A quantified explanation for why women make up more than 50% of biomedical graduate student cohorts but occupy only about 1/3 of faculty positions 🧪

Today is opening day for Avatar Fire & Ash. Even if you go see this film, or enjoy the franchise, or James Cameron's other works, it doesn't mean that you can't also support, sign, and share this petition.

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

This is exactly why things like ethics, unconscious bias and general confronting of people’s racism in science IS necessary and will always be necessary.

The only reason “hallucinates less” is now a metric of progress is rich people decided so and our media landscape is almost entirely captured by these rich people’s rich mates. That’s the only reason.

I think the norm where academic presses own copyright of the author’s work is not a good norm

Smart! A Raven doing Raven things.

With alt text. Also, these aren't antics. These are public threats to another country's sovereignty by the Secretary of Homeland Security. We keep treating it like a joke because to your average American the idea of invading Canada seems ridiculous. They're not laughing.

cowards

(re)designing a class to encourage deep reading by simulating a grant panel 🧪

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

Considerably more people regret Lasik (3%), joint replacement (as high as 28%!), carpal tunnel release (7%), non-gender related cosmetic plastic surgery (20% or even higher) No one is raising alarm bells about any of these surgeries in the way people are panicking over trans healthcare

Guess what? My ADHD brain also makes it very hard for me to lie, or it at least shows on my face; so when I say I am able to collaborate on a project or fit a role, it is because I truly believe I have something of value to add.

There's not a perfect overlap between what research members of my lab enjoy and what I enjoy, and this is a Good Thing! 🧪

i'm at the point where i don't fucking care what the article is, if the image on the link card is obviously AI, i'm not clicking it (i have been at this point for a while really, but it's becoming less theoretical and a more active choice every damn day)

The playbook they ran against abortion is now being run against gender-affirming medical care and will be used against birth control. Oklahoma just proposed a bill to limit IUDs this week. You need to defend trans people's health care like your birth control depends on it.

It's not too late to join this week's #GlobalStrikeForPalestine. You can check @USCPR_'s Public Toolkit (tinyurl.com/er43a854) which has lots of ideas. You can contact your Congress persons (yes, multiple times). You can amplify and re-share information. All of it helps.

Organizers of crips esims for Gaza which has delivered esims that tangibly allow Gazans to communicate with each other & the world in communications blackouts are @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social & @sfdirewolf.bsky.social As y'all amplify their vital effort keep in mind they're here among us on bluesky.

You can learn why Anti-Zionism is NOT Antisemitism or why "From the river to the sea" is NOT calling for the end of the Jewish people. This is a good resource for those looking to learn.

It's stunning that the technical leader of the World Health Organization's COVID-19 response, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, publically reaffirmed that COVID-19 is still a global health threat and still a pandemic, yet hardly any media outlet has covered this except for this one.

Now that we have embedded video here, I decided to be the one to start this round:

learned recently that Bengalis made a pun with Biden's name calling him "jobai den" which roughly translates to "butcher them"

Even if you participate in activities like indoor dining, it's still important to wear a mask some of the time. Reducing reinfections decreases your risk of Long COVID, and wearing a mask on public transport and in healthcare protects higher risk people who need to access essential services.

So many angry thoughts about that mentality of the old teaching style. A teacher that can not adapt and succeed seems to always try to victim blame and transfer responsibility.

Before expressing your disdain for ADHD students who "need to learn to manage their conditions" and learn that deadlines exist, check yourself. How many of the deadlines you encounter are truly hard deadlines? Also, unless you're helping them "learn to manage their condition," shut up.

How to handle an epidemic of disability? Rewrite the rules so a TON of those folks aren’t legally disabled anymore. What epidemic? This is as brilliant as ending COVID by no longer tracking it.

I've got some new followers, time to repost the call for participants. 15 minutes, tops!

“The IDF would never bomb a hospital” They have now destroyed & damaged all hospitals in Gaza. Only 1/3 are even partially functioning. They have killed many patents & doctors, left newborns to die & are now sniping hospitals. Our media are largely silent. electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-b...

New paper in PLOS Biol with @graciellehigino.bsky.social et al.: "Postdoctoral scientists are mentors, and it is time to recognize their work". We argue that ensuring that post-docs receive proper credit for ALL their labour would benefit all academia.