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Rachel Logan
@rmslogan.bsky.social
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Cal State Biologist - Grad Student
Biodiversity and Omics
"All models are wrong, some are useful."
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Nearly 30 years old, Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World is still amazing. And the audiobook read by Cary Elwes helps me fall asleep at night, helps me feel less alone and hopeless. 10/10. 😊
September 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Always a good reminder that life is interconnected and complicated, reductionistic explanations should be used with caution, and there is wisdom in trusting experts. Thank you, Donald Nicholson, for your work. RIP.

For a clearer pdf version: www.iubmb-nicholson.org/chart.html
Donald Nicholson's Metabolic Pathways Chart
September 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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"New man on the Minnesota Vikings"... Two of them actually!! Congrats Louie and Blaize! It's going to be a fun season on the path to making football the party it deserves to be! 💪🤩🎉
August 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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There's an open white board in the "lobby" of the main biology building on campus, normally used by impromptu study groups in those moments when you just have to draw it for it to make sense. This is what the summer term students have to say. 😍
Quote board with uplifting quotes
July 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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In So Very Small, Tom Levenson (@tomlevenson.bsky.social) tells the story of how we learned to see, stop, and prevent the historically most prolific killers. Many of those who have been witnesses are no longer here to warn us. It's up to us to remember. This is a fantastic read! ❤️
#SciComm
So Very Small cover, Thomas Levenson
July 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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"We’ll spill the beans on where the sparkly, spike-headed ponies prance about as soon as you stop chucking trail mix at squirrels and trying to snap selfies with half-ton bison like they’re your Grandma’s labradoodle. So, umm, like…never?" ~NPS post 😍
National Park Service @NatlParkService ​Visitor: When will you tell us where you keep the unicorns? 🦄 ​Us: As soon as visitors stop feeding squirrels and taking dangerous selfies with bison, we'll let you know where the horses with giant spikes on their heads roam.
July 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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How Life Works (@philipcball.bsky.social) synthesizes new research, science history, rhetorical analysis, and bold yet humble philosophy. It seamlessly guides you on a journey through biology at scale until a beautifully sophisticated view of life emerges. Great read! 🤩

#BioDiversity #SciComm
How Life Works by Philip Ball (cover)
July 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Used Riley Black's When the Earth Was Green as one of my chill summer reads. Loved it! Thanks, Riley, for putting this out into the world! 🤩
@restingdinoface.bsky.social
#BioDiversity
Amazon (not affiliate link): a.co/d/3vBklIj
When the Earth Was Green book cover
July 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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A little bit of the only good kind of ICE on a mild summer day in California is the best setup for rereading Darwin. From Voyage to Worms, bro needs a little buzz to go down smooth. Love it tho ✌️❤️
#BioDiversity
Origin and Smirnoff
July 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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#SciComm problems 🤣
From "petefoxshend-deactivated2018062": "'Big Pharma' okay are we talking about how privatization and monetization has deeply corrupted the field of medicine or are you talking about how you think chemicals in the water are making the frogs gay" From "greyramblings": "'GMOs'? Are we talking seeds that grow sterile plants and patenting genetic modifications then destroying any competition no matter how small they are? Or are we talking life saving rice with vitamin a to make sure kids don't go blind in regions not suited for other high vit a veg? ... or are we talking about your chidoodle?" From "postmodernmulticoloredcloak": "Conversely, 'alternative medicines'? Are we talking the traditional practices of non-Western societies which have an ancient history of being the cultural tools that allowed communities to take care of the health of their members and are nowadays rigorously studied within these communities to adapt them to the needs of the contemporary life, and can offer important prompts to modern medicine? Or are we talking about a white woman who traveled to India twice, followed a five-hour seminar and knows everything about inner energies now"
May 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Tried again, and now I just feel bad for it cuz it's starting to feel like waking up on the morning of an exam.
May 18, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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I asked Gemini to illustrate its own totally decent description of the structure and function of DNA's major and minor grooves. Haha, so close. "Phoosplate group" is my favorite. 🤣
Very poorly annotated image of DNA
May 18, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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This is what it's really like out there, y'all. 🤣 People forget facts. We need to teach with better stories. 😉
#SciComm
1. Happy to be mRNA free. 2. You've got plenty of mRNA in your body. 1. If I do, it is not by consent 2. You don't know what mRNA is do you?
May 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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The 'Omics (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics) are the future of biodiversity conservation. And molecular biology is fun. 😊

#BioDiversity

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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I don't know who to give credit to, but thank you. I feel seen. 😅
The (real) scientific method... data saying "no" to a scientist's idea
April 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Exposing the absurdity of both the appeal to antiquity and the appeal to novelty fallacies in a single sentence 😆

(I know I know, geologists don't love "Anthropocene", but us biologists vibe with it. 😉 )
Guy from the year 10,000 adding lead and microplastics to his meals for an anthropocene diet because ancient humans built the bass pro shop pyramid and the lost city of miami
April 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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"Our results suggest that the rejection of wolves is not based on factual knowledge. Acknowledging the diversity of perspectives, and the importance of deeper values and ethics as drivers is crucial."

#SciComm
🔗https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.231931
Wolf in forest
April 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Some of my favorite shots from the camera traps over the last couple weeks. That fox is brave, peeing over coyote urine like that. 🫡☺️
Nighttime camera trap pics of a skunk, opossum, and fox
April 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Consequences be damned, I WILL do this some day. 😏
Fill your life with experiences, not things
March 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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For real 🤣
#SciComm
A biochemist who has memorized all 20 amino acid structures vs a gym dude talking about protein 🤣
March 30, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Tomato/mushroom joke
March 28, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Might I ask what the fuck was going on with the animals in the Cambrian period? They were trying shit out! Leave them alone
February 20, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Someone once asked me why I was so worried about the environment. I just said, "I live there," and they looked at me as if that fact had never once occurred to them.
February 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Happy Darwin Day! From so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
February 13, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Checked on loved ones... **phew**
Google map of Denali
February 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM