Dave Baltrus 🦦
@surtlab.bsky.social
Professor at UArizona interested in genome rummaging, microbial evolution, and occasional tales about having backyard farm animals.
“I’m something of a scientist myself”
Baltrus(at)Arizona.edu
“I’m something of a scientist myself”
Baltrus(at)Arizona.edu
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I'm also really done with being accused of not writing my own words because I use en dashes. En dashes and em dashes have been around since looooooong before LLMs and some of us like to punctuate properly! They're not some 'gotcha' that we didn't type the words, I did!
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I'm also really done with being accused of not writing my own words because I use en dashes. En dashes and em dashes have been around since looooooong before LLMs and some of us like to punctuate properly! They're not some 'gotcha' that we didn't type the words, I did!
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Best advice is to wear little bells, so the bears know you're coming, and carry bear spray. It also helps to be able to identify scat. Black bear scat has undigested bits of berries and twigs. Grizzly bear scat smells like bear spray and has little bells in it.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Best advice is to wear little bells, so the bears know you're coming, and carry bear spray. It also helps to be able to identify scat. Black bear scat has undigested bits of berries and twigs. Grizzly bear scat smells like bear spray and has little bells in it.
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Each program told me that going to the other program would be a total waste of my time. Turns out both programs were wrong and our twin studies just overestimated the heritability 🤣
November 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Each program told me that going to the other program would be a total waste of my time. Turns out both programs were wrong and our twin studies just overestimated the heritability 🤣
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I don't think adults are supposed to root for Kevin the way you root for John McClain, you're just supposed to remember being a kid and rooting for Kevin. And now you can appreciate how John Candy just totally ad-libbed in this entire scene: youtu.be/dD5Q_famjAE?...
Polka Band are bad parents | Gus Funeral Story - Home Alone scene 4k
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November 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I don't think adults are supposed to root for Kevin the way you root for John McClain, you're just supposed to remember being a kid and rooting for Kevin. And now you can appreciate how John Candy just totally ad-libbed in this entire scene: youtu.be/dD5Q_famjAE?...