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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 6m

literally just threw my phone into the next room because of text messages coming -- people I am *not* meant to have this much responsibility!

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 26m

operating at an entirely unsustainable pace. one of the chainsaws will get dropped at some point.

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Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · 6h

Out now in Biology Letters, my latest paper tackles an apparently simple question: how many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny? TL;DR: in most cases between 100 and 500, more than a substantial portion of morphological datasets, but the story is more complex... doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 50m

unbothered. moisturized. in my lane. focused. thriving.

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 11h

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 15h

There is NO line.

newrepublic.com/post/201757/...

Mike Johnson Says ICE Shooting a Priest Doesn’t Cross the Line

The House speaker has yet to see any issue with ICE’s behavior in Chicago.

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Dr. Lauren E. Fuess @laurenfuess.bsky.social · 16h

Reminder, we’re hiring 2 PhD students for next year!! I’m extending the deadline to Nov 1, but please get your app in soon if you’re interested in joining us! More info is on our webpage. 🦠🦑

Please share with ECRs you know as well and check out our other open positio. (Postdoc!)

Dr. Lauren E. Fuess @laurenfuess.bsky.social · Aug 15

🚨🚨We’re hiring graduate students!🚨🚨

We are hiring 1-2 PhD students to start sometime in 2026 (Fall start dates preferred). Opportunities to work on a diversity of eco-evo-immuno and symbiosis projects!

Deadline Oct 15! Please share broadly!

Info here: tinyurl.com/y2abjsem

opportunities – Symbiommunity Lab

tinyurl.com

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 13h

Customer parking is customer parking.

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 13h

Terrorism by the state against the people.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13h

As the intensity of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has risen, residents of Chicago are increasingly pushing back. Federal agents repeatedly have been observed releasing smoke bombs, tear gas and pepper balls to disperse residents who gather or capture videos.

ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

Residents have begun forming volunteer groups to monitor their neighborhoods for federal immigration agents. Others honk their horns or blow whistles when they see agents nearby.

nyti.ms

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 14h

"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?"

It's so hard to tell 😭😭😫

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14h

"Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections?"

Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?

Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections? Am I irrita...

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 17h

Anole and clothespin.

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 18h

What is on the tip of her nose is it cocaine

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

I know it is beside the point because this administration simply wants resegregation but conferences for Black professional associations have always been open to everyone. Typically, the started as a response to white exclusion, and did not replicate that.

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 1d

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

www.dispatch.com

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Emily E. Gipson @oceanemily.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone ever made their own Utermohl chamber? (settling chamber/sedimentation chamber for inverted microscope) #plankton

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 1d

So help me if USG plays this game 🤬

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, a suite of journals that we will subtract from your total for promotion packages

Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 1d

"Tasks that once took months of manual work — from curating datasets and checking compliance to creating metadata and publishable outputs — are now completed in minutes by the AI Data Steward"

Another case of commercial publishers looking to replace library labour with their junk AI.

90% of Science Is Lost: Frontiers’ revolutionary AI-powered service transforms data sharing to deliver breakthroughs faster

Frontiers, the open-science publisher, is tackling this problem with the launch of Frontiers FAIR² Data Management, the world’s first all-in-one, AI-powered ser

www.frontiersin.org

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday.

Parking Signs

If you want to print out a poster for October 18th, here are two; fully-guaranteed countrywide but maybe especially suitable for in and around New York. No King Anytime sign ...

kieranhealy.org

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans have said many times that protestors are being paid and I’ve never seen the media push back and demand that they provide evidence for this claim

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

Today happened to be our Marine Mammal Protection Act lecture in Environmental Law, so I revisited case law / key issues.
There are at least three major industries that benefit from undermining the MMPA: commercial fishing and seafood, maritime transport and shipping, and the oil and gas industries.

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans are aiming next to dismantle the marine mammal protection act, which protects whales, dolphins, manatees, polar bears, and sea otters.. among other ocean wildlife. 🦦

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 2d

I love it. Makes me happy.
Weird that I'm now seeing your post here after I just read about the bill to end the 1970s marine mammal legislation to protect these beautiful creatures.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 1d

They're not even trying to hide their glee

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson predicts the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history.

Government shutdown could be the longest ever, Speaker Johnson warns

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson predicts the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history.

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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 1d

The Joy of Street Furniture, Vienna

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 1d

A year ago. Needing a mental break, scrambling through the upper Chattahoochee River.

My feet and amazingly water reflections as I dunked my head (not seen) in the river and took a photo

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 1d

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1d

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 1d

I was the last kid in kindergarten who remembered to remember this.

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