Daohan "Rex" Jiang

Land #crab at night. It was these 🦀 🦀🦀 are what made me want a torchlight. Tuerkayana hirtipes?

The sale of Scientific American is a wake up. I had not realised quite how fragile intellectual independence is; how readily it can be eroded by forces from outside -- some obvious, some less so. academicrenewal.substack.com/p/when-defen...

You get Karen Carr’s Archaeopteryx!

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

Night in the intertidal zone, with #crab and #goby

Day 4 of Nobel week: ♂♂♂♂♂♂♀😅

Day 3 of Nobel week: ♂♂♂♂♂♂

There is no NSF leadership. They were removed and never replaced.

Day 2 of Nobel week: ♂♂♂♂

Psst, if you'd like to bring people together around iNaturalist where you live, the Ambassador sign-up form reopens on October 1: www.inaturalist.org/pages/ambass...

Please vote, if do have the right to!

It’s horrendous, I see this in my own postdocs and it’s heartwrenching to not be able to help. Especially when someone embeds really happily in the team: all they want to do is stay, all I want to do is keep them, but I can’t. It feels like evicting a family member.

I just learned that this broken bridge I saw while walking around is a war memorial. The bridge named Akabashi (lit. Red Bridge) was destroyed in the Battle of Okinawa of WW2, by a teenager guerrilla squad to stop the US military.

Freshly observed swimming #crab 🦀 molts. Both Portunus pelagicus I think. #iNatTogether

"He has allegedly been released from the hospital and is in ICE custody at an unknown location, his lawyer's office said." abcnews.com/US/man-hospi...

Time to get outside & touch some grass! #iNatTogether has officially started. 😎 👀 If you want to meet new people to explore nature with, find an iNat Together event near you, hosted by some of our incredible iNaturalist Ambassadors: www.inaturalist.org/pages/inatto...

New work from my former labmate Mark Kim on the origin of multicellularity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Most excellent summary of the only coherent science policy from current administration

A cute #Okitsura collab seen at @oistedu.bsky.social

A windy day. Suddenly felt like seeing waves striking rocks and entered Manzamo. The brutality of nature weirdly let me feel a bit relief this time.

They can be stealthy and hard to find though

Because the first package was lost on the way, it took me a while to finally get my hands on @stevebrusatte.bsky.social’s book, which was received today…

Past American dominance in science is not due to a few dozen “top scholars.” It’s due to America 🇺🇸 spending ENORMOUSLY more on science than other countries and distributing it widely. Canada 🇨🇦 boasting about attracting “top talent” of a few dozen people is not serious. And not US “brain drain.”

The real American 🇺🇸 “brain drain” isn’t that a few established scholars might get new jobs outside the US, it’s the enormous number of grad students - particularly international grad students - who can’t or won’t study in the US now or in years to come. That’s the body blow.

Back on a whale shark

New paper on the evolution of A-to-I #RNA editing in #fungi with Jiachen Li and George Zhang, now published on MBE. I did some very preliminary analysis near the tail end of my PhD (but didn't continue) and Jiachen had this project fully developed.

A flying whale shark

Traffic jam on my way to the Naha Airport. The consequence of the way how Americans built #Okinawa, isn’t it?

The nest is gone…Apparently removed by humans.

A #nest of #Okinawa mud #wasp (Delta esuriens) I've been observing for ~2 weeks. I saw the wasp working on it and it expanding over time. The last photo was taken today; it survived the most recent #typhoon.

A year of typhoons…🌀

Well deserved award for @katelaskowski.bsky.social ! I am honored to have her as a mentor at UC Davis and to learn from her what it means to produce rigorous and just science 🥳

I am beyond excited to share that our paper, "Neurodivergent Perceptions, Experiences, and Perspectives in Academic Biological Sciences Spaces" has been published! A 🧵incoming because this paper is so special to me and the co-authors. doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

This was what was at stake in 2024. If you didn't vote for Harris, the only person who could've won against Trump - you are no less responsible for this. A Harris administration never signs the EO. A Harris administration never appoints Homan, Miller, or Hegseth. You are not an ally.