Me: “Babe, I wrote a Ghost song about changing diapers, listen! ‘I’m gonna put… a clean diaper… on your butt to-niiiiiite-‘“ Him: “‘YOUR BUTT TO-NIIIIITE!’” Me: “Aw, you already know it!”
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Me: “Babe, I wrote a Ghost song about changing diapers, listen! ‘I’m gonna put… a clean diaper… on your butt to-niiiiiite-‘“ Him: “‘YOUR BUTT TO-NIIIIITE!’” Me: “Aw, you already know it!”
No, I need to go back to a time when *love* was still possible.
The whole, "they're using the same bathroom as little girls!" thing is so weird. Yeah man you use the same bathroom as little boys.
Proud to announce the project I've been working on 🏳️⚧️🧬 Had hoped to have more ready, but the events of the last week stressed the importance of speaking up against fascism NOW I'd appreciate your support in spreading the word, esp if you work in life sciences research, healthcare, or biotech
👩🔬J'ai commencé un kit de démarrage "chercheuses en France" go.bsky.app/TBEzKC #FemmesEnScience J'ai besoin de votre aide pour le remplir et donner de la visibilité aux chercheuses que vous connaissez et qui sont sur Bluesky ! ▶️Taguez celles que vous connaissez, je les ajoute !
An actual wide-awake nightmare, how thoughtful
Minor contribution of ammonia oxidizers to inorganic carbon fixation in the ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊
I’m doomscrolling STOP JUDGING ME
The “if I can’t pronounce it, it must be bad for me” folks must feel so vindicated right now
I feel seen and I don’t like it
The idea of not having Tylenol during pregnancy *and never giving it to children* is actually an entire nightmare. Fevers esp. in children are so dangerous, and we've gotten several generations removed so apparently have forgotten that fear. (Not if you've ever lain awake with a feverish infant)
I know we've worked hard to move history ed away from names and dates but I think we might need to swing back to chronology a bit because "who was president on january 8 2021?" and "which came first, the clinical description of autism or tylenol?" shouldn't be this hard, especially for reporters.
Rather than permitting the Trump administration to frighten us out of resisting, we must understand this broad, vague, and performative executive order as an effort to intimidate. It should catalyze us into urgent organizing, not paralyze us. Only collective action can keep us safe and free.
![DESIGNATING ANTIFA AS A DOMESTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION Section 1. Antifa as a Terrorist Threat. Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law. It uses illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide to accomplish these goals. This campaign involves coordinated efforts to obstruct enforcement of Federal laws through armed standoffs with law enforcement, organized riots, violent assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement officers, and routine doxing of and other threats against political figures and activists. Antifa recruits, trains, and radicalizes young Americans to engage in this violence and suppression of political activity, then employs elaborate means and mechanisms to shield the identities of its operatives, conceal its funding sources and operations in an effort to frustrate law enforcement, and recruit additional members. Individuals associated with and acting on behalf of Antifa further coordinate with other organizations and entities for the purpose of spreading, fomenting, and advancing political violence and suppressing lawful political speech. This organized effort designed to achieve policy objectives by coercion and intimidation is domestic terrorism. Sec. 2. Designation as a Domestic Terrorist Organization. Because of the aforementioned pattern of political violence designed to suppress lawful political activity and obstruct the rule of law, I hereby designate Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization.” All relevant executive departments and agencies shall utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa, or for which Antifa provided material support [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:usktoienjig6rm5cxm46j3zl/bafkreihwt6ztyeaf7qnacxnmi2rmqem4c3nkyaf5aspcafwnadi5kwtoqy@jpeg "Click to view full size")
I’ve probably spent more time thinking about Jimmy Kimmel in the past 72 hours than I have for the entirety of my life. Fascism is so patently absurd.
For the golden corn and the apple on the tree, For the golden butter and the honey from the bees, For the fruits and nuts and berries we gather on our way, We praise the loving Mother Earth and thank Her everyday. Blessed Mabon all!
I made a truly flavorful and restorative Ethiopian stew on Sunday, with seasonal vegetables, chickpeas, and kidney beans. Turns out it’s even better on day two! The kids demolished it at dinner. Dessert is a perfectly spiced vegan apple crisp requested by Ellie. A worthy meal for Mabon. #BlessedBe
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/e...
I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.
