husband and I just bought our first electric car and the number one feature I think it’s missing is a leaderboard for trips with the best mi/kWh

Student included a photo of their cat wearing a little sweater in their lab notebook submission and unfortunately it turns out that this does work on me

One more complaint or demand from my class that they "need" access to lecture slides on Canvas to study and I will go full retro-mode and diagram everything by hand on the whiteboard. Take your own notes. Draw your own pictures. That is literally how you learn.

there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

truly expected the date on this post to be 4/1 lmao

making sure the nursery has plenty of warm indirect lighting so my son never has to know the violence of the Big Light

it is 2026 why does every quote for every service require a phone call during working hours

teaching lab courses while 8 months pregnant

Achieved a first-year teaching goal
I didn’t even know I had: student called me “goated” in the course eval

a blonde dude with lots of tattoos and jeffrey dahmer glasses looks moodily at the camera with a Very Cool t-shirt with a goth girl on it, surrounded by flowers. Underneath it says Plant Native Plants

A person with glasses in a lovely backyard and long brown hair wears a black t-shirt that says biology is bigger than binaries with a honeybee, lily, and clownfish on it

We have 2 cool shirts! I have to sell them out by early April for 2 reasons:

1) 5 of my family members are staying in the Skype a Scientist stockroom in mid-April 😅
2) I need to fund our mural project which starts the first week of April!

They're soft! They're cute! Get a shirt!
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Tales of Sulfur and Metal 🤘😎🤘

Speaking of Providence-specific soup, did you ever go to Angkor when they were still around? They had this “medicine soup” that I still think about on a regular basis and have never encountered anywhere else

Time spent knitting: ~2 weeks

Time spent stressing about and procrastinating sewing the flannel backing on: ~5 months

Time spent just doing the damn sewing: 1 day

Knit baby blanket using intarsia to make a scene of sheep on a hillside, backed with sheep-patterned flannel

Y’all please look at the baby blanket I made, I am unreasonable proud of it as someone who cannot sew and will not learn

Have I ever actually even read these two? No. Would I get upset if they disappeared from my office? Absolutely yes

If there’s one thing about me it’s that I will leave a zoom call entirely before I allow myself to be placed in a breakout room

fuck yes

yeah I do inbox zero but my real freak behavior is that I _also_ do downloads folder zero

PcdA promotes orthogonal division plane selection in Staphylococcus aureus - Nature Microbiology PcdA interacts with DivIVA and FtsZ, promoting Z-ring formation and division plane selection in Staphylococcus aureus, which increases virulence in mice and reduces sensitivity to cell-wall-targeting ...

@felixrl.bsky.social reported that PcdA mediates orthogonal cell division in #Staphylococcus aureus: www.nature.com/articles/s41....

But what’s the point? Well, forming staphylococcal abscess communities to evade host immune responses requires this mode of division:
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

wow, it’s finally time! DM me if you’d like the zoom link 🥰

An orange and white cat laying down in an open dog crate

crate training the dog is going great, why do you ask

!!! hell yeah!

also this poster is so good dude

GOT TORRENTIAL!! 🌀

This was a fun project that started in lab meeting four years ago when our lab was discussing how different anti-phage immune mechanisms might be useful in different contexts and when a uniquely RNA-centric immune system like type VI might be advantageous.

is there a worse form of torture than having to listen to your own voice while checking the audio recording of your lecture

the rational response to learning of Epstein's 24/7 access to white-glove treatment from some of the world's best surgeons and medical practitioners is to conclude that privatized health care is a moral, ethical, and medical catastrophe. it's reasonable to call for the whole system to be rethought

waking up this morning like 🤩