I’m think of signing up to one of those polymarket apps just so I know precisely when DJT snuffs it.

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

Michael de Adder deserves a Pulitzer Prize for his work....

I just wanted to see him succeed so badly.

NASA isn’t on Bluesky but they are on Threads and they put out a statement about the selection of an all-male #Artemis III crew.

This is NOT how you release a statement. You should clearly explain the logistics behind how this happened - you shouldn't start with "women can be smart" and "I have female colleagues". This statement assumes that ordinary people who care about space exploration are in fact not smart

Congratulations to Kelsey Martin (@kelseycmartin.bsky.social) on being awarded the prestigious Kavli Prize in Neuroscience! Her work helped solve the mystery of how our brains learn in mere minutes, leading to insights into how the brain and brain disorders work: https://bit.ly/3SaMqNZ #KavliPrize

you and me both Toad.

The academic mantra I tried to live by- everyone is clever, distinguish yourself by being kind

Let's not forget the 600,000+ deaths cutting off USAID inflicted, and yet no headline says: "Mass Murderer to Offer IPO"

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

the what now

For years now, public discourse regarding online radicalisation and hate has focused on Twitter, anonymous accounts and young people. Meanwhile, your uncle is out there sharing memes about great replacement theory on Facebook using his legal name.

This is Chootie. He looks like a dog, but from one of those 15th century paintings done by someone who had only ever heard about dogs. 12/10 (IG: chootieboy)

The mental toll of forcing podcasters to attempt to hold real jobs continues apace

I'll take this a step further: most of the AI proponents I see - especially with social platforms - don't understand the methods, theories, debates, and philosophies of machine learning either (aka - the three raccoons raccoons tech companies are shoving into a trenchcoat and calling AI).

I would pay for a podcast player that bans AI-generated podslop. I don't need to hear two chatbots in overly enthusiastic, uncritical, unimaginative conversation.

Move over, Nature

There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.

From the US President folks. Give me your best Bond titles for this ghoul. I’ll start: 007: Lets us Live and Let Him Die 007: Thunderpants 007: From Russia with Love (that one just works) 007: The man with the golden EVERYTHING 007: For Epstein’s eyes only 007: Time to die

Competitive sourdough baking has gone too far

Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)

Welp there’s no unseeing this

Cartoonist: Rick McKee

Trump's ever-expanding list of taxpayer grifts: -$1.8B slush fund for political allies -$1B for ballroom "security" -$1B for Qatar jet refurbishments -$230M in DOJ "compensation" -$100M+ for golf outings When he says he "doesn't think about Americans' financial situation," I believe him.

This, too, happened to me. I went four rounds with the club before I realized it. These scams are getting more and more sophisticated.

There's a ton of this going around. I get a couple of these a month, at least

On the aesthetics of fascism. A comic by @beetlemoses.bsky.social

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

A longitudinal data resource to study brain development and transdiagnostic variation in executive function | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This right here.

Some said “secretary of skedaddling” and “do you know how hard it is to do that drunk?” 🤣🤣

If you are in a position that involves teaching, you should understand how learning works. It’s not through removing friction

I followed these instructions to comment on the new proposed (disatrous) OMB rule - super helpful! Please take the time to write a specific, personal comment!!!

assuming a lifespan of 80 years, the length of the entire human civilization is only about 70 people old. The US Civil War was two people ago and the Ottomans sacked Constantinople seven people ago. Not very long!

omg

The most strategic fumble I’ve witnessed among dem leaders is letting their cops beat up their constituents. And it’s been going on for years and weakening us all. It leaves people with few options but to lose faith in the entire system. And faith is all you got because there isn’t very much proof

I ain’t reading all that. I’m happy for you though, or sorry that happened

What do we want? New government building renovations! Who’s gonna pay for it? We are!

It’s still amazing that he thinks somehow the job of being president United States is for the most part being a project planner of building renovations.

Books and reading #121 Wise words from the great American broadcaster Walter Kronkite. #bookstagram #readersofinstagram

Meowie Antoinette

An important breakdown of the foundations, motivations, and strategies of the anti-science movement...

The therapy dog after I share all my problems.

There's a persistent fantasy that maybe some other nice countries will start mass-hiring US scientists. That's not going to happen. A few high-profile, big name researchers will get poached, sure. But most countries, including some very nice ones, are underemploying their own scientists already.

science and space travel are best done by people in love with the science not people in love with profit

Once again, @dereklowe.bsky.social is not holding back and I am here for it. www.science.org/content/blog... 1/2