Velvet-purple Coronet, sticking its tongue out at me. At @montezumalodge.bsky.social #Colombia #birds #hummingbirds

I’m starting to think we don’t know shit about the brain

PCJ hanukkah market table, before & after! delighted to report that PEOPLE LIKED MY STUFF!!!!! 🥳

Cute metaphor for coalescence

So Ender's Game meant a lot to me growing up. A book about a too-sensitive kid scared of being good at hurting people, trying to survive in a world that wasn't built for him? It spoke to me. Then I got to grow up 20 minutes from the author as he wrote hateful screeds about me in my local paper.

"To be a hater is to criticize things openly, spiritedly, unabashedly. It’s to say what you mean, and more often than not, to give others permission to say it too, in a satisfying camaraderie of shared feeling." @annamerlan.bsky.social today in @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-122/

we miss you already, Sajibear 😿

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Unfortunately, it's less of a breakthrough than it sounds like: the underlying mechanism of Alzheimer's (the amyloid hypothesis) they're targeting has come into serious question lately and there's a good chance the entire body of scientific evidence in favor relies on faked data.

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Happy Mother's Day from Silvia Federici

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Given the lack of transparency by UVA, a faculty-hosted zoom town hall will address the timeline of events as experienced by those who were at or near the UVA encampment for Gaza: 𝗘𝘆𝗲𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟰𝘁𝗵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰: 𝗔𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹 Thursday, May 9th // 12 pm-2 pm EDT bit.ly/honesttownhall

What I saw on Saturday at UVA. With photos by @jbouie.bsky.social theracket.news/p/when-the-h...

I think we're gonna find out that a lot of administrators see purging dissident faculty as an unmixed win

Requesting to be treated with respect (sadistically)

It is incredibly disillusioning. It is in fact something that fucks me up to this day. That cops watched a hundred attempted murders while yawning is in a lot of ways worse than the attempted murders.

I have long wrestled with my earnest, heartfelt belief as a religious Jew that not only is the wilderness holy, but that our best selves as Jews and the truest forms of Jewishness are to be found in the diaspora. Worse, Zionism—in its blunt and base nationalism—is a sin that poisons the Jewish soul.

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I’m recommending this book because it is the most accessible, wonderful and insightful writing about the science that I think everyone would benefit from understanding better. Lines like “we live because we love” (p. 169) are what keeps me coming back to Carlo’s writing. Please read Helgoland!

the thing about people who play the “just asking questions” game about the existence of structural racism is that there is no evidence you could marshal to convince them. it really is just a distraction meant to sow doubt.

Flexing my epistolary memoir skills with the rare breakup/love letter oof

It really is great that American pols are starting to speak out against Israel's actions, I just wish they had done it when the Israelis were destroying every hospital in Gaza.

I just like being trans…. I like it when people are trans…. excellent and good…………

@roryblank.bsky.social making a t-shirt densely packed with meaning, both for me and you.

So the airline incident that Musk, Fox News and others implied was caused by DEI granting untermenschen access to high paying jobs might have been a result of corporate malfeasance that was actually criminal, an apt metaphor for why elites embrace racist pseudoscience www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/u...

I couldn't decide whether to laugh sardonically or just weep.

TWs safeguard productivity and stability at the expense of our most unique human virtues. Madness, distress, intense emotion, and irrationality are good and morally valuable! Life is routinely traumatizing! We should celebrate, support, and honor that at least as often as denying and suppressing it

Up too late and getting real freaked out about consciousness. Almost all matter is fundamentally interchangeable with other similar types of matter. But not conscious beings! The non-fungible nature of personality as a phenomenon is dizzyingly rare across existence and I don’t enjoy that

Social and medical reasons for pursuing intentional weight loss are less bifurcated than this assumes. Glad this attitude of research is getting attention but let’s interrogate “medically necessary” IWL too

In case you missed it: Giant space explosions! Cosmic mystery! Also a fun fact about what happens if you open the microwave door too soon 🫣

I’m a huge proponent of minimal qualifications + lottery for med school admissions. It seems like it would address a lot of problems, plus reduce resource consumption. But it’s undesirable because the major purposes of admissions processes are rhetorical, not administrative

Another day, another parade of flabbergasting monstrosities am I right fellas

Lab liquid nitrogen trainings made me terrified of inert gas asphyxia and I’ve been following this story with a pit in my stomach. It’s all so grotesque. These documents calmly planning how to kill. Do you even hear yourselves!!

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It's very cool how the 2000s and 2010s were the absolute gutting of "big data" as a legitimate area of comprehensive analysis and the 2020s are when that non-science is being adopted by people who don't know enough to know it's bullshit.

This from James Bennet is just factually untrue? Completely apart from the question of whether the Times' coverage was the right or wrong thing to do [note: it was the wrong thing to do], the paper was not at all reluctant to publish on the subject! Not as eager as Bennet at the Atlantic, but still.

Nice boys. Very sad for some reason.

fyi in case you are wondering "may his memory be a blessing" is the standard jewish response to death but there's another, special one just for evil bastards, "may his name be erased"