Rachel Logan

@rmslogan.bsky.social

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Cal State Biologist - Grad Student Biodiversity and Omics "All models are wrong, some are useful."

Donald Nicholson's Metabolic Pathways Chart
MVC Louie, the Vikings new cheerleader
Quote board with uplifting quotes
So Very Small cover, Thomas Levenson
National Park Service @NatlParkService ​Visitor: When will you tell us where you keep the unicorns? 🦄 ​Us: As soon as visitors stop feeding squirrels and taking dangerous selfies with bison, we'll let you know where the horses with giant spikes on their heads roam.
How Life Works by Philip Ball (cover)
When the Earth Was Green book cover
Origin and Smirnoff
From "petefoxshend-deactivated2018062": "'Big Pharma' okay are we talking about how privatization and monetization has deeply corrupted the field of medicine or are you talking about how you think chemicals in the water are making the frogs gay" From "greyramblings": "'GMOs'? Are we talking seeds that grow sterile plants and patenting genetic modifications then destroying any competition no matter how small they are? Or are we talking life saving rice with vitamin a to make sure kids don't go blind in regions not suited for other high vit a veg? ... or are we talking about your chidoodle?"
Very poorly annotated image of DNA
1. Happy to be mRNA free. 2. You've got plenty of mRNA in your body. 1. If I do, it is not by consent 2. You don't know what mRNA is do you?
The (real) scientific method... data saying "no" to a scientist's idea
Guy from the year 10,000 adding lead and microplastics to his meals for an anthropocene diet because ancient humans built the bass pro shop pyramid and the lost city of miami
Wolf in forest
Nighttime camera trap pics of a skunk, opossum, and fox
Fill your life with experiences, not things
A biochemist who has memorized all 20 amino acid structures vs a gym dude talking about protein 🤣
Tomato/mushroom joke
Might I ask what the fuck was going on with the animals in the Cambrian period? They were trying shit out! Leave them alone
Someone once asked me why I was so worried about the environment. I just said, "I live there," and they looked at me as if that fact had never once occurred to them.
Happy Darwin Day! From so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Google map of Denali
Basic black and white meme: 90s scientists: we cloned sheep! We landed a robot on Mars! Scientists today: for the last time, the earth is round
Image of swans without feathers: paleoartists tend to under-feather drawings of dinosaurs based on fossils. Here's how swans would look if given the same treatment.
Long-form joke meme about the brightest minds being hell, so it will be air-conditioned and powered by renewable geothermal energy by the time I get there
Pinus sylvestris drawing from Root Atlas, Prof. Erwin Lichtenegger, Plant Sociology Institute, 2002.
Heosemys spinosa, punks almost dead joke/meme
It is becoming increasingly understood by population ecologists that the control of populations, ie ultimate upper and lower limits set to increase, is brought about by density-dependent factors. Elton, 1949. Elton's statement was somewhat premature. Turchin, 1995.
Black History Unlocked - Albert Einstein teaching at physics class at Lincoln University in 1946, "The separation of the races is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."
Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt. John Muir. Overlaid on image of green hills, dirt path, and cloudy sky.
Findings and declaration of policy of Title I of the National Defense Education Act of 1958.