@nprofile1q... I can assure you this is a real image.

@nprofile1q... A bit fanciful, but it looks like a dragonfly and maybe this? https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/125815-Coenonympha-arcania

@nprofile1q... It takes a few days, but yes. Crab spiders can change color. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1467803911001162?via%3Dihub#bib34

@nprofile1q... Soon we will be learning Brazilian Portuguese and Mandarin.

@nprofile1q... I think if there's a silver lining, it is that once we get a chance to rebuild- and it will probably not be for a decade or more- we can address some of the actual, non-partisan issues with federal agency funding, like the bias towards larger established labs and the low funding rate.

For those who thought the best way to assist is nattering pedantry and scolding, I have blocked you, becuase fuck off.

The destruction of the scientific infrastructure in what has, for decades, been the international nexus of research is a serious global issue, as well as a perilous, personal one for any U.S.-based researcher.

Y'all sitting comfortably in some other country, stroking your own egos and making yourselves the main character? Fuck off. You can do that in your own thread.

@nprofile1q... Uh, what?

A head professor who plays favorites is somehow equivalent to a massive government bureaucracy firing thousands of people, blocking public communications, and doling out grants based on the politics of the president?

That's like suggesting a mass shooting is equivalent to a mosquito bite, because both hurt.