Peter Carlton

should have explained it better. but the poem refers to the flower called "tokonatsu" being present everywhere the guy went, and "natsu" is the word for summer, so instead of cooling off he was just reminded of the heat again.

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A photo of a vertical paper creased vertically in half, with a Japanese text written on it, intended to be copied as a calligraphy exercise. Transliterated into Roman orthography, the text reads "Suzushiya! to kusamura goto ni tachiyoreba / atsusa zo masaru, tokonatsu no hana"

This month's kana assignment — a properly attested poem based on a pun. A sage once said "He who would pun would pick a pocket" but this one is pretty good — my doggerel attempt is, I fled to the bushes to escape the heat, but their "Summertime" flowers brought a hot defeat

w00t! CGC1 out in the wild at last! Congratulations to the whole team.

I am unmoved by the specific critique that "the US is ceding 'scientific superiority' to China, Russia", &al. Why should that matter? Science is not (should not be) a competition among states. But, the dismantling of US science hinders the whole scientific effort worldwide, and that does matter.

He was a great TA! He explained genetic promotion/repression so well even I could get it

Firing google scholar due to low citation count

all the spiders around looking down on him shaking their heads… "he does try so very hard"

Looking forward to some quiet time in the library* this afternoon

*numpy

カナダもパレスチナ国家承認の意向　フランスとイギリスに続き - BBCニュース カナダのカーニー首相は30日、パレスチナ国家を9月の国連総会で正式に承認する意向を表明した。主要7カ国（G7）でこうした発表をしたのは、この1週間でカナダが3カ国目。

www.bbc.com/japanese/art...
日本も続いてほしい。

This was astonishing! I did not expect those islands of predictable behavior.

What a beautiful song, thanks for this (and for all the great suggestions)

K川 is a great way to write it!
སྣག་ཚ is surprisingly readable

A photo of the Japan Sea coast, the top half showing deep blue sky, scattered puffy clouds of various shapes, and a bright sun; the bottom half shows the sea, beachgoers at a distance, and the curve of the sandy shore.

海の日に、京都の海（琴引浜）に行ってきました。

I've been stung by wasps a few times, but I still love them — I had a high school summer job selling popcorn and soda at the zoo in Seattle, and I realized the winning move was to ignore them (as they crawled over my hands and arms for that sweet syrup) and they would return the favor.

An astonishing result! Kudos to the whole team.

What in the woolly world!?
Any chance this helps facilitate homolog>>sister repair bias in meiosis?

"endless liminal wastelands なう"

蕭

もう全国が対象内ではないですか💦

Your talk was great and in case you were wondering, the audio, video, and network were perfect—more so than most remote talks, it seemed like you were in the room with us.

Leaving the lab in this state feels like a waste
(but was busy doing more important things)

Maybe ブユ? Were you near running water? I’ve been attacked once and suffered for weeks after

These people may have a few brain cells between them, but none of them have done the reading.

Do you realize that when you open up your laptop you are using a device that makes the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy look like a PalmPilot?

A screen capture of Google Drive denying access to a document, featuring a hideously ugly graphic in the "Corporate Memphis" style, of a long-limbed tiny-headed "worker" who is clearly easily walking through the giant keyhole meant to convey denial of access

Why are we still doing Corporate Memphis in 2025CE

Had me guessing until the end, now wiping away the tears of mirth

This is right on my campus!

Apple Music is good, but imho iTunes in ~2003, 22 years ago! had a better music experience overall

I spent a week at the EMBO Meiosis meeting in Engelberg, Switzerland, and the weekend after visiting a good friend in Basel. It was a region of the world I knew very little about, but now feel that I've gained a treasury of Swiss experience points.