Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialepicfubar.bsky.social @epicfubar.bsky.social · 20/07/2026One of my heroes. Hamilton coined the term "Software Engineering" She was one of the initial inventors of real-time processing, which proved to be crucial to the success of the Apollo 11 moon landing. 011
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialCapucine @capucinep.bsky.social · 20/07/2026"That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." On this day (July 20th) in 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin landed their lunar module #Eagle & became the first humans to set foot on another world. 🌖👨🚀 #LunarLanding #MoonLanding #Astronauts #Moon #SpaceTravel 0423
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialsamus-x @samaran95.bsky.social · 20/07/2026It's Moon Day Monday!!! 🌙static.klipy.comHistoric Moon Landing: Man On The MoonAlt: A grainy black and white gif of some of the Apollo moon landing footage, showing one of the astronauts bouncing in the low gravity across the screen in front of the lander and a flag 0101
ermorris.bsky.social @ermorris.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Just me out here liking every Mo Salah to @sportingkc.com post I see! 000
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.sociallauren @awesomejuice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026some real old school shit with @ermorris.bsky.social tonight seeing louis at all state. double captains and feeeeeelings 191
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialJim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026No kidding I think I'm going to use this in my syllabus in the Fall, with appropriate citation of course 03411
ermorris.bsky.social @ermorris.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Great night at the Ecuador v Curacao game in Kansas City last night! #worldcup2026 031
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialDr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Let's see how this works on Bsky: I am looking for a scientist by the name of Spice to write a Shugar & Spice paper. 🧪⚒️ 1719248
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialPrincess Lisa SkyWalker @paraprod.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Artemis ll / Orion astronauts are about to witness an eclipse. 011
ermorris.bsky.social @ermorris.bsky.social · 07/04/2026You can rewind the YouTube feed and watch the eclipse footage. I hope we get some pictures of what they are seeing 🥹 I want to see the meteor impact flashes. 000
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.sociallastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd. 4533431029
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 26/02/2026the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed. 258632254
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 26/02/2026I don't think anyone pretending there isn't an effort underway by Republicans to eradicate trans people from public life can be taken seriously at this point. 81178298
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialMarkus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Did this paper need to be written? Unfortunately yes, it did. Trees don't collectively anticipate solar eclipses. Occam had something to say about this kind of problem. 🧪🌲🌳cell.comEclipse of reason: debunking speculative anticipatory behavior in treesAdvancing plant behavior research requires robust experimental design, falsifiable hypotheses, sufficient replication, and stringent controls. A recent study claims that Picea abies trees collectively... 38314
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.sociallauren @awesomejuice.bsky.social · 23/01/2026EDM HARRY BEST HARRY 121
ermorris.bsky.social @ermorris.bsky.social · 23/01/2026I think disappearing DNA is different than damaged DNA (which cells would try to repair). Without DNA to make RNA then proteins, cells would die a metabolic death. But great question to ponder! 010
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4... 91147768500
ermorris.bsky.social @ermorris.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Just saw oracs while on the ferry in Seattle. My first! Only crappy videos because I was using my binoculars the whole time 🥹 010
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialMichael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 31/12/2025The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today. 122130474237
ermorris.bsky.social @ermorris.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Well bummer. Black on the Air podcast with Larry Wilmore aired its last episode. I always enjoyed his interviews. 010
ermorris.bsky.social @ermorris.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Morning coffee realization: I actually have to WRITE that final exam for Friday. 000
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialAaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/12/2025The delta between what Biden did and how much anger he got for it and the absolute crickets Trump has gotten for making the student loan landscape *magnitudes worse than it was before* is absolutely one of the most enraging things about this entirely enraging era. 21113343
ermorris.bsky.social @ermorris.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Furniture rearranging with mom and @awesomejuice.bsky.social while dad is in the hospital (but doing OK) is a fantastic 1am activity. 120
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/11/2025NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease. 11487284
ermorris.bsky.social @ermorris.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Just got served an IG Black Friday ad for whole genome sequencing 🧬🧬 Options range $300-$700 🤔 010
ermorris.bsky.social @ermorris.bsky.social · 15/11/2025I was just about ready to get up and start my day. 010
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialEmilio Mármol Sánchez @marmole6.bsky.social · 14/11/2025🦣🧬🦣🤯💥We are pleased to share our new paper about ancient RNA expression profiles from the Woolly Mammoth, now published in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... If you want to know more, read the 🧵 below: 111142
