All the details matter. Everything matters. This just shows how sloppy these people are.

Even with the gov't open, study sections won't be able to instantly restart. Apart from rescheduling, sections scheduled to meet in the next week or two would have been paralyzed by the shutdown with reviews not yet assigned, reviews not yet come in, discussion order not set, etc. 🧪

While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.

Kevin Kelly Kevin Kelly has spent his life exploring how technology shapes human experience. He helped launch Wired and became one of its most influential voices, known for big, clear ideas about tools, culture, and the future. He has written books that blend curiosity with a kind of gentle…

Large-eyed animals like owls 🦉 have a trade-off between large eyes & short optic nerves, which lowers eye mobility (to compensate they evolved swivelly necks) But chameleons 🦎 have long, coiled optic nerves with extra slack for eye mobility, allowing them to use their famous large swivelly eyes 👀🧪🌏

Covered from Reditt to ABC News, 8 years back

Note: this was uncovered as part of the investigation and the House GOP Committee sat on it. They knew about it all along.

Not inaccurate tho…

No Senate involvement. Normal process is NIH Director recommends to HHS Secretary who makes the appointment. Yes, the scope and process has the potential to be a real shit show.

FOURTEEN institute and center directorships are to be filled and not one has a proper search committee or reasonable submission deadline relative to posting date. That’s half of the NIH org chart! Are the positions subject to Senate confirmation, or do Jay & Bobby get the final say?

Pittsburgh forecast showing that the sky -might- be less cloudy later this evening or after midnight. We can hope I guess server1.cleardarksky.com/c/Pittsburgh...

Pretty pleased to get some decent waves on my last night on the road in #Iceland. Never mess with Reynisfjara...

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Get outside into a dark place if you can tonight - no guarantees, but a possible brilliant display of the northern lights.

UNC-9 gap junctions have stomatin caps (oh-so stylish!). I jaw-dropped at "rectification could be imposed in a dynamic fashion, thus enabling acute plasticity in electrical synapses" and these images .... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

OK, this thread is amazing. Check out the replies and go listen to that good stuff.

The GeneTex GTX13970 works well for me, on glutaraldehyde fixed tissue as well. For TdTomato: Origene AB8181. Both used postembedding, Lowicryl HM20

Hot take: Most covers of songs are not good. Some covers are better than the originals, but this is rare. What are your fave covers that are better than the originals?

Just unreal, it will never get old. I feel like I just feel more awe every time. #aurora

Can't find anything on the 2025 Sexiest Collard Farmer contest. 🤔 I hope last year's winner, Mr. Patrick Brown, and his family are thriving. 🥬 🙌🏾👑

This view never gets old.

Aurora photos from Portland

You can’t make this stuff up. Boondoggle Ranch… <rolls forehead back and forth on desk>

The last Trump government shutdown cost the U.S. economy at least $11 billion. What’s this one going to cost? I’m betting at least twice that amount.

“Travelers and anyone else who was at the airport’s terminals A and B between 8:50 a.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday may have been exposed to the highly contagious disease, according to a news release from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health”

A red aurora was observed just prior to the French Revolution. Just sayin...

*You* are not auditioning. Your insurance coverage is auditioning. This is especially true as private equity starts to take over senior living facilities and memory care facilities.

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived. (Published October)

Most of N. America should be able to see the Aurora Borealis, barring cloud cover like here in Pittsburgh. :-(

My God, I miss this man @barackobama.bsky.social in office: youtu.be/C5QDxsQPDro?...

Ppl need to understand what's happening here. The GOP response to the shutdown was: You're gonna cave, or we're going to hurt vulnerable people by shutting off SNAP. The Dems, unwilling to let that happen, caved. Having watched that, the GOP is now saying: "Give us what we want on abortion or ..."

Does anyone know of good antibodies to tdTomato and GFP that they are happy with for ultrastructure or glut fixed tissues? #SciSky 🧪

About 16.4 million Americans served in the Armed Forces in World War II. In 2025, there are approximately 45,000 who are still alive, according to the National WWII Museum. These are some of their stories: https://wapo.st/4p4H0PQ

"it's not in the stored training data just the entire training data set"

I look at this & am reminded of standing on the fantail of the USS Bonhomme Richard as Amphibious Vehicles were rolling out of the rear dock into the ocean and I was asked if I wanted to ride one of them into shore. The look I gave made people laugh. Dear reader: I requested a helicopter ride in.

This is Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr., member of the Ho-Chunk Nation & veteran of two branches of the U.S. military who died in combat in the Korean War. For his service, he was decorated with 13 medals (some posthumously), including the Medal of Honor & Purple Heart. 🧵 #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #NAHM

Everything that actually made America great is being destroyed

And @ardemp.bskyverified.social is here on Bsky!

In a significantly weirder case, "Sleeping Lady with Black Vase" is a 1928 oil painting by Róbert Berény. It was lost in WWII, and considered looted by the Nazis and likely destroyed afterwards in the chaos... until someone recognized it as set dressing in the movie "Stuart Little." Yes, really.

You hide your best assets in plain sight. ;-)

A surprising connection: Parkinson's drug L-DOPA protects against age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Researcher Brian McKay, PhD, used this finding to discover a protective eye pathway & create an AMD supplement. Now he's working on new treatments based on this discovery. 🔬

I have some advice for Tesla on how not to completely screw up the future of the company, but I'm happy not get in the way of them making some fundamental missteps on their path to self destruction.

A pastor friend called me a few years ago after his Sunday sermon, asking some advice. After his sermon on turning the other cheek, a member of his congregation came up to him and said "This turn the other cheek thing is weak as &#@%, it's not very alpha". He wanted to know what to do with that...

The arrogance of these people who have no understanding or experience in their subject matter domains, just tearing everything apart. The move fast and break things philosophy is incredibly toxic and destructive of infrastructure that has been built through pain and experience over time.

Bruce Freeman tried to recruit me in 2006. Great leader & dept

I went to Pitt Med. Pittsburgh is an amazing place to live and raise a family. 10/10 would recommend

I feel a bit small mentioning very new singers in comparison to these greats, but I've recently enjoyed Javed Bashir and Akbar Ali's Naina Moray. Javed Bashir especially kills it in this song youtu.be/q90zq1-heR4?...

WOWWOWWOW... When I found Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's music, it opened up a whole new musical world to me. My thanks to @itspetergabriel.bsky.social for that. But Fareed Ayaz is like, the Qawwali Godfather.

In case you missed it with all the nuisance about a govt shutdown, snap etc... I captured the important whitehouse remodeling event here !

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