eswillwalker

Evolutionary Ecologist studying cooperation between bacteria and plants (and how phages might disrupt that cooperation). Sea kayaker passionate about protecting the terrestrial and marine environment. She/her/they/them. 315ppm
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#evolution
#ecology
#kayak
#microbe
#bacteria
#phage
#plant
#botany
#bicycle
#transit
#symbiosis
#ecoev

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2025-05-19 19:44:58

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@nprofile…xzjz Best wishes to Summer's (and your) best friend. I hope the antibiotics do their work.

2025-05-09 16:49:51

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@nprofile…xzjz Me, too. My parents always worked their politics. I need to follow their model.

2025-04-30 03:07:39

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@nprofile…xzjz Enjoy the luscious aroma!

2025-04-26 23:25:53

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@nprofile…xzjz I’m so happy that you had each other and I’m very sorry for your loss.

2025-04-25 02:55:04

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@nprofile…xzjz My neighbor grows a few old roses that have delightful aromas. I love to stop and sniff one as I walk by on the sidewalk. I had the scent of those roses in my nose as I gazed at your photo! Thanks for sharing them.

2025-04-24 16:14:16

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@nprofile…d92l @nprofile…alur @nprofile…cjz4 @nprofile…92y4
I just read this thread aloud to my husbeast, who’s family had a Gremlin during that same period. He said, “They were kinda cute - they didn’t look like every other little car.”
By the way, during the summers that @nprofile…d92l was busy making bra straps, my husbeast was working in another New York State factory, making air conditioners. He blames the solvents encountered during that work for the two cases of lymphoma that he has survived (via the miracles of modern medical research, which the US has just defunded).
If we want to make America a great manufacturing hub again, we should ensure that the work is physically and mentally safe. Of course, all the things that you and he were doing would probably be automated today.

2025-04-22 23:46:48

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@nprofile…0lh9 This is certainly not a surprise.

2025-04-22 04:21:38

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@nprofile…xzjz Devilling eggs is an act of love.

2025-04-22 04:20:30

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@nprofile…xzjz I hope that things change in ways that make you feel more up for baking in the future.

2025-04-19 02:12:03

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@nprofile…xzjz I recall someone once telling me, “Our body takes care of us for the first 40 years and we spend the second 40 years taking care of our body.” I’m glad to read that you are taking care of your body!

2025-04-16 19:33:28

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@nprofile…kjrn That’s because they are trafficking humans. The GOP administration (Republicans) are trafficking humans.

2025-04-15 04:09:15

Lots of gray whales in San Francisco Bay this week.

2025-04-09 23:27:06

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@nprofile…xzjz My mouth is watering. I'd better eat dinner first!

2025-04-09 20:01:05

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@nprofile…wuyc Given what “kabloona” means, it is nteresting that someone has the name, Ms. Kabloona.
For the meaning to Inuit of “kabloona,” see https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/kabloona

2025-03-31 21:53:59

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@nprofile…xzjz Pussy willows!

2025-03-31 21:53:59

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@nprofile…xzjz Pussy willows!

2025-03-31 18:50:03

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@nprofile…wjfe "Recent attempts [by Democrats] to lead town halls in districts where Republicans refuse to hold them are great examples of this strategy [make the erosion of democracy visible to the public and costly to the perpetrators]."

2025-03-28 16:20:30

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@nprofile…xzjz Good morning! Stay warm!

2025-03-13 16:41:32

USian here. I’ve started going to demonstrations again.
For years, I was disillusioned by all the demos we attended against the Iraq war, which the US nonetheless launched.
Friends keep reminding me that demos don’t work. I keep reminding them that I’m exercising an atrophied muscle, I’m meeting like-minded people, we are strategizing as we socialize at the demo, and our muscles will get stronger as we use them. Join us.

2025-03-11 14:52:42

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@nprofile…xzjz Thank you for your posts, your photos of Summer and your daily sentiments. We are all learning what we can do in midst this chaos. To prevail, we must persist and bolster each other for the long term. This involves creating and sustaining community. You are a nucleus of community.

2025-03-10 16:13:25

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@nprofile…zayd @nprofile…d2a6 Precisely. The play has already been scripted. The only surprising thing about it is how many people keep falling for Lucy’s football. Charles Shultz had a great understanding of people.
So many Charlie Browns in this country.

2025-03-10 15:50:35

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@nprofile…d2a6 I cancelled my subscription when the oligarch canceled their presidential endorsement. It appears that he is trying to effect the same outcome that the X-man did, which is to have killed a form of communication that we all depended on.
We build it, then they buy it to kill it. It keeps us occupied and off the streets.

2025-03-09 16:33:30

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@nprofile…xzjz LOL!

2025-03-06 05:07:12

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@nprofile…xzjz Hang in there. We’re all feeling pretty challenged by what’s happening out there.

2025-03-02 02:40:35

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@nprofile…xzjz Thank you!

2025-03-02 02:35:43

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@nprofile…xzjz Cozy!

2025-02-27 04:57:06

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@nprofile…xzjz What a good idea! My mom always said that I’d had measles, but I don’t recall it. I would love to get an immunoassay to find out if I need a measles vaccination.
Follow your doctor’s orders! Get some down time - recruit your children to help with that.

