this is an extremely underappreciated paper www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

that's genocide

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We decided to illustrate it.

Excited to share a new preprint: "SIP-enabled multiomics reveals microbial growth responses to drought and rehydration" 1. We use three forms of stable isotope probing to measure in situ microbial growth under both dry and wet conditions (1/3) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

this may be oversharing, but as someone who has been through "conversion therapy" the supreme court decision throws me back to 7th grade. people in charge of my well being allowed their child to be subjected to systematic trauma. guess what! it didn't work! it never works!

what's that thing called where you profit on war? some sort of war profiteer?

NIH is not issuing awards. You may think that it's because they it is coming up with new directions of research...The apposite is true. Here is a graph showing how many fewer new funding opportunities that NIH has posted over time. -91%, a trend that started on Jan 2025.

After nearly 3.5 years of deliberations, researchers concluded their independent assessment of the origin of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 go.nature.com/4qUxijx

"These tariffs have been in effect for almost a year. They have upended whole sectors of the U.S. & global economies. The fact that a president can illegally exercise such powers for so long & w/ such great consequences for almost a year means we’re not living in a functional constitutional system."

What GLP1s should teach people is that it was never about willpower and it isn't a moral issue. But people don't want to have that conversation.

Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.

i've been saying this for years. not enough clump

Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)

Für die deutsche Perspektive relevant: Es gibt in der AfD mehrere Stimmen, die sich eine ICE-verwandte Truppe in Deutschland wünschen. Also die ICE, die Menschen auf der Straße erschießt, Kinder wegnimmt & Wohnungen ohne Beschluss stürmt. Ein aktuelles Beispiel aus Bayern. www.br.de/nachrichten/...

If you're interested in seeing how framing contests are taking shape after the ICE killing of another person in Minneapolis, here's a window into the conversation on X this morning. Link to interactive graph: faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Spot... * I put this together quickly. Sorry for any errors

the titanic, a ship that famously returned to port

"This is no longer a conversation about law enforcement or immigration policy. This is about authoritarianism."

The President telling a prime time network news host effectively "I got you this job" is not something you see every day.

Nature research paper: High-voltage anode-free sodium–sulfur batteries go.nature.com/4qEcxsz

Wake up babe new deranged import just dropped

“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”

When the LAPD arrests a dude at a gas station they don’t take over the gas station and use it to gas up all the cop cars tho

i find this so fascinating because, for the most part, we don't discuss Trump! we discuss how and why his policies and decisions are bad in the hopes of combating them. they think people documenting the flatly illegal activities of trump are running some sort of gossip column!!! unserious

im deutschland frohe weihnachten

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

husband had a piano recital today :)

"you're a bioengineer? are you working on Covid-20?" 😒

Rare SCOTUS W

@notalawyer.bsky.social HAVE YOU SEEN IT youtu.be/-9CmFvGEXXk?...

[Exit Clown.]

whaaaaat how unexpected!

This analysis remains undefeated.

hi science bluesky 🧪 i have a question. has anyone shown if sgRNAs are susceptible to degradation by RNases when they're bound to the Cas9 protein? I know they're very unstable when unbound, but I can't seem to find evidence of their stability in the RNP complex. any help is appreciated!!

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

This is the official communication from the FDA to physicians on acetaminophen use in pregnancy. - They acknowledge the lack of a causal link with autism - Essentially tell physicians to keep doing what we've been doing anyway It's very different from the press conference. Pass it on.

Reminder: a large (2.5M+) sibling control study found "no evidence of increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability associated with acetaminophen use". Precisely the kind of data that requires serious consideration before declaring mission accomplished. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

made this

Universities. Rural hospitals. Tech companies. Several sectors are going to be profoundly hurt by this. Not to mention the chaos of the moment as current H1-B owners scramble to get back to the U.S., cancel travel, etc. due to the uncertainty. An absolute mess. As intended.

the epistemic breakdown of factual reality in this political media environment has been so harmful when facts genuinely favor the left, the right will simply deny the facts or call the messenger biased, without any refutation reality will always be biased against a movement detached from reality

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death. But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.

Glenn Beck’s media outlet The Blaze just gave an interview last month to the person who killed the politicians in Minnesota

political violence is a terrible scourge that has claimed victims from both parties the way some people are just itching to treat this as a reichstag fire moment to enable a dictatorship is extremely scary and a good reminder that political violence is a threat to the very core of liberal democracy