Lara Durgavich

20. The Night Portrait by Laura Morelli. Dual historical narratives (one in Renaissance Italy & one in WWII Europe) tied together by Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine” portrait. I learned some really interesting things!

19. The Murderer’s Ape by Jakob Wegelius. Yes, I picked it up from the YA section of the bookstore when shopping for a bday gift for my niece. Yes it was solely because of the title. But it ended up being a fun read — had a varied cast of characters that reminded me of Cordelia Underwood.

Maybe it wasn't a good idea for higher education to accommodate the higher education haters quite so much

Seems like all that civility isn't paying off

Hey so you don’t need to test if the new version of the lying, plagiarism bot is better or worse than the old plagiarism bot they’re all bad

It’s me. In your pocket. Talking about orangutan ovarian hormones. 🦧

30-50 outdoor pigs

The only time I’ve used it was as part of an in-class assignment that helped students realize how crappy it is.

Look at those gams!

Funded by several NIH grants, including two of them to a Harvard researcher. This is the kind of thing the current administration is trying to take away from us. THIS

We’re like 2 steps away from him telling us Brawndo has what plants crave.

Has anyone told @suethetrex.bsky.social that Jeff Goldblum’s Chest won the Most Amazing Impact in Film award at the Las Culturistas Culture Awards?
I feel like they’d want to know.

When children are starving to death, you do everything in your power to feed them.

It’s not complicated.

Feed starving kids. No matter what.

RFK Jr. cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research The cuts add to mounting evidence that Kennedy is pursuing an aggressive anti-vaccine agenda.

We need a word for someone who is beyond perverse, sadistic, sociopathic. Blocking mRNA vaccine research means that you or someone you love will die of something you could have avoided or survived. He is intentionally killing people.

Not fleeing: New report shows more wealthy residents in Mass., 2 years into 'millionaire's tax' Despite previous concerns, Massachusetts' "millionaire's tax" hasn't seemed to deter high-earners from continuing to live here, according to a new study from the Institute for Policy Studies.

Critics said that Massachusetts' new "millionaire's tax" would push the wealthy out of the state. Two years in, the tax is bringing in ~$2.5 billion a year and the number of residents in that bracket is up 40 percent. www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

Breastfeeding Isn't Free for World Breastfeeding Week

In honor of World Breastfeeding Week, this comic about the many, many coats of breastfeeding is your reminder that BREASTFEEDING IS LABOR!

Today I passed a car with a license plate frame that said “Eat Cheese or Die” and honestly, same.

Hubs and I have an opportunity to take a trip just the 2 of us in December. Destinations we're considering are Madeira, Costa Rica, or Morocco. Any recommendations/advice?

🚨Adorable little gremlin alert!🚨

Education requires relationships. Not just information delivered to people's eyeballs.

Oops, there women go, not ruining science again 👇 Almost as if the claim that women are ruining science because evolution made us incapable of it is political activism, not science 🤷‍♀️

This is the only news story I plan to read today.

Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.

The International Rattlesnake Museum in Albuquerque. 🐍

Moose are also FAST (35mph), and I’d be a little terrified being this close to them. #TeamAlcesAlces

Protect Primates: Join Us in Advocating for the Captive Primate Safety Act - Jane Goodall Institute USA Help create a future where primates are treated with dignity and respect. Sign the letter urging Congress to pass the Captive Primate Safety Act. Chimpanzees and other primates are intelligent, sentie...

Tell Congress to pass the Captive Primate Safety Act to protect pets from being sold as pets
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We are all mere Smurfs & they are Gargamel, endlessly questing to devour us.

I am so disillusioned with all of Higher Ed right now.

This is an astounding act of pillage. Imagine this being your legacy: salting the earth that sprouted Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, Car Talk, Sesame Street, This Old House, and Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me.

When the 1937 census didn't show as much population growth as Stalin wanted (because of the genocide), he had the census takers executed.

Lucky