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You know, people talk about Tim Cirry being a Muppet. But if you stop and think about it, Dolly Partson had substantial Muppet energy too.

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Aposematism is the term for organisms that advertise how they toxic they are with very bright colors. Predators learn that those newts with bright red bellies, or insects that are yellow and black striped are Not Pleasant, and avoid them. This raises troubling questions about gummi worms and Peeps.

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Thankfully, the cat vacated my lap of his own free will (he went to go drink some water), so I will be able to make it to work on time without doing sacrilege.

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Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

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Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Oh, that and "AI is an absolute disaster in the field of education, just a giant screaming comet descending from the heavens making all educational contexts less efficient and more time and labor intensive for a given amount of learning."

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Damien C-C @dccc-phd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"You should be writing."

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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Exciting news: @uwgenome.bsky.social will be hiring for two tenure-track faculty positions this year, one open rank and one assistant professor. Both are “Genome Sciences” interpreted broadly so we welcome applicants working in a variety of fields and methods. Ad will be out shortly.

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 24/09/2026

Me: To summarize, I should stop taking [redacted], start taking [redacted], and contact [redacted] about blood and imaging tests? I'm sorry, I just want to make sure I understood the next steps. Dr: Don't apologize! We train new doctors to do these summaries; it's great hearing it from a patient

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At the pre-meeting for a panel I let drop in very uncool fashion that I've never been as keen to do a panel as I am for this one, and the moderator asked why. First, it's at the Stratford Festival! Second, it's an actor, a scholar and a novelist (me)! Third, it's about fairies! Anyway it's today!

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Do You Believe in Fairies? | Stratford Festival Official Website

Stratford Festival

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Honestly, the small but steady stream of "some company committed a crime against you, again, here's your $7.42" is one of the most weird and unexpected aspects of living in America for me.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The more we buy into the logic that academia needs to be more like "the real world"--the more we buy into the idea that all we're doing is training students to go out and be good workers--the less we are fulfilling any sort of distinct mission, and the less exciting our work is our students.

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Ben de Bivort @debivort.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hello friends, the Harvard Life Science departments have banded together to hire a new colleague working at the intersection of Life Sciences and AI. Could be primarily an experimentalist, or could be primarily a compute/theorist. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16773

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Tenure-Track Professor in Life Science and AI

The Life Sciences Departments in Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences seek to recruit a tenure-track professor whose research is at the interface of AI and life sciences, from methodological developme...

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The answer is death. It was not until much later when medicine healed more than it killed. You know why physicians began to be called doctors? Because they wanted to distance themselves from the barber-surgeon origins and claim some of the veneer of respectability and science of professors.

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Remember: do NOT rob a bank today. Today they can see you.

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a wizard @towerwizard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"When in doubt, cover your mistakes in cheese" is S tier cooking advice.

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The wizard puts a decoy book on the floor next to him for the little cat to mirror instead of climbing on top of his grimoire.

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Whales and Wales are pronounced the same (by most people). This means that the phrase "In [Wales/whales], in particular, we have a lot of sheep farming" potentially seem rather different depending on how your brain interprets the homophone.

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I, personally, have never set my home on fire. Clearly, this indicates I do not have homeowner's insurance. Why would I pay my hard earned money for insurance I never use?

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On the impact of sarlacc on ecosystem nutrient cycling and energetics

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