I’ve never felt good in a basement, ngl.

Two red hens

Two black and white hens and one red hen

Four chickens moving chaotically

They’re so busy.

Astronauts must be so good at sleeping. That has to be something they select for. I wouldn’t get any sleep because I’d be like “OMG I’M IN SPACE”, which can’t be good for doing science.

Chicken staring me down

Chickens eating lettuce

Chicken running

Lettuce lovers 🥬

Hummingbird behind a bunch of yellow flowers

Hummingbird next to yellow flowers

Anna’s Hummingbird in Napa Valley, CA.

Don’t use AI as a therapist to work through your relationship problems.

We saw red in it too!

Someone laid their first egg!

We don’t know who. Or why she chose to leave it teetering on a ledge. Still proud though.

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

I’ve just been assuming it’s coming back given everything

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of t...

“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪

Four mile skate loop on Lake Morey. No falls this time! ⛸️

We always recognize Kiwi because she goes out of her way to make eye contact 👁️

New preprint from Lindsey Tepfer (@ltjaql.bsky.social) and me! We silenced portions of internal monologues in two films to manipulate participants' access to characters' thoughts. Using ISC and RSA, we found that this aligned later neural processing of the narrative & encoding of trait impressions.

Big fan of Vermont’s first cat cafe that’s also a tattoo parlor.

I broke my tailbone in 2004 and I can feel it in this chair.

Adirondack chairs why

Nooooo not the graduate 😭😭😭

He chooses warmth ❄️☕️

The targeting of immersion schools points changing racial logic. Under neoliberal multiculturalism the teaching of racialized languages was permissible if done in ways that benefited white people. Under neofascism the very idea of racialized languages being taught in school is being criminalized.

Birding in New Orleans 🐦

Limpkin, Ibis, Muscovy ducks

The ducks are domestic 🦆

Me and who at this yarn store this evening or tomorrow? #LSA2026

*elementary school!

Huge turnout from the elementary school students at LSA this year.

A middle school student came to the mic to disagree with this popularity.

“Are we really just saying two numbers?”

Compelling argument.

#LSA2026

6-7 is very popular in the word of the year event comments section at #LSA2026, in part because of its multimodal prosody+iconic gestures component.

love to be a libertarian whose response to the summary execution of an american citizen is “you shouldn’t say bad words”

I don’t think it’s very shocking that someone is shocked and confused and saying confusing things to journalists in the minutes after finding out that their grandchild was orphaned in an event like this.