John Wares

What I love about science social media is how often I find a paper that I know will be involved in teaching. Can’t wait to read this.

Hypermutable hotspot enables the rapid evolution of self/non-self recognition genes in Dictyostelium Cells require highly polymorphic receptors to perform accurate self/non-self recognition. In the amoeba Dicytostelium discoideum, polymorphic TgrB1 & TgrC1 proteins are used to bind sister cells and e...

I'm excited to announce our new biorxiv preprint, wherein we investigate the evolution of the weirdest genetic locus I've ever seen! Behold the tgr genes of the social amoeba, which mediate self/non-self discrimination during facultative multicellularity 🐅 🧵 1/
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’m exactly the right age to think that a long wheelbase trail bike like my Santa Cruz Chameleon would translate well into a Rivendell not-trail geometry, look out.

Does nobody find it astonishing that Canadian forests have been on fire for so long recently that it starts to seem normal???

It is not normal. Find an action. Do it.

Officials declare state of emergency as gargantuan fires blaze across vast area: 'We have fires in every region' "This is the largest evacuation."

"This is the largest wildfire evacuation Manitoba will have seen in people's living memory," Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said..."It's not a fire in one region, we have fires in every region. That is a sign of a changing climate that we are going to have to adapt to." 🌍 www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...

The best thing about the nuclear reactor on the moon is that it took an entire team of FBI agents to redact Trump’s name out of the Epstein files

"We are hiring. Come join our team" against a picture of sun through trees over Environmental Health Science Building at UGA

Faculty jobs at University of Georgia in Environmental Health Science - tenure track with one health and computational focus and teaching track with broad EHS applications. Applications are due soon!

Dumb as bricks.

Byssal threads are marvels of bioengineering. They come out of the foot as liquid and immediately start solidifying, like silly string, tipped with a cement-like adhesive pad. Mussels constantly reapply threads as they're buffeted by waves. Spiderman could easily also have been Musselman! (142)

a dumpster is on fire with the words i got nothin left written on the bottom Alt: a dumpster is on fire with the words i got nothin left written on the bottom

Mannnnnnn semester isn’t even here yet and I’m burned out

Alex on twitter writes: "Someone on Twitter writes: "You’re a menswear writer. You don’t know anything about manufacturing in America, or steel mills, or metallurgy, or CNC machining, or how anything is produced from raw material into a finished product in this country or anywhere. Stick to writing about “men’s fashion."" I reply: "i actually had a career in knifemaking before this. the reason why you can't avoid tariffs in knifemaking is because everyone relies on Gobelin machinery. are you aware of this?" Alex replies: "Gobelin machinery? What exactly are you referring to?" I reply: "you Gobelin DEEZ NUTS!"

"stick to menswear"

The sun appears on the horizon, wedged between gray clouds above and the dark waters of Puget Sound below. The sun's bright red light is reflected off the water. The pointed nose of a pale-blue prone paddleboard sits in the foreground, where the paddler has stopped to take the photo.

Tonight's sunset from the Salish Sea - a quick glimpse beneath the marine layer.

Sabiha Kasimati posing for the photographer Kristaq Sotiri in 1942. A black and white photo of a young woman wearing a nice outfit with delicate floral embroidery.

Sabiha Kasimati (1912-1951) was a professor of biology and ichthyologist, one of the earliest known women scientists in Albania.
She was arrested by the communist regime in 1951, and a few days later was executed without trial along with 21 other intellectuals.
#WomenInSTEM

For a second I thought you had a huge drive side pedal

Lots of indication that leaded gas was really bad for our brains

My apparel will also thankfully prevent me from ever being a Dean

A little brown bat making an angry face with its mouth open, lying on a red picnic table.

We relocated this beautiful sky puppy from my kitchen linen drawer to the picnic table outside with some water. After letting me know, vocally, that she did not appreciate us interrupting her nap, she flew off.

