Mike Greicius

An albino squirrel in a tree.

#wildlife
#squirrels
#Stanford
A Sunday morning visitation from Stanford’s albino squirrel

Sunset over Stanford foothills with various evergreens

Sunset over Stanford foothills seen through the branches of a Canary Island pine tree

Close up of Canary Island pine cones backlit by sunset

#sunset
#stanford

Few things less dangerous than a Quaker cell.

Notification from Stanford Medicine of a measles case in Santa Clara County, CA

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#publichealth
#measles
Friendly reminder that measles loves travelling.

And run cozy blanket interference for Markwayne

Need more context here.

Good riddance

Population-scale burden analysis of rare damaging coding variants identifies novel risk genes for Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) and Parkinson's disease and related disorders (PDRD) have substantial genetic contributions, yet the role of rare damaging coding variants remains inco...

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#genetics
#alzheimer's
#parkinson's
Interested in the genetics and molecular biology of Alzheimer's and/or Parkinson's? Stellar effort led by Yann Le Guen and Andres Peña-Tauber:
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Largest-to-date gene burden studies in AD & PD. Powerful data browser (link in paper).

#birds
#birding
Red-tailed hawk with its head on a swivel.

He reliably begins to salivate when he starts spitting out synonyms for death and destruction and lethality and…as he does every fucking time he has a microphone in front of his smug face.

Bessent is literally and perpetually looking down his nose at the world.

Answer: That arched eyebrow. This young go-getter looks like someone who can get the job done even if, as in this case, he has no experience for the specific job he was hired for.

YouTube video by klampgirls FLYBOYS: INTERVIEW WITH FLYBOY [DAVID ELLISON]

He brings a deep understanding of film-making to this acquisition: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er7F...

Could also try urinating on it if poultice doesn’t take

Those bright blue furrowed brows!

#wildlife
#nature
#pocketgopher
The elusive and unresplendent pocket gopher!

#birds
#birding
Wild turkeys hauling some ass across the Stanford foothills.

I bet Greg Bovino could rock one of those.

#birds
#birding
Red-shouldered hawk test driving a used nest in a big eucalyptus.

Trump’s Push for Election Power Raises Fears He Will ‘Subvert’ Midterms

#politics
#trump
#midterms
Why is subvert in quotes here?
I would change headlines to Trump’s Push for Election Power Confirms He Will Subvert Democratic Process (Again).

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

The Times article cited Sollenberg as first (a mere 15 or so paragraphs in).

Never

keep 'em coming

This from the fucking guy who harangued the Georgia Secretary of State to scare up 11,780 votes. The brazen hypocrisy is mind-numbing.

Nicely summarized.

Michael Roth in 2028!

Where’s Madame Secretary’s FUCKING BLANKET? Bottomless clown car of an administration.

YouTube video by Netflix Is A Joke There's a Horse In The Hospital | John Mulaney | Netflix Is A Joke

#publichealth
#politics
#horseinthehospital
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Ahead of the SOTU speech, which I could never begin to watch, I found some solace in John Mulaney’s amazing take on Trump in 2019. Not sure how to update the metaphor for Trump in 2026. 3-legged 🐎 with colic in the hospital?

youtu.be/JhkZMxgPxXU?...

A hummingbird dips its bill into the gaping maw of one of two hummingbird chicks whose heads are tilted upwards.

#birds
#birding
#hummingbirds
Anna’s hummingbird feeding her two chicks. Photo credit to my neighbor and great wildlife photographer, Richard Roth.

I trust that bowl of wormish things has a large acme anvil suspended above it.