2025-02-27 04:52:51

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@nprofile…2gcn I was a postdoc with another postdoc who was born in South Africa. He had a limp from contracting polio as a child. I was lucky enough to have been born in the US, where polio vaccines became available during my elementary school years.

2025-02-22 02:12:26

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@nprofile…xzjz Enjoy every minute outdoors!

2025-02-19 05:28:22

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@nprofile…xzjz So sorry to hear he’s sick again and that it makes the Reynaud’s worse. I hope he gets better soon.

2025-02-19 05:27:19

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@nprofile…xzjz My MIL used to use a wax-melting pot for her arthritic hands. It was the most amazing thing to dip ones handing into it, be coated with warm beeswax and then peel the beeswax off ones hands and repeat. I wonder if he would enjoy that and if so, where to find such a thing.

2025-02-18 16:00:24

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@nprofile…xzjz Congratulations and thank you from this fellow geezer who is working to do the same. My next goal is a new email address.

2025-02-10 17:21:45

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@nprofile…xzjz Good morning to you and to Summer. Enjoy the hot drinks!

2024-12-31 05:38:27

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@nprofile…48vs Would you agree with your assertion when Waymos start imitating all the Bay Area drivers that run red lights?

2024-12-23 17:29:47

@nprofile…qz4x The fact that artists MUST make art, which makes them terribly exploitable, is also true of scientists. We MUST explore and investigate our particular niche of science. This also makes us terribly exploitable, especially when what we learn about our niche is not easily exploited for profit.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/21/blockheads-r-us/#vocational-awe

2024-12-22 23:29:58

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@nprofile…z22s It’s that old arthritis in the fingers.

2024-12-21 15:44:20

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@nprofile…48vs I don’t know if this would work outside of Japan, but we got a sim card from Airalo Japan, which gave us a Japanese phone number while we were visiting.

2024-12-17 16:48:29

Private profits over people’s health and well-being: This is what happens when health care operates under capitalism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/business/pharmacy-benefit-managers-opioids.html

2024-12-10 16:49:43

This is very disappointing to learn: "Indeed, when you install "Firefox" on an iPhone, you only have a Firefox skin with the Safari Webkit running underneath it. It's only in the European Union, starting with iOS 17.4, that when you run Firefox on an iPhone, you're actually running Firefox. "

2024-12-03 16:45:17

So, not only can I not reply to posts on sfba.social, I also cannot edit my own posts. Is this instance collapsing?
@sfba.social #Mastodon

2024-12-02 19:05:25

Masking works. Stanford's BMT/Cellular therapy unit has required masking for decades. This study shows that all hospitals should require masking in all units, especially during respiratory viral outbreaks.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20241201/Reinstating-masking-curbs-hospital-viral-outbreaks-study-confirms.aspx

2024-11-23 21:11:32

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@nprofile…kkxq And then there are women like me, older, post-menopausal, who look like men (I like loose floppy button shirts and pants and often get greeted by cashiers as "sir"). I would never imagine walking into a men's public restroom, but I'm sure there are women who have wondered about me as I walk into "their" restroom.
I can see that this snap decision-making is not going to go well. Kind of like the cashiers who fall all over themselves with apologies after they hear my voice. Meanwhile, my attitude is, why even make the distinction? It's not really necessary. Just say, "hello," and leave it at that.

2024-11-20 16:40:23

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@nprofile…taps I’d like to boost these comics, but they lack alt text, so I won’t because they are inaccessible to many users of Mastodon.

2024-10-14 02:51:15

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@npub1j0e…nhrj which direction?

2024-08-31 16:11:15

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@npub19st…u9g9 Never take a tourist anywhere in San Francisco or Berkeley in the summer. Fog abounds. Fall and winter are the best seasons to be tourist in the fog belt. Bonus - no lines for the cable cars!

2024-05-10 14:19:34

Met a toddler at the farmers market, yesterday. He was so proud of the fact that he could walk backwards, making his back-up warning beeps as he went.

2024-03-08 16:18:04

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 They want us barefoot and pregnant. On the eve of International Women’s Day.

2024-03-07 15:10:05

REI members! Take back your co-op! Make REI work as a cooperative rather than a corporate behemoth. To find out how, go to:
https://www.coworker.org/petitions/democratic-control-of-rei-co-op-matters?source=rawlink&utm_source=rawlink&share=e7f4dbe7-80f0-4a36-9e89-4b011586747f
#REI #coop #directorsBoard #election

2023-12-28 19:37:09

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@npub1ykv…ujsx Perfect!

2023-11-08 15:56:49

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@npub1hyk…3p33 I clicked on the link and left a comment in support of these amendments, which would rescind the act by the previous POTUS that allowed independent financial advisors to scam their clients. Independent financial advisors should be fiduciary to each client and no one else.

2023-10-04 16:02:44

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@npub1503…uxwg Remember Y2K? I recall flying home to California from NC on Jan 1, 2000. Flights were cheap and life was good.

2023-04-04 22:46:13

So glad to see these WPA mosaics being restored (and the building returned to its original prosaic use)!
https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/04/04/love-those-mosaic-murals-repairs-begin-on-1904-uc-berkeley-building/

2023-04-04 22:45:54

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#[0] Berkeley didn't accommodate that need on Hearst Street and now, most days that I commute home, I encounter a bike lane full of the serf mobiles picking up take-out from Sweet Greens.