Hey you! I am still on the market for jobs this fall! I am an entomologist who specializes in inclusive biology teaching (15+ semesters of collegiate instruction) and a broad array of research skills spanning collection & ID, molecular work (RNAi, Genomics), and phenotyping (behavior, physiology)🧪
Casual FYI that the Tyson family's chromium processing plant in Baltimore gave a lot of people lung cancer, and Dr Anna Baetjer's discovery & proof of this causation basically established the field of environmental toxicology
A wild thread:
490 million years ago, the seafloor which would become the city of Baltimore was a serpentinite-hosted hydrothermal vent complex.
Those vents laid the ultramafic structures that would, in 1812, be discovered as America's first chromite mine.
In 1964, Groucho went to East Berlin with a group that included his radio show director Robert Dwan and his 16-year-old daughter Judith Dwan Hallet. They visited the village of Dornum, where his mother Minnie had been born. and discovered that all the Jewish graves there had been obliterated by the Nazis. Groucho hired a car with a chauffeur, and told the driver to take the group to the bunker where Adolf Hitler was said to have committed suicide. Wearing his trademark beret he climbed the debris and then launched himself, unsmiling, into a frenetic Charleston dance routine. The dance on Hitler's supposed grave lasted a couple of minutes. "Nobody applauded," Hallet recalled. "Nobody laughed."
Hey, it's Hitler's birthday.
A frog in a rowboat reading a book while a fish in the water is also reading a book. The caption at the top reads "It's a Whole Great Big Fun Thing"
A fifteen drawer card catalog with some drawers pulled out and Library of Congress literature in the drawers and on top.
It is National Library Week and the Library of Congress has done a cute nationwide thing with old card catalogs highlighting a lot of their core programs. I'm partial to their "Free to Use and Reuse Sets" but I'm sure we've all got our faves. 📚
newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...
The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.
CFP. The Society for the History of Emotions biennial conference. June 2-4, 2027. Vienna. Emotions in Adversity. societyhistoryemotions.com/she-conferen...
This piece begins with Amity Shlaes' most common and most deceitful trick -- citing the unemployment numbers in 1938, when the country fell into a recession because FDR had been persuaded to *ease off* the New Deal, as proof that the New Deal didn't work.
Pure hackery.
If Heironymous Bosch did a Whitesnake album cover
Christian Slater holding a cigarette and saying: You’re an unscrewed-up reaction to a screwed up situation. Feeling screwed up in a screwed-up place in a screwed-up time does not mean that you are screwed up.
Transformers! More than meets the eye!
This VERY ANGRY ROCK is actually a brown box crab (Echidnocerus foraminatus), a king crab found off the Pacific coast of North America.
The impressively compact shape is a defense posture, but there's an even neater feature not shown here.
(📷:zedasd)
A Kees van Dongen's painting shows a woman with massive bags under her eyes smoking a cigarette.
I have found the most perimenopausal painting.
Nathan Fielder at a Mets game looking unhappy
I'm not Pollyannish about this. I think a lot of people are *casually* cruel.
We're embedded in systems that make cruelty (or maybe more accurately being mean) the default. And people don't necessarily think a lot about it. But when people REALIZE the harm, they're causing most try to stop.
what else is in the teaches of peaches?
star bellied sneeches
I need them
Weird ass Batman TV
And I found the TV:
Weird ass listing for a weird ass Batman remote.
Holy shit, did any one own they back in the day?
I missed our local one, not that I would have been able to do even half of it, but I kind of wanted to try
Black ink drawing of a boxy old television wet with turny knobs
More Objects from Films (Lady Vengeance [2005])
Original drawing for sale at my store
8"x 10" black ink on paper
$150
marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/lady...
Together with Ben Saracco of Rowan University, we helped build out the IDEA Center’s Wi-Fi in Camden! If your organization needs Wi-Fi or other technical support and is interested in our consulting services, reach out to us at info@phillycommunitywireless.org.
Would you rather be an MCU insurance adjuster or an MCU emergency room doctor?
Remember kids, if you spread fake history, I'm going to let Beike fire the cannon.
A fuzzy cat watching a large screen with the back of a donkey’s head in the foreground, and two donkeys and an observatory in the background.
Maggie is also enjoying “Perfectly a
Strangeness,” a short film about three donkeys who find an abandoned astronomical observatory. I’m proud of our artsy Criterion Cat, so erudite and intellectual.
Bean Clubs have been around since the 1800's,
as have people who share seeds.
The 4-H Club has had a Bean Club since the 1930's.
#RanchoGordo, a corporation, has now copywrited the name and apparently the term and are threatening people who use the term.
so nasty, so uncool.
The Adventures of Pete & Pete - What We Did on Our Summer Vacation
Reminder: Pre-orders are LIVE for the hardcover version of THE END TIMES.
badhandbooks.com/purchasedire...
Brass snail
Brass snail mesuring tape
The best thing ive ever found in a garadge sale, a snail that is also a mesuring tape
Tardigrade cake at premiere screening of LIFE UNEARTHED at American Museum of Natural History in NYC! Ariel and Rose posing in front of a 3 foot large tardigrade cake.
Marci Bortman, Wes Swingley, and Ariel Waldman on stage discussing the series.
Ariel on stage introducing the series.
Crowd waiting to eat tardigrade cake.
The most epic premiere screening of my new @pbs.org series LIFE UNEARTHED at @amnh.org this weekend.
Complete with a tardigrade cake by Rose McAdoo!
Watch LIFE UNEARTHED on the PBS app on your streaming device or on Apple TV and Amazon! www.pbs.org/show/life-un...
