Aysha Prather

A brown and tan goose with its mouth open, a white goose with its bill pointed at the sky standing on grass in front of a stack of IBC tanks with the wall of a house behind them. Chickens roam the yard behind the geese.

Every day of the short lives of these geese, AWACS planes flew overhead, departing from or returning to Tinker Air Force Base. The geese would hear the plane approaching, look up at the sky, and scream at that plane to FUCK the FUCK off, right FUCKING now.

How completely out of touch do you have to be to give that assignment in 2025?
And why aren't their colleagues/students counseling them about why it's a bad assignment?

A mural designed by members of sci:moers under the artistic direction of urban artist cokyone (https://cokyone.myportfolio.com), after the biodiversity analysis in soil done by Dr. Arne Schwelm. The organisms are a Gastrotrichia, Tardigrade, a nematode, a ciliate, a testate amoeba and the fruiting body of a fungus.

We are our best when we collaborate. 🧪🦠🔬🧬🌍🍄
This mural about the invisible #soil #biodiversity in Moers(🇩🇪) resulted from the collaboration between my friend Dr. Arne Schwelm, the people from sci:moers and the Stiftung für Umwelt und Entwicklung under the artistic direction of #cokyone.

Oh, thanks for reminding me about that. Jeesh.

I don't know many ecologists who would deny being biologists. It seems Wright describes himself as an evolutionary biologist, which, unfortunately, is such a broad description that it says nothing about a person's specific expertise.

Also in the crowd with the Kirk fans and wearing their We Are All Charlie Kirk shirt was local scumbag John Scamehorn <https://www.oudaily.com/news/i-dont-need-to-be-silent-john-scamehorns-history-of-sexual-harassment-extends-from-ou/article_8ef34928-6918-11e8-85aa-8f1e4ec88aed.html>.

Welcome to the first day of #Nudivember! Today's species is Tenellia anulata (I apologize for having an outdated genus on the list). This species is found in Japan.

Photos:
www.seaslugforum.net/showall/cuth...
en.seaslug.world/species/tene...

Definitely using Ryan Walters (and early Charlie Kirk) as his role models.
I think he's also been going to state school board meetings.

I was there when he addressed council during the ridiculous Kirk circle jerk meeting. He said then he had driven down from Tulsa just to yell at Helen Grant. There's no indication he has legitimate business in Norman.

That was his whole little rant in the second video. Norman/Resident are his pronouns, and if Norman is truly inclusive, council need to respect them.
Council don't respond directly to public comment, and there's no obligation to answer his emails, since he doesn't live in anyone's ward.

What a twerp

Scripps Research scientists launch new digital clinical trial to test repurposed drug for long COVID symptom relief

We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word
www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...

Cheap electricity at my house required my sweaty shirtless professor husband working on hot rooftops with manly power tools.
Also a lot of cussing, but you could leave that out of the commercials.

It's always the Olds. Back when PowerPoint first added animations and fancy transition effects, it was often senior faculty who went all out in their slide shows. Maybe they had grandchildren helping them build the presentations? Aesthetic restraint is one of the inhibitions that declines with age?

I'm an alumnus of the Berkeley student housing co-ops. You just evoked some sensory memories i didn't know i'd retained.

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...

SCOOP

The admin is making it harder for male vets w/ breast cancer to get their care covered

The admin cites Trump order: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”

I got the memo laying it all out

www.propublica.org/article/vete...

Lia Smith, Missing 21-Year-Old Trans Student, Found Dead in Vermont The Middlebury College student was a double major in computer science and statistics.

In February, Smith sat on a panel titled “Trans Healthcare is NOT a Debate!” “Know that there are people in your community that are here for you and care about you,” Smith said on the panel, addressing other trans students.
www.them.us/story/lia-sm...

Intersex Awareness Day highlights a fight for rights that’s far from over From a Boston protest to global recognition, the history of Intersex Awareness Day shines a light on decades of work to preserve bodily autonomy.

Activists have returned to October 26 time and again when looking for a foundation from which to launch protests in the name of intersex justice.

19thnews.org/2025/10/inte...

"Bigtree spoke at ExpoWest in a session aimed at the supplement industry. Market research presented during the session showed the industry reached $69.3 billion in sales in 2024."

I'm a girl child of the 70s & divorce. Sci fi TV/movies/books raised me. Never identified as a Trekkie & haven't watched every episode of every series, but i have strong feelings about characters and actors. I'll watch Generations whenever anyone asks, just to watch William Shatner die 2X.

When we ill-advisedly used chicken wire to secure our first chicken coop, a raccoon patiently untwisted the wire until it made an opening big enough to pull a chicken head through.
I bought hardware cloth and long staples the next day.

When we lived in a 3rd floor flat in an old neighborhood with lots of big trees and gardens, we watched the development of a family with 3 babies all season. They learned to climb the railings and vines, and eventually they figured out our balcony cat door. Chaos is a good collective noun.

Describe a character in Greek mythology the way someone trying to defend a politician would. I’ll start.

Oedipus: Like you’ve never had sex with someone and regretted it later

My linocut portrait of van Leeuwenhoek in burgundy wearing a wig, narrow moustache, loose robe and neck scarf, holding his invention, a microscope. He’s surrounded by his microscopic observations, “animacules”, blood vessels and more, in gold, orange, green and yellow

Happy birthday to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632 – 1723), the Dutch scientist & progenitor of #microbiology known for his improvements to microscope tech. 🧪🐡 #histsci He was a draper in Delft, then a politician with an interest in lensmaking. Using his handmade #microscopes, he was first to observe 🧵

I have been relieved every day of the last 2 years that my kids graduated high school before Ryan Walters really started exerting (and exceeding) his office's power. However, one kid is a student in OK public higher ed and my husband and i both work in OK public higher ed. We're not doin' fine.

The same forces attacking abortion access are attacking gender-affirming care — both rooted in control.

We can’t stop at abortion access. We have to dig injustice out at the root, not just when it touches our own gardens.

Notably: every single rally (including in the small towns) was bigger than the surrounding police force available. That kind of image event is VERY IMPORTANT if you're, I dunno, demonstrating social coherence AGAINST a fascist government and it's makeshift gestapo.

No kings, but a trio of unicorns, a pair of raccoons, a flock of chickens, a flying squirrel, a donkey, a hippo, dinosaurs, a frog, a squid, and a whole lot of people's grandparents.

My roombas are essential to my mental health. I don't like dirty floors, but i HATE vacuuming. If there was a dusting robot, i'd buy it in a heartbeat.

And staff to clean the dust and cobwebs off the skeleton?