EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) complaint & retain legal counsel.
I’m a former NIH PI. Happy to refer you to a law firm that has successfully sued the govt many times!
Pls repost 🙏❤️
I’m a former NIH PI. Happy to refer you to a law firm that has successfully sued the govt many times!
Pls repost 🙏❤️
January 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
If you’re a federal govt employee targeted for leave or termination on the basis of your DEI work, please file an EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) complaint & retain legal counsel.
I’m a former NIH PI. Happy to refer you to a law firm that has successfully sued the govt many times!
Pls repost 🙏❤️
I’m a former NIH PI. Happy to refer you to a law firm that has successfully sued the govt many times!
Pls repost 🙏❤️
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Ankylosaur looking up from chewing on fibrous plants to see a bright comet streaking across the daytime sky: “This is the dumbest timeline.”
January 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Ankylosaur looking up from chewing on fibrous plants to see a bright comet streaking across the daytime sky: “This is the dumbest timeline.”