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This is frickin amazing

This finding is in mice but it provides an extraordinary insight into the health benefits of exercise in cancer. When obese mice exercise, glucose redirects away from tumors and to muscle, reducing tumor size by 60% via metabolic competition between healthy and cancerous tissues. ow.ly/2C6Q50XFPgu

Psilocybin ‘recovering’ forgotten sexual trauma in anorexia patients. It’s the recovered-memory sorcery again, chemically mediated this time. Ethical red flags everywhere. 🤦‍♂️

Here's another one: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... So basically, it seems @springernature.com requires clinical trials in Scientific Reports to adhere to rigorous standards, but you can still publish an uncontrolled study of a drug, with no registration, control, blinding or whatever.

Hi @springernature.com How come this article got published in Scientific Reports despite not meeting any of the criteria you claim to use for clinical trials? pubpeer.com/publications... #autism

there are of course many examples of political constituencies that have in fact killed scores of children (en route to some other evil goal), but I can't offhand think of any historical examples of a political constituency organized for that specific purpose

Wrote about Deepak Chopra’s new AI model, AI guru slop, and how none of this is really shocking because we already turned spirituality into a commodity. houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/this-was-i...

You may have heard that Trump’s extortion of University of California was defeated in court. But do you know who won this historic case? Spoiler: not a single UC administrator participated. It was all faculty members of the UC Faculty Associations and @aaup.org! Cc: @veenadubal.bsky.social

Excited to share a Registered Report in J. of Personality looking at the “perils of partialing” – led by the Bluesky-less Leigha Rose with @drlynam.bsky.social and me. (1) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A little something @katebennis.bsky.social wrote, inspired by the improv and writing team, Nichols and May. I played the part of the freaked out therapy client and handled the audio recording. This is me acting,and warning: it’s not for kids! (Plus it’s hilarious!) open.substack.com/pub/katebenn...

So the FBI has launched a probe into Democratic lawmakers over their video clarifying a soldier’s responsibilities when given illegal military orders. Is the proper response: a) laugh, b) retch, c) reach for a copy of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, or d) all of the above?

There is no easier ethical test in the world than "should MBS's money buy him international respect."

Google Gemini and I reimagined it as a painting by Caravaggio.

The administration captured in one picture.

I just watched Paul McCartney play 2.5 hours of time capsule-worthy classics. My verdict is that he’s the greatest songwriter in the history of rock n roll.

Lord, this was good.

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

This shit…that line About killing people in particular…would have made my father, who proudly served in the Army almost his entire life, throw up.

A spray-painted bronze statue titled “Best Friends Forever” showing Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands was placed on the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol early Tuesday.

Somebody has to say it Boy, that escalatored quickly

I may be biased, but I love this department! ❤️❤️❤️ Everyone should apply!

Have they brought the golden calf into the stadium yet?

Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.

Interesting idea actually

Wittgenstein: It is impossible to use words without making meaning. Vogue:

Remember kids: there is no idea or level of complexity that requires bad writing.

Is she talking to Groypers? Because dems just want her to have good health care.

People are following federal agents around DC w/the Imperial March. 😘 CHICAGO!! Will add some basic ICE melting🧊 resources below. Plz add other resources/ideas, & let’s get sub threads by city, so eg one person can start a Boston reply thread and everyone can add stuff to that thread — ? 🧵

Contributing to anti-doomscrolling with Max Linder, the sparkling French comedian who inspired Chaplin and is the earliest known movie star with his name on a poster (circa 1909).

#SeaScrolling. Necessary. #Breathe.

Not much to say about Charlie Kirk. I didn’t know much about him. It’s horrible that he was killed. I do feel like it’s a good time to say, again, that words are not violence. Violence is violence. And there’s too much of it.

Fire at the Market Street Garage in downtown Charlottesville.

Imagine spending a research career trying to force scientists to pay exorbitant licensing fees to use the little 8 item scale you built using public (NIH) funds retractionwatch.com/2025/09/02/p...

The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.

Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan had a budget of $12m. (The modern equivalent of $35m). Star Trek Beyond cost $185m to make. I'd rather watch Khan 10x than beyond once. Thats the power of decent writing, acting and casting. No SFX budget can overcome a lack of those.

It’s animal agriculture.

Social contagion is a powerful force in human affairs. And in the last ten years, many large-scale experiments have been done in the field, documenting its impact on a broad range of policy outcomes.

I don’t care if they’re right or wrong. (Personally I find them somewhat stilted.) The only question is whether they help or hinder gaining voters.

I also find them to be a strange excursion into history, because they choose a particular point at which to decide who owned what, but all I care about is whether they help or hinder politically.

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1970: As many as 20,000 women protest in the Women’s Strike for Equality in New York City, with more throughout the U.S. The event was held on the 50th anniversary of the certification of the 19th Amendment, giving women the constitutional right to vote. /1

Please, @npr.org--I'm begging: Stop using words like "unhoused." "Homeless" is descriptive and accurate. "Unhoused" just signals your intellectual superiority, disinviting a huge body of potential listeners from the progressive club. For all of our sakes, including the homeless, stop it. Stop. It.

A very big problem for *Korea*, says the putrescent trumpet of America’s Id.