NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (DP5 Clinical Trial Optional) NOFO is posted. Applications due Sept 10, 2026. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

Ah yes punk rock where respect for a higher authority is a central theme.

The fun thing about science is staying super innovative and locking down funding before everyone else figures out how stupid and complex your topic is. And by then you’ve already moved on…

I love how certain foundations and states can just ghost you on your grant application. No comments, no score, just silence (translated into "not funded")

"RO1"

Getting an invitation to review an article from a journal that desk rejected my paper two days ago. Gonna need to keep lookin buddy.

A few times a year we all gather around the computer to find out which of our constitutional rights we no longer have.

Very pleased to have been part of this fantastic collaborative project. Read on if you want to know about what DNA methylation changes might be doing in aging.

Referring to my specific aims as chonki bois and my proposal as thicc

Using a water filter so old it’s reintroducing legacy PFAS into my drinking water

I haven’t seen such a comprehensive Paraguayan loss since imperial Brazilian troops sacked Asunción in 1869 during the War of the Triple Alliance and ultimately forced the signing of the Loizaga–Cotegipe Treaty three years later that led to the country losing almost 40% of its prewar territory.

Hey, I’m presenting my research at this with several much more successful scientists (like Dan Belsky, Charles Breeze, Charlotte Ling, and Jonathan Mill). Come check us out!

Elon Musk you will never be truly happy 👍

Hey, I’m presenting my research at this with several much more successful scientists (like Dan Belsky, Charles Breeze, Charlotte Ling, and Jonathan Mill). Come check us out!

I occasionally tag unwanted emails from admin as phishing attempts

The history books were absolutely cooking me. Simply because of who I had been and what I had done.

The best thing about becoming faculty is you can finally justify being an adult child.

‘dear rax, my middle class parents are ashamed that i clean houses for a living’ www.patreon.com/posts/160262...

🚨New Modest Mouse album dropped today! First thoughts: solid album with potential to have some legs. Witty lyrics, as usual. Some songs remind me of their first couple of albums, but mostly the album has the pop/newer/"post-good news" orientation. Probably a mid- to upper-tier album for the band.

Solo parenting three girls under age 7 the past few days has ground my spirit into a fine dust... Anyways here’s a new paper outta my lab. It’s about why your immune system matters if you’re diagnosed with colorectal cancer. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.

Solo parenting three girls under age 7 the past few days has ground my spirit into a fine dust... Anyways here’s a new paper outta my lab. It’s about why your immune system matters if you’re diagnosed with colorectal cancer. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In a state with no income tax!

Computational biologists as well

Is it possible to be a morning person that also likes to sleep in?? Like from 10am-noon: watch out. Any hours outside if that: I gotta lay down.

Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities

I love it when trainees ask good questions, even if the questions are irrelevant. Just seeing the wheels turning in their heads is so much fun

FLORIDA LAW: You can't use partisanship in drawing districts RON DESANTIS: We're redrawing districts to help Republicans JUDGE APPOINTED BY RON DESANTIS: There's no way to tell if these districts were drawn for partisan reasons

The problem with Bluesky, a website where people are constantly arguing and correcting each other, is that everyone thinks identically

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! • Foo Fighters • Weezer • Chance the Rapper • Queens of the Stone Age • Modest Mouse • Dr Dog • Randy Newman • Wolf Parade • Father John Misty • Surf Curse

This is what young men should be doing instead of listening to Andrew Tate. I'm serious.

"a PRS is not an internal predisposition waiting to be realized; it is a risk estimate derived from a model constructed from population-level DNA associations without clearly defined biological mechanisms."

🚨 NIEHS/NIH is hiring Postdoctoral Fellows in Perinatal & Early Life Epidemiology (Durham, NC) with Dr. Kelly Ferguson. Research includes PFAS, micro/nanoplastics, metabolomics, and adverse pregnancy outcomes. 🔗 More information: https://members.iseepi.org/classifieds/moreinfo.php?cid=69348179

“Could ice cream sales be affecting murder rates?”

I need an academic bit. It seems like the most successful academics on social media just complain or police others' research. The nutritional epi and methods spaces are already saturated, but maybe I can find a niche in molecular epi. Like "did you even account for the age of that FFPE sample?!?"

Punditry is the dumbest thing in the world. It generates nothing more than hot air. How embarrassing for everyone involved.

Marginal tax rate at the end of a pitchfork is 100%

I despise the mail. There’s never anything important in it and if there was, I would miss it because 99.9% of the things I get are spam. Just straight from the mailbox to the recycling bin.

They found the guy ET was based on, the real guy who looked like that, and he's a Florida state senator now. He voted yes on a bathroom ban.

No one will ever get mad at you for ending your talk a few minutes early. You don't have to fill every second allotted to you. Just tell a fun and interesting story.

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

We’re so cooked because now we cannot even agree on ai versus human reviewing. I ALWAYS start my reviews with a brief recap and overarching strengths and limitations of the study

My girls’ behavior and attitudes are destroying me and I’ve got no one to blame but myself, or perhaps, my wife.

The Florida AG says he hates families—in an election year! www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

Rays trying out the “if not now, how about later?” negotiation tactic

Why do we call journals “predatory”? Calling them “parasitic” is way better

did you know i am doing a dissertation on workplace leave use among full-time workers in the US who have experienced miscarriage? well now you do! and if you think you may be eligible, you can take a screener survey at go.uic.edu/leavestudy or scan the QR code. #reprosky #healthpolicy #miscarriage

Florida during the summer: lovebugs have entered my office.

First, if this is what you expect of parenthood, that you’ll have this level of control over the life of another human being, do not pass go. Parenthood isn’t for you. Second, it’s snake oil peddled by eugenicists who know it’s crap or are ignorantly fanatical about only some people having value.