Apparently, it's healthier to eat until you’re around 80% full. Not sure I could get used to the 30% drop.

With the rumblings around CIHR wanting to move to one cycle per year not going away, in consultation with a diverse stakeholder group, we have put together a letter for CIHR leadership. Please consider signing this letter and share/RT: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @cannabrain.bsky.social

A view of the night sky from Mars. (Yes, really)

It was the biggest massacre for decades - 10,000 Sudanese killed over two days. The international community knew genocide was inevitable. Why and how did it happen? #KeepEyesOnSudan www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I feel like rereading Tolstoy’s Excursion and Peace.

Distinct origins and niches determine the cellular responsiveness of CNS macrophages after repopulation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PSA: there's no such thing as "enriched iranium".

Say what you will about twitter, but over there, my posts often went viral, with more than a dozen likes.

Now we know why St. Augustine never came close to making a billion dollars! So much introspection about the nature of time without ever realizing that time is money... What a loser.

"We have to defend the straights of Hormouz against the radical leftists who want trans for everyone."

Please consider joining us in May by registering ! Abstract submission deadline extended to March 12th! The last 48hrs to submit your work 😇 Register until April 30th to attend our 3rd CANGlia symposium, with Cagla Eroglu as keynote speaker, and excellent symposia 😎 #Glia #neuroscience #conference

I'm sure he thinks they're "Golf states".

Preparing for the 2030 Nuclear Winter Olympics.

Un immense écrivain vient de disparaitre. www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...

simpler times

Un texto, des texti.

"No more wars (on poverty)"

"I apologize in advance for this busy slide"

"Why read? Because you can know, intimately, only a very few people, and perhaps you never know them at all. After reading The Magic Mountain you know Hans Castorp thoroughly, and he is greatly worth knowing." — Harold Bloom

“Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.” (Musil, The Man without Qualities)

“I shall read a passage of Shakspeare every Sunday at ten o Clock—you read one at the same time and we shall be as near each other as blind bodies can be in the same room.” — John Keats in a letter (1818)

The world is poorer without Michael Silverblatt.

Pierre Rosenberg - Nicolas Poussin Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint Coffret (4 volumes) À paraître en mars chez Flammarion

🖤 arrived yesterday: Bernhard’s early short fiction — first published in English, selected and arranged chronologically by @shirtysleeves.bsky.social ✨

One must imagine Sisyphus unhappy with his name.

“It’s fine, I’ll stay here dreaming poems and smiling in italics.” — Álvaro de Campos (Pessoa)

L’écrivaine Vénus Khoury-Ghata, trait d’union poétique entre le Liban et la France, est morte

New acquisition! Inspired by Joseph Brodsky and recent posts from @timesflow.bsky.social.

It’s live! Presenting the new incarnation of my site, #ReadingVenice. Like it says on the tin, it’s about #Venice and its #books, from classics by Henry James to stories by Daphne du Maurier & the latest non-fiction www.readingvenice.com

“We have to remember that what we see is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” Werner Heisenberg.

Hölderlin: “Don’t you also harbor a secret pain, when the eye of the heavens is taken out of Nature, and the wide earth thus lies there like a riddle whose solution is missing?”

“It’s through a feeling of respect for each human being, in every corner of the Earth…” — Clarice Lispector (trans. Costa and Patterson)

I had absolutely loved On Chapel Sands by #LauraCumming so I was eager to read her Thunderclap. It’s very different but just as brilliant – it makes you see, it makes you feel, it makes you think. #Booksky 📚 #art #Fabritius

“…and yet what we truly are is whatever the impossible creates inside us.” (Lispector, The Apple in the Dark)

Poetry brawl

He has not settled the war on ignorance, that's for sure.

Dear Sweden, Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for having published 8 Collaborative Papers PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Research. NM

Outstanding paper by an outstanding lab.

I believe it’s the first time that someone receives both Nobel Peace Prize and FIFA Peace Prize medals.

A friendly reminder, for those who enjoy pagan rituals of sacrifice, that tomorrow is CIHR project grant NOR day.

Magnifique

🎉

Welcome to late Anthropocene.

“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.” Denis Diderot, “Rameau’s Nephew”.

RIP

😬

What was left of my first conference abstract after my supervisor revised it.

Season's greetings from Clovis.