This ski mountaineering is wild!

We aren’t allowed to have coffee provided when working 9 hour day to review grants for NIH

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Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Someone was asking for red blood cells so I painted some new ones artologica.etsy.com/listing/4458... #sciart

What I should have been doing this afternoon: my work What I did: make a crappy copy of this painting with Skittles Gummies

Let me get this straight. He can’t even think of a PROMPT? What part of this end result is something for which anyone should pay him? If you can’t even write the prompt, what is your contribution? YOU’RE NOT EVEN TYPING.

This is the other thing—WHY WOULD SOMEONE ON THE INTERNET GIVE YOU AN IDEA SO YOU CAN FEED IT INTO A MACHINE INSTEAD OF THEM? WHYYYYYYY? I’m trying to think how many ways you would have to tie me to a tree before I would say “Hey, guys, anybody have an idea for my next book?”

The 2026 native plant project is up and running! We have 10 seed distribution stations set up all around the city, each thanks to a volunteer poster hoster. This project was made possible by monthly donors to @skypeascientist.bsky.social and people who bought calendars from SquidFacts.net!

New and competitive renewal awards. The number of awards is 569 compared with more than 2200 through the same date in earlier fiscal years. All ICs have now made awards except for NIAAA, NCCIH, NLM, FIC, and OD. NEI (Eye Institute) made its first award during the new period. 3/4

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Would love to see Rockville lean into this more.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

NBC story on NIH Institute Director vacancies... www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... It is bad enough that national news networks (well, not CBS) are covering this story,,,

The return of measles will mean the return of SSPE. If you don't know what that is, read this. www.voicesforvaccines.org/what-measles...

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title… “How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work” Way to devalue my experience.

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mCherry is red DAPI is blue I reserved the confocal To make Z-stacks with you 🧪 🔬 #ScienceValentines

There is nothing funnier than Kindergarten basketball

The loss of grants management specialists, those with the budget and accounting knowledge to actually get awards out the door is just as damaging for our agencies. May not have Phds but for some ICs we’ve lost more of them then folks with PhDs.

Trump and his goons pushed out (or didn't replace) more than 10,000 federal government STEM Ph.D.s since he took office, representing 106,636 years of federal work experience. www.science.org/content/arti...

We wanted to understand how mRNA vaccines work. So we talked to three cocaine addicts in a gas station bathroom off Route 6.

Scoop: The NIH infectious-diseases institute (NIAID) will soon scrub “pandemic preparedness” and “biodefense” from its web pages, according to e-mails I obtained. The directive is the start of a broader shake-up at NIAID, which has long been attacked by Republicans.

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

Gonna break my policy of not linking to the NY Post to make sure you are all aware of this important nature fact

OH LOOK. THE GOV LINING UP TO USE SCIENCE AS A WEAPON AGAINST THE PUBLIC. WHO COULD HAVE POSSIBLY SEEN THIS COMING??? Answer: @standupforscience.bsky.social

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Note to Democrats: AOC shows you can go after paycheck issues AND push hard on ICE and other Trumpian excesses. Be Bold!

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

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Just went onto Instagram for a minute and saw a woman rubbing a beet on her kid's face for "natural organic makeup" and I know it was rage bait so I'm commenting about it here instead of over there.

These sliding events are wild. Luge team relay?

I get so many spam/hang up calls, and it seems especially bad as of late...

NEW: Another NIH institute director hasn't been renewed — the director of NIAMS (arthritis, musculoskeletal and skin diseases institute). That leaves a whopping 15 of 27 institutes and centers without a permanent director.

Holy shit, the super-kooky MAGA/MAHA/Great Barrington Declaration physicians now leading the US federal health system have lost….the Wall Street Journal “It’s hard to recall a regulator who has done as much damage to medical innovation in as little time as Vinay Prasad.”

Fascinating and deeply satisfying resolution to why adenovirus-based vaccines produced blood clots in 1 out of 200,000 people. Two factors interacted: a mutation in an antibody gene + weak similarities between a viral protein & a human blood-clotting protein = induced clotting cascade.

I'm thrilled to announce my beat at @us.theguardian.com is expanding to cover more reproductive health reporting. Got ideas or tips on what to cover? Email or message me on Signal! This feels like a really natural extension of my reporting on bodily autonomy and health freedom, and I'm excited.

“Cut ICE’s budget to restore federal health care funding” is an extremely popular message www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

I still smell like pool, even after showering post swim. I think I am improving, but I wish it still didn't feel so hard.

Ok can we all agree biathlon is wild?

Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text. Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.

This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

A year ago, we were on the cusp of turning many cancers into chronic rather than terminal diseases through immunotherapy and mRNA vaccines. Today, we're working through the curative qualities of a magical horse paste instead.

Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.

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Highlights from judging the elementary school science fair. An investigation of which household objects conduct electricity. Can cheese conduct electricity? Apparently so. Me: You and cheese both conduct electricity. What do you two have in common? Student: We are both thick Me: Ah yes of course