I am in love with the dictionary

If it’s worth banning, it’s worth owning.
#BannedBooksWeek

Reason #2385398 why I love @chrisbohjalian.bsky.social

Oops! Correction — 1,700+ people submitted input / TEN THOUSAND OBSERVATIONS !!!

I do want to take a minute to share the backstory of our paper on the total solar eclipse that triggered dawn behavior in birds. This was SUCH a fun paper to work on, a major light in a lot of different tunnels over the past 18 months. doi.org/10.1126/scie... < ☀️ Let the light puns begin ☀️ > (1/x)

“we show that when the light-dark cycle was altered by a total solar eclipse, entrained biological rhythms were disrupted for more than 1/3 of the observed wild bird species.

This natural experiment…essentially switched off the Sun for 4 min in the middle of an otherwise normal spring afternoon.”🧪

Community science! Input from over TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE! From Mexico to Canada! In a natural experiment!

“Bc a total solar eclipse occurs in the same location once every 3 or4 centuries, most free-living birds, like most ppl, have never seen day turn quickly to pm, only to return again mins later”🧪

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This just made me cry during office hours loll

This book is astonishing and I’m so excited for the movie

Incredible tough but important read. I was in CJSOTF-A in 2012. Reading here about my then commanders and new context to what was happening to the left and right of our task force.

Bales, Gant, Haas, Kunduz, Thomas...
Hell of a trip down memory lane...

Long exposure of storm clouds moving up Colpoy's Bay, Ontario shortly before sunrise. There's a yellow band of light on the horizon for #ColourADay #YellowThu.

#ColorADay #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #StormHour #photography #longexposure #clouds

NYC bagels really do make other bagels taste like pathetic garbage. So what if they're $80 a half-dozen.

This @yalereview.bsky.social Krasznahorkai short story is a nice entry point for anyone curious about the new Nobel Laureate

yalereview.org/article/kras...

“untreated depression & anxiety during pregnancy are far more dangerous—to both parent &baby—than carefully managed anti-d treatment….

Untreated maternal MH issues can ripple thru a child’s development, influence parenting capacity &…leave biological ‘footprints’…that may persist for generations”🛟🧪

“We no longer whisper about having ‘postpartum’—it’s a true category of depression….
We know that pregnancy doesn’t protect people from mental illness or mental health issues.
We know that having a baby can be both wonderful and incredibly difficult.” 🛟🧪

Very little children get onto the train, on what may well be their first school trip. A little girl waves at a friend opposite her in the carriage. They are so excited to be here together, on this train. It reminds me of the importance of these ordinary things.

What life is like for those living in the swathe of DR Congo captured by the Rwandan-backed M23. Excellent reportage by The New Humanitarian. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...

A bittersweet series about what we have lost, but also what we could regain if we lived in a country that supported basic research again.

Documenting what has been lost... and what still could be found with a renewed commitment to science in America.

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Gonna be, gonna be golden

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y-V...

“last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced ppl’s risk of emergency dept visits by 29%, their risk of hospitalizations by 39% &their risk of death by 64%….
According to the study’s authors, COVID vaccination was effective in all age groups &‘in persons w/ or w/o major chronic conditions’”🛟🧪

The research “‘calls into question the idea that younger individuals & those w/o risk factors don’t need the vaccine,’ Viswanathan says.
Instead the data show that, while the shot is most effective for older individuals & those w/ comorbidities, ‘it was also protective in those w/o risk factors’”🛟🧪

If you aren't failing you aren't trying. Grad students and new faculty: the most prolific scholars are also the most prolific at getting rejected. Rejections suck but they are a big part of the publication process.

Reconnected with a buddy from my teens who’d always been sooo busy crushing on my best friend.
Married 10+ yrs now.
Good thing—as our daughter says—tastes change.