John Wares

Make Gutter Racism Disqualifying Again

Our $2M investment in the Sea Cliffs Exhibit Renovation Project has gotten a pretty clear seal of approval.

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

I’ve never eaten at a Cheesecake Factory

it feels truly insane that it’s not

Jon Ossoff’s closing argument went in for the kill.

Me, for the last idk 25 years of my life, so all of my adult life: The stock market is just gambling lol The stock market: Sooooooo big news

Early voting continues in the last week before the 2026 election. New locations are opening up, including the Cooperative Extension on Cleveland Road and the UGA Tate Center (starting tomorrow)! ✅

Evergreen reminder that Springer Nature was created from a merger in 2015 with 47% ownership by a private equity firm. Estimated worth then was €5B+. They went public in late 2024 and value dropped a lot after, so the owners are super motivated to increase valuation before they sell more shares

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

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Excited to share that our paper presenting our new R package, sandwrm, has been published at MER! The package jointly estimates Wright's neighborhood size and long-term Ne using just genetic and geographic distance matrices. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Getting out the vote is as easy as talking to your neighbors if you’re in one of these states or districts: 2026.indivisible.org/n2n/

Another BikeAthens alleycat race done! Love this damned little city and the people in it.

we won’t be able to tell how bad things have become if we can’t see how things used to be

Just finished Quammen’s “Song of the Dodo” again, had not read in over a decade despite assigning it to nearly all of my grads to read. A shockingly great journalistic and scholarly review of the origins of biogeography and its development over the centuries into the basis for conservation biology.

We are searching for a curious and motivated PhD candidate to work on the biogeography of plant-associated fungi on the Galapagos: if you are excited to develop diverse skills in big data, bioinformatics, field work, and experiments, please apply! vacatures.knaw.nl/job/PhD-posi...

#postcardstovoters #GOTVwAlice

Most people don’t realize this: the stupid ballroom is much larger than the actual White House. Trump is like just, trashy

We interrupt the latest dismal news cycle to provide an emergency dose of cute. A cottontail (Sylvilagus sp.) at the north end of Albuquerque on October 24, 2026. #nature #naturephotography #mammal #rabbit

I love that nothing at all is in focus, I’m the Monet of iPhone photos

Macro is a skill I'm still learning. Thank Glub for digital cameras; because I'll take 100 pics just to get 5 keepers and 5 "Eh, I can fix this in post" ones. Some of my past keepers (last one could have been better):

I just cannot wait for the day.

This admission alone is an impeachable offense

They continue to be eight feet high and they can fly, based on these photos

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

The infrequent black-legged morph of Jōro spider, @nati-bayona.bsky.social are you still working on this polymorphism? 🕷️ 😃

Don’t let the polls make you complacent this election cycle. We need turn out that’s, “too big to rig.” #GOTVwAlice

“A taker, you say?” 👇👇💪

anti-bike people are such sad sacks of dog poop.

We literally have the largest bike-touring event in the world which has been an annual summer state tradition for FIFTY YEARS. There's a giant exhibit in the state historical museum about it. This is comical.

for Halloween 🎃 I’m going to get some of those adhesive stars my grade school teachers put on reports, or maybe scratch and sniff stickers, and apply them to my body and I TOO WILL BE A DIRE WOLF

I think maybe I'll give these out to trick-or-treaters. www.aiweirdness.com/the-worm-wit...

Just Published 📰iNaturalist observations drastically expand knowledge of naticid predation in the northwest Atlantic ✒️Clements 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2026-0069 📷 Fig. 2: bivalve (A–F) and gastropod (G–L) prey species from iNaturalist

Colossal Biosciences is the story that keeps on giving. Namely shit. It gives shit. END. 7/7

There could be a number of reasons for that, but one explanation is that this didn't pass muster under peer-review. In the absence of this science, Khaleesi and other 'Dire Wolf*' pups, are nothing but a human made genetic oddity. *definitely not Dire wolves, not now, not ever 6/x

If y'all didn't believe me about George Church and his Colossal crew being fraudsters with few if any limits or morals, this should push you over the edge

My department at GW is hiring a Teaching Assistant Professor for Intro Bio. Apply here! www.gwu.jobs/postings/129...

The @burkemuseum.bsky.social is offering funds to support graduate and postdoctoral research visits to the collections, including our University of Washington Herbarium! Please help us get the word out! More information is available here: www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...

Solid metaphor for the entire administration, honestly

From @rivbike.bsky.social I learned about the S24O, sub-24-hour-outing for those of us with overly-busy lives. If that still seems like too much I’m trying the S2.4O this morning, at least making my coffee in the woods and on trail :)

Exciting news!! I'm chairing the search in my department @lsubiosci.bsky.social for an **Endowed Chair in Lichenology**! The candidate should be tenured (or equivalent), and have a documented track record in excellent in collections-based lichen research. lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...

✅less yardwork ✅help bugs ✅make crunch noises when you walk

In the same way in which I ponder why one of my pitbulls is never satiated by food in any quantity, I wonder why we have billionaires.

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

Evening of doodling