Enabling taxonomists, data standards, biocollections digitization, and community development. Love dancing, baking pies, pizza from scratch. Tweets my own.
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Museum specimens and the people who collect them, "They highlight the affective, emotional and sensual relationship between people and things.”
medium.com/@lubar/museums-ne… for @dpsSpiders for your Pop and others when they ask why @BloodhoundTrack
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How I Would Learn Bioinformatics From Scratch 12 Years Later: A Roadmap. If I were starting over, these FREE resources would be my go-to. 🧵👇
divingintogeneticsandgenomic…
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Susanne knows it: being a taxonomist opens up many career opportunities! 💪🔬
Check them all at 👁️👉 bit.ly/43f5z4q
#tettriseu #taxonomy #jobsearch #Job #biodiversity
"Human lives and economies are at great risk, and the need for rapid and accurate taxonomic identification of vectors and hosts is immense" #pandemicpreparedness #naturalsciencecollections #graphicillustration #SciArt
Harnessing natural history collections for collaborative pandemic preparedness academic.oup.com/bioscience/…
#CollectionsAreEssential
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More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ...
Breakout meeting for @systbiol The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11, 2026 in Baton Rouge!
Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'
@jembrown is primary organizer
ssb2026.github.io/
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hi kids! it's me, your favorite sexagenarian here to tell you that when I was a kid we taxed the shit out of the wealthy and not only did we have money to build bridges and schools and moon rockets, rich people still had plenty of money left over to spend on rich people bullshit
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Could psychiatrists tell if someone was actually insane?
Stanford psychologist David Rosenhan wanted to find the answer...
In 1973, he sent 8 perfectly normal people to mental hospitals across the US.
What he found next exposed the secret side of psychology…🧵
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Jmo
Payers use call log systems.
1. Operator ID and time stamp is immediately available to start the call so ask first. If refused, ask for policy or escalate.
2. Ensure operator lists the electronically sent prior auth in the call log record if linked.
3. Calls have to be closed with resolution codes, can't hang open - Hipaa compliance, quality tracking, and risk mitigation.
4. Request your payor call log records in writing/email/portal.
5. Read your payor contact for comms standard.
6. Check your state regs. Call state DOI and ask for details.
7. If you can't get through to clinical staff, call provider relations, get op id/call id, and ask for process and ask to be transferred.
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Our team has two incredible, full-time professionals—Mary and Ebonie—dedicated to dealing with insurance. They advocate for our patients, so our patients can focus on healing.
This week? They’ve been on repeat calls with the same insurer, trying to add procedure codes so patients can receive coverage for sensation preserving mastectomies.
Twice now, after 30+ minutes on the line, the call just ends. No reference number. No resolution. Just—terminated. And without a reference number, there’s no way to track it, no accountability, and no clear path forward. All we have are the first names of the representatives who hung up.
This happens often. And it’s exhausting. But we won’t stop showing up for patients.
We’ll keep sharing these stories—because this shouldn’t be normal. Patients deserve better. Providers deserve better.
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The modern conservative is
engaged in one of man's oldest
exercises in moral philosophy; that
is, the search for a superior moral
justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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In 1945, six women pulled off a computing miracle.
They programmed the world’s first computer—with no manuals, no training.
Then, a SINGLE assumption erased them from tech history for decades.
The story of how ONE photo nearly deleted computing’s female founders: 🧵
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“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” Pres. Johnson.
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Before vaccines, babies got breastmilk, sunshine and love.
And 1 in 5 of them didn't live to see their first birthday
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You cannot grow coffee and vanilla in the U.S.
Vanilla takes 3 years to flower, 9 months per pod, needs hand pollination.
Coffee needs 3–4 years to yield beans.
Both demand tropical heat and humidity.
Not hype - just ag reality.
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Obama’s right! The double standard in this country is staggering.
If he had silenced Fox News media, blacklisted law firms, or targeted student protesters, there would’ve been nonstop outrage.
But the silence now isn’t just hypocrisy, it’s a warning about how fragile our democratic norms have really become.
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Obama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. Imagine if I had said to law firms that were representing parties that were upset with policies my administration had initiated, that you will not be allowed into government buildings. We will punish you economically for dissenting from the Affordable Care Act or the Iran deal. We will ferret out students who protest against my policies.
It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me, or a whole bunch of my predecessors.
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In my life I have never seen a more brutal evisceration of an American president than what The Economist said about Trump and his tariffs.
IF YOU failed to spot America being “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far” or it being cruelly denied a “turn to prosper”, then congratulations: you have a firmer grip on reality than the president of the United States. It’s hard to know which is more unsettling: that the leader of the free world could spout complete drivel about its most successful and admired economy. Or the fact that on April 2nd, spurred on by his delusions, Donald Trump announced the biggest break in America’s trade policy in over a century—and committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era.
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Hint for Americans: He wasn't a great businessman, it was just a TV show, he wasn't worth billions, he lied about his worth, he is not a great deal maker, a ghost writer wrote the book, he inherited 400 million and lost it all, he bankrupted 6 businesses, he cheated stockholders
