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

hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again

More training isn't going to fix the ethnic cleansing squad! The problem is that we employ an ethnic cleansing squad that attracts the type of people who would want to be part of an ethnic cleansing squad!

“AI Overviews still pop up for other examples the Guardian originally highlighted to Google. They include summaries of information about cancer and mental health that experts described as ‘completely wrong’ and ‘really dangerous.’”

This is heartbreaking, and also upsetting to see it amplified instantaneously when video shows her wife crying and talking about their kid at school. We have no idea what kind of family dynamics are at play and a same-sex partner is vulnerable to being muscled out of the story, so we should use care

some Everglades inhabitants for #NationalBirdDay

Free workshops for chicago teens this month at different libraries! Extra dimensional embroidery. I made these little samples this weekend to help get their creative juices flowing and I am giddy. Still time to register. www.badasscrossstitch.com/calendarofev...

I don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1

i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