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Associate Professor researching evolution and plasticity, often in cities. https://www.martinevolutionaryecologylab.com/

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U.S. May Have Committed War Crime In Sinking Of Iranian Ship The Geneva Conventions say nations have a duty to “take all possible measures” to help rescue victims of shipwrecks. A U.S. submarine left that to Sri Lanka.

“The 312-foot Dena and its 130-member crew, many of them musicians in the Iranian navy band, had just finished participating in an Indian government naval exercise and cultural exchange that the U.S. Navy had also participated in and were on the way home on Wednesday.”

07.03.2026 00:03 👍 705 🔁 358 💬 54 📌 89

Wtf

07.03.2026 01:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

shameful

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nyt website currently resembles one of those mock covers people made before 2016 election: economy floundering, war in the middle east, scandal-plagued cabinet sec, brazen corruption....

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Student Research Award <p>The ASN Student Research Awards support research by student members that advances the goals of the society: the conceptual unification of ecology, evolution, and behavior. Each award consists of a ...

Just a few days left to submit the ASN student research award (due March 13th)!!!! This is an AWESOME opportunity for students to get some grant writing experience!!! We LOVE reading your grants and giving feedback!!!!!!!!!!! Apply, Apply, Apply!!!!!!

www.amnat.org/announcement...

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Biotech investor set to lead US National Science Foundation If confirmed by the US Senate, Jim O'Neill would be the first non-scientist or engineer to lead the agency, a big funder of US basic research.

O'Neill, an investor in anti-aging technology who worked on HHS policy, would be the first non-scientist or engineer to lead NSF. His background will be a 'major concern' to the science and technology community, former NSF director Neal Lane told me.

@maxkozlov.bsky.social and I report:

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In the house? Not much

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When I first saw this lizard, I thought it was a western fence lizard, but upon further inspection, I realized it must be a southern sagebrush lizard. The scale size and pattern were slightly different. Now that I’ve identified the lizard, can you #FindThatLizard?
Reference photo by California Herps

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McGovern: How the hell is this America first? You guys broke your top campaign promise. Good luck with that. I hope the defense contractor money was worth it. Shame on you all. The mask is off. You're all just a bunch of pathetic Neocon Warmongers.

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The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me.
12:20 PM • 3/4/26 • 44K Views

Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com @nancyayoussef The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me. 12:20 PM • 3/4/26 • 44K Views

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

04.03.2026 19:15 👍 1652 🔁 716 💬 128 📌 336
Travis Bazzana (who is not 39)

Travis Bazzana (who is not 39)

The WBC just started at the Tokyo Dome. Team Australia’s right fielder is a 39 year old firefighter. This shit is electric. Come chat with us!

open.substack.com/chat/posts/3...

05.03.2026 03:14 👍 143 🔁 7 💬 9 📌 10

I’m trying to imagine what would happen if a Democratic senator literally broke a military veteran’s forearm, which appears to be what happens here.

05.03.2026 00:31 👍 758 🔁 196 💬 23 📌 9

Dear Republicans: You now officially own it.

04.03.2026 23:57 👍 148 🔁 49 💬 6 📌 0

Holy crap.

Just such a naked example of how only Dems are thought to have agency.

The GOP majority gets its way on a party-line vote, and @theguardian.com uses SCHUMER’S picture.

No one even knows what Thune—THE GUY IN CHARGE OF THE SENATE—looks like.

Appalling choice, Guardian. Reprehensible.

04.03.2026 22:45 👍 91 🔁 26 💬 4 📌 0

god help me and fuck Chuck Schumer, but it's genuinely bullshit that Schumer is the key image here. it was a party line vote, with Schumer voting against. only Dem that broke ranks was Fetterman, of course.

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The minority leader of the house has pretty much zero power. He should introduce articles of impeachment for the optics and morality of it though

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Historian here yes on the 250th the uber patriotic White House does not know when the American Revolution began. The shot heard around the world? Not an by unAmerican regime hell bent on destroying the American republic!

04.03.2026 16:17 👍 116 🔁 30 💬 8 📌 4

I'm not arguing about the hypocrisy of religion, I'm not religious. I'm just saying Hesgeth is an evangelical

04.03.2026 13:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That's JD who pretends to be Catholic

04.03.2026 13:14 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

But, you're just a troll with 7 followers anyway

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Wtf, ecologist here. That's ridiculous and false. Also please calculate your resource use compared to those in the countries you disparage

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There's a fundamental attribution error here: does AI actually "do" research? It's an automated pattern-recognition, algorithm-drivem machine learning tool. It can't think, and anything it produces resembling "research" is in spite of, rather than because of, the way it's constructed.

03.03.2026 14:00 👍 201 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 2

Made it through the original, and I thought parts were interesting but the sequels were dire and quickly abandoned

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Whole maternal side is French Canadian but rhe rest have a generation extra in the us

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Screenshot of the same image posted on twotter on August 8, 2025, by the @sciencegirl/@gunsnrosesgirl3 content farmer account

Screenshot of the same image posted on twotter on August 8, 2025, by the @sciencegirl/@gunsnrosesgirl3 content farmer account

Shared by someone with “No Gen AI” in her bio, who’s blocking people who point it out. Someone a *lot* of you apparently follow.

And oh hey, look where the pic on the left seems to have originated, per reverse image search - only one of the most obnoxious content thieves of twitter.

03.03.2026 02:00 👍 81 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 0

Not only is the version that’s being shared AI-edited, it’s cropped to remove the photographer’s watermark.

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Right, my great grandfather was born and raised in quebec. I'm already getting the materials together

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No warning, no siren: six US service members killed in Iranian strike that hit makeshift operations center in Kuwait | CNN Politics The first US service members to die in the conflict between the US and Iran were killed by a direct Iranian strike on a makeshift operations center at a civilian port in Kuwait on Sunday morning local...

To say that this is infuriating is to say too little

Coming as army leadership preaches transitioning to a new type of war where ranges mean nothing and there is no safe “rear area” and then to ignore that in this operation is sheer irresponsibility. Those poor families

www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/p...

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He looks sweaty

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picture from the just-completed White House event of a side profile of Trump with a visible injury on his neck

picture from the just-completed White House event of a side profile of Trump with a visible injury on his neck

whoa -- this is new. Trump has a significant rash-like injury on his neck today in addition to his disfigured hand

(Saul Loeb/Getty)

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