Kevin Keegan

RETRACTED: Integrative phylogenomics positions sponges at the root of the animal tree Determining whether sponges or ctenophores root the animal tree has important implications for understanding early animal evolution. Here, we examined support for these competing hypotheses by constru...

This is a beautiful case of how real science happens & serious scientists work. Kudos to both set of authors: “This has been a humbling experience, but one that speaks to the self-correcting nature of the scientific endeavor.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

💚🦋 Moth of the day: Spurge Hawk-moth🦋💚 (16/100) #MothEmbroidery
#Hyleseuphorbiae #Sphingidae #MothsMatter #MothsofAsturias

four people happy in the forest with trillium flowers everywhere

Exciting new undergraduate research opportunities here at Carnegie Museum in Botany! Applications due March 1. drive.google.com/file/d/1jNNy...

Coyote amongst green desert mix of desert dandelion/phacelia flowers.

Coyote amongst desert dandelion/phacelia flowers Borrego Valley this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Desert lily with one flower at sunrise in the mostly barren Borrego Badlands.

Desert lily sunrise in the Borrego Badlands (2/6/26).

AI paul skenes telling bob nutting to sell the team is gonna go so hard

Frank Grant was the best Black baseball player of the 19th century, paving the way for the next generation of stars.

paid summer internship in our museum, it is in BOTANY but you cannot get in there without walking through the insect collection and being subjected to Beetle Facts drive.google.com/file/d/1jNNy...

it's the AI PRFB now 🙃

Read the RFP and watch your happiness turn to pure rage

Hopes and Dreams
Bowdon, GA

We want ICE abolished.

Lone dune evening primrose flowering on a large sand rippled dune in the Borrego Badlands.

Lone dune evening primrose flowering on a large dune in the Borrego Badlands (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A corgi's head barely surfacing atop deep snow, against a backdrop of an old wooden fence

I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep

A quick collage of some snow flakes 🙂. Forsyth County, North Carolina, today

Flamboyant pink cloud stripes over the sky, two mexican fan palms in the foreground.

Flamboyant Borrego sky Wednesday evening (Photo: Sicco Rood).

YouTube video by unvmebad86 George Washington

I don't know why they need to make short AI films about the American Revolution when the perfect one was created 18 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...

No Kings is hosting what is shaping up to be the largest ICE Watch training in history tonight.

Join here: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

One of the things I like best about big snowstorms in the city is that people often walk and play in the middle of the streets during the day, and get to imagine — even momentarily, and maybe for the first time ever — what city life could be like in a world without cars.

Learn something new every day: these are called “caltrops,” a modern version of an ancient device used to hinder chariots. Apparently some people are using them against ICE/CBP vehicles.

jaderemedy • 4h ago And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like. Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is "well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it. This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order. And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny. You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely. "Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military:

www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

decent people who care about each other and stand up for each other, are going to win btw

The govt lying about the killing of a U.S. citizen at the hands of the state, is by itself, a front page a story, worthy of drumbeat coverage, resignations, and impeachments.

man defiantly holding US flag while wearing protective gear, surrounded by tear gas & flares. the image is the same as above but wider to show more of the crowd plus a street sign.

photographer is Jeff Wheeler at the Star Tribune. guy with the flag is Curtis Evans, a Marine veteran.

Jeff Wheeler, The Minnesota Star Tribune

Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.

Mood in minneapolis right now

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

Board of Peace - Season 1

Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.