Erin Cadwalader

It's pretty clear Ann Radcliffe and I have similar values when it comes to what makes you a bad person.

Just started "The Mysteries of Udolpho". The villain is revealed by telling the former owner of his chateau that he plans to tear down the east wing to build a monstrous addition & cut down the ancient chestnut tree, as there can neither be "use, or beauty, in such a sapless old tree as this."

As it turns out, I'd probably marry that man.

My formative memory of Citizen Kane was watching it for the first time with my mom, who was trying to introduce me to high cinema, the night of the OJ Simpson case chase. They will be forever linked in my mind, unfortunately.

Thank you, I loved this. Wonderful Friday night palate cleanse! And utterly charming.

I would not be surprised if the NSF ADVANCE program had funded research on this, though I'm having a difficult time finding the right search terms to get at that with a quick perusal.

Carl is a great science writer looking to hear stories about how this administration has disrupted research and lives. @entsocamerica.bsky.social His first story covers a scientist who studied native #pollinators

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The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Dog in a bed laying in the sunshine

Sun dog season is back!

Nothing old is new. Watching a movie from 1941.

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Former staffers of Climate.gov are launching a new site: www.climate.us

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Science in the time of Trump | Capital Press My wife and I were running errands on a recent morning and we happened to catch “On Point,” on the National Public Radio affiliate WBUR out of Boston. The topic […]

Great piece by former USDA NIFA director Sonny Ramaswamy on the very real challenges for humans being exacerbated by the Administration's efforts to slash funding for R&D.
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#entvocate25

My Sunday (brunch) holy trinity: the father (coffee) the son (water) and the Holy Spirit (beer)

This has been a tough week. If you need a change of scene immediately, I recommend the following films: the thoughtful and contemplative "Paterson" by Jim Jarmusch (my husband's rec which I enjoyed) and the brilliant and life affirming "Stranger Than Fiction". Maybe in that order.

Mitigation Math: Webinar Offers Tips to Tally Points for Pesticide Use In 2026, more pesticide labels are likely to require measures to protect endangered species. EPA is offering a webinar next week to help farmers navigate these requirements.

Newly registered or re-registered insecticides and herbicides will be rolling out with labels that may require drift/runoff mitigations to protect ESA-listed species. Learn more about how to navigate the menu of mitigations in a 90 min webinar next Tuesday from EPA: www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...

Fantasy football is tough when you're playing your husband on the same week your #1 team (Packers) plays your #2 team (Commies), and both their QBs are on your fantasy team. And he's got the Packers defense. #letsgopack

Thank you for sharing this link! It's the best thing I've seen all week!

Four people together with DC Statehood signs.

Three people with heads through holes in DC Flag.

People marching with We Are All DC signs.

Thousands of people marching to Free DC!

Today we marched for & with the 700,000 people in DC who are sick & tried of our colonial status. #FreeDC #DCStatehood

The older I get, the harder it is to act my age.

It wasn't quite on the "if it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college" level, but it would have bothered me all day if we hadn't figured it out.

Thank you! As a sadly predictable Virgo, I'm thankful @wifeguy.org puts up with all my nonsense!

Thank you!

You know I like my day job when, on vacation, I drag my husband @wifeguy.org to meet a couple of awesome entomologists I work with who are faculty at the University of Maine, Dr. Angela Mech and Dr. Allie Gardner, so I can say hi and see their labs.

Can confirm. 😉

Chuffed to see this. Entomologist @meganorourke.com, who has worked on Congress as well as for USDA, is also running for Congress if you're looking for great candidates to support! #standupforscience

When mom is gone there are no rules

Watching the United States dismantle the scientific infrastructure it built across half a century is astounding. An incredible act of self-sabotage, one that leaves the country poorer, its people sicker, and hands the future to adversary nations.

Taking photos and video of law enforcement officers performing their duties in public is our constitutional right.

This includes police, FBI, National Guard troops, ICE agents, and other government officials.

‘Distracting the public’: group of health professionals call for RFK Jr to be removed Ahead of the second Maha report, grassroots Defend Public Health warns that everything HHS is doing is ‘horrifying’

MAHA ignores the real causes of poor health in the US, but Defend Public Health doesn’t.

Our report has 11 pillars of actions for Improving the Health of Americans Together, like reducing gun violence, combating scientific misinformation, and removing RFK Jr. from office.