This advancement in America was only possible through investment in education and science. Over the last year, we have absolutely destroyed our scientific and educational infrastructure. Look to other countries for the next major advancements.

Spent the day cycling along the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers and then all over Pittsburgh.

“Only the penitent man shall pass” ~ Henry Jones Sr.

Back after a day out cycling. Alice has been fed, is happy and wants to cuddle for #Caturday.

Hey friends! Next week I’ll be in conversation with @reitman.bsky.social not once but TWICE. 🙌🏽 Rainey and I will be discussing her first book TRANSACTION DENIED, about “financial censorship.”💰 Tuesday, April 7 - 7pm Mrs. Dalloway’s (Berkeley) 📚 Thursday, April 9 - 7pm City Lights Books (SF) 📖

The future scandal sheets are gonna be lit. The way information flows in DC, it takes a little while for insider information to leak out. There are some channels that have been leaking information that will make this stuff pale by comparison. People will be asking how all that could have happened

Bible: In the end times there are gonna be charlatans who use my name to trick you into supporting evil and it will be incredibly obvious to everyone except you. Evangelicals: This section of the Bible has always been mysteriously vague.

Reminds me of this article from today, but people uncritically accept info from all sources: news, consultants, internet, articles, etc. Can’t blame AI for everything. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/r...

I’m old enough to remember when the Blue Brain project claimed they had simulated an entire mouse brain… then a rat brain… then a cat brain. Claims like that, and this one👇🏼, harm science.

I am INCREDIBLY proud to share our lab’s first preprint, after 22 months of work! A result of Dr. Anna Schreiber @annaschreiber.bsky.social and Dr. Anamika Gupta’s fantastic work, we focus on an ultra rare developmental disease, YWHAG syndrome. (1/?) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Super rare, very special, phat phendered Porsche. Wowowow.

If you like the political angle in "Keeper of the Flame", check out "State of the Union", another Hepburn/Tracy Flick in which Tracy's character almost sells out to become president. It was directed by Frank Capra.

Okay…

anyone want to tell these folks what happened to Ceausescu

1933: New Deal 2026: New Ordeal

Co-signing embracing the cringe. I've never been terribly conformist (this was often to my detriment), but be loud about who you are & the things you love! Also it's the best way to find your people. And they're out there. ❤️

Here's the full Trump-Vought FY27 budget proposal. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... It lists NIH as "-$5 billion" with a top line budget of $41B. The math doesn't math tho bc FY26 budget was $48.7, making $41B a $7.7B (not $5B) cut. Also calls to eliminate NIMHD, FIC & NCCIH.

I will say it again: American-style “Christians”= Matthew 23: 27-28

Tending the rooftop.

I am shocked to see this language from the NSF. “The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”

During a similarly structured event a few years ago, I teleported straight into a booth at an Islands restaurant, broke my fast with a burger and an Arnold Palmer, and my wife walked me next door to watch Avatar 2, mostly so she could giggle at me while I slowly came back down.

ALT text: Angelica Huston being her absolutely bad-ass self.

Now digging through the 1000+ page Appendix. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... 1/3

A few years ago, I had a colonoscopy. The anesthesiologist pushed the anesthesia, I told him my toes looked funny, he said “yeah, they do that” and then I magically teleported to the passenger seat of our car on the other side town. My wife even asked me where I’d been.

Have you served on an NIH study section (or thought about serving)? Did you know that that the small perk of being able to submit your own applications after the deadline has largely been revoked? grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

The opposite of secular government is sectarian government. Sect, singular. Religious nationalism is like Highlander: In the end, there can be only one. It leads -- always and inevitably -- to Emo's Golden Gate Bridge joke, but with tiers of citizenship and state-sponsored violence.

Stares in lapsed Catholic.

one of those days where a 16th percentile grant went to "not discussed" (but competitively not discussed-whatever that means). tough business we are in.

Look... We ain't stupid. It's clear the whole mechanism is corrupt. Citizens United needs to be abolished, & Congress must take back its power from the Executive. But one party is clearly fascist and an enemy of democracy. The other party does not know how to street fight and that can be taught.

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

The Roberts Court enabled gutting NIH and NSF this year when they avoided upholding the law in: - the NIH grants case - the mass firing / RIF case - the FLRA/OSC/MSPB/indep agency removal cases and probably others

Nature published another pile of trash i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields 1/

a cognitive scientist here: there are no functions (brain or otherwise) dedicated to "performing" human feelings

Reading papers from @myonlyneuron.bsky.social with @john-ash8831.bsky.social and grad students. This is fun.

From E-5 to O-8, I don’t know any of my peeps active, reserve, or retired, who can stand this guy.

Get your priorities straight, that’s the message.

Yeah, well… a majority of Americans disapprove of him as well. We have some house cleaning to do.

When a cat is busy headbutting your hands and grabbing your fingers to rub her face all over them is all kinds of cute, but it does tend to make it difficult to type into phones.

What war crime, I wonder did Gen. George refuse to carry out?

Great that the space race isn’t over after all, but I’m surprised that after 54 years communications from Artemis II still sound as brittle and crackly as the did back in the day.

“Those memories of you still haunt me…” - oof, that one still gets me right in the feels these days.

Emmylou has one of the greatest voices in music. Emmylou's work with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt, Trio is in my pantheon of all time greatest albums.

This is gorgeously lit. Anyone know the name of the NASA photographer? #SomeoneCookedHere

As opposed to almost all video/TV coverage, still photogs knew to drop the exposure for more drama AND detail in the plumes. 🧠 📷 🙌 🚀

"Simple Things – Surprising Histories" looked at circuit boards to find out why most of them are a particular shade of green. laughingsquid.com/circuit-boar...

LLMs *can* function as pretty good search engines, but everything we know about human laziness predicts that, well, about 80% of people will never bother to verify the answers. And you have to actively goad LLMs to provide source links back to claims, which we also know the vast majority won’t do.

Give the Republicans control of the House, Senate, and White House they said... They'll get stuff done they said... They are business people who know how to negotiate they said... They'll run government like a business they said... It's time to take the keys away from the Republicans.

100+ year old Pasteur Institute in Tehran was a premier infectious disease research institute and vaccine manufacturer It is a reason Iranian kids like me born in 60s had access to measles vaccines soon after they were developed in the west

"Tricky Dick" stuck with Nixon. Perhaps Trump need to be known as "Tricky Trump" to forever brand that name as one who cheats, is calculating, and always dishonest.