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Lisa : Natural history infotainment performer (insects!s!s!!). Randomization stan. She/her most days
Pic: Gopher head. Banner: Damselfly on leaf
Pic: Gopher head. Banner: Damselfly on leaf
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Legitimately impossible choices here with it narrowed to eight names, and we should send them all to Mars just to be safe.
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We’ve made it to the quarter finals — only two days away from crowning a winner for Worst Person in Tech 2025.
Don’t miss your chance to vote!
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December 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Legitimately impossible choices here with it narrowed to eight names, and we should send them all to Mars just to be safe.
Heard Anna von Hausswolff for the first time on WPRB the other night - reminds me of some of the Scandi folk-jazz kulning stuff that I used to listen to in the 90s, only with music like Swans or something; absolutely love this:
annavonhausswolff.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...
annavonhausswolff.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...
Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, by Anna von Hausswolff
6 track album
annavonhausswolff.bandcamp.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Heard Anna von Hausswolff for the first time on WPRB the other night - reminds me of some of the Scandi folk-jazz kulning stuff that I used to listen to in the 90s, only with music like Swans or something; absolutely love this:
annavonhausswolff.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...
annavonhausswolff.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...
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The bar is in hell (where Ronald Reagan is), and yet too many Dems are somehow unable to clear it.
If your call for unity is to prop up the rotting corpse of Ronald Reagan as some sort of ideal, I don’t think you’re actually fit to be a leading Democrat
December 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The bar is in hell (where Ronald Reagan is), and yet too many Dems are somehow unable to clear it.
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Additional helpful tip: avoid drawing odonate wing venation at all costs, for that way lies madness
December 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Additional helpful tip: avoid drawing odonate wing venation at all costs, for that way lies madness
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Day 16 of the 2025 #dragonfly #AdventCalendar. Scarce Chaser (top) likes rivers & is less scarce than it used to be, probably due to better water quality. RSPB Strumpshaw Fen, June. Its friend is a Norfolk Hawker. #DragonflyAdventCalendar #invertebrates #ukwildlife
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December 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Day 16 of the 2025 #dragonfly #AdventCalendar. Scarce Chaser (top) likes rivers & is less scarce than it used to be, probably due to better water quality. RSPB Strumpshaw Fen, June. Its friend is a Norfolk Hawker. #DragonflyAdventCalendar #invertebrates #ukwildlife
@britishdragonflies.bsky.social
@britishdragonflies.bsky.social
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Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”
December 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”
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Coconut crab also says fuck cars. Coconut crab takes the bus. Coconut crab has no shell, but brings their transit pass everywhere they go.
BIRGUS LATRO! I love these big ass hermit crabs! Via Christmas Island Western Australia, 4kg in weight and up to 1 m across! #crustmas via @rachku www.instagram.com/p/DSR2Irlifg...
December 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Coconut crab also says fuck cars. Coconut crab takes the bus. Coconut crab has no shell, but brings their transit pass everywhere they go.
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I'm going to do my best to alt text this because holy crap, everyone should know.
December 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I'm going to do my best to alt text this because holy crap, everyone should know.
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"No fair remembering stuff," the Bible edition.
Supporters of the displays say the Bible is on their side, but critics call the scenes sacrilegious and politically divisive, accusing the churches of abusing sacred imagery. n.pr/4rTabaD
Church Nativity scenes add zip ties and gas masks to protest immigration raids
Supporters of the displays say the Bible is on their side, but critics call the scenes sacrilegious and politically divisive, accusing the churches of abusing sacred imagery.
n.pr
December 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"No fair remembering stuff," the Bible edition.
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Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
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So Google Translate now by default uses a Gemini version, though at least they still let us use the classic translation as an option. Needless to say, the Gemini version is abysmally bad!
I discovered this when translating this bullet point from a teaching slide titled "What exactly is viscosity?"🍎
I discovered this when translating this bullet point from a teaching slide titled "What exactly is viscosity?"🍎
December 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
So Google Translate now by default uses a Gemini version, though at least they still let us use the classic translation as an option. Needless to say, the Gemini version is abysmally bad!
I discovered this when translating this bullet point from a teaching slide titled "What exactly is viscosity?"🍎
I discovered this when translating this bullet point from a teaching slide titled "What exactly is viscosity?"🍎
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ITS THE FUCKING GUNS ITS THE FUCKING GUNS AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ITS THE FUCKING GUNS
December 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
ITS THE FUCKING GUNS ITS THE FUCKING GUNS AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ITS THE FUCKING GUNS
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Tonight Giljagaur, the second of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains. He likes to sneak into the cow shed and steal milk.
All the children put a shoe out in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in – if they have been good that is. The bad children get a potato.
All the children put a shoe out in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in – if they have been good that is. The bad children get a potato.
December 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Tonight Giljagaur, the second of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains. He likes to sneak into the cow shed and steal milk.
All the children put a shoe out in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in – if they have been good that is. The bad children get a potato.
All the children put a shoe out in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in – if they have been good that is. The bad children get a potato.
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There is a network of court watchers who support immigrants at the ICE courts in Manhattan.
They have learned the movements and "personas" of the masked agents.
One told me: "Some of them are very sadistic." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
They have learned the movements and "personas" of the masked agents.
