When you've been hired to put together furniture but you don't have thumbs. 📸 kativeson

I have a lot of thoughts about what might happen next. But it's worth taking a minute to say that this is really good news. Congratulations to those who have been fighting warehouse concentration camps in their communities or in courts across the country.

These assholes back down when we push back. We should push back more often. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

I got curious this year & asked my MPH students about their use of AI. A resounding "yuck" from all 20 students. One said she hates it but uses it because a prof said her writing was "too much like how she talks" and made her self conscious. Surely laziness drives use sometimes, but insecurity too!

excellent @alissaquart.bsky.social on AI and the banality of venal... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“A model of roads trained on only grid cities won’t properly predict the street plans of Rome or Boston.” An essay on the perils of AlphaFold and other kinds of AI in science cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

bookmarking this for use anytime someone asks how we can afford social safety nets.

saying it should be impossible to be a billionnaire, doesn't mean you must do bad things to be 1 (though often true), it means that no amount of work a human can do is worth that level of $ & inequality. paulgraham.com/earn.html clearly he doesn't understand bc paid not to understand ;-)

Very proud of this story, including the way it puts the ccurrent defunding of science into a fascinating (to me) historic perspective. And I'd like to thank both the scientists and the historians who made this smart. And who stood up!

A global thank-you to all the scientists who talked to me, on the record and off, for this. I hope I accurately conveyed how they're feeling about...all of the everything.

when you don't understand harm reduction, you don't understand kratom & drug policy. in an environment w/o fentanyls & heroin, kratom is risky. in an environment flooded with strong opioids, it can save lives. context matters!

I think every media person who has spent the last 3-4 years warning everyone that AI is a scam should, when the bubble bursts, get one billion dollars each to run our normal businesses for the next 1000 years. seems fair.

The Trump administration is trying to restart the work of a panel that advises the government on vaccines, after a judge froze its decisions and prevented it from meeting. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/h...

How the fuck do we have $300 billion to rebuild Iran after we spent $80 billion bombing it, when we don’t “have the money” for pediatric cancer research?

these people strongly support harm reduction.... if they profit from it. otherwise, you can go die www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...

Great to expose this abusive "treatment" but absurd that in 2026, journalists don't cite the data that shows that this stuff is harmful, period. for opioid use disorder, participants in this are MORE likely to die than getting NO treatment www.kuer.org/health/2026-...? &

Jalen Brunson left ~$113M on the table so the Knicks could keep their core. This weekend they won it all — their first title in 53 years. When the guy at the top takes less, everybody eats. My love letter to the champion Knicks and what they teach the rest of us: open.substack.com/pub/objectio...

Hey, genius, a billionaire tax would impact ALL billionaires regardless of affiliation....good lord, man

This guy drugs and rapes women and brags about it and is still welcomed at Republican events and celebrated by Republican influencers. And yet, where are the endless media calls for Republicans to "disavow" him?

Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich.

Still all quiet on the #NSF front. No new awards in the past week. REMINDER: We still are hearing of trickles of terminations, suspensions, and money being held back from grantees, which NSF isn't reporting. We need your help - please report! 🧪 grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

How Canadian rock duo Angine de Poitrine play with neurobiology and physics to make viral music www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Absolutely insane that everyone on the right is just absolutely baffled that a MAGA candidate whose only policy position seemed to be that the homeless should be mulched didn't win the race for mayor in a city where Trump lost in 2024 by more than 43 points.

Trump is going to the Knicks game 3 and Mariska Hargitay is too. Wouldn’t it be amazing to see him get arrested by Captain Benson?

I think we should replace every data center with a cat café.

"911, what's your emergency?" "Hello, Police? Yeah, our highest award recipient is at our meeting handing out copies of an article that we published. And uh....we....well....shit, nevermind." (gift link)

We need to make sure this editorial goes viral Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now! diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

No idea what convention rules they have violated that would necessitate their forced removal. But it seems to me that handing out copies of a well-researched and well-argued article really cannot rise to the level of police involvement. This is police state behavior.

there should be a thing where you can nominate someone deserving to knock one of the letters off

This is the single most alarming thing I’ve seen yet from RFK Jr. He is attempting to get identifiable medical records from ALL OF US. “Under the proposal, HHS would get data from 90% of the population’s medical records by 2028”. This CANNOT be permitted to happen.

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This is honestly making me cry a little. It's just straight up vandalism, destroying a long-term scientific investment and undoubtedly many scientific careers for no reason at all. ("Cost savings" isn't a reason. This whole system is cheap compared with days of war.) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Good night innernets. (Momos, Pierogi (top) and Wonton)

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

I enjoyed boyd's discussion about how it wasn't inevitable that social media turned into parasocial media. It reminded me of some of the conversations @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social have been sharing about generative AI not being inevitable, and so unexpectedly made me feel hopeful

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

looks like blotter acid...

I had dinner w/pharma people a while ago and asked if they are discussing internally, the collapse of science. The response was “yeah, all the time. But we figure that the pipeline is about a decade long and we’ll have made our money and be retired by the time it completely collapses”. Me: ……………..

lmao

“We asked the state a simple question: How dead did we have to be to receive healthcare that could save our viable babies and our own lives? Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called us ‘woke.’” thebarbedwire.com/2026/05/29/k...

Finally some good graphs on this website hell yeah

Dear colleagues, PLEASE submit a comment against OMB's proposed rule. Elizabeth wrote great guide on drafting a comment. To submit it, go to www.regulations.gov/search and search for OMB-2026-0034. It will take time & effort to write a good comment, but a worthwhile effort to save our profession.

You expect people managing hundreds of billions of dollars of investment funds to know arithmetic?

... evil, stupid, sickening....

The call center cat.

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

imagine if we spent the nearly $5 billion (!!!!) already spent on extrajudicial killings of poor fishermen on thing we know that are effective, like evidence based treatment, harm reduction & housing.

‼️Look at this insanely perfect shot my husband just captured with his phone. We're both very sad he didn't have a real camera, but this is still amazing.