Excited to share @rbrianroome.bsky.social ‘s beautiful paper on development of the dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord @science.org This is how the anatomical organization and cell types that process pain, touch, body position and more are laid down. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Mexico strongly condemns and rejects the military actions carried out unilaterally ... by armed forces of the United States of America against targets in the territory of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in clear violation of Article 2 of the [UN] Charter" www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/m...

what the fuck did I just wake up to

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

made a phenomenal giant cinnamon roll using a cardamom brioche base

A new story at The Transmitter about the PRECISION Human Pain Network's new DRG cell atlas: www.thetransmitter.org/peripheral-n... So rewarding to hear about colleagues who are already using our datasets in their own work.

As winter solstice approaches, resharing a small poem of longing from a poet of the Chinese diaspora who spent the latter half of his life in Taiwan. He died there in December seven years ago, in 2017. Yu Guangzhong, "Nostalgia" - in his handwriting, alongside my translation #everynightapoem #余光中

And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. - Raymond Carver, "Late Fragment"

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

how is this not just outright data fabrication? genuinely if you came up to me and said "well i couldn't get any human participants so i had ai guess the human response and now i want to generalize my data to humans", i would call that data fabrication with extra steps.

An American fascist, according to Wallace, is a man “whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.”

having lost 4 people dear to me this year, i understand the appeal, i really do. i also think that doing this would destroy my real memories with them for a pale imitation.

the top non-science classes i took in my undergrad that impacted my career as a scientist: women writing war upper-level communications scientific illustration the first made me a better writer, the second a better presenter, and the third trained my eye for detail like none other.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Hoiho/Yellow-Eyed Penguin Beaver Javelina Bobcat Stellar sea lion

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Ok one more video. the most beautiful fluke I've seen. edited for EXTRA BEAUTY!!!

i'd love to know what constellation Matteo Rizzo makes in his Interstellar free skate program's step sequence

im so fucking lucky i was able to get through the times in my life i thought i'd never come out as trans and never survive the closet and i know so many people didn't get there and fell or were pushed off a road made steep and stony by the cruel & fearful and i'm thinking of them today #tdor

It’s often surprising to people, but Midwestern college towns like Iowa City and Madison are highly progressive. Council meetings are all about housing costs and community resources

So when the aurora borealis is faint enough, you can capture its glow with the Milky Way 😍 Berthoud Pass, CO last night

Here is my argument that the pundits are wrong. You absolutely can run a socialist in middle America and win. www.patreon.com/posts/143343...

1. of books assigned to me in school: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. 2. of books given to me by friends: Carmen Maria Machado's In The Dream House. 3. of books given to me by family: Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. 4. of books i chose for myself: Deborah Blum's The Poison Squad

more #NorthernLights posting!

The latest work from our PRECISION Human Pain Center project is now up on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social led by Katherin Gabriel and @oliviadavis.bsky.social with a huge contribution from @allanhpool.bsky.social's lab and, of course, the Southwest Transplant Alliance: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

hey that's the paper i'm co-first on! it was a fun project to work on and there's nice example videos in the supplemental

After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

This. This. This. Food banks generally have buying power and partnerships where your money actually buys more food and feeds more people if they’re the ones doing the purchasing.

upped my donation to the local food banks & i encourage anyone who can donate to do so.

i really want to see high-quality photos of Mikhail Shaidorov's exhibition outfit - that embroidery work looks gorgeous!!

Sharing a figure from our recent paper showing excitatory synapses in the human spinal dorsal horn. I’ll never get over the awe of seeing these tiny dots, which underly such an important part of the human experience! @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

i got pushed by docs into thinking my chronic migraines were just headaches from stress for five years - they were actually the primary manifestation of a tumor in my head. it took me a full year and half of fighting for myself to actually get the treatment i needed. it instantly cured me.

I’m not ready for the Grand Prix

Finally out: our recent work with Nick Betley is a view into how the brain reshapes its behavior in the face of competing survival needs- and also a potential angle on treatment targets for enduring pain. A brief rundown... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

love to have a representative that refuses to do her job! or be accountable to her constituents! she won that seat originally by 6 votes. she held it last election by less than 1000. bold to be acting like this with those numbers.

i'll be really curious to see what happens with my age cohort (at least, those of us who got chickenpox vaccines and never got chickenpox in the first place) i'm among the oldest of people vaccinated against chickenpox, at least in the u.s.

A new preprint out from the Levy lab, adding knowledge to the exciting world of brain border macrophages and neuroimmunology. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

There have been two hosts in the history of Reading Rainbow. The Legend of Literacy, LeVar Burton! And... me, Mychal Threets, a librarian 🥹🤯 I am a reader, a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow made us believe and see we belong in books, we belong everywhere ✨ youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

okay not to be really cynical about this but it's not seeming like they accounted for the systemic biases that we already know exist in who gets funded, published, etc so like. are we measuring actual impact or proportion of white men? if your training data is biased, then your system will be biased

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district. The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps." www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

Fractalkine is a key player in skeletal muscle metabolism and pathophysiology febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dear friends, As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here: #everynightapoem

Frances Oldham Kelsey would like to have a word context for those unaware: she is why thalidomide was never approved in the u.s. for morning sickness, she was the FDA pharmacologist who had concerns re lack of safety data

Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring. So Science did a study. ChatGPT failed. Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." www.science.org/content/blog...

the "will always produce plausible but false outputs" is not unexpected to me and is a reason i have no desire to use these things. if i were to use it for research, i would have to go double check everything it spits out anyway, and that's slower than me just going and sorting thru papers myself

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Ryu et al. find that invasive neural recordings of patients with chronic pain revealed that higher pain levels were associated with increased regularity in spike-like events within the 4- to 15-Hz band. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/46HTsPH

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people