Jay Treberg

Jay Treberg

@biologistsisus.bsky.social

A 'bit of a Neanderthal' who is interested in how energy and matter transform to drive living systems through time.

236 Followers 742 Following 38 Posts Joined Feb 2024
1 day ago

Journalist friends, anyone want to investigate if this great white shark that washed up near-death the next day nearby was the same shark?

Illegal fishing harming a protected species is a better story than “wow look at this cool fish someone caught.”

www.instagram.com/reel/DVvzMB4...

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3D-illusion sidewalk chalk drawing of a raccoon emerging from a hole while holding a  blue-and-yellow pinwheel above her head

Alice is preparing for the winds of change.

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1 week ago

One thing about these big camp systems is that they inflict a tremendous amount of harm through sheer momentum. When a system is built to be both negligent and punitive, it tends to cause suffering by default.

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1 week ago

It's like they read a book about the Gilded Age and thought, wow, we should do all of this again -- tariffs and trade wars, massive corporate power, white supremacy and immigration fights, a creepy sex panic and, of course, unlimited acts of brazen corruption and graft.

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Here's another story about the #drone footage showing #orca and #whitesideddolphins cooperating to hunt #salmon. The #dolphins use sonar to help the orca find fish, then eat scraps

Orcas And Dolphins Hunt Together In Rare Ocean Partnership share.google/zvrnEifokgON...

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Even by cult standards, this is just bonkers.

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Fish market. 1620-30 by 🧑‍🎨 Frank Snyders #muSEAum

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1 month ago
Paperwork 

Ah crap my perceived in-group status didn't shield me from the inevitable violence of fascism. I had been really counting on that. That was my load-bearing identity. 

I never caused any kind of fuss to be clear. Kept my head down. All in all it bought me maybe fifteen months tops. Which isn’t so bad all things considered. And come to think of it was I not entitled to that reprieve? A kind of reward for my loyalty if you looked at it a certain way. 

Or more likely it’s possible there had been some kind of mistake. A snafu in the filing system. Oh hold on a sec they’re calling my name right now. I’m going to bring it up. I’ve got all my papers in order right here.

Ah crap my perceived in-group status didn't shield me from the inevitable violence of fascism. I had been really counting on that. That was my load-bearing identity.

@flaminghydra.com
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2 weeks ago

UN members have a legal right and moral obligation to participate in the collective self defense of Ukraine

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2 weeks ago

Breaking: The U.S. dispatches health insurance claim denial ship to Greenland.

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3 weeks ago

Did your early twenties suck? You may be entitled to compensation

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A Theorist's Job is to be Wrong: A Cosmologist Explains Astrophysics is so awash in experimental data that theorists are bound to often be fruitfully wrong about what it all means.

Really nice essay by @cosmolooney.bsky.social about the importance of pursuing scientific ideas that turn out to be wrong:

"This is not a reason for despair; being wrong is not the same as failing."

🧪🔭⚛️ #cosmology
www.firstprinciples.org/article/some...

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3 weeks ago
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This Giant Carnivore Ran on Hooves. Scientists Are Investigating Its Massive Skull and Crushing Teeth to Decipher the Beast's True Nature For more than a century, paleontologists have been piecing together how the mysterious predator Andrewsarchus is related to other mammals, like the extinct “hell pigs” and “wolves with hooves”

What had big jaws and hooves? Let me tell you about Andrewsarchus. 🧪

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3 weeks ago

*sighing, dusting off the meme*

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Winter Sun
A.J. Casson
n.d.

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3 weeks ago

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

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Such a powerful image in Le Monde.

(The writing on the plane says "Neutral athletes")

Cartoon by: Letton Gatis Sluka

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1 month ago

Dr Oz inviting ol Jeffrey to his V Day bash in 2016

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Ukrainian soldiers stand with Olympic athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych, who was banned by the IOC from wearing his “Helmet of Remembrance,” adorned with photographs of Ukrainian athletes killed in Russia’s war.

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Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

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1 month ago

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

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1 month ago

What I keep coming back to is how pathetic it is. These are mostly people who have been given every possible advantage and resource in their career, and they STILL turned into little puddles of adulation because a rich sex offender gave them attention, money, and tacky vacations.

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1 month ago

He just tweeted it out …

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The method for estimating a dinosaurs' age at death may be off, research suggests A growing body of research on dinosaurs' closest living relatives suggests the method that's been used to estimate how old a dinosaur was when it died may be leading paleontologists astray.

Here’s a 4 minute NPR piece about our recent study about the “extra” growth marks in crocodile bones. @mariaeugeniap.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/02/02/n...

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1 month ago

I can't believe we're gonna get to buy our Halloween costumes at the damn Kennedy Center.

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1 month ago

This has all been public for a couple of decades. It's Thiel’s client Vance’s job to bring this to completion if Trump doesn't suffice. (2/2)

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After a long struggle with illness, Mary Shelley died #onthisday in 1851. Read about the science behind her most famous novel, Frankenstein, including investigations into resuscitation, galvanism and the possibility of states between life + death: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #otd

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1 month ago

This should in no way be a controversial take.

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1 month ago

Scientists who were in with Epstein should be booted from the scientific world.

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1 month ago

This is not the antifa that the Trump admin expected.

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