The answer to one of modern society's great mysteries is SO much more satisfying than you'd ever imagine. Thread below:

If your diploma isn't framed and on your wall are you even director material?

Come join us!

We are hiring an immunologist. This is a hard money position. We have a very robust research infrastructure. Rowan is rapidly growing, with 20,000+ undergrads, two med schools, and a vet school. Contact me for more details. jobs.rowan.edu/en-us/job/50...

Apparently the postings are up for several NIH director positions. Deadlines between 11/14 and 11/21. hr.nih.gov/careers/care...

We are hiring an immunologist. This is a hard money position. We have a very robust research infrastructure. Rowan is rapidly growing, with 20,000+ undergrads, two med schools, and a vet school. Contact me for more details. jobs.rowan.edu/en-us/job/50...

In a minor miracle, I actually won something on bring a trailer.

How can you tell the difference between the official thugs and thug impersonators?

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

There are other fun flamingo adaptations: 1. They have an organ that excretes salt, so they can drink saltwater. 2. Adults secrete 'crop milk' to feed young. Because of the carotenoids in their diet, this red liquid looks like blood. 3. Same-sex couples raising chicks are common in large flocks.

Me, a neuroscience PhD, checking for the 747th time if DRG neurons are CNS or PNS

PNS is just a fancy word for externalized services

We had such a great naming scheme where Ganglions were always in the periphery, until that darn Basal showed up.

"Terminating the filibuster would pave the way for Democrats to transform America into a Zohran Mamdani-inspired socialist dystopia" 😂😂😂 Gift link in case you want a good laugh wapo.st/47ZpuGX

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

Many of us in the hoagie fandom have dedicated years of our lives to promoting the hoagie lifestyle. I understand that new users are excited, but please remember to respect the longtime hoagieheads who built this community up from nothing before you start spamming the forum with stale Dagwood memes

Still waiting for the live cam of all the billionnaires packing up their NYC apartments to move to Ohio

And to be clear for the peanut gallery, it IS absolutely a violation to talk out of the presence of said SRO about the review* of any specific proposal. Online or in your office with a colleague or trainee.

Are the Panthers actually good? This season has me so confused.

Just so we're all clear who is being honored by this statue: "Pike was personally chosen by Nathan Bedford Forrest to serve as the Klan's "Chief Judicial Officer" and to head the Klan in Arkansas as "Grand Dragon of that Realm."

Congrats. I totally agree. I got three still to be reviewed later in November and December so here's hoping but even when reviewed with 5%ile and 4%il grants not funded it increasingly seems futile, why bother.

things seem futile when preparing R01 resubmission for next week (8%, not funded), while study sections for my two other R01 resubmissions didn't even meet bc of gov insanity. in this light, we are beyond grateful to receive not 1, but 2 pilot grants to open new doors in miRNAs and cancer. lifeline!

That's like 26 jettisons bsky.app/profile/juke...

About 100 million in taxpayer dollars straight into the South China Sea.

Lmao. Go birds 🦅

there was a deliberate decision to not cite my MIRA on this commentary, even though service to the scientific community is *supposed* to be a consideration during review www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Most people have already voted in NJ. (Gift link) wapo.st/48NvTpK

My quote of the day Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. Albert Camus

Don't think guys understand fully the landscape. If the MYF policy continues, it's funding Armageddon. You're all talking like you even have a shot at NIH funding.

When I was at UTMB, I had raw sewage leak on my confocal. It became known as the poop scope.

Only to 15%? Who are these lunatics that think Congress is doing a good job?

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"

3/3 “but it’s just NIEHS” - aieee. This is the first step; they’re testing our defenses. Mussolini called this “plucking the chicken one feather at a time.”

The Daily Orange editorial board on freedom of the press dailyorange.com/2025/10/edit...

You know who learns real quick to identify racist tattoos, for the sake of their own safety? Black servicemembers.

The cut rate labor business of grant funded academic science revealed in one tweet.

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

Never thought we’d have a president (and vice president) that was a literal shit poster

Number I heard was 164 canceled by end of this week, approximately 12000 applications.

The fundamental problem is that you cannot staff the NIH with people who believe wacko conspiracy theories. At some point you need to do actual science.

"Fails to reject" this truly vile incursion by the federal government. Sigh, I gotta get my thoughts in order before I write them letting them know I see their decision. vanderbilthustler.com/2025/10/20/b...

Vanderbilt has arrived, late to the chat, with this shambles of a response. While technically true, this is a clear abdication of any moral responsibility. They even work in a mention of their commitment to "institutional neutrality" later in the email.

The knives are out for Jay from his former allies. He rose high enough to become part of the conspiracy. That’s his future now.

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

Carbolic acid is derived from the German: 'Karbolsäure' = "coal-oil-acid". Today we call it PHENOL. Surgeon Joseph Lister, inspired by Louis Pasteur's work on sterility in broths, used it to perform miracles: "antiseptic surgeries". This transformed surgery from a lesser medical practice...

let them eat ballrooms

“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries." ― James Madison 1803