The U.S. military said it carried out another strike on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the Pacific Ocean, killing three in the fourth attack this week and putting the total death toll at 205. n.pr/3QeAgmC

This piece by @jtimmer.bsky.social does an outstanding job of contextualizing OMB's latest attack on American science. Current OMB policy is already choking American science, as this WSJ op-ed points out. The status quo is moribund. www.wsj.com/opinion/get-...

"It's not just that government CAN help, it's that government MUST help. And our government WILL help."

Remember when the Supreme Court said a president lacked the power to forgive $20,000 of student debt for Pell Grant recipients and the White House just said "Oh, okay"

1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.

More evidence interpreted as showing that co-administration of cannabidiol with THC acts in part by slowing the metabolism of THC. This was a study of buccal administration in dogs. cardiovascular effects of THC were attenuated by CBD, hypothermia unaffected. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Homer literally didn't see color, the guy was famously blind...

Obviously pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Impact of Age on Heroin Intravenous Self-Administration in Wistar Rats https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.05.723054v1

You can make a long, LONG list of technologies that were supposed to make stupid brick and mortar institutions of higher education obsolete. Printed books. Radio. Television. Personal computers. CD-ROMs. The Internet. MOOCs. Write the story once, and you can re-use it every five years!

"The controversial deal is unusual: other airports named after presidents don’t have trademarks owned by private companies...Another notable provision in the agreement gives Trump veto power over how his bio is presented at the airport, ensuring he can strike down information he finds unflattering"

SEPA R25, to support educational activities that increase understanding of biomedical research among pre-college (pre-kindergarten to grade12) individuals, and to encourage awareness of and continued interest in careers in (STEM) is published. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

This is a great example of someone using Masshole in the best possible way. “Is that a question?” “Yeah, kinda, like… are we being pricks? Are we trying to do nothin’? Cause it seems like we’re doin’ nothin’.”

Vaping does not need to be saved. What is the sense of this?

Looking forward to the social media panel at #SOBP2026 today.

Because we wanted to strongly signal we did want those types of study and indicate to readers this was a thing. Also nice to think of a world where these could be forward linked rather than just cited

Hey Siri. What does “coug-d it” mean?

NAS President Marcia McNutt claims she is being bipartisan by avoiding “topics for which there is a partisan divide.” But this is blatantly partisan. She is doing exactly what one party wants. Worse, in direct opposition to the science in these fields. 🧵1/?

Always good when you can recreate the dynamics of white abolitionists interpreting Black worthiness by how pitiful they find them to be.

We got rid of affirmative action so now Black kids have to define themselves by recounting personal trauma to signal that they are Black. overcast.fm/+AAHuusmwS-k

The attack on education in the US is not new, but the slow fuse that arguably started with Reagan is now setting off detonations across K-12 and higher education that are going to be incredibly difficult to walk back if we don’t treat this like the urgent crisis it is.

10. Racial segregation has INCREASED since the 1980’s, led by the push for school choice (see #8 and #9), dismantling legal protections, and white flight to suburbs and tax havens. 11. Economic segregation has also increased (school funding is often income-tax based). Disparities are going up.

Meanwhile, creating a place for replication studies is literally why we have Confirmatory/Contradictory Results categories on bioRxiv - much better than creating a traditional journal for replications given the peer review process may work differently/vary/be ongoing. bsky.app/profile/jere...

Why studying healthcare disparities matters. www.kff.org/racial-equit...

DEI DESERVES LESS RESEARCH? Racial health disparities in the U.S. result in roughly 74,000 to over 80,000 excess deaths annually among Black Americans. Other People of Color are also affected. (See link in comments)

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

You kind of get used to the naked inhumanity of Trumpism, it's odd to see a callback to the clothed-in-MBA-euphemisms inhumanity of respectable conservatism.

Effects of analgesia on the response to a noxious stimulus in Norway lobsters (Nephrops norvegicus) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles. That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org. (All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).

Don’t New Yorkers call these bodegas? Of course this denizen of NYC for his formative years never heard it called something else.

Impact of Sex on Heroin Intravenous Self-Administration by Heterogeneous Stock Rats www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

still pissed at a certain pundit who was incredulous when i said that these people are segregationists

Hegseth firing Generals who wouldn't go along with his purge of Black and female officers www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

When you have senior white male military officers willing to end their career by raising concerns about the blocking of Black and female officers, it feels safe to say this isn't about ending DEI: the better historical parallel is Wilson's resegregation of the bureaucracy bsky.app/profile/nbcn...

Don’t fear the AI? www.nhmagazine.com/when-the-une...

“I want to use up everything on the planet before I die and my grandkids can fuck off” is a helluva policy principle.

First legalizing polar bear “take” in the Arctic, now “fuck them whales” in the Gulf of Mexico.

A new preprint from the Nguyen lab explores the impact of dry-hits, as in when the e-cig cartridge runs out of liquid. It ain't good. Neurobehavioral Effects of Dry Hit Nicotine E-Cigarette Vapor Inhalation in Adolescent Wistar Rats www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A new preprint from the Nguyen Lab has posted: Changes in perineuronal net and parvalbumin expression in the orbitofrontal cortex of male Wistar rats following repeated fentanyl administration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Congratulations to Jacques Nguyen for an award recognizing “Baylor faculty members "who go above and beyond in mentoring undergraduate students."” artsandsciences.baylor.edu/news/story/2...

Recent release of NIH fellowship funding for FY2025 reminded me of this post where I addressed the long standing government interest in training scientists and in asking them to do science thereafter. I work for you...as you have repeatedly requested. tlneuro.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/i...

Recent release of NIH fellowship funding for FY2025 reminded me of this post where I addressed the long standing government interest in training scientists and in asking them to do science thereafter. I work for you...as you have repeatedly requested. tlneuro.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/i...

New in DADR: Han et al. found sex-specific youth vaping risks and concluded that prevention efforts may benefit from sex-specific strategies. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.da...

It is important to understand the arguments if we hope to minimize the bad stuff. Not only his testimony but also the punch and Judy show aspect of the questions of Reps. www.youtube.com/live/r4TFsqL...

Strawbery Banke

Absolutely essential reading for anyone considering those "unicorn" hiring positions in Canada. Observations from researchers who are already there: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14 open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...