Gabriel S. Pumpkins 🎃

They DO move in herds...

Every news story is like “DSA-backed candidates win big in municipal elections; National Hoe-Scaring Committee furious, demands answers”

🕷️💤 New paper in time for 🎃! Do #spiders really sleep? In our new study on #Portia fimbriata we tested all behavioural criteria of #sleep and found evidence for regulated, two-stage sleep with recurring REM-like stages. Out in @pnas.org! @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social 📄 tinyurl.com/3fky8ze7 🧵1/9

This undersells how hard the Judiciary Dems are swinging here

Dinosaurs Survived! Here are all 20 designs together. I have ideas for a few more. Prints and Stickers: www.emmalerae.com/store.html Apparel: emmalerae.threadless.com

kind of crazy to me that my parents escaped vietnam during a war and arrived in north america, where they labored as a janitor and secretary so they could save enough money to send me to college, where i received a higher education, and now this is what i use my brain for

a fascinating thread for constitutional design sickos about how a parliamentary democracy degenerated into personalism, semipresidentialism, and "mood parties"

In a world in which some are trying to pass generative AI off as genuine 3D/CGI art (especially in the dinosaur & palaeoart spheres), I feel that being more transparent about the process is valuable. So, here's a look at some of the individual passes that went into the composite.

read this if you want to try to understand the Israeli election landscape

once more with feeling, baby call an ambulance but not for me

ain't no party like a Great-tailed Grackle party (audio is most important here)

what's killing me about the cheesecake factory discourse is that Obama didn't even say the cheesecake is bad, he said it looks crazy in there and it does. even if you like the food, it does in fact look fucking crazy in there

a green new deal president and they redecorate the white house like rainforest cafe

All these dudes think that genetics is basically programming, a molehill-to-Tower-of-Babel scale difference.

That the existence of dog breeds, their sense of smell, or really any concept in biology is not one or two things to be tweaked but several billion things all happening at once is a concept that will never, ever penetrate these peoples' minds.

And now the media heavyweights weigh in. @danagoldstein.bsky.social does a thorough job reporting on the ed-tech ambitions of Alpha School, and whether existing claims about its effectiveness withstand scrutiny (answer: no). Appreciate the nod to my reporting on the boot camp too. But...

1) This rules 2) Your dad annoying you so profoundly that you drew 478 fish is the most relatable thing I have ever seen.

Now at the publisher!

radio/thermochronologists when the techs at the research reactor call to say there was a problem with the calibrations: ⚒️

republicans’ closing message could not be clearer: they are the party of pedophile rapists

will they not ask me "why were you not more like George Washington" but rather "why were you not more like Gabe Jacobs"?

leaving a gold-painted bar of cold iron in the forest instead

clumsy, over-literal writing on this episode. sorry

This thread is worth your time 🧵

I'm an NIH scientist, I'm not anonymous, and RFK Jr is destroying NIH.

Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Musk's politics, because the right-wing populism he supports needs to frame itself as fighting for "the people" against "the elites," but as the world's wealthiest person, he needs a definition of "elite" not rooted in actual wealth or corporate ownership.

It’s telling that the Israel Foreign Ministry is saying Brad Lander, a proud and vocal Jewish person, traveled to a “foreign country.” When Israel wants the moral high ground of saying it speaks for all the Jews, it is all of our homeland. When we ask it to be better, it’s a foreign country to us.

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

It is done. My magnum opus. My legacy.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Atop a methane seep from the Cretaceous seafloor, looking out at other methane seeps, made of clams and tube worms 75 million years ago at the bottom of the Western Interior Seaway

there are now baby pill millipedes. for your information there are baby pill millipedes here. did I mention the baby pill millipedes

The best place to see Chicago’s fall colors: your train window

Both Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch were openly and prominently anti-Nazi, you pinecone.

One of the earliest controversies was about whether ice primarily flows like a very viscous fluid or deforms primarily like a brittle solid. Understanding crevasse patterns was central to this question.

A big thanks to the folks who tagged me on this!! It's time for a little story about my MS advisor, [redacted], and the time their vent samples were thrown off the ship. Caveat: I heard this secondhand from a tech on the ship on my very first research cruise, so some details may be off.

Idk if it’s actually a scandal but press secretary who deliberately timed her hits for the president to get hired only to get fired by lying about being a lawyer and being absolutely awful on tv in 96 hours is one of the funniest things to happen in this godawful era of politics

in case you were confused, this is in fact a new headline www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Timelapse of ripple migration via surf backwash, Florida panhandle, ca. 2020. 🏝️⚒️

oh we're actually all going to die

This is an actual reason why Bari Weiss’ CBS foreign editor told staff that they could not include reporting on Netanyahu receiving advance warning of a Hamas attack before Oct 7. The astonishing tirade in @status.news www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

Business conservatives split according to those who wanted to keep making money versus those who wanted to say slurs & steal. Defense Hawks split according to who could read versus those who are just in it for the memes. Religious conservatives, poetically, carried the day for the Antichrist