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialAdam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Please read this on Jim Watson, by his most thorough biographer 36711
ermorris.bsky.social @ermorris.bsky.social · 08/11/2025This obit is appropriately critical and full of history. He had decades to learn from his own discovery, instead he clung to old racist ideas. (I recommend the 1980’s BBC movie staring Jeff Goldblum was Watson if you want a decently accurate retelling of the story.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...nytimes.comJames D. Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97 110
ermorris.bsky.social @ermorris.bsky.social · 08/11/2025RE LRT: I wouldn’t say most Franklin takes are stupid, but most of the details of her role in the discovery of the double helix are not widely known. The linked article brings them all to one place. Pretty good read. 000
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialMatthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 08/11/2025If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article. 3331135
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialDave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 29/09/2025A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access. 8158081669
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialEwan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 29/08/2025An evergreen thread: Race/Ethnicity is *not the same* as genetics, and you can't use Race/Ethnicity as a sort of stand-in for genetics. These two concepts are connected via aspects like skin colour, but the connection is alot less profound and categorical than most people think. 67722
ermorris.bsky.social @ermorris.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Solved the NYT crossword with zero hints! It’s been a while 😜 010
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 11/09/2025Biology Department xkcd.com/3140/ 324981685
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Here is UW - Madison's budget. Our <largest> funder is the federal government. 25%. It used to be the state. Either way, the university in its current form ceases to exist if these federal cuts really happen. But The. Public. Doesn't. Know. This. And our leaders are absent from the public debate. 221290523
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialLyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025There is a bird flu vaccine for vultures and condors. There is a bird flu vaccine in development for cattle (by Moderna, for one). But a bird flu vaccine for humans by Moderna has been cancelled by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): wapo.st/43kxnVf (gift article).wapo.stHHS cancels funding for Moderna to develop vaccines to combat bird fluThe department cited Moderna’s use of the messenger RNA technology, which it said “remains under-tested,” for the cancellation of the funding. 24498270
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/05/2025Mass Spec xkcd.com/3094/ 283872466
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/05/2025Not going to repost but JD Vance is whimpering about the voting habits of professors over on Twitter. It’s like “we said they were the enemy, we aimed to put them in trauma, we cut their salaries in half, we made their jobs impossible, and now they’re voting against us. I don’t get it.” 2455170
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialAnna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again. 71185164519
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialSimon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n 521343621
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialAster Olsen @asterolsen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Not to be too pro technocrat, but it is astounding how much this country depended on the selflessness of like a few hundred thousand highly educated public servants who, for peanuts, made sure our food and medicine and environment etc were safe. And in return these servants were demonized. 16582082000
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialNew York Magazine @nymag.com · 07/05/2025Just two months after OpenAI launched ChatGPT in January 2023, a survey of 1,000 college students found that nearly 90 percent of them had used the chatbot to help with homework assignments.nymag.comEveryone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project. 36211
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists. 592142694529
ermorris.bsky.social @ermorris.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Did anyone else catch the subtle shout out to G’s Frozen Custard on #Hacks S3E6? The Brown Bread Custard is good, but their Lemon Custard Malt is my favorite from the Topeka shop. 000
Reposted by @ermorris.bsky.socialDerek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social · 12/03/2025This congressionally-mandated institution is how we know about the state of education in America. Literally turning off the lights. 4383155
ermorris.bsky.social @ermorris.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Tonight I have done two whole days worth of work I brought home with me. Still better than watching SOTU. 000
![Comic. [Building with large sign in front of it[ SIGN: Welcome to the *Biology Department* It has been [changeable sign: 3] days since we discovered something existentially horrifying about bugs that makes you question your whole reality](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigvmzverlrjgqp4mazbkhm43fpvv2hdbkd2t2646dhihozrwdcy24)
![[Person with ponytail wearing lab coat hands balloon to another person in front of a springboard, a magnet hanging from above, and then a target] PERSON WITH PONYTAIL to Person 2: Rub this balloon against your head, then go jump past that magnet toward the target on the wall. [caption] Before the bathroom scale was invented, the only way to weigh people was mass spectrometry.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreid7lnvd7afmasx3nxi6anxmyhbatpaw54za3kiw3eaoclrf722faq)