Jeremy B. Yoder 🧬📊🌿🏳️🌈🖖🏻
@jbyoder.org
Evolutionary biologist, runner, writer, gay. Not necessarily in that order. LAX and SEA
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Jeremy B. Yoder 🧬📊🌿🏳️🌈🖖🏻
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· Jan 30
Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.
Okay, here's some of what we've learned thanks to support from my lab's current NSF project — and there's a more to come, because of course analysis and the publishing process will carry on past the end of the funding ... 🧵
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A raven on a rock in Borrego Palm Canyon (Photo: Sicco Rood).
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
A raven on a rock in Borrego Palm Canyon (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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One thing I wish would make a comeback is stationary phones. I don’t like that people have the capacity to speak with me on the same thing I listen to podcasts on. That should be its own thing that has its own dedicated room in the house and I should have to wear a suit to use it.
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
One thing I wish would make a comeback is stationary phones. I don’t like that people have the capacity to speak with me on the same thing I listen to podcasts on. That should be its own thing that has its own dedicated room in the house and I should have to wear a suit to use it.
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le dingdong…
Pablo Picasso, The Turkey (Le Dindon), 1936 www.moma.org/collection/w...
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 AM
le dingdong…
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If I were Mike Judge, I'd be so mad at myself for having given Idiocracy a eugenic framing device instead of anticipating this
November 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
If I were Mike Judge, I'd be so mad at myself for having given Idiocracy a eugenic framing device instead of anticipating this
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Thank you @Teamsters for walking the walk and backing our national ULP strike. THIS is what solidarity looks like ✊
🚨 MAJOR BREAKING!! 🚨
In a previously unreleased memo, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien throws the FULL WEIGHT of his union behind striking Starbucks workers.
Teamsters drivers have already refused to make hundreds of deliveries to Starbucks stores where baristas are striking.
#NoContractNoCoffee
In a previously unreleased memo, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien throws the FULL WEIGHT of his union behind striking Starbucks workers.
Teamsters drivers have already refused to make hundreds of deliveries to Starbucks stores where baristas are striking.
#NoContractNoCoffee
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Thank you @Teamsters for walking the walk and backing our national ULP strike. THIS is what solidarity looks like ✊
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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If this is true she should never work as a journalist again.
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
If this is true she should never work as a journalist again.
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The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
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again marveling at the Minnesota flag looking as perfect as it does against a fresh snow, what a triumph of design, man
November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
again marveling at the Minnesota flag looking as perfect as it does against a fresh snow, what a triumph of design, man
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MPR News photojournalist Kerem Yücel was hit by less-lethal munition during the operation in St. Paul today. Other photojournalists were hit as well.
More on what unfolded at the chaotic scene: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
More on what unfolded at the chaotic scene: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
MPR News photojournalist Kerem Yücel was hit by less-lethal munition during the operation in St. Paul today. Other photojournalists were hit as well.
More on what unfolded at the chaotic scene: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
More on what unfolded at the chaotic scene: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
These butterflies pick host plants where the temperatures are more comfortable, even if they're less nutritious (but it's not clear from this data that the nutritional variation is biologically significant?) 🌿
buff.ly/OKIung0
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November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
These butterflies pick host plants where the temperatures are more comfortable, even if they're less nutritious (but it's not clear from this data that the nutritional variation is biologically significant?) 🌿
buff.ly/OKIung0
buff.ly/OKIung0
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Ever just wake up on the wrong side of the bed and a photographer is standing there with a long lens
(Great Blue Heron)
(Great Blue Heron)
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Ever just wake up on the wrong side of the bed and a photographer is standing there with a long lens
(Great Blue Heron)
(Great Blue Heron)
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As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
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Delphinium geyeri, our Geyer's Larkspur, blooming at the Neva Road shale bluff #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 25 🌿
These are on the same hillside as the previous blue larkspur flowers, there's that much variation.
