Terry McGlynn
@hormiga.bsky.social
Ecologist, entomologist, writer. Chair of Academic Senate and Professor at CSU Dominguez Hills. ScienceForEveryone.science and I'm the Small Pond Science guy.
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Black Lives Matter. In favor of DEI, justice, access, opportunity. Abolish ICE.
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Black Lives Matter. In favor of DEI, justice, access, opportunity. Abolish ICE.
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Terry McGlynn
@hormiga.bsky.social
· Aug 26
This is the account that auto-posts my blog posts. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Ever sent yourself a text to make a note of something, and half a second later you get a text and think, “ooh! A text! Who might that be?”
February 19, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Ever sent yourself a text to make a note of something, and half a second later you get a text and think, “ooh! A text! Who might that be?”
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The best place to be a monthly donor of Skype a Scientist is unequivocally givebutter.com/SupportSAS26, BUT they don't have a nice system for updates like Patreon does, so for now we're doing this hybrid thing.
You can subscribe to the patreon updates for free though!
You can subscribe to the patreon updates for free though!
Support Skype a Scientist!
By Skype a Scientist
givebutter.com
February 18, 2026 at 5:13 AM
The best place to be a monthly donor of Skype a Scientist is unequivocally givebutter.com/SupportSAS26, BUT they don't have a nice system for updates like Patreon does, so for now we're doing this hybrid thing.
You can subscribe to the patreon updates for free though!
You can subscribe to the patreon updates for free though!
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Everyone who worked at this camp should go to prison.
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Everyone who worked at this camp should go to prison.
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putting this up in my room like a movie poster
February 12, 2026 at 1:41 AM
putting this up in my room like a movie poster
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“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 7:31 PM
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
It took only a 15-second clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a crumbling rooftop — made by A.I. with a two-sentence prompt and the click of a button — to draw swift outrage, and sizable fear, from Hollywood.
"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
A 15-second clip created by an artificial intelligence tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance appears more cinematic than anything so far.
nyti.ms
February 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
My favorite Robert Duvall performance was in Open Range.
Just a supporting role but he filled it with such vulnerability, strength, and love in the face of adversity.
Just a supporting role but he filled it with such vulnerability, strength, and love in the face of adversity.
February 16, 2026 at 7:54 PM
My favorite Robert Duvall performance was in Open Range.
Just a supporting role but he filled it with such vulnerability, strength, and love in the face of adversity.
Just a supporting role but he filled it with such vulnerability, strength, and love in the face of adversity.
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It is beyond insulting for @aaas.org to plan to host Brian Greene, an associate of Jeffrey Epstein, for a plenary talk at #AAAS2026, then cancel it the day before, only for the replacement to insist Greene was a “good scientist” and that he wished we could all hear from him.
February 15, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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Today is the 36th anniversary of the pale blue dot picture. Yesterday we did a journal club about a classic Sagan paper and my grad student BP ended by sharing this video. I’d heard the more polished pale blue dot speech so many times but I find this one to be more human
youtu.be/tgQ1PtkZvGU?...
youtu.be/tgQ1PtkZvGU?...
Carl Sagan unveils the Pale Blue Dot image
YouTube video by The Planetary Society
youtu.be
February 14, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Today is the 36th anniversary of the pale blue dot picture. Yesterday we did a journal club about a classic Sagan paper and my grad student BP ended by sharing this video. I’d heard the more polished pale blue dot speech so many times but I find this one to be more human
youtu.be/tgQ1PtkZvGU?...
youtu.be/tgQ1PtkZvGU?...
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if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
February 14, 2026 at 1:50 AM
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
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*rubs temples*
As I've spent the better part of the day explaining why I don't think Newsom should be the Democratic nominee for president, it pains me to "defend" this, but...
The governor of California is legally obligated to proclaim each Feb 6 Reagan Day per a 2010 state law.
As I've spent the better part of the day explaining why I don't think Newsom should be the Democratic nominee for president, it pains me to "defend" this, but...
The governor of California is legally obligated to proclaim each Feb 6 Reagan Day per a 2010 state law.
![Senate Bill No. 944
CHAPTER 114
An act to amend Section 37222 of, to add Sections 37222.10, 37222.11, 37222.12, 37222.13, 37222.14, and 37222.16 to, and to repeal Section
37222.5 of, the Education Code, and to add Section 6723 to the Government Code, relating to Ronald Reagan Day.
[Approved by Governor July 19, 2010. Filed with Secretary of State July 19, 2010.]
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 944, Runner. Special significance days: Ronald Reagan Day.
Existing law designates specited days as having special signiticance, and specities how the days of special significance should be observed in public elementary and secondary schools and educational institutions.
This bill would repeal and recast these provisions.
This bill would express findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to Ronald Reagan. This bill would designate February 6 of each year as Ronald Reagan Day, and would encourage public schools and educational institutions to engage in exercises remembering the life of Ronald Reagan, as specified.
Existing law requires the Governor to proclaim various days in honor of
a person, status, or an event.
This bill would require the Governor to annually proclaim February 6 as
Ronald Reagan Day.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) Ronald Wilson Reagan was a man of humble background who worked throughout his life serving freedom and advancing the public good, having been employed as an entertainer, union leader, corporate spokesman, Governor of California, and President of the United States.
(b) Ronald Reagan served with honor and distinction for two terms as
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February 14, 2026 at 12:47 AM
*rubs temples*
As I've spent the better part of the day explaining why I don't think Newsom should be the Democratic nominee for president, it pains me to "defend" this, but...
The governor of California is legally obligated to proclaim each Feb 6 Reagan Day per a 2010 state law.
As I've spent the better part of the day explaining why I don't think Newsom should be the Democratic nominee for president, it pains me to "defend" this, but...