This is also political violence
Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X
Ok, mix CDs then :P
Nobody makes mixtapes for people they like anymore and it makes me sad
NEWS: The Congressional Progressive Caucus — which represents nearly 100 members in Congress — has just voted to endorse the Block the Bombs Act, to block weapon sales to Israel. First time any major congressional caucus has backed legislation to end US aid for Israel’s destruction of Gaza.
Never been a better time to give up red meat. Or all meat, for that matter.
To "accelerate high-impact, curiosity-led research and innovation, and to facilitate breakthroughs" - let me tell you my students using genAI are NOT curious and what it is accelerated so far is lying, cheating and data fabrication
New manuscript from the lab! Interesting story developing, we didn’t find any Aphanizomenon nitrogenase genes despite being the primary bloom former! Instead, Dolichospermum takes charge of fixing nitrogen during the bloom. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"...Join us for a rare look through the eyes of ROV Global Explorer, streaming live from NOAA Ship Nancy Foster, as we journey into the depths of Hudson Canyon." www.youtube.com/live/pIG13U9...
RIP U.S. innovation. Between gutting the H-1B program, purging US scientists from civil service, slashing research grants, and disappearing international students off the streets, our government has made a conscious decision to kill America's roll as a global leader in science and innovation.
this thread is a nice reminder that hanania is an extremely poor thinker who benefits from the fact that many commentators are innumerate and can be easily misled with simple data manipulation
As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.
On late summer nights in the pines there’s the slightest chill in the air and the smell of ripening acorns, letting you know autumn is not far away
Slay queen slay
I’d also like to thank @oberoy-ls.bsky.social for helpfully pointing out that a siren is just a mermaid with a job
Since this whole debate is still happening, and since we are still not listening I will summarize what I understand the argument to be in the Lingua Franca of white nerds: Lord of the Rings analogies.
The scientific community (this time the US National Academy of Sciences) for the umpteenth time: "the evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused greenhouse gases is beyond scientific dispute" #climatechange nap.nationalacademies.org/initiative/c...
PoLiTicAL VioLeNCe hAs nO pLaCe iN AMeRiCa
Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."
Fascism on the rise, make a concept album about it
People imagine picking up and finding *something better* is an easy solution. But how is that supposed to work, when all your time and energy goes to staying alive? You have almost nothing to set aside to actually fight your way out.
Today a student brought me some fish bones that they found, and I felt so seen. Yes children, bring your bone offerings to the Pine Witch.
This isn't even a slight exaggeration. He is actively working on destroying the US's entire vaccine infrastructure. The HepB vote will be tomorrow, where they will get rid of the birth dose and recommend it at 30 days, dooming a bunch of infants to chronic infection ft. cirrhosis, cancer, and death.
Welp: Texas A&M President Mark Welch just stepped down after pressure from Republicans over a video of a professor who taught about transgender people in a children's literature class
Happy International Microorganism Day! 🎉 Today, we are celebrating the tiny powerhouses that have a massive impact on our world. From the bacteria in our gut to the fungi that give us antibiotics, these incredible organisms are essential to life. Let's make some noise for the microscopic!
Well if I ever manage to get any isolates, I’ll keep Autocycler in mind. Have either of you tried OPERA? I saw a paper using it for hybrid assemblies awhile back but never managed to get it to work on my computer.
I like Flye a lot for ONT reads. Unicycler only seems to work well on ONT reads if I'm combining them with Illumina. I haven't tried Autocycler yet!
I’ve used Unicycler for creating metagenome assemblies from Illumina and ONT data and had great results. I imagine it would work well for genomes, too.
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
I was so worried that this post was going to end badly and so relieved when it didn’t
I’m down to clown
Can we have a zine version of arXiv? Like data preprints but in zine format? I can’t be the only one who wants this
its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project
Again, very strange to have US leaders bragging about war crimes on TV — especially since Vance’s unfunny joke is basically “we base our air strikes on such sketchy intel that we can’t figure out who is a fisherman and who is a drug smuggler,” which does appear to be true, BTW.
When we say the NIH is becoming politicized, this is a great example. NIH staff are not allowed to attend a scientific meeting (where they engage w/ scientists in their grant portfolios) because a deeply politicized DOJ is trying to use its power to squash even the remote appearance of dissent.
Some killings you're allowed to joke about.
