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Not sure of stupid level, but it has squid.

But you've probably already read it.
"Beast" by Peter Benchley.
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by Zen Faulkes

doctorzen.net
"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
Lois Lane Superman punching a German warship.

by Zen Faulkes

doctorzen.net
"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
Daisy Duck Donald Duck throwing a tomato at a Nazi in the poster for "Der Fuehrer's Face."
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by Zen Faulkes

doctorzen.net
"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
Agent Peggy Carter from Agent Carter and Captain America. Captain America about to punch an actor playing Hitler on stage.
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by Zen Faulkes

doctorzen.net
"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
Karen Allen in Raiders of the Lost Ark Indiana Jones punching a Nazi in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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@okbjgm.bsky.social uh wut theankler.com/p/run-it-thr...
‘Run It Through GPT-5’: The Phrase Changing Hollywood Overnight
Showrunners, writers, producers & marketing jumped on OpenAI’s update. Industry jobs will never recover
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by Zen Faulkes

doctorzen.net
🎶 One of these things is not like the others... 🎶

Just bitterly disappointing to see so few women recognized with scientific Nobels, year after year after year.
The nine 2025 Nobel Prize winners in the science categories, eight of which are men.
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by Zen Faulkes

doctorzen.net
So what’s the final gender skew on this year’s science Nobels? Seven men, one woman?

Terrible.
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by Zen Faulkes

doctorzen.net
A couple of years old but this post might be helpful:

betterposters.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-...
The view from SICB 2020: Fabrics!
I recently attended the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology conference in Austin ( #SICB2020 on Twitter). I saw hundreds of po...
betterposters.blogspot.com
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by Zen Faulkes

doctorzen.net
10 "maybe not exactly horror movies" to get to know me by

🎩 The Prestige
🐢 Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
🏫 Les Diaboliques (original)
🌿 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
⛵ Cape Fear (original)
🦈 Jaws
👻 The Haunting (Robert Wise version)
Ⓜ️ M (Fritz Lang)
🐍 Venom
🐊 Lake Placid
restingdinoface.bsky.social
Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 1d
10 horror movies to get to know me by

🐊 Alligator
🧀 Mandy
🐆 Cat People
🐺 An American Werewolf in London
💉The Substance
☄️ The Deadly Spawn
⚛️ Gojira
🥚 ALIEN
🚿 Death Spa
🦑 Deep Rising
scumbelievable.bsky.social
Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d
10 horror movies to get to know me by

🦇Bram Stoker's Dracula
✝️The Devils
🍼Rosemary's Baby
👻The Medium
👫Possession
📹Lost Highway
💉Audition
🐸The Wicker Man ('73)
⚫Under the Skin
♦️The Neon Demon

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restingdinoface.bsky.social
10 horror movies to get to know me by

🐊 Alligator
🧀 Mandy
🐆 Cat People
🐺 An American Werewolf in London
💉The Substance
☄️ The Deadly Spawn
⚛️ Gojira
🥚 ALIEN
🚿 Death Spa
🦑 Deep Rising
scumbelievable.bsky.social
Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d
10 horror movies to get to know me by

🦇Bram Stoker's Dracula
✝️The Devils
🍼Rosemary's Baby
👻The Medium
👫Possession
📹Lost Highway
💉Audition
🐸The Wicker Man ('73)
⚫Under the Skin
♦️The Neon Demon
tiffmorris.bsky.social
Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 1d
10 horror movies to get to know me by
🪡 May
🩸 Nosferatu '22
🩸 Nosferatu the Vampyre
🩸 Nosferatu ‘24
🌸 Midsommar
💀 Blood Quantum
🩰 Suspiria '77
🐝 Candyman
🐅 Manhunter
🌲 Antichrist
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by Zen Faulkes

doctorzen.net
That statement come from a press release that doesn't provide any evidence supporting those numbers. "Five animals + 12 plants = 75% of food" is just asserted.
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drkatfish.bsky.social
New episode of the Teach Me About the Great Lakes podcast is out! I joined a couple other invasive species folks to talk about the new-ish aquatic invasive species in the #GreatLakes region we think people should know about www.teachmeaboutthegreatlakes.com/113
Teach Me About the Great Lakes | Spoiler Alert: This is Not Fine
What are the aquatic invasive species that Great Lakes experts wish you knew more about? Megan and Carolyn discuss with TMATGL all-stars El Lower, Katie O'Reilly, and Brian Roth.Links:Past episodes...
www.teachmeaboutthegreatlakes.com
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renewableenergy.bsky.social
Huge historic turning point — Renewables surpassed coal as the world’s leading electricity source for the first half of 2025!

