A little late on the upload, but last month's lab group #TidyTuesday used the Dungeons and Dragons spells dataset. My contribution takes a look at how different schools of magic are distributed across different character classes and different "range types".

How do GWAS and rare variant burden tests rank gene signals? In new work @nature.com with @hakha.bsky.social, @jkpritch.bsky.social, and our wonderful coauthors we find that the key factors are what we call Specificity, Length, and Luck! 🧬🧪🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oh yeah, it’s easy not to be afraid when you’ve already left the fucking country, for the hard life of an endowed chair in a major city.

What a queen

this is really what all those “millennials killed…” headlines were trying to say too

No, we do not yet know which flights are cancelled due to the FAA's haphazardly (not at all?) planned 10% airspace reduction. So far, this is the messaging from every airline:

I’m picturing “bullshit”, I won’t lie.

the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from

This was one of my favorite movies as a little kid.

I thought my ankle was feeling better and I think I over-pushed it. It is now very much not feeling better. …have I learned anything from this? Almost certainly not.

Biiiiig fuckin’ nope on that, oh wow.

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000. More than 260,000 will be children. Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

feeling sorry for all the millionaires and billionaires who didn’t get to see this perfect NYC sunset because they fled the city forever today. 😞

I swear autocorrect is substantially worse on iOS 26. It’s okay with not a word -> actually a word cases, but it’s absolutely pants about changing one real word into another real work that wasn’t what I meant. Ex: in the sentence above, it changed “into” to “until”, despite being spelled correctly!

I’m writing - well, revising - a proposal and I’ve utterly hit a wall with this text. I’ve seen it too much. I’ve read it out loud, I’ve put it in different fonts, I just can’t look at it any more. I need the government to reopen so I can submit the fucking thing and never look at it again.

the year i’m having

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

The #FindThatLizard Scholarship is accepting applications until 12/10. We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢 I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

to doom is to die. the right feeds on this. live defiantly in their faces. stand on your beliefs. carry your struggle without shame and people will see themselves. stay true to your beliefs and show people a better world

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

This dj took the job knowing EXACTLY what party he was working, and I am *delighted* at how well that’s worked out for him

The NYT is having some serious issues with cope right now.

Republicans wanted to make this election a bellwether for how things are going right now. I think their bells have well and truly been rung.

Just look at those teeeeeeeny weeny little baby red arrows. Can you even find all four?

Hahahaha holy shit. It’s not *quite* all of you look at the live data, but only four counties got redder so far.

AMERICA: A LIFTED LAMP BESIDE THE GOLDEN DOOR; ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES

me: I post online like this is grad school and I’m taking a break between experiments to get coffee and rant about politics with my advisor

Today in “homeownership is just a serious of Expensively Bad Noises”: why did the toilet just whistle?

friends. romans. countrymen the bar needs filling it's close! fill the bar. or RT if you already filled bar fill bar here: teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/teams/7634

✨My fear of failure is balanced out by my fear of success✨ #susieesse #braincomic

A lanternfly just decided to fling itself in between my foot and flipflop, and let me just say that the resulting absolutely disgusting crunch and slime is definitely not *lessening* my desire to kill them all with fire.

I’m *dying* laughing.

"I’m not looking so bad now, huh? Absolute best case, the LLM-generated legal advice you get is merely plagiarizing, probably from me. But more likely, it’s a mish-mash of Reddit posts filtered through an algorithm coded by a Belarusian teen on the run from Interpol."

I’m sorry to people named Matt, but I’m about to mute your name entirely off my feed. I’m all done with the bad take parade, and some people just can’t stop engaging with that one Matt.

Me: “Why didn’t that person reply to my calendar invitation? That’s so weird. There’s usually so quick. Oh no, there must be something wrong. Oh no.” *catastrophizing* Me, next day: “Ahaha, they didn’t reply because I forgot to fucking send it.” …I’m quitting and moving to Australia.

Hippie mush (don’t @ me on the name, I didn’t name it) Potatoes (how many? Some. A skillet full) Garlic, minced, measured with your heart Onion if you feel like it Eggs Spices to taste (white pepper, curry powder, chiles, whatever you’ve got) Frozen corn (or other veggies, you do you) Grated cheese

I can't describe how beautiful tonight's murder of crows against a red sky was. I'm kindof emotional about it. 50% speed. Narrative video in next post 🪶

Having to use the Wayback Machine on CDC’s vaccine guidance pages burns like fire, and I hate it.

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

Pro tip: don’t ever look at clearsky. There is nothing on there that will ever bring you joy.

I keep seeing journalism described as an "ecosystem" and I guess that tracks because it's undergoing an extinction crisis caused by billionaires, too.

This is frankly bullshit. Teen Vogue’s politics reporting has consistently been some of the best out there since ~2020 - some of the very few with the guts to push back and ask the good questions.

gonna reiterate a hobbyhorse of mine: 'let the ATF keep electronic records' is a good fight to pick on guns. it doesn't impact normie gun owners at all, it's an insane bit of GOP mandated dysfunction in government, and it's being "tough on crime" in a way that actually matters

A multi-day freakout about Mamdani's chances apparently happened because Millennials were waiting to vote until they could get the special Halloween-themed "I voted" stickers

This story is the story we all need today: a good dog finding good people through the kindness of other good people and the remarkable way the internet can still be a force for great good.

Oh my fucking god you guys. How is this dog real? Childe & I were practicing for Island Scary-oke tonight, sang several songs. Vel showed no interest. When I started singing Science Fiction Double Feature? She RAN to me, FULL-THROAT HOWLING along. SHE SINGS ROCKY HORROR GUYS SHE DOES CALLBACKS

Scaling back DEI isn’t just a moral setback—it’s a loss of innovation. Bhalla, Trejo & @marymunson4.bsky.social in Nature Cell Biology: limiting who can participate in science “weakens research capacity and stifles discovery.” doi.org/10.1038/s415...

As this shutdown bullshit moves into its second month, with the winter dark and cold creeping in… I’m trying to be positive, truly I am, but it is fucking HARD.