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 25 🌿
These are on the same hillside as the previous blue larkspur flowers, there's that much variation.
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Delphinium geyeri, our Geyer's Larkspur, blooming at the Neva Road shale bluff #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 25 🌿
These are on the same hillside as the previous blue larkspur flowers, there's that much variation.
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 25 🌿
These are on the same hillside as the previous blue larkspur flowers, there's that much variation.
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Did you receive a Student Research Award from the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social ? We'd love to hear what you achieved with those awards (or, please share with someone who had one), even going back many years:
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docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
American Society of Naturalists Student Research Award Outcomes
The American Society of Naturalists (ASN) gives out student research awards (generally $2000 each) to support activities of our student members. We request that Student Research Award recipients provi...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Did you receive a Student Research Award from the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social ? We'd love to hear what you achieved with those awards (or, please share with someone who had one), even going back many years:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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There are so many different reasons to believe that LLMs cannot have beliefs, cannot know anything, cannot reason and cannot be a form of intelligence.
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
There are so many different reasons to believe that LLMs cannot have beliefs, cannot know anything, cannot reason and cannot be a form of intelligence.
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@jbyoder.org - I’m losing track of how many times I’ve posted a link to this blog post in a review. A national landmark!
www.molecularecologist.com/2024/08/13/f...
www.molecularecologist.com/2024/08/13/f...
FAQ: Should I invent an acronym?
“Moveable type” (Flickr, David DeSandro) Q. I’m writing a research article, and the text frequently mentions the biological process that is the subject of the article. I’m a…
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November 25, 2025 at 3:49 AM
@jbyoder.org - I’m losing track of how many times I’ve posted a link to this blog post in a review. A national landmark!
www.molecularecologist.com/2024/08/13/f...
www.molecularecologist.com/2024/08/13/f...
Officially done with my little sabbatical trip to Connecticut— two weeks was really not enough, but I got to catch up with a bunch of friends, talk a lot of science, and advance some very cool projects
November 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Officially done with my little sabbatical trip to Connecticut— two weeks was really not enough, but I got to catch up with a bunch of friends, talk a lot of science, and advance some very cool projects
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Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for a minute for a string of announcements, please share widely!!!
1. Student research awards are open for applications, to fund research expenses for 10 graduate students ($2000 each)
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1. Student research awards are open for applications, to fund research expenses for 10 graduate students ($2000 each)
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Student Research Award
<p>The ASN Student Research Awards support research by student members that advances the goals of the society: the conceptual unification of ecology, evolution, and behavior. Each award consists of a ...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for a minute for a string of announcements, please share widely!!!
1. Student research awards are open for applications, to fund research expenses for 10 graduate students ($2000 each)
nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
1. Student research awards are open for applications, to fund research expenses for 10 graduate students ($2000 each)
nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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effectively responding to outbreaks is hard, largely thankless work that is inconvenient and even directly opposed to MAHA politicians’ true goals — enriching themselves.
we should be expecting them to conceal outbreaks. they’re incompetent, so they’ll be bad at it, but those delays cost lives
we should be expecting them to conceal outbreaks. they’re incompetent, so they’ll be bad at it, but those delays cost lives
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
effectively responding to outbreaks is hard, largely thankless work that is inconvenient and even directly opposed to MAHA politicians’ true goals — enriching themselves.
we should be expecting them to conceal outbreaks. they’re incompetent, so they’ll be bad at it, but those delays cost lives
we should be expecting them to conceal outbreaks. they’re incompetent, so they’ll be bad at it, but those delays cost lives
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nirav shah not mincing words re: the new principle deputy director of CDC. good report from @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
nirav shah not mincing words re: the new principle deputy director of CDC. good report from @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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“International students and members of the community are not anxious and concerned.
They are terrified.“
They are terrified.“
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM
“International students and members of the community are not anxious and concerned.
They are terrified.“
They are terrified.“