Jennifer Raff

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

Ooooh I'm so excited to read this!!!!

Thanks for the great write-up, Patrick!

Observation from driving through rural Kansas this morning: Democrat signs outnumber Republican signs by quite a bit.

Absolutely incredible, I keep thinking El-Sayed’s won decisively and there’s ANOTHER round

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

GOOD POINT.

It's really clear that "social permission for bigotry" is the real animating spirit behind MAGA, and "anti-woke" politics in general. It's a hate movement for losers who can't handle living in a society.

This unsourced viral video appears to show a group of male lions flopping into a pile together, a moment of bonding. We usually think of male lions as monarchs of all they survey, but COALITIONS of male lions are actually quite common. Let's learn about this surprising band of brothers.

Adam is giving this race everything he’s got. 🌻

Dear Last Semester Jenny: "fossil exercise" is not a very useful thing to put into this week's lesson plan.

attn @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social team, this is very important for Kansas. We train students and employ researchers in the state with SBE funding. These are devastating numbers.

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

Excited to share that my department has an open faculty search for an Assistant Professor! The search is broad, focused on candidates who plan to address fundamental questions in genetics and genomics. The due date is soon: Nov 13. You can apply through interfolio. apply.interfolio.com/190644

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

Our archivist is at the Library of Congress and she sent me this photo. I want this image on everything I own

WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social breaks down how a GOP senator tried to use a supposed Atlanta Hawks game to prove Jack Smith secretly colluded with Trump prosecutors—only to learn the texts were about the Iowa Hawkeyes game he attended 700 miles away in Maryland.

Where did bats come from?🦇🌍 After decades of debate, the biggest bat genome + fossil study ever done has an answer - and it’s not where anyone expected! 🤩OUR PHASE 1 FLAGSHIP is out today in nature! doi.org/10.1038/s415... A thread 🧵

The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.

Okay I just wrote 2k words on it, so we'll see!

Words to live by: “baby’s in his find out era.”

'Nature of Wildworks', a rescue in Coarsegold, CA, shared this video of Cliff the Cougar purring in contentment. Cats that roar (lions, tigers) generally can't meow or purr for anatomical reasons. But let's explore WHY cats purr. We can start by asking: WHEN do they purr? (📷: Nature of Wildworks)

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

I put together a little Instagram video on the fantastic new paper by @jenniferraff.bsky.social and colleagues on the initial peopling of the Americas: www.instagram.com/p/DdrcOUfOZQq/

Oh hey I have a new paper out with my amazing co-authors 😃

We can do this, Kansas. @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social

Bats! Bats! Bats! Open for CUTE pictures and wonderful evolution. ps If anyone ever wants to collaborate on a bat paleogenomics study, let me know! I love them!

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