Absolutely charming episode of One Year 1990 about one guy’s fight against tobacco ads targeting his community
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The California Faculty Association, which represents me and thousands of other faculty in the Calstate system, moves one step closer to a strike following the conclusion of a statutory fact-finding period with no resolution in bargaining editor.des05.com/vo/
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Donations to GOP drop as worries mount about the party’s finances
Gift link for some very good and welcome schadenfreude
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Hiked to Barclay Lake, still below the current snow line but not too low for frost
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Thanksgiving contributions this year:
Pumpkin upside-down cake from the Post www.washingtonpost.com/recipes/s…
And cranberry chutney from NPR www.npr.org/2023/11/1…
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“I added Teddy Roosevelt to the list of bocce enthusiasts on the ‘bocce’ [Wikipedia] page. Soon this fact appeared on the home page of the United States Bocce Federation.”
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Absolutely deranged quiz-article about generational communication styles in the Post.
These aren’t even contrasting options????
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The “wait why is Bookshop emailing about an incoming delivery” to OMGOMG MURDERBOT pipeline
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You may not like it but this is what peak academic mentoring looks like
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“I can see accidentally saying something like, ‘I love to stand on a balcony’ or ‘I am interested to see more fashion by Hugo Boss,’ but those are not the kinds of things we are talking about.”
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“Such destructive, megalomaniacal leaders with delusional goals and narcissistic traits seen as virtues by Musk… are lampooned in the iconic, literal-world-destroying character of Zaphod Beeblebrox.”
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“Renaming the birds, in contrast [to evaluating centuries of historical figures with birds named after them], offered an opportunity to highlight unique features of the birds themselves.”
#BirdNamesForBirds on NPR this morning
#wildlife #naturalist #birds
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“You’ll wish you had gone into botany!” — Captain Benjamin Sisko
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Set my PR in the 10k and all it took was shutting down seven miles of the 110 freeway strava.app.link/tbtnuiBDi…
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Boosted, finally
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Christopher Pike, captain of the starship Enterprise:
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“Isn’t it just as plausible that, if you think things are getting better, you will grab everything you can, guilt-free, confident that a rising tide will inevitably lift all boats?” davekarpf.substack.com/p/on-tech…
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I just voted to authorize my union, the California Faculty Association, to call a strike in the event that the California State University system management keeps refusing to engage with CFA’s requests in our current contract negotiation. I don’t want to strike, but if we have to do it I’m ready.
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LAMB MOWERS
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House Cats Will Rule the World: Domestic cats may evolve into the alpha predators of the future.
Jonathan Losos, in Slate, on the ecological opportunity the anthropocene presents to feral cats
#evolution #ecology #anthropocene #cats
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Actually looked at the back of the new edition of my #evolution textbook just before class and had to take a moment
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Sunday I ran a personal best half-marathon (Strava clocked 1:29:02??) but the course was about a quarter-mile long and my timing chip glitched (fix requested, still waiting) so it’s probably not an official sub-1:30 half, so… try, try again?
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For a new week: I dug into the history of a definition I’ve used my entire career, and discovered… we may not need it?
Don’t ask “When is it coevolution?” — ask “How is it coevolution?”
#evolution #ecology #science
www.molecularecologist.com/2023/10/1…
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“I’ll be very honest with you, it partly came about because of . . . [Sir Patrick Stewart mimes smoking a joint.]”
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If the states are laboratories of democracy, some of these labs need an IACUC review
How red-state politics are shaving years off Americans’ lives wapo.st/46C87IJ
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“Meta is saying, ‘we have decimated the American media, removed our competitors, built our advertising monopoly, and we are done pretending we care.'” https://open.substack.com/pub/garbageday/p/why-do-facebook-users-keep-commenting?r=5a4s7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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On the one hand this sounds insane as I type it out but on the other hand, it makes perfect sense: I have never been more confident in my grasp of basic statistics than I have after five weeks of explaining basic statistics to a classroom full of grad students
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CSUN Biology, my department, is hiring for TWO tenure-track positions in Molecular, Cellular and (or) Physiological Biology
I’m not on the committee and it’s not my “area,” but I’m happy to answer questions about the department, CSUN, or life in greater LA
careers.pageuppeople.com/873/nr/en…
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It’s cool enough to tolerate a 500°F oven in the apartment so I’m baking the first batch of #sourdough I’ve made in … maybe six months? Looks like my starter held up!
