Haven't posted for #Arachtober yet so here's a weird one: my first hooded tick-spider! Neither a tick nor a spider, it's a member of the order #Ricinulei, small predators only found in Africa & Americas. Thanks to Sangjin Han for collecting this one. Next time I'm in Costa Rica I want to find more!

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🔥🎯 Abdul-El-Sayed addresses the importance of investing our tax $ in the NIH. The NIH was designed to support breakthroughs decades in the making. The current political climate is killing that infrastructure. ‘When you disinvest in science you’re disinvesting literally in the future.” #pinks

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There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!

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I have now read this article, which I was pleased to be interviewed for, and am actually quite dismayed at the both-sidesing of the issue at hand. It is true that “both Dems and Reps gerrymander“ (paraphrasing) but to equivocate the 2 and make that the central framing in 2026 does a real disservice

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This should be common sense *even if* AI were sentient. Like the example of the tiger in the article, if you trained your tigers to unlock their cages, I don't see how you'd avoid liability if they unlocked their cages and mauled people. And there's no evidence that any AI actually is sentient.

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