Reposted by Emily Deans MD Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...sfchronicle.comYosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their returnYosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off 801174088819
Emily Deans MD @evolutionarypsy.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Considering how awful this flu season is…well the first Trump administration didn’t want to test for COVID because the numbers would go up if we did. 060
Reposted by Emily Deans MD Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 14/02/2025If there’s a Disease X outbreak in the next four (or more?) years we literally will be flying blind, we just fired the people who would have tracked it 24411121
Reposted by Emily Deans MD Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Wow, we’re having a great night of aurora so far here in Fairbanks! Awesome formations in the sky… these photos were captured just a few minutes ago! 612510
Reposted by Emily Deans MD Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Impact of NIH cut starting to sink in Here's Sen. Katie Britt urging "a smart, targeted approach" in order to protect important research at UA-Birmingham, a top NIH recipient Also, as article notes, the state's largest employer www.al.com/news/2025/02...al.comKatie Britt vows to work with RFK Jr. after NIH funding cuts cause concern in AlabamaUAB and UAH are among Alabama institutions that could be affected by cuts. 213799248
Emily Deans MD @evolutionarypsy.bsky.social · 09/02/2025free course on navigating the power and shortcomings of LLMs 020
Reposted by Emily Deans MD CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Texas confirms measles outbreak as Georgia reports more cases Also, the CDC today said it has received reports of 14 cases so far this year from 5 jurisdictions. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m... 65635
Reposted by Emily Deans MD High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 05/02/2025Timeline cleanse/your moment of Zen: This is from a few years ago when we had more snow than we do right now. It was the first time Lucy had ever seen more than a dusting, and she was *overjoyed*. (Video features a large fluffy black/tan husky mix rolling around happily in about 4in. of snow.) 1232029
Reposted by Emily Deans MD Spencer Wells @spwells.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages spoken by 40% of world 🧬 news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...news.harvard.eduLandmark studies track source of Indo-European languages— Harvard GazetteResearchers place Caucasus Lower Volga people, speakers of ancestor tongue, in today’s Russia about 6,500 years ago 164
Emily Deans MD @evolutionarypsy.bsky.social · 05/02/2025He’s mad that the dog is allowed to go out all the time but not him 030
Reposted by Emily Deans MD Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 05/02/2025An enchanting Squirrel of the Day for February 5, 2025 #sqrlpix 328124
Reposted by Emily Deans MD The Independent @the-independent.com · 04/02/2025BREAKING | The universe could undergo a 'catastrophic change' that could alter absolutely everything, quantum machine showsindependent.co.ukUniverse could undergo a 'catastrophic change' that could alter absolutely everythingThe universe could undergo a catastrophe that would change absolutely everything, scientists have shown using a quantum machine. 28345587
Reposted by Emily Deans MD Stanley Heinze @stanley-heinze.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Interested in how ants navigate? Have a look at our new review in Current Biology! This piece has resulted from a collaboration with Tom Collett, Paul Graham. Open access: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F... @ercresearch.bsky.social @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.socialkwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.meScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books. 0289
Reposted by Emily Deans MD Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering @wareflo.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Good morning Albuquerque, New Mexico! 420012
Reposted by Emily Deans MD eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing 565379986155
Reposted by Emily Deans MD ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 02/02/2025It's kind of fun that the three main varieties of kale represent the three types of surface geometry (negatively curved, positively curved, and flat). 0447
Reposted by Emily Deans MD stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · 01/02/2025This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information. This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...nytimes.comElon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System 40192863804
Reposted by Emily Deans MD Richard Zussman @richardzussman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Red state alcohol is currently being removed at B.C. Liquor store in Victoria. #bcpoli 2059457888683
Emily Deans MD @evolutionarypsy.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Waiting for my computer to update before doing some work so I posted a “Find Vanilla” picture from earlier today. 030
Reposted by Emily Deans MD Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...blog.archive.orgEnd of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs 4803277612102
Emily Deans MD @evolutionarypsy.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Daily Vanilla (sniffing the snowy lawn at sunrise) 050
Reposted by Emily Deans MD Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Loads of spelling mistakes in this. 48910717969
Emily Deans MD @evolutionarypsy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Funny I’m at Brigham and Women’s and it is so incredibly busy. For whatever reason all the years I worked here I never spent much time in the admitting or lobby in the middle of the day. 040
Emily Deans MD @evolutionarypsy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025lack of qualifications include numerous reports of him being often falling down drunk including at work events? 030
Reposted by Emily Deans MD Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 09/01/2025I guess I’m at that point in my career where I’m purposefully assigning out of print earlier editions rather than the newest edition of textbooks because they’re “better.” 0181
Emily Deans MD @evolutionarypsy.bsky.social · 04/01/2025It’s funny how all anti-aging skin products are just slowly dissolving your skin 151
Emily Deans MD @evolutionarypsy.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Looks like Texas-Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl. 030
Reposted by Emily Deans MD Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 24/12/2024when the star on the tree is an actual star lol A NASA photo of the Christmas Tree Cluster 🎄 181164842409
Reposted by Emily Deans MD Spencer Wells @spwells.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Remarkable images taken by automatic cameras in the Brazilian rainforest reveal an isolated community that appears to be thriving despite pressure from ranchers and illegal encroachment into the Amazon 🇧🇷 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...theguardian.comExclusive: photographs reveal first glimpse of uncontacted Amazon communityAutomatic cameras in the Brazilian rainforest show images of the Massaco people, who are flourishing despite environmental threats 2255
Reposted by Emily Deans MD Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 21/12/2024I was taking nice portrait mode shots of parm and he attacked 1274553
Emily Deans MD @evolutionarypsy.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Learned the other day there are at least a half dozen celebrity/influencer meme coin rug pulls like this. Never been easier to scam people out of their money 230
Emily Deans MD @evolutionarypsy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Sad music night: (add yours) youtu.be/9RTe2ptJlsg?...youtu.beMark O’Connor: Appalachian WaltzYouTube video by Appalachian Chamber Music Festival 610
Reposted by Emily Deans MD The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 17/12/2024A mom just came in SO EXCITED to find a map store bc her son would LOVE it. She tries to be coy. "My son is... Really into maps. Real special kid." I'm like, ma'am, this is a map store. Half my customers are on the spectrum. I have a trains and transit section. You're among friends. 318165151627
Reposted by Emily Deans MD Henry Gee 亨利·纪 @endofthepier.bsky.social · 14/12/202437 years ago today I joined the staff of Nature. Since then we've had hobbits, fish with legs, dinosaurs with feathers, Neanderthals with DNA, and more than 5,000 exoplanets when before there were none. I do not believe there is a causal relationship between any of these things. 1898
Reposted by Emily Deans MD Traces of Texas @tracesoftexas.bsky.social · 13/12/2024The old, mature bald cypress trees in Caddo Lake are roughly 600 years old, meaning they were big, mature trees when the Alamo fell. But bald cypress trees can live much longer --- 2600+ years. Shown here: bald cypress trees in Caddo Lake. One of my own photos, taken in 2010. 3515
Emily Deans MD @evolutionarypsy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Oh my goodness that’s a lot of posters!!! 140
