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This also means that all international postdocs were just fired.

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Bean basics quickie. Share with a friend in need. youtube.com/shorts/kWs7m...

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🚨New paper alert!🚨 We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵 📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology

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I'M GOING TO SCREAM

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Just out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... "The evolution of thermal performance curves in response to rising temperatures across the model genus yeast". Beautiful work using experimental evolution forecasting climate impacts on biodiversity by Jennifer Molinet @jennifermolinet.bsky.social

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The Mineta Institute developed the Level of Traffic Stress classification that is the foundation of my cycling research. Their ongoing work to improve and update LTS has been derailed by this defunding. Tragic, regressive, unnecessary waste. www.transportation.gov/briefing-roo...

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Boston bike friends and history buffs: Join me and @malaclypse.bsky.social on Saturday, May 24, for the Fuck Cotton Mather ride! The ride will visit churches involved in the 1692 witchcraft scare, all of which are now adorned with rainbow flags and messages of inclusivity. More details below!

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New GC in the Giro

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This is the hardest I’ve ever been owned online

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This is most Menards thing I’ve ever seen

submitted 11 days ago • 47 comments

Having lived in California for many years, I always enjoyed seeing lupine on my hikes. Here in Switzerland, however, it is invasive, negatively impacting native alpine plant species. I created this painting to help #scicomm for a Swiss #ecology research group. #sciart #invasiveplants

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"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

submitted 11 days ago • 32 comments

I haven't worked at a company selling stuff like lightbulbs before but I worked at a place with .cn manufacturing and this sounds pretty likely I have a feeling it'll be short, sharp, and prioritize inputs over consumer stuff, so the summer will make people mad but companies will get what they need

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🌼The first episode of the BSA's new podcast---A Botanical Podcast!---is now available on all major streaming services!🌼 In this episode, Andrea Berardi explores the #evolution of flower color & why plants change their colors. www.buzzsprout.com/admin/244699... #botany #plantscience #iamabotanist

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very clear that official policy of the united states right now is to accept any white person abroad who claims asylum status

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First thesis chapter by Elli Cryan, co-advised with @jrossibarra.bsky.social. Beyond blurring my concept of barriers, my favorite ?coming from this is - How can a gene with a premature stop codon keep its coding sequence intact for a long time? Small RNA prodn maintain seqn? doi.org/10.1093/gene...

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The first Chinese goods subject to President Trump’s 145%-plus tariffs have begun. 12,000 shipping containers in all are on the first flotilla of freight vessels from China with goods for Amazon, Home Depot, Ikea, Ralph Lauren, Tractor Supply, Procter & Gamble, LG, and Samsung, among others.

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the funniest photos from the $400 per person farm to table place in the hudson valley we briefly considered before discovering its all iced radishes

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

More like Pope deep dish pizzaballa amirite

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Just looked up what malort is and you people are sick

submitted 16 days ago • 54 comments

at least some of what’s fueled “ai” is the assumption that anyone should be able to write professionally. It’s obviously not true, but the work seems easy when you don’t know what goes into it. It’s specific to writing—no one thinks it’s a problem that they’re not getting a tryout for the Mets!

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World Cup ‘26 should be off.

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SOME TIME AGO, INDIA ATTACKED PAKISTAN IN THREE LOCATIONS WITH MISSILES - PAKISTAN MILITARY SPOKESMAN TELLS ARY NEWS

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Just picked up this bottle of olive oil at the market and realized it’s the harvest from when I was riding cyclocross around their orchards and now focaccia can have subtle undertones of sweated out PBR

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It's a brutal time for young men, and to be raising one. The primary message they get now is "YOU WILL RIDE, SHINY AND CHROME" without any attempt to get past "I salute my half-life War Boys."

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@micahflee.com was able to get ahold of the source code and published it for us: micahflee.com/heres-the-so...

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“The NIH’s return on investment rate would make the guys on shark tank shit their pants” Word! @lastweektonight.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...

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I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚

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"The solar boom is also driving a further wedge between Pakistan’s rich and poor, Amirali said. Solar is only available to those with deep enough pockets and “everybody else is still stuck on the extremely expensive...fossil fuel-based grid,” the researcher said." www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/c...

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Welp, it begins. Sigma Aldrich.

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BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 23 days ago • 40 comments

this is legitimately evil

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