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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ooh, we should definitely have a 3-headed ferret in #2027MMM! #MightyMustelids

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I became a biologist because of a museum exhibit. Real artifacts tell stories that are more powerful than anything we can get from scrolling. They are part of our engine for training the next generation of scientists. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/the-awesomen...

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The awesomeness of museums

Genuine artifacts tell the richest stories that fill our souls. And they fuel the scientific enterprise.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Holy shit I did not know this Incredible insight into Western Higher Education, going back to Oxford and Cambridge and still seen today from @harikondabolu.bsky.social

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do I have any mutuals in the Lake Tahoe area?

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Teach your son to wait. Teach him that other people are as important as he is. Teach him to apologize and go back to the end of the line if he made an entitled decision. Teach him that girls and women deserve respect in *all* scenarios—not just during sex.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

15yo just turned on the #VMAs and I have never felt older in my entire life. 😳

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget iced coffee. At my next job interview I’m going to knap some stone tools & butcher a goat.

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Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

9/26/2026- SCOTUS www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/se...

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Were they stealth fighting pandas?

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Interesting conclusions here. I don't have the statistical know-how to evaluate the methodology, but I'd love to hear what evolutionary medicine folks think. #EvMed

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*Sigh* There is no "fertility crisis," but even if there were it's worth remembering that teen mothers are at higher risk for pregnancy complications & low birth weight babies and have higher infant mortality.

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

An interesting read. Also, reminder: this is what wearing a corset does to your internal organs.

An illustration showing how the cinched waist created by wearing a corset compresses and displaces various internal organs that are important for keeping you alive.

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have yet to have an opportunity to teach it, but a few years ago I designed a seminar explicitly to help students appreciate that science is *not* apolitical. This is from the course description. Hopefully someday. #ScienceIsNotNeutral

The scientific method has been fundamental to shaping humans’ understanding of our world and ourselves for centuries. In modern American society, capital-S ‘Science’ is often situated as an epistemological gold standard, and scientists are ascribed a degree of objectivity that is reinforced through language emphasizing both a “self-correcting” process and “evidence-based” conclusions. Scientists, however, are people, and like all people their individual identities, backgrounds, beliefs, and biases shape the questions they ask and the approaches they use to investigate those questions. In this course we will examine the more subjective aspects of science: Who becomes a scientist, and who gets left out? How does the weight of history and culture influence the direction of scientific inquiry? What are the consequences of undervaluing contributions from ‘non-traditional’ sources – what have we lost, for example, by disregarding indigenous knowledge about local ecosystems? Through interrogation of these and related topics students will learn to recognize and appreciate the contingent nature of scientific progression.

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

14yo, discussing early release days with 11yo: Any day can be a half day if you give up halfway through. #TellingItLikeItIs

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Share far and wide, as everyone (including campaigning & sitting Dem politicians) should read this.

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Despite the braying of the tech elite, we still have agency. We still have a choice." Finally got around to reading this piece and I wholeheartedly agree.

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It says a lot that our headlines tout women earning 16% less than men (and even less for Black women) as "a win for gender equity."

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Princess Bride: I Do Not Think It Means

Alt: Princess Bride: I Do Not Think It Means what you think it means

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They say finding one is good luck, but be prepared for it to spray you with sh*t and potentially impale you on a 20-inch canine if you try to steal its pot of gold.

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Another example of "watching Law & Order will make you realize time is a flat circle": in a 1994 episode I saw yesterday (about a real estate guy who bilked people out of millions) there was a throwaway line about Trump wanting to privatize Central Park and run it at a profit. 🫠

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just a nice mushroom I saw walking my dogs through a field today.

An off-white mushroom with an inverted cup cap standing against green & brown grass

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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Every year we make the case for keeping leaves, branches, & plant stems in your yard. Bugs need them for shelter! That’s not to say you can’t tidy up: rake leaves into garden beds, around trees, or just in a pile out of the way. All we ask is that you #LeaveTheLeaves! 🍂🐝 xerces.org/blog/leave-t...

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Leave the Leaves!

One of the most valuable ways to support pollinators and other invertebrates is to provide them with the shelter they need to survive the winter. Thankfully, all you need to do is do less yard work.

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We interrupt your timeline for ELEPHANT SPLOOT!

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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I do not want a Briefing or a summary Please just go away - a Haiku about AI

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

More of this in *all* courses, please.

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This looks like armor we would come up with for #2027MMM.

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A friend from high school sent this to me the other day b/c this was my date to the freshman year Homecoming dance. Well done, Ed! 😂🦖😂

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Minor Characters | Jurassic Park ("Dinosaur Lawyer, Brian Finklebar") Parody Mockumentary

YouTube video by Minor Character Theater

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I deserve 2, possibly 3 lollipops for the amount of yard work I did today. 🫩

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Schools are not a business and a student is not a customer and this is the framing that encapsulates everything wrong with higher education. The “solution” of running universities like businesses rather than a public good was always the problem.

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Katie Cronin, PhD @katieacronin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Excited to announce KINDRED -- first-hand stories about chimpanzees like Chiffon and Eli who opened my eyes to their inner worlds and inspired their protection. Endorsed by the late Dr. Jane Goodall. 🧵 (1/2)

two young chimpanzees face each other, touching hands, with green and brown grass in background

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The vibes im getting from Trump lying about 9/11

Tombstone from the movie The Royal Tenenbaums that’s says the character “died tragically rescuing his family from the wreckage of a destroyed sinking battleship”

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Refusing to use AI isn’t a recalcitrant position. It’s the moral one. There is too much wrong with how this is happening to just “if you can’t beat em join em” this. It’s a lack of consent machine. An environmental destruction machine. An emotional and cognitive numbing machine.

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There are few things I’m more enamored with than the science of evolution, & few things I’m more repulsed by than Social Darwinism.

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Sperm whales usually prey on boneless squid, so consuming a scuba-outfitted human could be a choking hazard, and could choke to death...This would certainly make for a shorter movie"

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today is the 7th anniversary of my dad's death. Miss you, Dadoo.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/09/2026

Not The Onion.

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

14yo was looking for a new show so hubs & I are doing a whole-series rewatch of The Good Place with her, and it's so damn good. Perfect casting & whip-smart writing -- easily my favorite @kentremendous.bsky.social project.

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Romeslop Michael

Alt: Ted Danson as Michael in The Good Place

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🚨FYI: tix for these upcoming livestream events are available & affordable! 1. Rent 30th Anniversary Concert to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS: broadwaycares.org/pre-event/re... 2. 'Once More With Feeling' live performance to benefit the Dollywood Foundation: playbill.com/article/live...

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