My quote of the day
This is the greatest country under the sun. But we must not let our love of country, our patriotic loyalty, cause us to abate one whit in our protest against wrong and injustice.
Madam C. J. Walker (Sarah Breedlove)
Green memory, by Langston Hughes
There will come soft rains, by Sara Teasdale
(War time)
🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!
My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.
We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.
#Postdoc #EcoEvo
Pls RT!
A light exists in spring, by Emily Dickinson
Are you in the majority? I like Daylight Savings Time, but the sun wouldn’t come up until after 8:00am in Connecticut in December. I may not like it that much. - 64% of Americans want to stop changing the clocks
#SilentSunday
The US army corps of engineers is considering, right now, what would be the largest destruction of coral reefs in US history. To make a port slightly bigger.
People know this, right?
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
🧪🦑🌎
The 2nd edition of Kieran Healy’s book will come out next fall, and he’s made a freely available version of the draft availble.
Journal Submissions Riddled With AI-Created Fake Citations www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
My quote of the day
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Wow! I did not know this. I wonder if there’s a way to turn it off. If there is, I’ll put it in my .Rprofile.
I am absolutely holding Fisher Scientific to what is printed on this order.
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
This is an amazing piece of scientific satire by @russcd.bsky.social. The first sentence alone is a banger:
"The defining goal of the academic endeavor is to establish a single perfect value that completely summarizes entire careers’ achievements."
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction
A massive bloom of rimu berries in New Zealand fueled a mating surge among the critically endangered Kākāpō. spklr.io/6044E87xp
📸: New Zealand Department of Conservation
A hopeful thought from Margaret Renkl in a perilous time - “To see a whooping crane in the wild is to be reminded that we nearly killed something miraculous — and then, almost unbelievably, we didn’t.”
So... A friend was supposed to give a PURELY SCIENTIFIC talk at NIH within the next couple of weeks and it was cancelled because of a "new process" where all speakers/talks have to be CLEARED BY A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.
The Intuition for Why You Always Need Robust Standard Errors - Data Colada datacolada.org/133
What Do Social Media Companies Fear? Time Management. - “The more you organize your analog life, the less appealing you’ll find the digital alternative.” calnewport.com/what-do-soci...
Restoration Update: In the Wake of Klamath Dam Removal • The Revelator therevelator.org/klamath-rest... 🧪🦑🌎
In the Next Great Transformation AI will not eliminate genuine expertise; rather it will make it more valuable — Crooked Timber crookedtimber.org/2026/03/02/i...
We had a very handsome Northern Cardinal at our feeder this morning.
UNC Chancellor Scraps Secret Recording Policy - Here’s what the chancellor said: The whole idea was to create clarity and reassurance. That policy clearly has not achieved that aim.”
#SilentSunday Sunrise in Coventry, CT
