Can’t wait to pour into the streets to celebrate the end of this regime.

Your terms are acceptable.

This phabulous phat rendered Porsche needs rescuing from Idaho. Someone buy this and I’ll fly to Idaho, and then drive it out to deliver it to you. The ultimate air-cooled 911 generation in the absolutely right color.

And what are the criteria for granting these “viewpoint diversity” endowed chairs?

Here's the art I did for the new SciAm article on why birds were the only dinosaurs to survive the K-Pg event! Read it here www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-a... 🪶🎨🐡

Nice evening soundtrack. #Merlin

Rep. Lloyd Doggett: “Is your feeling that we cannot afford to invest more in Alzheimer’s, cancer, Parkinson’s, HIV…” And what Vought has in response are lies. Biomedical research saves lives. All he’s got is trying to blame COVID on others—for political advantage.

FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the violence, protests, and arrests stemming from the federal immigration sweeps across the country. "Caught in the Crackdown" is now streaming on PBS and online.

I’m totally with you on this. And this is before you even get to the challenge of securing funding for projects like these....

Everything is harder when you are literally pushing the boundaries. Especially in science. When I sit back and think "why is this so damned hard", I realize we've been pushing boundaries using tools and talent that is non-traditional in biomedical research, and that just makes everything harder.

Recession indicators for me: Changing shipping indicators w/overall declines and shifts from air to ground at both FedEx and UPS. Decline in the number of cardboard box sales for shipping. Dramatic increase in gig workers. Sentiment on social media particularly from younger peeps about economy.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds over 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 institutions across all 50 U.S. states, supporting roughly 390,863 jobs and driving $94 billion in economic activity. I am one of them and am thankful to all who pay the taxes that support this enterprise 🧪

As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy

In high school, our graphics arts teacher walked in on us when we had both passports and drivers licenses up on the process camera vacuum table... We were... experts at making "documents", and that all came crashing to a halt when he walked in, looked at us and said... "WHAT ARE YOU DOING??!?!?".

I'm in the Jus ad bellum camp with the U.S. bishops which demands 1 competent authority, 2 Probability of success, 3 It is last resort after diplomacy fails, 4 and Just Cause. Going to war needs to be just and cannot be solely for recapturing things taken or punishing people who have done wrong.

I want the Democratic strategy position going into midterms and the next presidential election to be one that promises to prosecute those currently, and formerly in government who have engaged in criminal activity or corruption to the fullest extent of the law. This is how Hungary got rid of Orban.

I paid more in taxes this year despite getting dramatically fewer services from my tax dollar (cuts to NIH, NSF, USAID, Dept of State, environment, arts, etc...). I don't know where the promises of lower taxes went, but I do know that Trump and his ilk have profited mightily from their corruption.

Learning "how to see" helps with any sort of communication. Especially when what you are doing both enables and benefits from the larger society.

The Russ Vought hearing is starting now. It's the first time Vought has testified before Congress since his confirmation hearings, so it's the first time Congress will be able to question him about the onslaught of illegal budgetary actions he has undertaken. I'll be posting in this thread.

At my former institution, the new president worked with the state legislature to remove the power of the academic senate and make them an advisory only body.

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for. apnews.com/article/pitt...

ISER will have a booth at the @arvoinfo.bsky.social 2026 Mtg in Denver and would love to have volunteers to represent ISER there. This is a great opportunity to support ISER, reconnect w/colleagues, and engage with the vision research community. Sign up here: aao-wihgh.formstack.com/forms/iser_v...

Explore the impact of NIH funding on global #VisionResearch through the insights of @arvoinfo.bsky.social#VisionResearchmember Ashik Mohamed, MBBS, MTech, PhD, MAMS, FARVO in our latest #ARVOBlog “50 States, 50 Stories” series post. Read now: https://bit.ly/4ceyGbi #SeeWhatMatters

Deaths are horrible, but we should also remember the disabilities many of these diseases can leave people with. Huge human costs to these shoot-from-the-hip decisions!

