Thanks Andrew! Really hope we can get together soon, and I'm happy to be your Maine prof colleague.

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

This tiny monument appeared in my driveway today. The crows or the squirrels may have invented religion.

In my first day back as a tenured professor, I sent out an email announcing a summer research program and accidentally listed the deadline as today, getting dozens of frantic emails from students. Off to a great start!

I have finally grabbed the brass ring: I have earned tenure.

Thank you to my colleagues at Colby College and around the world for your support and compassion. I love you all, and I pledge to use my position to pay your kindness forward.

You got some great shots. I wasn't able to capture anything. Except a feeling of awe and wonder at nature's majesty, etc.

I made a physical model of the Survivor Bias Airplane. Now with a frame and a home on my office wall.

fat squirrel

@washingtonpost.com I would like to take over #SquirrelWeek now that John Kelly has retired

The oVert specimen digitization project has wrapped up. Here is a summary of accomplishments and goals for the next push to make museum specimens more useful.

Explicit mention of #SciArt
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Here's @franzanth.bsky.social's reconstruction of Mieridduryn, one of the unique Welsh fossils held in NMW. Even though I published on it, I still haven't seen it in person, and might never be able to if these cuts happen 😡🧪

Help stop them: petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...

A bottle of some organic solvent (ether would be my guest) has probably had the solvent spill or come into contact with the inked label containing chemical safety information, resulting in the letters sliding apart into a chaotic mess of distinct letters in no particular shape or alignment. Sigma-Aldrich makes most of these types of bottles, but the homonym "Sigma-Eldritch" suggests Cthulu type horrors and madness.

The new chaotropic solvent arrived from Sigma-Eldritch.

(from Reddit.com/r/labrats)

He's a down on his luck Catholic missionary.
She's an island overrun with snakes.
Can they set aside their differences? It would take a miracle.

Hugh Jackman and the nation of Ireland in: St Patrick's Day

6. To put it somewhat bluntly, we just happen to be dismantling an HigherEd infrastructure which has long been the envy of the world for the edification of billionaires at exactly the moment when it is about to start serving a predominantly non-white population of students.

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Making them into incestuous hedonists was a weird choice. Then they killed Hugh, which is unforgivable.

Absorbed right through her thick skull.

Miss Harvard's Finishing School for Young Assholes

I'd be a traveling tinker. I'm more sure of that than I am of my role in modern times.

Given the way things are going I think we should all delete our social media accounts and go back to the original communication method: secreting chemicals into the ooze that surrounds us and blindly extending protuberances in search of the chemicals others have left.

The return of utopian scifi!

I'm always pleasantly surprised to find other 40K nerds in the wild 😁

Well I for one am glad. We all know that Harvard professors are notoriously *too* present and caring and attentive to student needs.

You think "they're so cute I'll just get one" and then before you know it...😄

True. I'm open but unconvinced. Of course my solutions toward diversity and inclusion would be much more radical, but no one is asking me.

Yes. The problem is that almost everything favors dumb, rich, white people. It's not surprising that test optional + status quo favored them, too. I'm not sure that the argument for mandatory tests has been made.

Sorting through guests at my insect hotels » Colin Purrington When the weather is cold and rainy in winter, I entertain myself by bringing the nests from my bee and wasp hotels inside for photo ops and cleaning. With a hot cup of tea (I’m in a cold basement), I ...

In case anyone is curious who checked into my insect hotels during the 2023 season, here are pics. #invertebrates 🌿colinpurrington.com/2024/01/sorting-through-...

These would be hilarious *if and only if* she found it funny, too. The only good prank is one everyone can enjoy.

Excuse me Engineering is a four year degree plus a licensing exam and all of it involves *math*. How dare you think you could just "figure out" chocolate bars and paper.

So much for the tolerant Left!

The Biden Administration Has Reached Conservation Records in 2023 After three years in office, it is clear that the Biden administration is safeguarding public lands at a record rate; in the coming year, it must continue its conservation progress through community-l...

The Biden-Harris administration has been by far the best in terms of climate change, endangered species conservation, and science-based environmental management decisions. It’s not close. As a conservation policy scientist, I’d be strongly supporting them even if Trump wasn’t the alternative.
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