AND ALSO when you do mobilize downtown or wherever, SPEND ON LOCAL BUSINESSES 😃

Truth is when we protest by “uniting at city hall”…
we see each other. When you wear clothes / pins / whatever every day to invite discussion / whatever - we need to coordinate making people feel uncomfortable re what they chose to do. I wear my camo Harris - Walz hat still just to see what I see.

Ok athens what truck nuts are blowing fireworks on August 2 is this a rush thing 🙄

Jack Smith investigated & prosecuted Trump for planning & inciting a violent attack on Congress to stop them from certifying the 2020 election.

Trump is not in prison because compliant judges allowed him to run out the clock before the case reached a jury.

Michael Van Landingham, a former CIA analyst involved in drafting the 2017 intelligence report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, has publicly defended the assessment’s conclusions.

lol can he pass it

Remember when I told you that all our caution, our obsession with optics, our demand that the case be open & shut/iron clad, was INSANE when a) the other side would never be held to such standards, and b) the waste of time was more dangerous than a failed case?

Yeah, I was 100% right about that.

Evolutionary Genomics, Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Fall 2026 The University of Tennessee - Knoxville: Knoxville Academic Units: College of Arts and Sciences: Division of Natural Sciences & Mathematics: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Open date: July 28, 2025 Description The Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, seeks applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Genomics. We invite applicants whose research leverages modern genomic tools and statistical approaches to address fundamental questions in evolutionary biology. We are particularly interested in candidates working on functional and evolutionary genomics in any system—plant, microbe, or animal (including humans)—who bring innovative, integrative approaches to large-scale genomic data analysis. [more on description excluded due to character limit on bsky: please see ad at https://apply.interfolio.com/170735 ] Candidates must hold a Ph.D. in Biology, Genetics, Evolutionary Biology, Genomics, Bioinformatics, or a related field at the time of appointment and should demonstrate a strong record of scientific accomplishment, including peer-reviewed publications. Excellent communication skills and a commitment to effective and modern teaching practices are required. Applications will be reviewed beginning September 19, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled. This position has an anticipated start date of August 1, 2026. Interested applicants should submit via Interfolio (apply.interfolio.com/170735) a cover letter, curriculum vitae, two-page statement of research accomplishment and plans, two-page description of teaching experiences and interests, and contact information of at least three individuals who could write letters of reference. Please direct any questions to the search chair, Dr. Elizabeth Derryberry (ederryb1@utk.edu).

Tenure-track faculty job in Evolutionary Genomics in my department, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at U of Tennessee, Knoxville.

• Any system (even humans)
• Interdisciplinary, collaborative folks welcomed
• Review starts Sep 19, 2025
• Details at apply.interfolio.com/170735

#AcademicSky

The Actual Conspiracy Theory Surrounding Trump and Epstein It’s not what you think it is.

Instead of waiting for (redacted or doctored) Epstein files, media should publish court docs alleging that Trump raped Katie Johnson at Epstein's home when she was 13.

Why ignore what alleged victims have to say while giving adjudicated or alleged perps unlimited air time?

@katemanne.bsky.social

Finished Moby Dick over coffee. Phenomenal.

Paying attention to the USDA reorganization plan? Comment window is open. www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

On a stone completely encrusted with small barnacles are a couple of hermit crabs. And there's another barnacle on the shell of the hermit in front; an excellent site, as the hermit carries it to a variety of food sources. And the hermit is a messy eater, adding choice morsels to the water swirling around the barnacle. This hermit is a Hairy, with brown and white legs, very clean, green and white antennae, yellow and white eyestalks and antennules. And dark eyes, one looking our way, the other keeping watch on the far side. (So helpful to have such mobile eyes!) The shell is round, with only three whorls, the first rough, scored, algae-encrusted, dark grey to brown. The second and third whorls, though, are smoother, and bluish. The second hermit, in the background, blurry, is another Hairy, this one wearing a charcoal-grey mudflat snail shell. And behind all that, the greens of eelgrass and green algae. (Eelgrass is a flowering plant, not an alga.)

Barnacle transport. Very clean, recently molted Hairy hermit wears a shell with an acorn barnacle attached. Just helping out with the grocery run. #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit