Bit woke, that Fourth Amendment.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

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Had this nagging feeling that what’s going on in the US had a familiar tone. I think I’ve got it. The entire US has been turned into a colossal version of Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanfor...

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

If the abstract I'm reading tells me Drp1 was "upgraded" I stop reading. If a journal isn't rigorous enough to request the correction of a simple grammatical error in the abstract then how do I trust their rigor elsewhere?

The US government is aiming to get rid of a quarter million people involved in science research and education by 2026. I have no words.

I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim. He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease. He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States. And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.

Best Acknowledgements section! Roark & Iffland #science #skyence #rapamycin

From 2024: Ted Roberts never had a problem getting his one-year teaching contract renewed. Until he challenged his university president about parking fees. chroni.cl/4leoVxf

After a hiatus of several years (while not producing research output) I just reviewed for Springer Nature and noticed that emails were signed with "Journal Name" or "Editorial Assistant" not the name of the editor or editorial assistant. Is this common practice now?

The Open Science in Undergraduate Education Symposium @alleninstitute.org was amazing! So many great talks and workshops with ideas for implementing #openscience and #programming in undergraduate education. #neuroscience #neuroskyence #womeninSTEM #cellbiology

Hello Seattle! 👋

This is a paradigm shift in the way we think about #alzheimers #AD and should be shared widely. #neuroskyence #neuroscience

My favourite example: before the law prohibited it pubs in England would salt the beer to make people want to drink more. (Now they have worked out that they can even sell you the salt, in the form of crisps and peanuts.)

I think it’s time to stop writing Trump [does thing] and instead write Republican government [does thing].

The GOP owns all of this. How do they sleep at night?

WOW — Heather Cox Richardson and Jasmine Crockett together?!🔥 Trump started implementing Project 2025 on his first day back in office. I can't imagine two more informed and empowering women to show us how to fight it. I just signed up — join me! social.redwine.blue/s/zjmfQOE5

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

i’ve had this in all day and it is legitimately fantastic working music

I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.

they’re treating medical research as some kind of favor to bestow, rather than what it is — arduous painstaking and unprofitable work done for all Americans this will slow Alzheimer’s and other brain research, not help it in net, patients will suffer

Let’s be honest, spring break is just a pause in classes to write letters of recommendation.

Trans… genic. Trans.. genic. Trans. genic. Trans.genic. Transgenic is the word and concept you are looking for.

Winston Churchill visiting the WH in 1942. Not wearing a suit

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

The dogs went over their first covered bridge today!

I don't think the Dems can stop the firings. But why aren't they proposing legislation that assures those that took the buyout get paid , and that all that are fired, get at least a year severance and health benefits? And any one with a health condition is covered the entire time they are sick?

Really? This article reads like using AI is now the default and women are falling behind because they're caught up on 'ethics'. www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

Something tells me this won’t work out well for the indigenous groups.

Sunbeams

This is the culmination of “move fast and break things”

We're living George Orwell's 1984: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

It appears that NIH Advisory Councils scheduled to meet today (Nat Heart, Lung, and Blood Inst (NHLBI), Nat Inst on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Nat Library of Med (NLM), and Nat Inst of Minority Health and Health Disparities, NIMHH) did NOT meet today. I am trying to find out why. Any info appreciated.

The first week of the semester, a school holiday for my daughter, and camp sign up all coinciding put me over the edge today.

In the cold today

This is the site to donate to Democracy Forward, the activist group who filed the lawsuit that led the the Federal Judge's block on Federal grant and loan freezes. democracyforward.org/action/donat...

It makes me ill that the Committee on Human Rights of the US National Academy of Sciences had to put together a list of resources to support US researchers and scholars subjected to targeted attacks. And it makes me ill that I have to post. But here it is: www.nationalacademies.org/chr/resource...

🧪This is incredibly depressing: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

This team is amazing. If you’re looking for an internship in open source, this is the one!

🧠🟦 The NSRR is offering 4 bootcamps to train researchers in the use of sleep analysis open source toolboxes. This opens their vast repository of PSG data to those without access to commercial software. sleepdata.org/pages/webina...

“‘It’s very easy to assume that science is going to change organically towards equality — and what this study shows is that that’s not happening…It is an ‘important reminder for us that we need to stay vigilant in working towards equality in science’” @crsugimoto.bsky.social 🧪 #AcademicSky 👩🏽‍🔬

This morning’s walk

I was approached re: the Finnish decision to downgrade MDPI & Frontiers journals in 🇫🇮 rankings (THE article). This decision was based on broad patterns, including in our recent study "The strain on scientific publishing" (link: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...) A quick 🧵 1/n #SciPub #AcademicChatter

Ooh

Best of luck to all those resuming the school run tomorrow. Set those alarms!

This morning’s walk

Look at this adorable little bird and its mighty mitochondria. www.nature.com/articles/d41...