Of course some processes at NIH & in US science in general should be reformed. But uncritically presenting Jay Bhattacharya as a naive idealist rather than a hypocrite & political operative charged with NIH’s destruction is wildly divorced from reality. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

How is it possible that the theme song to SpongeBob SquarePants is not universally known??

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

first they came for bill maher, and i said “wait let me get out of the way”

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

AOC responds to the Tom Homan story.

If you are from the US and interested in applying for a PhD with me (or anyone else @camzoology.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social), your deadline for the gates scholarship is October 15! (You’ll need to write a research proposal, so contact PIs now) www.gatescambridge.org/programme/th...

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

There's a lot of work to be done. Get in where you can.

My undergraduate advisor, Gary Beauchamp, won the Pediatrics prize yesterday and I couldn't be more proud or more thrilled for him. Truly the honor of a lifetime.

The thing everyone can do right now is to find your lane if you don't already have one and work that lane diligently and with commitment.

WE ARE... hiring! Penn State Biology & the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is recruiting a tenure track or tenured neurobiologist (Assistant or Associate Professor rank), and the committee is open to a broad scope of scientific questions. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

Let me get this straight: you get cancelled for calling them fascists and get investigated for being anti-fascist

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

It's clear we're at a point in American history where a lot of people could benefit from getting acquainted with Phil Ochs. Get your lives right, people.

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

Your local library is full of media that the president hates but can't use his regulatory power to get rid of.

How are they going to run a one-hour tribute if they're scared of quoting him? Will they just dub over the original audio? "Haiti is infested with DELICIOUS CUISINE. Their migrants are FEEDING your women and DELIVERING YOUR DOORDASH at night. They are coming for your daughter next WITH FOOD."

Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry, The Intentions of Thunder by @pswordwoman gathers, for the first time, the essential work from across Patricia Smith’s decorated career. Here's an exclusive reading of "Man, Roll The Window Down!" found in her collection.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

"Why are you only talking about [horror in the news] and not [other horror in the news]?" Me, trying to process the ten new horrors that sprung up in the time it took you to ask me:

there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

Take everything you thought you knew about species boundaries, reproduction, genetics, and evolution, and just throw it all away. This shit is WILD. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/s...

This is the same guy.

#tdih 1963 Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, & Addie Mae Collins -- all 14 yrs old, & 11-yr-old Denise McNair were murdered in terrorist bombing. A 5th child, Sarah Collins Rudolph, was severely injured.💔 Read more & see teaching resources on link ⬇️ & 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/16...

As a UC employee*: Fuck off into the sun forever with this bullshit and then continue to get fucked until you land in another sun 10 million light years from this one. *Opinion not representative of the UC system. Unfortunately.

I continue to be amazed at the absolute lack of courage

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases

Shame on the @washingtonpost.com.

They stripped Paul Robeson’s passport to destroy his career.

Genuinely suprised that I'm getting more pushback for saying Cel-Ray soda is disgusting than I did the time I said that strawberries have no place in rhubarb pie.

ICE has fired tear gas and pepper balls at protesters outside their Broadview facility. They are terrorizing immigrants across Chicagoland. The time to resist is now. It will only get harder as authoritarianism tightens its grip. Please pay attention to this struggle.

Went to a science fair under the I-610 today.

Fuck, this might become my motto.

We need a doc about this woman.

This is a good article (gift link) that effectively shows what's at stake and how the administration went about attacking NIH. I do have a quibble though... (1/7) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

The greatest advantage the propagandist has is people’s disbelief that they are susceptible to it.

There's something I need all of you to understand, especially fellow electeds: what I have done cannot be exceptional. I ask you to consider your oath. Don't leave me out to hang.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

i can’t imagine why decontexualized, truncated written communication with no tonal cues shotgunning out into the void lends itself to poor communication and a flattening of discourse

I try to radicalize my students by telling them that I respect their privacy and that if they need an accommodation they can just tell me, without explanation. (It doesn't work.)

This is how we used to have to get our misinformation before the internet.