Cathy Newman ⚜️🐘
cenewman0.bsky.social
Cathy Newman ⚜️🐘
@cenewman0.bsky.social
Bioinformatics 👩🏻‍💻🧬🧠 | evolution & ecology | Louisiana | Bama | salamanders | the South | posts mine
https://catherinenewman.net
Reposted by Cathy Newman ⚜️🐘
Y’all, I think Brian Kelly’s buyout is stupid, too. But it’s definitely not being paid by Louisiana taxpayers.

It’s obscene.

But they’re not cutting the state budget to fund it, so don’t quote my post acting like they are because you like to dunk on Southern states.
November 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Yeah buddy 🧀🐄
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I did not actually need more bookmarks, but
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Yep 🤨 but not too bad. I'm grateful that my parents are now only 1 hour away.
Tomorrow me is going to be very annoyed with tonight me for not packing.
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Tomorrow me is going to be very annoyed with tonight me for not packing.
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Finally backed up & updated my 2021 Macbook Air to Sequoia from its original OS, Big Sur (I knooow 😂). Avoiding Tahoe for now because of mixed reviews on M1 performance. But hoping this & an updated Chrome will fix the recent Streamyard audio issues during on-camera book club.
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I took this pic last weekend but forgot to share. Publix letting folks know about expiration date format in the international foods aisle. Never thought about it before honestly.
November 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
An Alabama girl in Davis, California 😂
November 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Gaslighting the herpetologist
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Who picks a ranked conference team for homecoming
spike from buffy the vampire slayer says you should know better than to tempt the fates that way .
ALT: spike from buffy the vampire slayer says you should know better than to tempt the fates that way .
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November 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
We're back to sponges (for now, at least lol)

Always cool to see another sponge/ctenophore debate study come out
NEW pub in @science.org 🥳

Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?

For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.

We provide new evidence suggesting that...

🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I hope someone will do collecting & sequencing here in Jefferson County because the biogeography of these small Plethodon in AL is really cool and we don't know what's at these sites up here
Honestly the only problem with only finding fast-moving Plethodon salamanders at Ruffner Mtn is never getting any great photos 🫠

Either southern zigzag (P. ventralis) or webster's (P. websteri) 🤷🏻‍♀️
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Keeping an eye on the coach-free LSU-Arkansas score, but at the moment the prospect of A&M losing to SC is more entertaining
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Honestly the only problem with only finding fast-moving Plethodon salamanders at Ruffner Mtn is never getting any great photos 🫠

Either southern zigzag (P. ventralis) or webster's (P. websteri) 🤷🏻‍♀️
November 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Keeping an eye on this. I'm not at ULM anymore but I care about the future of my school and my friends & colleagues there (and the high-poverty region it serves)
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Every time I take that curve on I-20E in the afternoon and see a huge commercial aircraft about to land
November 14, 2025 at 4:17 AM
When a good friend from high school who I love but haven't talked to in probably 10 years texts me out of the blue with a frog news story
a cartoon character with a crown on his head and the words she knows me so well
ALT: a cartoon character with a crown on his head and the words she knows me so well
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November 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Walking back to my car after tailgating... Not a bad view
November 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
lol I love how all the Bama & LSU fans here on campus right now are currently united against Auburn
November 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
My nephew insisting on drinking his coke out of a shot glass 💀
November 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
There's a plane flying over the quad right now and I need to know the backstory here lmao
November 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
To the group of Bama students currently sitting in the student center Starbucks studying: 🫡
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Been waiting for this day for months I tell you
November 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Already found my people
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
It's warm & muggy already 👎🏻
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM