Deb Hanna
@deborahjane.bsky.social
Retired . Uconn. Literature, history. Nature. molecular and cell bio, toxicology, plant science, botany, anthropology . Microbiology. Frankia. Marine biology. Paleobotany. Fun stuff
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Groundhogs are The Best Critters on Campus AND THAT INCLUDES YOU, JONATHAN. Huskies got nothin on groundhogs.
September 3, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Groundhogs are The Best Critters on Campus AND THAT INCLUDES YOU, JONATHAN. Huskies got nothin on groundhogs.
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“These warning signs … are a targeted attack to break the public’s trust of the Smithsonian and its historians.” Beth English on NPR’s Morning Edition. Listen here: https://www.npr.org/2026/07/27/nx-s1-5908508/trump-orders-warning-about-inaccurate-information-be-placed-outside-d-c-museum
Trump orders warning about 'inaccurate information' be placed outside D.C. museum
President Trump says Smithsonian exhibits are anti-white and dishonest. Museum leaders react to Trump's order that signage be placed outside a museum that "corrects inaccurate information."
www.npr.org
July 27, 2026 at 4:11 PM
“These warning signs … are a targeted attack to break the public’s trust of the Smithsonian and its historians.” Beth English on NPR’s Morning Edition. Listen here: https://www.npr.org/2026/07/27/nx-s1-5908508/trump-orders-warning-about-inaccurate-information-be-placed-outside-d-c-museum
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Seaweeds are the forests of our #oceans, primary producers of ecosystems providing oxygen, food, carbon sequestration and more. news.ubc.ca/2026/07/ubc-...
UBC and Hornby Island partner to train next generation of coastal scientists - UBC News
Now in its second year, Seaweed School is teaching young students the importance of these “gateway” algae.
news.ubc.ca
July 27, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Seaweeds are the forests of our #oceans, primary producers of ecosystems providing oxygen, food, carbon sequestration and more. news.ubc.ca/2026/07/ubc-...
Elizabeth Bishop. Vassar Brazil poet. Good read.
July 18, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Elizabeth Bishop. Vassar Brazil poet. Good read.
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Smoky sunset playing hide and seek.
Middlefield, CT.
Middlefield, CT.
July 17, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Smoky sunset playing hide and seek.
Middlefield, CT.
Middlefield, CT.
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TEAM ALGAE! Go Green Machine! 🦠🐸🦠
🟩 Photosynthesis Forever 🟩
I only just heard about this happening in DC 💚
🟩 Photosynthesis Forever 🟩
I only just heard about this happening in DC 💚
June 19, 2026 at 11:27 PM
TEAM ALGAE! Go Green Machine! 🦠🐸🦠
🟩 Photosynthesis Forever 🟩
I only just heard about this happening in DC 💚
🟩 Photosynthesis Forever 🟩
I only just heard about this happening in DC 💚
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Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio.
Magic!
Goodnight.
Magic!
Goodnight.
June 14, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio.
Magic!
Goodnight.
Magic!
Goodnight.
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tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.
The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s
White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking
Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees
scim.ag
May 29, 2026 at 11:04 PM
tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.
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Here's a National Science Foundation paper I worked on that will be impossible under the regime's proposed rules.
We study evolution, which happens across the entire globe. We had collaborators in Argentina, in Australia, in Germany. We cannot do our kind of science in one country.
We study evolution, which happens across the entire globe. We had collaborators in Argentina, in Australia, in Germany. We cannot do our kind of science in one country.
The beetle tree of life reveals that Coleoptera survived end‐Permian mass extinction to diversify during the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution
Here we present a phylogeny of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) based on DNA sequence data from eight nuclear genes, including six single-copy nuclear protein-coding genes, for 367 species representing ...
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 29, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Here's a National Science Foundation paper I worked on that will be impossible under the regime's proposed rules.
We study evolution, which happens across the entire globe. We had collaborators in Argentina, in Australia, in Germany. We cannot do our kind of science in one country.
We study evolution, which happens across the entire globe. We had collaborators in Argentina, in Australia, in Germany. We cannot do our kind of science in one country.
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Here’s the article theconversation.com/understandin...
May 1, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Here’s the article theconversation.com/understandin...
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a... so much history!
Dave Mason, co-founder of Traffic who had a star-studded solo career, dies aged 79
British singer and guitarist wrote and performed Traffic classics including Feelin’ Alright? before platinum-selling solo albums and work with Jimi Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac and more
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2026 at 3:02 PM
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a... so much history!
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Cyanobacteria isolated from desert "microbiotic" crust soil. @zcardon.bsky.social's group is exploring how these tiny green algae and cyanobacteria can completely dry out in deserts and then opportunistically pop back to activity when a raindrop hits.
#MicroscopyMonday
#MicroscopyMonday
March 9, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Cyanobacteria isolated from desert "microbiotic" crust soil. @zcardon.bsky.social's group is exploring how these tiny green algae and cyanobacteria can completely dry out in deserts and then opportunistically pop back to activity when a raindrop hits.
#MicroscopyMonday
#MicroscopyMonday
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"This was one of those abysmal hours of silence...when spurned lovers roll from an amorous dream onto empty sheets, and soldiers abruptly awake to the metallic taste of coming battle" — John Updike, "The City"
#SundaySentence
#SundaySentence
March 8, 2026 at 1:02 PM
"This was one of those abysmal hours of silence...when spurned lovers roll from an amorous dream onto empty sheets, and soldiers abruptly awake to the metallic taste of coming battle" — John Updike, "The City"
#SundaySentence
#SundaySentence
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Scenes of Baltimore.
February 22, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Scenes of Baltimore.
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Long before Darwin, the French polymath comte de Buffon “accepted both that species could become extinct and that they could change, and he even entertained the idea that humans and apes…might have had a common ancestry.” —Ian Tattersall
Call Me by Your Names | Ian Tattersall
The quest to fathom the riotous diversity of nature is absorbingly told in a virtual double biography of the great taxonomist Carl Linnaeus and his contemporary, the count of Buffon.
www.nybooks.com
February 21, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Long before Darwin, the French polymath comte de Buffon “accepted both that species could become extinct and that they could change, and he even entertained the idea that humans and apes…might have had a common ancestry.” —Ian Tattersall
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Detail: five kinds of lichen 🌿
February 1, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Detail: five kinds of lichen 🌿
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Jack Kerouac’s 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned - The draft – one of the Beat Generation’s defining artefacts – will be part of a wider sale of pieces from the Jim Irsay Collection at Christie’s in March www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
January 31, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Jack Kerouac’s 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned - The draft – one of the Beat Generation’s defining artefacts – will be part of a wider sale of pieces from the Jim Irsay Collection at Christie’s in March www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Snow day. When the wheat thins run out...fusion?
January 26, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Snow day. When the wheat thins run out...fusion?
Over 13 inches in northeastern ct...
January 26, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Over 13 inches in northeastern ct...
Spring hill mansfield ct
January 20, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Spring hill mansfield ct
Cod mark kurlansky. 👍
January 17, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Cod mark kurlansky. 👍