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Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @aaberhe.com · 29/09/2026

Applications are now open for the UC President's Postdoc Fellowship Reach out if you want to submit an applicaiton focused on environmental/soil sciences, biogeochemistry, climate change, & related areas As a former fellow, this is a program I highly recommend 4 ECRs interested in academic careers

screenshot of the call for applications for the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship program

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And the assault on federal research grants and contracts/contractors) came just as the contracts/contractors starting taking racial and gender equality seriously both in research and in hiring and organizational culture.

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You also get to hear all the reasons why I hate Big Bang Theory (the show, not the actual theory)!

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Doesn't surprise me that this is their (garbage) take But it does remind me that so many social movements (successful and failed alike) were driven by underemployed, overcredentialed, and aggrieved young people, even movements that primarily benefit other groups we're dangerous to the WSJ types

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ok so that was Eisner, like there's any discernable difference between these money grubbing bastards anyway

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You mean the guy who famously said "it's not our job to make art, it's our job to make money?" That Jeffrey Katzenberg?

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me: "Every time I sat down to write today somebody needed something from me." Muscle Husband: "Yeah, Jo is at that age where she needs Mommy a lot." Me: "Not the kids! College students!"

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dating a bi man is amazing. You get to talk about cute boys together. If you're both bi you can talk about cute girls together too. These straight women are fools.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026

Happy mushroom season!

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I was today years old when I learned that coconuts have a soft spot that you can stab with a straw just like a juice box. This information has forever changed my life.

A life-changing coconut with a straw in it

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

No time to celebrate properly today, but Muscle Husband still bought me flowers for our anniversary this morning. Jo helped pick them out, of course. Everyday I am grateful to be married to the love of my life.

A bouquet of sunflowers, with some smaller purple flowers of unknown identity tossed in. I don't know what those are but they are also very pretty.

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's always "go f*ck yourself" but never "unf*ck yourself" when so many people clearly need to unf*ck themselves

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Random take but we really need better options on a form than only "male," "female," or "refuse to say." I'm just imagining one nonbinary person going "nuh uh NOT TELLIN"

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Jaime Palter @jaimepalter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🌊 I searched the long version of NSF’s letter on “a New Golden Age of Science.“ There is no mention of any of the following words: planet, Earth, ocean, atmosphere, climate, weather, or the stem “geo.”

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Liz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

something i really resent is that they made a machine that uses every public thought we've ever had, and now it's our job to carefully edit every public thought so it doesn't sound like the machine, which is continuing to steal our every public thought by the minute

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Everybody knew what she was called, but nobody anywhere knew her name. Disremembered and unaccounted for, she cannot be lost because no one is looking for her, and even if they were, how can they call her if they don't know her name? Although she has claim, she is not claimed." -Toni Morrison

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Daily bunny no.3429 will be your guide

A bunny guides a ratty-looking bat walking through the grass on a blindingly sunny day. The bat's eyes are squinted shut, to avoid the sunlight, and the bunny leads them by the wing.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026

“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory. In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else.

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

All my ghosts are back and they're mad I've been ignoring them

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This morning my youngest offspring, Little Jo, decided to jump on her father's back, straddle him like a horse, and bounce up and down while singing the Bonanza theme.

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Jaime Palter @jaimepalter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🌊 Ocean People: have you been thinking about how to respond to NSF's Dear Colleague Letter on Ocean Observing Priorities? Comments are due SEPTEMBER 30. 1/6

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Request for Input on Future Ocean Observing Priorities

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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

9 to 5 is an amazing study in anarchafeminism, iykyk

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I could spend years building expertise in a subject, developing questions and approach, honing justifications that people without that investment can grasp and find compelling or I could go into a sector where “shut up and buy this or we’ll make you” is seen as visionary, even if the product fails

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I could watch this for hours and hours

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Muscle Husband: "So you want to have a movie night with me and the kids?" Me: "What are you watching?" MH: "Bakshi's Lord of the Rings." Me: "I ALWAYS want to watch that."

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Gandalf and Samwise in Animated Scene

Alt: Gandalf waggles his fingers threateningly at Samwise in Bakshi's LotR

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Good morning from my new house! Who wants to help me paint and unpack? 😅

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This evening, my almost-three-year-old informed me that I'm "stinky" and I "smell like poop," and on the one hand I'm incredibly proud that she's developing a sense of humor and silliness but on the other hand HOW VERY DARE YOU

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Daily bunny no.3430 catches the midnight show

A bunny takes a movie ticket from an old-fashioned ticket booth in a movie theater. The theater seems abandoned, and is in total darkness except for an eerie glow. The person giving the ticket seems to be a ghost or ghoul of some sort.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 02/09/2026

This is brutal and spot on "Two things can be true at the same time. That the university is under attack and that the university is complicit with the very terms of engagement that place it under attack should not be seen as a contradiction"

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

As of today, I am no longer putting the "ass" in Assistant Professor. Henceforth, I will be putting the "ass" in Associate Professor. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Guillermo del Toro's Emotional Oscars Speech

Alt: Guillermo del Toro's Oscars Speech: "I thought this could never happen. It happened."

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Day Two of Moving and I'm covered in a thin layer of filth

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Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hey 🧪⚒️ there's a group and event you should know about! GeoLatinas "embraces, empowers, and inspires Latinas to pursue and thrive in careers in Earth and Planetary Sciences" They're having their first Entrepreneurship Fair tomorrow and I'm their first guest speaker! ... #GeoLatinas #GeoSciences

A flyer for the first event of GeoLatinas's first-ever Entrepreneurship Fair. There's a picture of me, smiling to camera, on the left. The event is August 28 at 11 am ET, and anyone can register at the included QR code or by following the link in my next post. My bio is at the bottom: I was a researcher, then became a science communicator, and now my communications work includes building and running things

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Kade Peregrine @kadeperegrine.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Amazing how all the "don't speak ill of the dead" stuff is completely unnecessary when the dead person in question is a genuinely lovely human being who dedicated her life to helping others.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My department is hiring a biology lecturer to contribute to our intro bio sequence and an online summer course (applications due September 1!): fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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UMS Careers

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Dems should absolutely kill corn ethanol and divert the spending to solar subsidies.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Daily bunny no.3420 is always there when the light turns on

a bunny walks over a bridge or causeway by the sea. It is dusk, an the bunny is lit by street lights that have only just begun to turn on. the bunny looks out to the ominous sea, where a spit of land and a lighthouse are visible.

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Ellie just decided she wants to be an Ewok for Halloween, and y'all know where this is going for me

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Princess Leia Leia Organa

Alt: Princess Leia on Endor with a trusty blaster

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Me: "Why am I down so bad for lanky goths with long hair who make really bad puns?" Also me: *marathons "Tales from the Crypt" while doing chores*

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Cryptkeeper: Hello Creeps!

Alt: Cryptkeeper: Hello Creeps!

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

scientists finally found the cause of male loneliness it’s male unpleasantness

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One thing that I've noticed about undergraduate writing, at least in the sciences, is that they tend to overexplain and undersupport. They define things that the audience doesn't need defined, and don't provide concrete data to back up their claims. There's no point to this, just an observation.

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's called "the trans issue" or "the trans debate" to obfuscate the fact that a vanishingly small number of bigots are astroturfing their bigotry everywhere they possibly can

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's small and angry... This bird is me is what it is.

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