So the Trump administration’s two goals in peace talks with Iran are:
1. A commitment by Iran not to develop a nuke (This was part of the Obama deal that Trump canceled)
2. Opening the Strait of Hormuz. (Was open before war.)
Barred Owls Anthony Bourdain
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“Who cooks for you?”
The primary cause of the national debt is that the very wealthy don’t pay taxes. Migrants pay their share. The oligarchs Miller fronts for do not.
This whole line of thinking is just insane to me. If you don’t want to participate in educating and mentoring the next generation of scientists and thinkers you are welcome to choose a different profession.
“In our culture, preferring an algorithm to a trainee feels like a betrayal of the academic mission.”
That’s because it is.
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If you - like myself - are scrapped for time to dig into papers these days, I discuss my recent urban stopover paper on this episode (which I learned was a first for TMIB)!
For the first time in league history, the WNBA generated enough revenue in 2025 to trigger revenue sharing with players. Players will receive $8 million.
The union will also pay out $9.25 million from revenue generated from its group licensing program.
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The irony of cognitive neuroscientists, many of which deride my research on bird brains, finding that birding might help mitigate cognitive decline is not lost on me.
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#neuroskyence #birding
Not sure, we didn’t have funding for open access
Good question - prob both! We couldnt look at this explicitly, but a cool relevant finding: there seems to be a region-specific relationship between stopover density ~ urbanization. That is, in the eastern U.S., more urban = lower stopover. But in the western U.S., more urban = higher stopover 🤯
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A study I led came out in Nature Cities yesterday!
We used radar to study the role that urban landscapes play in migratory bird stopover. Spoiler: birds use cities a lot, and the patterns of their use reflect social processes and the inequities embedded in them.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Motion to add “Performative male” as an eBird breeding code
Evidence shows feds lied about Marimar Martinez's shooting in Chicago, attorney says
@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Photo of Charles Darwin with the quote “I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.” -Charles Darwin
Apparently it’s #DarwinDay, so I’m sharing the most relatable quote by any scientist ever
Where is the syllabus to go along with bad bunny performance? This is going to generate a lot of intellectual interest in historie.
I just called this place and asked how to donate, they are @leostowingmn on Venmo
Never beating the “birds aren’t real” allegations if American wigeons keep sounding like that
Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths
'I am their voice'
NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"One bad year could kill one of our favorite scientific societies."
In my latest story for @science.org, I explored how U.S. conferences fared over the last year amid concerns about an attendance slump.
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Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Martinez took five bullets from a CBP agent, and DHS went into overdrive claiming she was an armed threat to the agents who were merely defending themselves. Sound familiar?
BREAKING: Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino has been carried away by a small Minnesota owl, reportedly used to patch tiny hole in nest
“All you’re doing is terrorizing us, scaring people. There’s little kids,” one person shouted at Bovino and other agents, blocks from where the arrest happened.”
“Claudia Zuno, who is staunchly opposed to the street upgrades, said the project felt “unnecessary” and that cyclists should avoid the area due to its heavy truck presence.”
This really captures the opposition to pedestrian upgrades & bike lanes. Drivers feel bikers do not belong on Archer Ave.
Millions of Democratic voters on Tuesday: Fight these guys. Fight them.
Senate Democrats: We heard you loud and clear and we will give in
FULL STORY: Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who led a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and its suburbs, lied about firing tear gas at protesters in Little Village and tackling a man outside the Broadview ICE facility, a federal judge said Thursday. @wttw.bsky.social
