Why do we arm broken people with lethal weapons paid for by our tax contributions?!

"He just became a total jerk to his subordinates, acting as if their every gesture were a provocation. Testosterone [only] drove those males to reaffirm the status that they already held in that group, amplifying the aggressive behaviors they had learned they could get away with."

Wild story from @kashhill.bsky.social depicting how the AI Slop phenomenon is getting worse & how platforms encourage it. AI Slop is not harmless. It exploits attention, degrades labor & expertise, distorts our discourse & collective knowledge, & eviscerates trust. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...

Which country will finally get it? It just takes some initial investment money and strategic planning beyond a given election cycle, to get decades of payoffs.

Much enjoyed essay, especially the bit calling out to all academic knowledge-seekers: "The stealthy purpose of studying [anything in depth] is to get you comfortable with changing your mind."

To pile on with @fieldsmeyer.com and @geomblog.bsky.social, lest we forget that Schmidt also told students to steal TikTok’s IP and let the lawyers figure it out while egging on the Natsec crowd to take on the PRC over tech theft. Ripped the credibility out of U.S. IP enforcement arguments.

Thank you to the author 🧪 🔭 for writing and sharing! This test at our global expense is outrageous and the FCC just passed the buck that the world can't spend.

Comments due by Monday on the attempt to politicize science/aka kill American research as we know it. Do it at the link (counter the ton of Heritage-foudnatoin-prompted comments): www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

Look what I found: Hopefully the gift link will work. www.nytimes.com/1954/08/07/a...

Years ago, I stumbled on this amazing live concert in Barcelona. One of the most memorable in my life. You might do the same if you are there on 25 July: youtube.com/post/UgkxpEX...

Well-written and lucid analysis of where we are and what is coming.

@stephenmarche.bsky.social Appreciation of "As a geopolitical actor, the United States has become a kind of lumbering zombie... Much of the world understands that another round of elections in the midterms or in 2028 won’t solve anything." True here in France, but grifter copycats may yet prevail.

Appropriate and wise.

New @elife.bsky.social cell-level atlas of human cardiac development by the Bobola and @simonbamforth.bsky.social labs in Manchester and Newcastle, UK! Congrats for this necessary integrative step further in understanding all the dimensions of #heart cell states. elifesciences.org/articles/107...

Super proud of Dr Boileau & her collaborators, whom I knew in the gene-discovery days of the noughts, when "functional" genomics meant showing a gene was expressed in right place & time for a role in disease pathogenesis was enough to be recognized as useful. 🧪 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

"Being ready to spontaneously create something wonderful takes •extraordinary• [inefficient-seeming prep] work... 1 bucket drawn quickly from a well that took years to fill." h/t P. Cantrell @[email protected] We NEED delayed gratification on a societal level in arts, education, public works.

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Presidents and judges need to understand that it isn’t their job to legislate. When they usurp the powers vested in the Congress, they violate the Constitution they have sworn to uphold. When the Congress abdicates its authority, it conspires in the constitutional offense.

@limediamond.bsky.social Where have you been the last three years?

Figure 1 is for all #developmental & stem cell biologists, not just immunologists.

Sideloading shouldn't require a 24-hour waiting period and a 9-step gauntlet. Google's 'advanced flow' is designed to fail. Keep Android Open! @keepandroidopen.bsky.social keepandroidopen.org/fr/

“But once the snow has melted, the ice itself begins to disappear, and the water is effectively lost to the glacier forever. That leaves less water for future use, bringing closer the day when water in Europe becomes an erratic resource.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/c...

Re-upping this 2024 @bloomberg.com explainer: Why Older Adults Are Uniquely Vulnerable to Extreme Heat www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"all of this can change at any time, no matter how old you are, how long you’ve been doing this" www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

Vaut le coup de lire même en traduction : “Moins vous prenez de place, plus les applaudissements sont forts.“

Having lived in Europe over half my life now, I can't help but be scandalized by the grift gap between trying not to operate at an unsustainable loss and turning a real profit for public necessities like hospitals, schools and the judiciary system.

Thanks to OP for sharing this coverage of a Current Biology article. 🧪 What a wonderful if rather terrifying world.

When something is true, twenty years make no difference. Although degrees of privacy are determined by each individual, the link between privacy and liberty is indissociable. 🗽 www.schneier.com/essays/archi...

Coupes drastiques du budget de la recherche + durcissement des règles d’attribution des financements ANR «Allez à l’ERC!» qu’ils disent, mais l’ERC saturée prend des mesures pour limiter les candidatures #deadend#recherchefrançaise Une petition semble vaine mais il faut commencer quelque part 👉

Let me tell you bad it is when people don't have control over their reproductive autonomy, and the state does: mitpress.mit.edu/978026253842...

THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks. You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.

Comprised of several articles by op ed writers. Not bad. Good stuff about America. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Very interesting approach! And warning: “If funders don’t maintain a diverse portfolio, the breakthroughs of tomorrow will have no antecedents. Think of this as eating the seed corn, or killing the goose that lays the golden egg."

🧪 "science ... is not a partisan argument but an empirical one... The best way to stand [up] for science remains showing that it is curiosity-driven research that led to a better world today, as in the cures that did not exist a generation ago and weather forecasts that save lives and livelihoods."

Marjane Satrapi 1969—2026

In other words, yet more grift to bilk the taxpayers, who should be irate at this blatant theft.

For a nation to have a vibrant science and innovation ecosystem we need long-term stable funding for lots and lots of pilot ideas—things that aren’t clearly a slam dunk now but may be in the future. That was NIH and NSF investigator-initiated funding. AND we need big moonshots alongside that. 2/

I like it when the title makes the message super clear: Temperate local extinctions from climate change are outpacing tropical extinctions. ​(even if the message mostly sucks). 🧪 Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02669-y​

sadly true for science "in the financialized logic of our age, winning is less important than the perception that you will win. Speculation beats fundamentals." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

i liked but 😭 : "It is not hard to imagine a world where this was the White House message ahead of the nation’s anniversary — a celebration of shared values and our highest aspirations."

5/ My latest w/Katherine Long, Neil Mehta and Brenna Smith www.wsj.com/business/med...

This is Sandy Hook all over again. Open those wounds & abrade them daily with salt, so not only do they never heal but fester and spread. People responsible for originating but especially propagating such defamatory, destructive lies should be held accountable with jail time as well as hefty fines.

And here is the CENTCOM report that lists 1,700 targets truck in first 72 hours, which also corroborates. If Grok was used for 2,000 in the first 96 hours, then it had to be the technology that was responsible for the strike on the school. Let's stop talking about algae, this is a scandal.

Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), 🧪👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher and mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, the first Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science and the first woman or person of colour to become 🧵

"War has instead done what it usually does: empowered the powerful, rallied the faithful, and allowed an apparatus of repression to present its imperatives in terms of national security." It's too soon to look away. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Did Eli Saslow consult you @kakape.bsky.social and if so, why was your original piece not cited properly or credited here?

"Day 121, orbit 1873 — Sunday morning science with Sophie, episode 9: Hunting for sounds, part 2.   Before anyone starts wondering why the TOCA is clicking while it’s switched off… I recorded the sound later on during actual operations. It’s my absolute favourite sound onboard the Station! "

"modern science is incredibly super-national and the scientists were [ARE] beside themselves." The only hope for UK reocvery is in the continued use of English as a lingua franca in Western Europe, in aggressive re-establishment of scientific collaborations as soon as possible, and in time to heal.