Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Democrats are underreacting to Donald Trump’s obvious mental decline.

They should be shouting it from the rooftops and on every cable show, just like Republicans did with Joe Biden.

Trump is clearly not well.

from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

How Trump Plans to Make D.C.’s Triumphal Arch One of the World’s Largest (Gift Article) See how President Trump’s proposed arch would dwarf other monumental arches, including the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

It's not the dumbest thing this regime has done but it's pretty dumb.

I would love to see a story cover the institutional distribution of the NSF GRFP awards. E.g.,

MIT (~4.5k undergrads): 88 awards.
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University of Texas system (~200K undergrads): ~63.

#1. Why I don't go in the ocean.

Ceasefire’s going about as well as a Trump casino. I seem to remember Kamala Harris saying something about dictators eating Trump for lunch. They sure chewed him up and spit him out on this one. Art of the deal, indeed.

Unbinned contigs expand known diversity in the global microbiome - Nature Microbiology Re-analysis of over 92,000 metagenomes reveals hundreds of thousands of previously undescribed Bacterial and Archaeal clades hidden in plain sight.

There is a lot of undescribed prokaryotic diversity in existing whole-genome metagenomic data!
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Check out our newest preprint! 📝 We find that adaptation on coevolutionary fitness landscapes is highly repeatable, but landscape-specific, and intergenomic epistasis creates coevolutionary fitness load for interacting species due to frequent fitness trade-offs 🏋️

Check out the gorgeous cover of our new issue! In the cover article @quentinevo.bsky.social and colleagues show that pleiotropy in neural crest cells can generate contrasting patterns of skull evolution, enabling rapid evolution of a syndrome. doi.org/10.1093/evle... Image credit Q Horta-Lacueva

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

Slaughtering our golden goose: massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The first women being admitted as undergraduates at Columbia University is something that happened in my lifetime. There’s a lot we take for granted that is ~2-3 generations old, and people in power are actively trying to undo a lot of it.

Yalee" DAILY News Q Yale College ending summer storage funding for low-income students Yale's aid for summer storage arrangements, which began in 2023 after students could no longer keep items in their residential colleges, will be fully phased out. Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis urged students "not to buy too much stuff."

THE @yale.edu ENDOWMENT IS $44 BILLION

And this asshole has the fucking nerve to tell poor students “My recommendation is not to buy too much stuff,”

Fuck you Pericles Lewis. The Ivy Leagues are such trash.

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Harvard Peabody Museum Still Holds 46 Percent of Native American Ancestors, New Data Shows | News | The Harvard Crimson The Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology still holds 46 percent of the Native American ancestors in its collections, according to newly released data, falling short of a 2022 pledge to…

The Harvard Peabody Museum still holds 46% of the Native American ancestors in its collections, falling short of a 2022 pledge to repatriate all ancestors and their funerary belongings within 3 years.

Shalini N. Ramchune reports.

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The Relevance and Resilience of Evo‐Devo in 2025: The Biennial Meeting of the Pan American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology Click on the article title to read more.

"The Relevance and Resilience of Evo‐Devo in 2025" thank you @evodevopanam.bsky.social for highlighting my postdoc work on nectar feeding bats 🦇 🌺 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Nature has already run billions of biological experiments.

Stowers scientist @batevodevo.bsky.social, Ph.D. joined @npr.org's All Things Considered to discuss how researchers study unusual species—like bats and pythons—to uncover clues about #metabolism, disease, and human health. 🦇

🎧 n.pr/4c2mlbj

🔥 Whale Shark gliding through Bioluminescent Algae looks like its floating through space. By Mike Nulty

Second- or third-year PhD student in biological or biomedical sciences? Get ready — applications for our #GilliamFellows Program open Sept. 1! Robust research support, incredible scientific community, & tailored professional development that can transform a PhD journey. 🧪 bit.ly/4bjdTmr

🎉 The overall winner of this year’s #DanceYourPhD contest is Sofia Papa. She and five other dancers re-create the piezoelectric effect, the ability of some crystalline materials to generate electricity when subjected to stress.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4rtrGgq

Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

Torsional flexibility of the thoracic spine is superior to that of the lumbar spine in cats: Implications for the falling cat problem anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

But they said he was “The peace president.” 🥴

As an evolutionary biologist anything less than 1 million years feels 'new' 😂

LIVE: PEOPLE’S STATE OF THE UNION as Dems BOYCOTT TRUMP YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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Black-and-white photo of a mostly white calico cat peeking out from under a chair

Black-and-white photo of a short haired, mostly white calico cat rising up on her haunches to swat at a toy that is out of the frame.

Black-and-white photo of a mostly white calico cat stretching up on her hind legs to reach for a stuffed mouse toy that is in the upper right hand corner of the frame.

Black-and-white photo of a mostly white calico cat doing a big stretch with her front paws placed on a stuffed mouse toy.

Found this wonderful set of photos of an absolute doll. 💕 From my collection, no date/info.

No animal alive today is ‘primitive’ – why are so many still labeled that way? All species alive today, from chimpanzees to bacteria, are cousins that each have equally long lineages, rather than ancestors or descendants of one another.

The idea that humans sit atop an evolutionary hierarchy dates back to 1866, when a scientist drew the first tree of life with "Man" at the top. This inaccurate view still shapes how we think of the animal world, despite decades of genomic evidence proving evolution has no hierarchy.

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