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The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results
On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data
On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data
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because Jurassic Park is trans rep
December 9, 2025 at 4:05 AM
because Jurassic Park is trans rep
Here's a new one for me, a ruby-throated hummingbird on apparently a pale cultivar new england aster
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
December 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Here's a new one for me, a ruby-throated hummingbird on apparently a pale cultivar new england aster
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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I know Americans overly romanticize Europe but I still think moving to a little house on a canal in the Netherlands could solve like 82% of my problems
December 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I know Americans overly romanticize Europe but I still think moving to a little house on a canal in the Netherlands could solve like 82% of my problems
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“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said
Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic
THE ARCTIC CIRCLE—With a vow to destroy the abomination she had created if it was the last thing she ever did, television host Oprah Winfrey has spent weeks on a ship pursuing Dr. Phil through the Arc...
theonion.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said
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pals you gotta quit spotify
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
pals you gotta quit spotify
I was about to burst into tears because I thought I had ruined my data somehow. everything had turned into moths on Solidago speciosa, surely that must be an error???????
but no, it's just that this one guy documented the HELL out of this sand prairie SolSpe at night. What a rad dude, for serious
but no, it's just that this one guy documented the HELL out of this sand prairie SolSpe at night. What a rad dude, for serious
December 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I was about to burst into tears because I thought I had ruined my data somehow. everything had turned into moths on Solidago speciosa, surely that must be an error???????
but no, it's just that this one guy documented the HELL out of this sand prairie SolSpe at night. What a rad dude, for serious
but no, it's just that this one guy documented the HELL out of this sand prairie SolSpe at night. What a rad dude, for serious
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Article out by @statnews.com profiling the terminated MOSAIC K99 program even though the goals fulfilled what the NIH says are their priorities: www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...
If you’re at #CellBio2025 coming to the MOSAIC scholar session today at 5:30pm in room 116!
If you’re at #CellBio2025 coming to the MOSAIC scholar session today at 5:30pm in room 116!
December 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Article out by @statnews.com profiling the terminated MOSAIC K99 program even though the goals fulfilled what the NIH says are their priorities: www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...
If you’re at #CellBio2025 coming to the MOSAIC scholar session today at 5:30pm in room 116!
If you’re at #CellBio2025 coming to the MOSAIC scholar session today at 5:30pm in room 116!
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I’m often asked why I call out incommunicado & unregistered detentions of migrants as enforced disappearances when the disappearance tends to last days rather than something much longer. The answer is yes, because many other human rights violations are accomplishable when nobody knows where you are.
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I’m often asked why I call out incommunicado & unregistered detentions of migrants as enforced disappearances when the disappearance tends to last days rather than something much longer. The answer is yes, because many other human rights violations are accomplishable when nobody knows where you are.
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"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Oh dang, Economic Botany (Journal) is finally changing their name to "Ethnobotany and Economic Botany"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Oh dang, Economic Botany (Journal) is finally changing their name to "Ethnobotany and Economic Botany"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Very last minute post, but my school is hiring a tenured associate professor in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP)! Review of apps will begin on Monday.
hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...
hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...
December 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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BREAKING: A tsunami as high as 10 feet could hit Japan's northeastern coast after an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.6 occurred offshore, the Japan Meteorological Agency said reut.rs/44iNwL0
December 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
BREAKING: A tsunami as high as 10 feet could hit Japan's northeastern coast after an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.6 occurred offshore, the Japan Meteorological Agency said reut.rs/44iNwL0
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December 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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For the first time in a decade, hunters are fanning out across Florida to legally hunt the Florida black bear.
Florida kicks off first black bear hunt in a decade, despite pushback
For the first time in a decade, hunters are fanning out across Florida to legally hunt the Florida black bear.
bit.ly
December 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
For the first time in a decade, hunters are fanning out across Florida to legally hunt the Florida black bear.
im gonna become a captain planet villain
December 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
im gonna become a captain planet villain
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If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity. 🪶
December 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity. 🪶
big shout out to the folks who just a published a mdpi paper using our lab name, which we've been using publicly as our branding and releasing info through since 2021, and didnt cite us, super rad and cool
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
big shout out to the folks who just a published a mdpi paper using our lab name, which we've been using publicly as our branding and releasing info through since 2021, and didnt cite us, super rad and cool
the one downside of inaturalist is that it is the native habitat of pedantic, condescending, autistic assholes (myself included) and MAN can people get under my skin
i know this means people find me just as annoying and abrasive but like
for fucks sake
i know this means people find me just as annoying and abrasive but like
for fucks sake
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
the one downside of inaturalist is that it is the native habitat of pedantic, condescending, autistic assholes (myself included) and MAN can people get under my skin
i know this means people find me just as annoying and abrasive but like
for fucks sake
i know this means people find me just as annoying and abrasive but like
for fucks sake
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This week’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick is Beronda L. Montgomery’s WHEN TREES TESTIFY, a reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery that offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stories of long-lived trees. 👉 tinyurl.com/yu5ekrjk
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This week’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick is Beronda L. Montgomery’s WHEN TREES TESTIFY, a reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery that offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stories of long-lived trees. 👉 tinyurl.com/yu5ekrjk
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I was skeptical about the possible impact of the ILSOS plate reporting initiative, and I still am, but revoking plates that are held by rental car companies is an interesting approach I hadn't considered. DHS isn't gonna give a shit about it, but this tactic puts some pressure on the rental firms.
Enterprise Rent-A-Car license plate revoked after immigration agents illegally swapped it out. This follows our reporting on an encounter where a federal agent told a woman, “You can record all you want. We change the plates out every day.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/04/i...
Enterprise Rent-A-Car license plate revoked after immigration agents illegally swapped it out, records show
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias warned federal agents against swapping out license plates. Records show it happened anyway.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I was skeptical about the possible impact of the ILSOS plate reporting initiative, and I still am, but revoking plates that are held by rental car companies is an interesting approach I hadn't considered. DHS isn't gonna give a shit about it, but this tactic puts some pressure on the rental firms.
Gave a talk to middle schoolers and am unexpectedly really upset after the fact
I didn’t let much slip, but like, the actual middle school advice I needed was not about science and is more like “don’t try to kill yourself” and “stop talking to men twice your age”
I didn’t let much slip, but like, the actual middle school advice I needed was not about science and is more like “don’t try to kill yourself” and “stop talking to men twice your age”
December 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Gave a talk to middle schoolers and am unexpectedly really upset after the fact
I didn’t let much slip, but like, the actual middle school advice I needed was not about science and is more like “don’t try to kill yourself” and “stop talking to men twice your age”
I didn’t let much slip, but like, the actual middle school advice I needed was not about science and is more like “don’t try to kill yourself” and “stop talking to men twice your age”