Deborah Paul

Museum specimens and the people who collect them, "They highlight the affective, emotional and sensual relationship between people and things.” @lubar/museums-need-collections-and-connections-375543f9d331" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@lubar/museums… for @dpsSpiders for your Pop and others when they ask why @BloodhoundTrack

@tangming2005 Hm. Got me thinking about other types of data that this would be useful for. Maybe, instead of word clouds, this could be used to show how "clusters" of data items overlap?

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Tired of Venn diagrams? Upset plots are the next-level visualization for intersecting gene sets. Here’s a step-by-step guide to creating them in R. 🧵👇

How I Would Learn Bioinformatics From Scratch 12 Years Later: A Roadmap. If I were starting over, these FREE resources would be my go-to. 🧵👇 divingintogeneticsandgenomics.com/post/bioinfo-r…

Susanne knows it: being a taxonomist opens up many career opportunities! 💪🔬 Check them all at 👁️👉 bit.ly/43f5z4q #tettriseu #taxonomy #jobsearch #Job #biodiversity

"Human lives and economies are at great risk, and the need for rapid and accurate taxonomic identification of vectors and hosts is immense" #pandemicpreparedness #naturalsciencecollections #graphicillustration #SciArt

@PREAUX_FISH @mtanichthys @systbiol @jembrown Count me in! More details please!

More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ... Breakout meeting for @systbiol The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11, 2026 in Baton Rouge! Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections' @jembrown is primary organizer ssb2026.github.io

@Sixfeettwoshoes @DirkBruere @jk_rowling Not true — women’s are faster

@DirkBruere @jk_rowling Men have faster reactions

I’m reliably informed that this is something that simply never happens. And if it happens, it’s incredibly rare. And even if it wasn’t rare, only nasty people would make these men sad by telling them they’re not women. What’s that you say? Women are being robbed? You bigot.

@basedblackbrit @DirkBruere @jk_rowling Nope —women are better sharp shooters

@DirkBruere @jk_rowling Males have superior hand/eye coordination and better spatial awareness. Not being sexist, it’s just a fact.

@DirkBruere @jk_rowling 🎯

@jk_rowling OK - but why should there be any sexual divisions in, say, snooker? Or shooting? Or darts? Or anything that does not require strength or speed?

hi kids! it's me, your favorite sexagenarian here to tell you that when I was a kid we taxed the shit out of the wealthy and not only did we have money to build bridges and schools and moon rockets, rich people still had plenty of money left over to spend on rich people bullshit

@KassiesDad YES

Could psychiatrists tell if someone was actually insane? Stanford psychologist David Rosenhan wanted to find the answer... In 1973, he sent 8 perfectly normal people to mental hospitals across the US. What he found next exposed the secret side of psychology…🧵

@Rick_Pescatore 🥺🫣

Most physicians know: Medicare Advantage isn’t healthcare, it’s a scam designed to line the pockets of big insurers and their C-suites. It’s a privatized shell of Medicare—designed to dazzle the healthy, deny the sick, and enrich insurers. It inflates costs, restricts care, leads to worse outcomes in nearly every category. …and Congress just padded its funding. We’re not fixing the system. We’re feeding the monster.

Jmo Payers use call log systems. 1. Operator ID and time stamp is immediately available to start the call so ask first. If refused, ask for policy or escalate. 2. Ensure operator lists the electronically sent prior auth in the call log record if linked. 3. Calls have to be closed with resolution codes, can't hang open - Hipaa compliance, quality tracking, and risk mitigation. 4. Request your payor call log records in writing/email/portal. 5. Read your payor contact for comms standard. 6. Check your state regs. Call state DOI and ask for details. 7. If you can't get through to clinical staff, call provider relations, get op id/call id, and ask for process and ask to be transferred.

Our team has two incredible, full-time professionals—Mary and Ebonie—dedicated to dealing with insurance. They advocate for our patients, so our patients can focus on healing. This week? They’ve been on repeat calls with the same insurer, trying to add procedure codes so patients can receive coverage for sensation preserving mastectomies. Twice now, after 30+ minutes on the line, the call just ends. No reference number. No resolution. Just—terminated. And without a reference number, there’s no way to track it, no accountability, and no clear path forward. All we have are the first names of the representatives who hung up. This happens often. And it’s exhausting. But we won’t stop showing up for patients. We’ll keep sharing these stories—because this shouldn’t be normal. Patients deserve better. Providers deserve better.

@williamreames7 @Matthewtravis08 🎯🎯🎯

@Matthewtravis08 The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith

I had a conversation with one of the few people (Republican) I thought I could have decent conversation with. We were friends for over 20 years, but distant friends over the last several. He’s a Republican, but never was one of those hardcore MAGA people. I ran into him at the DMV, we were just having a casual conversation. The subject of Trump was brought up and what’s happening in the stock market. I stated it’s affecting a lot of people. He told me not to worry about it because it’ll recover in a couple years. I then asked him about all the seniors who are in retirement now whose 401k’s are being decimated. He said in stride …. “It Sucks to be them”. That was pretty much the end of the conversation. And the end of what used to be a friendship.

@OneView01 @Matthewtravis08 How rude and assuming and judgmental of you. Already doing all of that — it’s not going to be enough. It’s nothing — not enough to overcome the mess and $ loss in the time frame — of our current expected life span

I agree with you. He should have been more detailed in his response to you about retirees and Americans close to retiring, like the one below: Dear Boomers, I heard your retirement funds have taken a bit of a hit. I would like to offer some advice: - Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, hard work pays off. - Stop buying so much avocado toast and fancy lattes. - Get an entry-level job to get your foot in the door. - Walk into some stores and hand them your resume. - Live within your means, cut out the fancy stuff. - Save every penny, put it in a savings account and watch it grow. - Quit wasting money on all those subscription services. - Just walk into your bosses office and ask for a raise. - Pack a lunch, you don't need to eat out. - Put $20 a week in a jar, you'll be surprised how fast it adds up. Hope this helps. Yours sincerely, From the people you've mocked and laughed at, thinking they're lazy and less intelligent than you when obviously they're not.

In 1945, six women pulled off a computing miracle. They programmed the world’s first computer—with no manuals, no training. Then, a SINGLE assumption erased them from tech history for decades. The story of how ONE photo nearly deleted computing’s female founders: 🧵

@timjacobwise I just retired in July. I've lost 100k already. Not sure you heard, Trump and his family liquidated most of their stock the day before he announced the tariffs.