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New office desk-drawer snack dropped
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Nobody in academia really knows what they’re paid to do scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2023/09/1…
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Spare a thought for federal employees, waiting to find out whether a loony minority of their bosses are going to make them wait for one or more paychecks wapo.st/48s8w2r
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California sea lions (Zalopus californianus) lounging on a buoy off Ventura
#naturalist #wildlife #California
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Today’s minuscule victory: watching the coffee shop staff debate whether they had iced coffee to sell me, then discover a whole fresh pitcher of iced coffee, then serve me what turned out to be a medium cold brew
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Cliff asters (Malacothrix saxatilis, maybe var. implicata?) on Santa Cruz Island this spring
#naturalist #photography #plant #wildflower #ChannelIslands #California
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Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) in the tidal marsh at Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
#naturalist #photography #wildlife #bird #WashingtonState
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Lupine (Lupinus albifrons, I think?) on Santa Cruz Island this spring
#naturalist #photography #plant #wildflower #ChannelIslands #California
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Northern elk (Cervus elaphus) along the Hoh River trail in Olympic National Park
#naturalist #photography #wildlife #WashingtonState
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Island paintbrush (Castilleja hololeuca) on Santa Cruz Island this spring
#naturalist #photography #plant #wildflower #ChannelIslands #California
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Sticky phacelia (Phacelia viscida) on Santa Cruz Island this spring
#naturalist #photography #plant #wildflower #ChannelIslands #California
<img src=“https://jbyoder.micro.blog/uploads/2023/52931830707-5f4323c5da-k.jpg" width=“600” height=“450” alt=“A single flower with pale blue petals framing a white central “throat”, with stamens exerted”>
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A hairy woodpecker (Dryobates villosus) in action at Westport Light State Park, Westport, Washington
#naturalist #photography #wildlife #bird #WashingtonState
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Fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium) along the trail to Monte Cristo in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
#naturalist #photography #plant #wildflower #WashingtonState
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Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) in the underbrush at Westport Light State Park, Westport, Washington
#naturalist #photography #wildlife #bird #WashingtonState
<img src=“https://jbyoder.micro.blog/uploads/2023/53130742704-41f411e8ec-k.jpg" width=“600” height=“450” alt=“A classic chickadee with black cap, white “mask” and gray-and-white flanks, perched on a twig, in profile”>
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Happy fall semester to all who celebrate (gods have mercy on us all)
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Partridgefoot (Luetkea pectinata) along the Pacific Crest trail in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness
#naturalist #photography #plant #wildflower #WashingtonState
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Submitting the Big Summer Paper on the last Friday before the semester starts
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Fruits of red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea) along the shore of Lake Quinault, Olympic National Park
#naturalist #plants #photography #WashingtonState
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My office Joshua tree, at least, is ready for the new semester
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A green anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica) on the edge of a late-afternoon tidepool at Second Beach, Olympic National Park
flic.kr/p/2oWXZ4G
#naturalist #wildlife #photography #WashingtonState
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This little deer mouse (I think? Peromyscus maniculatus) walked right out in front of us, unbothered, on the Storm King trail in Olympic National Park
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A woodland skipper (Ochlodes sylvanoides) nectaring on alfalfa (Medicago sativa) near the Point Wilson lighthouse outside Port Townsend, Washington
#wildflower #plants #butterfly #photography #WashingtonState
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Rain totals across #LosAngeles as of this morning, from LAist: almost 3 inches in downtown, more than 4.5 in the Valley, and SIX AND A HALF INCHES in Santa Clarita
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Just a couple years ago a Master’s student in my lab turned down a great offer for PhD research at a Florida university over, basically, being worried about moving to a red state. At the time I thought he was being a bit paranoid, but at this point? I think he made the right call.
#LGBTQ #USpolitics #Florida
www.tallahassee.com/story/opi…
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Douglas’s squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii) in the Hoh Rainforest, Olympic National Park
#wildlife #photography #WashingtonState
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Chestnut-backed chickadee (Poecile rufescens) in the Hoh Rainforest
#bird #wildlife #WashingtonState
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[tossed salads and scrambled eggs intensify]
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Test post with jewelweed
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Red alders (Alnus rubra) on the bank of the South Fork Sauk River en route to Monte Cristo, Washington
flic.kr/p/2oNswiE
#tree #plants #photography #WashingtonState
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I for one wish Mitch McConnell a modestly comfortable recuperation and permanent retirement.
