Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

As someone not with NCAR, I use NCAR-based software everyday to help identify and track regions of excessive precipitation to help NWS forecasters protect lives and property. NCAR is extremely valuable and we need them.

Why read a 300-word "abstract" summary of a paper written by the actual authors when one can read a 300-word summary produced by an AI prone to hallucinations?

At least two of the Brown University students who were on campus when a deadly shooting unfolded there on Saturday have survived school shootings before. “What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?”

Gun violence is the number-one cause of death for children. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

This is an absolutely bonkers story. Not the craziest thing but as a physiologist dropping them at 15000ft w no acclimatization and expecting them to not only climb a very challenging mountain but also set up equipment is insane. Also not realizing the heat of the generator would cause issues?!!

A few weeks ago graffiti threatening a mass shooting targeting certain groups was found on my campus. While the police did not find it a credible threat, only 22/115 students came to my class the next day. I wonder how many of my students have lived through a mass shooting. #GunSenseNow.

in every other advanced nation this is all but impossible statistically but we live in America, a nation that chooses when, where, and how to be exceptional the power to do marvelous or terrible things on a global scale is in our hands

Please join me in signing and sharing this petition, and calling your Rep in the House. RFK Jr. must go!

I still can’t believe the National Science Foundation is being forced to move out of their brand new, purpose-built building because the HUD secretary thought his building was ugly. The Trump administration is destroying the best parts of this country, and it will take decades to rebuild.

In early grad school I heard some dissertation advice that was essentially chasing fads is a bad idea because you need two years to get things together & by then everyone will have moved on and you're left with an unmarketable product that you don't even like. Thinking about that while reading this.

This kind of bottle-shaming is a not-so-subtle way to push women out of the workforce.

Well this is pretty wild [🎁]

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

Here’s the thing, emerging scientists aren’t going to flee to do science elsewhere…they just won’t do the science. We will lose at least one, if not two generations of knowledge if we don’t get this shit sorted out immediately.

The effects of the ACIP poisoned recommendations may not be seen clearly at scale for years. But every child that unnecessarily develops HepB-associated chronic liver disease and cancer is the fault of those on that committee, the HHS Secretary, and those that capitulated to put him in power.

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

“Calculators expanded reasoning; the printing press spread knowledge. ChatGPT, by contrast, doesn’t extend cognition—it automates it, turning thinking itself into a service. Rather than democratizing learning, it privatizes the act of thinking under corporate control. “

The wholesale destruction of America's leadership in science and medicine in progress. Fire Bobby, Jay and Marty NOW!

New York Times article on science funding with some depressing but familiar curves with interactive graphics. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

22% fewer NIH grants

Call your reps! Script: "I'm [name with spelling], and I'm a constituent from [city, zip code]. I'm calling [senator/rep] to demand they do something to prevent the FDA from rolling back critical vaccines for children. It's dangerously anti-science and will do harm." Say if you'd like a response.

This is the most important op-ed you'll read this week. The Trump administration is about to get rid of the birth-dose of hepatitis B vaccine. That is a deadly choice for many families. @helenouyang.bsky.social tells her story. Now call your member of Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors. $33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

I think this year’s Christmas in the Park Neurophysiology Lab tree is our best yet. The lab mice were busy making muscle spindle ornaments and decorating! 🧪🐭🎄

Lab students have a poll to rename our rigs. Probably won’t solve problem of me never remembering which is which but ‘There’s a noise issue on Jerry Rig’ is so much more fun than rig 1.

While RFK Jr spreads conspiracies, California will stick to science.

I have a story today about interoception--a kind of sixth sense that delivers information from within our bodies to our brains. nyti.ms/4rfTDtn

One of my favorite days in Intro Bio is the respiratory physiology day where I get the excuse to show this amazing video about bird lungs. It was made by 4 students from my SJSU Cardiorespiratory Phys class and won an @apsphysiology.bsky.social video award🫁 youtu.be/4QURSkPystI

Setting aside the question of whether or not we are ready to phase out the use of animals in research (spoiler: we are not), there is an ethical way to do this. Abruptly shutting down research programs means that many animals are going to be euthanized! www.science.org/content/arti...

Yes! This also comes up in my recent contribution to CHE: www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

Full circle moment: former undergrad research student is now teaching another section of Intro Bio. I used some of her data from the lab as an exam question asking students to identify the dependent variable & whether the hypothesis was supported. 🧪

The fight has come to NC, and it just hit close to home. Our daughter teaches in Durham public schools and she said almost all of the Latinx kids are not in school today. ICE is targeting everyone who "looks Hispanic", citizen or not. I am even more angry today-kids need to go to school!

More than 73,000 people were in Clinical Trials Affected by Research Grant Terminations at the National Institutes of Health jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Remind us @nytimes.com, who is it that is ruining the workplace? www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Probably fewer women in economics because they’re just not as smart, right, Larry?

I give Catholic bishops a hard time often for all the obvious reasons, but this is beautiful and loving, and I'm deeply grateful to hear it. This can change hearts and save lives.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I show this every year in Intro Bio after showing this video of how fast antibiotic resistance can evolve in a huge Petri dish with increasing concentrations of antibiotics news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... 🧪

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

Very cool finding by SJSU prof @cassandrapaul.bsky.social & @djphysicswebb.bsky.social that higher stakes exams can explain the gender gap in physics. More evidence for changing the course structure instead of blaming student prep. 🧪

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️