I’m glad this story calls out Emily Oster “Oster has asserted there is scant evidence showing low levels of alcohol use are harmful. She argues, against federal guidelines, that up to one serving of alcohol per day in the third trimester is probably low risk”

Update on Ebola outbreak from @who.int: "There is significant uncertainty about the number of infections and how far the virus has spread. As of 19 May, more than 500 suspected cases, including 130 suspected deaths, have been reported by the Ministry of Health."

The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.

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this is from November but it’s still timely The Trump administration is dismantling efforts to fight the next pandemic www.science.org/content/arti...

This makes my bacon grease storage system* look so primitive *a jar

It’s not just for printing snack bags naphtha “is used in the production of petrol, but also a wide range of materials including plastics, insulation foam, adhesives, medical supplies such as syringes, and printing ink solvents”

During "infamous 'Peptide Fridays'... employees injected themselves with gray-market compounds during breakfast in the office"; but it was "scrapped for being too flip." If yr boss asks to you to inject unregulated substances into your body at work, you need a union. sfstandard.com/2026/05/17/h...

Has anyone reviewed every version of the MLB Carshield ads

Part 1: ThermoFisher caught photoshopping Western blot www.reddit.com/r/labrats/s/...

I just read “why facts matter” as “why farts matter”, I think my brain is done for the day

Remind me again how CNPV priority reviews are awarded Trump Bought Stock in Drugmaker as His Government Boosted Its Obesity Drugs kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...

American science right now is basically 10,000 of these stories, all with their own heartbreaking specificity Lost careers, lost progress, lost discoveries I feel so sad every day for all we’ve lost and continue to lose 💔

Kids, amirite (via @wlos-13.bsky.social on Instagram)

Imagine writing an article about RTO and not mentioning skyrocketing gas prices

What’s happening to science in the US now? In the future? 20% fewer grad students at MIT sums it up well Our future is fewer scientists, patents, cures, discoveries Less growth, less progress, less knowledge

Of all the things that I could be losing sleep over… my brain picked the protestor we saw today carrying a sign that read “Put Fauci in Prison”

Reuters: US moves to end job protections for hundreds of health department workers The overhaul gives the president more power to hire ​and fire up to 50,000 career federal employees who are being reclassified from Schedule F to Schedule Policy/Career. By Ahmed Aboulenein reut.rs/4nvUm82

What is happening here as well, is that many career scientists at e.g., NIAID are transitioned to Schedule P/C, meaning that they can be terminated at will. The purge across our scientific and public health institutions continues, as congress is completely asleep at the steering wheel.

Gas prices are so high that I went to the car dealership and test drove 3 cars to run my errands.

We’re watching the Election special episodes of Black-ish, and I’m glad the writers didn’t include the names of the presidential candidates at the time

Check it out! 👇With growing pressure to phase out animal research, we argue that doing so now, when scientists are just beginning to address sex differences after decades of male-biased research, risks embedding existing knowledge gaps into "animal-free" biomedicine. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

bookshelf goals

The quotes in here are quite delusional

SSS but has anyone looked at challenges when the umpire is a woman or POC?

This is a fun story about crosstown double headers to see the Twins and Saints play baseball on the same day, using the Green Line… and I learned a lot about the history of public transit in the Twin Cities racketmn.com/see-a-light-...

I don’t care about football at all, but this is fantastic

On Thursday night, the Chicago Bears dropped their schedule reveal video featuring Rome Odunze showing off some artistic flair. WTTW News was there for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the making of the video. to.wttw.com/4tDRMP2

After seeing that video of the jerk throwing a rock at a seal, I can’t blame seals for wanting to hide from humans

Hoeg's name might not ring a bell to the masses, but she had a lot to do with the overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule--and HHS's bizarre obsession with Denmark. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

FDA is in even more chaos. Makary, Prasad, and now apparently Tracy Hoeg soon to be gone. What's left? Will the agency be run by politicians? I'm not saying I liked these leaders, but this is feeling like an agency in crisis www.reuters.com/world/fda-dr...

COVID19 vaccine misinformation firehose and woman who almost singlehandedly reduced the number of US childhood vaccine recommendations because she used to live in Denmark is leaving the FDA. Nobody with a brain is sad that Tracy Beth Hoeg is leaving. She was absolutely awful in her position.

There is a yacht rock doubleheader and I have too much work to do 🛥️⚾️

My actual parents

This is Makary trying to make it seem principled and not the fact that his FDA was a dumpster fire that fucked up constantly and pissed off both scientists and lunatics at the same time. You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to Marty

Who would've thought cuts on food security (3500 FDA jobs, 9% Food Safety and Inspection Service jobs, cut on Safety programs, cut on 17 Inspector Generals, having the grifter Marty Makary as FDA comissioner, blocking a rule proposal aimed to reduce Salmonella in poultry) would have consequences.

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

I don’t care about football at all, but this is fantastic

Classic win-now move. You have to give Pittsburgh credit for going for it while their championship window is open.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

DO YOU ???? - dashare.zone ADMIN

I know what my next Teams meeting background will be

carrying this bag around work so people* know what’s up *who read japanese

I was tired of overhearing everyone else’s conversations at work, so I decided to go to the gym, where I can listen in on someone’s phone conversation 🙃

ugh #chemchat www.reddit.com/r/recruiting...

I finally went to the dairy and meat store! 🍦 🧀 🐄 🐖 They had a little food science display inside too

can anyone recommend a person who can speak to the technical challenges/best practices for structuring/analyzing large data dumps? i'm not sure if i'm looking for an archivist or a librarian or someone else ...?

A few times a month I run into a journal article with mutated titles or abstracts - I assume they didn’t survive OCR, and I can’t help thinking it leads to a knowledge gap Shear Indxuced order of Cncenirated Dispersions link.springer.com/article/10.1...