This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

Exclusive: "It's chaos." The world's most sophisticated weather agency struggles to comprehend what it's supposed to do now. By @laurenthal.bsky.social and @weathersullivan.bsky.social 🎁🔗: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

“I think it’s going to destroy research universities in the short term, and I don’t know after that.” Story by @by-cjewett.bsky.social on the new NIH policy that will shrivel support for research. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

I cannot see how this will be anything but devestating to biomedical research in the United States www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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