Ecotoxdoc

I think our city should be talking about this more.

Come work with us at UW-Green Bay! We're hiring a tenure-track ecologist with a focus on global change biology. 🧪🌎🪶

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Bro, your work isn't a movie! Also, posters aren't for you to display your brilliant complete story, they're for students and others to present works in progress and have a good venue for discussion

Omfg Jeff, this caught my eye too this morning! This discourse is so dumb every time, and I feel like it's at least 75% faculty who are at heart complaining that posters don't give them enough spotlight. The thread I saw this morning compared their work to a movie and a poster to a crappy trailer...

Big fan of the lab group wide time out and cleaning/reorg party, with pizza and/or milkshakes afterwards. Always feels productive but not focused on the experiments

I don’t really pay attention to charges of doomerism. I don’t know what it means offline.

I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.

Ugh

Applies across topics

PFAS levels in Great Lakes fish are dropping, study finds A new study shows PFAS levels in Great Lakes fish are on the decline as manufacturers have phased out some chemicals in recent decades.

PFAS levels in #GreatLakes fish are dropping, study finds

The declining levels were driven by an industry phase-out of legacy PFAS chemicals

www.wpr.org/news/pfas-le...

I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever.

A thread.

Jeffrey Epstein infiltrated science because it was ready to accommodate him What could “nerd tunnel vision” possibly mean?

From 2019: Jeffrey Epstein liked to describe himself as a “science philanthropist,” and academics liked to take his money.

As more of Epstein’s enablers are uncovered, it’s worth asking why it was so easy for him to infiltrate science in the first place.

Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social:

A fun case study since there have been 72 million articles on the cold in the east and 4 on the warmth in the west

But I think what you first said is the most true. A bottomless pit of inadequacy that knows it deep down and can't ever fill that hole

Yeah totally. That sounds like what I read somewhere about narcissistic personality disorder - the only people they 'like' are those they consider extensions of themselves

Been thinking about that too, given he doesn't appear to like his family enough to care about leaving it to them

The problem is not lack of a medical school. This is specifically punting to a longer term "solution" that they can point to as doing something while not fixing more immediate issues. Doctors that already went through med school leave the state in droves. Fix that

Early Arthropods

xkcd.com/3199/

Some days I really get to feel Midwestern pride

A dad on patrol this morning is showing off his new egregiously expensive ice-fishing boots that he justified “because I’m standing out here all the time.” Dudes are going to continue rocking until morale improves

Calling all aquatic toxicologists!

Pollutant Responses in Marine Organisms, PRIMO23, will be held June 2-5, 2026 @ McMaster University .

Abstract submissions are open!

Www.primo.org

Corrected link: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Published today in PNAS:
www-pnas-org.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/doi/10.1073/...
Mark Urban, Chris Elphick, and I argue that conservation programs should pay more attention to heritable within population variation, enabling rapid evolutionary response to environmental changes.

The Purged Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who have been discarded, but for an entire nation.

For some reason, very few people these days will stand up and say it, but: the US federal bureaucracy is one of the great wonders of the world, staffed with incredibly diligent people who do their jobs well and care deeply.

Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.

Since 2022, no major legislation responding to or tackling the climate crisis has emerged from the General Assembly. The reason for the slowdown? Aggressive opposition to climate legislation from Rhode Island’s main utility company. buff.ly/byb3VrH

before weighing in on anything ask yourself: could I be talking about Audi Crooks instead? then talk about Audi Crooks instead, unless you were planning on talking shit, in which case don't do that either

Three male side-blotched lizard with three neck colors: orange, blue, and yellow

Lizards have evolved their own version of rock-paper-scissors. Here's my story on the genetics behind nature's games. Gift link: nyti.ms/493KGMI

you guys ever see Looper

Weird time to post generic platitudes

Well got forbid I be feeling a little hope and optimism as we started a new year. Fuck this