A little rest from tile floors with this deco terra-cotta stunner.

Dr. Jane Goodall has passed. While I didn't agree with all of her views, she and Dian Fossey were my inspiration as a young person to study primate behavior which ultimately led to my interest in neuroscience. May her memory be eternal. Ζωή σε μας

A landmark new study in JAMA Pediatrics shows the HPV vaccine is doing exactly what it promised & more. 17yrs after rollout, adolescent vaccination has slashed HPV infxns not only among those vaccinated but also those unvaccinated, showing powerful herd protection. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

Charming little octopus from a Roman villa at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, 2nd-3rd century AD. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 me #Archaeology

And after 40 minutes of cringe-Thunderous applause from the generals! Just kidding. Total silence. 👀 🦗 🦗

New forecasted funding opportunity (R25) to engage freshman and sophomores in bioengineering/biomedical imaging research training. simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/...

Unreal

Fabulous call from fed unions: “We are directly impacted when the gov't shuts down: our members would no longer be able to work, get paid, or fulfill their mission of serving the American public. But we believe the most important thing is fighting against the centralization of executive power..."

certain windows on my computer are doing the autoscroll thing with my mouse and I can't get it to stop...

Just a reminder if you're getting a manuscript together (like we are) to thank your core facilities!

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

US Magistrate Judge Vaala trying to untangle Lindsey Halligan's first adventure in indicting someone:

insanity

UNC Sociology is hiring for two tenure-track positions! (1) An Assistant Professor specializing in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods (2) An Assistant/Associate Professor specializing in population health Reviews begin 10/1. Links to positions below.

8th grade trip to DC chaperoning is done. Kids were great. Lots of highlights for me... But I really enjoyed seeing the FDR memorial.

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

Patel is basically admitting on camera that the FBI no longer adheres to the Attorney General Guidelines, which prohibits investigating U.S. persons based solely on First Amendment activity (including membership in a group).

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

For this who are unaware, the reason NIH now posts these data habitually on the data book site is… Jeremy Berg. He pioneered this openness as NIGMS Director.

The Brookings Institute found that Charlie Kirk was the 2nd largest misinformation spreader among podcasts they analysed. "Mr. Kirk, a conservative activist and the founder of Turning Point USA, ranked second, with 17 percent of his episodes containing an unsubstantiated or false claim." Gifted:

The MAC lab at Drexel is looking for a new post-doc to work on NIH-funded projects investigating the intersection of prior knowledge and long-term memory consolidation. Please pass along to any interested lab members! careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

If you voted for him, you've done this.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

The polio immunisation program started in the USA in 1955. Look what happened next.

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Yup, exactly that—we have a HUGE problem in the US: the MAGA/MAHA men in charge of the health system are dismantling it, while spouting damaging BS, but because they were at Hopkins (Makary) or Stanford (Bhattacharya) or Harvard (Kulldorff) or UCSF (Prasad), apparently the world should believe them😢

Bluey is the best children’s show, and the fact the dad is an Palaeolithic archaeologist makes it even better youtube.com/shorts/UceUu...

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... #socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob #psycjobs #psychology 1/n

Now with comments... Lots of comments (A long thread) 1/n

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways. I could write a whole article about this, but as one example: “To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…” No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.

This is what an RSVP for a protest is, btw

Point of view: It’s March 2, 1930, and you are a fairly liberal German. That being the case, you buy your go-to Sunday paper, „Vossische Zeitung“. On page 5, you find a note on the funeral of the young Nazi Horst Wessel, who had died a few weeks after being shot. [A #Vossische1933f prequel.] 1/

Ok my cis friends, we are going to need a lot of you to step the fuck up and fight hard for us www.them.us/story/trump-...

The first Chicago River swim in 98 years! The water is now clean enough. Congratulations to the hundreds of swimmers completing the swim this morning!

FINAL THOUGHT: When scientific process is not followed, the science that make the foundation for decisions is suspect and the decisions are therefore not valid. The ACIP is no longer a scientific committee. It is an ideology machine.

This case makes clear that the point of work requirements isn't to keep people from exploiting the system. It's to ensure that the system has a steady supply of people to exploit. atlantablackstar.com/2025/09/19/m...

Just landed back at RDU after going to Purdue University and Indiana University SOM. Many thanks to Adam Kimbrough for the invitation and to @sanghalab.bsky.social and @sydneytrask.bsky.social for graciously tacking me on to their schedules! It was lovely! I spent a lot of time in IN as a kid....

Replacing “duration of status”, eg while enrolled in graduate studies no matter how long it takes, with a fixed term. Note that most US biomed grad programs run average time to PHD of 5-6 years, not four.

Fun fact. You don’t need access to Pentagon briefings in order to report on national security.

See also: media companies.

No more postdocs on H1B visas, that would seem to be an obvious outcome. Probably not at the professor level either. m.economictimes.com/nri/work/tru...

Jesus christ. It angers me deeply how not a single damn person in power who wants to at least pretend like they give a shit shout trans people will read even one damn book about the history of sex segregation in sports, cause you’d see how it’s all just sexist bs. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

The @thedailyshow.com has its entry into "how do we respond to the Kimmel situation." www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GXN...

There is no organization called "antifa" - so, why label a non-existent group "terrorists"? This gives the regime maximum scope to hunt down opposition and critics. They label you "antifa", and then they come for you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!