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and just now hearing about the 6-7 meme thing you're not in on the joke, you're on the tail end of it and will look outdated if you try to use it.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

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

The only moral judgements I fear are my dental hygienist and the Duolingo owl

My brother and I were messing around with our grandfather's old 120 TLR

Arkansas is having its one week of leaf color

This world was not made for me

It follows, but about the department of alumni relations

Was on podcast with Miles Greb and @treytheexplainer.bsky.social to talk about science stuff plasticplesiosaurpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1751781/epis...

Meteor showers never get old. 100,000 years from now our descendants barely surviving on the scorched remnant ecosystem will look up with the same sense of wonder

Nokings yesdinosaurs

No kings Jonesboro Arkansas

I think that one of the biggest challenges with any kind of advocacy is that we're generally very good at determining value alignment, but very bad at determining operational alignment. To work with someone it isn't enough to agree about the overall thing you want to accomplish. 1/

Our society has become decadent

Associate

Flehmen hot Cheetah

Oh no

If, hypothetically, your stance in 2015 was "I'm not super worried about attacks on speech from the left, but for the record 'free speech' is still an ideal we are going to need and sneering at it won't age well" — it would appear you had a point.

Changing institutions. Until my new email starts I can be reached at [email protected]

NIH Director’s Pulsing Neck Tumor Announces Cancer Research Cuts

Still a lot of state parks to go before I have visited them all

Book launches today from MIT press. The secret is that it isn't just for medical and graduate students. Everyone can benefit from critical thinking. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255320...

My, but Anson Mount’s Vulcan acting is rather terrible. I am somewhat surprised

What Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative Information has to say about the cracker barrel logo 1/25

leave by example

Andrew Cuomo’s successful quest to shut down the Indian Point nuclear plant spiked electricity costs and dirtied the energy grid of the city he’s now running to lead.

Scaring aware shorebirds. #NoEgrets

Good scientists don't do what they're told.

I was having a good day until I realized that my hair is made from real human hair.

I can't believe aldi carts are only $0.25. really good deal

New book help brain good

a.co/d/4gXpE74 If you pre-order my book on critical thinking i will personally introduce you to bigfoot

Superman has a surface of 2m^2, half facing the sun. Peak irradiance: 1kw. If perfectly efficient and sunbathed for 6 hr/day he could store 6kWh/day. A diesel locomotive can produce 4500kW. To be as powerful as a locomotive for 5 minutes: (4500*1/12) 375 kWh output. 2 months to charge for 5 min

Until you have a dog you don't realize how many people are waking down the street dropping food on the sidewalk.

next book is available for pre-order if you like reading stuff www.amazon.com/dp/0262553201/

Happy father's day to everyone with living parents

No kings good turnout for rural Arkansas

"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90874/... It takes courage to risk your employment to speak truth. But it means that these NIH employees bear honest witness. They have preserved their intellectual integrity.

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

The Reichstag fire was blamed on the left and used to justify martial law and the consolidation of fascist power.

2011 at the occupy protests. I was actually doing a stand-up set to entertain the protestors. As I get more active again, I need to remind myself that I've been at this for a long time, just not in traditional ways, and it probably won't be in traditional ways going forward either

Science orgs have too many Neville Chamberlains, and not enough Anthony Edens

We each get a choice between resist and comply. If enough people resist, we get a payoff-dominant equilibrium and the regime falls. If not enough resist, resistors are punished and we have a risk-dominant equilibrium. Show that you and others are willing to resist. Make it easier for the next

If people really knew the science we were losing there would be riots

I don't really pay of lot attention to religion stuff, but the pope is like CEO of one of the flavors of monotheist?

The Deaf Scientists Pipeline in Rochester, NY offers support for students and researchers from high school to postdoctoral levels. Now, due to NIH funding cuts, this one-of-a-kind initiative has been dismantled. My recent story for @science.org