This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

RFK Jr. Mandates All Americans Drink Mysterious Glowing Liquid

Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up theonion.com/austral...

Anytime you think things aren't going well just remind yourself of Mr. Howells who mistakenly disposed of a laptop hard drive containing the private key for 8,000 Bitcoin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin... #downandout #bitcoin

I’ve been casually watching this story for years. Glad to see there has been recent progress and potential for their recovery! It is hard to express how big and amazing these stars are when you are diving. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together. Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq

Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.

"A Proposed Budget Cut That Would Cripple American Science." --Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent. Story by @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/3IFzGKJ

The first known use of 'avocado toast' was in 1928. The Great Depression was a year later. Now, we're not saying that that's the reason, but...

When your city has an open data portal with the location of every tree, you can do this:

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

“Dudes in Corollas”! Our friend Loren Miraglia, a scientist and brewer, often shares his latest creations with our lab. Today we sampled four versions of his Belgian-style quadrupel. The barrel-aged one was my favorite.

🚨 EU will pass 18th sanctions package against Russia today: - Oil price cap 15% below market price - Import ban on refined Russian oil products - Nord Stream transactions ban - 77 shadow fleet tankers - 22 Russian banks cut from SWIFT - 22 companies aiding Russia's military

So grateful for the clear, unequivocal witness and voice of Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social who visited the horrifying detention camp in Florida. As he said, “I didn’t see any Russians who’ve overstayed their visas. Only Black & Latino men who look like me.” @maddow.msnbc.com

Continuing celebrations of our 80th anniversary and looking back to our beginnings, here’s a close-up of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from our first ever volume of Microbial Genomics - doi.org/10.1099/mgen... #MGen

Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

#booksky #writingcommunity

Mike Lee Stresses He Would Have Posted Same Thing If Own Family Savagely Murdered

I hope everyone at these labs is in full PPE to protect them from these three pathogens.

Last February, I led a proposal submission that encompassed six months, hundreds of hours, four institutions, a massive team, and and 256 pages. NSF just informed us that the entire Biology Integration Institute program was archived and our proposal would not even be reviewed. With a form email.

Before captivity — a proud, strong defender of Ukraine. After captivity — tired, hungry, tortured... but not broken. This is what Russian captivity looks like. And what is most painful? The world pays almost no attention to it. 👇

We are developing a killer team of phage biologists here who are ready to take on any challenge. My best moments each week are when these guys drop by to chat :) #NZLabLife @microsky www.canterbury.ac.nz/news-and-eve...

Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"

😕 pretty much

Head: Jonathan Joss, 59, Famous Actor, Murdered in Hate Crime While Saving Spouse Subhead: Local authorities accused of ignoring years of escalating threats from alleged perpetrator. Do better CNN.

Disney Opens New Immersive ‘Star Wars’-Themed Gay Conversion Camp theonion.com/disney-...

MAGA Voter Assumed Trump Would Only Deport People On List She Mailed To White House

June is Indigenous History Month in Canada, and I'd like to recommend to anyone I know who hasn't ever taken Indigenous Canada to register today and start the free class today. It's an Indigenous centred history course and frankly, will be world changing for you. www.coursera.org/learn/indige...

Organizing friends, neighbors, allies, classmates, or colleagues to defend digital rights in your community? We can help.

Do you have any “published” E. coli phage? and willing to share for academic research? most phages from yr 1980-2015 ish aren’t even available to researchers. they are either lost bcz of not sharing or archiving in registries.

🎯 The 2025 Vivli AMR Data Challenge is now OPEN. This is your opportunity to analyze cutting-edge industry data to predict future trends in drug resistance and make a lasting impact. 🗓️ Deadline: May 26 🔗 Enter the challenge: tinyurl.com/3d35uy9m #AMRChallenge #AMR #DataScience

To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

I'm helping my son slowly reinvent D&D at recess. His friends play elaborate pretend games, but they keep spending all recess arguing about things like whether someone successfully dodged an attack. So I suggested that he bring dice to recess and resolve it that way, and it worked.

🚀 Join the Patinios Lab at the VU LSC - EMBL Partnership Institute for Genome Editing Technologies! We are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join our growing team! 🔎

Proud of you, Canada 🇨🇦 and Australia 🇦🇺 with love from your American allies.

Ben Franklin on inoculation, after his son died from smallpox. “In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.

Political Scientists Reassure Americans That Stripping Minorities Of Citizenship Usually Where Descent Into Fascism Peters Out theonion.com/politic...

ICYMI, last week WIRED broke the news that DOGE has put a college student in charge of using AI to rewrite regulations at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Because who needs experts when you’ve got ChatGPT?

Tardi-tat!

We did it Joe

I'd had enough of the armchair debate about whether 100 guys could take down a gorilla, so I went to the experts. Here is what actual primatologists and wildlife conservationists (including @nakedprimate.bsky.social and @marspidermonkey.bsky.social) said when I wasted their time with this question:

Fun fact: research shows that drivers yield to pedestrians at a much higher rate if you just *keep walking into the street without stopping* www.kostelecplanning.com/on-the-11th-...

Had a great visit to Mahidol University last week. Discussed #AMR and shared new unpublished #phage data. I was blown away by the amazing Thai hospitality from Prof. Nathisuwan, A/Prof. Chomnawang and A/Prof. Thirapanmethee. Looking forward to hosting them in Sydney next month #MicroSky #PhageSky

Badass Surgeon Puts On Fingerless Latex Gloves Before Operating

Hello #phage Phriends enjoying bluer skies here. Check out my write up below on science communication for #phage therapy. rdcu.be/eiVYd