Eric G. Prileson

Stevie Nicks, but as a mid-western mom:
'Oh, there you go again, sayin you want your freedom'

Did you know it rains in the Pacific Northwest? #PNW #biketowork

First copy of The Paradox of the Organism in the wild!

Vancouver Metro LULAC #47026 Legal Defense Fund Provide due process for immigrants

One way to fight back against #ICE is to help provide free legal services to those detained - In Vancouver (WA) donate to the LULAC legal defense fund!
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You can find your local food bank here!

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Ohio Has Invested Millions in Wetlands to Catch Nutrient Runoff From Farms. A New Report Suggests It’s Working. - Inside Climate News The annual report from the H2Ohio Wetland Monitoring Program found all of the wetlands examined successfully trapped nutrients and shed new light on possible best practices.

This is an excellent write up about findings from our H2Ohio wetland monitoring. 🧪🌎🌱💧

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Real life generation of 1.21 gigawatts for that time machine

The Rudman Lab had a wonderful time visiting the @lbuckley.bsky.social lab at UW in Seattle this week! Thank you for hosting us and talking rapid adaptation, overwintering, and thermal plasticity!

This is awesome! Such great energy - we need all of it! bsky.app/profile/ztea...

'Beyond the horizon: JWST reveals Hawking radiation in small sized 4 SM black holes '

What do you call the phase of the PhD where stuff actually starts to work? #phdchat #postdoc

I remain puzzled as to why some continue to trot out that academia is not the "real world". I have endless responsibilities, deadlines, expectations, and work long hours. This is my "real world" & I hope that my efforts over a long career contribute to improving the "real world" of others. 🧪

👀Notable context in times when medical research funding is being destroyed. And Funding for the police state increases. 🩺 🧪

Trees and meadows in the background

Mountain background with trees

Mountain in the background of trees and meadow

Collecting cascades frogs today was awesome at Mt. St. Helens

Image of characters on Star Trek the next generation

@nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
'it is the scent the speaks first of love'

Did some field excursions with the local #mosquito control district here in WA looking for evidence of resistance; we collected thousands of Culex larvae despite only having 4 precipitation events this summer - how?
all of them were likely there directly from watering lawns and at home car washes

TAKE ACTION to write in opposition to the proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. This legislation would bring devastating and irreversible consequences in the health of our nations forests
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Phone & email your representatives TODAY!

Just a bonkers life history - I've seen this variation of sexual parasitism, but across species? Wild to see just the male genetic material becoming cloned 🧪 #evobio

This is figure 2, which shows M. ibericus queens lay males from two different species.

Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. A study in Nature reports a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species. go.nature.com/3V68MP0 🧪

Watching the excellent Ken Burns prohibition and temperance documentary on PBS (go support your local station!!) while ironically (?) drinking a beer #pbs #sundayfunday

View of a salt water Bay with hills in the far background

Trees and coastline of a saltwater bay

Paddle camping on Hood Canal - realizing that it's essentially a lake
#pnw

Android laying on back with hands in front of face with tv credits on screen

@nocontexttrek1.bsky.social

Happy Friday! My morning has consisted of missing one bus, getting on a second bus that went the wrong direction and now I'm 45 min late to the lab - all because I wanted to buy donuts for the group
How's your morning going ☺️🌄

Do I write up a grant proposal that *likely won't* be funded but that would be awesome? Or do I write up the 'translatable' proposal with 'real world' action items that is kinda lame? #phdchat 🧪

From 2020 to 2022 COVID vaccines prevented over 18.5 million hospitalizations, 3.2 million deaths and saved the US $1.15 trillion.

mRNA vaccines and treatments are being developed for diabetes, HIV, cancer, and more. Imagine how many more lives we could save if we don't defund science.

Id like to be one of the 12 researchers on the island

Sunset with clouds and fishing boats on a coast

Late evening sky on the beach with mountains in the background

Blue sky and clouds over the water,

Rainbow across the bay at low tide

Some camping highlights from this week up at Naka Creek on Vancouver Island

a man in a suit and tie is crying and says " look how they massacred my boy " Alt: a man in a suit and tie is crying and says " look how they massacred my boy "

Me after editing my manuscript resubmission #PhDlife🧪

Sunset photo with clouds and mountains in the background

And obligatory sunset with Vancouver Island in the background

Photo from a kayak with trees and a pond

Pond with logs and hills

Selfie from a boat on a pond

Some shots from field work in BC, Canada from the past week
#phdlife #plankton