New DHS Secy Markwayne Mullin, in an interview with Bret Baier, says he wants to consider pulling Customs out of international airports in “sanctuary cities,” which would effectively shut down a huge amount of international travel to the U.S. LA, NYC, BOS, SF, Chi, SEA, Miami, DEN, Phil, SD….

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People https://theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415/

Gilligan & the Skipper are briefed on their “excursion” to open the Strait of Hormuz…this won’t be a 3 hr tour.

I’d rather live next to wind turbines and solar panels.

Unlike one of my opponents, I believe in running in the district where I live! Central Jersey, 26 years strong! SamForNJ.org

The #NIH comprises less than 1% of the federal budget. 80% of that is allocated to universities and research institutions. That $$ ($36B) yielded $94 BILLION in new economic activity in 2025.

China is watching & taking action as we throw away the best thing we have ever built. China has proposed to increase its overall research & development expenditure by at least 7%/yr over the next five years, which translates to billions of extra dollars each year. 🧪 go.nature.com/4rqZQ4u

$1B per day and $4B so far of your tax dollars to kill 1000 people in 4 days And they are just getting warmed up Let that sink in

If Congress were serious about its Article I powers, it wouldn’t vote to fund a war it didn’t authorize. This is not complicated. SamForNJ.org

Today, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, born on February 1, 1952. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday www.nature.com/articles/nme...

How embarrassing!

They numbered the manholes in my neighborhood and this one is just down the block. I’ll take it as a good omen.

Supplementary Figure gone out of hand ... 🤯 #sciencepublishing

Because what you don’t know Can’t hurt you. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

We are hiring! Interested? Apply here: go.mbl.edu/AS1887

Sharks absolutely get cancer, and people claiming otherwise are pseudoscientific grifters preying on the desperate. Even if sharks did not get cancer, eating shark would not cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

This is what ICE is so afraid of that they think they need the national guard as backup.

I kinda remember Trump pardoning a bunch of people for this, many of whom beat up cops and put them in the hospital. I think they were yelling something about the Vice President as they stormed the building.

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs. 2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar. 3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

There are more people employed by NIH than coal mining (though Trump et alia are working hard to reduce NIH-related employment...)

Finally, I’m currently on the job market, and would love to hear about any open faculty positions you have in your department! I’m interested in tenure track positions both in the US and abroad. 12/12

Out of the blue, Trump called the Norwegian finance minister to ask when he would get the Nobel prize suggesting he would impose tariffs if he did not www.dn.no/politikk/fre...

Every night Stephen Miller must return to his carefully calibrated vat of restorative goo, made of ground up small mammals and the tears of children, for a full 10 hours, or his skin, already so sickly, will begin to slough off in chunks.

Thrilled to have as guest lecturer David Berson, our own personal Yoda, bestowing his great wisdom on the MBL Visual Neuroscience class!

Crime in D.C. hit a 30-year low last year. Trump deploying the National Guard on the city is yet another authoritarian show of force. It's straight out of the dictator's playbook. https://youtu.be/WSxJRIiCNs8?feature=shared

Hillel Adesnik lecturing in the MBL Visual Neuroscience course. Clear as a bell, as usual.

The first week of the MBL Visual Neuroscience course is in the books thanks to a wonderful group of students, TAs and faculty! On to week two with more studies on mouse, zebrafish, and octopus visual systems!

Check out this awesome study from my phenomenally talented colleague @accorsi-alice.bsky.social ! Apple snails can regrow their eyes! How do they do this? 👀 Read below ⬇️ to find out more! #regeneration

Leon Lagnado looking patriotic at the MBL Visual Neuroscience course. Make Vison Great Again!

Day 1 of the Visual Neuroscience course at the MBL in Woods Hole. The legendary John Dowling and Michael Do, both from Harvard, gave fabulous intro lectures on photoreceptors And the lab is humming! Can’t wait for day 2!

Motherfucking wind farms…

Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social

And today I wrote about the overthrow of tyrants.

A reminder that Brazil arrested and charged their former dictator Bolsonaro with planning a coup and trying to overturn the 2022 elections in their country. If only the United States had done the same instead of giving the plotter of a coup full totalitarian power of the govt.

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From last time

This is looking to be the most forthright and honest presentation so far from NIH officialdom.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Last week in Arches National Park. Finally got to see, in person, the “eye” I’ve been using on my seminar Intro slide.

Taken last week at Cliff House, Mesa Verde National Park. Beautiful structures built around 1100 AD by people with exceptional masonry skills. One of my top ten time travel destinations.

For the record, I've been trying to interview Bhattacharya since the moment (and before!) he was sworn in. I've followed up repeatedly. I offered to speak specifically about the new policy. I've written 20 stories on NIH since the inauguration. Why is Bhattacharya scared to speak to @nature.com?

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How it started // how it's going

youtu.be/2Tn_ap2modQ?.... This blokes amazing. 101 years old. Wrote threw books, first about a war with America. He still has his,witts about him. WAR HERO