I'd like to report a y-axis crime…

I have complete faith in my health secretary, Robert Fungus Kennedy

As a someone with a 33 year NIH-funded lab whose grant is supposed to be reviewed this week, shut NIH down if that is what's needed to end ICE terrorism. Innocent lives are more important 🧪

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

Matthew 25:40

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Florida Passes Law Granting Viruses Personhood https://theonion.com/florida-passes-law-granting-viruses-personhood/

“I am in Birmingham because injustice is here…..Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” - MLK, Letter from Birmingham Jail

the nail polish girlies are going absolutely feral and it’s so good

I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

GOP Adds ‘ICE Kills Everyone’ Pillar To 2026 Platform https://theonion.com/gop-adds-ice-kills-everyone-pillar-to-2026-platform/

I would also add: - address climate change - reduce gun violence - support immigrants - allow access to vaccines - allow health care for all children, not just cis ones

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

[Epstein files are released] Fox News: Rats are in a bagel tug a war!

My point is that science funding requires large investments, very long timelines, and strong stomachs for failure and disappointment. That needs to be part of how advances are described.

2026: lie down before you fall down

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

"José y Maria" by Everett Patterson. The Christian story of Mary and Joseph isn't frozen in amber from 2,000 years ago. It has direct relevance to us today. What would Mary and Joseph look like today? Merry Christmas, everyone.

Just found out one of my team has been investing in DINARS instead of DUCATS and I am Pissed off!!!!!!!!!!!

Same

This is how we create CAR-T cells, harnessed by the body's own immune system to kill #cancer cells in leukemia/lymphoma patients. T cells are harvested from the patient, activated then injected back to go on a killing spree. Thank #NIH funding for this development. 🧪via @tomasz.grzywa on IG

Huge shoutout to all the NIH scientific review officers and external academics who stepped up after the government shutdown to help reschedule hundreds of study sections. Thanks to this great community, my fellowship review was rescheduled within two months of its original review date 🧪

The Onion-ass headline

“It's 106 miles to Fossanova, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and one of us is the skull of a Thirteenth Century saint.” “Hit it.”

Playing out my stress dream scenario where I forget about a huge assignment until right before it’s due, but make it stupid and malicious

the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland

anyone remember what it was like before this? I do. More HBV means more patients with **preventable** end-stage liver failure and low odds of survival to transplant (if a match can be found at all).

The foreign-born fraction of the US population was 15% in 1890, and in 1910. America thrived. That fraction is 16% now. The difference is that in 1890/1910, >96% of immigrants were from Europe or Canada. Today that's less than 10%. It's best to be honest about one one is actually afraid of.

You're the guy running the vomit machine on acclaimed television series Mad Men, I'm the guy providing emotional support for the guy running the vomit machine on acclaimed television series Mad Men via a gentle hand on the shoulder, we are not the same (I'm your rock)

wow. so many options to cry in on fb marketplace today!

This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"

The perfect demonstration of the fallacy that “international students take seats from US students.” Nope, international students’ tuition subsidizes domestic students

Corporations are people and pollution is freedom of speech.

No surprise the Trump NIH director doesn’t understand how science works—doesn’t get NIH has been *the* world-historic leader in innovation. After all, he’s never actually done any science. Even before his rightwing pundit career 2020-25, he spent his time with economists, not scientists.

Raleigh, NC

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

David Dutchovny

Every day we wake up in a 30 rock storyline

I'd guess that 85-90% of American scientists would be ineligible for future funding under this law, maybe close to 100% in the R1 universities. So much for funding proposals based on scientific merit. Apart from being sinophobes, the people pushing this have no clue how science or higher ed works.

Going short skirt long jacket mode tonight

Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.

My biological pronoun? Ok I guess, but you better get comfortable, this is going to take a while. GATACGCATGATTGACATGTAGCGTAGCTAGATCCATGTCGATGCAGATTACAGCACTGGATGGCTACTAGTCACTGCGTACAGGACTAGCTACAGTCACGTATGACTTAGCTAGC….

I am selfish I am wrong I am right, I swear I'm right I swear I knew it all along

Praising a medical breakthrough originally funded by (now-gutted) NIH funding. 🤡 $LLY $NVO