birds: they will never email you. and that’s a promise.

They're just little guys. You can look at them for free and you can look at them up close if you pay for Bird Premium (binoculars or camera). They're just doing behaviors. They will never email you.

It’s nuts. The number of different submissions, each of which has a special interface with bespoke questions…

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Several of my students asked me if I’ve seen the movie and each immediately followed up with “did the centrifuge scene make you angry?!”

I read it in middle school and have basically no memory of it, so I do not have opinions on it. I imagine I would if I re-read it.

I do very much have Opinions on Jurassic Park, starting with why the hell would you use frog DNA.

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There is a very popular “hard sci fi” novel turned movie in theaters now that takes great pains to explain how selection experiments on microbes caused them to evolve the ability to travel through an airtight material, and as an evolutionary biologist it’s hilarious.

Sounds like @thenerdypriest.bsky.social and I need to plan a trip away to make her “occasional roommate” status more accurate.

Disney, or a cabin in the woods to reheat and discuss?

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5yo: do you know what happens when tardigrades go into outer space?
Me: no, what?
5yo: they just live their life!!! They can survive all kinds of things!
(Begin long discussion of the many things tardigrades can survive)

I would have assumed you had something to do with it…

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This is very on brand for you two

"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid."

Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid.

...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.

Leeman, just how famous are you outside of our tiny village????

I would like someone to stop the mad man with the nuclear codes please. That would be awesome. Thanks!

Hire more teachers/instructors/professors to make class sizes smaller.

That's it. That's the skeet that will improve education.

It’s still SO HARD at one month. I promise it will be easier at two months, and even easier at three months.

You’re not failing or doing it wrong. This is just how life with a newborn is. The good news - they grow quickly! It becomes easier and easier each week. They sleep for longer stretches and cry less and start to smile. It will be ok.

You and your partner divide and conquer so you both get at least one longer chunk of sleep each night. You cannot work efficiently when you’re super sleep deprived. Trying is a recipe for misery.

If you can get out of the house for a couple of hours at a time, you become very efficient and squeeze an entire day’s worth of productivity into two hours. Getting out of the house alone is key for this.

Then you take over baby care when you get home so your partner can also get out of the house.

You don’t. You take care of the newborn or you work, but you cannot successfully do both. When the baby starts sleeping & you therefore sleep again, you squeeze in work sessions while wearing the baby (baby wearing while bouncing on a yoga/exercise ball let me work from home in 2020 with a baby).

Today my five year old requested “the cookies that taste like air.”

Macarons. She wanted macarons.

I believe you are correct. She was furious. I may be cursed to forever be pooped on by thrushes.

A female Eastern Bluebird stares straight at the camera while sitting on her nest.

Three bluebird eggs lay cozy in a nest made of dried grass.

Years ago I set up nest boxes around my village’s dog park. They’ve been well used ever since. Today I was rewarded with two bluebird pairs buildings nests, a Tree Swallow pair checking out another box, and this sweet lady in a fourth box.