: Absolutely charming episode of One Year 1990 about one guy’s fight against tobacco ads targeting his …
: The California Faculty Association, which represents me and thousands of other faculty in the …
: Donations to GOP drop as worries mount about the party’s finances Gift link for some very good and …
: Hiked to Barclay Lake, still below the current snow line but not too low for frost
: Thanksgiving contributions this year: Pumpkin upside-down cake from the Post …
: “I added Teddy Roosevelt to the list of bocce enthusiasts on the ‘bocce’ [Wikipedia] page. Soon this …
: Absolutely deranged quiz-article about generational communication styles in the Post. These aren’t …
: The “wait why is Bookshop emailing about an incoming delivery” to OMGOMG MURDERBOT pipeline
: You may not like it but this is what peak academic mentoring looks like
: “I can see accidentally saying something like, ‘I love to stand on a balcony’ or ‘I am interested to …
: “Such destructive, megalomaniacal leaders with delusional goals and narcissistic traits seen …
: “Renaming the birds, in contrast [to evaluating centuries of historical figures with birds …
: “You’ll wish you had gone into botany!” — Captain Benjamin Sisko
: Set my PR in the 10k and all it took was shutting down seven miles of the 110 freeway …
: Christopher Pike, captain of the starship Enterprise:
: “Isn’t it just as plausible that, if you think things are getting better, you will grab …
: I just voted to authorize my union, the California Faculty Association, to call a strike in the …
: House Cats Will Rule the World: Domestic cats may evolve into the alpha predators of the future. …
: Actually looked at the back of the new edition of my #evolution textbook just before class and had …
: Sunday I ran a personal best half-marathon (Strava clocked 1:29:02??) but the course was about a …
: For a new week: I dug into the history of a definition I’ve used my entire career, and …
: “I’ll be very honest with you, it partly came about because of . . . [Sir Patrick Stewart mimes …
: If the states are laboratories of democracy, some of these labs need an IACUC review How red-state …
: “Meta is saying, ‘we have decimated the American media, removed our competitors, built …
: On the one hand this sounds insane as I type it out but on the other hand, it makes perfect sense: I …
: CSUN Biology, my department, is hiring for TWO tenure-track positions in Molecular, Cellular and …
: It’s cool enough to tolerate a 500°F oven in the apartment so I’m baking the first batch of …
: New office desk-drawer snack dropped
: Nobody in academia really knows what they’re paid to do …
: Spare a thought for federal employees, waiting to find out whether a loony minority of their bosses …
: California sea lions (Zalopus californianus) lounging on a buoy off Ventura flic.kr/p/2oD3zjh …
: Today’s minuscule victory: watching the coffee shop staff debate whether they had iced coffee to …
: Cliff asters (Malacothrix saxatilis, maybe var. implicata?) on Santa Cruz Island this spring …
: Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) in the tidal marsh at Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge …
: Lupine (Lupinus albifrons, I think?) on Santa Cruz Island this spring flic.kr/p/2oDuNS2 #naturalist …
: Northern elk (Cervus elaphus) along the Hoh River trail in Olympic National Park flic.kr/p/2oWUToq …
: Island paintbrush (Castilleja hololeuca) on Santa Cruz Island this spring flic.kr/p/2oDptY9 …
: Sticky phacelia (Phacelia viscida) on Santa Cruz Island this spring flic.kr/p/2oDpt9P #naturalist …
: A hairy woodpecker (Dryobates villosus) in action at Westport Light State Park, Westport, Washington …
: Fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium) along the trail to Monte Cristo in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie …
: Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) in the underbrush at Westport Light State Park, …
: Happy fall semester to all who celebrate (gods have mercy on us all)
: Partridgefoot (Luetkea pectinata) along the Pacific Crest trail in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness …
: Submitting the Big Summer Paper on the last Friday before the semester starts
: Fruits of red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea) along the shore of Lake Quinault, Olympic National Park …
: My office Joshua tree, at least, is ready for the new semester
: A green anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica) on the edge of a late-afternoon tidepool at Second …
: This little deer mouse (I think? Peromyscus maniculatus) walked right out in front of us, …
: A woodland skipper (Ochlodes sylvanoides) nectaring on alfalfa (Medicago sativa) near the Point …
: Rain totals across #LosAngeles as of this morning, from LAist: almost 3 inches in downtown, more …
: Just a couple years ago a Master’s student in my lab turned down a great offer for PhD research at a …
: Douglas’s squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii) in the Hoh Rainforest, Olympic National Park …
: Chestnut-backed chickadee (Poecile rufescens) in the Hoh Rainforest flic.kr/p/2oX1qLg #bird …
: [tossed salads and scrambled eggs intensify]
: Red alders (Alnus rubra) on the bank of the South Fork Sauk River en route to Monte Cristo, …
: I for one wish Mitch McConnell a modestly comfortable recuperation and permanent retirement.