Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

I am in a new place. I can see the potential

The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

Quickly rewriting all my Santa Cruz jokes www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Every time I get asked about trust in higher ed, I will now be obligated to bring this up. Wheen we talk about impunity from consequences, it includes things like this.

Rfk jr is weird in that it's hard to predict exactly the cognitive biases and thinking mistakes that will lead to his bad decisions other than "he will always make the wrong decision"

Still traumatized by the project hail Mary centrifuge loading

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

I know an "I told you so" isn't helpful during the dismantling of American science, but this outcome was very obvious 11 years ago.

What a way to start Arbor day

Remember: if you see someone grieving a pet online, it's your feelings that matter and that's too much of a bummer. ONLY GOOD VIBES, OR ELSE

In 1972 members of Nixon's reelection campaign burglarized DNC headquarters. Nixon attempted to conceal his administration's involvement.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

"Sphere," "Cube," "The Ring" For a while there American cinema was trying to make us afraid of shapes

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

RFK Jr came to Sacramento twice to debate me and oppose my school vaccination legislation. He even incited his extremist followers to physically assault me, but I did not back down. Beat RFK Jr both times. Running for Congress to beat him again in Washington. #DrPanForCongress #CA06 #publichealth

I've been discovering that a shocking fraction of people don't really have a concept of the scale of solar projects that are needed to generate the energy we need. Utility scale solar is a good thing in addition to local panels.

Only a week until arbor day eve

15.5, but no one tell her she's almost old enough to drive, I'm sure the insurance would be crazy

My version of ADHD is to get random project ideas that stick around until I have to make them. Anyway, this is a "Cthulhu was here" rubber stamp

Contemplating a move, five years older than the last time I moved a wall of books and wondering if fully committing to ebooks would be better

waking up to the absolute best and absolute worst of humanity. no in betweenies today

Amore.

Often labeled “the world’s most dangerous birds,” cassowaries just got even more intriguing. https://scim.ag/4bNnfIT

Too late

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I think working with someone is like taking a dot product. Cos(π/2)=0. You need to make sure your goals and methods are both moving in generally the same directions, otherwise neither of you is going to go where you really want.

Once upon a time, you'd go to give a talk at another university and a nice administrator would hand you a W-9 to sign and they'd send you a check in the mail for the honorarium. Now you have to spend a half hour entering data on a Special Contractor Website that was designed in a lab by sadists.

The book version of project hail Mary did not have an unbalanced centrifuge

Med students: The match system uses a version of the gale-shapely algorithm with the applicants as proposers, so the optimal strategy is to rank residencies honestly based on preference, not to put safeties higher on the list. Thank you for coming to my talk

I've lost all respect for the FIFA peace prize

Our culture is so focused on hierarchy that giving up power is seen as transgressive. Often empowering other people is the best way to see your goals enacted.

If the vote still happens in 2028, and it comes down to an amoral centrist vs a fascist, we probably should have worked harder to not have to make that choice again. We still have the opportunity to not have to make that choice.

march for science made it into the epstein files.

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

A lot of academics seemed to want to be close to Epstein for reasons that very clearly were not intellect

Anytime you see “Schumer” trending, you don’t even need to look to know it usually means he caved on something that matters.

Google maps found a faster route by making multiple left turns across 4 lane highways

I love how Microsoft PowerPoint just does a bunch of popups advertising unwanted ai "features" now.

Politicians aren't ashamed enough. Oh he wants to be in charge? How embarrassing and pathetic.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

I promise that if you're my age and just now hearing about the 6-7 meme thing you're not in on the joke, you're on the tail end of it and will look outdated if you try to use it.

When I was a kid my dad would make me to coin conventions. Every time the numismatists would say "if you ever find a rare coin, don't clean it, it will ruin the value," I think assuming that young people have absolutely no memory. To this day, out of spite, I launder my money

Quick, while gas is cheap let's organize everything around unwalkable suburbs

I forgot to shave for a month and now everything smells like a moustache