GEORGIA: The January 5 runoff elections for control of the U.S. Senate are fast approaching. Make your voice heard by requesting your ballot now at ballotrequest.sos.ga.gov #LetsGetItDoneAgain #gapol

Benjamin Franklin: a republic, if you can keep it 2020: it never actually touched the floor

I feel like we didn’t focus enough on the fact that someone in the Trump campaign meant to schedule the “four seasons hotel” but definitely accidentally scheduled this “four seasons landscaping” store and they had to follow through with it. Veep was not this good.

Last weekend, my 1 year old Stirling Ultracold -80*C freezer failed in the worst way: the firmware crashed and the mechanics stopped cooling. The screen was stuck on -80*C, and there were no alarms. The only reason I discovered the problem was from seeing pools of water inside. (1/8)

Dessert week on #GBBO and the over/under on number of times they say pudding and I think they mean a pudding pudding is currently at 2.5

Post a picture of your pet and what it is named after:

It snowed today in Pullman so I went out and made a new friend!

Ah, that beautiful time between writing a script and running it when you can still believe that it’ll run perfectly... #itsthelittlethings

And... exhale

Please recognize that all negative feelings of frustration & anxiety are being amplified by the relentless nature of social distancing and anxiety about loved ones. Not everyone deals with these feelings the same. Please 'put your oxygen mask on' first, then check up on others.

Hey Professors: What are some things you love or hate to see in an email from a prospecting graduate student? Bonus gratitude points: What would you like to see from someone coming from a different background than what the lab focuses on?

Hey, #Evol2021! Check out my talk tomorrow @ 10:40 EST / 7:40 PST in Adaptation/Genomics if you want to know more about how non-coding regions affect an adaptive phenotype in the fish Poecilia mexicana.

If you're attending #Botany2021 #PlantBio21 & play #DnD/TTRPGs. I just finished an expanded herbalism guide (details in 🧵) as a way to bring more botanical knowledge into your games. Check it out! Few preview pages incl #SciComm Full PDF free on DMGuild: bit.ly/3wTqDdk

My TED-Ed pigeon video with joanna is finally out!!!!!! I’m so proud of this piece that Joanna & I wrote together!

Stoked to read .’s new paper! His talk at Evolution about this research was super inspiring!

Super fun reading and discussing Dr. Elizabeth Carlen & Jason Munshi-South work on pigeons in the Northeast US in Enrique J. Schwarzkopf & my PopGen class today. Thanks for joining us Dr. Elizabeth Carlen and for answering my very important question, are pigeons rats with wings? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

1/6 Okay I have a personal 🧵 TLDR: UC grad students and postdocs work full time and should be compensated & supported appropriately. Paying us below minimum wage with no support for parents, international students, etc while claiming to support DEI is counterintuitive #FairUCNow