“An AI scientist, for example, could figure out how the human brain works, or deliver any gene to any cell in the body.” Yeah and a magic pony could shit bricks of 24k gold and piss a highly concentrated solution of pure heroin.

Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up https://theonion.com/australia-admits-all-those-animals-made-up/

Dream, if you can, a courtyard An ocean of violets in bloom

Do I know any journalists interested in covering a story about a highway and the last population of a frog? Please message me

Some breaking news via me & @aniloza.bsky.social. The Trump administration has agreed to reconsider frozen and denied NIH grant submissions related to DEI. Our latest for @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/12/29/n...

New Syrian currency designs go incredibly hard

The National Science Foundation starts 2026 with a new management structure that affects every scientist with--or applying for--NSF funding. Here's what you need to know. www.science.org/content/arti...

Yes, I know the NYT is wildly problematic (always has been; always will be) but *goddamn* I just made these scallion buns and they are phenomenal. (Gift link.) cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...

Crew member on a whaling vessel. (I know what you're thinking. Not the Pequod -- the Ester.) 📖 🐋

Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops

This from @ehayot.bsky.social and @mattseybold.bsky.social is the best, most comprehensive breakdown of the political/structural forces that first came for the humanities, and now is swallowing everything. Do not miss it. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

This is an outstanding essay describing some of the important roles and influences of NIH program officers (from an insider perspective). Read! elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...

Ironically, I lost power for about 90 min about 3 hrs after posting this. F DTE.

Thank you, New York Times. I too agree that The Onion had the same level of cultural impact this year that Sabrina Carpenter did.

I don't get why anyone would want to build a data center in mid-MI. Electricity from DTE is so unreliable that everyone I know who can afford to owns a generator. In additional to all the environmental and social reasons to be skeptical abt building data centers, it just seems like bad business.

🤞 that this pans out. Also, of course, none of this would have been possible without #NIH funding.

JOIN US #booksky

An amazing lab working on a very cool system. If you are interested in #evolution and #neuroscience make sure you apply! #neuroethology #neuroskyence

Excited about that new edition of Moby Dick you got for the holidays? In ONE WEEK, you get to take that baby for a spin! (If, for some reason, you weren’t gifted a copy this season, you can always get one on sale or find it at your library or Project Gutenberg) 🐋

While many people find it to be irritating or even disgusting, in Santa culture it is a great honor when he sheds his skin and leaves it in your home

merry Christmas Eve www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnst...

Merry Christmas everyone

This is the best description of the current US condition

and the winner of the "2025 best thing on Internet" has just arrived neal.fun/size-of-life/ @carlbergstrom.com

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

This is wild. We’ve reached the point in our authoritarian journey where we are sharing bootleg videos in order to get truthful information.

Thanks @hypoautonomic.bsky.social for putting this together. Warning: May cause you to throw things or bang your head against the wall.

Between boycotting Jim Beam into a 2026 shutdown to "accidentally" uploading the spiked 60 Minutes segment about CECOT to Global TV, Canadians are absolutely making some gangster moves as of late. I love it.

I'm sure I'm not the first to notice that this is the cybertruck of ships.

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Curator of Education job (tenure-track Assistant Professor) at the Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Boulder! Salary $90-$100K, 9 month full time position. Apply by Jan 21. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

/6 But this decision goes further in a way that will please many and infuriate others. It says, more or less, that student outrage at what a professor says on a topic of public interest can’t be the basis for ruling for the school in the Pickering balancing test.

🧪🧵 Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards — now open 🇨🇦 A new federal program to attract outstanding PhD students and postdocs currently outside Canada (including Canadians abroad).

Somebody just took irony into the woods, made it dig its own grave, and then shot it in the head and buried it.

I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...

Same, MD, same.

the #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

Is the MS NOW closed captioning machine secretly an 80s goth kid?!

Hey @beastielyrics.bsky.social thought you might enjoy this if it's new to you (or possibly even if not): www.youtube.com/shorts/aharQ...

Please please please let this study hold up

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.

A smart perspective from Michael Che: You tell me to trust science. I don't know science. I trust history.

Delete your account, WSJ.

81 years ago, the Supreme Court issued its shameful decision in Korematsu v. U.S., sanctioning the forced removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast.

🧵 As they say on the internets I watched the #NSF BIO virtual office hour so you don't have to. Going to summarize the key points here from my notes; will probably include some screen shots of their slides. For context, it was an hour. 30 min of explanation by the co-heads of BIO, 30 min of Q&A.

Really interesting new review paper explains that rods are better thought of as specialized for processing low contrast rather than simply functioning in low light. So well reasoned that the conclusion seems obvious in retrospect. #neuroethology