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Jonathan Eisen

@phylogenomics.bsky.social

31K followers 5.1K following 2.2K posts

Prof at #UCDavis

Work: evolution, ecology, function & phylogenomics of host-microbiome systems; #openscience;
Other: #birds; baseball; T1D

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Jonathan Andrew Eisen is an American evolutionary biologist, currently working at University of California, Davis. His academic research is in the fields of evolutionary biology, genomics and microbiology and he is the academic editor-in-chief of the open access journal PLOS Biology. .. more

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 5d

Northern flicker - red shafted - flying from my neighbors yard to my yard yesterday. #birds

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 6h

I’m glad Dems are beginning to state the obvious.

Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 7h

Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.

Screenshot of headline reading: Congressional committees to scrutinize U.S. killing of boat strike survivors. In a rare split with the Trump administration, GOP-led panels in the House and Senate say they want a full accounting in the September military attack.

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Maggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 8h

Here's Prasad's full memo, bad grammar and all. H/T to @adamfeuerstein.bsky.social who has left bsky(sorry x-haters)
From: Prasad, Vinayak
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2025 4:21 PM
Subject: Deaths in children due to COVID-19 vaccines and CBER's path forward
Dear Team CBER,

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Glitter Jedi Fellina @glitterjedi.bsky.social · 9h

The mayor of Akron, Ohio. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 10h

#FDA vaccines czar Vinay Prasad claimed in an email to staff late Friday that Covid vaccination had killed at least 10 children in the US. Experts suggest FDA should publish the data on the cases or put it to an independent body like the National Academy for study. www.statnews.com/2025/11/29/c...

Experts say top FDA official’s claim that Covid vaccines caused kids’ deaths requires more evidence

The FDA’s top vaccine regulator asserted in a staff email that the Covid vaccine caused at least 10 kids' deaths, but experts told STAT they are skeptical of the “extraordinary” claim because it was n...

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 11h

I am glad more people are cacthing on to what I did in this post to @inaturalist.bsky.social of an Audubon's Warbler near where I live in Davis, CA. #birds

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Audubon's Warbler (Subspecies Setophaga coronata auduboni)

Audubon's Warbler from Audubon Cir, Davis, CA, US on January 12, 2023 at 03:49 PM by Jonathan Eisen

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 16h

I went on a short outing to Point Reyes National Seashore yesterday with my daughter, mom and step dad.. We went to Drake's Beach, Pieerce Point Ranch and a few other spots. It was spectacularly beautiful out. Here is a slideshow of a few of the pics I got. #birds

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 1d

I didn’t want to overreact, and took time to read this. Having done so, I’m adding Northwestern to the list of places I won’t visit or speak. The concessions re: international students and gender-affirming care are not merely symbolic.

Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the text of the Northwestern settlement with the DoJ, which includes a $75 million financial component / payoff (cc @profmarkovic.bsky.social):

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:

“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”

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in shot, i the Post's facts are correct it appears
that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the "two men were blown apart in the water," as the Post put it.
It is unclear from the Post's Seporting precisely what role Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the text of the Northwestern settlement with the DoJ, which includes a $75 million financial component / payoff (cc @profmarkovic.bsky.social):

Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 1d

Uh oh. This could go poorly.

Picture of a phone with called ID saying a call is coming from "Officer Obie"

Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 1d

Well, had a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat last night

Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 1d

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Alice's Restaurant - Original 1967 Recording

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 1d

it is

Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 2d

I love it but will let it ride without completing it

Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 2d

I just wanna ride

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Darren Irwin (he / him) @darrenirwin.bsky.social · 2d

I don't want a pickle . . .

Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 2d

Though the dump was closed - I found a place to dump the garbage - off the side of a side road there was a cliff and at the bottom of the cliff there was a pile of garbage. I decided that one big pile was better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up i decided to throw mine down.

Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 2d

Well, and creatin' a nuisance

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John Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization

Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 2d

I am always in group W

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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 2d

I could say I found your name on an envelope at the bottom of half a ton of garbage.

But the real question: Kid, have you rehabilitated yourself?

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Mary @maryg12.bsky.social · 2d

Shoulda asked Alice.

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 2d

Seen while on a walk today. Checked Google Maps. This is half a mile from railroad tracks.

Hand written sign in yard that says, "Walk right in, it's around the back"

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 2d

I suggest looking for another pile of garbage. That might indicate a good place to drop your garbage. One big pile is better than two little piles.

Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 2d

Wait - how did you know?

Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 2d

And I have continued my annual tradition - trying to drop garbage off at the local dump on Thanksgiving - but it was closed again - who ever heard of a dump closed on Thanksgiving?