I am always stunned about the neglect of use of scientific publications as data for #biodiversity conservation. There are huge libraries including hundred millions of pages and thousands of scientific journals publishing up to 20,000 new species every year doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service. All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.

brought to tears by this video of a classroom of kids singing bjork

“I don’t do politics” well now you doing 5 dollar gas nigga

Advice I gave one of my students recently: Spending your entire 4-6 year PhD on one project will make you great at giving compelling talks on that one topic. Completing 4-5 projects may bring fewer "best presentation" awards, but you'll learn far more.

Another great example of how scientists, science journals and science journalists willfully distort science for clout and profit. Compare the much-hyped paper that just came out on the genetics of response to GLP1 receptor agonists to the press release about the paper. The

When it's your time to present in lab meeting and you don't have new results to show

A new UBC wash removes more than 86 per cent of surface pesticides from fruit—and keeps produce fresher longer. A simple solution with big potential for food safety. Read more: news.ubc.ca/2026/03/new-ub…

"San Luis Obispo," by American artist and Disney animator, Eyvind Earle, 1990.

Finally!?

Trump’s Bureau of Land Management is once again trying to fast-track decisions that impact Chaco Canyon, a 1,000+ year-old sacred cultural and historical site, with an outrageously short public comment period. They think we aren’t paying attention. BLM plans to release a Draft

My therapist told me "Habits like smoking, drinking, chronic lack of sleep, or disordered eating are often forms of self-sabotage. When you suppress a massive amount of anger toward others, that energy has to go somewhere. So, you subconsciously start destroying yourself just to

We don’t allow mining in Yellowstone. We don’t allow mining in Glacier. We don’t allow mining in Yosemite. We don’t allow mining in Zion. We don't allow mining in Acadia. We don't allow mining in Grand Teton. We shouldn’t allow mining in the Boundary Waters.

A new paper in nature from David Reich, Ali Akbari and colleagues breaks the conventional understanding of recent human evolution. The field believed that strong selection in the recent past (~10,000 years) was rare, with few exceptions like the lactase persistence locus. In

The word of the day is HABIBI! Happy #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth from Ramy Youssef, Elmo, and all of your friends on Sesame Street!

Pinkpantheress is all of us!

This is your reminder to spend some quality time with your best buddy and treat yourself today!🥤🧡💛

The New American Gothic (2017) by Criselda Vasquez

Are we just atoms in the galaxy of heterochromatin?

Bacteria are full of diverse molecular tricks. This Science article reports an interesting one that is being misrepresented by news coverage, including the coverage in Science. The study describes an enzyme complex that synthesizes alternating dinucleotide repeat DNA as part of