“An AI scientist, for example, could figure out how the human brain works, or deliver any gene to any cell in the body.” Yeah and a magic pony could shit bricks of 24k gold and piss a highly concentrated solution of pure heroin.

The importance of Sleep in metabolomics and, of course, Long C-19 should be considered by everyone Yes COI Disclaimer: I'm a Sleep Dude 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...

That “Y’all Surprised” in the headline of Teyana and Aaron’s breakup was so nasty and so rude. Niggas can’t break up no more? 😭

4. Well what i found out two days ago, was that France was indeed successful in re-establishing slavery after freedom. Except it wasn't in Haiti. It was in Guadeloupe. That blew my mind, because no one told me. And now ive been scrambling to immerse myself in the history

As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu. If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.

RIP 🙏🏽🙏🏽 Gonna let off a long SHEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTT in your memory

it’s almost like every year checks its quotas and realizes it’s short. all these folks moving on, on the penultimate day (and week) of 2025? 🥹 deadline.com/2025/12/isia...

The minute help comes with “control” and management it’s not help and we don’t in America deal with victim focus but taxonomical adherence So we just didn’t handle the maladapted marginalized as threats So we didn’t and still haven’t developed accessible language for it and it shows

Brown Base was actually burned down in 1984 by the station’s own doctor after he was ordered to stay on another winter. Since then, it’s only been occupied during the summer, so I guess he made his point.

Maybe you're pissed we're not cooking, cleaning and telling you is smart, kind and important anymore & the possibility of one of us living in 1600 Penn Ave made you go into full on crashout mode, but, sorry not sorry. Get over it. Because as our former VP said, we're not going back.

Very sad to say it seems Mike Fossey, aka Mike F. has died. Truly one of the funniest posters of all time and a talented artisan. Had been friends online for many years, but I got to hang out a couple times at shows in Boston and he was funny and sweet in real life too.

Something about COVID turned reality into a “choose your own adventure” and we’ve been living with the consequences ever since. I, for one, don’t appreciate being constantly gaslit.

that nail salon used to be a burger joint with a gambling spot in the back that gourmet restaurant used to be a bodega that yoga studio used to be a Black owned vintage store that bookstore used to be a hardware shop that grocery store used to be a church that seafood spot used to be a bike shop

The 2025 Gotham Film Awards nominations have been revealed.

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

I once lived right by the Ferrara Pan factory (maker of Lemonheads candy) in Forest Park IL and when they fired up the new batch of Lemonhead Essence the whole neighborhood smelled like it for days. It was legitimately maddening.

Interesting. Gift link: New science points to 4 distinct types of autism wapo.st/4skIuYM

Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; She was one of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who faced white mobs when desegregating a Tennessee high school in 1956 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...

I missed the AP story when it ran earlier this month. It included this photo of Jo Ann taken by Bethany Mollenkof on the day she and I sat at her table in her LA home in 2019. I was working on a project interviewing those who desegregated America’s schools. Not the laws, the people.

NEW: Springer Nature — the prestigious publisher of scientific journals like Nature and the 1845-founded magazine Scientific American — is imploring published journal authors to buy $49 AI-generated "Media Kits" that summarize their own work. futurism.com/springer-nat...

No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.

Kelis just did a reel about this. Lol.

7. Updated rapid antigen tests to current Covid variants. 8. Increased and standardized wastewater surveillance - all 50 states 9. Increased Covid variant sequencing - all 50 states. 10. US agreement with pandemic accords and sharing of vaccine technology 11. US active participation in WHO

What to advocate for: 1. Universal masking in healthcare settings with N95 2. Routine masking by the public 3. Clean air - high air turnovers per hour and HEPA filtration 4. Universal Healthcare 5. Universal free vaccine access 6. Increased Covid vaccine updates & # received per year.

Big Brother 27 houseguest Mickey Lee has passed away at the age of 35 after suffering from a series of cardiac arrests, her family announced today on Instagram.

SFWA members and general SFF community: In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events. Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey. SFWA Members: Write to [email protected] to support our Emerging Tech Committee. www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...

I'm not asking you to read our books (but I think they're awesome) or respect how we write (but you don't need to tell me to my face that you have bad taste), but I am asking you to think about us as colleagues who are going to get hit by the shit first, and to give a fuck when it happens to us.

The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.

I wish I had written this a lil tighter . The pull quote I wanted was “2026 is the last year mainstream journalism has to show it wants to survive. “ But esprit d’escalier and all that

I have an art book for #tyreecomic ! It's 62 pages at $10! Not only does it have art but I have some brief guides into my page process as well. There is even stuff I havent released publicly in it! It's a great way to support me currently and get a glimpse into my obsession ko-fi.com/s/f5c5cebbd6

Ötzi and a 45,000-year-old Siberian were both infected with a cancer-causing strain of HPV. This is fascinating, and a reminder that we have a vaccine that *prevents cancer* and everyone eligible should get it.

The state's Disaster Cash Assistance Program, designed to help residents impacted by the recent atmospheric rivers and severe flooding, has been depleted as of Tuesday.

I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for

Idk man...i think we have access to too many people. Nobody thinks they're strangers because they "been following you for years" but...

This year I am super delayed with #GuadalupeReinas2025 cause work 🥲, but I think I will manage the 10 books by the 6th of January. 1st one absolutely Fs: Carcoma by Layla Martínez. It has been translated to several languages (the Greek edition is very pretty). In English: Woodworm.

If you get annoyed with how your child is using their phone—an elementary schooler who’s never had long-term practice doing it—and your only idea is to take it without telling them and say someone broke in and stole it??? No one in your household is ready for this step.

tl;dr: GenAI and game design concepts traditionally referred to as "AI" (enemy behaviors, pathfinding, etc.) are not the same thing, and I'm on my knees begging people to learn the difference, lest we see more bullshit claims like what The Escapist put out re: Blue Prince.

everyone dislikes genai in games, but kids and story-focused players the most. sounds like we'll be ok. just have to stay the course here and the "inevitable" new technology nobody likes will die. again. quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...

I just heard that a specialist told the mother of several children, the youngest of whom is a neonate with congenital heart disease “not to worry about respiratory viruses”. #MedSky this is getting ridiculous.

A Black Mom who got an eviction notice is trying to raise enough to keep a roof over her daughter. She does work, but fell ill this year and got further behind on bills until she couldn’t catch up. Let’s each give $1 to reach her goal. We’ve helped 209 people so far let’s keep going.

you think it’s normal because you think our profession doesn’t matter and that our norms and ethics don’t matter. ok.

SARS-CoV-2 is so dangerous precisely because of its insidious nature. Its propensity to continually re-infect. The superficial similarity of the symptoms it causes to those of other common viruses. The unseen risk of sequelae. That wretched molecular shark tricks almost everyone.

West Africa has long been a site of #textile production. In the Sahel region today, dyeing & leatherworking remain important occupations & have heavily influenced #manuscript format, design, & decorative features. Learn more in this story by Dr. Ali Diakite & Dr. Paul Naylor: https://bit.ly/4pWZbrg

Our good sis, Betty Reid Soskin, passed away, and officially became a patron saint of Patagonia Blacks 🫡

Things that may very well require many previous studies to be re-evaluated 🧐 If science were simple, we would deny the value of vaccines..... Oh Yeah🙄... America's already there🔥 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

It’s arrived in South America. #SubcladeK #flu #influenza www.batimes.com.ar/news/amp/arg...

"People do not have to get repeatedly sick just because their kids attend daycare or school or take a school bus.” 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/21/s...

This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this: