U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections

NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

Terraforming Mars!

@barbabney.bsky.social my husband and I listen to you basically every Saturday night when we play board games. I was just saying to my husband, I know it's not a request show anymore, but I'm going to message Barb and see if she'll play Silly Love Songs and then... It came on the radio! Thanks!

I don't use this platform enough for this to work, but by chance are there any microbiologists out there with Chromobacterium violaceum strains Cv017 and Cv026 for AHL quorum sensing? #microbiology #quorumsensing

I'm so sad about this 😭 and I feel like I should have a more momentous request, but I also can't stop listening to Dracula by Tame Impala so that's my final 😭 request

The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost.
Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions.
No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.

Oh but it makes Iowa smell so good

Requesting bad guy by Billie Eilish!

Hearing your voice reminded me I forgot to reply - definitely helped, thank you! 😊

Thank you!

Please play Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan so that @masbenmaas.bsky.social may finally learn the correct lyrics 🤷

Jfc.

The front of a Cap'n Crunch's Oops! All Berries box, but it is edited to instead say "Oops! All Juncos" and instead of the captain's face there is a hastily edited picture of a Dark-eyed Junco, with a dark gray head, black eye, and pink beak. There is also a hastily edited photo of a junco in flight, showing off their white belly and white tail-edges.

Looking for early warblers with high-pitch trills and white tail flashes but the park is like:

This is now a political post.

Oh shit can I add this retroactively?

Ah yes, the long tradition of Republicans inheriting a strong economy and completely tanking it. I hope that we have elections again so that Democrats can continue the tradition of cleaning up the mess. I wish more people could understand this.

Such a fun time to be teaching microbiology this year...
"The famous influenza pandemic of 1918 that infected 20% of the world’s population and killed more people than World War I
was a viral strain that arose as a mutant form of an influenza strain infecting birds..."

You’ve been clear in saying that Covid has not gone away. You ask people to wear masks at your events. But that attitude is not necessarily where the rest of the world is. How do you think about continuing to take precautions and advising others to do so when it feels as if society has moved on? I do it for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, I have learned that I enjoy not being sick. I know that the cost of long Covid is real and substantial, and I don’t want to run that risk lightly. I also know that I have many friends and people I’m close to who are immunocompromised. So for the sake of the people around me, I also don’t want to get sick. When I do events, I wear a mask for those reasons, and because I know that every time I do a talk, while the vast majority of people in the audience have probably moved on, there are going to be other people who haven’t. I think it makes a huge difference to them to have the person at the front of the stage wear a mask. It tells them, It’s not weird. So I do it for that reason, too. In terms of holding this line at a point when a large swath of society has moved on, I have written a lot about the panic-neglect cycle.

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

www.kyivpost.com/post/47630

Attendee dragged out of Kootenai County Republican townhall COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho – A woman attending a Kootenai County Republican Central Committee townhall on Saturday appeared to be dragged from the meeting.

Who protects us when the police are assaulting us.

Watching Die Hard 2 and laughing at the woman joking about it being the 90s and talking on a corded phone on the airplane.

Woman next to her - ON THE PLANE - pulls out and turns on a taser. 😅

Are we sure Katy Perry's song Hot N Cold isn't about someone with the flu?

My lab has a position for a programmer--if you have programming skills and have recently left the NIH please contact me.

I was discussing gene expression of the diphtheria toxin today in class and a student raised their hand and asked what diphtheria was.

I said, you haven't heard of it because there's a vaccine for it.

I'm going to tell myself this was one of my parasitology students

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Roses are red
Violets are blue

Says the man with 34 felonies.

Fighting facism is a full-time job

Roses are red,
Elon's a knob,

America's president, an illegal alien South African, meeting with India's Prime Minister Modi.