Also I included links to an upcoming webinar on the public health findings, the recent SCOTUS case, the Presidential executive order, and the amazing new interactive mapping project by @foodandwateraction.bsky.social that shows overlapping distribution of glyphosate and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Took my kid to CrossFit tonight and she straight up ripped a set of 8 box squats at 175. 😳 This girl is the star in my sky and I adore her for a thousand reasons but for this feat alone I feel UNREASONABLE pride. (For context: my pb for a 3 rep max is 135.)

Sounds like one of the contaminated houses is now an Air BnB? I had no idea that Niagara, NY was involved with the Manhattan Project but it sure was…it became the waste dump for radioactive slag left over from bomb making. www.wgrz.com/article/tech...

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I’m just a biologist but I feel like maybe it started when this guy got to go be a college president.

Here for example is the reply immediately after yours here in this very thread. (I’m an adoptee. I guess he is letting me know that he knows that.) I’m about to block him. And I’m not gonna create any alt text bc it’s just so gross and I don’t need to type insults directed at my identity.

Today I am involuntarily smoking 3 cigarettes because of the abject failure of my government to respond to the findings of climate science which entirely predicted these kinds of fires years ago. Here’s the AQI to cigarette calculator: jasminedevv.github.io/AQI2cigarett...

Oh and after you block me I share the screen shot I took so your assholery is memorialized for all time. Women are so done with Miss Manners lessons from white men whose purpose is to shut us up so they can be wrong and obnoxious in peace. @andrewhickey.500songscom

I’m a survivor of two different cancers. Yesterday I smoked 15 cigarettes. Today I’ll smoke only 1. Find out how many cigarettes you are involuntarily smoking due to utter failure of government to protect the general welfare by addressing the climate crisis: jasminedevv.github.io/AQI2cigarett...

AQI = 500 in Hudson, NY = officially not safe for anyone to breathe, everyone may experience respiratory problems, it’s an emergency, no running errands, no going outside. Your reminder that fine particulate matter from burning forests silts up your heart and your brain. FOSSIL FUELS DID THIS

And here, also from my shop @sehnetwork.bsky.social, are guidelines and for communities targeted by data centers: static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad8b...

In NYC today for a medical appointment and was happy to find this person holding their own rally outside the golden doors of Trump Tower on 5th Ave. Of course I asked permission for a photo and the reply was “please post it all over social media” 🫡

Please read the whole memo: pronatalism directed at boosting teen births is about ensuring the domestic supply of adoptable newborns to be raised by infertile Christian white people. NB: Alito and Barrett in arguing Dobbs— inthesetimes.com/article/alit...

Using an image, show a movie you are sure you have watched more than 10 times. [Hypothesis: only the parents of grown kids are sobbing rn.]

Not me laughing at my brilliant accomplished kid who landed a 3-yr fellowship with a 8% acceptance rate and who has a document request with the state and just asked me what side of the envelope the stamp goes and how many stamps should he use… …and then realizing that’s on me 😬 #PostalSkillsFail

Friends, it’s time to bring some intuition, sensitivity, and feathers to fluid dynamics, subatomic physics, and munitions at an attractive price point and queer the pharmacy razor aisle. Meanwhile, I remain a MAGNUM girl. Macho razors are cheaper and less breakable.

New retirement plan: develop non-binary, gender-fluid razors, ending the false choice between FUSION (atomic science) MACH (an object’s speed relative to speed of sound in fluid dynamics) or MAGNUM (firearms) and INTUITION, VENUS, or FLAMINGO (which are pink, promise “sensitivity,” and cost more)

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Deferred safety maintenance is likely cause (or contributor:

And bucks, does, and fawns don’t live together in father-led families, despite how they are posed in dioramas. Among white-tail deer, males are solitary, and females bond together with their offspring and forage cooperatively. Let’s stop straight-jacketing our animal friends. 🌈

Reinforcing this bias is the portrayal of animals living together in heterosexual nuclear families in popular media—from Babar the Elephant to Disney and Pixar movies. Finding Nemo and The Lion King project heterosexual family structures onto species that don’t live like that.

Homophobia in biology has blinded us to the queerness innate in nature and points the need for more queer biologists to cast their queer eyes on the natural world and publish their findings. And for us to pay attention to those who have. This important corrective was published 28 years ago:

Many invertebrates are equipped with fully functioning male and female reproductive organs, have double intercourse with their partners, and become mother and fathers simultaneously. Earthworms swing this way.

Limpets all start their lives as male and then transition to female as they get older and larger. This is called sequential hermaphrodism.

Conversely, the males of many species can appear as female to avoid conflict with other males or to find female mates who prefer them. Cuttlefish, redstarts, and marsh harriers do this. So do ruffs, whose males come in three different flavors: macho, effeminate, or non-binary.

Many animals can be genetically one sex but resemble the other sex. Some girl lions have manes, broad chests, deep roars, and are otherwise indistinguishable from the boys. Some girl hummingbirds are drag kings, sporting bright male-like plumage.

Ambient temperature is another environmental cue that can alter the sex of some animal species, particularly amphibians and reptiles. At higher temperatures, baby bearded dragons that are chromosomally male will switch and develop anatomically and reproductively as female.

In many insect species, including among butterflies, a symbiotic bacterium can cause them to transition from male to female. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Conversely, when the dominant male in a group of bluehead wrasse dies, the largest female will turn her ovaries into fully functional testicles and take over his role.

2) Gender is fluid, and sex is not binary. Clownfish are all born male but are led by a dominant female. When that female dies, a male transitions to female and takes her place. Whip tail lizards are all female, have sex with each other, and reproduce via parthenogenesis.