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Congratulations Tom!!!

17.06.2025 00:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Please join BPPB on Fri June 6 @ 11 US Eastern time for talks by Paul Atzberger (Drift-Diffusion Dynamics of Proteins within Heterogeneous Membranes with Non-Equilibrium Concentration & Temperature Gradients ) & Krešimir Josić (The Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Growing Synthetic Microbial Consortia).

05.06.2025 21:08 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Cats challenge standard biases in evolutionary biology. People have said to me, “What about bats? What about rodents? These groups have so many species doing all kinds of things.” And I'm like, “Yeah, because they suck.” They haven't figured out how to do anything well, so they keep trying different things.

This is the funniest science writeup I've seen in a long time. It's about why cats are so perfectly evolved 🧪

Apparently lots of other animals have "tried to be cats" and the fact that other species have so much more variation is "because they suck" 😆

www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats...

18.05.2025 23:26 — 👍 559    🔁 141    💬 9    📌 23

Hi #AcademicBluesky

I'm prepping a new writing intensive undergrad course & am looking for resources and fun activities to build writing skills.

Any recommendations of what has worked for you? Bonus points for content related to AI, crafting clear arguments, and outlining papers.

Thanks!

19.05.2025 20:44 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need:

-Paid family leave
-Equal pay
-Universal childcare

(But get your mom flowers, too)

11.05.2025 14:20 — 👍 17428    🔁 4095    💬 254    📌 114

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

08.05.2025 23:35 — 👍 2125    🔁 1547    💬 158    📌 446

I've been on both sides of this. As an author, it sucks to be waiting. As a reviewer, I try to find time to thoroughly read the paper and give a helpful feedback to the authors. Time and effort that is not recognized.
Can't remember the last time I took a break under a tree or a picnic by a lake. 😔

30.04.2025 17:18 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0