The governor of California is legally obligated to proclaim each Feb 6 Reagan Day per a 2010 state law.
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Have you noticed how people calling out Epstein and systemic misogyny in sciences, are usually early career women. They put emotional labour, time, and career on the line.
While men, in the field they dominate, earn more, and behaviour they enable, just go on as if nothing has happened.
While men, in the field they dominate, earn more, and behaviour they enable, just go on as if nothing has happened.
February 13, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Have you noticed how people calling out Epstein and systemic misogyny in sciences, are usually early career women. They put emotional labour, time, and career on the line.
While men, in the field they dominate, earn more, and behaviour they enable, just go on as if nothing has happened.
While men, in the field they dominate, earn more, and behaviour they enable, just go on as if nothing has happened.
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It’s an RNA world. RNA is posited to be the first genetic material, arising 4 billion years ago. It can store information and act as an enzyme. Eventually, it duplicated its information into a more stable form, DNA.
February 13, 2026 at 2:17 PM
It’s an RNA world. RNA is posited to be the first genetic material, arising 4 billion years ago. It can store information and act as an enzyme. Eventually, it duplicated its information into a more stable form, DNA.
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THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
February 10, 2026 at 11:19 PM
THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
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Every single person mad about "putting this on the voters" my God man do you not know how Donald Trump came to be elected, people voted for the guy, that is how it works here.
February 11, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Every single person mad about "putting this on the voters" my God man do you not know how Donald Trump came to be elected, people voted for the guy, that is how it works here.
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At parts of the Winter Olympics in Italy, COVID precautions remain, grounded in the reality that respiratory illness is still circulating. When your lungs are your livelihood, prevention is part of performance.
#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #InfectionPrevention #Olympics #LongCOVID #MaskUp #N95
#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #InfectionPrevention #Olympics #LongCOVID #MaskUp #N95
February 9, 2026 at 9:06 PM
At parts of the Winter Olympics in Italy, COVID precautions remain, grounded in the reality that respiratory illness is still circulating. When your lungs are your livelihood, prevention is part of performance.
#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #InfectionPrevention #Olympics #LongCOVID #MaskUp #N95
#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #InfectionPrevention #Olympics #LongCOVID #MaskUp #N95
I'm preadapted for this era of AI by putting typos into my writing for the past several decades. It's how you know it's me!
February 8, 2026 at 11:25 PM
I'm preadapted for this era of AI by putting typos into my writing for the past several decades. It's how you know it's me!
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*hooded cultists slowly emerging from the shadows, chanting with increasing intensity* Baeus! Baeus! Baeus!
just a little baby child (from @mosquitolab.bsky.social's pitfall samples; I can see how this one got sorted into the beetle pile)
February 6, 2026 at 7:56 PM
*hooded cultists slowly emerging from the shadows, chanting with increasing intensity* Baeus! Baeus! Baeus!
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It’s no accident that the Premiership scheduled the LIV-MC Anfield fixture for super bowl Sunday?
February 8, 2026 at 6:15 PM
It’s no accident that the Premiership scheduled the LIV-MC Anfield fixture for super bowl Sunday?
My flavor of GenX is being too young to know much about the guest stars on the Muppet Show when it was broadcast, and now being too old to know much about the guest stars on the new old Muppet Show.
Didn’t know much about Sabrina Carpenter. But do I love her now? Yes, with my whole heart.
Didn’t know much about Sabrina Carpenter. But do I love her now? Yes, with my whole heart.
February 8, 2026 at 5:30 AM
My flavor of GenX is being too young to know much about the guest stars on the Muppet Show when it was broadcast, and now being too old to know much about the guest stars on the new old Muppet Show.
Didn’t know much about Sabrina Carpenter. But do I love her now? Yes, with my whole heart.
Didn’t know much about Sabrina Carpenter. But do I love her now? Yes, with my whole heart.
I left substack last year because of the actual Nazis, but it’s never too late to move.
I expected to it cause a ding, but in fact my newsletter open rate doubled. Being on substack actually makes it harder for people to see your message.
I expected to it cause a ding, but in fact my newsletter open rate doubled. Being on substack actually makes it harder for people to see your message.
February 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
I left substack last year because of the actual Nazis, but it’s never too late to move.
I expected to it cause a ding, but in fact my newsletter open rate doubled. Being on substack actually makes it harder for people to see your message.
I expected to it cause a ding, but in fact my newsletter open rate doubled. Being on substack actually makes it harder for people to see your message.
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I get that everyone who is in the know knows this already but I am quite happy for a publication to be surfacing it again, especially for readers who may not be aware
February 7, 2026 at 6:43 PM
I get that everyone who is in the know knows this already but I am quite happy for a publication to be surfacing it again, especially for readers who may not be aware
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I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
I stand with County Executive Calvin Ball as he signs emergency legislation today prohibiting privately owned buildings from being used as ICE detention centers.
Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
bit.ly/4a2VtHw
Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
bit.ly/4a2VtHw
Redirecting...
bit.ly
February 7, 2026 at 2:34 PM
I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
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My local public library has several copies of the Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook (5th edition).
The librarians have had to list them as "in-library use only", I assume because otherwise people will keep them checked out.
So there is now a DnD club that meets at the library.
The librarians have had to list them as "in-library use only", I assume because otherwise people will keep them checked out.
So there is now a DnD club that meets at the library.
February 7, 2026 at 5:13 AM
My local public library has several copies of the Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook (5th edition).
The librarians have had to list them as "in-library use only", I assume because otherwise people will keep them checked out.
So there is now a DnD club that meets at the library.
The librarians have had to list them as "in-library use only", I assume because otherwise people will keep them checked out.
So there is now a DnD club that meets at the library.