Every time I hear “Rapture,” I think of Debbie Harry. Now I’ll think of Debbie Harry and a big hole in the house roof with the neighbors saying “Margie knew it was Tuesday…guess she overslept.”

Huge spike in papers coming from FAERS and NHANES—most of it scientifically meaningless. Ugh.

Morning laugh.

I never need to buy another birthday card!

Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social

From Nature, with links to RFK Jr’s opinion piece and the Danish author’s response. The original research is comprehensive and important. The vitriol and nonsense in RFK Jr’s opinion piece, astonishing. The precision and restraint in the author’s response, admirable. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you have any interest in film or storytelling, Bright Wall/Dark Room (@bwdr.bsky.social) has a wonderful staff, a growing collection of insightful and very well-written essays, and a great podcast. This is the antidote to doomscrolling. They had about half their funding yanked: WE CAN HELP!

Real talk (reel talk?): BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.

Oh, I wanna go to Gdańsk with somebody I wanna feel the heat with somebody Yeah, I wanna go to Gdańsk with somebody With somebody who loves me

This is the best kind of story. It has lifelong magic attached to it: the excitement of uncharted depths, as-yet-unseen places, and things unknowable. It will change as I re-read it, change as I grow and as I age, and change as I see it through the eyes of others. Sarah Pinsker, “Signs of Life.”

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

i'd hide the client list in the methods section

BEATLE-52S!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=stJv...

Nice to hear a seagull learning the Doctor Who theme.

Are you looking over your teaching materials for upcoming semester? Have you discovered that you can no longer play videos embedded in your #powerpoint slides without enabling #microsoft #ConnectedServices? Does that piss you off? Me too. There are workarounds. 🧵

Holy shit Whale sharks

Colored droplets in corn syrup seemingly blended together can be returned to their original state by reversing the direction of mixing, a form of laminar flow called "Stokes flow". Credit: UNM Physics & Astronomy

View from the south rim of the Grand Canyon National Park. I liked this photo with the dead stump in the foreground and views of canyon and spire in background. #Stunday

Lab puppies. The same yesterday, today, and forever.

#Caturday history lesson.

@mishellbaker.bsky.social Scott Z Burns, who wrote Contagion, did a podcast (“What Could Go Wrong?”) about using AI to screenplay Contagion 2–everything from pitch to trailer. Feat. Burns, Soderbergh, L Fishburn, AI Matt Damon, real Matt Damon, some scary-good AI bots. Interesting for writers!

I did a list of books with awesome worldbuilding (and just awesome in general) for the NYT review of books. Here's a gift link: #booksky www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...

By day and night he wrongs me, every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other That sets us all at odds. I’ll not endure it. His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us On every trifle.

Your periodic reminder that "fancy fonts" on places like Bluesky are unicode & are a nightmare for screen reader users. DON'T use for your name Not only that, good lucky having anyone search for you in the search bar by name. More examples in the original post on Masto: toot.cafe/@aardrian/11...

Our A.I. times ;-)

www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/12/d... Maria Popova daily writes The Marginalian (nee Brain Pickings), and, for my English-major brain, a lovely entry today describing things we all recognize and feel but for which there is no word. The definitions are as beautifully crafted as the words themselves.

Hi! You're seeing this because someone noticed you posting an image that doesn't contain alt text. This is not a scolding! You are loved! But everyone needs to be convinced using alt text is socially mandatory. (I sure had to be shown the way as well!) Would you mind reading this🧵 about it and why?

Someone clever did this to a lamppost on Coverdale road and now I am disappointed that every lamppost doesn’t have one

On #InternationalWomensDay, the story of the forgotten French seamstress who solved the ancient mystery of the argonaut, pioneered the aquarium, and laid the groundwork for the study of octopus intelligence www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/26/j...

@chrislhayes.bsky.social Thank you for The Sirens’ Call. I moved from Social Attention(4) to Alienation(5) yesterday, and this morning up popped Vienna Teng’s song The Hymn of Acxiom—enjoy: open.spotify.com/track/4hq68i...

“We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire.” From “Small Kindnesses” by Danusha Laméris. In print (scroll to the second poem): www.danushalameris.com/poems And read by Helena Bonham Carter: youtu.be/bcrm3JgOgD4?...

This week was the 1st publication using our immune cell sequencing to accurately make medical diagnoses. It has enormous implications, as I've reviewed here erictopol.substack.com/p/the-first-... @scottboydlab.bsky.social @science.org @anshulkundaje.bsky.social @maximzaslavsky.bsky.social

Enable the setting which won't let you post images without alt text

Good for the Eagles. Shipley ran his heart out and got them inside the 10, so they gave it to him 3 times in a row until he got the TD. After the long run you could see all the huge linemen coming over to him, and you know they were saying “Don’t worry, we’ll get you in there.”

We did something a bit like this at @thecity.bsky.social during the pandemic - with two pop-up newsletters, one on accessing rental and housing assistance, and the other on job benefits. They contained a lot of great service journalism, and each accrued several thousand regular readers.

Many people ask about GLP-1 (what it is and does, how, and on which systems). This is an interview with Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, the scientist driving the discoveries, and it’s in-depth and fascinating. She won the 2024 Lasker and Bhaumik awards. Int’vw: Eric Topol open.substack.com/pub/erictopo...

Meghan Daum took 12 minutes to describe what the loss of Altadena means to her. If you are following the fires in LA, take a moment to listen. substack.com/@meghandaum/...

I’ve seen a lot of well-connected people saying LA fire information is hard to get ( @chrislhayes.bsky.social , @georgetakei.bsky.social ) @mattpearce.com , noted the same lack but suggests this app: app.watchduty.org

I do want to applaud Watch Duty for having a very simple and approachable interface for basic wildfire data, like red flag alerts and different evacuation levels: app.watchduty.org

This is my first time in years experiencing a major local breaking news event from outside a newsroom, and it’s awful. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/fires-and-...

Cool people making happy music: Hypotheticals by Lake Street Dive, album Obviously. That voice! Mmmmm. youtu.be/pWFaKidyD70?...

Orbital is a a gorgeous book, and I can’t recommend it enough. Turns out the lives and thoughts of a few people circling the earth contain multitudes.