Emily Josephs

If you are upset about the WP layoffs and the billionaire takeover of the press, consider cancelling your Amazon Prime membership and stop giving them so much business. It took us a while to adjust from the convenience of it when we quit but it was worth it.

‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...

“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.

I joined an anti-ICE protest on a bridge today in East Lansing. There were ~10 of us, some who just saw and joined in like me. We got so many supportive honks, waves, & 👍s and also someone gave us donuts!

Character displacement!

Anti- Batesian mimicry?

💯 it feels very jarring to be so happy & having so much fun with my preschooler, and then like everything else.

Cool new work from Sophie Buysee w/ @jeffreykconner.bsky.social on how different Arabidopsis thaliana populations respond to drought.

There's also one where all the various spidermen and other marvel characters are kids, who can also turn into dinosaurs. It's amazing.

Context dependence shapes the evolution of glyphosate and herbivory resistance in Ipomoea purpurea https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.20.695696v1

I get one lecture for this in my genetics class and do mutation -> migration -> drift -> selection. I start with mutation because that's where all variation starts & spend the most time on drift. My students have already learned HWE so I skip it.

Or even Uber/Lyft. Growing up, my neighbors and my parents would always give each other rides to the airport, but I'd never ask my current neighbors for this when I could take an Uber.

Also that you don't need a community -- why ask a friend for help with code or grammar or paper suggestions etc when you can just consume this product?

Anyway, here's some R code to do this properly if it helps anyone: github.com/emjosephs/te...

Seriously. At least the scantron-scanning office (I love them) has figured out how to generate a csv that can be downloaded and immediately uploaded to the next system.

It's wild to me that the official instructions for getting grades from MSU's course management system to the registrar website involves sorting two spreadsheets, copy-pasting a column from one to the other, and I guess, crossing your fingers it all worked?

This account also says that Hillary Clinton went to Brown, which isn't at all true

Yeah I totally get this and I'm sorry if my comments came across as blaming the students -- I don't at all and I making my course accessible for all is an important part of my job, I just wish I had the support to do a better job of it.

To be clear, if the exam is 1.5 hours, we are required to find a room and staff to ensure that a student with 2x time can have 3 hours to take the exam.

This has been exactly my experience and we are given no resources to accomplish it.

This is like 1000 grad student stipends, and I'm sure at least one of them would have won more football games

This sounds like Toronto in the early 2010s. Like why is there cold shredded cheese and raw bell pepper in the burrito?

This makes me feel better about recently trying to convince @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social to take up studying size + resource competition by calling it the "Planthew Effect"

I would like to go on a holiday and have this soup ❤️

How and for whom can genetics education reduce beliefs in genetic essentialism? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41267401/
"We also find that the 3 intervention curricula are highly effective across sociodemographic group characteristics [...] we offer evidence-based strategies for curriculum development"

I appreciate that Thanksgiving has always been optional in my family. I still remember my glee the year my parents decided that the 3 of us would just go to Disneyland.

Hey, **Award winning** postdoc mentor David Lowry is hiring a new postdoc!! Check it out :)

It's an interesting choice to refer to the majority of people on earth as "some groups".

Thank you for making me cackle with delight.

Are they supposed to do this??? I was worried my little garden Opuntia had given up on the world.