KAYLA GO ON SAY THAT INTO THE MIKE
Neuroethologist, chemosensory scientist, herp lover. Immigrant and child of a refugee. Haver of snarky opinions. All the disclaimers.
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KAYLA GO ON SAY THAT INTO THE MIKE
This is so perfectly corrupt I’m almost impressed. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/n...
Don’t know anything about it. Can you say a few words about why it’s pulling at you, and why now?
#neuroethology
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God, she is so fucking good. Her first album rocked my world.
she made me feel blissful, like a notification for a cancelled meeting
If you are a US academic concerned about the effect the proposed rule to fix visa limits at four years will have on PhD students, please consider leaving a comment on the Federal Register #EconSky
And also against new citizens having the right to vote.
My father had a series of kidney stones and a friend asked him what that was like. My father replied "listen son, this is the first time in my life I've been glad to have a short dick." There's a metaphor in there somewhere but I can't figure it out and need to go to bed.
the thing is if you have a six hour day for eight hours pay & full employment you now have time to enjoy walking your dog. to cook yourself something at leisure. to enjoy taking care of your dwelling. the answer isn't magic robots. it's unions, it's workers getting the means of production
My money’s on him announcing that he’s brokered a ceasefire between Kraft and Heinz.
So many bangers, this fucking guy
Thanks for posting! 📌
There are more women academics—then and now—who go through this than I realized at the start of my career. Most don’t talk about it openly because they’re ashamed they weren’t able to beat the system, even though it was rigged against them.
Good 🧵
"President Trump owes us answers about his health": weak, frames him as good-faith statesman, boring "What did JD Vance know about Trump's health and when did he know it?": interesting, carries implication Trump's health is fucked up as a given, implies scandal spreading throughout admin
She has a great related sculpture outside the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Really terrific. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maman_(...
Counterpoint: no.
I love his voice. Particularly adore his cover of “I Feel Love”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT8g...
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Want to take your mind off [waves around] for a few min and think about delicious fruit instead? Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
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A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
Wow! 📌
Thanks much for posting this! 📌
A must read for anyone trying to figure out how to resist the creeping autocracy and wanting to understand how their personal acts of Resistance matter: www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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#neuroethology
Need people to understand that literally the only lever here is public opinion
Your comment reminded me of Chappell Roan's Grammys speech -- she did a terrific job of calling out the industry for exploiting young artists.
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Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
Get his ass, JB!
So many gorgeous buildings in Detroit -- the Guardian building is another. Thanks for posting these great photos.
kudos! this is fucking genius.
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
Blocked but also as an academic I have to say lol at the idea that UCLA is a better school than UT Austin.
SO READY
Just saying rain.works/products/inv...
TTX doesn't cross skin so in theory fine to touch it. But that might harm the animal, could harm other animals if you touch them later and they groom themselves, and could harm you if you forget and eat something without washing thoroughly. Wouldn't recommend touching most critters in the wild.
My first time seeing a hammerhead worm. Their mucus contains a tetrodotoxin 😱 Southeast Texas, August 30, 2025 #Invasive #Photography #Invertebrates #TexasStateParks
Blocks voltage-gated sodium channels, which prevents neurons and muscle cells from working. Lethal to almost all animals at relatively small doses. Same toxin as in pufferfish (Fugu). Really interesting toxin; really bad news.
Say her name. Let her memory be a blessing.
Gonna count my sciatica as a neurological condition.
Fun while it lasted!
They should do this to Stephen Miller when It Happens
they may not tell RFK at all, too big a risk he tries to eat part of the body
Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.
we get a lot of patients who fill somewhere else and get their shots with us for the 10% off groceries coupon if a patient who normally filled at a different chain came to ours and said they had asthma or diabetes etc, I would have no way of verifying whether that was true or false just saying
People around the country are protesting on Labor Day: maydaystrong.org
This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.
#FrogFriday 🐸: #Frog Pitcher, 1st - 8th c. CE Moche culture, North Coast Peru (Chicama Valley, Toma del Tesoro / Sausal) Ceramic, H 239 x L 158 x W 220 mm; 1918 g Museo Larco ML009350 coleccion.museolarco.org/detail/10218 #IndigenousArt #AndeanArt
I miss the old brand #CDC
I'm assuming if/when it happens they'll Weekend At Bernie's the situation for as long as humanly possible.
Something to delight in, when it’s sorely needed: in celebration of the greatest concert film of all time being released on IMAX this weekend, here’s Prince’s 1987 performance of “Sign O’ The Times” live in Rotterdam prince.lnk.to/SOTTLIR87 You’ll want to see the whole concert — it’s extraordinary.
