The two genders
24.12.2025 03:20
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The two genders
a felt mothra ornament on a green plastic Christmas tree
every year we make a commemorative felt ornament for the tree, this year’s is:
two greyhounds dressed like Mothra and Godzilla
Godzilla fighting mothra
Put that in the moodboard
32,000 years ago, an arctic squirrel ate parts of a plant, silene stenophylla, including its seed. The squirrel was digesting it when its life ended. Its body was recovered and examined. Scientists germinated this plant seed. This silene stenophylla just bloomed.
It is 32,000 years old
I see it :)
I can trade shoes with my ten year old now
A beautiful Somerville Christmas moment when five uhauls unite on the same block
Film crew set up in a microbiology lab
My hand holding a pipette
Returning to my roots
So good!
(Also torturing my Italian brother in law)
You can just do things (half pineapple half pickle pizza)
“Is there a name for art where the vibe is “poetic science project?””
news.artnet.com/art-world/ag...
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Found a friend for the Elaine #1 The Greatest mug we’ve had for 20 years
Bostonmaxxing
You should be mahjongmaxxing
What a world
a flying leafcutter bee holding a bit of leaf
little dudes with a job
We should be flowermaxxing
You can just goo things
Be the change
A KFC parking lot filled with medium sized figurines of various animals and characters like yoda goku Mario etc
We should be whimsymaxxing
I do genuinely believe the reason we don’t talk about fungi more is because if the average human thought about it all for too long, it would lead to the destruction of civilization.
Right handed this time
I’ve been writing recently with Anna Marie Wagner on the topic of taste and tacit knowledge in science. Here’s part 2, which features how to make a peanut butter sandwich, how to measure the Q of sapphire, and how to train an AI as an artist www.oscillator.blog/p/taste-part2
As a scientist, I have always learned so much and benefited from working with art and STS, and it’s been interesting to see new intersections today in light of these big shifts in the world.
But as we grapple with the politics of scientific funding, the challenges of reproducibility and translation, and the threat of AI, our humanness is taking center stage
We scientists have a funny relationship with our humanness. For a long time, talking about science as a *human* practice could be perceived as a threat to objectivity and the validity of science.