This was the only result at #Exoplanets6 that I saw get a spontaneous round of applause from the audience: THE FIRST ROCKY PLANET IN A HABITABLE ZONE* WITH EVIDENCE** OF AN ATMOSPHERE!!! *Of an M dwarf, which are the only such planets currently accessible **If it's real, its' a weird one!

NEW! Explore @thetransmitter.bsky.social's newest tool, Neuro Funding Finder. Discover grants, fellowships and funding opportunities for neuroscience research at all career stages. Find your next funding source and apply, all in one place! #neuroskyence thetransmitter.org/neuroscience...

starting to realize it is trumps immediate circle who might be just as terrified of the prospect of democratic majority investigations as trump is

Wildfire smoke visible, smellable, and tasteable in Pittsburgh.

Found original 😎🔬

This thread. I’ve been saying it for several yrs now: Russia’s dezinformatsiya (disinformation) campaign against the West and particularly America is the most successful intelligence operation in modern history. They’ve been manipulating govt. and society incredibly successfully. We’re suckers.

It's always nice when the structures you teach in class from nice, clear, illustrations ACTUALLY look like that in real data! What lovely microtubules!

Nasser Rusan got some almost as good when he was in our lab--it was a "is that real" situation??

*scowls* Also, I just looked it up and dammit, Earthbound Farm is theirs now too. www.taylorfarms.com/newsroom/tay... *more scowling*

This is cool. More of this, please.

Abuser language.

The nine-fold symmetry kills me. "Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die...One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."

❤️ Firefighters are the best.

Bruce Taylor (CEO of Taylor Farms) also likes to give heavily to Republican PACs like Texans for a Conservative Majority and Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump.

Hey Eric Metaxas: Do not go jump off of a building. OK? We prohibit you from going to the nearest tall building and jumping off. You are not allowed to do that. Are we clear?

What makes sleep restorative? A new Nature Neuroscience study suggests that the ON and OFF firing patterns underlying slow waves may themselves drive some of sleep’s key benefits – even while mice are awake. #neuroskyence By Alissa de Chassey www.thetransmitter.org/sleep/making...

"This is stealing from every other industry that depends upon silicon infrastructure." - This, 100% this my man. We've been watching general compute infrastructure (solid imaging workstations with GPU, RAM, Storage etc) increase in costs at a rate of ~10% per month. Our wee corner of this resource.

"Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey home" -- awesome work by the homeowner to glove up and put the fragments that came through the roof into glass jars! It's a CM1/2 carbonaceous chondrite, only the second observed fall of its kind www.seti.org/news/alien-w...

I don't think people realize that the cost of "tokens" is going to explode in the near future as the markets shake out, and the realities of scale start to step in. You just can't keep throwing cycles at the way the system is architected... (the y-axis on the chart is logarithmic, btw)

Deep sigh. “If they’re going to be very strict on ‘We’re only going to give very limited cases after four years,’ then we’re going to lose a lot of [international] graduate students,” she said. “That’s the reality, because not all programs are going to be able to adjust to that.”

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.