How can you not be romantic 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 about baseball?

shin ramyun is so, uh... rich that the serving size is half a bag. who is eating half a bag of shin ramyun

Today we're dissolving gold in aqua regia! Gold is expensive, but in the scheme of things for a synthesis lab the price (~$183/g) is not that different to other speciality chemicals. ##ChemSky #OzChem

Reds lose but 11yo won a later bedtime

I didn’t even realize this game had started

Welcome to Jurassic Pork 🦕🥟🦖 #Delicious #Dinosaur #Dumplings

“Unenthusiastic bosses don’t help. They might shield top performers to keep them from leaving. And nearly half of senior managers said they would take a pay cut to work from home” The Return to Office Rush Is Stalling www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

This is a great post

Meghan McCain slammed Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's daughter, Violet Affleck, over her UN speech: 'This is why people hate nepo babies,' the daughter of Sen. John McCain said.

Early career researchers or PhD students, could £500 develop your career? Our Researcher Development and Travel Grant can help you organise a scientific meeting and more. Apply by 20 October: https://rsc.li/4gB2D7s #ChemSky

On top of everything else, the comedy history nerd in me loves Kimmel even more this morning for this deep cut, a cut on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such cut in the history of man.

[email protected] and @mwcog.bsky.social have launched DMV Monitor, which will assess the impact of cuts to the federal government on the Washington area. So far: fed jobs down, unemployment up, more homes for sale, more households showing signs of financial distress: www.brookings.edu/articles/dmv...

It is a tremendous waste of time and resources to hold an in-person only meeting - no streaming or recording - in a room that is too small for the audience, and then to immediately follow it with a virtual only broadcast. Why not make it hybrid instead of holding two separate meetings?

A journalist who thinks they did "a very thorough data-led analysis" by using ChatGPT should be out of a job on the very same day.

Gary Cohen wasn't sold on how the Cubs and Matt Shaw handled his absence to attend Charlie Kirk's memorial. "I don't want to talk about any of the politics of it, but the thought of leaving your team in the middle of a race for any reason other than a family emergency, really strikes me as weird."

11yo saw this setup and is now plotting his own

So you're a scientist about to face a government shutdown? Have you considered becoming a rock star? It's easy AND profitable! 🎸🧪 Let's list off five scientists who turned rockers:

Doing a bunch of planning for the winter and spring campaign season, so I put together a little primer on my favorite source books for teaching with Dungeons & Dragons. Teaching with D&D: My favorite source books for running a great Dungeons & Dragons campaign.

political reporters: "who's to say which side is right? I'm just reporting what they say!" science & health reporters: "me! I can say who's right! can anyone hear me?"

Health and science reporters should lead the coverage of all these health-related conspiracy theories & newsroom leaders should keep their both-sides political reporters out of their way.

multiple times a day

A homebuilt printing press for publishing after the rapture without drawing the attention of the Antichrist. Patent Application Publication US 2012/0279405

"It is extremely unusual — perhaps unheard of — for the FDA to reapprove an old branded drug that had been off the market for so long, particularly not at the request of the drugmaker."

your honor we only said tylenol because the president couldn’t pronounce “acetaminophen”

This is bonkers. FDA is going to change leucovorin's label based on a lit review with data on 40 patients w/ cerebral folate deficiency and comparisons to "known natural history." www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/f...

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

Beyond the false anti-vaccine talking points, beyond peddling Wakefield-level bullshit over MMR, telling pregnant women with a headache to “tough it out” instead of taking Tylenol or they’ll give their baby autism is something else. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

I really think that Dems should demand firing RFK Jr. as a condition to fund the government his negative value over replacement cabinet member is undoubtedly the highest in the administration

Expounding on MMR when he has no idea what the R even stands for “The mumps and measles and and the three”

Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in. Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol. It's like his work never happened.

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

The label of a drug is close to a sacrosanct document. It represents the trust between the government and the user of the drug that the drug is safe and effective and that all risks and benefits are accurately outlined. Changing it to suit a political agenda is imo an earthshaking matter

I’m thankful for everyone who watched that and posted updates. I knew it was going to be bad so I didn’t watch. It looks like it was even worse than I expected.

Anyone else having a really hard time talking to students about careers in science? I talked to an undergrad, technician, & grad student about careers today & floundered when comparing industry to govt to academic positions, how to prep for any of them, or what those jobs will look like in 5 years

Should I do #jamvent this year?

So Nepal just chose a new prime minister via...Discord. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

Seen at Fred Meyer yesterday

+ for pregnant people, acetaminophen is one of the few safe options for reducing fevers and managing pain. Pregnant people should not face misogynistic and ableist "mother blame" for managing their pain and addressing symptoms associated with infections (fever)

Meanwhile in Seattle....

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Stands on rooftops: 📣 🗣️ 🗣️THERE IS NO LINK BTW ACETAMINOPHEN & AUTISM. IT HAS BEEN STUDIED FOR MANY YEARS IN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 🗣️THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE TALKING ABT THIS IS THAT THEY DO NOT WANT AUTISTIC PEOPLE TO EXIST. 🗣️IT IS EUGENICS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER. -EmilyPhD

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

He not only didn't attend; he called CDC director Susan Monarez back to Washington so she wouldn't be there, either, per her testimony last week. (She went anyway.)

RFK is trying to blame mothers from using one of the only things allowed to them to handle pain during pregnancy.

Acetaminophen/paracetamol use in pregnancy doesn't cause autism, no matter what RFK says this week. This is not an unsettled question. Evidence summarized here: sciencebasedmedicine.org/tylenol-and-...

@matthartings.bsky.social happy anniversary!

Beating the Astros twice?