Amanda Moehring

I’m not an ecologist (disclaimer) but could you put the organism in a bag or permeable plastic type sack with tiny holes large enough for bacteria and water to enter /leave but small enough to prevent any tissues leaving?

My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here:
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This book was funny … because it’s true. A great read.

An image of a boxy angled silver dumpster (left) next to another dumpster (right).

Matching Cybertrucks

Oh!! I wasn’t invested enough to look up more info on it. That’s actually even funnier.

He posted an ‘apology’ letter that ends with blaming Coldplay for violating his privacy … in a public arena.

One of my great great+ grandmothers during the colonial period gave birth to 14 children. Those were the ones who lived long enough to be baptized and recorded. Of those, 5 made it to 12. 3 made it to 20. 2 married and had children.

Don’t take criticism to heart from someone you wouldn’t go to for advice.

Sheila Colla was a brilliant scientist and a powerful advocate for both nature and disadvantaged people. A profound loss.

US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

I'm recruiting a US PhD student to come to Canada to work on the genetic and neural basis of female mating behaviour. Fellowship of ~$40k per year. Contact me if interested in submitting an application. Details of eligibility here!
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No that’s what’s wild! They did not charge me shipping, they covered that cost. So they paid for exorbitant shipping AND the sample cost. Silly.

I had this happen once with a free sample of Taq polymerase. ENORMOUS box filled with dry ice. A single tiny vial inside. Must have cost them $100 to send me that free sample. Absurd.

It was from a nice (though apparently not lol) restaurant in Quebec City! It was a platter of assorted varieties of Quebec cheese, all of which were tasty. None of which pair with ketchup. 😂

I ordered a cheese platter that said it came with “condiments” and I assumed fancy jams or something but this is what it came with instead. Wtf

I love this!!! 😍

Elon Musk @ X @elonm... We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. Then retrain on that. Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data.

It’s time for a major shift toward thinking about preserving knowledge in hard copy for the Canticle For Leibowitz -scale long term, before this guy turns all our accounts digital information into self-reinforcing White Genocide propaganda.

Buy books, is what I’m saying.

I’m not sure how many others are in this position, but I’m sad that I’m missing #Evol2025 because it’s not safe for many folks to travel to the US right now, and also not desirable to spend money there.

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.

Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:

1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

Free park passes for all 4th graders and their families!

It’s still very possible that he was unaware of this info from another population 1000 years earlier and that he DID figure it out. He just wasn’t the first.

9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything

We don’t always know what questions will change the world.

But public science has a way of answering them anyway.

Federal science funding isn’t just lines in a budget. It’s a vote for progress, for possibility.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

If the plane is a gift to the US Government then it stays with the government. If it’s a gift to Trump that he keeps then it’s a bribe. Those are the only two options folks.

Without basic science, there is nothing to translate.

✅ ACTION ITEM ✅

The National Science Foundation is under attack.

Trump’s budget is moving to dismantle one of the great engines of U.S. innovation, education, and discovery.

The fight to save NSF is on—and now there’s a new home base to join the front lines (🧵 1/3):

www.savensf.com

A great thread describing what PTSD feels like. Useful info for anyone who wants to know how to help someone (today or in the future) experiencing PTSD.

Democrats have been so successful in building a working government people take it for granted, which pretty much explains how they could vote for Trump but not believe he would do what he said he would do

Job opening here at Western, which is a great place to work!

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