Switzerland has mail-in voting. Germany has mail-in voting. Austria has mail-in voting. Australia has mail-in voting. New Zealand has mail-in voting. Canada has mail-in voting. UK has mail-in voting. ...and a few more Also, *many* more countries permit mail-in voting when you're abroad.

I've been testing Grok vs. ChatGPT and how they compare when generating deepfakes. - ask the chatbot to search the web for photos of me and then regenerate me in a bikini: Grok complies; ChatGPT refuses - upload a photo of myself (not id'ing as a public figure): Grok complies; ChatGPT refuses

It happened again. I saw a post to which I wanted to react. But I first did an online search, then looked up one of my books, then searched for an appropriate link, and when I had everything ready to properly reply… …Bluesky refreshed my timeline. I HATE THIS LIKE THE PLAGUE.

Still time to apply until January, 19th!

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

Oh fuck.... now I'm late for this, too.

Everything that’s old is new again.

Don't need to imagine, Sinatra had something to say about multicultural liberal democracies 🧵

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

i've been weirdly invested in this dog's sweater alteration IG roodabeguh

Episodes I–VI is …… a statement.

Looks like Stephen Miller is stalking the background.

Besides the sheer incompetence, I really want to know precisely what reasons could possibly justify these (failed) redactions.

Klar, auch die Tagesschau kann mal einen Bock schießen. Aber ich helfe gerne beim Faktencheck in Sachen E-Mobilität …

Hi @physgal.bsky.social! We are a university account that often posts physics news, and we'd be interested in joining the Physics and Science feeds! Here are some of our articles: www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve... www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...

this might be the greatest Christmas photo ever

Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n

ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray. The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter. These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby. We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat. The claim collapsed because it’s a cover. Check my latest… open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

NSF - Forced reorg - POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements) - Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …) I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing. “Details matter” 🙃

How old does one have to be to understand this joke?

So, the basics of this piece are recent Republican governor teaches a class at Harvard and finds students there are not like he was told to expect. What I find interesting enough in this piece to share a gift link for it comes near the middle: wapo.st/3XJkFf5

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

It’s curious: Some people Paint the Mona Lisa, Or compose Tosca, Or sculpt David, Or write Romeo and Juliet. Others molest children, Or start ruinous wars, Or enslave millions, Or engineer the Holocaust. It’s curious.

From The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Rosemary Sullivan. #booksky

Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration. @margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...

Remember this scene from “Ready Player One,” when Sorento brags “We estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual’s visual field before inducing seizures.” You know, just like so many current webpages, which have become unreadable and are so pop-up-infested that they regularly crash the browser.

Melania memecoin not doing so hot.

For everyone who missed it: My BPPB talk is now available on YouTube! If you're curious how we propose to think about ternary lipid mixtures in the presence of membrane asymmetry—including differential stress!—then this is probably a good place to start! 🧪

Maybe it’s time to act with some financial responsibility and stop eating avocado toast?

I am also pissed by the messenger. Frank Luntz has worked tirelessly as a Republican pollster and strategist to hasten the arrival of the current situation. He doesn’t get the permission to suddenly be all pearl-clutchy about it.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

THIS MADE MY DAY!

I have a Google Sheet open. It contains a teeny-tiny table of 2 columns and 46 rows. Chrome tells me that this tab uses 371 MB. HOW IS THIS NOT MADNESS???

This is a very good analogy.

I am honored and excited to present our recent work on mixed AND asymmetric membranes at @bppbseminar.bsky.social! 🧪 My online talk will be this Friday, 11/21/25, 11am US Eastern time. Many thanks to the organizers for putting this together! More details here: sites.google.com/view/bppb-se...

I am … grateful? … that Harvard’s Graduate School Fund reached out to me with a fundraising solicitation yesterday, because it helped me to organize my thoughts on an event near the end of my PhD (2005). Here is my response, just emailed to the fundraisers: (1/9)

Happy Dogs #TuesdayVibe

Today’s the day the new terminal at Pittsburgh International Airport will open! Super excited to see it myself in the not too distant future!

What’s funny about this is that waking up at 7:30 is apparently “early.”

If the quantum mechanical “many world” interpretation is correct, then there truly exists an alternative universe in which all of this ended with the Access Hollywood tape. And I need to figure out what the fuck I did back then to end up in this timeline instead.

"Do you have anything more effective than an alarm clock?" Ah yes, you may want to consider our latest range of "There is no snooze button here" units. Most have only been returned ten times.. 🦜😂 #wakeup #alarmclocks #parrots #funny

🧪⚛️ Get ready for Thanksgiving and the curmudgeonly uncle who's going to try and convince you that #climatechange is a hoax. Here's an easy read by one of my colleagues, which also provides a political context for the current administration bias on the issue. thebulletin.org/2025/11/the-...

A question came up in the lab today: How many fish could you (completely) boil with the energy it takes to train an LLM like ChatGPT?

Dear biophysics friends — the APS DBIO elections are now open! If you are a member, check for an email from directvote.net with the ballot. Please take a moment to vote — our community thrives when we show up. Candidate statements and bios are on the ballot (and I’m on it for Vice Chair).

If you have ANY hand in designing graduate application recommender web-forms—hear me out: PLEASE LOSE THESE GODFORSAKEN RANKINGS! They are incredibly narrow and often ill-defined boxes in which you force me to squeeze a human being for whom I spent two hours writing a careful letter.

Driver on the highway in front of me is utterly incapable of staying in lane. Wildly swerves 1–2 feet into the neighboring lanes. All the time. Looks like the driver is drunk. When I finally pass, I see: the driver is having an animated cell phone conversation. Folks, *please* don’t do that!

🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (4?) wearing a frilly crocodile print dress has a VERY important announcement to make. Looking up at Mum, she announces very solemnly: "My brain has a thought inside." Mum treats this information with the seriousness it deserves. (1)