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‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

So proud of my 1st grade son for only missing two problems on his practice spelling test #funny

Super excited to give my first Skype-a-Scientist presentation! Can't wait to answer all the questions that I was emailed and is teaching the next generation is a great way to bring hope in such dark times. Shout out to @skypeascientist.bsky.social who makes this all happen!

My wife was yelling at our 6yo about not using broken sticks to open boxes, and he replied "just chill karen". Somehow this is my fault!

Ray Vaughn just released his debut album. Great story telling and great production, highly recommend! Look @ God is a banger. You can check out his freestyle he did on the radio here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBEt... Album here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIyz... #hiphop

Court DISSmals are not was I was expecting in 2025. Whole document is gold. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

My 6yo randomly said "I hate racists" and I told him, yeah that's right we shouldn't like racists and should support equality. He paused and followed up with, "I mean that thing when we run a lot"

People say scientists are serious but marine biologists will spend hours quietly sitting around tables drawing on styrofoam cups and then tying said cups to deep sea submarines Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups And we are but human & we want tiny cup

Collected river water to make jarquarium with my son and was amazed to see hydras in the water. Never actually seen one myself and didn't realize how easy they are to find and that they are bug enough to see with the naked eye #invert

Shareable link to @carlzimmer.bsky.social article in NYTimes on serious concerns over mirror bacteria, published in Science today. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/s...

In 1890, the X and Y chromosomes were discovered. It was found that the men who were tested had 46 chromosomes, including an X and a Y, while women who were tested also had 46 chromosomes, including 2 X chromosomes. So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.

part of the growing pains of every community, social media, etc is "what do we do with people who are pretending to be kind, saying the right things, and technically not doing anything wrong right now but are still ontologically evil" and the answer is "stop playing their game and ban them"

My 6yo son made a sculpture and my wife painted it. When they showed me their creation, I was screaming inside while saying "Good job!"

Reupping this since the explosion in members here. I’m looking to recruit PhD candidates to work with me in #Bioinformatics and thr human #microbiome Details 👇 Please share 😁 www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...

"I'm not gonna lie, this shit was um, some good exercise, like it's good to get out and get the pen working." - Drake

“Drake has initiated legal action against Universal Music Group and Spotify over allegations that the two companies conspired to artificially inflate the popularity of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us.’” www.billboard.com/pro/drake-um...

Will you help @bolts.bsky.social reach 50K mark on here before week is out? We’re so close! Here’s why you should: We’re a small but mighty team of journalists, determined to report and guide you thru the local officials & institutions that shape nation’s approach to democracy & criminal justice.

Please share: A tenure-track position for a virologist studying zoonotic infections is open in my department in Virginia Tech's College of Veterinary Medicine. We are a collegial and outstanding group of basic and clinical scientists with outstanding resources. DM with questions t.co/Bq3c2NooaV

Sharing small bit of joy in this cursed world. Was amazed yesterday morning when I played uke chords to my 6yo and he was able to name them by sound only.

Pedestrian Observations: Why Texas High-Speed Rail is Stuck pedestrianobservations.com/2024/10/20/w... @randomperson.bsky.social

Launched this fundraiser yesterday to help Asian American grassroots groups get out the vote among Asian American voters in key swing states - and y'all have already pushed it to $724! Can we get to $2K today? Pls do share and support if you can! ❤️ secure.actblue.com/donate/gp-aa...

PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start: go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off

Trying to analyze .CEL files for CNV segmentation and need to find genomewidesnp6_libraryfile.zip for the CDF file. Every link is to affymetrix site no longer exists and cannot find this file on Thermofisher. Closest is GenomeWideSNP_6-na35-annot-csv.zip. Love some help! 🖥️🧬

So glad to move over to BlueSky as soon as I could and find a great community of scientists, reporters, and other random people bringing joy and knowledge instead of hatred, racism, and sexism.

One thing I think is important about this sustained attack - Vance is *still* tweeting about it - on Haitians in Ohio, is that it puts the lie to everything a certain sort of immigration restrictionist said they wanted. "Oh, we just want them to come here legally" They did!! 1/

Found this old video of our dog Lyla from 7 years ago. She had a little teddy bear that she would carry everywhere. Hope she is still having fun in doggy heaven #dogsofbluesky

I made a bluesky client. That looks and works by famous phpBB2 by przemo. Check it out if you miss those funny forums bskybb.domi.zip/forum/index....

It's stunning how mainstream press reflexively "translates" outlandish Trump statements into something more defensible and less weird. Take this story, accurately reported on Erin Reed's independent website. (Thread) www.erininthemorning.com/p/trump-fals...

Can Boeing Starliner astronauts vote from the ISS?? There’s a Texas law that allows it, but astronauts have to fill out a form on the ground. Butch and Suni didn’t expect to be gone for this long. Does that mean they can’t vote in November’s election? Here’s NASA’s verdict:

Something that has flown a bit beneath the radar nationally is that Alabama has a new district that is up for grabs in 2024! The state kicked & screamed & tried to avoid this, but it's happening. And this seat is WINNABLE. Donate here: secure.actblue.com/donate/commi... youtu.be/48Vp-O8tYVw

I'm recruiting a graduate student this year - please help me spread the word! Research in our lab integrates field work, genomics, statistical methods, and mathematical modeling to test evolutionary theory and to predict species responses to climate change.

Is JD Vance trying to sleep on the couch tonight?

Ben Collins has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

Klingons are portrayed as evolved super-predators with the instincts of an ambush hunter, yet the dishes we see them eating are live worms & blood puddings, making them closer to a burrowing insectivore like the garden mole, as confirmed by dentition. In this 500 page essay, I will demonstrate....

Donald Trump has now been convicted of 34 more felonies than the Central Park Five.

Average American president has been convicted of .74 felonies

13 PhD positions available in a European consortium working on the biotechnological potential of Archaea! Please spread the word! #positions #PhDposition 1 position in my lab. Apply here until the 12th of May! archaeaforbiotechnology.eu/esr-3-univer... 🔬🧫🦠

RFK is the only candidate who believes in lobal worming

Made my first Dorodango (Japanese mud ball) with my son. Can't believe how shiny mud can get! Can't wait to try other mud and mixtures to see what colors we can get.

the Adams administration lied and the media ran with it the NYPD now admits there was no “wife of a terrorist” at the Columbia protests after the Mayor used this as cover to assault student protesters last night

She shows him that it's the same chain police sell to students and he says "nope. not the same. This is an industrial chain"

Please support these brave college students as much as possible. They are doing more for this nation and world than any of the dogshit cops brutalizing them.

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