Daisy Flores 🌼

@daisyflores.bsky.social

Budding coral biologist. Proud Chicana. Friendly dog mom. PhD Student @ UT Austin 🌎🤿🪸🧪🧬 Views are my own and subject to change when I’m wrong.🤷🏽‍♀️

San Diego Zoo Safari Park introduces Petal, a newborn Southern pudu fawn, the world's smallest deer species native to Chile and Argentina and listed as near-threatened due to hunting, deforestation, and human encroachment. IG: @sdzsafaripark

“To fight back, Americans need to learn the counterspy techniques of C.I.A. officers: using multiple sources to check information; testing those sources regularly for reliability; never getting complacent and trusting one source without thinking.” These are also known as critical thinking skills.

Opinion | A.I. Is Lying to You. Here’s How to Fight Back.

In the age of A.I. disinformation, we all need to use the tools of counterespionage to find the truth.

nytimes.com

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #AngryBirds, any bird with an angry face. The alt is #MyBestSide, bird capture in profile. Going with #AngryBirds - “THIS REBAR AIN’T BIG ENOUGH FOR THE TWO OF US!!” #birds Hooded oriole kids

Two young orioles are squabbling as the perch on a piece of rebar in a post holding a feeder.
Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷@crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · last mo.

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #AngryBirds, any bird with an angry face. The alt is #MyBestSide, bird capture in profile. Steller's Jay - Masters of the Angry Face! Touch of haughty in there too! #birds #becurious🪶

photo of a steller's jay perched on a slightly curved oak branch. they are facing the camera, head tilted slightly to the left giving them a grumpy expression. their feathers are floofed out.

I know there are so many reasons to hate the World Cup. FIFA is laughably corrupt. Our government is doing straight-up evil shit. But 5 billion people coming together to watch the beautiful game will always feel special and even the malevolent institutions in charge can't steal that joy away from us

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

I don’t mind being annoying about this. If you are a graphic designer, researcher, coder, social media person who cares about ending mass surveillance please connect with me. We need help ♥️♥️

OKSOTHICK.@sayitaintsoph.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Anyone in Atlanta who wants to help get flock contracts cancelled? We need researchers, fundraisers, graphic designers, etc. Please boost by reposting this. ♥️ and I’ll DM you to get involved

"Billionaires really like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as a good & natural thing." Evolutionary biologists have a responsibility to oppose the unscientific, deeply unethical, & immoral promulgations of billionaire-funded, pseudoscientific eugenics pablum glorifying exploitation

⛓️CONCENTRATION CAMPS & INCINERATORS—D.H.S. is setting up a huge network of camps. They are converting the U.S. as a region for ‘expeditionary military deployment’ & no-bid no-public-comment contracts to build a “ghost network” of 10,000-person concentration camps. Jesus. Thread 🧵

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This bobtail squid burrowing into the sand is already adorable, but please watch till the very end! It sticks out its little arms and earnestly sprinkles sand over itself 🦑𓂃◌𓈒𓐍

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.  August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried