Ty Pereira

Clinical Researcher by day, Clinical Snoozer by night... he/him

[Latif Nasser @latifnasser]

Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.

[Yale Peabody Museum @yalepeabody]

Join us on Zoom, Thursday (12/7) @ 4pm for "Hiking the Himalayas for DNA: A Quest to Count Radial Flowered Honeysuckles" w/ @Yale's @MansaSrivastav

Register here: https://t.co/VQeCZuGTkE

She'll share what it was like collecting plant DNA on foot across the Himalayas! @yale_eeb

[Hesper Rego @Rego_Lab]

Really excited about this work from the lab. @celenagwin, together with @Kuldeep_R_Gupta, worked to understand how mycobacteria create heterogeneity in growth. https://t.co/OIHGHOn4pP

[b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie]

what has been so instructive about this particular stupid episode is that it id a great illustration of how 99 percent of this stuff is a big racket to make money off of credulous rubes

[The Onion @TheOnion]

Dalai Lama Admits He Felt Left Out Being Only Leader Of Major Religion Not To Molest Someone https://t.co/6bXY9ExRGF

[Darryl Mott @Abstruse]

TIL a papyrus scroll indicates that, during the building of the tomb of Pharaoh Ramses III, the workers were upset about their treatment and, rather than discussing it with them, management served them a large meal.

[George Mack @george__mack]

What idea changed how you view the world?

Here's mine: High Agency.

The 12 best examples:

[Bill Sullivan @wjsullivan]

New for next Halloween, the extracellular matrix costume

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

Elon firing the lady who slept on the floor during the Twitter transition

I’d never sleep on the floor for my boss. And definitely not Elon.

Reminds me of Anna Quindlen’s amazing commencement speech:

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

India just passed China as the most populous country in the world. Why?

Because of the biggest accident in history

Look at where people live in India. What's that band up north?

[Rob Simmon @rsimmon]

One of the more impressive @planet images I’ve had the privilege of working on lately. All 9 Himalayan 8,000-meter peaks in one view, taken from over Afghanistan.

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

The “you need to work in person” propaganda is getting out of hand

[Peter Forister 🍁🍂🍁 @forecaster25]

INSANE conditions on Mt Washington, NH. 120mph+ winds and -95°F wind chill. It is above the tropopause, meaning that these are stratospheric winds.

Footage from the summit live stream 2:30-2:40pm. #nhwx

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

Dame Judi Dench, with the help of @GylesB1, recites The Owl and the Pussycat.

You'll like this.

[Mekishana Pierre @mekishana]

This is actually an amazing SNL sketch and Michael B. Jordan was the perfect man for the job 😭😭

[Henry Wismayer @henrywismayer]

It's depressing to consider, but I suspect the demise of skiing in the Alps will prove to be far more consequential to the rich world's awareness of climate change than news that one third of Pakistan is underwater.

[Jimmy O'Brien @Jomboy_]

hey @MLB, this review process exists! you can do this!

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

.@HouseGOP have you considered trying a rotating series of guest Speakers?

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Read a great Reddit thread putting historical dates in perspective.

Here are 8 gems.

1/ The moon landing was only 66 years after the Wright Brothers first flight (1903-1969). Within a lifetime, humans went from having limited flight tech to travelling ~239k miles from Earth.

[Jude Atwood @JudeAtwood]

BENOIT BLANC AS DOGS
a Knives Out Thread

Benoit Blanc as a Golden Retriever