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jet lag and ramadan sleep schedule have canceled out

so far it is a bad omen

These authors contributed equally and the order was determined by a coin flip.

I propose that all positions, not just first author, are determined by coin flip

Imprisoning children is child abuse. No matter how a child arrived in our country, we should not use government resources, taxpayer money, to abuse and traumatize children.

while anthropic secretly buys and destroys millions of books in hidden warehouses, let it be known that human staff at @archive.org carefully scan physical media by hand as always and there's literally a daily livestream because the process is so wonderful to watch!!!

The first paper from the lab is now out in Science Advances: Multimodal social context modulates larval behavior in Drosophila
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We find that fly larvae keep their distance to conspecifics in the absence of food, enjoy reading! @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de

I see nothing against a photograph of 5 rings that happen to be similar colors in a similar position

compared to 2016-2020 & 2024-present, another famously boring and uneventful period

(a bar, somewhere)

PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL, on third whiskey: they still don't understand the concept of a probabilistic forecast, I mean—

THE NEEDLE, six beers deep: I hear you, man

PHIL (startled): a talking needle!!

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez are named as the murderers of Alex Pretti.

Both with enough experience that the excuse of a new agent panicking won’t fly. These guys are supposedly elite (one was on a SWAT team). Yet they pumped 10 bullets into a man they had just disarmed.

Justice will come.

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

A reminder that Bad Bunny performs in front of the biggest audience on earth in seven days

These West Virginians are still waiting for high-speed internet West Virginia is set to receive millions for broadband, but residents say reliable internet still hasn’t reached them.

Slow internet doesn't just impact watching movies and reading emails. Some residents depend on it for work or doctor appointments, as they deal with unreliable service.

mountainstatespotlight.org/2026/01/25/b...

xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government

on my knees begging wren baker to stop burning money on trying to make us a football school (lost cause) and commit to what we are great at (pew pew)

WVU Rifle @WVURifle X.com CUE COUNTRY ROADS X2!!! Mountaineers score a 4745 to defeat No. 6 Navy (4719) and No. 16 Army (4683) MOUNTAINEER RIFLE

West Virginia takes down Army and Navy in rifle!

The venn diagram of rich science folks who have told me to kick rocks when I approached them about donating to Stand Up for Science and the rich science folks who are in the Epstein files is not a perfect circle, but there is significant overlap.

Acalyptrate flies - Alex Wild A gallery of various acalyptrate flies.

Gosh I have photographed a lot of flies over the years.

Best gas masks “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

3-panel comic. (1) [Three small arthropods on ocean floor.] ARTHROPOD 1: Now that we’re multicellular, what are your plans? I’m gonna evolve little legs and swim around with them! ARTHROPOD 2: I’m gonna evolve sharp pincers and use them to crunch stuff! ARTHROPOD 3: I’m gonna evolve glands to make string from my butt and use it to construct elaborate geometric nets hundreds of times my size to catch other animals. (2) [Silence] (3) ARTHROPOD 1: *Dude.* ARTHROPOD 2: Can you *please* just be normal about this? ARTHROPOD 3: *What??!*

Early Arthropods

xkcd.com/3199/

Evolution of sensory systems underlies the emergence of predatory feeding behaviors in nematodes | PNAS Understanding how animal behavior evolves remains a major challenge, with few studies linking genetic changes to differences in neural function and...

How does evolution turn a harmless bacterial feeder into an active predator?
Our new study led by @marianneroca.bsky.social and published in @pnas.org explores how sensory systems were rewired to enable prey detection and predatory behaviour in nematodes.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🧵below!

Cow Tools!

We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them

It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS

Here I describe our study

(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

The latest Key Messages detail the latest information regarding the impending winter storm set to produce far-reaching impacts from the Southern Rockies to the Northeast. The top graphic displays the Probabilistic Winter Storm Severity Index which depicts the probabilities for experiencing at least Moderate Impacts. Moderate Impacts speak to potential for hazardous travel conditions and some infrastructure impacts. The bottom image shows, of those probabilistic areas, which winter weather hazard (snow or freezing rain) is the most likely hazard in that area. High-Impact & Far-Reaching Winter Storm A significant, long-duration winter storm is threatening over 160 million Americans with widespread heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain from the Southern Rockies to New England, lasting from Friday through Monday. Extremely cold air will follow, prolonging dangerous travel and infrastructure impacts into next week. Widespread Heavy Snow Heavy snow is likely across a broad region from the Southern Rockies and Plains through the Mid-Atlantic and into the Northeast. Snowfall totals exceeding 12 inches are likely across the Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast. Widespread travel disruptions are likely. Catastrophic Ice Accumulation Widespread freezing rain and sleet are expected south of the primary snow axis, affecting parts of the Southern Plains, Lower Mississippi Valley, Tennessee Valley, the Southeast, and southern Virginia. Significant to locally catastrophic ice accumulations are likely, with the potential for long-duration power outages, extensive tree damage, and extremely dangerous or impassable travel conditions. Extended Impacts In wake of the storm, communities from the Southern Plains to the Northeast will contend with bitterly cold temperatures and dangerously cold wind chills. This will prolong hazardous travel and infrastructure impacts into next week. Preparations should be completed as soon as possible, & forecasts closely monitored for updates.

Over 160 million people are under winter hazards associated with the impending major winter storm. Disruptive snowfall is likely from the Rockies to the Northeast, including dangerous ice from the ArkLaTex to the Mid-Atlantic. You can find a detailed forecast at weather.gov.

Here's the latest...

like from an omen perspective is this a good way to start the year

what does it mean if there's lightning in the middle of the snowstorm

Re-upping the dedication of Mahmood Mamdani's 2020 book, 'Neither Settler nor Native'.

Me watching TRL after school in the late 90s