"You can’t do something consequential without consequences."

I love this piece. It really resonated with my brain, which this morning is still swirling with the ideas about growing up I found in Emma Knight's The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus that I just finished.

Congrats, that is awesome!

Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.

www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

Beautiful! This spring really has been perfect

Paris-Roubaix really delivered. What a fantastic race

Plush pink cherry blossom trees in front of a clear blue sky

Love finding bluebells, there are many in Druid hill park! Hard not to love the cherry blossoms the past couple days, too

Q: Do you want to talk about football? A: No.

Ah so sad seeing your happy pre-match faces. Sorry it went the way it did, but hope you all can find some parts of the trip to enjoy regardless!

I'm tired robbie

Very well deserved!!

The nicest weather in the USA today will occur around Baltimore, MD

WE DID IT!

Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.

a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van Alt: a cartoon of two spidermans pointing at each other

But this was cooler to more people, it's different! Plus, I've heard you say the exact same thing to other people so

Thank you @arsenalamerica.bsky.social for sending us there, with these amazing seats to boot 🔴⚪

A white flag with a red cannon waves in a packed stadium. People in the foreground are also holding up red plastic bags; across the pitch, we can see that the seating sections are striped in alternating red and white blocks as a result. It's dusk and the stadium lights are bright.

One year anniversary of the best day of my life

A year ago today Declan Rice did this

Kind of you to say so, thank you! I really enjoyed my trip through the Snapchat archives to dig this out 😂

A very nonsensical graph. The x axis is "things I've dropped" with labels of "iPhone" and "AN EXPENSIVE PIPETTE"; the y axis is "things I've splashed" with labels that include "turkey", "2 turkeys" and "bok choy". Individual data points are represented by very large @ symbols with extreme jitter.

In today's ggplot lecture, could think of no better way to drive home the lesson that the best way to learn R is by trying to break stuff than reminiscing of fun grad school times when we'd make @aemarquardt.bsky.social's graphs as silly as possible if she left her code unattended (sorry Ashley) 😂

A little over an hour and a half. I'd been keeping an eye on it the past few days where people reported no trouble at all though, so it seems to vary wildly. The line entirely stopped growing probably ~30 min after I joined, too. Wish I had better advice, good luck!!

Hot take: If you're an Orioles fan but have never actually spent time in Baltimore City outside of Camden Yards, you really ought to change that

At BWI in quite possibly the longest line I've ever seen. It snakes back and forth down the length of the concourse. Seemingly just one security checkpoint open, no pre check. Wild

Applications Open for 2026–2027 Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Neuroscience Applications Open for 2026–2027 Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Neuroscience on Simons Foundation

An amazing opportunity for students to get their foot in the door for neuroscience research!

Great to see a program explicitly welcome applicants from community colleges and folks with no prior experience!!

www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/03/10/a...

As a liquor professional, my version of this is noting that the color chartreuse is named after the liqueur.

Wish I were still on a bike in the woods. That sucked.

Sorry, I can really empathize with the Manchester City comeback story after one season of struggle.

A woman stands in front of a bike. Behind her is the Washington monument & reflecting pool. The sky is overcast

A gravel path twists and turns through bare trees that all appear to lean towards the left side of the image, their branches reaching towards the river that is visible at the edge of the photo. A man is riding a bike on the path

A gravel road with snowy banks on either side. It is actively snowing. A man is riding a bike on the road in the distance

The mouth of an old steel bridge in front of a blue sky with fluffy white cotton ball clouds. There are patches of snow on the path to the bridge, as well as the ground below

Back to reality after cycling to Pittsburgh

me counting down the hours until a football match that will almost definitely stress me out for two hours

Gas in the US has been so much "cheaper" than that in other places like the UK & Europe for a long time; instead of in dollars, we're *all* paying for it by way of these & other externalities. Is it worth it? (no)

$1 BILLION a day for a war.
That same $1B could instead could in the US:
- Fund ~40% of the U.S. HIV treatment program
- Feed ~5.6 million people for a month through SNAP
- Equal ~¼ of the entire federal homelessness budget
Every. Single. Day.