One told me: "Some of them are very sadistic." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
The Undocumented Underground Is Fighting Back Inside New York’s Notorious Immigration Court
One day last month, a Peruvian mother and her daughter went into...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
There is a network of court watchers who support immigrants at the ICE courts in Manhattan.
They have learned the movements and "personas" of the masked agents.
One told me: "Some of them are very sadistic." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
They have learned the movements and "personas" of the masked agents.
One told me: "Some of them are very sadistic." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
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Science is a collaborative endeavor.
Imagine having to decide whether to collaborate with an American, at whose conferences you may be abducted and tortured, and *literally any other researcher in your field*
And that's before you factor in they may get fired and defunded any random day
Imagine having to decide whether to collaborate with an American, at whose conferences you may be abducted and tortured, and *literally any other researcher in your field*
And that's before you factor in they may get fired and defunded any random day
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
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The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
December 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Science is a collaborative endeavor.
Imagine having to decide whether to collaborate with an American, at whose conferences you may be abducted and tortured, and *literally any other researcher in your field*
And that's before you factor in they may get fired and defunded any random day
Imagine having to decide whether to collaborate with an American, at whose conferences you may be abducted and tortured, and *literally any other researcher in your field*
And that's before you factor in they may get fired and defunded any random day
Every day I become more and more grateful to be old and not trying to find a job. So much unbelievable bullshit for people to contend with
Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?"
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
Can Your Face Predict Your Salary? Using AI Personality Assessments in Hiring
A new study from Wharton faculty explores how AI can extract personality traits from facial images — and what that means for your career.
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu
December 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Every day I become more and more grateful to be old and not trying to find a job. So much unbelievable bullshit for people to contend with
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I think this is right. It’s like when a family has decided to tolerate an abusive drunk. They know what he’s like and they’ve priced it into their decisions and they don’t want to hear you talk about it.
Yes, Fox makes people dumber, but I think many of you underestimate how many Trump supporters go to Fox because they already know he’s terrible and they don’t want to hear about it
For my own edification, I started watching Fox News. Their audience has no clue about any of Trump's failings. Any thing negative will not be reported, or if it is, it'll be cast as a false accusation made by evil Dems.
I know several Ivy League graduates who fell for the narrative. It's nuts.
I know several Ivy League graduates who fell for the narrative. It's nuts.
December 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I think this is right. It’s like when a family has decided to tolerate an abusive drunk. They know what he’s like and they’ve priced it into their decisions and they don’t want to hear you talk about it.
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Want to get paid to live in a Maine (Acadia National Park) and do #scicomm? (podcasting, writing, social media; residence proviced) schoodicinstitute.org/about-us/emp...
Employment Opportunities | Schoodic Institute
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December 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Want to get paid to live in a Maine (Acadia National Park) and do #scicomm? (podcasting, writing, social media; residence proviced) schoodicinstitute.org/about-us/emp...
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December 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Earlier today I hosted my last 2025 #birds webinar for @abcbirds.bsky.social! The year continues to wrap up!
But 2026 is quickly approaching and my first webinar is already on the books for Jan 22. I hope you RSVP today to help kick of the year with birds - and me.
RSVP: abcbirds.org/JERsvp
But 2026 is quickly approaching and my first webinar is already on the books for Jan 22. I hope you RSVP today to help kick of the year with birds - and me.
RSVP: abcbirds.org/JERsvp
A Look Ahead at Bird Conservation Policy in 2026
abcbirds.org
December 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Earlier today I hosted my last 2025 #birds webinar for @abcbirds.bsky.social! The year continues to wrap up!
But 2026 is quickly approaching and my first webinar is already on the books for Jan 22. I hope you RSVP today to help kick of the year with birds - and me.
RSVP: abcbirds.org/JERsvp
But 2026 is quickly approaching and my first webinar is already on the books for Jan 22. I hope you RSVP today to help kick of the year with birds - and me.
RSVP: abcbirds.org/JERsvp
Reading mid-90s sci-fi about the 21st century and they're at the airport counter! with a paper boarding pass! and it feels so antiquated, I might as well be reading Jane Austen or something
December 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Reading mid-90s sci-fi about the 21st century and they're at the airport counter! with a paper boarding pass! and it feels so antiquated, I might as well be reading Jane Austen or something
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what's wild about people using ChatGPT is that they think it's like asking the all-knowing computer from Star Trek, but it's really like asking your day-drunk neighbor, who then steals your water and sets fire to your house
December 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
what's wild about people using ChatGPT is that they think it's like asking the all-knowing computer from Star Trek, but it's really like asking your day-drunk neighbor, who then steals your water and sets fire to your house
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Again, Kyle and Judith provide a great summary of the science around this earthquake
⚒️ 🧪 Japan just issued a “Subsequent Earthquake Advisory” following a M7.6 earthquake offshore Honshu. What does that mean?
Also: what happened in the earthquake, and why did it trigger a tsunami evacuation, with alerts of waves “up to 3 meters high”?
earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/m76-earthq...
Also: what happened in the earthquake, and why did it trigger a tsunami evacuation, with alerts of waves “up to 3 meters high”?
earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/m76-earthq...
M7.6 earthquake strikes offshore Honshu, Japan
Japan issues "Subsequent Earthquake Advisory" due to elevated (but still low) risk of triggered megaquake
earthquakeinsights.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Again, Kyle and Judith provide a great summary of the science around this earthquake