In the days of "you should die because being alive carries the risk of dying" risk factor papers flooding health research, methodological criticisms feel void.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

What's more important than the scientific facts about Tylenol is that pregnant women are completely okay to do things that might hurt the fetus and not a single person should be allowed to condemn the women for doing that.

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as a cancer center researcher, I am positively salivating at the thought tbh

It's always too difficult to do anything practical with math so physics is usually the sweet spot that lets you do something. Otherwise, you have to be very^2 good at math.

Back in med school, there was an anatomy professor who consistently insisted that vitamin C was a silver bullet. Too bad for him that the magic supplement was vitamin B but he was almost correct as both are water-soluble unlike A,D,E, and K.

apnews.com/article/rail... It'll be really funny if another state manages to actually build something with this money

So basically cars and firearms are pretty much the same thing? (which is the reason why I hate both)

Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones. The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Probably everything boils down to crafting an appropriate positional encoding.

We are excited to share GPN-Star, a cost-effective, biologically grounded genomic language modeling framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of variant effect prediction tasks relevant to human genetics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/n)

You can read more in our post at www.jurabio.com/blog/leavs; preprint forthcoming. @jura.bsky.social @eliweinstein.bsky.social @mgollub.bsky.social @highvariance.bsky.social

Am I the only person who experiences long delays when accessing OUP journals' website?

Perhaps Brendan Carr, who I do not support, was wrong to pressure Disney, which I do not support, to fire Jimmy Kimmel for his comments on Charlie Kirk, who I do not support. But it wasn't bad as what the M$DNC shitlibs did to me for praising Trump, who I do not support. by Glenn Greenwald

We can't even try a Tylenol Mendelian randomization because we don't know why the drug works

kinda surprising that Starmer joined

I read that article many times and every time I read it I move one step further from materialism. The political institution strongly shapes the material world and just having a lot of capital alone isn't very helpful.

This article about Madrid’s metro system has some great insights about how its growth was quick, cheap, and of good quality. They identified 4 key points that made it possible and successful. Great read. worksinprogress.co/issue/how-ma...

Even in a vacuum, Free Speech, as currently conceived and amply demonstrated, means the rich get more speech than the poor. A hierarchy that Pinker, who will never want for money or audience, doesn’t even conceive of as political.

"세계육상(World Athletics·WA)의 새로운 성별 규정 때문에 우간다·케냐 등 아프리카 출신 여성 선수들이 경기장 밖으로 밀려나고 있다." "혈액검사 후 고(高) 테스토스테론 수치가 발견됐다는 이유로 출전 금지 통보" "나는 여성으로 태어나 여성으로 자랐는데, 왜 약을 먹고 수술을 해야 하느냐." "약을 먹고 수술을 받은 동료가 몸이 망가져 유럽으로 이주했다. 나도 내 몸을 바꾸고 싶지 않다." "아프지 않은데 의사들이 왜 내 몸에 손을 대야 하나. 과학이 내 존재를 규정할 수는 없다."

Despite this being true, I feel that a lot of gems from the old days are lost in the present literature. People just do things as if those early findings don't exist.

It's just tariff but on labor instead of goods lol

i wonder if being literally shaken down for 100K in cash at the border for the privilege of remaining in the united states will create a sense of solidarity between H1B workers and less highly paid migrants who are informally treated like this and much worse at all times? guess we are about to see.

Are we about to see full power China and India without brain drainage?

Repeatedly looking at photos of cities, only a few angels can be found in the internet. Those turn out to be the only angles that avoids surface parking lol. People already know that parking lots suck.

I see a lot of negative ops about DFW metro but they seem to have a lot of lines and even opening a new one this Fall?

The vaccine time table used to be on the pediatrics exam and now that is going to change?

What's wrong with the way the US government subsidizes the municipal transit systems' procurement of buses? Why do the buses cost so much? And what can be done about it? New from Ed Glaeser, Samantha Silverberg via @brookings.edu Hutchins Center and AEI. www.brookings.edu/articles/pay...

I wonder how the extreme urban sprawl in the US affected civic political movements. I lost my mind when people were picketing to *cars* standing by stroads and on bridges above highways. I can easily imagine that mass gathering is simply impossible because mass transit doesn't exist here.

A professor once said that math is not about presenting a proof but rather convincing ppl that a proof exists. In light of this, a good math student is mearly who gets easily fooled.

I'm always surprised how good people are on filming a handful of nice places of their town that is actually 95% parking lots and ugly strip malls.

greetings from Chicago, city of, city of liiiiiight 🎶

Covid to me was just not going to school for a few months but looking at the number of transit passengers in the US pre/post makes me feel really concerning.

Very excited to see this work in press! I think there is a reason to believe that this is a common means of stabilizing large-effect polymorphisms in general and might be an important reason for why diploidy is so common. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

93% of Rhode Island voters say housing costs are a problem in the State. While many support solutions like new apartments, middle housing, Affordable housing & homeless shelters in Rhode Island, support for those same solutions drops off dramatically "in their neighborhood."

would poop science be an -omics or an -ology? coprology sounds better than copronomics imo

유교 문화권 출신의 가장 큰 약점인 것 같습니다 본인이 사람이라고 상대가 사람이라고 가정하는 점은...

Rail Youtube is really just CAHSR vs HS2 which is worse

Our paper about how ancestral recombination graphs can be used to detect "phantom" genetic interaction signals (that arise due to the genealogy, rather than "real" epistasis) is out in Genetics! Nice thread here by @linoafferreira.bsky.social academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

We need new rules for publishing AI-generated research. The teams developing automated AI scientists have customarily submitted their papers to standard refereed venues (journals and conferences) and to arXiv. Often, acceptance has been treated as the dependent variable. 1/

But scaling this is becoming a DoS attack on our reviewing institutions. It becomes a game of "can we fool the human referees?" 2/

Crazy thing is that those with meat allergies due to lone star tick bites can actually eat the meat from these pigs too

Yeah doing good science requires a lot of training but I don't expect this to med school labs that run on cheap labors of aspiring future doctors who wasted most of their undergrad on avoiding good classes in a fear of getting bad GPAs that might hurt their chances to get into med school *sarcasm*

Why do people with college degrees or higher can't hold themselves from saying these disrespectful words against activities they think aren't as cool as their own jobs? If you seriously think doing research is any cooler than selling clothoes, you don't deverse the taxes paid by small businesses.

Last night #SB79, one of the biggest housing bills in CA history, made it out of the State Assembly with one vote to spare. The data is fascinating. Let's dive into the details, and see how your State Assemblymember voted. 👇

Do you know any campaigns in the US convincing drivers that expanding public transit is good also for them because it reduces the number of cars, reducing congestion?