This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post β including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East β based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
Torsional flexibility of the thoracic spine is superior to that of the lumbar spine in cats: Implications for the falling cat problem anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.
But they said he was βThe peace president.β π₯΄
As an evolutionary biologist anything less than 1 million years feels 'new' π
Black-and-white photo of a mostly white calico cat peeking out from under a chair
Black-and-white photo of a short haired, mostly white calico cat rising up on her haunches to swat at a toy that is out of the frame.
Black-and-white photo of a mostly white calico cat stretching up on her hind legs to reach for a stuffed mouse toy that is in the upper right hand corner of the frame.
Black-and-white photo of a mostly white calico cat doing a big stretch with her front paws placed on a stuffed mouse toy.
Found this wonderful set of photos of an absolute doll. π From my collection, no date/info.
The idea that humans sit atop an evolutionary hierarchy dates back to 1866, when a scientist drew the first tree of life with "Man" at the top. This inaccurate view still shapes how we think of the animal world, despite decades of genomic evidence proving evolution has no hierarchy.
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Billionaires evaded over $168 billion in taxes while undocumented immigrants paid over $100 billion in taxes while receiving no benefits.
I know who should be deported.
CBP didnβt give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.
β8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines
It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea
A diagram of the evolution of whales, from land dwelling mammals to the ocean giants we know today.
Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable
kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
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Based at the University of New Orleans (soon to be LSU New Orleans).
Start: September 2026.
Contact me if interested.
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If you aren't familiar with what DARVO is, get familiar with it. "Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender." The govt is relying on DARVO as a tactic on a national scale, and it is also increasingly a conservative tactic to attack outspoken critics of their ideas, theories, & renderings of history.
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Our lab opens 2 PhD positions to investigate fungi's evolution: #Barcelona
Wet lab in Biochemistry/Structural Biology of cryo-tolerant fungi
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Computational in Physical Chemistry of cellular processes under extrem environments
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Verge headline: It doesn't matter if Alex Pretty had a gun by Sarah Jeong Photo by Steven Garcia depicts several masked law enforcement agents soaked in red light at night
"Why is it so normal for law enforcement β those who are supposed to be keepers of law and order β to kill Americans? And why is the only question at the end of the day how much their victims deserved to die?"
Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...
Fig. 1 Applications of proteomics in wildlife immunology. The left panel shows the main drivers of intra- and interspecific variance in immune phenotypes and their influence on larger-scale processes (adapted from Schoenle et al. 2018). Yellow boxes indicate drivers that can be studied using proteomics. The right panel shows three main categories of application of proteomics in ecoimmunology and example questions that have been addressed in the literature. The symbols (+, β, *) match the drivers from the left panel. The animal silhouettes illustrate particular studies as examples of the wide range of species studied, where (a) OtΔenΓ‘Ε‘kovΓ‘ et al. 2023, (b) Li et al. 2024, (c) Geng et al. 2015, (d) Kershaw et al. 2024, (e: Chaousis et al. 2021, (f) Gillis-Germitsch et al. 2021, (g) Neely et al. 2018, (h) Mangiaterra et al. 2022, (i) Raposo de MagalhΓ£es et al. 2020, (j) Vicente-Santos et al. 2023, (k) Ruengket et al. 2023, (l) KuleΕ‘ et al. 2024, (m) KuleΕ‘ et al. 2021.
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#Proteomics Approaches to #Ecoimmunology:
New Insights into #Wildlife #Immunity and #Disease
by
Amanda Vicente-Santos ,
Natalia Sandoval-Herrera ,
GΓ‘bor Γ CzirjΓ‘k ,
Benjamin A Neely ,
Daniel J Becker
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My advice to trainees is focus on the science and let those of us in more priveledged positions fight for their ability to have the careers we've had. My advice for colleagues is to STOP BEING SILENT AND DOING NOTHING - FIGHT BACK IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY. Sadly most are just keeping thir heads down.
Scientist Spotted π¦ Advait Jukar, Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology here at the Museum, quoted in a National Geographic article about woolly rhino tissue recovered from the stomachs of mummified wolf puppies in northeastern Siberia:
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The danger of this moment cannot be overstated. Trump/Noem's vile defense of the killing shows that the heavily-armed government agents roaming our cities are unbound/unaccountable even when they kill Americans.
On the pod, @felipedlh.bsky.social and I dig into this:
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The resident dean who was fired was given only ten days to vacate his housing. @harvard.edu is putting a Black family β with a newborn baby β out on the street because of comments opposing white supremacy.
Please donate to their gofundme:
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An exhibition at Yale about eugenics
At the Peabody Museum at Yale: one reason the Trump administration wants to eliminate exhibitions like this on race is because they show that scientific racism is not new but a step backwards to a discredited past.
Screenshot of a news article with the headline, βJustice Department Says Filming Immigration Raids Is βDomestic Terrorism.ββ The byline reads Autumn Billings with a date and time. Below the headline is a black-and-white photo of a heavily armed federal agent pointing toward the camera, with other officers blurred in the background.
Filming them committing terrorism is now itself an act of terrorism?
High Quality version of the 60 Minutes segment on the CECOT that was cut but has now been leaked:
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