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Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her

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Published: June 10, 2026 01:46

Since I do not see the New World Screwworm issue going away any time soon, I’m just gonna make a thread I can pin to my profile. Do you want to know why the screwworms have come back? Check this thread:…

Published: June 10, 2026 01:01

An addendum thread—someone asked, quite sensibly, if we have ivermectin now, are they still as big a deal? I go into some detail about why they are. Err…buy my book? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Published: June 9, 2026 23:55

A good thread on screwworms. Talking to an entomologist last year, he also added that the pandemic was the first domino. Scientists couldn’t get to the facilities, couldn’t get out into the field to check outbreak reports. [contains quote post or other…

Published: June 7, 2026 21:00

Even accepting his definition of “learning” here means acquiring novel data, it’s notable that he doesn’t seem to think you can learn valuable things about YOURSELF. Also he’s flat wrong even then, as anyone who’s found the first record of a species in a…

Published: June 7, 2026 18:19

Had a very complicated horror dream, but most interesting part was a curse-jar labeled “A man had a toothache, but when he looked inside his mouth, he saw tiny miners chipping snow-white birds out of the enamel.” Unusually coherent for one of my dreams.

Published: June 7, 2026 00:07

Birds aside, I am actually moderately sympathetic to people trying remote travel and finding it’s too miserable for them. I’ve camped in the bush under primitive conditions! Many things about it are uncomfortable and suck! I went because birding is an…

Published: June 5, 2026 17:56

Kevin has gotten really into resin pouring in his semi-retirement, figured out how to layer, and is now trying to make Pride flag tchotchkes for every flavor of queerness among our friends and relatives.