Headed to the annual meeting of the European Society for Pigment Cell Research tomorrow as if it were a normal September in that other timeline.

"...asking embarrassing questions doesn't get you put on the president's Enemies List. Instead, you show up at the press room to find that your seat has been taken by the dude from the White Guys Grievance Podcast Dot Com." bergetoons.blogspot.com/2025/09/what...

This is why everything in public health seems to boil down to "raising awareness" of healthy vs unhealthy choices. But individual awareness is meaningless without robust public health infrastructure. Everything from air quality to food to physical activity is heavily shaped by societal factors.

One time, the Missouri Ethics Committee investigated me over a $30 donation…

Only three left and one canceled 😜

From another article: despite it being a huge number of people, no one knows the actual number. english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-...

“For us, this represents the greatest award to creativity in science,” says Giacomo Bartolucci, a physicist at the University of Barcelona in Spain, who was a co-author on the cacio e pepe study.'

All Kansas prisons now prohibit programs like ours, which send donated books to incarcerated readers, & have banned print newspapers from publishers. For what? Vague claims about drugs on paper. Yet they can't & won't provide evidence. Basically: "Trust us, bro." kansasreflector.com/2025/09/18/k...

👏"I want lawmakers to be telling people like Carr and his ilk not that they’ll have regrets but that they’ll face consequences." 🫰"... the tyrant not as a symbol of strength but as a weak and contemptible figure, vain and fragile,... murdered in his heart by the most innocuous of criticism."

..."a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades"

This is absolutely delicious and gives me hope. May it help you, too.

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The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage. When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig. Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

Simple psychology. People want to believe and present their negative traits as universal and their positive traits as exclusive.

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

After making a dumb joke on here about the creative side of academic writing as "unfunded hobbit research", I then wrote a serious post about it

Desperately seeking: #MoralAuthority 🤍ˎˊ˗

The wild thing is the number of faculty I know who have this experience because of that watchlist. And the violence is just totally invisible to most people because we live in a world where folks want to believe that academics are elite rich kids with cushy jobs and not us/them.

Reading because it looks fascinating & fundamental. Combinatorial BMP4 and activin direct the choice between alternate routes to endoderm in a stem cell model of human gastrulation: Developmental Cell www.cell.com/developmenta... 🧪

This is an outstanding read. I highly recommend it to everyone.

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This is a beautiful, uplifting obituary. Thank you for introducing me to the work and life of this scholar and the writing style of M. Gessen as well.

You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire. Is “radical-left” violence really on the rise in America? economist.com/graphic-deta...

El coche eléctrico no es una moda: es la infraestructura del futuro www.enriquedans.com/2025/09/el-c...

TIL: "It’s entirely possible for airlines to avoid flying at altitudes where the air is conducive to forming contrails. A 2020 study found that adjusting the cruising altitude of just 2% of flights could reduce contrail warming by nearly 60%, w/o using much more fuel." Bonus iPhone citizensci link.🧪

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This is an ERC grant I can get behind - how intriguing! 🧪

Captive Dreamer's pinned tweet is him trying to tag in the Vice President, WHO FOLLOWS HIM, to "do something" about me, for trying to draw attention to his sociopathic incitement

5/ So what is in our China Low Carbon Technologies FDI database? no biggie. Just every overseas green factory set up by a Chinese firm set up from 2011 to middle of 2025. Thats...461 manufacturing projects in 54 countries! What did we find? Check it out: netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

Behold, the best 9/11 humor of all time: The Onion's TV listings (my favorite row is MTV)

Photojournalist Bill Biggart died when the second tower collapsed on him on 9/11, but the film he shot that day and his flash card were recovered from the debris and developed, along with his flash card. You can see his amazing photos of 9/11, the last photos he took while alive, here:

This is literally the most constructive thing I've read in hours. Give yourself some relief from (waves hands) all that.

It's strategic to protect your mental health. Please do. Click on your profile > Settings, then add the words you need to.

Take your mind off human current events for a moment.

@mikeachim.bsky.social Hey there, Mike! I hope you recover completely and quickly. Rest up.

Every journal club

🚨🚨New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com!! Come for the first large-scale analysis of plasmid copy number across species, stay for one of the most intriguing results of my lab: universal scaling laws in plasmid biology! 📈🧬 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Christine Rabinak PhD, is Director of the Translational Neuropsychopharmacology Lab (www.tnp2lab.org) at Wayne State University. She is also fighting recurrent breast cancer & has recently posted a hopeful message of therapeutic response. Her family needs your support. gofund.me/3fe48a353

"Because they were more active than normal, they burned through their energy reserves and showed signs of accelerated aging. Their ability to generate new cells was also reduced [&] they began activating normally hidden sections of DNA". Similar process > gray hair. 👵🏾🧪 www.nih.gov/news-events/...

If you don't even know where to start, check out the #DidThisToday hashtag where folks post some of the practical things they're doing to make the world a little better and push back against fascism. Lots of great, easy things to do there.

🦈 Teeth outside the mouth Male chimaeras grow a strange head clasp lined with teeth. New research shows these extra teeth develop like shark teeth, not skin denticles, revealing surprising flexibility in how vertebrate teeth evolved. 🔗 phys.org/news/2025-09... #SciComm 🧪 #Fish

QUALITY CONTROL TEAM 🚨😺🚨 #caturday

For a deeply bookish person, all these trips w/ boxes of books to sell to the used bookstore, & now empty shelves, is pretty distressing. But as I meet the people buying my shelves & see my books at the store (where I bought many in the 1st place), the circle reveals itself. A toast to bookishness.

Under the terms of the deal, Anthropic will pay about $3K/book, Nelson said, w/ about 500K books expected to be eligible. But $0 for us authors (our employers) of scientific articles scraped for same profiteering, unfair use, b/c no one to represent us. Yet THEY "advance scientific discovery”? 🧪

“[their data informs] where atmospheric CO2 comes from, where it goes, & where plant life is thriving... to monitor wildfires, ocean health & agricultural outlooks. 'We built these satellites [b/c] they serve critical functions in commerce, in national security, in food security, in water security'🧪

🧵How to write and manage your first research budgets The point of funding is to convert it into quality research. A well-spent research budget should fund the idea it was raised on, plus revision experiments, plus preliminary data for the next grant. So you need to spend, while avoiding waste.

A delightful read, recommended. 🧪🔭