Mics are on! @ucsandiego.bsky.social School of Medicine researchers won big at the 2026 Grad SLAM & Postdoc PITCH. 🎙️ Our Grad SLAM winner will go on to compete in the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social systemwide final round next week! Read the full UC San Diego Today story 👇 go.ucsd.edu/4mzSv1B

It’s Jackie Robinson Day and “42” is still great. youtu.be/HALfME0wjeU

Out now in @Nature.com: New developmental insights from @UCSDMedSchool.bsky.social researchers overturn longheld assumptions in biology. Findings could help scientists discover new treatments for congenital nerve disorders and certain childhood cancers #brain #development

Spread the word! UChicago BSD is currently searching for an instructional professor (open rank) to help develop and support graduate training in quantitative biology at UChicago. This is an Instructional Professor position (open rank). apply.interfolio.com/183517.

“Duh!” economists warn.

New preprint from our team: complex microbial consortia improved lettuce and spinach performance under 30% reduced irrigation, including better yield, less wilting, improved root growth, and reduced harvest delay. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

“You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.” James Thurber

and you are weak on commandments 2, 4, 6-10, and all 8 beatitudes.

To really test his newfound powers, JD Vance should instantly announce that he has been a lifelong fan of and heartily endorses the LA Dodgers

Hungary for democracy.

Do not share with university administration.

A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

I'm moonscrolling

Fig is an under-appreciated fruit and delicious on pizza.

We can see that bad faith agents will seek to skew and bias the data that AI gets fed, poisoning the science/fact-based record.

As an academic editor and training program director I think about Ginny Walbot’s “Pit bull reviewers” piece often. With apologies to actual pit bulls. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19291274/

Never let them take your small pleasures and moments of respite.

The *actual* reason Truman reserved this power for himself, and refused to allow it to be delegated or shared by the military, is because he believed that this was the only way to *prevent* nuclear weapons from being used again. Full stop.

Grounds? Grounds? By this point there are so many grounds they could be a National Park, and would be the third-largest.

Depluralize a movie: Harold Goes To White Castle

Credit where credit is due, I have noticed more people are saying “Jesus Christ“ again.

If they had more pitching they’d be a good team if they had more hitting.

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” - Some guy I remember reading about www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Unfortunately, turning away from the NIH system because it’s imperfect is not a viable option. We need to fight to preserve and eventually rebuild its integrity.

Wildflowers on the site of what would have been a new biomedical research facility. #flowerFriday #bloomscrolling

Wow the increase in median times at that one journal. They might be expensive, but at least they’re slow.

Here's a little widget to play with the data across journals (as well as download the raw CSVs). sashagusev.github.io/Genetics_Pub...

Rhetorical note: That a particular thing helped you personally does not by itself make it good policy. It might be very good policy; if so then argue for it as policy, not as survivor bias.

Almost no atmosphere. Atmosphere is almost all CO2. Night temps -100 C, cosmic radiation because no atmosphere or magnetosphere. Global dust storms can block sunlight for months at a time. Maybe take care of this planet?

Sigh and repeat. We evolved over billions of years to live on *this* planet. You are not going to find another that works for you. Let’s keep this one liveable.

Timeline cleanse

TFW you dig into the splashy glam paper to find that everything is n=3, p<.05 from uncorrected t-tests on multiple groups and multiple hypotheses, with obviously high variances in most of the measures, where every plausible set of outcomes would have a distinct interpretation.

I think Neuro could use a PLoS Neuro journal. OA, publishing rigorous work across diverse systems using genetic/molecular to systems/computational/cognitive approaches. Have lobbied for this as a @plosbiology.org Adv Board member but it hasn't happened so far. Thoughts? [email protected]

From Shannon Marvel McNaught, Delaware News Journal

Amen. If you want to evaluate someone’s work, read it.

LOL what I did with this post was amazing

I’ve said it before and I’ll no doubt say it again. Universities are roughly 1000 years old. They predate most operating models including capitalism and have lasted for a reason. Installing insecure, helpless managers who ape business methods results in bad businesses, not good universities.

This crowd seemed bigger. And younger. Stretched much longer along the road.

Who dug what hole? I don’t know what you mean.

Wildflower solidarity. #bloomscrolling

Question for the lawyers here... If the administration were to find that an institution violated civil rights laws in, for example, admissions, by what authority could the administration withhold legally granted research funds? 2/2

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Although they didn’t pitch well, they didn’t hit well.

Don’t sweat it, little poppy, you got this.

Elizabeth Banks

Find some beauty, however small, every day.

Well done. Every news outlet should run a piece like this. By my age, you will have lost someone to cancer. Or cardiovascular disease. Or another disease NIH funding combats. You will wish you had more time with them. That’s what NIH funding does. Buys us time with the people we love. #FundNIH.

For the 3x10e9th time, if you are going to use DNA iconography to signal your bio technical expertise, use a right handed helix. 🤦‍♂️

I have a HARKing joke but you have to laugh first.