Ologies with Alie Ward

okay well we dont love that

I am wearing your podmother's giant parka he got in high school. And a hat. But I love it. I'm like a little lost penguin.

Don Draper from Md Men in a wood-paneled elevator wearing a suit and saying "I don't think about you at all."

Do a lot of people hate on Boston? As a life-long West Coaster, we are mostly dialed into the SF/LA hatred which is one-sided because people in my hometown of SF loathe LA and LA is Don Draper about it

I'm in Boston for two seconds and it's really nice here. I love LA, but it's weird to be in a city that feels like it wants you there.

Paleohistology (WHY TEETH EXIST) with Dr. Yara Haridy — alie ward Excuse me, why do you have teeth? How did they get in your mouth and where did they come from? Let’s ask researcher, tooth enthusiast, and Paleohistologist Dr. Yara Haridy.  She opened up the arc...

TEETH: WHY?

The dazzling & brilliant Dr. Yara Haridy talks about the origins of teeth, why they are (or are not) all over your body, the half a billion year old fossils shaking up paleo, particle accelerators + so much more. We love her.

www.alieward.com/ologies/pale...

"Cut bangs, text your crush, we're all gonna die."

- my next tattoo, via a 2019 @ologies.bsky.social ep on biogerontology

(OK not really getting a tattoo, but a kid can dream)

Fun facts about me! I’m a wildlife ecologist, my birthday is on the most sacred of mammal holidays, Groundhog Day, when I caught a habituated marmot & worked w/ @nwtrek.bsky.social to make him an ambassador animal rather than euthanizing, they named him Chestnut ❤️🦫🌰 🎂 www.nwtrek.org/marmot-finds...

Ink drawing of a creature from the black lagoon type babe winking at you with luxuriously long lashes

Had a blast at @sarahmackattack.bsky.social’s Bad Art for Good event with @ologies.bsky.social!!! Great convos, great peoples. If you ever get a chance to attend a Sarah event, take it

Bad Art for Good · Luma Join Ologies Host Alie Ward and squid biologist Sarah McAnulty to make some art to make things better. How can art make things better? Creating makes us feel…

Getting ready for tonight's West Coast edition of Bad Art for Good with @ologies.bsky.social tonight!

We got art supplies, beer, snacks and COMMUNITY.
Getting together is so much better than being isolated.

We still have some spots left if anybody wants to come luma.com/fp919u5x

a few spots left to hang tonight, LA!

two ground squirrels are standing in a grassy field . Alt: two ground squirrels are standing in a grassy field .

Balancing the horror news cycle with a recommendation: @ologies.bsky.social podcast is a brief spot of joy.

Listening to the Marmots podcast today.

Wow, we talk about him. My condolences. Shit's fucked in that scene

Marmotology (GROUNDHOGS) with Dr. Daniel Blumstein — alie ward Tongue twisters. Frosty holidays. Scandals. Big ol’ rodent butts. Let’s talk groundhogs with UCLA conservationist, field biologist, professor and Marmotologist, Dr. Daniel Blumstein. We cover what bro...

WHAT IS A GROUNDHOG?
What's their deal?
Why do they have their own holiday?

Beloved UCLA marmot expert Dr. Dan Blumstein chats large rodents, dens, scandals, butts, parenthood, romantic advice you should *not* take, why their blood boggles science, and aliases.

www.alieward.com/ologies/marm...

The Department of Labor has just posted its second Nazi slogan (in the original, "Germany for Germans") in the last two days.

No one believes this is a coincidence.

They are telling America exactly who they are and what they intend.

Federal prosecutors quit in protest over lack of investigation into ICE shooting Six lawyers from US attorney’s office in Minnesota quit along with four leaders of DoJ’s civil rights division

So, if I'm reading this right:

4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer,

and

6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow.

(HT @benjaminkabak.com)

“Hillbilly values, at least from where I’m from in Appalachia, are that the government ought not to have absolute immunity for shooting people in the face.”

On JD Vance: “Maybe we came from a different Appalachia.”

Thanks to @ologies.bsky.social podcast today I learned that the day on Venus is 243 earth days which is LONGER than its year which is 224.7 earth days.

Politico headline: Trump calls for record $1.5 trillion defense budget, a 50 percent jump. The president offered few details in his post on Truth Social, other than to say the money would pay for his "Dream Military."

No money for healthcare

nor for housing

nor for food insecurity

nor for social safety nets

nor for student loan forgiveness

nor for education

nor for disability accommodations

nor for environmental conservation

nor for climate change mitigation

We all need a recharge and some flickers of beauty. My brain loves this. (I’m on there as skwurlhat.)

thoughts, @doodl-app.bsky.social ?

find me on there! I have like 7 friends lolol

also another 2 cents: steph is one of the sweetest, coolest, most chill & down to earth sweetie peeties & I think this is like, the only social app that is helping my brain (except bluesky of course) so please do feel to send that beta link to anyone else who needs a little lift

@/skwurlhat, I mean! My profile face is a gorgeous smushy bat on there.

Doing tactile things has been helping my anxiety, and my genius sister-in-law made an app that prompts a daily doodle and I'm LOVING it. She just put out the beta.

Main rule: NO AI.

I'm 2/skwurlhat on there. Come draw with us. It's so nice.

www.doodl.app/join-the-beta

[SPOILER ALERT] A day is longer than a year on Venus. Learned this about this podcast episode ago! #mindblown 🤯

Venusology (VENUS) with Dr. Vicki Hansen — alie ward Gassy veils! Orange sunlight! Alien life? It’s the sole goddess of our solar system: Venus. And to tour us through her beauty is the charming and enthusiastic planetary geologist and Venusian expert D...

Gassy veils! Orange sunlight! Alien life?

#Venusologist Dr. Vicki Hansen of @psi.edu talks space probes, dazzling terrain, myths, melting machinery, “noodle data,” analogues to Earth, tectonic misconceptions, + self-help books.

Also: what does Venus smell like?
www.alieward.com/ologies/venu...

Live: ICE agent shoots, kills woman in Minneapolis Video of the shooting shows an agent firing at a vehicle as it drives toward him. The governor and Minneapolis mayor called for calm after the incident. ICE said the agent acted defensively.

Live updates: Around 200 people marched more than two miles from the scene of the shooting to Minneapolis City Hall, shouting “ICE out now!” after police hurried away from the scene Wednesday afternoon.

The crowd of is continuing to snake its way through downtown.

a bunch of animals including a blushing coyote, beaver, rattler, ram, raccoon, and crane, sit around a table all making art. It's so fucking cute. There are crayons and paints and pan pastels all over the table. The middle of the table says Bad Art For Good and Art + community event Jan 15, 6:30-9:30

Next Thursday in Los Angeles, @ologies.bsky.social
& I are hosting an evening of activism art!

We'll be creating art that communicates important messages & learning about work happening in your city.

RSVP here: luma.com/fp919u5x

Poster by the amazing @nicolegoux.bsky.social!

Please repost, LA!

Do you still work with BMS? I am doing a campaign for awareness about CAR T cell therapy, which I've been so excited about since some of its first trials 10 years ago. Blood cancer runs in my family and my late father had it. Thank you to all the chemists helping us regular folks out.

Just bought your book Steeped!! How exciting!