ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

we are, at all times, cursed with two political parties: the Republicans and the Republicans of twenty years ago

@booker.senate.gov that “dignity & grace” led to countless middle easterners tortured and killed, numerous countries in turmoil, all while the worst people in the world accumulated more wealth through endless wars.

AI is appropriating my culture of being a hot mess

Taking a page straight out of the Ted Bundy handbook.

That's not a question.

Huh

Homan was Obama’s guy when he architected child separation.

Analysis of U.S. deaths of pregnant and postpartum women from 2018–2023 indicates that obstetrical complications and disease are no longer the leading causes of maternal death, replaced by homicide, suicide, and overdose. Read the full analysis: nej.md/4a96wPp #MedSky #Psychiatry #OBGYN

Roses are red Vice is inherent

I forgot that PBS news hour is on YouTube. I resubscribed and watched today. Learned so much, including about Tuskegee airmen lost in WWII, the refugees from the Sudan crisis, and new alliances being formed in the absence of US leadership. m.youtube.com/watch?v=A2oF...

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Department of criminals, coders, and ChatGPT releases Medicaid claims data. “For example, using this dataset, it would have been possible to easily detect the large-scale autism diagnosis fraud seen in Minnesota.“ So it was vaccines then tylenol during pregnancy now Minnesota fraud, got it.

Researchers celebrate early results of a drug that may become the first treatment for a serious complication of pregnancy called preeclampsia. It's got the potential to save many lives.

Roses are nice But you know what rocks? Unionizing grad workers And the postdocs #ScienceValentines

Or maybe the people whose careers are based on evidence tend to be less politically aligned with the side whose countless lies include Haitians are stealing and eating peoples’ cats and dogs. And my experiments are not impacted by my politics, but the funding for those experiments IS. 🧪

Of so many things to be infuriated about, this is perhaps my biggest gripe. Pancreatic cancer patients, who face a future without hope, are being denied a potential game-changing therapy www.mskcc.org/news/can-mrn...

Now this is a movie plot!!! Someone understands grad school.

Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?

Happy Valentines Day

Roses are red Violets are blue You’re somehow a knockout And a wild-type, too 🧪 🧬 #ScienceValentines

mCherry is red DAPI is blue I reserved the confocal To make Z-stacks with you 🧪 🔬 #ScienceValentines

The Trump administration has been barred from carrying out "warrantless" immigration enforcement operations in or "within 100 feet of the entrance" to various churches across the country. lawandcrime.com/high-profile...

Good morning! 🪶

February 14, 2018: Parkland. .

#FluorescenceFridays An oblique section across a mouse fetal hindbrain (Hb) region with fate-mapped neural crest cells (green), and the Trigeminal ganglion (TrG) is stained magenta (Sox10 immunostaining). #DevBio #Neuroscience 🧪

Me: How would you feel if we had another baby? 4yo: I would say, “Who is this baby? I don’t know her!”

I pointed out a car that ended up in a ditch to my 4yo as we drove to daycare. Me: Honey, that’s why I have to pay attention to the road when we’re driving. The ice is slippery, and we don’t want to get into an accident. 4yo: PULL OVER! I will use my Hulk powers to push their car back on the road!

The ICE surge may be ending, but retribution comes in many forms- including selective termination of funding. This is retaliation, and will harm Minnesotans

🌹 Early Valentine's Day celebrations continue at Zoo Boise with red panda Pumori getting his rose from Events Coordinator Chea!

please enjoy these classic Moon Tweets™

Check your bsky settings. Looks like one of the recent updates defaulted the option to require alt text to off even if you previously enabled the function. And if you aren’t using alt text, now is a good time to start.

My best photographs of 2025, a short thread. A tobacco hornworm on one of its favorite foods, a garden tomato plant (Texas, May 2025). This one makes the cut because it is more aesthetically pleasing than I was aiming for, somehow.

1. No it doesn't give you an edge 2. There is no such thing as a hack for getting into college. Why is NYM doing Buzzfeed journalism? 3. F*ck your careers, women, just go home & teach algebra to your kids & make a sandwich 4. Even if you have a PhD in something, you are not equipped to teach it all.

that’s it, i’ve finally taken my best photo of all time 😅 (this chubster is an unapologetic beggar so don’t feel bad for him) 🧪🌍 #bird #birb

Ireland: a proper country.

Guy who doesn’t know anything thinks you shouldn’t either.

NEW: The FDA just shot down Moderna's new flu shot. From me: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

My 4yo is eating raspberries in the kitchen and singing “un VIP, VIP ay!” 🥹 #BadBunnyBowl #BenitoBowl

Me, shopping at the book store: "excuse me, sir? which of these books was written the fastest? I'm looking for a book with as little thought and effort put into it as possible."

#BlackHistoryMonth FOTD Dr E Kitch Childs, a clinical psychologist, helped found the Association for Women in Psychology & Chicago’s Gay Liberation Front. She owned a practice providing therapy to LGBTQ+ folks, sex workers, people with HIV & AIDS as well as other marginalized folks. bit.ly/4aDS41W

Mongolia and Haiti correctly identified that the Winter Olympics are primarily a chance to design baller cold weather uniforms

This is the future that (Texas) liberals want: taxpayer-funded goats clearing invasives from public parks & restoring the health of native prairie.

2/2 The owls were all going after eagles, with this look that said, “And now I shall curse thee, giant thug.” The eagles here harass all the other birds to steal prey, so oh well. 🪶