One of my postdoc advisors told me "If you're going to be wrong, be wrong in print. That way you get two papers: one where you're wrong and one where you correct the record." (feel obliged to point out that I try to keep my wrong ideas out of print.)
I have to say "weirdos with a project" is one of the better characterizations of Devo that I've heard.
Holy crap I had no idea there's a doc about Devo; saw them on the New Traditionalists tour and still have my missilehead tshirt. Was it good??
Thailand's Constitutional Court on Friday dismissed Paetongtarn Shinawatra from her position as prime minister, ruling that as the country's leader she violated constitutional rules on ethics.
#scijobs
Ann Patchett as well. I do the SB religiously and have many many complaints about it, including the utterly arbitrary nature of decisions about which music-related words count as "common" and which don't.
Yeah, Yersinia, who cares about Yersinia? What has any Yersinia ever done to anyone?
DC STRONG
Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Excellent question. Afraid we’re going to find out.
Dude you are so fuckin blockchain
Canadians? Food? I mean, have you heard of poutine? Or butter tarts? Ain't gonna happen.
Evidently not. Completely fucking shameful.
Fair point!
I made a slight improvement to it a couple of weeks ago: bsky.app/profile/hlei...
Since this all started, I’ve seen people, just regular people, be so, so brave: showing up on street corners to face down men with guns in order to protect their neighbors. I will never ever forgive the powerful people who have watched all this happen and told us we’re saying the wrong words.
Almost did that Friday. Was somehow able to download the paper but when I went to upload my review EM didn't recognize me no matter which of the many passwords I tried; couldn't even login via ORCID. Said out loud "fuck it I'm going to email this to them" and then magically I was able to log in.
Academics and activists have tried to help people see that social problems are structural--that people's struggles often stem from the way systems of power and privilege prevent them from getting by or getting ahead. That kind of structural thinking is inoculation against authoritarianism.
People have embraced authoritarianism in large part because they've been sold individualistic explanations for social problems. If you think people are poor or unhoused because they've made "bad choices," then you'll see appeal in authoritarian leaders who promise to punish those who are "bad."
Tired: talking about egg prices Wired: dank memes to trigger MAGA Inspired: threatening criminal prosecution of fascists
TRUMP: *Signs order to put congressional Democrats in front of a firing squad" NYT: President Trump took the extraordinary step of moving to reduce number of Democratic votes in a legally dubious maneuver that could undermine the independence of the Congress.
Yes, and they’ve been aggressively expanding in the last few years. Biggest medical system in Lansing was recently swallowed up by those fuckers.
#scijobs
One way sighted people can determine what to put in alt text: Imagine you sent the post or article to a friend, and the image didn't load. What would someone need to know to get the equivalent experience and context? This will help you identify the important details.
I mean, Lance Armstrong is a dick but pro cycling was legit exciting when they were all jacked up on everything they could get their hands on.
#scijobs
Not sure if this is of interest, but those cool black lines are areas of the eyes that are specialized for different tasks. A lot of types of flies have massive eyes (like this one does) with specializations like this. The front of the animal really looks like a type of cockpit - it's pretty rad.
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winter squash. used to gag on it as a kid; now I have no idea why.
Greenland breathes sigh of relief as it turns out Trump has decided on a military occupation of the United States instead.
I made a promise to the women of Illinois — as governor, I will ensure your medical decisions will be your own. Now, we continue fulfilling that promise. Public colleges will now provide contraception and medication abortion at on-campus pharmacies and student health centers.
Follow @standupforscience.bsky.social for ways to get involved. Time to get off the sidelines, dorks. We have a democracy to save. ✊🏼❤️
Lake of the Woods in Ontario Canada. #Boreal #nature #canadianshield #photography
Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance 1/2
The news that Jeffrey Dahmer ate people stood out as a bold departure from culinary norms.
NIH: After review, we note that you have a large unspent balance on your grant. Please explain immediately. me: well, uh, yeah, one reason we're not spending on that grant is because NIH terminated it in May along with all the rest of federal funding to Harvard, maybe you don't remember
WOW! Amazing cover -- thanks for posting.
Dammit
Worth a read. 🔽 Given that the Supreme Court has ruled 9-0 that the Trump Administration has denied immigrants their constitutional due process right, one would think that would be good and sufficient reason for local city & state governments not to assist in that endeavor, no?
Can't ID them but from the eyes alone, definitely a fly and not a bee. (Not saying they're not tachinids -- just saying I know my insect eyes.)
Somebody must be buying it because my cousin in Houston reports that the local Costco is selling ICE costumes for Hallowe'en.