I ate all the pie. The pie is gone.

A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.

Aww thanks John! Your last point is so crucial. The Ted Talk scene selects for people who are overconfident in their conclusions and good at telling simple, sellable stories — not remotely the same thing as people who are diligent about finding out the truth!

Reading between the lines, it sounds like the captains of Boston University's cross country team want the ICE snitch off their team, and they're upset that the Dept of Athletics won't make it happen dailyfreepress.com/11/21/08/216...

Humans enjoy gossip. It's funny to me when some pretend they are above that. You aren't. One particular kind of gossip might not interest you but you do enjoy other kinds.

Larry Summers, former president of Harvard and former US secretary of the treasury, is stepping back from everything (OpenAI, NYT, CAP) but the role in which he poses the most harm: teaching.

Okay, @harvard.edu students, do your thing. Time to walk out of this guy's classes. Thanks to the Crimson for their hard work on these stories. #studentjournalism

The fact that @harvard.edu's Larry Summers is teaching three courses this semester while Texas A&M Professor Melissa McCoul was fired tells you all you need to know about what "gender ideology" is allowed and which is not. @aaup.org

A perfect example of a lede that doesn't embellish. No adverbs or adjectives or anything other than a plain recitation of what it says.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I'm glad the Boston alligator found warmer waters.

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

hasn't been enough reporting on his creepy science funding, tbh.

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I don’t know who to backchannel…but before you, uh, go public with how hard it was to be, uh, in the Obama White House because so many demands…maybe, uh, read the room. People are trying to hold a whole ass republic together at the moment. Kvetch after.

Wife and I are self employed over 60 with one son still on our insurance. Our monthly will go from around $800 to over $2500 for a bronze plan.

Doing a classroom observation of a colleague today. I tried explaining the academic promotion process to a friend and he thought I was joking. #academicsky

Well that got intense - you can see CBP threatening to mace someone and also threatening to teargas them on 22nd and Sawyer. CPD had about 40 bodies on the north end of the street guarding the feds.

It’s literally so easy to boycott Starbucks

Authoritarian tactic #1: Control information and suppress dissent. An authoritarian regime works to control the public narrative—and to suppress facts, evidence, and information that threaten its power or agenda.

As expected, unfortunately. If ever you needed a reason for never using GISAID ever again (as a data producer or data user - we're both), look no further. Time to move on to more trusted and transparent solutions.

Hundreds of residents of Oxford, Mississippi, turned out at a No Kings protest against the Trump administration on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. Here are some photos of those who showed up and the protest signs they carried.

We are taking legal action to ensure Adelita Grijalva is sworn in. I will not allow Arizonans to be silenced or treated as second-class citizens in their own democracy. Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...

Still on Facebook? If so, why?

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done

If you live in Everett, Mass. and have any information about the 13-year-old boy abducted by ICE, please message me on Signal at marisakabas.04

Tomorrow about a third of Perseverance rover staff will be laid off, despite the mission being the penultimate step in a decades long effort to bring samples back from mars. Reckless, needless budget cuts intended to hinder the pursuit of knowledge.

More inflatable costumes, please.

I cannot tell you what it means to get this shout out from someone I have looked up to for my entire career. Thanks, Steve. 🙏

When the camera turns around after she flips him off and the whole class is behind her. Goals.

This is a ratfuck to keep the case alive in a very friendly venue, and potentially end telemedicine prescriptions of abortion pills nationwide. *1 in 4* abortions reported in the US last year were done with mifepristone via telehealth

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

Half the things I see say I need to be doing more to save democracy and half say I should less so I don’t burn out and die. Where is the line, Cheryl?

Good news: y’all have already raised $300! Bad news: she’s measured further along and the cost has gone up. She needs a total of $3,400 now in addition to the $1,000 we already pledged. Our goal is now $2,500 to raise for her and we will cover the rest of the balance.

That presidential tweet about Tylenol and vaccines is completely crazy. How are there no guardrails??? This is so so dangerous and I need these democrats to stop dicking around and at least vocalize some resistance and sanity. This is beyond.

It never occurred to me until right now that if he governs by tweet, he is definitely managing via DM.

Less somber here than he was at the US Open.

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

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It's perfect square day. 9/16/25. I loved perfect squares so much in junior high I made up a song about it. The chorus was, "PERFECT SQUARE!!" 🧪 It was a banger, I promise.

Good news: an important women's health grant at my institution got an notice of award from the NIH today. Just putting this here to show that if you keep pushing, things can still move. We haven't totally lost yet. 🧪

"that's not funny, no one should lose their lives to gun violence" so true! that's what we've been saying all along. I'm so glad you agree

This guy is the secretary of energy. Doesn't know what energy is, or what electricity is, and pulled a completely false "fact" out of the air and posted it publicly on a platform that judges have ruled is official public record. He wouldn't have this job without white man affirmative action.

You guys see where this is going? Right?

The new Sabrina Carpenter is good. Just thought I'd put something nice out into this rage generating machine.