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Dead Pioneers:
🎵 My Spirit Animal Ate Your Spirit Animal

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https://deadpioneers.bandcamp.com/track/my-spirit-animal-ate-your-spirit-animal

https://open.spotify.com/track/67FOvBiByYReLOriTyYgZR

@ysabet pretty darn good! Don’t know if I’ll get it, but I’m happy with the experience :)

#bloomscrolling #florespondence Seen on the way to my job interview this morning. Wish me luck!

She’s so small that she can do ridiculous antigravity poses #caturday #CatsOfMastodon

@richardbadge Aquilegia, or columbine :)

@RealJournalism “Friends, if you cannot imagine someone getting married at Auschwitz, honeymooning at Dachau, or holding a reunion at Bergen-Belsen, then why was it EVER acceptable to do these very things at this ostentatious house built by enslaved people — on land where many of them STILL, TO THIS VERY DAY, lie in unmarked and forgotten graves?”

Weekend reads: MIT rescinds support of AI paper; should AI write science papers, anyway?; another pub steps in for paused NIH journal https://retractionwatch.com/2025/05/17/weekend-reads-mit-rescinds-support-of-ai-paper-should-ai-write-science-papers-anyway-another-pub-steps-in-for-paused-nih-journal/ #Science #ScienceCommunications

@simone_z it’s not Marvel, manga, or DC, and it’s certainly not Batman :)

@fifischwarz those patterns! Amazing 😻

This is the way.

A high school freshman track athlete took second place behind a trans athlete, and a Republican leader used the situation to push hateful propaganda. The girl responds:

"I don't feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points... No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby."

@simone_z why so many inaccurate tags on this one?

@madargon she’s so pretty!

This seems good, actually. Massive short-term performance bonuses have led to extreme short-term thinking. If a CEO will probably be at the same company in 10 years bc the pay is the same elsewhere, companies could become more likely to make sensible investments in renewability. Get solar power, move away from big mandatory offices, etc. https://phys.org/news/2025-05-pay.html

puddle-play

https://mander.xyz/post/28681609

Right, so the only smart way out of this was to kill all of them. I was going to have to take the dumb way out of this.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/national-suicide-hotline-lgbtq-youth-cuts-rfk-jr-hhs/

In light of this news, please share this resource:

http://www.dontcallthepolice.com

It is a nationwide directory of non-carceral/judicial resources to call for conflict resolution, emergency mental health, domestic violence, addiction and housing assistance.

#resist #MutualAid #LGBTQ #lgbtqia #politics #uspol #uspolitics #MentalHealth #community #emergency #addiction #housing

Asilomar State Park, California, USA #lichensubscribe

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.


I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

Curiosity-driven research isn't just fun; it led us to develop tools that thousands of scientists use to find meaningful patterns in massive datasets (e.g. www.mapequation.org). 





Separately, I've had the opportunity to be part of the largest collective intellectual effort in human history.

In 2020, the scientific community came together—remotely, by necessity—in response to the COVID pandemic, to understand how this disease spreads and what that it does to people, to find of returning life to a semblance of normal amidst a pandemic, to develop a vaccine in record time.

And I've been able to teach 1000s of students. I've written a popular textbook about evolution; developed a class and book about critical thinking that is used around the world; and most recently launched a humanities course about LLMs that will be taught at scores of schools in the fall.

But right now my job doesn't feel like the best job in the world. 

Targeted attacks on university funding have put every US institution into a severe crisis. As of now, there is no way we will be able to continue doing the biomedical research, the conservation science, etc. that we always have.

just sharing this, because it's a beautiful object: the Hamonshū, a 1903 collection of Japanese waves and water designs.

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hamonshu-a-japanese-book-of-wave-and-ripple-designs-1903/