"We think that building housing is part of the solution. We think net zero is part of the solution. We think a car-light development is part of the solution. We think building a sense of place and community is part of the solution." -- leader of the Squamish nation www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...

i also 'store' pdfs in the downloads folder, but that's actually a bit misleading because when i need a pdf, i do not retrieve it from the downloads folder, where it may well be stored. i just go back to the internet and download it again

stress level: watching Chernobyl to chill out 🫠

I am moving across the country in four days, there is so much to do to wrap up my house and work, and my ADHD is ~*eating me alive*~

Non-citizen faculty feel especially at risk, with seven in ten reporting concern about being deported in connection with their academic work.

Out of 177 faculty respondents, close to half reported significant concern about being disciplined by the university for their public engagement. One-fifth indicated that they had been asked by an administrator to change language related to their courses, research, or website.

Today, the AAUP Yale Chapter releases our report on The State of Academic Freedom at Yale. Uncertain that university leaders will protect academic freedom when tested, Yale faculty are managing risk alone and making changes that narrow what Yale teaches, researches, and communicates to the world.

Dearest shoalmates: Please consider posting a comment to the NIH regarding the Strategic Plan that includes reducing funding for animal research. Responses from the research community are currently greatly underrepresented compared w/ advocacy groups opposing animal experimentation. 🔗 below ⬇️ 1/2

remember when Google offered unlimited digital storage to colleges and universities and then when adoption reached the right levels rescinded that promise, capped everything, and started pricing those services without the subsidies? idk man just something I think about a lot

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

we went and saw project hail mary tonight and I’ve seen a lot of praise for how it captured the book so I want to praise it for something totally absent from the book, which is the choice of choral accompaniment to much of the emotional backbone of the film. in the book the “hail mary” is very much

PHILLIES: We'd all like you to hit a home run, Alec! BOHM: [sulks] PHILLIES: Maybe tonight? Mm? BOHM: [sulks] PHILLIES: [throwing voice] DO YOU WANT TO HIT A HOME RUN FOR ELMO

The first paper from my postdoc is out now in @natneuro.nature.com! We took a multi-model approach to screen 23 neurodevelopmental disorder risk genes for points of convergence in gene expression (in cell culture) and behavior (in #zebrafish) >

this is my dream store. the real reason I work with zebrafish is that I need access to burbling water at all times to maintain mental fortitude

will I ever have time between my current job, selling my house, and finding a lease in California to actually, y’know, apply for jobs???? signs are not pointing to yes atm 🫠

Two copy editors high-fiving so hard right now

i want a cheeseburger the size of a large boulder size of a small boulder

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Just discovered the wonderful covers of 'Genes to Cells', the journal of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @mbsj-official.bsky.social – absolutely beautiful! here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments

Ryan Coogler: “Yeah, so, I’m going to make films and TV shows of everything I loved at 12 years old…” Legendary. The absolute dream. Total glee. Truly excellent news.

Artemis ii

trans rights is a "wedge" issue in the sense that if you have an issue with trans rights I will "wedge" you into a crevasse in a mountain and leave you there

Man, The older I get the more this shit annoys me. Why would you want to waste the magical imagination of world-building just to make guys shoot other guys. Are you 4 and just figured out how to make gun sounds with your mouth or what

my grandmother died last night after a 6 year decline from dementia and my 26 year old cousin just had her 4th out of 8 chemo sessions for her stage 3 triple neg breast cancer and I am just so sad all the time. but have to show up to work and act like a person and I am just. sad. all the time.

It's honestly not hard to imagine a world where Malthusian thinking led to a modern environmentalism that grapples with a basic truth (population is a basic engine of human pressure on the planet) without drawing horrific conclusions. In my mind, the great tragedy of Ehrlich was circumventing this

not the most useful skill in the world but I am super good at paint matching it is true 😎

(person who doesn't have to get up before 7:30AM) i call it "daylight savings"

it’s crazy how quickly things went from “I have to move to California in five months” to “I have to move to California in two and a half months” and I am FREAKING. OUT.

I must not reply. Discourse is the mind-killer. Discourse is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will scroll past the take. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. When the take has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

ME IRL #BaseballSeason

ICE activity in New Haven, Connecticut, today, reports the New Haven Independent. www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/02/13/i...

We're hiring! The Hoffman lab at Yale is recruiting for Post-Doctoral Associate and Post-Graduate Associate positions available immediately. Join us! www.hoffmanlab.net/jobs #zebrafish #zebrafishjobs

[threateningly] it’s baseball season.

i think it’s fair to primary her over this if she doesn’t change her views explicitly and openly

I know it’s intentional but we should stop calling everything AI, lumping useful machine learning techniques for science with large language models that tech companies are trying to cram into everything.

it’s my god given right as an american to lie to my doctor

a huge swath of the country was snowed/iced in this weekend and had nothing to do but stay glued to their screens giving them horrific update after horrific update in real time, getting more and more righteously and noisily angry.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Two days ago, 7 democrats voted to fund that execution

I just thought everyone should see this

We’ve seen this act before. The Democratic Party needs new leadership. Jeffries and Schumer are not up to the challenge. They’re too afraid, bought, weak, whatever. It doesn’t matter why at this point. It just matters that they aren’t the people for this moment and need to get out of the way.

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

"we don't want people thinking Democrats are for open borders" I am! who gives a shit!!! my life has been immeasurably improved by the presence of immigrants in my community, regardless of their status, there is literally no downside there! why would I give a shit!!!!

the president stole a bunch of top secret files when he left office and kept them in his bathroom and everyone found out and it caused literally zero actual problems for him! im never going to try to predict how anything is going to go for the rest of my fucking life