Starting off the new year with...

Auto and steel are publicly traded for-profit companies and academic biomedicine is not..fact the author doesn't see and aooreciate the difference (forget about understanding the whole point of basic research) tells us how much weight we should put in this inane article @statnews.com Do better

@phylogenomics.bsky.social mono lake at night

..and they say #gastrointestinal #dysmotility disorders are not fatal

Anyone who criticizes #academia for being #siloed has never seriously worked with or in #Pharma before

Funny innit? While folks who spread fake news about #science and #vaccines take to social media and make things viral to millions, scientists have taken keep repeating message upon message of 'science works!', of vaccine efficacy and #safety to their own echo chambers in scientific #societies.

This #Thanksgiving, a big thanks to all those who do their best to promote #public #health at all costs (which often involves trekking through forests and wading through flooded rivers) and often at minimal rewards

#NIH modified how next peer review panel will #review #grants grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Important to remember, what food is and what isn't ultraprocessed isn't clearly defined. Without such clear definition, associating the term with diseases is incorrect at best and stupid at worst www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...

8 millennia of solitude

A full stadium for #test #cricket I love the #Ashes

Our students do a far better job than faculty and organized paid media... no wonder we gagged them and took away their rights a while back

Summers (and other Epstein friends) still on CAFR at HARVARD

From a co-author of Larry Summers open.substack.com/pub/larrykot...

Not sure why @lpachter.bsky.social did not post this here. But it is brilliant. Single cell genomics finally makes it to the clinic.

Paging all #longevity folks

Question How many more shoes to drop? Why are the major players in the Epstein saga on a so called council for academic freedom Members – Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard share.google/gESxtNmYI5C4...

A Netflix for clothes

WOW! This is a game changer! Kosmos please help us create a new transgenic animal, perform drug treatments, and perform gut motility assays If 1 Kosmos run = 6 months of postdoc time, this should get done by tomorrow morning? Latest by this weekend? /s

Funny how everyone wants the gut to solve all ailments of the body, but no one wants to solve ailments of the gut

After hearing of the changes to the next #CSR review cycle #NIH #Grants

"Research on autism and the microbiome risks feeding into pseudoscientific remedies and snake oil” When folks ask about "why microbiome research didnt translate to therapies", it is always useful to point to the 'hype generators' in the microbiome field who inferred correlations as causations.

@nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com are in a race to the bottom

How to deal with Reviewer 2

Dedicated to those who continue to believe that biotech/pharma are wiser than academia and don't back projects that simply don't work...

After the torture of Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Kash Patel, and even fricking Ro Khanna, what a relief and joy to have a righteous south Asian like Mamdani light up the horizon.

Never thought the "Trust with Destiny" speech by #Nehru from 1947 in #NewDelhi will echo in #NewYork in 2025 #Zohran

Bill Ackman can go fuck himself

How many times did Stuart bash academia non-stop while touting how Arena is the way to go? Biomedical institute Arena BioWorks is shutting down

The actors are still the same, but with different names

An important point from @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social Wish there was something like a #platform that #scientists had, where they came together to make a group. Lets call it a #society if you will, and that #society did great scicomm to taxpayers and non-scientists. Know any such organization?

Only place aging stops is at a funeral parlor

#Massachusetts - a state where authorities get perverse pleasure from doing road repair at the worst time possible to cause more than usual traffic snarls and snafus

The longer we keep using societies as clique groups and clubs for career advancement and lobby groups, the deeper we are going to sink into the abyss

Another society meeting, another massive, missed opportunity for public engagement. The #science is A+, but the outreach imagination is F. We can't keep walling ourselves off from the public at these #conferences held in big cities and then complain that folks don't support funding for scientists

Endothelin 3 and T-type Ca2+ channels drive enteric neural crest cell calcium activity, contractility and migration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.684245v1

It is now legally obligated for all employers in MASS to show wage transparency This goes for #academic hiring as well #ttjobs

Interesting paper

Yeah, no shit!! Most people are unaware that there aint gonna be 'daily shit' in old age Fund anti-aging science for gut function NOW Give a shit now to get a shit later

ACB's answer to the last Q is the best argument against a unitary executive that ACB vouches for earlier in the interview #law

Noticing all the new faculty jobs being created on significant soft money - don't know whether to laugh or cry

Next up on @nytimes.com Your leg is broken, euthanasia can help fix it

When the industry themselves gives you the kill switch

It only took about 8 years or so for our initial discovery of continual adult enteric neurogenesis to be shown to be clinically relevant in a major GI disorder

What an amazing study that shows how 3 different subsets of achalasia patients' suffer from a loss of ENS structure -associated with subset-specific changes to their ENS neurogenic programs! The case for continual #neurogenesis in adult #ENS, and its #clinical significance keeps building up