It's an Alolan Sandslash IRL #Pokemon #porcupines #albino www.popsci.com/environment/...

I didn't give you permission to stop scratching my nose #cats

#tuberculosis #tb #ventilation www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Make America Germ-Infested Again Can't imagine what could be driving poor people away from healthcare, or preventing shelter operators from upgrading space and ventilation 🙄 streetsensemedia.org/article/dist... #tb #tuberculosis

Should have stuck with the rabbits and dragons idea. GloFish were revolutionary in the 2000s and now they're in every pet shop on the planet and the average rando probably has no idea they're "GMOs"

Found these at the new We Make DC local arts & crafts gift store/workshop space. Very DC humour

I think transgenic pets and houseplants that just look cool are gonna become more common/socially acceptable. Remember the 2000s when GloFish were the world's first transgenic pet and now the poor little buggers are in every pet store on the planet

I'm chuffed about these bioluminescent petunias from Light.bio. They're branded "Firefly Petunias" although I suspect it's not FFluc, but one of the bacterial lux operons that encodes all necessary luciferase & substrate-synthesizing enzymes. Own work, Pixel 7a "Astro" mode 4min in my living room

Not the best artistically, but probably the most comedic: Lockdown Kitten looking for trouble #cats #dogs

@failbettergames.com Gua Makam Penyu (Cave of the Sea Turtle's Tomb) sounds like something from fantasy fiction. I'm thinking of the #FallenLondon #SunlessSeas desktop spinoff game where there's an entire island that's the shell of a dead titanic turtle. www.facebook.com/100064845634...

The blessing and curse of convincing people modern medicine works... Without education it's just substituting one kind of magic for another in their heads www.science.org/content/arti... #Ebola #HIV #DRC

Mycobacteriologists haven't gotten the memo about not naming pathogens after places where people live 🤣

Lol this spider decided to abseil down from my ceiling at the same time as Alex Honnold

Happy new year to all NIH'ers, whether fellows, contractors, or FTEs... WE'RE STILL HERE! "Agi idup, agi ngelaban" #nih

Maomao catching Lihua's maid still using the lead white makeup on her and dumping it all over the dumbass' head is what I imagine lab safety officers fantasize about doing to repeat offenders #ApothecaryDiaries

Merry Christmas, here's a non-Lord of the Rings usage of "fell beast" by a Victorian paleontologist via @tetzoo.bsky.social Wondering if this was a stock phrase around Tolkien's era. If you ever got pranked by an Australian about "dropbears" they're real, just very extinct #prehistoricplaneticeage

That's a hell of a lot of coffee

Apparently Dustin from #StrangerThings went to university in South Africa mybroadband.co.za/news/securit...

Neglected tropical diseases, countryball edition

Good deed for the day: calling NIH campus police because there was a doe with a broken leg hanging out next to my bicycle when I came out of lab. Officer said he'd get the on-call vet. Poor thing I'm guessing euthanasia. Here's a stag outside a different building. We've got lots of deer at NIH

I'm 华诗霞 and I endorse this sunset #Rockville #Bethesda #Maryland #Chinesenames

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Brooke double-fisting crickets for breakfast #prayingmantis #mantids #mantises #petinsects #petbugs

I gotta say it's pretty cool that the announcement of the Steam Frame VR headset has an older woman in one of the prominent product photos. store.steampowered.com/sale/steamfr...

#Tuberculosis #TB in a children's book about life in the 1910s

Wooo I got 1 triops in this hatch! The "Desert Family Pack" says it should contain about 10 triops but I only used a quarter of the packet for my 4L nano tank. Hopefully it doesn't eat the fairy shrimp and clam shrimp, I gave it a little bit of spinach. www.arizonafairyshrimp.com/eggs_s.html

Does anybody know about brain epigenetics and estrus? She got spayed while in heat and I think her tiny cat brain got stuck in slut mode. It's been over a year and she still does the lordosis thingy when you pet her behind

"You're too pretty to be a scientist" .... despite the vaccine-themed tattoo, NIH shirt, and jewelry from South Africa where I did my PhD on tuberculosis? #womeninscience #ootd

Picked up Tsu Jing's "Kingdom of Characters" because I'm super banana, but I love literature and history and etymology, so I have this weird liminal relationship with #Chinese #ChineseLanguage

I need someone to write a blog post properly decoding all the Hawaiian royalty and officers' regalia in detail. And I need someone to make me a copy of this guy's epic coronavirus corona. #ChiefOfWar