Erecting a life-size human skeleton in my home (i.e. getting out of bed) Driving with a life-size human skeleton in the front seat (i.e. normal commute) Taking a life-size human skeleton into the coffee shop (etc…)

There are too many angsty tweets; don't forget to tweet when you're happy. So: it's a beautiful day and I'm sitting in my backyard doing cool science. Its so nice out because it's a record-breakingly warm autumn due to climate change. Ok, I'll try again later.

"The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me." -Eckhart "If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -Nietzsche So if I stare at my data long enough...?

First time in decades that I’ve driven through so many insects we had to stop and clean the windshield. A twilight storm of October caddisflies near Forks, WA.

This is fine

Sea cucumber or microbe?

Even Randall Munroe gets confused by chirality

We are searching for a Genomics Technology Transfer Specialist to help support malaria molecular surveillance at partner laboratories in South America. Please reach out to me directly if you fit the profile and will be at #ASTMH2022! shorturl.at/CMPS8

Going to my first in-person conference (ASTMH) since 2019. To the best of my knowledge I’ve still never had covid. Wish me luck.

Covid has killed so many more than, say, Ebola, in part because it’s not scary enough: folks didn’t take it seriously since it’s largely survivable, hence the huge death toll. I think of this when people point out that climate change is more survivable than, say, nuclear war.

I’ve joined Mastodon: @[email protected] But not abandoning twitter yet.

I guess that sink at twitter headquarters was meant in the "source–sink dynamics" sense

Synapsids (🦣) and sauropsids (🐦) have been at war over planetary dominance for >300 million years. 🦣got an early lead in the Permian, then🐦famously ruled the Mesozoic.🦣took over again after the K-T extinction. Today many species of both🐦&🦣are endangered. What happens next?

You know it's getting real when university admin gets involved.

One of my first uses of this site, in 2013, was to live-tweet my re-read of Jurassic Park. In the story, a greedy tycoon bites off more than he can chew in a business venture and accidentally turns it into a living nightmare. Have we come full circle?

I think I'm done here. Find me at @[email protected]