a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾

Let them eat ballroom.

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

Hear more from @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social about how students are reacting to ongoing DEI rollbacks across the University of Illinois system on today's episode of @citycastchicago.bsky.social: megaphone.link/CC8141299176

Rolling Stone is publishing pro-war advertorials by an Israeli government agent now:

Wait are you serious? Fuck that entirely wtf. Anything firefly reunion requires no Baldwin or it’s dead to me

David Boreanaz is pretty maga, idk if that’s an issue for any buffy reunion stuff

Are we sure it’s not Geoff?

It has been a Very Bad Week (minus that butch heiress subplot) and my refrain has been “All I want to do is lie in bed with my cat and maybe look at a bug on a flower”

I just saw bugs on flowers and now I am in bed with cat!!! Wishes do come true!

A dark brown cocoon on the ground.

Who is this??? 🦋🌿 #invert #insects

In 2024, the most common careers among previous postdocs were in research associate/staff scientist positions (30 per cent) and the public service (20 per cent), with only 15 per cent in tenure-track roles. This means that most doctoral graduates do not follow the so-called traditional academic career trajectory. So, are our institutions equipping us with the professional development needed to secure these early career positions? Our data reveals that previous postdocs received training in career development (25 per cent) and research ethics (22 per cent), but less so in networking (14 per cent in 2024, versus 25 per cent in 2020). Yet 26 per cent of postdocs said that networking is an area of training of special interest to them.

15% of postdocs landing tenure-track roles is really quite bad, as is only 22% getting training in research ethics.

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This is a huge project!! If you live in the area, chime in!

As the Morgan Shoal overhaul plan moves forward, neighbors can still weigh in on the Army Corps plan. blockclubchi.co/3OSuWoc

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Im a historian of vaccination.
Every semester/year since 2015, I teach the histories of smallpox vaccination.
And every semester/year, I have had anti-vaxxers/vaccine hesitant people in my classes.
If I want to change their minds, telling them how evil or stupid they are isn't going to cut it.

Shah Alam was found dead in late February.

Here in Cook County, IL, there's still no announced state or county investigation into the ICE agents who killed Silverio Villegas González last September. We don't even know their names.

There’s some conceptual mobius strip going on, where poasters are angry that vax-hesitant people won’t listen to experts, but ALSO the poaster… refuses to listen to experts?

I seek out leucistic and albino animals, mostly because as a baby biologist I was taught they were extremely rare because parents should kill their weird-looking offspring, and I love the reminder that that's not how nature actually works

and yet every time my brain does go "EXCUSE ME"

I’m in Upstate SC working directly on the measles outbreak. What’s helping reduce cases lately isn’t writing parents off. It’s clear, credible communication that addresses confusion and misinformation. Many families just need trustworthy information from leaders they trust.

man, @publichealthguy1.bsky.social was (afaik) the first former CDC person to publicly call *explicitly* for RFK's resignation, rather than gently scold him, and he's currently being called a piece of shit and dogpiled for saying vaccine hesitant parents are facing a bad information environment

this website loves yelling at people who do actual public health work to expand vaccination offline. it's awesome

If you wanted to have a genuine conversation about this you probably shouldn’t have started with “this piece of shit”

I would put big money on him having you muted (the healthy response to strangers picking fights, imo), so idk if quote-tweeting demanding polite conversation is getting you anywhere

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

move slow and repair things

the quintessential "go in the dark" meme edited to encourage everyone to touch soil screenshot of text conversation between two unknown users blue: what are u trying to say yellow: image of a hand pointing at a cross-section of soil yellow: go here blue: in the dirt? blue: ? yellow: go in the dirt

Like a lighthouse in a storm, BV saying some headass shit is the one stable thing left in life

A screenshot of chasesolidago being inarticulately furious with some guy who likes to say foolish white man nonsense.

I know you're stressed but also, thank you for this

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

The exit strategy.

Never forget that this what The Washington Post said when Noem was nominated.