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Mike Wiser

@drmikewiser.bsky.social

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Evolutionary biologist, teaching-track professor (knowledge transmitter), board game and cat enthusiast, budding archer, teller of Dad jokes. Sarcasm doesn't have to be mean. Also a "damn greenblooded hobgoblin". Ursula said I'm cool. I read a lot. 🏳️‍🌈🧫 👨

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · Nov 11

Since I seem to suddenly have a bunch of new followers: Hello!

I'm a full time, non tenure track, teaching-focused biology faculty member. (There are some non abusive options here; it isn't all just adjuncting) My PhD is in evolutionary biology, but half the time I'm teaching molecular biology.

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 28m

Congrats!

I still am, for reasons I do not know. (I never interacted with her)

Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 2h

Not bad ... for a team playing baseball.

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Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson @bettybitter.bsky.social · 3h

Ready to feel old? When Alexander of Macedon gazed upon the Great Pyramid in Giza he was closer in time to its construction than we are to him today! Only 490s kids will remember.

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 4h

It was a real pleasure to speak with Sofie as part of the @disabledscientists.com podcast series!

Disabled Scientists @disabledscientists.com · 4d

In this episode, I interview Dr Kelsey Byers - @plantpollinator.bsky.social.

It was a joy to record and I hope you enjoy listening to this edit focusing on disability, advocacy, and research into pollinators and floral scents.

🐝 Norfolk bees!

www.disabledscientists.com/2437552/epis...

3. Dr Kelsey Byers - Disabled Scientists

What do EDS, POTS, and floral scents have in common? In this episode, Sofie speaks with Dr Kelsey Byers, a disabled evolutionary chemical ecologist, about developing identity as a disabled person...

www.disabledscientists.com

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 4h

If you make one of them a lawyer, you open up some good just(ice) puns.

Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 4h

Well, it's been burning for a while now, so my choices are based on what I'm looking for.

But this month, my default is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNMz...

Saint-Saëns – Danse Macabre, Dance of Death Op. 40 Malgorzata Kobierska & Kamerton Orchestra

YouTube video by Akademia Filmu i Telewizji

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 5h

I was expecting a hibernation joke after the overeating.

Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 6h

"Because you agreed to moderate a session..."

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 7h

The current shutdown is a weird balance of being glad that it limits how much damage the current regime can do with feeling bad for the affected workers who are now in far more limbo than was the case in past shutdowns.

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 17h

Are the fish big enough to dive really deep?

Because that would be a gateway for some *extremely* low -- and remarkably fresh -- steaks.

Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 17h

Sometimes one of them paws at a blanket in a way I have learned to interpret as "I want to get under this", and that makes things easier.

That cat also like to hide behind blankets draped from the back of the couch, as if he's in a blanket fort.

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 17h

This is one of the Creationists from whom I won my iPad.

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 17h

One of the funniest Creationists I ever encountered in the wild was droning on about how the universe had to be very young because we had to be on the first generation of stars because the ideal Gas Law said you could only go from high pressure to low pressure so no new star formation.

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