Me smiling and hiding from the wind under a cairn
Alpine zone sign- Mt Washington in the background
Winds were craaazy and I def needed an ice pick but the views on Mt Lafayette were so pretty
Damn me, but all things are queer
Horrified by the death of our Massachusetts neighbor Emmanuel Damas in ICE custody. He was denied medical care for months.
I’m sending his family my deepest condolences. A family who has been robbed of their brother & son.
Emmanuel is at least the tenth person to die in ICE custody this year.
Good article, but the framing is wrong. There is not a dearth of interest in taxonomy. There is a scarcity of funding and positions, which is a deliberate choice by funding agencies and institutions. The youth love taxonomy! It's the olds that are failing to meet their passion!
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
Screenshot reading "It’s unclear what kind of investigation it needs to perform, given that Fulnecky’s 650-word essay is available for us to read and has all the textual depth of a discounted “He Is Risen” throw pillow at Hobby Lobby."
wrote about the recent national controversy at my alma mater johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/samantha-f...
The other thing about the OU student who wrote the bad essay on God-given gender roles is that she herself is rejecting those religious ideals about femininity by going to college, playing a sport, and having a mother who is a media personality and lawyer for Jan 6ers. Trad for thee but not for me
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
Happy LGBTQ in STEM Day! I remain hopeful knowing we collectively stand on the shoulders of giants and that queer people will never go away ❤️
Nine people were taken into custody in the Nov. 4 immigration raid on the car wash. Their attorney said many of those workers had legal authorization to work in the United States, and two workers were granted bail in a hearing on Monday.
First time on the SEPTA and they’re eating the mbta up rn… but does Philly have a gay train
It's irritating that they describe the effects of his racism as limited to causing controversy within science and reputational consequences for himself rather than giving an immeasurable boost, false veneer of legitimacy, and idiot-friendly prestige to modern scientific racism and eugenics.
Whenever I see men complain about the male loneliness crisis or unique emotional/psychological issues faced by men, it’s very clear that they just don’t see women as full people capable of experiencing the exact same emotions they do
Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.
Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
Fully entered a state of madness by the time I finished this essay, on the remarkable intellectual (and political) failures of New Atheism, and a new anthology edited by Lawrence Krauss nymag.com/intelligence...
Flyer telling people to sign the Bethesda declaration underneath a flyer advertising a John waters tribute <3
Triple taked at this flyer bc what does “keep wokeism out of science” even mean lol
Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
That’s so cool!
Squid facts stickers in Allston
Did you design all the squid facts stickers in Allston? I know so many people who love these guys :)
asking such a whimsical creature as myself to file my taxes is flatly evil
With the NCBI stuff going down rn I figure I should mention that a couple of weeks ago, links to supplemental information in an NIH article were totally broken for me (I just wanted their protocol 🙃). Maybe its time to switch to EMBL lol
:/
Guess I’m now part of the Twitter exodus 🫡
