RIP colleagues, career, and (more of, much more literally) many friends and neighbors.

Why are all packages being nonsensically routed through Houston? This is new, and dumb. This book traveled about 700 miles in order to go about three. 😱

Ah see so yesterday I was too worried about the general implosion of my entire field and the fact that half my grad students might be fired in 10 days to notice this spicy meatball

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x

Very weird day of scrambling to preserve local copies of public reports and datasets. Yesterday was 1984 day, today is Fahrenheit 451 day I guess

D. Tallamy: "Native is not a label a species earns after a given period of time. It is a term that describes function...a plant should be considered native when it acts like a native - that is, when it has achieved the same ecological productivity that it has in its evolutionary homeland...(1/3)

I'm not shocked by much of what this fucknut gets up to but I am by this. Forced literal warehousing of people surrounded by armed guards in a place with zero access to anything for something like $60k per person for 2 months. At least the Squid Game folks got a chance to opt out...

The woman who runs the injection room in Ochsner obgyn is Yule joy incarnate, which, yes, is very weird. PSA for elder millennials who were always told they were "too old" for an HPV vaccine: you're not anymore! Go get (or finish in my case) yours before your government outlaws them.

Merry yule to me. c/o that obviously hazardous @islandpress.bsky.social half-off sale a few weeks ago. Back to regularly scheduled programming after 2024 breeding-related reading detour

Denver airport lactation room report: clean! Ample counter space! Comfortable bench seating...12 feet away from the only power outlet. Airports, please seek counsel from end users when designing specialized spaces.

Testing out my first ever airport "mother's room." Some notes, for Men Who Design Such Things:

The world with all its bright and surprising contents was created out of boredom and emptiness. Everything started by holding still and waiting.

Ban the word "consider" from your policies

This no-name 9th ward chicken has been sitting in my fruitless, stunted, 17-year-old lemon tree on exactly one egg for well over a month now, long enough that the egg surely will not hatch, and all the lemon tree leaves shriveled up and fell off. Anyway, this is probably a metaphor for something.