Planning to resubmit something sitting at 9%. Makes me want to look for another job.

Dollars to donuts those parts were “written” by ChatGPT. I had exactly that experience with the program. Since I verified everything first, it makes for a funny story (& a cautionary tale), but it might not be great way to write a MAHA report.

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

My colleague in Japan asked me last week why Americans were so quiet. I told her that the media bore a lot of the blame. Guess I was right.

My home town at noon today. Very proud.

OK. This might not be the most important bit of news right now. But MIT Press has announced that my book, How Not to Study a Disease, will be on the Penguin Random House Backlist Marketing program. On April 21st, the ebook will be discounted to $1.99, and marketing will run with Kindle and BookBub.

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

My town! Showing how it’s done.

In Pittsburgh our #TeslaTakedown protest is GROWING ❤️

I second that (with dollars as well as kudos)

🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40110649/ I love how this abstract puts a reverse spin on the results. They conclude that cognitive decline does not predict amyloid deposition. For me the data is really telling us that amyloid does not drive cognitive decline. Did I miss something? #alzheimers #amyloid

I watched. It was informative and helpful.

Interesting move by Schumer to cave and disappoint everyone and then immediately go do an extended NYT interview explaining that actually he is even worse than we thought, let’s see if this pays off for him

And you never EVER have my vote again.

My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR. My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down. I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.   I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.

Hey Democratic Party, You ain’t raising money until you start raising hell. Sincerely, A Huge Portion of Your Supporters

I'm 💯 with Al Green. As for the 10 high-road, yellow-bellied, can't-read-the-room-worth-a-crap tits-on-a-bull-useless democrats who voted to censure him...I have no comment.

📌NOTE: Immediately after the vile attack on Zelensky by Putin's puppets Friday, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries should have called a joint press conference and explained to the American public the significance, heinousness and danger of that sickening surrender. 📌They should STILL be talking now.

Amen. @schumer.senate.gov, as we New Yorkers know well, would use the making of a pastrami sandwich as an excuse for a Sunday press conference. Where is he? And I'm sick of @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social muted tones. It is time to shout in defense of democracy not just in America but in the world.

Lecanemab vs. placebo as seen through the eyes of caregiver burden. Great paper. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Obama and Biden may think they are honoring the office of the presidency by keeping quiet at a moment like this — if so that’s just preening vanity — they owe it to the office and to the Republic that until last month it served to speak up loudly and clearly and without relent.

I wish you would revise this piece. We know the drug works in individuals because randomized controlled trials were done. Drug slows progression.

Thank you NPR. Your thoughtful story highlights how small the benefits are for most people taking these costly treatments (costly in time and money). The biology never supported the link between plaques and dementia, and I say that after 30 yrs in the field.

"I previously wrote that Democrats are bringing a teaspoon to a gunfight. But it’s unclear if most Ds even recognize they’re in a gunfight." from @davidcorn.bsky.social

I wonder if they gave even a moments thought to whether they might have one or two administrators they could do without. You know the Assistant Vice Associate Dean of the Office of Funny Walks. Or maybe (third rail here) a football scholarship or two.

MSNBC, the alleged bastion of liberals, has former GOP rep Scarborough, former head of RNC, Michael Steele, former Bush spokesman Nicole Wallace. No Joy Reid and Mehdi Hasan though.

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

Okay what is going on here. Are the accounts at a private banking entity? Does the federal government have direct debit permission set up? So many questions as to how Treasury instructed this payment. (Via NY Post’s Craig McCarthy)

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

Stick up for our science trainees! Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology recipients must ask NSF each month for stipends and currently, NSF has cancelled all payments indefinitely. They need to pay rent, eat food! Call your gov't reps and make your institution aware!

My first science post here on BlueSky is a long one. Setting the contrarian tone from the very beginning, I take strong issue with the recent op-ed by Charles Piller published in the January 24th NY Times on #Alzheimer's disease (nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...)

if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

Jeff Bezos' Washington Post editorial board has endorsed Pam Bondi as a "qualified" and "serious" pick for Attorney General. Nowhere in the endorsement did they mention that she's a former Amazon lobbyist. Billionaire control of our media is a threat to democracy.

Where were all the @housedemocrats.bsky.social when the GOP voted 206-198 to block the release of the Gaetz report? 198 democrats? Don’t we have 213?

Word of the day. #PhDSky #PhDVoice #AcademicSky

Can confirm.

Register for the next #ResearchInConversation webinar on Tuesday, December 17, noon EST. @asparatics.bsky.social, Michelle Jin, and James Noble will share their perspectives on evaluating the clinical impacts of emerging treatments for #AlzheimersDisease. neuronline.sfn.org/scientific-r...

Everyone in the media needs to read this comment below. While the legacy media is telling itself the problem is disappointed voters who need a break, the truth is customers disappointed in the content they are being offered and the patronizing responses.

Thanks for the shout out. I wish its critiques weren’t still relevant. Looking back, I was too kind in many spots.

Astrocytes (🟡) and myelin (🔵) in the corpus callosum of a mouse brain. #FluorescenceFriday

So you are re-reading that grant you're about to submit, and you really like it. It's like a Mozart symphony it's so perfect. But remember: the committee is all Salieris. With less humility.