Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D.
@darkmicrobio.bsky.social
Biogeochemist, microbial ecologist, sea wolf, bog witch, granddaughter of a devil, vegan-ish ecocentrist goth cottagecore punk. she/her 🖤❤️
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🦇 An Adopt a Bat subscription is a lovely Christmas gift and you will be making a real difference to bats in the wild. Subscribe by 9am, 8 Dec to make sure it arrives on time: www.bats.org.uk/support-bats...
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🦇 An Adopt a Bat subscription is a lovely Christmas gift and you will be making a real difference to bats in the wild. Subscribe by 9am, 8 Dec to make sure it arrives on time: www.bats.org.uk/support-bats...
Ooh, fancy ZOOP! BIRD!
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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the two genders: straight men and those bothered by them
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
the two genders: straight men and those bothered by them
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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How are rural residents supposed to shop around for emergency care? What do they do when there's only one hospital for miles?
Especially when GOP Medicaid cuts are CLOSING those hospitals!
Especially when GOP Medicaid cuts are CLOSING those hospitals!
Cassidy: "If she goes and gets 2 types of shampoo & one is a dollar cheaper, she'll get the cheaper one & the other lowers their price. Once you give her the power of making the decision, she's gonna shop -- that begins to save her money and squeezes waste out of the healthcare system."
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
How are rural residents supposed to shop around for emergency care? What do they do when there's only one hospital for miles?
Especially when GOP Medicaid cuts are CLOSING those hospitals!
Especially when GOP Medicaid cuts are CLOSING those hospitals!
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THIS IS INCREDIBLY INSPIRING!
Please watch and share as Starbucks baristas demonstrate outside the company's biggest distribution hub.
They're on DAY 7 of their strike. Baristas and their allies are protesting Starbucks’ serious and unresolved unfair labor practices.
REPOST IF YOU SUPPORT THEM
Please watch and share as Starbucks baristas demonstrate outside the company's biggest distribution hub.
They're on DAY 7 of their strike. Baristas and their allies are protesting Starbucks’ serious and unresolved unfair labor practices.
REPOST IF YOU SUPPORT THEM
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
THIS IS INCREDIBLY INSPIRING!
Please watch and share as Starbucks baristas demonstrate outside the company's biggest distribution hub.
They're on DAY 7 of their strike. Baristas and their allies are protesting Starbucks’ serious and unresolved unfair labor practices.
REPOST IF YOU SUPPORT THEM
Please watch and share as Starbucks baristas demonstrate outside the company's biggest distribution hub.
They're on DAY 7 of their strike. Baristas and their allies are protesting Starbucks’ serious and unresolved unfair labor practices.
REPOST IF YOU SUPPORT THEM
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Our lab's new CS student is working on our supercomputers in lab and wants us to move off Ubuntu bc package manager reasons, and suggests Manjaro, Pop! (even tho same pkgmngr), or Debian. For the comp (bio) people in my feed, thoughts?
November 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Our lab's new CS student is working on our supercomputers in lab and wants us to move off Ubuntu bc package manager reasons, and suggests Manjaro, Pop! (even tho same pkgmngr), or Debian. For the comp (bio) people in my feed, thoughts?
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Jesus to his disciples:
Idk why a bunch of libs started following me but I’m an anarchist and you will not have a good time here.
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Jesus to his disciples:
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some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
WHOA
Diving through the purple sulfur bacteria layer of Fayetteville Green Lake with our ROV last month. This is the most intense density of PSB that I've seen in many years!
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
WHOA
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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
Look at this perfectly beautiful little baby
It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
November 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Look at this perfectly beautiful little baby
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We are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Environmental Geosciences — with a focus on Soil Science!
louisiana.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Please share!
louisiana.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Please share!
Assistant Professor of Environmental Geosciences
POSITION: Assistant Professor in
Environmental Geosciences RESPONSIBILITIES:The School of Geosciences at the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette...
louisiana.csod.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
We are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Environmental Geosciences — with a focus on Soil Science!
louisiana.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Please share!
louisiana.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Please share!
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Don't use #ClimateAction or #RenewableEnergy as the excuse to damage the #Oceans!!!
#COP30 #ClimateCrisis #Biodiversity
We don’t need #deep-sea #mining, or its #environmental harms. Here’s why theconversation.com/we-dont-need...
#COP30 #ClimateCrisis #Biodiversity
We don’t need #deep-sea #mining, or its #environmental harms. Here’s why theconversation.com/we-dont-need...
We don’t need deep-sea mining, or its environmental harms. Here’s why
Commercial mining of the deep sea could begin soon. But these metals and minerals are not scarce. Mining will be harmful and the economic benefits are overstated.
theconversation.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Don't use #ClimateAction or #RenewableEnergy as the excuse to damage the #Oceans!!!
#COP30 #ClimateCrisis #Biodiversity
We don’t need #deep-sea #mining, or its #environmental harms. Here’s why theconversation.com/we-dont-need...
#COP30 #ClimateCrisis #Biodiversity
We don’t need #deep-sea #mining, or its #environmental harms. Here’s why theconversation.com/we-dont-need...
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A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
I haven’t felt trusted or valued in this country for years and now not even the universities will back us up
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I haven’t felt trusted or valued in this country for years and now not even the universities will back us up
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Scientists long assumed that inactive vents, without the mineral-rich plumes that make active vents so mesmerizing, didn’t host unique lifeforms.
“It turns out that we just weren’t looking very closely,” says marine biologist Jason Sylvan.
www.biographic.com/life-finds-a...
“It turns out that we just weren’t looking very closely,” says marine biologist Jason Sylvan.
www.biographic.com/life-finds-a...
Life Finds a Way, Even on Inactive Hydrothermal Vents - bioGraphic
In the darkness of the deep sea, animals flourish on hydrothermal vents that have gone cold.
www.biographic.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Scientists long assumed that inactive vents, without the mineral-rich plumes that make active vents so mesmerizing, didn’t host unique lifeforms.
“It turns out that we just weren’t looking very closely,” says marine biologist Jason Sylvan.
www.biographic.com/life-finds-a...
“It turns out that we just weren’t looking very closely,” says marine biologist Jason Sylvan.
www.biographic.com/life-finds-a...
Oh hey look another reason the meat industry is objectively evil
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November 14, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Oh hey look another reason the meat industry is objectively evil
Lonesome Piney Seeks Handsome Devil
November 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Lonesome Piney Seeks Handsome Devil
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The union is asking that you not patronize any Starbucks, even ones that aren't unionized, for the duration! Time to find your new favoriteocal coffee shop. To donate to their strike fund: sbworkersunited.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The union is asking that you not patronize any Starbucks, even ones that aren't unionized, for the duration! Time to find your new favoriteocal coffee shop. To donate to their strike fund: sbworkersunited.org
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"She carried her sick daughter, who was dressed in a onesie. She saw other mothers with half-naked children — some were barefoot, others wore only diapers.
“They didn’t give them a chance to even put clothes on their kids,” she said."
“They didn’t give them a chance to even put clothes on their kids,” she said."
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"She carried her sick daughter, who was dressed in a onesie. She saw other mothers with half-naked children — some were barefoot, others wore only diapers.
“They didn’t give them a chance to even put clothes on their kids,” she said."
“They didn’t give them a chance to even put clothes on their kids,” she said."
Muscle Husband has taken the children away on vacation, partly so we can wean the little one. This means my chest really hurts BUT soon I’ll be able to get tattoos again!
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Muscle Husband has taken the children away on vacation, partly so we can wean the little one. This means my chest really hurts BUT soon I’ll be able to get tattoos again!