Brittany Sutherland

Doing postdoc field work in southern Louisiana, I was never concerned about gators. But signs of a wild hog wallow put me on red alert.

Sounds like a German liqueur.

YouTube video by Deep Look Watch Ferns Get Freaky | Deep Look

The title and premise is cheesy, but there's some great video of the two-phase wind-up and pitch dispersal mechanism ferns use.

Low quality image of a fern sorus (species unknown). The image is an overlay of a black and white brightfield image of the leaf lamina and bright green fluorescence within the sorus. The green straplike semicircles are part of the spore dispersal system that literally cocks and throws them like a baseball pitcher, and are autofluorescent due to presence of the polymer sporopollenin.

Missing a reagent today when my undergrads came in, so instead of the plan, I taught them how to do leaf peels to measure guard cells and also showed them how to use the EVOS fluorescence microscope.

And anyway, that's how my students learned that the annulus on fern spores is autofluorescent. 😁

See? I'm taking this as a second.

All in favor?

All opposed?

Excellent. Motion carries!

A black tshirt design with a bald red cardinal in a circle surrounded by flames, with the word bloodcheep in red death metal style letters above it.

Working on a bloödcheëp shirt. I'm proud of those letters.

Think* should be in that question somewhere. *sigh*

@restingdinoface.bsky.social

Saw this just now, and was curious if you had a take. Do you juvenile therapods would chew on their own tails? Would other dinosaurs?

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At George Mason, we're all shields! At least you get to be modern defensive technology.

Yay, Francine has made it back home!

VA Del. Michael Webert (R) tweets about the tragic, horrible loss of VA Del. Candi Mundon King (D)'s daughter...who "was a warrior, fighting Sickle Cell with her mom by her side"

Deepest condolences to VA Del. @CandiMundonKing on the tragic loss of her daughter. As VA Del. @MichaelWebert says, this is a reminder of""the humanity beneath the fights"... bluevirginia.us/2025/10/mond...

Upon seeing this news, the IAPT has updated the title of the Code to:

“The International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, plants and very impressive lepidopterans”

Not sure about the gameplay, but the idea is brilliant.

I dunno, I’m rather fond of friend chicken!

Given that I know what town you all are visiting, I’m pretty sure I know exactly what intersection you passed through.

Also, it’s ironic because literally the best fried chicken in that area is none of those. Try Wayside.

Ah, I see! That was a rhetorical question. 😁

a) Forcing Fed workers to quit is a feature, not a bug, as far as DJT is concerned.

b) The several hundred thousand currently unpaid workers in the DMV are all supposed to go...where, exactly?

This maybe wasn't something you needed to opine on, Daulfus.

And yes, Federal workers will get back pay. A lot on contractors may not.

And besides, how many of you work where your boss can just unilaterally decide to pay you with an IOU?

A male colorpoint cat with black face, ears, and paws and dark brown body is crouched on top of an old copy of the Congressional Record. His eyes appear to be glaring and his ears are flat.

How Kyoshi feels about his mother having to proofread documents for Congress for no pay this past week:

Dartmouth’s president declines trumps compact.

Dartmouth says no.

When you're proctoring an exam and all of a sudden there is a kerfuffle and then a STOMP.

And you go back to investigate and remove the now dead lanternfly...

*sigh*

The school list, for those who can't access WSJ:

Vanderbilt
Dartmouth
Penn
USC
MIT
University of Texas
University of Arizona
Brown
University of Virginia

I hope each and every one of them tell the administration to pound sand.

I feel the *poink* in my very soul. 😁

Go talk to her, buddy!

Yup! My grandparents were out of the tobacco game before I showed up, but they (like many small farmers) sold their allotment to neighbors who still grew it. My dad just sold off the last of his cattle this past spring and finally fully retired!

My father was a part-time cattle farmer in Kentucky when we were growing up, and the deal was usually whichever cow in the field was the meanest became that year's freezer-filler.

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

A dark brown male colorpoint cat with nearly black face and ears. He is slumped dejectedly on a reddish footstool, with his ears flattened and front paw curled haphazardly in displeasure.

I thwarted Kyoshi’s bid for greatness tonight (I moved the folded stack of towels before he could parkour off them onto the bookshelf).

He pouted like this for a good hour.

Hema Sane, a botanist who lived without electricity, passed away on September 19th at the age of 85 in Pune, India.

She taught botany for over six decades, authored over 30 books on Indian plants, and advocated for ecological consistency, rejecting modern conveniences.

What game is this?