#greensky #energysky #renewableenergy
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Reposted by: Zen Faulkes, Robert W. Wallace, Jonathan M. Gilligan , and 3 more

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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d
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by Zen Faulkes

doctorzen.net
For instance, DORA released a practical guide to reforming research assessment a few months back:

sfdora.org/resource/pra...
A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations | DORA
"A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations" provides action-oriented guidance, resources, and illustrative examples, for research performin...
sfdora.org
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by Zen Faulkes

doctorzen.net
Not sure why this new initiative is out there when organizations like DORA already exist. But rising tide, I guess.
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 2d
Several organizations are now putting more than $1 million toward reimagining hiring, promotion and tenure at U.S. universities.
$1.5 million program targets changes to academic incentives
The incentive systems that drive academic research underlie nearly every story we write: publication counts for promotion, pressure to produce positive results, hitting certain metrics, and so on. …
retractionwatch.com
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by Zen Faulkes

doctorzen.net
Monterey Bay is my favourite, I think. Beautiful location, building, exhibits.
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retractionwatch.com
Several organizations are now putting more than $1 million toward reimagining hiring, promotion and tenure at U.S. universities.
$1.5 million program targets changes to academic incentives
The incentive systems that drive academic research underlie nearly every story we write: publication counts for promotion, pressure to produce positive results, hitting certain metrics, and so on. …
retractionwatch.com
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by Zen Faulkes

doctorzen.net
Old problem, just in bigger quantities.

What’s next is probably bad?

I think we will sit through a bunch of people saying this is a problem that can be fixed with technology and that tech companies should be allowed time to develop their own guardrails and watch that approach fail and fail again.
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by Zen Faulkes

doctorzen.net
My fieldwork was usually half a day in the morning, so I didn’t need snacks during field work. I would have lunch right after - usually Burger Fi after they opened a local franchise.
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chikichanka.bsky.social
17th century crayfish
Astacus Minor (Austropotamobius?) and Astacus Maior (Astacus?)
Joannes Jonstonus, 1657
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4091808...
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by Zen Faulkes

doctorzen.net
I wrote an article about that. Pilots are more promising than I expected, but I would love to see people engage with the details of what paid per review would look like MUCH more.

origineditorial.com/origin-edito...
Making “Pay Peer Reviewers” More Than a Slogan
Is it time to pay peer reviewers?Peer review is crucial to the academic publishing process. However, the system is under strain, with fewer researchers volunteering to review, resulting in delays that...
origineditorial.com
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by Zen Faulkes

doctorzen.net
There’s already a publishing system that is well established, free to publish, and #OpenAccess.

It’s called SciELO:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciELO

Let’s not reinvent the wheel. 🛞
SciELO - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
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Reposted by: Zen Faulkes, Brian Weatherson, Catherine J. Frieman

jacquelyngill.bsky.social
The new Wiley journal review system is an absolute nightmare. Editorial assistants have been replaced by a clunky, AI-enabled website that makes it harder to find and invite reviewers. Associate editor workloads have increased. I'm not convinced the invitations to reviewers are even going through.
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Recent MDPI paper including diagram of a bacterial cell with a mitochondrion 🤦‍♀️ The authors propose a mechanism for the toxicity of silver nanoparticles: "Ag+ ions in AgNPs bombard the bacterial mitochondria’s electron transport chain, resulting in cell death".
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by Zen Faulkes

doctorzen.net
There’s been a surplus of qualified personnel for decades.

Prediction: Management for most higher ed institutions don’t give much more than a second’s thought to faculty leaving. I’ve don’t think I’ve ever heard an administrator mention it.
Graph showing PhD students increasing at rates far faster than faculty positions.
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by Zen Faulkes

doctorzen.net
One of the cool things about aging is you get to see science progressing.

To think, there was a time (in my lifetime!) when we literally didn’t know as an observable fact that there were other planets 🪐 outside our solar system!

I mean, we were PRETTY sure there were, but still. 🤔
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 6d
This week (!) is the 30th anniversary of the announcement of 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet found orbiting a star like our Sun - since then, we've found over 6,000!

To celebrate, @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com collected some astronomers' favourite planets:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
These alien planets are astronomers’ favourites: here’s why
Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits.
www.nature.com
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by Zen Faulkes

doctorzen.net
Those initiatives seem aimed at a small number of perceived “star” researchers and would thus be irrelevant to 99% plus of American researchers.
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Academics: I heard that some administrators are saying "things are bad everywhere, faculty won't leave" as a reason for not improving things on campuses for faculty. Have you heard that? Is that true? How is that affecting union negotiations?
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