First fireflies of the season!

Reposting this old thread on the "Pervasive findings of directional selection" from ancient DNA. While the authors extended their results in various ways, I think many of these points still stand.

Pretty sure this short story doesn’t end with the orchid still on the desk #ChekhovsCat

This, but for when someone on this website reinvents the idea of large-scale subsistence agriculture (“grow your own”) every 6 weeks or so

Baking set to opera. Found this weirdly satisfying.

The College Affordability Crisis is Real, but the Media is Looking at the Wrong Schools Sturges Hall (Photo by Keith Walters ’11) Opinion By Costas Solomou, Vice President, Enrollment Management Published by the Office of Enrollment Management When Yale University released its Committee ...

"the colleges that dominate the headlines are not the colleges that most Americans attend

their core mission: to serve students from all backgrounds, at a price families can actually afford, prepare graduates for real careers and meaningful lives."

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I look forward to their arrival at our feeders every winter, what a handsome bird

Cowsaur seems very Gary Larson - Cant you just picture fledgling cowsaurs as brood parasites in some other nest?

If it’s The mysterious Benedict society I loved reading that book with my kids

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Yes!

Kyoto botanist out there?

This may be lost in the noise--this is as impactful or more than the cuts to NIH and NSF 🧪

I’ll be there

James McMurtry - Forgotten Coast YouTube video by WNRN

On this date in 1513, Juan Ponce de Leon "discovered" the strange land he dubbed "La Florida," which is Spanish for "Look at the size of those cockroaches!" To commemorate this great moment in history, here's one of my fave songs about my fave state, this one from Larry McMurtry's son James.

You can also use our R package to do it from a list of your pubs saved from the web of science bsky.app/profile/brun...

Liberal arts education FTW

It’s really always fossil fuels, right? The consistency is uncanny

I did not know this

Check with a program officer - I’ve been told that programs defaulted to “archived” during the restructure but have not actually been cut

This amazing photo was taken by Commander Reid Wiseman on Artemis II.

What a lot of folks don't realize is that this side of the Earth is illuminated by moonlight, not the sun. And you can see aurora on both poles.

Picture was rotated 180 degrees to provide more familiar orientation.

I will never unsee this and neither will you

Every PI

Well, fuck… maybe the lead we got as kids will stop the virus

Inside Out - Bing Bong Scene (HD) YouTube video by Musical Essence

It’s poignant for different reasons but still makes me think of Bing Bong from Inside Out

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“The researchers noted that the parenting penalty was more pronounced among mothers who were trained in departments without women in senior positions, highlighting the importance of female mentors.”

The state of herbarium specimen backlogs: Perspectives from bryophyte collections An herbarium must have its specimens processed, identified and accessioned so that members of the botanical community can readily consult these materials. However, many herbaria struggle to keep up wi...

Check out our new paper focusing on unaccessioned herbarium specimens. nhcm.pensoft.net/article/1829...
We found that bryophytes and fungi/lichens were over-represented in the specimen backlog, compared to vascular plants. This highlights the need for more bryophyte and fungi/lichen identification!

Ooops! Missed that!

Sphagnum Moss Disperses Spores with Vortex Rings Fluid dynamics similar to those known to drive smoke rings shoot moss spores far and wide.

Sphagnum vortex rings enter the chat

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This is something I’ll repost pretty much regardless of context