Leonie Moyle

An egg yolk jelly in the Elliot Bay marina

#MarineLife #Jellyfish #Seattle #FriedEgg #PhacellophoraCamtschatica #Nature #Invertebrates

august

Vija Celmins, Night Sky #10, 1994-1995. Oil on linen mounted on wood

From left to right, Dr. Albert Mulenga, William Tae Heung Kim, Dr. Thu Thuy Nguyen, Dr. Alex Kiarie Gaithuma, Dr Hassan Hakimi and Emily Bencosme Cuevas. Kim is a Texas A&M researcher who was detained in San Francisco last Monday despite being a permanent resident of the United States and a green card holder. COURTESY OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim.

He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease.

He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States.

And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.

Extra kudos and thanks to all the staff at NIH and NSF and other federal funding agencies for working extra hard in very small windows of opportunity to get grants reviewed and funds released before the attention-addled federal policies change again (on an hourly basis).

thanks! great to hear!

Title slide of a talk which reads: "Postmating prezygotic affairs: evolution of the reproductive transcriptome among 8 tomato species with diverse mating systems" Timothy Biewer-Heisler, Matthew Gibson, Jacob Jiles, and Leonie Moyle

Still looking for some fun science at #Botany2025 today? Check out the evolving reproductive transcriptomes in labbie Timothy’s talk @11:15am in Smoketree AB…

yes-especially while I’m editing their genomes with nothing more than a pipette and a test tube filled with light orange liquid…

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Trump’s budget takes aim at gold standard measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide OPINION: “President Trump, a renowned climate change denier, has shown repeatedly that he has no use for scientific data that disproves his preconceived assumptions,” David Ho writes.

I wrote about the Keeling Curve — our most iconic CO₂ time series — for @sfchronicle.com.

"The Keeling Curve is valuable to science, but it is also a treasure that belongs to humanity as the most poignant indication of our impact on the environment and as a testament to our ability to document it."

Hello, I'm an evolutionary biologist in a film. I can identify any species from 30 base pairs of DNA, including human-alien hybrids. I quote Darwin and Gould ad libitum to compensate for my lack of emotional depth. Inexplicably, I'm unable to correctly pronounce 'genome' or 'drosophila'.

He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.

Signs reads, in part: “DANGER, strong currents, deep water, and submerged boulders…. People have died here.

Signs reads, in part: WARNING, these are tropical waters where presence of dangerous jellyfish is possible…. Persons entering these waters do so at their own risk.”

Sign reads, in part: Do not touch or eat wild mushrooms… consumption may be fatal…”

Sign reads: Falling rocks

australian warning signs

lucky you! it’s a gorgeous beach.

blue ocean with distant people, like dark seals, in the surf.

bronte beach surfers, sydney

stars in a dark blue-green night sky, over distant lights

sky over bengello beach

kangaroo, gently airborne above yellowed grass

a dozen or more grazing kangaroos, in silhouette

flying, lounging

hundred of stars sprinkled against a faint milky blue night sky

milky way, southern hemisphere

alas, no cassowaries for us this time (although we tried!)

three figures on a beach. one is a distant head in the waves. the beach is streaked with retreating surf. a two-peaked island appears on the horizon.

ellis beach, queensland

a fabulous chunky spider, with black and yellow horizontal stripes and shiny spikes, hangs on her web

a huge dark spider hangs in profile, with long slim dark legs. her wingspan is at least 10cm.

orb weavers (spiny, and giant), queensland

the previous image, but zoomed in closer the center. the silhouetted shapes in center are more clearly hanging animals.

closer still, the middle shape has a gentle fox face and a slight ear.

a jumble of trunks and leaves in silhouette. in the distant middle are dense shapes hanging upside down. one has a distinctly foxy profile.

flying-foxes, far north queensland

a small hole in the beach is surrounded by a display of dozens of tiny sand balls

sand bubbler crab art

a spiral, poop-like structure sits on a glossy beach. similar structures are in the distance. the sky is bright blue with clouds.

polychaete sand art, FNQ

brush turkey (bright red head, yellow scarf, black body) pretending to be one of the famed but ultimately elusive cassowaries of FNQ…

not a cassowary

strangler fig and victim, looking from the forest floor up into the canopy

brilliant pink mushrooms on green moss

palm leaves from below

Daintree rainforest, FNQ

a vast shallow silvery tide washes in front of a dark promontory in the distance

gnarled roots of a mangrove frame the left side of a view of a broad beach, with several shadowed figures in the distance

cape tribulation beach

toe-biter on the move