YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

I Don’t Want To Do This Anymore #art

This is so cool. And a great example of how the links between fundamental and translational research can be unexpected and not obvious - the idea came to a nanoscience engineer while they happened to be reading about normal gum function, something kind of outside their field.

SAWAI'TAKIT! [CHANGE YOUR STATE] #tdov

a spell against evil #art

make something terrible!

This was a very interesting and validating read, surprised by how many times I felt seen! "Concept Jamming" (one of the 'play shapes') is exactly how I approach my interdisciplinary science research...

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

I also have some art from 4 and 5 years ago respectively of my neanderthal and homo sapien gay couple and their adopted daughter :’-) I drew two of them in the previous post hehe

Yes kink at Pride

The walkout was over NIH cuts, firings, getting rid of research on race and gender, queerphobic nonsense, canceled grants and the fact that Battarchaya has refused to meet with the union despite being officially asked twice

NIH staff staged a walkout when Batarchaya began championing the lab leak theory-- and implying this made NIH responsible for the pandemic as a whole, and the deaths that followed. They'd been planning a walkout later on, but when they heard this, they spontaneously decided now was the time.

Proud of y'all. 🧪 www.yahoo.com/news/nih-sta...

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I'm immunocompromised and high-risk, so I hate this (and it doesn't make good sense; without broad protections you get more disease). BUT: the list of preconditions is long, and a lot of people are probably already eligible who don't realize it (use the otherwise-useless BMI to your advantage).

UM

have been pondering how this also has the effect of artificially widening the apparent "difference between sexes," in the context of the right's attacks on queer and trans folks... absolutely no gender ambiguity allowed

At the same time, we HAVE to recognize the coercive element and name it as grotesque, because the ultimate goal of MAGA is to apply this coercion to all AFAB. It is about a spectacle of surgical-level WHITE gender conformity that is extreme and also expensive.

The appearance of the femme Mar-a-Lago set is an implicit argument that women's participation in public life should be deeply conditional not only on ideological and lifestyle compliance, but bodily compliance to the point of permanent surgical alteration to the strong man's personal tastes.

Wrote up, for no apparent reason, something about why I write. Don’t even know if I’d publish this anywhere.

They want more MOMS at home. And not just because they hate women. Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.

crops from some patreon exclusives, one from last month and one from last year 💐 patreon.com/choo

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OH, YOU WOULDN'T WANNA SEE ME HEALTHY.

spotted around town 🫡✂️🐁

My speech for the Philly #StandUpForScience Protest. Everything I do is for my community 💜✨

Mouse models of gender affirming hormone therapy can improve outcomes for trans people and for any cis person with hormones or receiving hormone therapies. What helps is standing in solidarity with us, speaking on the importance of and fighting for the research, not jokes about "transgenic mice" 🧪

One annoying thing about the "run the government like a business" guys is that they also are terrible at running businesses. I run my podcast "like a business" in the sense that things are made to a high quality and shipped on time, but it seems their only version of "good business" is "layoffs"

The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!) democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

Our history scrubbed out. Our medical needs denied by doctors who fear for their funding. Requirements that many of us carry papers that out us to authorities who can then use those IDs to put us in even more danger through imprisonment. Do you understand what is happening?

The ongoing fascist attack on trans and queer people doesn’t look as blatant as the nazi sacking of the Institute for Sexual Research. It’s happening piece by piece through cowardice and compliance. It is just as terrible and devastating even without a book burning.

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

Tech has stopped being about helping YOU do things - it's now a means for management consultants to use software to penetrate/monetize every aspect of our lives, all while expressing growth to the markets. This is the growth-at-all-costs Rot Economy. www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/

fyi, for any cis folks w/ cash to burn who want to state their support for trans kids, teens, and adults in no uncertain terms, Transfigure Print Co. are good folks making really cool shit. transfigureprintco.com

This is really bleak, they're attacking all animal research with the ranking Democrat, Shantel Brown, agreeing with Nancy Mace. Brown goes on to state that AI and 3D printing give us "better and more accurate results" compared to actual biology.

"Things might be tough but it's great for artists! They'll create more!" You might not believe me but going through a lifetime's worth of stress Every Single Week for years and years- is actually not the optimal set of circumstances that inspires artists to create

HANG IN THERE BABY!! #art

Each and every one of us is a creature of possibility, whether we recognize it or not. One of my favorite pieces for atmos.

Everyone saying "make weird art!" you better fucking mean it. There better not be an unspoken "but not too weird" tacked on at the end.

I think this is what a lot of non-creative people don't get about art. That it's *not* a process that can be optimised for maximum efficiency - the milling around and trying things and scrapping them and building on the core of a good idea those less good ideas had *is* the process.

I did this a while ago, and it is amazing and horrifying how it continues to be relevant every year since Climate change will come for us all in its own ways region by region, but you’re seeing it do so in live time right now in Southern California

I've downloaded & re-uploaded (in a trimmed fashion to fit in the 1 minute limit) the video from X to ensure that it will continue to be available (& ensure that people have an easier time experiencing how awful this truly is).

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

I always like to remind , that the study of Alpha Males comes from captivity . Wolves in the wild just form useful caring clans www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-t...

Scientists who study sex variables ("differences")- now more than ever you need to be extremely specific and careful when you discuss sex in your work and with the public. Our language can be weaponized against sex and gender minorities, and justify policy trying to restrict them from public space.

When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit. Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention. Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"

This is your reminder that thesaurus dot com is (almost certainly) using AI to generate thesaurus entries, and you should, if you can, use Merriam Webster to avoid accidentally destroying the planet via the fuckery machine.

Scientists: who are the people who you think have made the biggest impact in making STEM more inclusive? My (not exhaustive) list below.

It's Paralympics time (yay!) please I am begging you be cool and normal about this. Celebrate athletes for their skill, being at the top of their game, and dedicating years to their work, not for 'overcoming disability.'