The grift with this crowd is relentless and ubiquitous. Everyone associated with this administration appears to cheat, lie, and steal. The body politic rots from the head, down.

Nature will find a way.

More of this please. None of these people should be welcome in polite society. Ban them. Shun them. Refuse to do business with them. Refuse to eat around them. Refuse to welcome them for visits. Refuse to serve them.

The end is nigh, truly apocalyptic

We warned you when the Trump administration cut back on science funding. And now our long term outlook is worse. Last year we warned you when the Trump administration cut funding for the CDC and disease outbreak monitoring. And now people across America are suffering from explosive diarrhea.

Looks like the smoke from Canadian wildfires is starting to slip into #Pittsburgh.

Marginal (in the Bayesian sense) humans are awful.

...Tobacco use remains the nation’s leading cause of preventable death and disease, claiming the lives of more than 490,000 people each year.... respiratory-therapy.com/public-healt...

I remember people smoking on airplanes. Yeah, there was a smoking “section”, but in reality the whole plane was a smoking area. Same with restaurants. And hospitals! Not to mention emphysema, lung cancer, throat cancer, etc… that were all more common.

Experiment.

This is one of the most beautiful cross sections of cilia I've ever seen in our data, found by @csigulinsky.bsky.social. It is perfectly perpendicular to the plane of imaging which brings up an important point ~ connectomics. You gotta have enough resolution to see the important things. 2nm/px FTW!

The interesting thing about this (to me) is that he told me got into neuroscience because he suspected that something like the mechanism that generates diverse antibodies was operating in the nervous system to allow nerve cells to make connections with specific target cells.

This paper is so freakin' cool. The authors use a combination of comparative anatomy, the fossil record, phylogenetic methods, and morphometric analysis to figure out how (and when) seals evolved "amphibious hearing" that uniquely enable them to effectively hear in both air & underwater

Cox, Lee, Burgum, Trump, and their ilk, have no concept that these sites belong to the tribes for which they are sacred and are (or ought to be) governed by treaties with the Federal Government (not the state). Also, they would generate more in tourism revenue than in exploitation.

Here's the official song of summer Sorry I don't make the rules www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr0t...

I've been to this waterfall in Grand Staircase. It is... incredible. Have video of it here: bryanwjones.com/2023/04/capi...

Another piece of evidence in support of Epstein-Barr virus infections being responsible for multiple sclerosis. This is huge. And again, it's huge because a vaccine may be able to eliminate or dramatically reduce the incidence of multiple sclerosis.

Looks like Electron Microscopy Sciences has been acquired by private equity. www.emsdiasum.com

It is a black and white answer.

I still think about the WSJ scoop about the Epstein birthday book. The official Republican position, to this day and after unsuccessful Trump litigation, is that maybe someone faked his signature and put it in a book where everyone else's signature was real

Found an image of J.H. Collins, an early Chicago lawyer who claimed that if you saw a cop arresting a “fugitive slave,” you could legally shoot that cop as a kidnapper, as they had no authority to make those arrests here. Lived at present day Wacker and Michigan; cows stole his vegetables.

I’m really tired of private equity buying housing, veterinarians, hospitals, retirement homes, entertainment, etc… All of the things that are important for life are being acquired by private equity.

July 15th 2026. I usually post a version of Billy Bragg's St Swithin's Day on this date. Today I came across the original demo of Dubstar's excellent cover of Billy's song... www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ctI...

#NowPlaying Has anyone ever thought of remastering this magnificent record so that it no longer sounds like it was produced by Iggy Pop and David Bowie whilst wired on boats of coke?

Spooky echoes of what happened to Eastman-Kodak when their corporate leadership decided that digital photography would never catch on.

It’s so important to remind people that we can do good smart things that help and don’t hurt.

Oh, my... It's perfect. A perfect, phat-phendered, phabulous, Porsche 911. I'm gonna be dreaming about this one.

Portrait: Leah Owen in Denver bryanwjones.com/2026/05/port... #physician

Finally got around to posting the snapshots from #ARVO2026 in Denver. bryanwjones.com/2026/05/arvo...

Looking at the numbers: At least 10 people have been fatally shot (murdered) by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during Trump's 2nd term. In 2025, at least 33 people died in ICE custody or detention facilities. In 2026 so far, at least 21 people have died in ICE custody.

Love to use brain

"Do you know what it's like to be inside an iron lung? I do." I redesigned the science communications page on my website in a somewhat... unique way, you might say. I also wrote a little essay about my experience inside an iron lung. alexandragallant.com/communicatio...

This scene with the singing of La Marseillaise is a metaphor for how the entire world should be dealing with fascists. Drown out their noise. Reject fascism (and corruption) loudly and with vigor.

Novel Alternative Methods (NAMs) in Basic Mechanisms of Brain Aging and AD/ADRD Virtual Workshop - September 10-11, 2026 www.nia.nih.gov/research/wor...

Brandon Toews of Drumeo dove into the genius of Stewart Copeland's groundbreaking groove on The Police song "Walking on the Moon". laughingsquid.com/stewart-cope...

44 years ago today "If the Kids Are United" is a song by English punk rock band Sham 69, released on this day in 1982 with "Sunday Morning Nightmare" as B-side. #punk #punks #punkrock #ifthekidsareunited #sham69 #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Hey is there an open source After Effects? I need to build some shapes to figure out how many people could fit in a room in a building that got destroyed. I also need to reconstruct a collapsed gravestone. And my laptop is too old to safely run Adobe so help a girl out?

Remembering the great Jerry Lutty, fantastic mentor to so many of us, pioneer in the study of the choroid, and warm and wonderful human being.

Frogby has arrived from @alexandragallant.com to join my Teddy Bear from when I was wee. Teddy Bear can hear the frogs from outside and wanted one to cuddle for himself.

Finally got to meet @robertmarc.bsky.social at his cidery in Torrey, Utah. Thank you for giving me and my son a private tour of the shop. @bwjones.bsky.social I hope your ears weren’t burning too much.😛

I cannot help but think that the Founders of this country would view political appointments of representatives of this country as a corruption of the democratic process.

The man was shot with his 3 year old daughter in the back seat of his car. We can't have this...

Hard to put into words how big of an own-goal it is for the United States to normalize shipping tolls at all, much less tolls at 20%. It's the kind of thing that appeals to someone who has only ever known how to run short-term scams.

This is an amazing thread

Science has always been political going back to Galileo. This cuts both ways. Vannevar Bush helped establish the modern scientific establishment in America through public funding which made America a superpower. But modern corporate/GOP pushback against science has undermined American science.

Trump did this. He did this to the global economy, because...? Because he wanted to figure out how to personally profit.

In my lifetime, I've seen segments of society lose trust in evolutionary biology, climate science, and vaccines. None of this was due to anything scientists did. All of it was because non-scientists perceived some advantage (political, cultural, financial) in attacking science's credibility.