none of the gotcha examples of "out-of-control scientific spending" bother me in the slightest. isn't science about finding shit out? "they spent a million dollars of taxpayer money to see if they could make mice sexier" okay, well, what was the answer? I want to know too

Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.

Firing RFK Jr would unburden a lot of overworked mitochondria in this country

Every single member of this administration is just a cheap huckster trying to grift the American people. Undocumented immigrants aren’t the ones leeching off your tax dollars; Kristi Noem and her stupid friends are.

And to be clear: That doesn't mean it's not HARD. IT IS HARD. Persistence is hard! You have to absorb a ton of information, master fields of literature, learn the cultural norms of a specialty, the research methods, on and on. But no one with a PhD is inherently SMARTER than someone without.

I tell people this all the time! PhDs are matters of persistence (and getting there often a matter of privilege), not intelligence. We just know a lot about a very very very tiny slice of the world.

the anti- C. elegans (and whiptail lizards) EO!!!!

Holy fuck. That's such a stark and important number to get out there: your baby is 44 per cent more likely to survive to see their first birthday if they receive all the recommended childhood vaccines on time.

We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well. We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.

Book me a room at the crab hotel

It is fundamentally impossible to explain Evangelical Christianity and their true intentions without sounding like InfoWars to folks outside of that loop

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

lmaoo never gets old

Underrated thing about Trump is he's genuinely bad at the patronage side of political gangsterism, you're supposed to dole out cushy borderline no-show jobs to the faithful but Hegseth and Bongino have genuinely hard jobs that are making them crash out like Meadow Soprano's roommate

We extend our heartfelt appreciation to everyone out there who stands up to oppression—whether by taking the streets, playing a support role, acting individually under cover of night, or in other ways. All the freedom we have, we owe to those who have acted to resist tyranny. We can do this.

VIVA! These are the courageous NIH staffers who have spoken out against what the Trump administration is doing to biomedical research in the US. This is incredibly brave and honorable. They need our support. Spread the word. www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/h...

You can see America as a nation built on a monstrous agenda of genocide, enslavement, apartheid. Or you can see America as a nation of people who - massacred, enslaved, disenfranchised - absolutely refused again and again to accept that agenda. I am so proud of that second nation.

The US government no longer wants to stop HIV

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

They will though. This will kill people and financial ruin even more people. I am glad that they felt the need to respond because it suggests they are starting to feel the heat/lose narrative control.

Stephen Miller said recently that American scientific achievement in the mid-20th century owed little to immigrants, given immigration quotas at the time. Someone should tell him that from 1945- 1974, 16 of the 30 U.S. winners of the Nobel in physics were immigrants www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Time for a cold one

And, to be clear, it’s not that there are…other jobs in *any* industry just lying around ready to absorb this many people

The guy with the worm in his brain doesn't want scientists to tell the world what science they've figured out, cool country

we only have Vampire Weekend thanks to vampire unions

It's a good time to remind folks that you can't do the "high impact big picture studies" without the "not worth publication because it's only of regional interest" localities and the "merely specimen ID and taxonomy" research.

The real masculinity crisis is that it took less than one generation for women to outcompete men in higher ed and home ownership once the legal barriers to both were both were removed and they are collectively losing their minds faced with the reality that they were never naturally superior.

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare (But get your mom flowers, too)

So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

I said what I said. The Gospel doesn’t need a nationalist remix.

Eyes down, Conclave watchers! A few facts for your scorecards: - Shortest Conclave: 1503, three hours or so. - Longest Conclave: 1268, three years or so. - Last Conclave to elect someone from outside: 1378, Urban VI. - Last Pope to exhume his predecessor and put them on trial: Stephen VI, 897.

Send this to someone who is mowing the lawn this weekend.

Scientists Discover New Color That Can Only Be Seen Using Laser theonion.com/scienti...

A huge new NIH-funded clinical trial of 20,000 girls has shown that a single dose of HPV vaccine yields the same response as two doses after 4.5 years. This is critical to public health efforts to save lives with this vaccine. Yes. We still have to battle RFK Jr. to ensure access to HPV vaccine.

Anne Frank died in a foreign prison from an illness acquired from the inhumane conditions. I don’t know why this doesn’t click for people.

The 1980 execution of four American churchwomen was one of the most shocking human rights crimes of the twentieth century. No one has ever really gotten to the bottom of it—until now. newrepublic.com/article/1935...

people only become left handed if the mirror baby crawls out when nobody is looking and pushes the normal baby into the mirror dimension. it’s a sign of bad parenting

Actually. How the US benefitted from outsourcing its research interests to experts in universities.

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

Bat, Literally Translated into English. Map by me

I'm sorry but 17 is simply too young to become Dancing Queen. The Dancing Kingdom needs experienced leadership during these troubling times.