🎨 #Art Sleeping Lady with Black Vase How it was recovered 👉🏼 news.artnet.com/art-world/as... #History

@ovarylab.bsky.social ugggh I have had a note open to send you images for weeks, now. So don't be surprised if they finally turn up out of the blue 🤦‍♀️ Meanwhile, happy holidays!

Morphogenesis & Organogenesis! Part 1 (full) in the comments 👇 Comment if you'd like to be added (regardless of age or career stage!) Please post your own biology-related starter packs using #BioStarterPacks 🧬🔬🪰🐟🐁🌱

A very cool article by the team of @anne-grapin.bsky.social about the forces that through the white fuse drive the organ (h/t Dylan Thomas). Open access and lots of colors nonetheless 🥰🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

When I have posted this in the past, people inevitably have asked "Did she come home?" so I will not wait until the end of the thread to tell you she did (she's still a nomad, but less so, as she hits her middle years). The story can be found here: www.tom-cox.com/the-cat-who-...

H/T V Olsen on Mastodon for a grounded piece on AI hype and hope. Free to read. 🎁 www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1...

This is lovely as a tribute, and resembles the Provençal crèche tradition that people here continue to follow with pleasure. There was cosplay for adults; dolls for adults are just as appealing and personality comes through in collections.

Gear up for hypocritical condemnation of pressures in #academia. WAY many more suicides than murder-suicides. Social or professional exclusions can turn deadly without access to #mentalHealth support. In Lausanne, access for PhD students costs ~$900 1st 4 consults. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/p...

As an over-50 myself, Lord Wood's quotes sound reasonable. Gen X knew this demographic penalty was coming since we entered the workforce, squeezed by older/younger groups already. It's not our responsibility alone. Countering HR ageism with incentives may help but some still need to retire younger.

Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.

Don't steal pies this Christmas.

Possibly cells offer a new regime of proton chemistry. This upends how we (at least I) think about enzyme activity, trafficking, signaling, and organelle identity. 16/n

@openrxiv.bsky.social The search function in bioRxiv at least is currently partly broken. It is possible to recover some but not all articles with the term "Multi-modal", and author search doesn't work at all. Currently posted articles appear, though. Please update front page 💔

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes another well-argued piece about the disastrous foreign non-policy willed into being by the Trump administration, probably with incentives. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This is basically the plot of "Suits", which ended up boring despite the attractive soap opera actors & clothes. It might've been more gripping and a better condemnation of money-grubbing at all costs (to others, particularly children) if the writers had known recent history.

This is beautiful: "Much of the menu at 1587 Prime reads like magnetic poetry for people with expense accounts."

Here is a map of the affected countries (excluding Tonga), to give you a sense of how much this new ban restricts immigration from Africa in particular. Of the newly-added country, Nigeria faces the largest impact, with tens of thousands of visas issued every year to Nigerians.

This is what @nathangrubaugh.bsky.social and I think about these days, and we're finding that everything (including traveler cases) is downstream of rising temperatures - so if you want to know what's coming in the U.S., you need climate data. planetarysolutions.yale.edu/climate-driv...

Today is the 252nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party as @hcrichardson.bsky.social (HCR) pointed out in her Politics Chat. But it's Susie Wiles who is spilling the tea today.

NSF does in fact own the building, which further supports the idea that the question is what the fuck is going on at NSF bsky.app/profile/djga...

This isn't as simple as the government shutting down an agency or an office; there's some program officers at NSF who have been given the order to carry out political interference on one of the most important grants in the country, and there are desperate scientists on the other end of that action

“Empathy is at the core of everything I believe in.” - Rob Reiner. (Reiner has repeatedly framed empathy as a civic and moral obligation in interviews.) ☮️

The #NIH IRP Summer (paid!) Internship Program for 2026 has opened its application portal. This opportunity is open to US Citizens who are college students (including rising first-years), postbaccalaureate, and graduate students, including medical and dental. The deadline is 2026/02/18!

"Tincher [a US citizen] has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours, where she saw about seven other detainees." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Lab’s 1st preprint! Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate. @cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation. He is on the job market!

