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Snow geese and Sandhill cranes. BdANWR

BdANWR Sunrise just before rocket net went off (banding ducks).

A highlight for me: holding and banding a cinnamon teal.

Visit Bosque del Apache NWR in Socorro, NM, during winter. Snow geese make the sky all white at dawn & dusk. More SH cranes & geese than you can imagine. Sunrises are also incredible (saw lots of them banding ducks @ pre-dawn).

Learning the history of TX explained A LOT. Even Larry McMurtry (born & raised in TX) disliked TX. Said once in an interview TX will never let go of their myths and Texans truly believe it/they are the “last frontier”. Even if it destroys them.

Repeatedly said before #OrangeHair sat in Office, Am citizens will be killed by his denizens, like Kent State.
Reply: “The police wouldn’t shoot or kill their own peaceful citizens.”
I said often that he will start a war.
Reply:”He won’t be able to do that.”
Yet here we are 14 months into it. 😡

YouTube video by falsemorel212 George Carlin on Euphemisms

A rose is a rose.
Aka a pretty overly-fragrant flower on a painful thorny stem and plant that is also a pain to grow.
Euphemisms are about the same. A pain in the arse.
#autism

Witch hunts are back.
This is a living nightmare.
The US ISIS.

Now I know what “going to Hell in a hand basket” means.
The US Dark Ages.

Seriously, call the HELP committee members and your own two Senators to tell them to sink this nomination. When I say Means is bad news, I mean *really bad.*

Met a lot of women like this in Texas, even back in the early 2000’s.

The most insipid lazy thought I’ve ever heard.
Perhaps they would like a ride to the moon. With no space suit.

Most people have dogs or cats , or both. I want an otter. 🦦

Love it!

Or, as a pathology colleague sarcastically called it, a form of “human rabies”. 😏

A pathology colleague sarcastically referred to this as a form of “human rabies”.

Tr*mp’s disregard for science and health of American people is obvious. It’s part of his ( & sycophants) pathology. Also legitimizing it for those who want to take advantage of that for their own selfish/sadistic means at all levels of our society.

Well put.
The ‘brain worm’ spreading.

The “ #Bogner Files”.
Shame that scientific life-valuable data/information is in similar bad-actor boat as the Epstein files.
Hoping that scientists and capable agency quickly resolve this so good science can move on unhindered. Lives depend on it.

Sadly, all this ( #GISAID) is
like a scientific version of the “Epstein files” w/ scientific data being hidden/‘trafficked’/held hostage/etc. The “Bogner Files”? All members of the GISAID science advisory council & compliance board approve of this? Or just another ‘good ol’ boys’ club?

Interesting!!

Yes! 👏🏽

I prefer technical terms. Many of us on the Spectrum struggle with the barrage of colloquial terms popping up.

Me, too. The only “social” was the department coffee room. 😁

Shirt with People's Republic of Pangea.

That is so awful and absolutely inexcusable. Every day I feel embarrassment to be an 'American'.
When asked I say I'm a 'Pangean'.
Still wear the shirt.... 😏

I'm AuDHD. And a scientist. I think that way; can't help it.

I have to admit, #InOtterNews is my daily source of a laugh. Sorely needed these days.

I should add as an Aspie, facts and technical language is my modus operandi. And I still get the "Explain it in 'English', please?"
Learning to "tell stories" was challenging. But now it's (sometimes) fun. Like explaining quantum entanglement to my aphantasiac daughter. I can't say, "Imagine...."

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Resorted to using all metaphors: janitors, trucks, cell doors, warehouse, etc. It was like an 'Osmosis Jones' (movie) take. Accuracy wasn't imp; the story was. (7/7)

Humans prefer stories, no matter what language or context it's in. It's what humans relate to.
Yes, it took me years to comprehend that. ;)
My breakthrough was when I explained insulin-glucose metabolism to non-science friends in a restaurant. (6/7)

We had several drinks in the bar about that one. Similarly, later, was how our gnotobiotic pigs were 'exterminated'. I remembered that 'sacrificed' is more polite than the actual method.
Language is a funny thing. "Dry" wording doesn't really tell a story. (5/7)