You just can't make this shit up....or I guess you can

Chicago October 2025😡

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease. There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done." 1/🧵

These birds

This bird.

PSA 🖖 #neurodivergent #autismscience #neurotype

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This book is a part of the British Library Science Fiction Classics series - as is The Society of Time by John Brunner, a set of three superb 1962 stories I will be covering in this week's article.

J.Free literally wrote the book on political violence leading up to the Civil War. Pay attention to what she says here because she knows what the hell she's talking about.

Today, in West Virginia, spotted a wild bird running in the grass. We think it was a turkey.

Wow. #comcast in Montgomery county Maryland gets #ABC from the dirtbags at #Sinclair so we cannot watch #Kimmel. Canceling Comcast.

Comcast did not air the Monday night daily show. They plan to not air Jimmy Kimmel in my area tonight. I’m a senior who isn’t tech savvy but even if I have to pay someone to help me figure out something new I’m leaving Comcast. Yes, I know people already cut the cord. I know

How much Tylenol does the country have to do before we get trains?

A little brown mantis

Yoda: “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate... leads to suffering.” *the next day* “Yoda has been fired by the Jedi Council for his hateful and divisive rhetoric during a sensitive time.”

Everyone with their head down "focusing on the science": Our grandchildren are going to ask us someday what we did in this moment to protect their rights - what will you say??

I gotta interrupt my current book because it was my turn for this waiting-list library book.

Boycott Disney #boycottDisney #boycott #Disney

I took a lot of memorable walks in 2025. These are from a good day.

These Ants Found a Loophole for a Fundamental Rule of Life www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/s...

This is to protect against what was described as a “Dual State” in Nazi Germany, where laws are only enforced against the enemies of the government. The U.S. is quickly becoming a dual state, if it’s not already there.

Returning books early is paying it forward so we all get to read sooner ❤️

Awful take by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. I’m against all political violence. The assassin should be tried and imprisoned. But kirk did not “practice politics the right way”. He invited violence against LGBTQ and other folk. He doxxed faculty to silence speech. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

Readers, who borrow #audiobooks from your local #library: it’s easy to wait til the audiobook is due and let it automatically return. But this slows down the wait-list. Try to remember to actively return the audiobook when you’re done.

I'm a bit late to the party over here. I'll be advertising a BBSRC-funded postdoc position soon. So if anyone wants to solve some outstanding questions in limb development - please get in touch. We have a variety of models and approaches (everything from stem cells to sharks). towerslab.weebly.com

Holy hell. NYT raves don’t get any better: “A thunderous gallop of a war novel, a new classic, a best-in-class example of speculative fiction. Mysterious and full of grace, rambling and ducking and shifting for 285 dizzying, blood-soaked, astonishing pages.”

Time to reread Robert Silverberg’s 1976 novel, Shadrach in the Furnace. In the future 2012, after the world is decimated by natural disasters and pandemics, the dictator Genghis II Mao IV seeks immortality… #ScienceFiction.

The rule: you must build your web a distance of about 4 bricks from your neighbor…

Mushroom Sunday Major shrinkage #mushrooms #shrinkage

And a sexual predator

We’re proud to celebrate Piotrowski Lab graduate student @daniomuench.bsky.social, who earned the Best Oral Presentation award at the @isrbio.bsky.social 2025 meeting this summer. Join us in congratulating her! 👏 #regenerativebiology

Feeling mitochondrially challenged lately? Here are two classic reviews on #mitochondria that should help. www.cell.com/current-biol... www.cell.com/current-biol...

THOU SHALT STOP WORSHIPPING GUNS!!!

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Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.

I don’t care who did it or what their motive was. Children are repeatedly murdered in this country and nothing changes. Stop talking about your goddamn family values and Christian values. America values guns more than its children, and continues to prove it. #repeal2ndamendment #Minneapolis

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This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.

“He isn't backward. He's a scientist.” “Oh, is that what it is? Oh, well, I knew he was... peculiar.” — The Lady Eve.

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.

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We spent a day at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. It was painful, educational and amazing.

Lots of ppl in my local EDS group rightfully freaking out because Hopkins and UHC/GEHA couldn’t negotiate a deal and now they’ll lose their care teams. Love our “healthcare” system!

Destroying the Smithsonian African American museum should be a crime as horrific as purposefully destroying the Holocaust Museum, and we should be AS LOUD about it as if it were the case.

A relative recently said all Democrats hate Americans, & then said they didn’t mean me (a Dem).They should have questioned validity of the 1st statement given the Dems they know don’t fit.This would be basic critical thinking.

In Ohio diner, Bolton still means Michael. But they do know this: if a man doesn’t love a woman enough to vote for Kamala Harris he deserves to be put in jail by Donald Trump