The original post I referred to has been deleted but it was not fake news -- the details and the ethical concerns are laid out here: www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

This does seem like something the Danish government should be looking into?? Since ours has apparently buried their ethics...

🎧 OHBM Podcast Neurosalience — S6, Ep 3 is out now! Philosophy, deep sampling & the advancing tide of AI Host Peter Bandettini talks with Kendrick Kay on how AI is shaping neuroscience. Listen now!

whoof--new personal trainer, doing workouts at 6 am. 😆 I am a noodle in front of my computer...

VERY important to make clear that the passer-by who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters is a Muslim named Ahmed el-Ahmed. He probably saved many lives

Love Notes from Nature Calendars are how we're funding the 2026 Native Plant Project in Philly! We're planning to distribute 10,000 packets of native plant seeds in the city & doing a bar-level promo campaign w/local artists. We have 72 calendars left. Reposts v helpful! Get one at SquidFacts.Net

I woke up with "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" as an earworm, and with my subconscious convinced it was an extended metaphor for the wreck of the United States...

I am easily amused by word play. I admit it. 😆

I have a clean bathroom but I imagine the VOCs around here are outrageous as a result... 😉 The snow, she is coming down. As long as the electricity stays on we are in good shape; we haven't gotten around to getting the fireplace/chimney cleaned and converted to a pellet stove...

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

Yeah, no kidding! 😂 Way to stop all traffic at the immigration desks!

I am amused that at the end of semester psych research day, my lab is both present in force, and are taking up the second row from the front. We are raising them right!! 😁

This, I can totally agree with. 😁

Well all those scientific conferences better plan on not holding their meetings in the US for the next however long. Nobody will come from outside the country! This is another great way to isolate us from the rest of the world. 🤯 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Woot!! Congrats to Haley on her dissertation paper publication! (She has several others also under review which should be equally intriguing!) 👏👏 www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Delaware, OH 🔥

Interesting -- I have roughly the same number of followers/following on both Bsky and mastodon, though I have been there much longer. But my SkypeaScientist post got 11 boosts there and multiple likes and one comment in a day, while here-- zip. Where the science lovers at? 😁 What's the hashtag?

you feel pretty good about your CV, until you see @vcalhoun.bsky.social 's and say, "wait, over 1300 peer-reviewed articles???!!!" #ManvsMachine lol 😆 And that's without the aid of LLMs...

One of those charities I support whole heartedly -- help everyone meet and interact with working scientists, understand the methods and arguments in multiple domains, and how scientific consensus comes to be. givebutter.com/SupportSAS25

Absolutely. Very good advice.

To quote my sweetie, if you are Insulting People for Christ (tm), then you have lost the plot. 🚫

Tomorrow IRL markets in Philly start, which means a bunch of squid facts shop items will sell out! We have a few Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirts (designed by @franzanth.bsky.social) left. They're comfy & colors printed great! Once they're gone that's it. Get 'em now: SquidFacts.net

This is great news!! 👏👏 They recovered!! www.bendsource.com/business/bus...

I do love these guys-- just excellent work in Christian theology and biblical scholarship. This one particularly is about the "don't work don't eat" verse so popular in"Christian" politics... youtu.be/mMJ5mHoWrSM?...

It's the Onion, but seriously, I wouldn't put it past them...

Lots of people working from home around here today...

Now THAT is super cool!

Snicker snicker... youtu.be/drDs-Y5DNH8?...

I saw this back in early November but it still makes me smile: The unicorn listened intently. Somewhere in the forest, someone innocent was singing. The unicorn followed the sound, found the singer, ... --it's too long to post here, but I hope you can see the link! mastodon.art/@MicroSFF/11...

I had a chance last week to catch up with three of my previous grad students, which was a serious bonus for the week! They are all in different positions facing different challenges, but they have all flourished and found meaningful paths that let them grow. 👏👏 Yay for the next generation!

This could be good news-- fingers crossed for Dr. Acton to be the next gov of Ohio! open.substack.com/pub/davidpep...

I'm grilling veggie skewers and it smells SO GOOD. 😊 The brisket is reheating and the baked beans are on the stove... I am grateful for positive examples and inspirations like Mark Kelly and Zohran Mamdani, this Thanksgiving. And so, so many others who risk their income and liberty for democracy.

Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.

Interesting day yesterday, but the long and short of it is, if your eyes start doing weird stuff, get thee to an emergency room. (I'm ok; it took all day to confirm nothing weird was still going on. But all the docs said If it HAD been something more serious, then time is of the essence!) 👀 😱

I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen

Rewatching Code Geass --the first time thru several years ago I saw parallels to Breaking Bad. #anime Now sadly I only see the Israel - Gaza parallels. 💔

By the way, following #WomenInSTEM is a very good way to cheer yourself up. 😁

"Eventually “the president ordered it” becomes sufficient justification for any action, any violation, any atrocity." Read this and do not let it go unheeded, eh? We cannot just go quietly into that dark night.

Yup. This is a) unnecessary (waste) and b) part of the effort to make sure research conforms with whatever nuttiness of the day came out in the last executive order and c) removes any documentation about why a grant that was well reviewed by actual scientists as worthy of funding was not funded.

„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences. It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.

It is unprecedented that 47 medical and public health organizations should come together to condemn the actions of the CDC. www.apha.org/news-and-med... 1. American Academy of Pediatrics 2. Academic Pediatric Association 3. American Academy of Family Physicians ....

Rewatching the end few episodes of SpyxFamily season 2 before starting in on season 3 -- dang I'd forgotten how fun that show is, and simply funny and sweet. ❤️ #anime Good antidote to the world at large. 😁

And if you'd rather not yourself but you'd like to support effective efforts, one effective outlet is @skypeascientist.bsky.social. I recently saw @sarahmackattack.bsky.social give a talk about what they've been up to, and I'm convinced it's important and effective. givebutter.com/SupportSAS25

Sigh. I finally can give blood again because the mad cow rules changed, my iron is solid, I have the time -- and they couldn't find my vein!! 😭 They quit rooting around for it when I nearly screamed from the pain. Never had that happen before!

I am testing our study that pings you a few times a day about your mood. Turns out, scrolling on blue sky actually moves me off zero on anger and irritation, and lowers my hope and happiness. Sigh.

Exactly. Look to your left and right, and who is standing up against this misogyny? It had better be all of you!

#TrumpIsAPig If US listened to and respected its women, Trump would have never, ever been a President. We can’t end violence against women unless more people are willing to speak up.

This is an important topic to engage with! #academia