Brenen Wynd PhD

@hankgreen.bsky.social am I correct that there is not a sci show episode on Hox genes? If so, I'm simply baffled that you haven't talked about how ridiculous (and cool!) it is that we made fruit flies with legs instead of antennae, with two thoraxes, or the double butt flies.

The industrial revolution was not intentionally burning coal to warm the planet, they did it for efficiency sake. However, oil and gas has known their product contributed to climate change for over 60 years and put forth active disinformation campaigns. Don't let them off the hook.

I appreciate the shout-out! My addition would simply be, identify your biggest headaches and struggles that you experienced and educate the incoming graduate students on them. If they know what others have had issues with, they may know who to talk to or how to get through them. Great thread!

Same, girl. Big same.

It always has been! Vessel exists to bring bisexual panic to all who listen!

@pseudacris.bsky.social taught me to write everything in R recursively. ../ has become my best friend and I feel a lil giddy every time I send a zip file where the folks on the receiving end don't have to rename 400 directory paths lol

Boy, I sure didn't expect a viral tweet and Rolling Stones reaching out for shitting on Colossal Biosciences. What a day.

Everything happening can be chalked up to "to the privileged, equality feels like oppression." White men have been fine with others getting the short end of the stick, but someone spends their life honing their skills getting a position they deserve infuriates these children

My piece of shit representative, Michael Baumgartner, has changed his staffers to voicemail only. It's pathetic and cowardly and every day he remains inactive for the people he represents, I am more and more emboldened to run as a pro labor independent and fight for washington.

We need to abolish the current bipartisan party. The wealthy elite win when working class Dems and reps fight and squabble, all while billionaires get richer. America needs a labor party that fights for the rights of working class. This is class warfare and we have no voice.

Like, how am I gonna be the watchdog of the family if you won't even listen to me when I voice valid concerns. It's so exhausting.

Nothing better than calling your parents to voice your concern and fear over what is happening and then being told you are simply thinking too negatively. I wish they could understand that their anti-negativity stance just made it so they have never been and continue to not be safe to talk to.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I did see it!! But life got very very busy for me around the time of it being posted, so I haven't had a chance to talk about how amazing the video is and how fun it was to get to help out with it. Seeing the thanks in the comments warmed my heart so much!!!

The hardest part of telling intro bio students that <5% of our genome behaves under mendelian laws of inheritance, is that I have to show them a snippet of quantitative genetics to explain the other 95%, and that is very frightening to the young scholar.

Walking with dinosaurs new T. rex reconstruction with a meme-like caption "Respec the choncc"

Today, on this Darwin's birthday, I gave a 50 minute lecture solely on T. rex. I will always advocate the lil critters, but we gotta pay respects where due! If my students learned one thing, I hope it's this

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We have a flock of about 50 turkeys on my property and they regularly fly about 40 feet up into trees and then fly between them. Much more graceful than I would have expected.

I don't remember claiming sanity

Anytime I read a paper where they timescale a parsimony tree

Don't upsetti my spaghettis or you're gonna push me pasta point of no return

Early career researchers, I love you dearly. But if you keep putting "crown *completely extinct clade*" I'm gonna start adding increasingly distressed gifs to my review document.

But what are we supposed to quote to make us sound like intellectuals?

I tried putting some philosophical musings in a paper and they got flagged. In the review I said something to the tune of "this is our attempt to engage in the philosophical musings that we all love to quote at the start of our papers"

Working with a therapist who moves out of network is a nightmare. Insurance denies everything claiming you can just get service elsewhere, when in reality you're doing trauma therapy consistently for the past year and starting over with someone new is not recommended. Just evil corporations.

I'm editing a paper, and I can't help but feel like I should be able to put gifs as comments.

I swear Christopher Walken writes every paper I'm on (it's me, I'm the problem, it's, me).

Always 💖

Don't make me tap the sign

I sure hope this place has World of Warcraft shitposters

Me too, Mr Cody, me too.

Time to start using this app as much as I told myself I would

I am so sorry you are facing this. It is so unfair to you and your family.