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"This narrative actually shifted well before the situation dominated the news in recent weeks," writes Aaron Blake. | Analysis https://cnn.it/3KnlZRU

This is how the economy works now. You kiss the ass of the top guy, he throws you favors. There is no ideology here, it's just mafia rules, the oldest rules in the book.

Anyone who has paid a moment of attention to spouses or friends who have gone through nursing and lactation knows how very fucked up it is to shame people for "choosing" formula.

The close relationship between leaf anatomies and leaf water retention capacity and rehydration capacity across 128 species.

Leaf drought strategy trade-off: water retention vs rehydration

Liu et al.

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Not a bad office view!

"The secret of Nazism in practice, as Mein Kampf states time and again, is to do the most outrageously secret things quite openly. The Nazi success with this practice has been so great that there is nothing they will not dare."
- Bella Fromm, Berlin, 3/20/1938

12 FTE positions in the subject will be eliminated, and the students and communities of Nebraska will be worse off for losing these amazing experts.

If your institution is looking to hire faculty at any career stage, you could benefit from the terrible decision that UNL administration has made.

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.

It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”

- Garry Kasparov

Hands down least “masculine” person I met covering tech. One lunch I had with him in Palo Alto (he was urging me to run for mayor and wanted to give me $) I recall thinking what an incredibly whiny boy (I think I told someone at the time: what a limp dick) and could not get away fast enough.

It was one of the best rides to the airport I've ever had.

There are very few things in life more inspiring than the patriotism of people who want to be American Citizens. Anyone who wants to take that away based on race, identity or country of origin isn't half the American these people are 2/2

My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”

Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?

No, Defensive Walking Isn't The Solution For Road Deaths - Jalopnik It's victim-blaming, it's bull, and it's not the solution we need.

“In 2023, cars and their drivers killed 8,820 American pedestrians and bicyclists — 7,314 pedestrians and 1,166 cyclists. They injured another 136,281, an increase of over 5,300 injuries from 2022.”

Put the responsibility where it belongs.

Via @jalopnik.bsky.social

Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted. Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.

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Fig. 1 Reactions, processes, and parameters controlling C4 photosynthetic flux in the NADP-ME subtype.

#TansleyReview: Tuning the C4 supercharger: improving #photosynthesis and yield in C4 #crops

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The lives vaccines have saved in the US, in one chart Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters expl...

This is all-hands on deck. RFK Jr. wants to destroy vaccination in the US. COVID and HBV vaccination were the first step. These diseases WILL come back. And your personal vaccination status is important, but so is the coverage in your community. So up your game and fight. www.vox.com/2015/3/25/82...

"Through September of calendar year 2025, only 1.7 million acres received hazardous fuels reduction treatment, a decline from the four-year average of 3.6 million acres. Additionally, as of this summer, as many as 27% of Forest Service wildland firefighting positions remained vacant."

My favorite here in Sacramento is that every fall, they pile up the leaves, acorns, olives, etc squarely in the bike lane (not on the adjacent grassy verge, naturally). So this time of year it's either stop every 50 meters or so and wait, or strategize a rapid swerve into and out of the car lane.

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Truly the stupidest cult. Obsessed with a drug that doesn't work against an infectious disease that they don't even think is real.

Fig. 5 Measurement-model-remote sensing framework to improve and scale predictions of ecosystem response to climate change across landscapes.

#Viewpoint: Improving the representation of plant water stress and #water use in Earth System Models

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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Completed - NASA Two technicians look up at NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope after its inner and outer segments were connected at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight

Holy moly: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope construction is completed! That's fantastic news — much needed right now — and I am very much looking forward to when this beast launches. It has 100X the field of view of Hubble.

One. Hundred. *At the same resolution*.

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"USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025."

did the US Navy post a profit last year?

it is essential that every unionized newsroom gets a ban on this kind of insidious bullshit written into their contract

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My department at California State University Northridge is hiring! We're looking for a new colleague studying microbiology or molecular/cellular biology. I'm not on the search committee, but happy to answer questions about the department and campus, and life in LA

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LLMs aren't getting smarter. People are getting stupider.

The terrifying thing is that there are seemingly intelligent people, obviously including faculty and deans-- people with PhDs whose job is to think and discern--who will take the bit at face value.

For example, did they consider copper or pyrethrum, two highly toxic “natural” pesticides beloved by organic farming?

“Critics say” Trump’s remarks on Somalis were bigoted?

JFC what are you doing?

Extremely sweet black and white dog plays in the snow.

Anyone recognize this dog? My neighbor is watching him until his owners are found. Pit mix, male, pretty sizable, good at greeting and friendly behaviors and VERY SWEET. No tag, no chip. Surely his family yearns for him. Found in the Standish-Ericson neighborhood in Minneapolis, near Lake Hiawatha.