"40 percent of MRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity"; "Since tens of thousands of fMRI studies worldwide are based on this assumption, our results could lead to opposite interpretations in many of them.” www.tum.de/en/news-and-...

All the next day Toad sang songs to his seeds.

Turns out the cause of autism was Thighlenol

🎶Have the time of your life🎶

Vintage catalog page (Peanuts for JCPenney):

Incredible social science & data use here. The immediate story is about how the opioid epidemic (pushed by pharma in high cancer areas), resulted in major opioid death & economic hardship which - through various media/political channels - resulted in a sustained rise in support for the Republicans

“Drawing on unsealed records from litigation against Purdue Pharma, we uncover…geographic variation in the marketing of prescription opioids…from the mid-2000s to 2022, exposure to the opioid epidemic continuously increased…Republican vote share in House, presidential, and gubernatorial elections.”

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

making a late night chicken pie during a snow storm while I watch an archaeology show with my dog. I have 4 kinds of hot chocolate, dunking marshmallows, a PBS passport streaming subscription on deck, new wool socks, and a new unscented lotion. and I got to hang out with another gay person all day

Shout Out to STUDENTS OF REED COLLEGE, Portland OR

*Tuning a radio station on the plate in my head*

Marijuana has accepted medical uses, and researchers should be able to study its risks and benefits, according to an executive order signed by US president Donald J. Trump. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪

The original Betty Boop, the first four Nancy Drew books and Greta Garbo's first talkie are among the many works from 1930 that will be free to use, share and remake starting on Jan. 1. n.pr/4scrT9d

props to this christmas lad I’ve just spotted on @flightradar24.com

Ask and you shall receive

Today I'm sharing an old project that was also tasty: candy made to look like a cross section of a cell. vis.social/@kristinHenr... #ArtAdventCalendar #art #SciArt #Biology #candy

*Tuning a radio station on the plate in my head*

White property owning queers stay violent even on Xmas!! I never want to go to their shitty Sub Rosa place knowing they act like this!!!! I had no idea these 2 people were such dicks!!!

Wow I just got tailgated by a complete asshole in a work truck and I looked up the address they pulled into because they parked as I kept going and it was Many Graces Farm and Design. They tailgated me for going 5 above the speed limit in our fucking neighborhood where our kids walk to school

Santa Claus Santa Claus, GA

Flowers and angels at @elycathedral.bsky.social. 📷 #photography

In 1944 my great grandfather drowned in Norris Lake. As his body decomposed, hydro power from Norris Dam for Oak Ridge enriched bomb material. This week after I had nuclear medicine testing I msged a friend to say, “I’m thinking about Oak Ridge and the terror and awe of the atom.” and here we are

Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate. Ho! Ho! Ho!

Out on the road today I saw a bear claw sitting on an overpass Put that food inside my head Said don't look back, you can never look back

Merry Christmas to all those celebrating. Happy Thursday to all those who are not. And I hope this day passes bearably and swiftly for anyone struggling today. Dragon with Christmas Gift, Edward Gorey.

Keith Haring, The Nativity, subway drawing, c. 1983

LIVE: Hawaii's Kilauea volcano spews lava www.youtube.com/live/QSqQAob...

Pope Leo at Christmas Day Mass: “The Word has pitched his fragile tent among us. How, then, can we not think of the tents in Gaza, exposed for weeks to rain, wind and cold; and of those of so many other refugees and displaced persons on every continent? www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Season's Greetings

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

That peanut worm is a little too exciting for me you got anything else?

The Professor, our foster dog, is up for adoption but has had zero applications. And I get it, people are busy, but he’s wonderful. Not a sleep in your lap dog but the king of sleep next to you dogs. Just a nice little 4 month old gentleman. With a PhD. new.shelterluv.com/embed/animal...

"A Cat's Life - Wonder" Art by Gerard du Bois #MenWithCats

🎶Alma mater Smith College Source of memories Lol to lmao🎶

"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

Hey, Massachusetts: heads up for possible measles exposure from an out-of-state visitor: www.mass.gov/news/state-p...

time to resurrect the victorian xmas card quoteskeet thread happy quahogmas one and all

Day 23 Another fusing workshop piece that I made at a Cambridge Glass Studio demo by Michell Mativi a prize winner of the Stevens Architectural Glass Competition in 2015, awarded by The Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Glass Painters. #ArtAdventCalendar #StainedGlass #Optics #GlassFusing

Cook safe this holiday season! For the ham!

Examining what it would cost to end extreme poverty using direct income transfers finds an estimate of 0.3 percent of global GDP, from Roshni Sahoo, Joshua Blumenstock, Paul Niehaus, Leo Selker, and Stefan Wager www.nber.org/papers/w34583

Today, someone gave me an employee discount at a cafeteria when I am not an employee. Thank you to her for the class solidarity 😘

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

In a recent greenhouse study, researchers showed that yellow flag iris plants, working in symbiosis with fungi on their roots, can take up and transform certain PFAS compounds from water. This plant–fungus partnership enhanced pollutant removal compared with plants alone. buff.ly/ll7EuQu via @ACS

from @deadder.bsky.social

sorry, I’ve just logged on after not being able to pay that much attention to this machine or topic for a little while. Are you fucking kidding me with this? Is everyone else seeing this right now in reality? Has everybody already seen this and I’m just coming late cause what the actual fuck

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

Nah, I think he took sides pretty clearly.