Excuse me while I go donate to the following campaigns:
Biden & Harris for America
Sara Gideon for Maine
Amy McGrath for Kentucky
Mark Kelly for Arizona
Gary Peters for Michigan
Cal Cunningham for North Carolina
#GrabEmByTheBallot
"That said, you’ll be pleased to know that, rather than double down on our containment efforts, we’ve decided to dissolve the velociraptor containment task force altogether & focus instead on how we can get people back into the park as quickly as possible"
@goldengateblond
I was at a wedding & the groom was W-A-S-T-E-D for his speech & it went like this:
"I didn't want ANY of this. I didn't want ANY of you here. I wanted a wedding in Hawaii & to invite all of you, but that basically none of you would come. But *I* don't get to make decisions...
Landscaping Crew: "We just found this sawfish bone outside your building, is it yours?"
Me: "No, but we'll find its proper owner, you can just leave it safely with us. I certainly won't swing it around like a sword while leaping through the office."
#TwoSecondsLater
To be clear- this is NOT stalking, if she were hunting on the ambush there wouldn't be video. She is emphatically encouraging him to select a new running route. I am guessing she has a some young 'uns around.
& I'm glad dude didn't have his gun.
When event planning, I maybe definitely sometimes fantasize about ordering women's cut shirts for all, calling them unisex, and when someone complains saying "you can sleep in it."
Just like "I voted" stickers, ALL "I got vaccinated" stickers are cool...
BUT SOME ARE COOLER THAN OTHERS AND I AM REALLY STRUGGLING WITH MY JEALOUSY RIGHT NOW.
🐋Today's the day! The Museum is now open as an NYC COVID-19 vaccination site. More:
This vaccination site serves all NYC residents, with set-aside appointments for groups including
@NYCHA
residents + staff and members of
@DistCouncil37
.
#NYCVaccineForAll
"You cannot be forced to donate blood, or marrow, or organs... They cannot even harvest your organs after your death without your explicit, written, pre-mortem permission. Denying women the right to abortion means we have less bodily autonomy than a corpse."
Current Status: I am going to stop traveling for work bc the paperwork to be reimbursed is soul-crushing. For example I just had to send this email (after ~20 emails in the last week about this issue):
@lawilson009
YEP. If folks did this across all stores, req allocation of employee time, then the industry would shift. & confronting sexism important...
What if, and hear me out, on St. Patrick's Day, instead of glamorizing binge drinking, the Irish-American diaspora glamorized rebellion against Imperial oppressors?
Other person at the zoo looking at the chimpanzee exhibit: "monkeys are so cool!"
My brain:
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Me:… IT'S AN APE!!!!
Liquor store clerk: I’m gonna need to see some age verification
Me: my first conference talk was on physical slides loaded upside down & backwards in the carousel.
Liquor store clerk: enjoy your purchase
Oncoming hikers: There's a beaver about a quarter mile back!
Me: A beaver, up here? Really?
Hikers: Yeah! He's chilling next to a big boulder.
The "Beaver:"
Listen, canceling student debt is a slap in the face to folks who struggled to pay theirs off, so obviously we shouldn't do it. Similarly, I am not going to get the polio vaccine bc it is a slap in the face to all those folks who had to live in Iron Lungs. Don't @ me.
ANNOUNCING THE
#2019MMM
BRACKET!!!
More Info here:
& the ASU Library Guide has amazing resources for student research on the combatants:
Wild Card in March 11th. HAPPY BRACKETTING!
Today I am recording a lecture for an online class & I am double checking the pronunciation of a word in advance. As a scholar from the poverty class, I grew up reading words, not hearing them.
At a work dinner tonight NO ONE wanted to order dessert. NO ONE. Listen people, the major upside of this dinner is that I get to try the salted caramel bread pudding with vanilla bean ice cream. Get your shit together.
I've read many articles about Simone Biles' impeccable decision to stand down from the team competition in the Olympics, and this by by far & away the best.
aka the Simone Biles of all those articles.
GUESS WHO SAW WOLVES CHASE-PLAYING IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK TODAY NEVERMIND ABOUT GUESSING IT WAS ME AND OMG OMG OMG IT WAS FROM HECKA FAR AWAY AND I DON'T EVEN CARE IT WAS SO AMAZING.
#NationalPublicLandsDay
It's been one day since I learned about the greatest figure in an academic paper ever, and I still haven't recovered. Behold the magnificence of Zhou et al. 2020
I can't do all the things.
I can't do all the things.
I can't do all the things.
I can't do all the things.
I can't do all the things.
I can't do all the things.
I can't do all the things.
I can't do all the things.
I can't do all the things.
I can't do all the things.
AND THE VOLE TRIUMPHS!!!!!!
We look forward to seeing you back here on Wednesday March 10th 8PM Eastern for the 1st Round of Red, In Fur!
#2021MMM
[gif is red fox]
"The wall" is racist & inhumane.
THE LIST SHOULD STOP THERE.
Yes it's ineffective.
Yes it's catastrophic for endangered species.
Yes it absurdly costly.
Yes it is stupid bc the Southern border is not the front line of illicit immigration.
BUT WHY DID WE HAVE TO GO DOWN THE LIST?
Myths, Folklore, Stories, Heroes Journeys- the Tales that are Tall, Cautionary, & Fairy- that were oral traditions thousands of years before the written word, are a human universal (Pagel 2016)
#2021MMM
@men_write_women
Appalling.
At the same time- let's hear it for the desirability of professional careers that save bright girls from marriages to dull men!
I am helping my mom move this weekend from a place she's rented for 15 years. She told me she has been uncluttering and donating since Sept. These are the 7 brooms she deemed essential to keep.
Friday morning I was in Yellowstone National Park and experienced one of the greatest pinnacles of
#MammalWatching
... WOLF PACK vs BEAR ENCOUNTER!!!!!
I am so incredibly honored to be recognized with the 2022 American Association of Biological Anthropologists
@BiologicalAnth
and The Leakey Foundation Communication
@TheLeakeyFndtn
Outreach Award in Honor of Camilla Smith. (1/N)
Congrats 2022
@BiologicalAnth
awardees: John Mitani, Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award;
@LHlusko
, Gabriel W. Lasker Service Award; and
@Mammals_Suck
, AABA and
@TheLeakeyFndtn
Communication & Outreach Award in Honor of Camilla Smith. Excerpts from nominations follow:🧵
Like I get that there is zero chance that
@ChrisEvans
, Captain America would ever email me, but that doesn't stop the brief moment of disappointment when I realize it's Chris Evans, Communications Director for
@BetoORourke
who is emailing me. Also
#VOTE
YOU GET A BRACKET! & YOU GET A BRACKET! & YOU GET A BRACKET! EVERYONE GETS A BRACKET!
#English
#Espa
ñol
#LatinBinomial
(bracket design by
@nickleyw
, Spanish translation by Profesora Alejandra Nuñez-de la Mora)
@iamcardib
Silverback Gorilla charge definitely backs the lion down... IF they are in the forest.
Our team of scientists has been breaking down this convo in hundreds of match-ups since 2013.
GORILLA was Champion in 2020.
And this year is the 10th Tournament!
In 2013, when I got married, I asked my Uncle John to walk me down the aisle, bc he has my Dad's eyes.
Tonight I hope their spirits are somewhere together, smoking cigars, telling hilarious stories, and laughing until they snot themselves.
#HugYourPeople
Perfect is the enemy of done.
Perfect is the enemy of done.
Perfect is the enemy of done.
Perfect is the enemy of done.
Perfect is the enemy of done.
Perfect is the enemy of done.
Perfect is the enemy of done.
Perfect is the enemy of done.
Perfect is the enemy of done.
To protect yourself & others:
Get vaccinated
AND
Wear masks
AND
Keep distant indoors
AND
Don't be in social settings when symptomatic
AND
most of all
recognize that this pandemic is still raging.
Alright, everyone who ISN'T a trained & empowered wildlife specialist, repeat after me:
If I see mammalian carnivore young, ESPECIALLY apex predators, I will stop and calmly back away while scanning for maternal aggression. I also commit to setting my default to Type I errors.
"Though air travel accounts for only a paltry 2% of global emissions, whether or not climate scientists should fly consumes far more than 2% of my Twitter timeline."