Damn, I've been struggling this week with whether I should leave my PhD program with a master's or keep toughing it out, and this really hit home for me.

Those colors are trippy, I love it!

A recent study suggested that the safe upper limit in wet bulb conditions might be closer to 88F. Link to an article discussing the research

This is my first year with an in-ground garden in Zone 6a! Here's what I've got:

-Plant more peppers, I eat a lot of peppers and could use more

-Plant beans/peas earlier

-Plant okra later

-Only ONE cucumber plant!!! Just one! No one needs more than one!

-More ground cherries, they did great and I love 'em

-Wouldn't bother with celery again, probably

-Would give radishes another shot, they did okay. I'd do kohlrabi again too

-Planted too many types of lettuce

Huh, I've never considered estimating the weight of my hands, but after reading I can see the importance/application.

Love the contrast of all the greenery with the jelly ears!

This has been happening to me for like two weeks.

That really sucks, it's not cool that they took you on as a student when they knew they'd be looking to leave the university. The closest comparison I have is I had a classmate whose PI left the university and offered to take her, but she decided to master out instead. It didn't affect her career and was ultimately a great move.

I think it's normal that you'd have trouble trusting them again and you should probably consider your options. Can you transfer to another lab in your department? Alternatively, you said you went through all the trouble to travel and apply at the new university. Can you still go and just pick a new lab there? If you're post-candidacy/quals/etc, they should hopefully respect that and maybe it can accelerate your track.

Well, did she have any?

Sweet! There are some additional more specific arthropod communities (arachnids and myriapods off the top of my head) on mander.xyz if anyone is looking.

Leishmania too.

I've heard of this happening occasionally with cooked brown rice, so I guess it's not out of the question! My guess is that the corn will probably wilt and die before it gets big enough to poke holes in the bag. Are you using any lights? Leaving it in the dark at this stage might help discourage corn growth. But keep us posted on what happens

With the hobbit foot hair!

I'm rocking with the PWA for now but you better believe I'm signed up for that Boost release

Saving this to send to coworkers next time we have to go to a meeting that could have been an email

Midday after working outside and getting really dirty or sweaty, when it's still bright enough outside that you don't have to turn the lights on and the bathroom is only lit from the window, you're already so hot from working that the water has to start out lukewarm, and also you have a shower beer. My favorite kind.

Bird's nest is so crazy looking! I found some near me last year and I've been watching for it to pop back up.

Some type of stonefly, I think.

I thought it might be "is shrimps bugs?"

Whoah! It was pretty from above but the spots paired with the powdery blue wings is next level. Great shots, too!

This is a really insidious problem in my field of translational/comparative medicine. They were spot on that perpetrators are essentially protected by their positions, so it's difficult to enact any lasting positive change, and those negatively affected do often leave academia.

I had never heard of this before! Very thorough read, thank you for sharing.

I'm between Coprinellus disseminatus and Parasola plicatilis. It seems like Parasola is more common this time of year and more likely to grow on leaves.

Love NRG! There's so much to do I keep going back again and again.

I think others are right that a lot of the issues you're having are related to the size of the insurance you joined.

I spent all day Saturday weeding my vegetable garden and adding some radishes, leeks, summer squash, and wax beans I grew from seed. This is my first year growing ground cherries, and they're really taking off! They taste funky in a good way.

What sort of issues are you having? It's been working pretty well for me using the PWA.

I don't have chooks anymore but joining to get my chicken fix vicariously, until I move and get some again of course!

Fantastic vibes. Are the plants getting all their light from the window or do you have grow lights in there too?

Love it!

I love a radler. Also, this is one of the things I really miss about living in Iowa - the organized beer rides and brewery bike tours were fantastic, you could do one practically every weekend in the summer.

Not positive, but I'm thinking Stropharia. I think that looks like a veil on the stem.

I echo the sentiment that we should not take a wait and see approach to bigotry and anti-science sentiment. We should defederate proactively.

I'd definitely check to see what's local to you, but I have a couple of ideas mostly relevant to my area in the Midwest, which is zone 6a/5b.

A lot of spring ephemerals like shade - trout lily, mayapple, trillium, and Jack in the pulpit come to mind. Wild geranium and ferns prefer shade.

A lot of shrubs are shade tolerant, including sweetfern, coralberry, spirea, gooseberry, bearberry, viburnum, mulberry, and pawpaw. In my area most of the understory is spicebush, sassafras, and dogwood.

Hope that gives you some inspiration!

Congrats! Welcome Twix!

This was an awesome read and I greatly enjoyed it, really engaging. I'm going to look for tofu sheets and skins next time I visit the international market.

The patterns on the turtle are so cool!

A beautiful patch of oysters for sure!

There's also !herpetology@mander.xyz for those interested!

No way, I love that. Right up there with "man I love frogs" and "bugs do so much (for the environment)." A perfect trio of bumper stickers.