Roderick

I've gotten into arguments with ecologists here and elsewhere about the contribution of human land management to biodiversity and ecosystem function. Many people believe that people=bad news, I think the story is much more complicated, and this new paper provides strong support for my view

The science research institute that would likely receive $4.2 billion in public taxpayer money if voters approve Proposition 38 this November had only three employees as of last month — far fewer than the 51 staffers it planned to have hired by last year. cal.news/4shghlR 📸 Brian van der Brug

Maybe this is AI, but I feel like you should be able to put together more than one complete sentence if you're running for school board.

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Corn is such an amazing plant.

It's pretty cool that there are two different open source specs for Raman spectrophotometers: docs.diyraman.com and docs.open-raman.org

"almost no metabolic genes or pathways" is wild.

CA prop 38 is a scam - vote NO. For example see: This CA proposition will send $4 billion to a single nonprofit. Who’s behind it? calmatters.org/politics/ele...

I generally don't think "citizens advisory boards" do a lot, but it's fun that SamTrans is so poorly run *and* its CAC members are writing the ballot arguments against Proposition RTM (emergency transit revenue measure).

Thank you, South San Francisco Library for inviting me to read LUNA AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING MOONCAKES for Mid-Autumn Festival and to everyone who turned up. It was super fun meeting such an engaging Asian community!

ah yeah here he comes, big donny t

Exciting news: @uwgenome.bsky.social will be hiring for two tenure-track faculty positions this year, one open rank and one assistant professor. Both are “Genome Sciences” interpreted broadly so we welcome applicants working in a variety of fields and methods. Ad will be out shortly.

Heads up Silicon Valley green card holders: you could end up an ICE prisoner at SFO www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/o...

Libraries are so cool.

If a pronoun stands in for an object, does a proverb stand in for an action?

LGTMing the "name update" pull request, but rolling my eyes so everyone knows it doesn't actually look good.

Agenda, dividend, legend, propaganda and reverand are all just Latin gerundives?!

I started a marine biogeochemistry podcast, where I ask scientists questions about the cycling of elements through the ocean. This is a place where we can nerd it out, for scientists and marine science students. Listen here, or spotify/apple podcasts applied-marine-biogeochemistry.org/podcast/

In retrospect, it feels like Batman should have learned to echolocate. Anyhow, watching theory: m.youtube.com/watch?v=29i-...

Murmuration of starlings by Xavi Bou from his series Ornitographies, Northern Spain, December 2018

🚨I am obsessed with the sociology of GLP-1 drugs, to medicate outside medicine. These are effective & heavy drugs, most arent getting them via a GP, people figure it out on Reddit, together, for better or worse. I try to mine and expose that struggle in an interactive, ever updating dynamic article.

Bay Area (and especially San Mateo County) transit fans: SamTrans is free tomorrow to celebrate the system's 50th anniversary. I think I'll use it to check out the new Safeway in South City. www.samtrans.com/samtrans-50t...

I bet if you showed up with a polo shirt that said "pool remediation services" and a bunch of four liter bottles labelled "peroxide", you could pour as much BG-11 into the reflecting pool as you wanted.

The best limerick. There once was an X from place B, That satisfied predicate P, He or she did thing A, In an adjective way, Resulting in circumstance C.