Daniel Liu 🍜

"The work has been turning out badly for me this morning & I am sick at heart & oh my God how I do hate species & varieties."

Bonus, adding in a new Darwin canon hater moment for fellow ecologists and nature folks:

"The work has been turning out badly for me this morning & I am sick at heart & oh my God how I do hate species & varieties."

www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docI...

Everyone will say the Brother laser printer, and I’d add you have to be careful and get one with a duplexer, which not all of their models have. I got an Epson ink tank printer because I do like printing in color, and its ink was even cheaper than toner.

Yes, I was cycling towards Wallonie to try to find something edible.

I remember hearing William Noel give a talk on the scanning project in 2007 or so, and learning that the book basically was in fine condition until the 1950s when someone used Elmer’s glue on it.

Fancying Austrian cuisine, in a Swiss restaurant? Try the #SBB🇨🇭#DiningCar on #EuroCity #Transalpin, a train linking these two countries. The diner is the type of car you will otherwise find on many Swiss InterCity trains, yet the menu and staff are Austrian, the same as on #ÖBB 🇦🇹 #Railjet trains.

GitHub - 0x0mer/CasNum Contribute to 0x0mer/CasNum development by creating an account on GitHub.

via Gus Mueller, "CasNum (Compass and straightedge Number) is a library that implements arbitrary precision arithmetic using compass and straightedge constructions. Arbitrary precision arithmetic, now with 100% more Euclid." Incredible #histsci #histmath energy. github.com/0x0mer/CasNum

List of countries by oil extraction - Wikipedia

**tapping the sign** The US leads the world in oil production, which means the US is sensitive to high oil prices in more ways than one…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

I don't know what counts as affordable for you, but I do know that this is a great time to get old fancy DSLRs from the 2010s (like a Canon 6D or Nikon D600) on ebay for less than $500, and a shiny new Tokina autofocusing macro lens for about $600. Macro has never been more affordable-ish than now!

#ScienceSky #BioSky 🧪

All that for only 2,500 MW electricity generation…in salt water, with infrastructure shared by Iran and Saudi Arabia…I know there are a lot of coffeeshops in Utrecht, but this is something else.

Angela is a more skeptical reader than I am! But I wonder why she published it in LARB.

I am *obsessed* with Antscan's detailed 3D ants. I wish there were data like these for all critters! #ScienceAdviser @science.org www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🐜

Grauer Citroën C3 in der Seitenansicht. Auf der Seite ist die Frontsilhouette der Lok Siemens Verctron in weiß abgebildet, daneben das Logo von DB Cargo. Das DB Logo und Teile der abgebildeten Lok sind in Regenbogenfarben abgebildet

Unsere Dienstwagen können auch Bunt 🌈

Did u put a rubber band on the cat

What do you make of Iran also seeming to rely on air strikes (or is it air-ish?) and proxies for its…is what they're doing now deterrence or defense at this point?

I ate one just last year, and it reminded me of the government-issued mashed potato powder that this guy I met in North Dakota in 2009 gave to me as a gift. I have been hoping that Chinese food regulations are at the point now where the contents are at least food-related…

Those are the ones that are mostly potato inside, right? But, gosh, that can should be in some kind of museum.

(That particular zoologist left Transylvania for Heidelberg in 1913 to study, got his Venia in 1919 and as far as I can tell never went back "home". He probably either became a Nazi or was at least pretty antisemitic. The Soviets later installed him as head of the zoology institute in Rostock.)

I first learned about the Siebenbürger Sachsen while writing about an obscure zoologist and became completely fascinated by that history. I keep thinking there might be instructive lessons for Germans+Austrians about how minority and diverse communities can thrive and still retain their identities.

Can you explain birefringence to a chimpanzee, because I still have a hard time imagining polarized light propagating in a three dimensional wave front

I work in grants. Here’s my advice for the current situation:

1. Network. Lots of new opps are big pots of $ for collaborative, interdisciplinary teams/industry partnerships.

2. Make use of institutional resources. Many unis have grant development professionals that can help you write proposals.

Ooh, if Candy Crush was how they found Khamenei… www.youtube.com/watch?v=OViL...

The Sword of Chang TAMPA, Fla. -- It's far from the newsiest piece of Marco Rubio's New York Times interview, but heck, it interested me.

p.s. I am not knowledgable about Cold War politics or Bush family jokes, this was from 5 minutes of searching "unleash Chiang" in Google Books, etc. 2 more minutes would have turned up @daveweigel.bsky.social 's 2012 investigation web.archive.org/web/20210114... or Maureen Dowd's missive from 2001.

Marco Rubio Won’t Be V.P. (Published 2012)

…a joke which Rubio also misunderstood, saying in 2012, “Chang is a mythical conservative warrior. From time to time, if there’s a big issue going on, you’d see Jeb say, I'm going to unleash Chang. He gave me the sword of Chang.…I think it's a Jeb Bush creation.” www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/m... 4/4

The Myth of Jeb’s Protégé If you believe their stories, Bush was a mentor to Rubio. The truth is more complicated.

…a joke which Jeb Bush either misunderstood or failed to pass on. When Marco Rubio became speaker of the Florida House in 2005, JB gave MR a golden sword with “CHIANG” engraved on it, saying “I’m going to bestow to you the sword of a great conservative warrior.” www.politico.com/magazine/sto... 3/4

The Best of Plimpton George Plimpton is best known for taking to the arenas of professional sports and surviving to write about his experience - with grace, urbanity, and considerable good humor. But such classics as Pape...

The idea was to arm Chiang Kai Shek so he could overthrow the CCP. Ridiculous, and "unleash Chiang" became a joke in various levels of the US government, including George H.W. Bush, who started to use it jokingly to goad his tennis partners to play harder: www.google.com/books/editio... 2/4

So I love researching a good mantra or catchphrase, and “unleash Chiang” is right in my wheelhouse. It turns out “unleash Chiang” is something the anti-communist China Lobby and John Birchers would say in the 1950s after the US “lost China” in their narrative: www.google.com/books/editio... 1/4

Don't forget the lasers!

CO-SIGNED!
I’ve met so many folks who want to study bugs and learn how to find new species, there are absolutely more interested parties than there are jobs

I'm fascinated by Chinese university cafeterias. BLCU's had 3 tiers: ground floor to get color-coded plates of dozens of different and interesting dishes cooked at scale, 3rd floor with privately operated 快餐 stalls, and 2nd floor with slop ladled onto metal trays.