M.J.

Biologist, amateur writer, bad comedian

[Dr. Amber Stokes @TTXgirl]

The #CSUB Department of #Biology is hiring a #microbiologist. Apply and retweet! Thank you!!

https://t.co/lnebbECxI0

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Over-explaining is a trauma response from walking on eggshells or dealing with emotionally reactive people at a young age. You don’t need court-level proof of why you are or are not doing something. Keep it short. You’re safe now.

[Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon For Our Futures @Glasgowin2024]

“A man is not dead while his name is still spoken."

When passing a message down the clacks, a ‘G’ means the message must be passed on, ‘N’ that it is not logged, and ‘U’ that the message will be turned around at the end of the line.

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[sumayah @missmayahs]

i’ve noticed people who have happy lives/relationships tend to be really generous when it comes to interpreting people’s intentions.

when i think about it, a lot of the little hurts we experience on a daily basis actually come from the story we tell ourselves after

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Wikipedia also shapes the direction of science.

One quality article written by experts on chemistry in Wikipedia influenced the content of 250 published peer-reviewed academic papers! And 1 out of every 830 words in published papers comes from Wikipedia! https://t.co/wvrZJTSfWx

[Spoon & Tamago @Johnny_suputama]

Happy winter solstice to everyone but especially to the capybaras of Nasu Animal Kingdom who got their yuzu hot bath today

[Andrew Chung @thisisandrewc]

One of the biggest lies we’ve been sold is that talent is rare. As someone who works in the arts, it’s absolutely not. Once you realize that, you’ll understand how much luck (and privilege) is involved in being chosen to be one of the few who get the limelight.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Ancient people knew the earth was round.

And about 2,240 years ago a man called Eratosthenes calculated its circumference within 1% of the correct figure... with a stick.

[🇺🇸 JewWhoHasItAll @JewWhoHasItAll]

Dear Teachers,

As some of you may know, if you have any students in your class who identify as Christian, they may ask to be excused from school to observe the Christian holiday of “Christmas,” more popularly referred to as Yom Christmas or Nittel.

1/x

[Steve Martin @UnrealBluegrass]

So it goes

[John Bull @garius]

One of the things I occasionally get paid to do by companies/execs is to tell them why everything seemed to SUDDENLY go wrong, and subs/readers dropped like a stone.

So, with everything going on at Twitter rn, time for a thread about the Trust Thermocline /1

[Spoon & Tamago @Johnny_suputama]

It’s Halloween weekend and that means it’s time for everyone’s favorite Japanese festival Jimi Halloween, where people dress up in costumes so mundane they have to be explained. Let’s dive in 🧵

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

Holy shit

[Today Years Old @todayyearsold]

Today I learned that sea urchins naturally use shells as hats to feel safer and camouflage. So some aquarists decided to 3d print tiny hats for them

[once and future wife geist @wife_geist]

inside you are two wolves. this is below the minimum viable population threshold, so they soon die out. the deer population inside you explodes, quickly stripping you of your internal vegetation. erosion increases, streams and rivers silt up, and insect numbers collapse due to ha

[Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc @JasonKPargin]

Another current media trend I'd have never predicted: Lots of people watching with the captions on because sound mixing is so shitty that you can't tell what people are saying, and instead of studios adjusting the audio, audiences gave up and started reading their shows instead.

[🎵 Tim Blais 👨🏻‍🔬 @acapellascience]

someone said that trees aren't a thing phylogenetically and i was like "oh sure palm trees etc must be unrelated"

BUT NO

your standard OAK is more closely related to a DANDELION than to a GIANT REDEOOD

trees are a CONVERGENT GROWTH HABIT, they're the crab of the plant world

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore

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