It's almost pride month. pterosaurs. #pridemonth #pterosaurs #paleoart #noai

“Hope will never be silent” Celebrate Harvey Milk today by bein' loud & PROUD Of how you identify Of who you love Of who you are! Our friend would have been 96 this #harveymilkday In his name & in his honor let us all love each other that much more 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️ @rustincenter.bsky.social

In this morning's email to University of Oklahoma employees: "To comply with SB-904 [new OK law banning state funds or facilities providing gender-affirming care to adults], the University must implement updates to the medical and pharmacy benefit plans. These changes include:" (1/x)

Someone in your family needs this book. Parents of young kids. Partners of folks with divergent food preferences. People who grew up being called "picky." I wish i'd had this 20 years ago when my kids were tiny.

Wow: Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Scoop: There has been a massive shakeup at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Eight of the top ten officials have now been pushed out since President Donald Trump took office. In @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Picky by Helen Zoe Veit will hurt people. Food aversion has proven neurobiological factors and ARFID doesn’t typically respond to exposure therapy. There are social elements and some kids are “just” selective in their eating, but putting it all under one tent will kill kids.

Please enjoy baby Alligator Gars feeding on brine shrimp (Artemia), set to a Bluey instrumental 🙂 🐟🧪gars are planktivorous at this stage (20 mm, 12 days post-hatch), but will soon switch to eating insects and fish! They’re also already breathing air!

My son brought home a plant from his grandma's memorial service. His dad told him the plant holds the soul of his g-ma. Now there are enormous stakes on keeping it healthy & alive. Son is 22; he does know this isn't true, but that doesn't ease his feelings when the cats try to murder Grandma.

I admire the hell out of these Texas Tech students, who held a funeral for academic freedom: pen.org/texas-tech-a...

If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

Every student of parasitology is thinking about one of the common effects of lymphatic filariasis. There's a hydrocele surgery scene in Abraham Verghese's The Covenant of Water that's extremely memorable. Encountering a swollen scrotum in a sexual situation would shut things down real quick, for me.

If you just do the opposite of whatever RFK, Jr. says, you'll probably live longer.

AI been pwned. This is very similar to how "Internet addiction" as a condition began as an academic joke (a story I tell in The Web We Weave; see next post). Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My latest Paris dispatch on how 300 streets outside of schools became some of the coolest places in the city. But even more importantly, these family-centric improvements provide ubiquitous reminders that this society prioritizes children

Having a transcript of your therapy session revealed in court is probably high on the list of nightmare scenarios. Sadly, it happened -- and you'll be shocked to know its because of AI. A new investigation from @proofnews.bsky.social. www.proofnews.org/womans-talks...

Updating my lecture on delusional parasitosis/delusional infestation/Ekbom's syndrome/Morgellons disease. I'm reading about associations with dopamine transport function. Human neurobiology is not an area of strength for me--my training is insect morphology/taxonomy/molecular systematics.

A man who says he was born in Colorado was deported recently after being pulled over in Texas, after which immigration officers denied his offers to show them proof of citizenship he says he had at home.

“Experts say the algorithm failed to take into account key cultural issues, including that there is no standard form of transcribing Bengali names into English script, and that Bengali surnames have been adapted over generations, leading to small spelling inconsistencies between family documents.”

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Gonna get this printed in poster size and hang it in the shop and all the rooms in the house that regularly become satellite shops.

New publication alert! After four years of analysis, synthesis, and careful writing, I am pleased to announce a brand-new article, “Desistance”: A Multimethod Review of the Literature on Gender Identity Variability in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth (1) 🧵 psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

I give my parasitology class a quick quiz at the end of every lecture. It's mostly to incentivize showing up for lecture, but it also reinforces whatever they've just heard about the parasites of the day. Yesterday's lecture was foodborne nematodes. 1/x

Lobster is too sweet

Live your life in such a way that you don't spend your retirement trying to make life worse for teenagers who don't look like you

Gauntlet thrown at the bird nerds

"Motivated ignorance" is the term i have been stumbling about in search of.

Offit “embarked on what would become his greatest professional accomplishment: researching & developing, over 25 years, the RotaTeq vaccine, alongside Stanley Plotkin & H. Fred Clark… Since hitting the market in 2006, RotaTeq has prevented ~70,000 infant deaths a year” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

This is why I keep it out of my classrooms. This is why I teach my students to be careful/critical in their consumption of gAI. This is why universities shouldn't be so bloody ridiculously uncritical in forcing gAI on faculty, staff and students. We're inculcating dependence on a catastrophic scale

Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: Trans activist flouted bathroom law at Kansas Statehouse. She proved ideologues weak and cowardly. #ksleg

Statistical Probability Regurgitron!

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Don't turn up your nose at tamales made with schmaltz (i raise chickens; it's what i have), either.

One aspect of bathroom bans I don't see discussed much is how they disproportionately impact trans folks with disabilities/chronic illness. Just a heads up, we've gotta talk poop. And in particular, diarrhea.

A fascinating read about one particular war crime, but it also explains what’s going on in universities and companies everywhere; the automation of decision-making that removes judgment and worker-autonomy in the name of efficiency and management tyranny. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

Just needed to let you guys know that if you annoy electric eels enough, they'll jump out of the water to slap you. WHILE electrically discharging. So naturally they did a study The diagrams do seem to raise as many questions as they answer

The AP's story on the IOC's new policy mentions that it "also restricts" athletes like two-time Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya. That word "also" is doing a lot of work. New piece on who this policy is actually about: www.readtpa.com/p/the-iocs-n...

BREAKING: The DOJ inexplicably dropped its lawsuit seeking access to Oklahoma’s unredacted voter data — retreating before a judge could weigh in. The department had previously revealed it reached a potential settlement with a state it sued.

"ACT-UP's example is a reminder that even institutions like the Catholic Church aren't immune to disruption and public pressure. So get angry and...stop praising the damn papacy. Religious figures are not special. Their bigotry is not less repulsive because it's wrapped up in liturgy and ceremony."

Mississippi Department of Public Safety officials discovered Ku Klux Klan items while cleaning out a closet to move to the department’s new headquarters

Really excellent paper on the genetics of caterpillar butt ornaments journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

none of these mfs read douglas adams and it shows

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

"If you allow people to become billionaires, they will send gangs of uneducated children to steal from and ransack your public institutions" certainly seems like an argument for something.

Active and public transport complement each other. "We need transit, not bike lanes!" is wrecker shit. We need both.

Despite cold, pro-science rally draws modest crowd to Capitol freepressokc.com/despite-cold... #Oklahoma

The list of reasons why there isn't more visible student organizing in the US today is long. But the shortest, simplest answer is this: Liberal politicians and institutions systematically undermined it for decades, then brutally crushed it when it miraculously rose from the dead.

“And doubts about vaccines are increasingly spilling into refusal of other mainstays of pediatric medicine… At a hospital in Boise, Idaho, for example, three infants died last year after their parents declined a shot of vitamin K, administered to newborns to prevent bleeding, said Dr. Amanda Lee”