Scientists and other experts were preparing an assessment of the health of nature in the US when Trump returned to the White House. He canceled the report. The researchers went ahead and compiled it on their own. This week, they released a 868-p draft for public comment and scientific review.
Remember! Applied and Environmental Microbiology solicits minireviews. And they are free to publish!
There's 2 more I want to write. Time in my career to summarize and rant.
Take a look at that snout!
Bats provide critical ecosystem services. #Bats 🦇 prevent crop damage and can help reduced insecticide use, three examples:
USA cotton farmers benefit by $3.7-53 billion per year
Italian apple orchards benefit by €551/ha
Rice farmers in Europe benefit by €56/ha
www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...
I’m a direct descendant of King Robert the Bruce of Scotland (by way of a bastard great-grandson), and the Jersey Devil is my great-uncle.
greetings! we are the united states of america. our key exports are rc planes that bomb hospitals and lake-drinking robots that tell people to kill themselves
Today is Holi! Here's my thread on the story of the holiday. May your faith remain strong and bring you triumph over injustice!
And KIDS. Give kids and teenagers safe spaces to have have social interactions again.
One of those adjustable letter boards where someone has spelled out, "IT HAS BEEN 0 DAYS SINCE SOMEONE POOPED IN THE LOBBY"
Sign in the vet's office yesterday
this presidency could have been an email
Muscle Husband: “It’s your siren call, calling men across the country.”
Me: “Pffft, I’ve only done that like…”
Him: “Twice?”
Me: “Three times!”
I love him
Little guy with big job
This is the cutest thing in the world. LOOK AT IT
Old enough to remember when the regime cared so much about these whales that we had to [checks notes] ... gut the entire offshore wind industry on a hunch?
Trump has been quietly waging war on the ocean since his first term, like some kind of spray-tanned Ahab but with less motivation
we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping
An almost completely white pigeon, with a few lovely golden patches and dark eyes.
Check out this leucistic pigeon Ellie spotted on campus! Leucism is a genetic variation that results in partial to complete loss of pigmentation in skin, hair, scales, feathers, etc. I kept a respectful distance to get this shot, since avian flu is going around.
Looks fancy!
“Is this your new baby? Christ, what an ugly kid!”
“Wow, I really hate what you’ve done with the place!”
I’m amusing myself in my office by thinking up incredibly rude things to say to people. It’s fun and you should try it. Exercise your inner hater.
Day two of mostly interrupted sleep. Feel like dead woman walking. Brown rice and vegetables for lunch.
a baby harbor seal on the sand, their mother is hovering above them looking at them adorably
no this is what i want on my internet not all that other stuff 🦭 🦑
Nothing good, I can tell you that much
Met someone who spent their career building programs to support underrepresented scientists at all career stages. We asked what he wished he knew earlier. He said he wished he knew how to make these programs sustainable, so that his life work didn't crumble with a change in leadership.
I love my children dearly, they are the still point of the turning world, and I pray everyday that I can survive them until the youngest makes it to kindergarten
for what it cost for our allies to shoot down three of our own planes by accident in a murderous illegal war we could have funded the NEH at 150% of its historic peak funding for a year
The savings we're getting here by annihilating decades of American science will pay for whole minutes of the operation to create decades of death, immiseration, and chaos in Iran.
Falling down a Fred Rogers rabbit hole at the moment, and dang if this isn't some "fundamental human dignity and self respect" delivered in a calm soothing tone and child appropriate language.
"I hope you're able to grow to respect whoever you are inside." 🥹😭❤️🩹
Man was a saint and a genius.
