Cheese and caffeine decreases your risk of dementia... Barring other impacts, I am sooooo anti-demented. LOL

Me, checking the news this morning:

A history of how the #NIH came to be. The purpose of the NIH is to support science innovation. Government support of science grows the economy, brings power and prosperity to the country. This was part of the budget increase after WWI. It became our backbone. 🧪 theconversation.com/how-the-nih-...

I’m very excited to announce that a part of my PhD thesis project is now a preprint! In this paper, we show how spontaneous activity prior to visual experience shapes neural circuits in the retina. (1/11)

Grab some popcorn and check out this fantastic "post-orial" from the soon-to-be-Dr. @miah-pitcher.bsky.social This story has everything: movies of retinal waves, explanations of dendritic integration, images of starburst cells. Enjoy!

Doing my taxes for 2025 and goddamn, it costs a lot to die in the United States of America.

And:

Person with MS: Endorse

I would ask people to call or message their senators about this and specifically that Vinay Prasad needs to be out at FDA. Even the Wall Street Journal has said as much. There is push back. Companies won’t fund clinical trials if they can’t trust the FDA.

It’s the exactly correct scale to use. USAID cuts alone put them beyond Pol Pot, maybe 1/3 of the way to Mao

I called and messaged McCormick today about this. I cited and linked WSJ Editorial about it was well.

I live with MS. I am too far gone for this as I have progressive MS, but the University of Edinburgh was involved in a trial with Moderna on deploying an EBV vaccine in RRMS patients to see if it slows progression. The trial was meant to run intil 2029. www.mssociety.org.uk/research/lat...

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Did my AP exams in grade 11 with what felt like 2 blowtorches on my back. And if it is related to MS- have a much loved cousin in a chair due to bad MS. Anyone acting in any way to increase risk of that happening can burn

I want these vaccines for my children more than I can possibly say.

I got parashingles as a result of mono. Horrible, and I still have hypersensitive spots on my shoulder blades as a result- 30+ years later

EBV also causes psoriasis and many other autoimmune disorders

If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees. This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.

All AI companies have problems. We would probably not be in this chaos had OpenAI not forced everyone’s hand. However, Anthropic seems to at least be focusing their attention upon coding where AI was originally being applied and has mature use cases. The fact that Elon hates them is a plus.

Acclaimed mezzo soprano Denyce Graves took a final bow last month and is pivoting to teaching the next generation. She performed on the world’s top opera stages for more than 40 years. Such a brilliant, beautiful person. And now she's speaking about the racism she faced. #Opera #Classical #BHM

I'm telling you... one of the biggest villains in modern history is this guy.

One of the biggest villains of the past couple of decades is this guy. He almost single handedly engineered the Qatar diplomatic crisis and manipulated a government to wield its policy so he personally profits, and continues to do so negotiating for America despite having no role in government.

They simply can't help themselves. It's utterly pathological.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

"Revokes scientific finding"

Throwing away the progress Porsche has made on the EV Boxster/Cayman would be terrible. It is the ideal use case for an electric sports car. The Taycan is the best automobile I've ever driven (aside from the lack of physical buttons), and I'd love to see what a smaller, lighter EV Porsche could do

Logging into Bsky each morning

The first reporter that asks if the staffers name was "John Barron" gets $100 from me.

A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on itself and formed a black hole. n.pr/4aomsxr

🎉 Excited to share our new paper on how the brain forms first impressions, now out (open access)! In our EEG study, we tested how the brain responds to two kinds of social information: what we see (like perceived race) and what we know (like a person’s socioeconomic status). 🧵

Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.

Do not let people redefine history. This is what was reported at the time. This is what was being said by Republicans at the time. This is what Congressional Republicans were saying at the time.

This is really, really dark. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Ta daaaaa!

Neuroscientist @clionamurray.com knows the power of community. Murray explains how @blackinneuro.bsky.social expanded from its humble beginnings as a Slack channel to connect Black neuroscientists across the diaspora. By @alainaglevine.bsky.social #neuroskyence

Scientist's way of saying 'I ❤️ you' "I found this paper/preprint that made me think of your project." "I checked the mice/cells/plates already." "I just sent you the edits you requested." "I have a slide/diagram that will work for that." "I had that problem with [lab equipment], I have a fix."

Petrolicious is back. Issue 001 just showed up in my mailbox.

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

this, gentle followers, is a hooded oriole. which is a mexico/southwestern US kind of bird. he is extremely NOT supposed to be in portland oregon and he is causing quite a stir. paid him a visit today at his favorite nectar feeder in someone’s yard

Turkeys can fly? #birds

OMG. This is the car that cemented my slide into an unhinged appreciator of gear headed gnarlieness, to quote a phrase from @metacool.bsky.social.

I will joke about her because she is ridiculously unprofessional and if she fears no consequences because she thinks her power is secure that is also very funny, as it is not. No one should be afraid of Pam Bondi, who will be known to history as the loser who couldn’t get a single grand jury vote.

Rockwell would have painted this.

The ultimate evolution of the air-cooled Porsche. Needs a loving home and rescuing from Florida.

The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.

Do. Want.

Does every visual experience shape the brain in the same way, or does what we see change how visual areas are wired? 🧠 New research from Leopoldo Petreanu’s Cortical Circuits Lab at the @champalimaudf.bsky.social, first co-authors Radhika Rajan and Rodrigo Dias, shows that visual experience matters.

I "enjoy" the hybrid roles this sort of doomerism serves to simultaneously misrepresent what the technology is actually capable of, and misdirect attention away from the fact the real problem is a pretty traditional one: greedy, shitty people

Legitimately freaking out, btw.