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drmikewiser.bsky.social

Evolutionary biologist, teaching-track professor (knowledge transmitter), board game and cat enthusiast, teller of Dad jokes, believer that sarcasm doesn't have to be mean or denigrating. Also a "damn greenblooded hobgoblin". I read a lot. 🏳️‍🌈🧫 👨

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Since my current city (Lansing, MI) is not on here, I looked up our most recent budget data. For 2024, the amended budget saw the police department spend $26.34M on operations, $21.04M on retirement/fixed benefits, and $5.73M on other stuff [eg IT]. From $165.9M revenue. ~32%

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This is slightly less unusual when you're an academic and half of your social media contacts are also academics in the same or closely aligned fields. Because one of the things that's terrifying about doing a PhD is seeing how quickly you can become an acknowledged expert in that One Niche Thing.

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I wish (fiction, not scientific) publishing margins weren't so thin. Imagine not only more authors being able to make a living writing full time, but also employing a bunch of continuity editors pointing out when parts of a book / series are contradictory before things went to press.

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I know I'm in an unusual position here. But spending a few hours today doing lab work of a sort I hadn't done in years but which took up many years of my life was oddly soothing. (For the experimental evolution people: I'm doing a new round of fitness assays. Today was part of sample prep.)

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Job! Outreach coordinator, Texas Field Station Network. This position will also put you in collaboration with the UT natural history collections, and, by association, me. But don't let that deter you.

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Thing I've long been unclear on, but with a recent inciting incident: Where do we draw the line between something that could count as a cultural fusion and something that's more in lines with appropriation? Recent food examples:

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I've been away from my computer for a few hours. I'm sure nothing weird happened in that time.

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Read the article. The court did not rule that the plaintiff was discriminated against. The court ruled that when alleging discrimination on sex, race, orientation, etc, the same standard of proof is required whether the plaintiff is in the traditionally empowered or disadvantaged group.

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Albuterol is my preventative inhaler (some people have it as a rescue inhaler; I do not.) I remember the shenanigans ~2008 involved in extending the patent because the pharma companies lobbied to get inhalers removed from the exemption list on CFCs, and then patented the new delivery inhalant.

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Ventolin, the brand name for albuterol or salbutamol, was first sold in 1968. The first generic inhaler was not approved in the US until 2020 due to manipulation by the pharmaceutical industry. Because there are still so few approved “generic” alternatives it remains cost prohibitive for many people

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