Well...I do like puzzles...

One of my most helpful collaborators is listed in our marketing system as 'almost lost'. Friends don't let friends waste their precious, precious brains working on these stupid, stupid machines

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Do any Milwaukee-ish neuroanatomy enthusiasts want to get together and take pictures of trees while the weather is tolerable and the branches are still bare?! I've wanted to do this for years but had never thought to...like...ask!

!! Fungus cluster, fern sora, tomato, tomato! SHAPES!

To sploot, perchance to nap

This is the first time we observed bacteria use plasmolysis to defence against phages! biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thanks all the authors to discover this together! @fnobrega.bsky.social Zhiying @garushyants.bsky.social Dinshaw and Eugene

@russcd.bsky.social ushers in a new era of academic metrics with the core-pivotal author index, which assigns all credit to authors that occupy the exact center of the author list, while non-central peripheral authors receive no credit whatsoever. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag026 #evobio #molbio

But Joao, aren’t you afraid of being scooped? No. It’s an ultra-rare childhood epilepsy. If you scoop me and the kids get help from it, I will help you scoop me and then move on.

Does anyone know of any good writing using stoplights and city traffic to help explain neural oscillations more intuitively? I wish to know but I do not wish to seek, what can I say, I can't handle the bajillion distractions that would come up if I searched for it myself 🥲

She’s been released 🙏🏽

I don't know what I thought I was doing before I started eating kimchi, but it wasn't living

"Transgender people should exercise extreme caution when traveling through the state, and those already living there should take immediate steps to legally protect themselves...For most transgender people who do not already live in Kansas, the risk is now too great to travel there at all."

"You see what you look for, and you look for what you know." We are proud to release FOCUS: a 100 μm deformable human subcortical atlas precisely registered to MNI space. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Scientists: for a new story, I have one big question—> What is a “good day” in the lab? I’m looking for epic examples of the best day ever to general criteria for what constitutes a “good day” compared to a nothing-burger day. Ping me if you have examples to share! Re-posts appreciated!

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Watching gar spawn in a vegetation mat, making a mental note to eat more fiber

Adults at ICE concentration camps also get punished for talking with people on the outside who can publicize their stories. Based on what I've heard at the Otay Mesa camp in San Diego, they're punished with additional work duties, aren't allowed outside in the yard, and denied phone access.

2026 basically

It's doubly ahistorical as it ignores how gay rights in the 1970s-00s followed a near-identical trajectory: initial acceptance, violent backlash, regression of rights, slow rebuilding/expansion. And, yes, mealymouthed centrists told us we were asking too much then, too.

Someone also poured gasoline at a small corner memorial for Alex Pretti in Whittier last night (I just checked the main memorial at 26th and Nicollet and it appears fine).

My job has multitudinous perks. One of them is working on a protein labeled 1EZG, which 1) is really cool and 2) gets Wannabe stuck in my head

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Here it is, your moment of zen.

Do any Milwaukee-ish neuroanatomy enthusiasts want to get together and take pictures of trees while the weather is tolerable and the branches are still bare?! I've wanted to do this for years but had never thought to...like...ask!

I can’t imagine the pain of having your loved one abducted by ICE in Minnesota during a news cycle celebrating ICE leaving Minnesota.

Has anyone...anywhere...ever...reacted positively to "You can do hard things!"? All I need is one example and I'll drop it

With Alt text, because everyone deserves to hear this 🖤

Weep of the day aaaaand we're back

I can both confirm that this is true and add that this has been happening for more than a month. I don’t want to say too much, but hypothetically speaking, there are Minnesotans who are quietly renovating their homes to prepare for hiding people long-term.

Have I completely lost my mind or is Sugar Ray great work music (or both, why not both)

[stops chewing] When will we have the scientific wherewithal to study the social neurophysiology of animals who sleep in heaps, and what will we learn when we do!? .... ... [slowly resumes chewing]

A tale of two billionaires. Jeff Bezos was at fashion week in Europe while he pulled a let-them-eat-cake firing of 30% of Washington Post journalists. Jimmy Lai stood by his newsroom and he will now likely die in a Hong Kong prison. Tell everyone you know about Jimmy Lai.

JGD: What the government argued here is, as Fick put it so well, it's an artificial isolation of facts.

JGD: There is a strong enough showing that the Gov. brought criminal charges to thwart Petrova's ability to challenge her treatment as someone in the Uniited States with a visa. I

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This weekend I met a bathroom ranter (god bless) who insisted that womanhood was about catching a lip on the zipper for a guy who won’t even wash his nutsack. And at the time I thought it was laudably audacious nonsense, but I’m still thinking about it days later, so…?

Please don’t forget about us and our neighbors! standwithminnesota.com

If 2023 me could see the prints I'm giving away to declutter she'd slap me 😆

Same in Los Angeles, though the media doesn’t care to report on that at all

It’s like people have been “raptured” to hell: “Leon sends a "chase" car to check out where these abandoned vehicles are located and arranges discreet drop-offs. Since late December, he estimated they have dropped off 250 cars. The drop-offs are often emotional for the families and Leon's crew.”

Lotta folk saying FAMU should fight back & resist or whatever but FAMU & other HBCUs above all else need to Remain Open. That is their job right now. To remain open. Harvard should fight. Yale should fight. Ivy League schools with war chests rivaling small countries should fight. They fell first.

I just love Milwaukee so much, aurgh

my go-to is to ask LLMs to transcribe a photograph of Braille. None of them can do it, and you don't need to know Braille to see that it produces nonsense. There are Braille Unicode characters, so it "should" be able to transcribe braille into that, OCR-style. But it will make nonsense up instead

Okay who's out there dressing up as cells/microbes, there can't be no one