Across scales from cells🦠 to atoms⚛️ – We reveal how anaerobic #bacteria break down very stable aromatic compounds found e.g. in oil spills 🛢️ #Bioremediation #TeamTomo 🧪 🧶🧬 🔬 Awesome collab with Lena, Matthias, @schullerjm.bsky.social @rnfr2d2.bsky.social @tomaspascoa.bsky.social @tamb-o.bsky.social

They’ve given up on any pretense of truth. The corruption is so complete that the GOP has gotten lazy and arrogant with their telling of lies and deception. When the lies are this obvious, you know how deep the rot goes.

Just spent a couple of days in Mexico City for the first time in 36 years. It’s… changed. Took the opportunity to meet up with @fim.bsky.social at a meeting and meet with a cousin. The food scene is phenomenal. Might have eaten the best meal of my life at Quintonil.

Government made the United States a superpower. Government built an education system that was the envy of the world. Government built the largest and most productive biomedical research infrastructure in world history. Government helped stabilize global instability and saved countless lives.

If you haven't already, here's the final opportunity to pre-order the limited edition SUGAR Long Live Love t-shirt. The shirt is only being printed once and along with the 7" single is nearly sold out.  Get yours before it is too late! sugarcopperblue.com/merch

The push for institutional neutrality, like the so-called “free-speech crisis,” was always a right wing ploy to get universities to stop pointing out obvious things like “fascists are ascendant” and “racism is bad.” It is sad that so many university “leaders” took the bait.

I want them to understand the enormity of the impact of their cultish loyalty to a monster. They need to understand that they had a hand in these deaths and that through their acts, children starved, or died horribly from completely preventable dysentery. That people literally starved to death.

Dismantling of USAID is one of the worst political acts in history and all those involved should be haunted by these acts for the rest of their days, and their memories should be soiled with their culpability.

All of these deaths are on Trump, Musk, Vought, and all the GOP members of Congress who have enabled these crimes against humanity.

Celia & Fela getting their due. Fucking LEGENDS.

I'm not letting the folks that voted for him off the hook either.

Last night in LA after SPE and #AERA2026. #LA #venicebeach #photography #streetphotography #photooftheday

Released 34 years ago today Bricks Are Heavy, the third studio album by L7, featuring the single Pretend We’re Dead L7 - Pretend We're Dead - Live Letterman 1992 #punk #punks #punkrock #grunge #L7 #bricksareheavy #womenofpunk #punkrockhistory #otd

Rotavirus is the largest killer of children in the world under 5. There is a vaccine. Tx also consists of rehydration w/simple oral electrolytes to replenish fluids, minerals, and electrolytes. USAID distributed all of that saving lives across the world. Trump killed it, and is killing them.

What an honour - thank you! See you at the ceremony…

I finally knocked my nemesis off my list, and oh, what a gorgeous nemesis it was. I’ve been known to stop at every old stand of white oaks I can still find and just post myself there until I’m sure Lewis’s woodpeckers are less common than Ivory-billed woodpeckers. This beauty was in White River

30-50 feral hogs…

Remember the first time I heard Joy Division and realized how much more music I needed to discover. Queue them up on days when I’m feeling peevish.

And Joy Division! It’s about time.

I spoke at the IACHR hearing in March on the boat strikes. Funny how the Trump administration is very happy to continue to post snuff films of these lawless killings but not defend the legal merits of these strikes.

Rotavirus is the largest killer of children in the world under 5. There is a vaccine. Tx also consists of rehydration w/simple oral electrolytes to replenish fluids, minerals, and electrolytes. USAID distributed all of that saving lives across the world. Trump killed it, and is killing them.

I’d daily this.

H.R. Pufnstuf was absolutely bonkers insane, and I loved it. It was absolutely surreal and being filmed on 35mm film stock, looked absolutely unique for the time.