“the children that have died under his watch”
Trey Reed was lynched in plain sight this week and police are not even looking for a suspect. Whole everyone is talking about imaginary "left-wing violence", this is yet another day of racist hate coming from a country founded on suppression and anti-Black terrorism www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
He's saying: it's open season on browns
"But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates for @vanityfair.com: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
NEW: Bernie Sanders becomes the first Senator of the United States to label Israel's war on Gaza a genocide.
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Academic job alert: Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in applied ecology, in Department of Environmental Sciences, @emoryuniversity.bsky.social. Application site opened today, 2 months until deadline (Nov. 17): apply.interfolio.com/173706 🎓🏫🌿 (Full disclosure: I work here.)
Get his ass
The fact that they can’t even take safety tips that would ultimately benefit them from a Black woman shows that the white supremacy is too ingrained. If they were well meaning they’d just say “ok” or “good looking out”.
I offer you a guy in these troubling times
Wake up babe new archaea clade just dropped
This is 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘹 𝘬𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘪. He can't believe your email found him. Would like to unsubscribe indefinitely. 🦇 Greater dog-like bat 📸 Jennifer Barros
I’m so easy to please. Watch spooky movies with me. Compliment my cooking. Wear things I make for you. Stare at me in awe whenever I enter a room.
When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.
hey bluesky 👋 visa hurdles mean I’m looking for opportunities outside the US. I’m a computational biologist (bacterial + phage genomics, postdoc in Koonin’s group @ NIH). I am interested in teaming up on funding apps. reach out if this resonates!
Muscle Husband: *seeing a very new infant* “Hey Ellie do you want another sister?” Me: “Daddy’s just kidding. We can’t afford another baby.” Ellie: “You didn’t pay for me and Jo!”
Exactly. They can't get me fired and I'm not scared of a few mean messages, so they got nothing. Two things are true: 1. These people really want to make the US into Nazi Germany 2.0 2. They're pathetically weak. Their successes come from making people afraid of power they don't really have.
US military just killed 3 more people in another deadly strike on a vessel in international waters around South America allegedly "transporting illegal narcotics" from Venezuela. No evidence presented. No due process. Understand this fact:—this is a precursor to what he will do to US citizens.
Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Stephen Miller aren't destroying the US. They're holding up a mirror to the US. They are the US personified. This IS who we are. But it's not *who we have to be*.
Exactly
Remembering four little girls killed on this day. September 15, 1963 – Denise McNair, Carol Robertson, Addie Mae Collins, and Cynthia Wesley
Their solution will be to turn prisoners into slaves
We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
The team behind a new world-leading conservation committee headed by Applied Microbiology International (AMI) is calling on global scientific and conservation communities to get on board to protect microbial life. www.the-microbiologist.com/news/new-con... @gilbertjacka.bsky.social
He’s also the best part of that terrible Phantom of the Opera movie
Patrick Wilson is a truly underrated scream king, even if the movies he’s in are mostly underwhelming
ICE claimed the father tried to hit them with his car or that he "dragged" one of the agents. Then bystander video was released showing this was completely false. ICE executed a man on the street in broad daylight.
Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp
We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.
Hydrogen sulfide production distinguishes Salmonella from close relatives, but its biological significance remains obscure. This study uncovers the secret: Salmonella uses hydrogen sulfide production as a weapon to outcompete E. coli and gain a foothold in the gut. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The fact that both the WSJ and the Guardian have retracted their trans and leftist stories related to the shooter and now a day later a new one is being formed about a possible "trans roommate or lover" shows how desperate they are to pin this on someone who is LGBTQ+
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
Brother, you already *were* a ghost. Up there, screaming — along with all of them. Scaring each other. Haunting each other. It's the living who are ghosts. The dead are silent. They don't rattle windows or write letters in blood. The living do. Leave them behind. Rest.
Workouts
Dessert mode ACTIVATE: Best pie: strawberry rhubarb Best ice cream: green tea Best donut: sour cream Best bar: pumpkin brownies Best cake: carrot with cream cheese frosting Best other: kouign amann or pain aux raisins
getting fired for not respecting a guy who only ever said things that would get you fired
“Antifascism not only drew students and faculty out of the universities and into the streets. It also brought antifascism and varieties of Marxism—Trotskyism, Stalinism, Fabian Socialism—into the university.” Robin D. G. Kelley:
OH MY GOD academia is so cooked
Idk maybe men were a mistake
Let him cook
I’m so grateful bread and olive oil exist
I’m so easy to please. Watch spooky movies with me. Compliment my cooking. Wear things I make for you. Stare at me in awe whenever I enter a room.