So stoked to cover this work led by @cagricevrim.bsky.social from @karalmckinley.bsky.social ‘s group! It’s always such a thrill to see how researchers continue to push the boundaries of their field and develop new tools. Read about it below! 🧪

The physicist Philip W. Anderson "succinctly framed the nascent anti-reductionist perspective with the phrase 'More is different.'" Life (in the abstract) IS marvelous & I welcome other scientists to biology's big tent. 🎁🧪 www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Mr. Rogers' famous advice to "Look for the helpers" was meant to help parents comfort kids in a terrifying world. For adults, there's an implied second part: ...And if you can, be one yourself. This member of the Brown University community is a hero.

Stereo3D view of Curiosity at work in a trough of the boxwork structure, captured yesterday To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel/left image for left eye/right image for right eye. #Mars Sol 4747 - Dec. 13, 2025 🧪🔭 Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Audubon's Christmas Bird Count starts this Sunday and runs through January 5th. This is a 126-year tradition that has built a critically important, long-term dataset on bird populations across the US and much of the western hemisphere. It's also fun and wholesome. www.christmasbirdcount.org

15.8 billion miles away from earth. 😳 Next up, a meeting with the Epsilon Eridani aliens in, checks watch, a million years.

Coming from the tatters of the NSF 🧪🥼 even if not directly employed by the government of the people, scientists supported by public money have the public interest always first and foremost. We do not take taxed or donated funds as our due but as a responsibility, unlike the agency-wreckers earlier.

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Souvent, quand le gouvernement organise des assises, c'est qu'il sait exactement où il veut aller, mais ne sait pas comment y aller. Donc possible qu'on laisse parler des gens, pour ensuite faire du cherry-picking et faciliter la mise en œuvre de l'objectif pré-établi.

Geeking out here: itiner-e.org and not forgetting from my bourgeois seat that these were built by hand with (essentially or literally) slave labor in a highly inegalitarian zero-sum game of power. Not least because I've been reading Simon Sparrow's novels recently.

Excellent read. "From top to bottom life in India for employees of the East India Company was every bit a move fast and break things kind of gig." They broke a lot of people over a lot of generations, as our oligarch nabobs are reproducing today.

As a visa holder living in the US, there is never a wrong time to post this.

A sad pattern of bleak reality, working poverty, and the populace-at-large turning away from the issue. On my block in San Francisco, people live in unheated garages. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

"ProPublica and High Country News set out to investigate the transformation of the [public land] grazing system into a massive subsidy program."

Fantastic read. "The same logic that built the factory shaped the classroom & the office: linear, measurable, externally paced. The mind became another tool on the assembly line, expected to perform at a steady rhythm.... Compliance drains energy, while honesty restores it."

The New York Times take on the Ashland ABC store drunken raccoon: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

Après l'eau, les céréales (surtout à base de blé). Une contamination généralisée, massive et diffuse et chronique des milieux. Pas très éloigné d'un préjudice écologique d'ampleur, non ? Si l'UE réagit mollement - via une modification de REACH - la loi du 27/02/25 est aussi très insuffisante. Pffff

Apropos of nothing, I was humming these lyrics this morning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAE...

JOURNALIST REQUEST: I'm writing a story about how organizing/joining resistance movements can build community and fight loneliness, particularly in the US. If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail. Signal boosts appreciated!

*looks around at assorted trash fires* HEY KIDS, WANNA COOK A STREET CORN SMASH BURGER TACO WITH UNCLE KEVIN? LET’S GO! You don’t even have to do the burger part. Just the street corn will measurably improve your life. So let’s start there. Open a can of corn, dump in a skillet with oil, & char 1/

Here's Part 2 of my interview with @pbsnews.org, where we talk about the "toxic stress" homeless families are subjected to—and the multiple systems, from housing to healthcare to wages and childcare, that have produced this disaster.

As I show in Holding It Together, the resulting trickle down of care is crushing women, particularly the low-income women (disproportionately immigrant, Black, and Latina women) who have been forced to do an outsized share of the underpaid work of care. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

Et joyeux anniversaire hein.

Came across this piece in a thread yesterday. It explains much, & unfortunately reveals poor reading/comprehension as a multi-generational problem that prolly can only be remediated by multiple generations literally relearning how to read. www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...