Laura Hug

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

I'm excited to read it! And would love to know more about the process of deciding to, and then actually writing, a book. (preordered!)

The Dark Frontier by Jeffrey Marlow: 9780593230183 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books An awe-inspiring investigation into the hidden world of the deep sea—the most mysterious, unforgiving environment on Earth—whose secrets can radically revise our understanding of life itself...

Hey guess what - I wrote a book, and it's coming out soon!

The Dark Frontier is about the wonders of the deep sea...and the threats they face. Check it out, and if you're so moved, you can preorder from your favorite purveyor of fine literature 📚❤️

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/652987...

I'm about a 3, set it all gently aflame. I think it would be difficult to actually fix/harmonize most of the taxonomic errors (polyphylies, etc.) without renaming from bottom to top, and when making exceptions, whose fave gets to win?

Covers of the 2 leading science journals this week
@science.org and @nature.com
www.science.org/content/arti... www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

If you manage people, and you don't read @rawsignal.ca's newsletter... well, that's probably fine but you definitely should start.
On managing teams when you don't have the relevant expertise: "The tools are getting faster but the core issue was never that you were bullshitting slowly."

This is exactly my first thought when is comes to literally *anything* about Greenland. The native Inuit who were colonized by Europe, and who have fought long and hard to regain some level of home rule, deserve better than to have their homeland considered "for sale" by this bullshitter president.

I've played enough Risk to know that if the US takes Greenland, they're going to want Canada and Mexico next to get the completed continent bonus.

Magical overnight visitors have a hard cap of one per month, thank you

The classic academic urge to write a book… #IDontHaveTimeForThis

Not youtube, but the podcast Normal Gossip has 90% female guests and is also delightful, and is my current “steady chatter to fall asleep” option

I’m running a social experiment on my family. This fall, I’ve taken up a new hobby. I’ve mentioned it to everyone at least twice, with appropriately nerdy enthusiasm. Will holiday gifts be overwhelmingly this-hobby-related, or has it not percolated into their view of me yet?

World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating

With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.

10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C

20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C

So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.

Worksheet on soil layers with components labeled. Above, in pencil and with messy handwriting is written “I don’t need to hear this because my mom is a microbiologist”

Not *quite* the attitude I’m looking for..

New paper from our group - megaphages, compact CRISPR-Cas effectors, and more from landfill phage, led by the talented Dr. Nikhil George (not on bsky). rdcu.be/ePo8o

Two emails this week told me the photos of landfills on my webpage really sparkle. No, no they really don’t. Sparkle seems the word du jour

Josh Neufeld did with the 3rd year Env Micro and Diversity course I now teach - it had been flipped back before it came my way. Maybe ping him?

I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet.

Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times.

Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀

#PublicHealth

not to brag but i can generate slop with natural intelligence

@planetmoney.bsky.social AI hosts in the Trojan Horse episode? Or sound mixing gone overboard?
Really hard to listen to Kenny when interspersed with the interviews, then back to “human” for the wrappers, just obviously robotic in some way

Two pumpkins side by side on a deck in sunlight. The left pumpkin is a round orange gourd carved with a confused face. The right pumpkin is a smaller white pumpkin carved with a spooky ghost.

First two (of five) carved. Now to see if the squirrels eat them before Friday…

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

“I asked them to, if they have a chance, call me back,” said Thomas Perlmann, secretary-general of the Nobel committee

Probably a call that you’d return…

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

If you aren't knowledgable, you are impressionable.

“Many young extremists now believe in a much simpler binary: Order and chaos. And if you are spending any time at all trying to derive meaning from violent acts like this then you are, by definition, their enemy.”

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme Making sense of our dark new era of extremely online political violence

And this one via @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social at @garbageday.email sent me down some rabbit holes (but in a good way).

www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

Manufacturers use the same cartridge for tons of tests (pregnancy, flu, etc) and just swap out the paper strip for the right one. But I agree that positive/negative would be better!

They’d been exposed for a few days the week prior. They are pro testing, just befuddled

Walked someone through reading a COVID test correctly after they texted me a pic of a perfectly negative test saying “sorry I can’t come”…. No the C does not stand for COVID.
#ItsBeenFiveYears #TwoLinesNotOne

If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us.

When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?

I can’t stop laughing about the neighbourhood of doom