Ok, if you insist, here's a video of my baby killifish having a nibble on freshly hatched brine shrimp. So adorable, right?

Dog rescued in Venezuela after 6 days in rubble! Such goodness all around 😍

Following the tragic news of a missing autistic boy that was found in a pool, a local restaurant's Facebook page decided to post some terrible comments about the boy's family, their nationality, and their religion, adding to the tragedy. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

A really eye-opening recent Frontline episode about baby brokers, adoption tourism, and the exploitive gray areas of adoption. Also touches on why so much of it happens in Utah. Good news is that some laws are hopefully improving. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLfV...

My latest story for @scenichudson.bsky.social is about some ice caves and a blind crustacean that lives in them. For the story, I got to squirm deep into the caves with a local biologist. I may have cracked a rib in the process, but stil worth it. www.scenichudson.org/viewfinder/s...

The best place to be in academia right now is probably teaching at a small liberal arts college with a small research project mostly aided by undergrads. Terrifying headlines for everyone else. www.wmar2news.com/news/region/...

Like Moneyball, but Seinfeld. Quite the labor of love. Bravo!

Foundational! "The scientist doing basic research may not be at all interested in the practical applications of his work, yet the further progress of industrial development would eventually stagnate if basic scientific research were long neglected." From Science: The Endless Frontier, Bush, 1945

Labor share of income--the "fraction of economic output paid to workers as wages and salaries"--is at its lowest-ever level since WWII. @federalreserve.gov

For a guy who doesn't really care about pop music, I'm becoming very much a fan of Olivia Rodrigo as a human while remaining agnostic about Olivia Rodrigo as a musician (until I actually listen to her music).

When Trump went to war with Iran, I watched every speech anyone in the administration gave and made a chart of every reason given for going to war "Eliminate ballistic capability" was the #1 reason given: more even than preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon

When I was a young college student, I worked part-time for this little spin-out company in the U. of Utah Research Park that made microelectrode implants for animal experiments, at that time. Fun to see updates about that technology, such as this one in Nature today. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If the Reflecting Pool holds 6,750,000 gallons of water [1], and you need a final concentration of 80 ppm H2O2 to shock kill algae [2], how many gallons of 12% H2O2 would you need to add to the pool to kill the algae? I'm a bit rusty on Chem 101 math, but I came up with 4,508 gallons.

Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

My Spectrum internet bill creeped up to $100/mo for 400 mbps, which is ridiculous given there is now a competitor in town. It took embarrassingly long, but I finally called and said why shouldn't I switch? They cut the price in half and doubled the speed, just because I asked. Crazy stuff.

Ms. Rachel: As the American Academy of Pediatrics says, there is no safe amount of time for a child to be in detention. The Dilley immigration detention center must be shut down. We need to end the cruel policies of family detention and family separation.

I'd like to believe that somewhere in an alternate fiction universe, Mookie and Pino settled their differences and enjoyed that Knicks win last night.

A few of my thoughts on the NIH's new format for the Data Management and Sharing Plan, for those of you unlucky enough to know what that is. In short though, the new template is a big improvement, imho. medium.com/metascientif...

Recap if you missed it

What's going on people!! I don't have ESPN so I'm just refreshing the score every 5 seconds...

OH MY BAD THERE IT IS

For an act of resistance to the tyranny and vanity of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter—undistracted notes on the search for meaning, free, ad-free, AI-free, fully human for 20 years this year: themarginalian.org/newsletter

Lukewarm take: I watched the new Pixar movie 'Hoppers' yesterday and enjoyed it. Maybe the best Pixar since Coco. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PypD...

Doug Wilson is Pete Hegseth's spiritual advisor. A student newspaper at U. of Idaho (hence the typos) recently reported the following from a talk he gave there regarding his views of the LDS church; TLDR: no LDS temples allowed in his ideal Christian state: www.uiargonaut.com/2026/04/16/d...

Love what Mark Rober is trying to do here with science education, and hope it pays off. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDFG...

Love how republican governors like Cox and Huckabee-Sanders are trolling the leader of their party by calling June "fidelity month." Ha, would be funny in a sad way if they were actually serious about that.. www.deseret.com/politics/202...

Seems like that was a fantastic game based on the ESPN score tracker, since I didn't have access to it on any of my current streaming platforms. But let's go Knickerbockers!

1/If you read NPR’s article, the reporter failed to call anyone who is an expert on administrative law—I don’t know, someone who wrote a whole article on this exact topic, called Infrostructure, which is pinned to this page—and I would note be happy to note the rule’s many, many failings.

Good to see news of this in every outlet possible.

NEW at @thebulwark.com Here's the story behind this week's big advance in cancer treatment And why it's precisely the sort of breakthrough at risk in Donald Trump's assault on federally funded research www.thebulwark.com/p/cancer-res...

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The US is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure

That was an incredible game, but I just don't have it in me to root for the Spurs, call it muscle memory being from Utah. Let's go Knicks!

Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.

Bentonville is an interesting case. Far worse things a billionaire could do with their wealth, I suppose. www.fastcompany.com/91550093/ali...

Cornyn sharing the scorpion and frog story on X today, which I guess means he admits to being a dying frog?

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

They’re literally shutting down 75% of their libraries

Autism has been associated with every random thing under the sun at some point by some silly person looking for attention. And now, ladies and gentlemen, one more to add to the ridiculous pile.

This week it was reported that a 7yo kid did the rim-to-rim Grand Canyon hike (22 miles) in one day; and a 7yo summited El Capitan. Both are the youngest to do so. So I can only conclude that 7-year-olds are all out there making the rest of us look lazy. Congrats to them both.

Peacock Spider (genus Maratus), a group of tiny Australian jumping spiders famous for their vibrant colours and elaborate courtship dances to attract its mate. They are very tiny in size only between 2-5 millimetres ( the size of a pea)

Maybe everyone already knows this, but if you tag "-ai" at the end of your Google or Bing or whatever search, it won't pull up the AI summary at the top of your search results. It's like you are back in 2024.

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

Just want to point out that Cornell University, an Ivy League school about 200 miles from NYC, has a whole College of Agriculture with like 20 majors, 5,000 students, and plenty of cows.

Man, I feel like David Byrne is one of a handful of people holding humanity together on this planet. What a national treasure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtvK...

Really nice profile of the Hudson Valley. Never intended to wind up here, but can't argue it's a beautiful place to live. www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

I don't know what human instinct it is that makes malfunctioning robots so hilarious to me, but it's definitely buried deep in my psyche.

I'm no legal expert, but clause D appears to basically say, "yeah we're going to use this for fraudulent purposes you dimwits." Here's a link to the full thing if you want to read it: www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

This Barkan situation reminded me of what happened to Jonah Lehrer back in 2012, who was supposed to be the next Malcolm Gladwell. When the plagarism came out, it basically ended his career. In today's world though, I doubt Barkan will suffer the same fate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah_L...

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