Green memory, by Langston Hughes A wonderful time - the War: When monet rolled in and blood rolled out. But blood was far away from here - Money was near.
Green memory, by Langston Hughes
There Will Come Soft Rains BY SARA TEASDALE (War Time) There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white, Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone. (Sent from Poesie: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1332841582)
There will come soft rains, by Sara Teasdale
(War time)
🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!
My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.
We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.
#Postdoc #EcoEvo
Pls RT!
A light exists in spring, by Emily Dickinson
Are you in the majority? I like Daylight Savings Time, but the sun wouldn’t come up until after 8:00am in Connecticut in December. I may not like it that much. - 64% of Americans want to stop changing the clocks
Global Warming has Accelerated tamino.wordpress.com/2026/03/07/g...
Clouds and fog hang over distant hills. A lake is still, reflecting bare trees on the shore. A trunk stands in the right foreground and leans to the left.
#SilentSunday
The US army corps of engineers is considering, right now, what would be the largest destruction of coral reefs in US history. To make a port slightly bigger.
People know this, right?
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
🧪🦑🌎
Vinay Prasad resigned. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
The 2nd edition of Kieran Healy’s book will come out next fall, and he’s made a freely available version of the draft availble.
Journal Submissions Riddled With AI-Created Fake Citations www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
My quote of the day
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Wow! I did not know this. I wonder if there’s a way to turn it off. If there is, I’ll put it in my .Rprofile.
250 liters of DNA molecular weight ladder costs $171.93
I am absolutely holding Fisher Scientific to what is printed on this order.
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
This is an amazing piece of scientific satire by @russcd.bsky.social. The first sentence alone is a banger:
"The defining goal of the academic endeavor is to establish a single perfect value that completely summarizes entire careers’ achievements."
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction
The team hopes enough chicks will survive this year to bring the world Kākāpō population to 300—a major milestone for a species that was teetering with just 51 individuals in 1995.
A massive bloom of rimu berries in New Zealand fueled a mating surge among the critically endangered Kākāpō. spklr.io/6044E87xp
📸: New Zealand Department of Conservation
A hopeful thought from Margaret Renkl in a perilous time - “To see a whooping crane in the wild is to be reminded that we nearly killed something miraculous — and then, almost unbelievably, we didn’t.”
So... A friend was supposed to give a PURELY SCIENTIFIC talk at NIH within the next couple of weeks and it was cancelled because of a "new process" where all speakers/talks have to be CLEARED BY A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.
The Intuition for Why You Always Need Robust Standard Errors - Data Colada datacolada.org/133
What Do Social Media Companies Fear? Time Management. - “The more you organize your analog life, the less appealing you’ll find the digital alternative.” calnewport.com/what-do-soci...
Florida Board Approves Ban on H-1B Visas - First Texas, now Florida.
Restoration Update: In the Wake of Klamath Dam Removal • The Revelator therevelator.org/klamath-rest... 🧪🦑🌎
In the Next Great Transformation AI will not eliminate genuine expertise; rather it will make it more valuable — Crooked Timber crookedtimber.org/2026/03/02/i...
A male Northern Cardinal perches on the edge of a feeder looking to the left of the frame. Seed is in the bottom of the feeder in the foreground. Deciduous trees and the corner of a house are in the background. Clouds a bit of blue sky are overhead.
We had a very handsome Northern Cardinal at our feeder this morning.
UNC Chancellor Scraps Secret Recording Policy - Here’s what the chancellor said: The whole idea was to create clarity and reassurance. That policy clearly has not achieved that aim.”
Snow in the foreground. Bare deciduous trees stand I front of a sky scattered with pink clouds.
#SilentSunday Sunrise in Coventry, CT
