Katie Hinde

Replaced "orthodoxy" with "evidence" in a edit of the NYT piece about how RFK Jr is dismantling federal support for vaccination- THE GREATEST INNOVATION FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY (shout outs also to closed sewer systems and safe municipal water systems!).

Fixed it for you, @nytimes.com

Replaced "orthodoxy" with "evidence" in a edit of the NYT piece about how RFK Jr is dismantling federal support for vaccination- THE GREATEST INNOVATION FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY (shout outs also to closed sewer systems and safe municipal water systems!).

Fixed it for you, @nytimes.com

Oh, I loved him as Captain Henri in The Way!

free study idea! i’ve found myself avoiding the mychart app this year because it immediately showers me with notices about my medical debt, including when i try to schedule appointments. can’t help but wonder whether this is adversely affecting care and/or outcomes for vulnerable patients

so. good.

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Apply today and help us build a City Hall for everyone.

#2026MMM

Marin Environmental Health Services (EHS) has confirmed that all ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula cans and Anywhere Pack™ products have been removed from the shelves of local retailers. www.marinhhs.org/phupdate/pub...

Flyer image. The text reads: 2025 Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet Awards. December 4 at 6:00 ET. Register for this virtual event to receive a link. 6 images featuring this year's recepients: Katie Hinde, a group photo of the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Vanderbilt, Randolph M. Nesse, John Toohey-Morales, a group photo of the CLEO Institute, and Kim Cobb.

The text reads: NCSE's 2025 Friends of Darwin. Join us virtually 12/4 at 6 ET. Recipients: Katie Hinde, Evolutionary Studies Initiative at Vanderbilt, Randolph M. Nesse. Images: Headshot of Katie Hinde, group photo of Evolutionary Studies Initiative at Vanderbilt, headshot of Randolph M. Nesse.

The text reads: NCSE's 2025 Friends of the Planet. Join us virtually 12/4 at 6 ET. Recipients: John Toohey-Morales, The CLEO Institute, Kim Cobb. Images: Headshot of John Toohey-Morales, group photo of the CLEO Institute, headshot of Kim Cobb.

Join us virtually on 12/4 at 6 ET as we celebrate our 2025 Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet recipients. Register in advance for a link - us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #CelebrateScience #ScienceSky #ClimateSky

I also note what they found: that the LLM can rehash, summarize, stuff that's already been written.

It cannot interpret. It can't put the correct context around the work.

Basically, ChatGPT in some ways CAN be a science writer: It will be one of the SHITTY ONES.

Cell phone camera roll, to which I’ve sent photos from my mirrorless camera. The dozens of photos show mostly red aurora, peeking through clouds at first but then just in the open.

Second camera roll screenshot showing more aurora photos, including lots of green in the red.

Just unreal, it will never get old. I feel like I just feel more awe every time.

#aurora

The cover slide from Brittal Stordal's presentation. Breastfeeding reduces the risk of breast cancer: a call for action in high-income countries with low rates of breastfeeding

Back from the break for the last session of the day with Britta Stordal speaking about how Breastfeeding reduces the risk of breast cancer, a call for action in high income countries with low rates of breastfeeding #BFConf

LIVE: Jane Goodall funeral YouTube video by Reuters

LIVE: Jane Goodall funeral youtube.com/live/2ahbwvZ...

Milk: Not Just from Moms, Not Just for Mammals I recently realized that you can't really have a milk mustache if you don't have lips. I guess that means we won't be seeing pigeo...

So I call it pigeon milk (2/2) mammalssuck.blogspot.com/2013/01/milk...

So... dairy scientists will typically tell you that for something to be milk, it is synthesized in a mammary gland, so MAMMALS ONLY... but <snaps> THIS BIOLOGIST considers parental secretions/exudations produced for young that nourish, protect, & guide development of young counts as "milk." (1/2)

Mutant Rights In this podcast short, a strange twist of legal taxonomy causes a dispute over whether X-MEN action figures are toys or dolls and sparks a court case about what it means to be human.

Seriously! We need to make science more accessible. In this never-ending essay, I reference the X-Men legally being declared not human...

radiolab.org/podcast/1771...

I USED AVENGERS FONT IN A RAINBOW FIGURE ONCE!!!

And THREE puns in one sentence.

We really need to have a lot more fun and joy in our scholarly papers!

Then they came for the Dreamers Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.

They came to the United States as kids. Now, Trump is targeting them for deportation. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Important reporting from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social
for @motherjones.com on how Dreamers now face a growing nightmare of being hunted by ICE

A black ballpoint pen sketch of the head of a warthog, facing the viewer, with a less detailed neck and forebody behind it on the right

Warthog sketch, ballpoint pen. Trying something completely different for me this day-not sure if I've ever drawn one before. I had a lot of difficulty with the face shapes and symmetry-thought most of the underlines and scribbles are well hidden under the darker lines and patches now

-3228 🎨🐡 #art

Text convo with my husband Todd: Todd says "what are the cactus looking trees?" My reply: "Plants. They look like a kind of acacia but I don't know. I think was a big deal for me to read the kiosk about birds." And his laughing smile face reaction.

15 years together and my husband still thinks I can do botanical species identification. Dude, I can id mammals, end of list.

the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry

a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag Alt: a cartoon girl in a blue dress Lucy, pretends to hold the football so Charlie Brown can kick it, and yanks it away at the last second so Charlie Brown falls down.

No, THIS TIME Lucy will let Charlie Brown kick the ball. Stop doubting everyone, it's a good deal. /s

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders LIVE: I Won't Support Doubling Health Care Premiums

I’m voting no on the continuing resolution that would double healthcare premiums for 20 million Americans, kick 15 million people off Medicaid & allow 50,000 Americans to die unnecessarily every year.

All to give $1 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires.

My statement on the proposed Senate deal

They literally couldn’t even make it a week before fucking up the good vibes. This party needs a ground up overhaul.

A meerkat perched epically, looking up in profile, from between two artificial termite mounds in a zoo exhibit.

'A noble spirit embiggens the smallest meerkat'

This Day in Labor History: November 8, 1970. Congress approved the Reorganization Acts Amendment that laid the groundwork for the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. Let's talk about how the EPA is a pro-worker agency, counter to those who want to divide labor and environmentalists!