Rachel W. Martin

This is so real

It’s a good frog, nothing to be ashamed of.

Is that a raspberry poison dart frog?

Co-worker after a long flight:

My neck, my back

Me: … makes will save, does not finish the sentence

We may need to rehome our young male crested gecko (Sparks) here in the PNW this month (housing situation). Does anyone know of a good stable place for Sparks to land? He’d come with terrarium/gear. @ethankocak.com

I love public transit and I bought this shirt immediately

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The concept of the Farcaster network abruptly being cut off and leaving people stranded on a different planent than their home, or trapped in the bathroom, which is on top of a mountain or under the sea, has lived in my head all these years. But otherwise, yeah.

I hadn’t made that connection, but yes!

Wow, look at these stones!

Tiffany! The people want Tiffany!

I can see why. Her fashion game was very strong.

Superstar

This is <exactly> why I never want to hear from James Carville ever again about the "faculty lounge." It feeds the far right authoritarian lies & the Herrenvolk democracy nonsense. No Democrat (or democrat) should use that language when discussing professors or universities ever again. Full stop.

Yale Chemistry had a couch in the women’s restroom. Definitely no one hung out there.

I can confirm. I bought the book and there has been a steady supply of lizards.

I'm in the "I suck, I suck, I suck" part of revisions, which I'm experienced enough to know happens every time before I figure things out and it doesn't suck anymore. Knowing that doesn't make this bit more fun.

you think you've seen the whole movie, and then the alt text reveals you haven't even finished act two

LOTS of laundry product advertising is weirdly sexualized. I have questions. I do not want them answered.

I continue to be amazed by these guys. I remember when most of the New Caledonian geckos were the kind of thing where you might be lucky enough to see one at the zoo someday, and now you just have a bunch of them in your house. Captive breeding is awesome!

I'm just here to boost isopods. I currently travel too much for most pets, but my extremely low-maintenance isopod colonies give me a lot of joy. They are so busy! So much antenna-waving and bustling around.

They are perfect little spuds.

The sequencing of the future of the past.

real quick before bed, some training notes:

his brushes are these: www.bellalunatoys.com/products/hon...

I think I’ll probably eventually get him the same brand’s larger brushes if he keeps enjoying painting: honeysticks.com/products/hon...

I wrapped the handle in vet wrap for a comfy bite

So much left beef. So much.

Abstract submission open, The 65th Annual Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance (RMCMR) August 2-6, 2026, the Snowbird Resort & Conference Center, Snowbird, Utah, featuring EPR Symposium and Solid-state NMR Symposium

Abstract submission open, The 65th Annual Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance (RMCMR) August 2-6, 2026, Snowbird, Utah, featuring EPR & Solid-state NMR Symposia, submission deadline is April 24 for oral abstracts & May 15 for posters rockychem.com/conference/c... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲

True, it does work out that way for some ppl.

The state of the crystallin is strong.

Thanks, John, but I don’t even want to listen to myself for that long. 25 minutes is just fine.

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels