Donovan P. German

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Not only a vital defeat of the far right, but also a win of inestimable value for the planet.

Big changes for tiny fishes! Our new study of coral reef dwarfgobies shows that Eviota is not a single evolutionary lineage. We resurrect Eviotops and synonymise Sueviota with Eviota. Read more: doi.org/10.1643/i202... #Ichthyology #Fishes @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social

We have a new paper in @iaglr.bsky.social on how the #GreatLakes research community could benefit from a coordinated basin-wide mesocosm network. A link between fieldwork/lab experiments, mesocosms could help us understand environmental variation across the basin authors.elsevier.com/c/1nxaV1MRgT...

New manuscript by former PhD student Logan Turner, where we evaluated max thermal tolerance of cryptobenthic fishes. We found differences between species, and among individuals of the same species at different locations. This coincides with patterns of O2 consumption www.int-res.com/journals/mep...

An old man has spent years caring for this ray ever since she was little. He feeds and nurtures her, and she treats him like her human grandpa, approaching him affectionately like a massive ocean companion. Original post

This study found that eating sugar while on antibiotics made gut damage worse and fueled the growth of a harmful bacterium. Feed the garden, not the weeds? (via Nature) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is the 300-year-old Yew Tree Tunnel at Gormanston Castle in County Meath, Ireland 🇮🇪

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social is simply 1 of the greatest, most inspirational candidates to emerge in years, running against Ken Paxton, one of the most disgracefully corrupt politicians of all-time. So the Texas GOP responds by doing what comes naturally to them, of course: CHEATING! 🤮

how i be getting around in my car now that Apple Maps and Google Maps are dead to me

BREAKING: The House REJECTS a constitutional amendment to keep the Supreme Court locked at 9 justices. Mwuhahahaha www.cbsnews.com/news/house-s...

Gill: All 100 senators last week passed a non-binding resolution condemning any pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. They're simultaneously considering confirming the guy who met with her and moved her to a low-security facility as the top cop in the United States. That is so insane to me.

This Thursday, SpaceX insiders will be released from their first post-IPO stock lockup and can cash out early. As I've been saying, this has all the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.

i'm sick, this dog is living my best life

Elon Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.014 percent of his current $702 billion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

The gut group after an amazing and stimulating Gut session at #ICBF2026 in Vancouver! @wilson-jm.bsky.social @dgerman.bsky.social

Moray eel, grouper, and grey reef shark cross paths on the same reef corner. Three apex predators, one tense standoff.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear sent a public letter to Sen. Mitch McConnell requesting a full update on his health, citing weeks of limited information since McConnell’s June 14 hospitalization. Beshear called for transparency about his ability to serve.

The Trump regime is ramping up its deportation agenda again. ICE quietly arrested 10,000 people in just 5 days last week. There are now 63,000 people in ICE detention, while deaths in detention are at a record high. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/us/politics/ice-immigrant-arrests-surge.html

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BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

I think JD and I are kind of saying the same thing

Nothing else to say.

Manatee navigated gingerly through Coral City using only one flipper 🥹〰️🐮〰️ #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #seapotato #seacow #coralcitycamera

Two of the most important biomedical breakthroughs came from science of the Gila lizard venom (GLP-1s) and yogurt (CRISPR genome editing). "The system that turned that lizard into a medicine is now being dismantled." gift link nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart

Blue lobsters are very rare: 1 in 2 million by some estimates. But SPLIT COLOR LOBSTERS are 1 in *50* million. This lobster is a chimera of two fertilized eggs that fused together, with two distinct genomes: male on one side, female on the other. (📷: Woods Hole Science Aquarium/NOAA Fisheries)

Scientists have identified RFK Jr.’s brain worm as Stephanus milleri, a parasitic larva from the Miller tapeworm family. Symptoms include fever dreams of authority, allergic reactions to compassion, and an uncontrollable urge to turn public health into a border-control experiment.

Where’s the uproar about waste, fraud, and abuse now?

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

This gave me chills. Watch.

The oxygen that keeps us alive comes from natural ecosystems: half on land, half at sea. It's not complicated: we are TOTALLY dependent on the living world. Yet it's still treated as nothing but 'resources', to exploit and destroy for profit.

No one in this regime will face federal criminal accountability unless we reform the Supreme Court first. That's what folks should be running on. That should be the lesson of the Jack Smith prosecutions: it doesn't matter who the AG is.

Truth! Happens all the time. Get something. Want to get it again, nope. They stopped carrying it. Especially with coffee.

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social in Montgomery: “We’re here united to take on this new confederacy, 60 years after the Selma March… because we know their intent is to dismantle everything gained during the civil rights movement.”

"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...

There is no way to do anything interesting in any sustained way in any field without immersion in that field. That's just a fundamental fact of being human, and there's no getting around it.

Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low. Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed. Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?

sure gas is headed to $8/gallon but at least cornell got rid of their gender studies classes. or at least i think they did, i haven’t checked and if im being honest i wouldnt really know if they had or hadnt because it doesnt affect me but it makes $8/gallon gas all worth it

Did you know every MAGA influencer is in a group chat with people close to the administration where they’re regularly given scripts? They also have a website to sign up for influence campaigns that they never disclose. They’re making bank off of lying to you.

Say, isn't the R's who state that the protestors are all paid to be there at the rallies? Huh. Projection every time.

oh that's embarrassing. iowastartingline.com/news/politic...

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

For years, Hungary's Viktor Orban gerrymandered his opposition out of power. But in the end, all the dirty tricks in the world couldn't save him from sinking approval ratings and massive voter turnout. There's a lesson here for us.

A new report this morning revealed historic levels abuse by ICE against detainees. And the government was documenting it all. www.adamkinzinger.com/p/top-news-c...

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