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Brittany Sutherland

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Assistant Professor, George Mason University Polyploidy, Evolution, Plants, Mating Systems Plants and Cats and Plants and Cats and


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AGAIN. BRUTAL. You are a menace. Those poor struggling men don't deserve your sass, madam.

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@rogue151.bsky.social being absolutely brutal this evening.

Molly, having just told me the US Men's Soccer team was firing Berhalter for not winning enough:

"I didn't know that was even a job requirement for the Men's team!"

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What in the actual unadulterated 100% grade-A fuck?!?

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Seriously?! That’s amazing! I’d much rather let someone else drive to Cville while I do something else.

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Are these lines both over the same time period? I knew ruminants weren’t the most restless things, but you’re practically a blur compared to that sheep!

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*checks excitedly* *only goes up to 5Y* Shoot. As someone who not infrequently shoe shops in the boys section, I got hopeful for a second.

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A new program from NSF is targeting graduate fellowship money to people who received Honorable Mention on a GRFP within the past three years, who are currently enrolled in grad school in EPSCoR states.

here is the solicitation: new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

and a map of EPSCoR eligible states:

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Seems reasonable, and now I’m thinking about mine and @rogue151.bsky.social’s three.

Iroh is cross-class Bard/Barbarian. Equal parts bitey and singing song of his people.

Kyoshi is a Rogue. Conflict averse parkour wall of muscle.

Opal is a Ranger. Sneaky, independent, loves outdoors, tracks well.

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As someone who dreams of one day having a big ole sitting-out porch, I love the remodel!

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Is “Heinlein Libertarian” a recognized category? I feel like it should be.

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And by neighbor I mean I drive through Clifton between my home and work in waaay less expensive neighborhoods.

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Huh. Same, apparently. Hi neighbor!

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Your honor, with all due respect, my name's John Lee Pettimore.

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Reminder from a Pittsburgher who was at one point Mr. Rogers neighbor: “Look for the helpers” was intended to be advice for his usual audience, children. We’re grown ups now. We’re supposed to be the helpers.

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$70 would knock out Kentucky! Also, Virginia, what are you doing?! We are the least-filled Commonwealth! Go get some bubbles!

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Ah, baby doctors. Such an interesting mix of arrogance and abject flailing sometimes. Also, while somewhat refreshing they chose to call a white man "articulate," we should really all retire that term from our lexicon of compliments.

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Doomerism is chickenshit. an embarrassment to every ape that threw a rock at a bear to protect the tribe. if you actually believe this doomer shit what are you posting for? it's chickenshit and i will have no truck with it. you had something better to do with your life than make the world better?

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Iroh wishes everyone a good night’s rest and a nice week!

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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

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Not surprised this plate is on a big Ford pickup. Honestly, a little surprised the truck isn’t more obnoxious.

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Same, although it had a connotation of, “when I feel like it”. 😄

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To my knowledge, no, but I found the same looking up the word. That side of the family is mostly Scottish extraction going way back and lived in IN/KY. Could definitely be some Cornish folk in there somewhere.

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Did anyone’s folks use “directly” in a similar context? My grandfather would say he’d be somewhere or do something “dreckly” (directly) and that usually meant he’d do it that day but but maybe not immediately. “I’ll be there dreckly” could mean 20 minutes or two hours.

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Another person whose origin is a one-question deal: Central Kentucky uses “you all” pronounced essentially as one word for the 2nd person plural pronoun.

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Thank you, Blackboard! I really wanted you to completely change video content uploading between today and the oh-so-distant past when I last did it...yesterday. Very helpful.

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Your doing the Lord's work. Well, A lord's work. God/dess of Chaos, maybe? Either way, thanks for taking one for the team!

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Awww, Jorts has started an orange boy correspondence course!

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Maybe I'm thinking about this wrong, but I'm not sure how using self-pollinating strains reduced release potential? Seems like if anything it would make them MORE likely to persist outside, right?

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Making straight women identify with queer songs is a net positive in my book. Also, as a lesbian with a weakness for redheads, thanks for making me look up that video. :D

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Today was the first day of a summer course I'm teaching, and I introduced the class to my brood: Kyoshi, Opal, and Iroh. They may not learn anything about Genetics, but they will ask after my furballs almost daily.

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God, he looks like a Fennec Fox with those radar dishes! So cute!

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basketball’s all like gimme that pumpkin i need it and tennis is all like fuck this lemon you take it

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It’s not big. It’s dull. Time dilates on account of the ennui.

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I do not like that we live in a timeline where I could reasonably think this was about Jason Kessler, given we are talking about Nazis.

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So…if we know how far apart the nodes are, could we potentially determine the frequency of these? Where would they fall relative to human hearing?

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Our lab managers bought little tv tray tables to put outside the labs for this very reason! There's a little space in the door alcoves they fit perfectly and it keeps the herd of herd of bottles contained.

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*looks up kibibyte* Wow, that is some varsity level pedantry right there.

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Laura Lagomarsino, PhD's avatar Laura Lagomarsino, PhD @tropicalbotany.bsky.social
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Hey #Botany2024- don’t sleep on Laymon Ball’s talk tomorrow Wednesday at 2pm in the Phylogenomics: Evolutionary Relationships session in Gallery Overlook D. It’s a beautiful, synthetic talk about her dissertation research on Hillieae (Rubiaceae) evolution! #LagoLab

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(if anyone has accessibility issues around #botany2024 please do either let the conference office know or poke me and I can poke them - they aren't watching twitter as too busy!)

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#996 Wu Fei’s music daily — Morning bellflowers 风铃草语

This morning guzheng song was recorded yesterday, named after the American bellflower.

Hope this piece starts your Monday with a moment of calmness.

wufeimusic.substack.com/p/996-mornin...

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HeLa cells (derived from a cervical cancer lesion taken and unknowingly exploited from Henrietta Lacks) are pretty screwed up. They’re hypertriploid, meaning each cell has anywhere from 70-90 chromosomes instead of the usual 46, with translocations and other weirdness being common.

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Dave Baltrus 🦦's avatar Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social
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Last day of #ASMicrobe for me, but if you’re interested in plant microbiomes please come check out PhD student Ciara Garcia’s talk today at 3:00 in B401!

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You are a content producer! A content autotroph, if you will! The base of the content trophic pyramid!

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