April Wright

And now my turn in the hot seat. Hex is still mad about the vet and sleeping in the Hate Perch.

The timing and nature of marine ecosystem recovery following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction - npj Biodiversity npj Biodiversity - The timing and nature of marine ecosystem recovery following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

We dig into what “recovery” really means : species return, ecosystem structure, and function. If you love palaeobiology or biodiversity, this perspective offers fresh ways to think about life rebounding after crisis. Read it open access! 🌊💡

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A handsome black cat hides behind a white trash bin at the vet

I hate the vet, so I’m hiding in the trash

Coming to #evol2026 this summer? The SSB Early Career Travel Funds competition is now live! Apply by February 27 for this years’ Tri-Society meeting.

More info:

www.systbio.org/early-career...

New paper with @peterjwagner3.bsky.social, @wrightam.bsky.social, Jen Bauer, and Maggie Limbeck!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

a man in armor is standing in front of a group of people and says death . ALT: a man in armor is standing in front of a group of people and says death .

Summer camp registrations open tomorrow at 11 am (on a delay due to snowcrete).

I've queued my submissions. I've updated my card on file. Nothing is left to do.

A pine branch sheds dried hiker blood onto my maps, just below my spare coffee beans and wedding ring/lug nut. My tiny tissues explode into dry, powdery snow.

If you have developed outreach/education resources and want to get the word out— @sse-evolution.bsky.social has a deadline coming up for funding to present at an education focused session/conference. Grad students and Postdocs are very welcome to apply! evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

My mentor used to make something called a Maker’s Malt, which was Maker’s poured over ice cream. Maybe he could cry on camera while eating that.

Any time I need to use bioperl, I immediately become an undergraduate sophomore again. Worst Time Machine ever.

Everything is quite bad, but it’s still fun to run past a long line of cars. Doubly so in ice spikes.

And snow fetch remains undefeated.

I used Interstate Moving and they were good and reasonably priced.

Adam Becker’s More Everything Forever

This was a little disappointing. Very good insights on the mentality of tech billionaires. But struggles a bit with the balance of being about billionaires or about how billionaires twist science to serve their aims. So the synthesis feels a bit light.

Still enjoyed; worth reading.

😂 She's such a freak! But she really does seem to like literally looking down upon him.

We got her a new perch from which to hate him

U. of Kentucky has "flagged for
cancellation or deeper review" 1200 partnerships/memberships over possible use of race, including

• Crossref
• Stanford
• Coursera
• Georgia Southern U
• Many scientific societies

Letter: pres.uky.edu/sites/defaul...
Website: pres.uky.edu/monitoring-f...

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And then we had to put the dog down

A moment’s fuckin’ break would be great, eh?

This is one of those books that reads you back. Total change of feelings between 17, 27 (and pregnant with my second) and 37.

Rented the first Hobbit film for my son, since we recently finished the Hobbit and the Fellowship and saw the Fellowship in theaters.

He is not amused and has settled in to watch my old Fellowship DVD.

NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.

Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.

The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.

We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

This is correct. Today was a bit cold. Next week will be pretty cold, the week after looks actually cold.

I feel like there’s a special insult to being asked for a 2FA code after getting logged out while still active in the editorial manager software

I’m a moderate on this - I have a relative who runs a CPC adjacent clinic and her perspective was def both. We vote for the right direction, but also we have a larger plan and whoever is useful is useful and we boil the frog

An infundibulum, if one were.

What happened after Empire Records

YouTube video by The Hold Steady - Topic Constructive Summer

And in the words of America’s best bar band, we are our only saviors. We have to value courage. youtu.be/HVwVHTB_yEs?...

And that’s not a social media thing. In P&T, value resources, software, theory, and taxonomy that might be undervalued. We are the ones to make the values. Make them.

Courage.

I have tenure. It is crucial that we support the people doing brave things, and do them ourselves.

We must support courage.

I think this is an incredibly important point

this doesn't mean that you have to keep doing the exact kind of work you did as a student/postdoc for the rest of your career

but it does mean you have to keep learning, pushing through the discomfort of not being good at something right away

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

YouTube video by Liam Lynch's Lynchland This Town Sucks (Liam Lynch, 2004)

Home again

youtu.be/Sl3nixOJSqg?...