DrArchivalGenomics

Hi! I study DNA from museum specimens and fossils to see how animals are responding to change in the environment. This is a cave in Madagascar where bones of extinct species can help us in our research #ScienceIsForEveryone #ScienceSelfie

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My father at the Roosevelt Hotel on 45th St in 1952 on his first night in America after spending six years in a Displaced Persons Camp in Southern Germany after he and his family were expelled from Hungary in 1946.

My great-grandmother, Anna Vitoch, came to New York from what is now Czechia in 1912. She was a house maid. Her children included doctors and a grandchild a research biologist. Czechs were considered by the racists of the time “undesirable immigrants”, “criminals”, “paupers”, “papists”.

Last week, we celebrated Eastern European heritage at Gracie Mansion, because the story of New York City cannot be told without the story of our Eastern European neighbors.

Vote early if you can. Expect more of this from Zuck and Musk on November 3rd. 🗳️🌏👇🫀

To be clear, evil billionaire scumbag Zuckerberg shutting down the official No Kings account in the middle of nationwide protests isn’t a mistake, it’s an assault on a free speech and expression, it’s pure fascism.

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There is hope in the elections taking place around the world and how they may usher in new leadership in many countries. Even with those changes, we all are in for a warm ride filled with climate shocks until we stabilize the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

“I agree!” shouted James Donald Bowman, James David Hamel, JD Vance, Rafael Cruz, Kashyap Pramod Patel, Nimrata Randhawa, Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal, Anna Paulina Mayerhofer-Gamberzky-Luna, and Richard Lynn Myers (Rick Scott) to Donald J. Drumpf.

Listen up! Vote Blue because our lives all depend on it. #voices4Victory #usDemocracy #dv1

More than a thousand years ago, Al-Khwarizmi was the father of algebra. Ibn Sina/Avicenna wrote the leading medical text. Al-Biruni made original contributions to geodesy/astronomy. Nobel Prizes: Naguib Mahfouz Ahmed Zewail Moungi Bawendi Ardem Patapoutian Wolf Prize: Ahmed Zewail Omar Yaghi

🚨BREAKING: We have moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining Trump from continuing to unconstitutionally impose themselves upon election administration procedures that the Constitution and federal law assign to the States.

“The benefits of data centers appear to go to out-of-state billionaires but Idahoans would appear to bear all the costs in terms of water, energy, and open space,” an Idaho Conservation League official said.

Unusually high tides put Florida turtle nests at risk A king tide is raising concern for sea turtle nests along Florida’s coastline, with conservationists monitoring beach erosion and the risk of seawater reaching eggs still buried in the sand. The current period of unusually high tides is…

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There could be weather, or you might get sick, or have a family member who isn't feeling well, or you could have a work emergency that needs to be tended to, or... You get the point. Vote early (in person) if at all possible!

Sponsors filed the Save Our Sequoias Act and Fix Our Forests Act as amendments to the Senate NDAA, and 3,437 petition signers want both pulled. Conservation groups argue these are forest policy, not defense policy.

“Empathy is very important for democracy” “You can’t have a democracy that is functioning if nobody puts themselves in another one’s shoes.... If we don’t teach our children that, then we don’t have a democracy in 50 years.” Mette Løvbjerg, Møllevang’s headmaster. www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe...

"This is some of the strongest evidence so far that the #AMOC has weakened over the last 40 years.”

Trump told Americans to vote as if he is on the ballot...

Hydrology Paper of the Day @scitobias.bsky.social on a geography of atmospheric rivers: the need for understanding connectivities by utilizing network theory; storm tracks; the importance of polar regions; detection of important regions and energy transport; and the influence of mountains and oceans

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Here is the gift 🎁 article for others to read. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/u...

#WETHEPEOPLE #GOTV #Kentucky Give Rides to the Polls! - Statewide signup Tuesday, November 3 6am – 6pm EST Some voting locations have been consolidated this year and there's reason to believe more people might need rides than normal. www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

9/ Here's what Hungary, Serbia, and Brazil showed us: turnout matters more than almost anything else in an election. So here's my ask. No matter what else you're doing, get three people to the polls who likely wouldn't have gone, and find one other person to do it with you.

6/ So here's a small plan. Pick three people closest to you. Not strangers, not the loudest voice online. People who'd actually pick up your call. Then write one gentle question for each, about something local you both care about. A school budget, a bus route, a clinic closing. Health care cuts.

2/ Hungary: record turnout. Serbia: record turnout, the highest since Yugoslavia broke up. Both were one-shot elections, one vote and one chance, and people who usually sit it out decided this was the time. Ordinary people, showing up like never before.

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

60 days after Trump pardoned him, convicted Honduran narco ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández was recorded discussing a US destabilisation plot targeting Mexico, he said the operation was backed by Republicans linked to the Trump administration.

A slowly-dying Far Right party.

Breaking news: the rule of law asserts itself. I look forward to the day we will bring the rule of law roaring back!

Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

Fight back. And keep fighting back. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Bravo Brazil, first for not electing this potential criminal, and second for banning his travel & cancelling all his passports! 👍

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It should be illegal for the President, VP, and lawmakers in Congress to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.

The people of Serbia celebrating the defeat of the dictator who held full authoritarian control of their country for nearly 14 years. This is what democracy looks like.

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Yes. The difference between thinking "The Arc of History bends toward justice" all on its own vs. "We have to push the Arc of History toward justice, if we want it to get there."

As someone else said, in a truly free and fair election, no one has to panic about having a “plan” to vote. You just vote.

It is atrocious we have to operate under this constant credible and explicit threat from one political party, the fact we keep calling it a “free and fair election” needs some light revising

Hungary, Serbia and now Brazil successfully fighting back against the Putin/ Trump axis of evil All that effort, corruption and money Trump/ Bolsonaro groupies and Meta algorithms put into swinging the election in the Bolsonaro direction a fail. Will Israel be next? www.ft.com/content/7585...

House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.