Narcissists have a history with reflecting pools

Incredible piece by Ta-Nahisi Coates, which illustrates why Harris’ failure to take a stand on Gaza didn’t feel like a “single issue” -it spoke volumes about allegiance to a regressive worldview. It was out of step with what she represented, and that misalignment broke trust. archive.is/SSLbJ

The reflecting pool is being sabotaged by paid protistas

One in six kids who have used AI chatbots say an AI has shown or said something they felt “wasn’t OK or wasn’t meant for someone their age”—and most never told a trusted adult about it. 6/

Three years ago and they hit a perfect bullseye

Kinda feels like we’re saving our joy for one *particular* celebration that will outshine all national celebrations for the past 200+ years.

Good god I hope not. If my grad students are working 20 hours per day then we need an intervention. Also, there’s no robot in the world that can do what we do. GTFOH.

Funny story… Setting up our lab meeting schedule is tricky for a few reasons. The process we finally found is that i create a draft schedule and we edit it as a group, it takes about 10 minutes. One student tried to get AI to make the schedule and it failed spectacularly. At making a schedule.

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

Dearest shoalmates: Please consider posting a comment to the NIH regarding the Strategic Plan that includes reducing funding for animal research. Responses from the research community are currently greatly underrepresented compared w/ advocacy groups opposing animal experimentation. 🔗 below ⬇️ 1/2

One fun pregnancy symptom is rhinitis due to increased blood flow at mucus membranes. Meaning I’m already congested, and it makes it hard to sleep. And my body already aches. And I’m already tired AF. I don’t want so much as a common cold to make that worse. Better believe I’m in a N95 on flights.

#momademia in a nutshell 🤦🏼‍♀️

Since my first pregnancy was during COVID lockdown, this time I get to enjoy some *fabulous* symptoms that make being pregnant in academia truly breathtaking. Literally, presenting seminars when I can’t catch my breath. Now it’s vision changes that make reading difficult. #momademia 🧪 #newPI

New review out now on precision medicine in #EoE. Big thanks to my co-author Caitlin Burk! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42134747/

What can science learn from Mayor Mamdani? We can actually just…have a better system and we don’t have to wait decades for it. We can just change it.

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

This May, we’re proud to support patient advocacy groups raising awareness of eosinophilic-associated diseases. Explore toolkits, webinars, and resources from @apfed.bsky.social, CURED, and @charityeos.bsky.social throughout the month!

If you are a member of the scientific community wondering how to meet this moment, check out this excellent discussion between @holdenthorp.bsky.social and @timothysnyder.bsky.social. youtu.be/IWNDMwimUP0?...

If he really wanted to make the American people feel less hopeless and more joyful he could always just resign 🤷🏼‍♀️

The first 2 days of #DDW2026 have been incredible, looking forward to 2 more! 🧪 #newPI #medsky #immunosky

Looking forward to #DDW2026! I’ll be presenting on immune-fibroblast crosstalk in the “GI Fibrosis and Pathologic Function” session on Saturday at 2PM!

I came here in 1975. I'm a Nobel Prize-winning scientist born in Germany during WWII, came here in 1975 thinking there was no way fascism could take hold in this country. I was wrong. I don't not want to be book-ended by two fascist regimes. We will stand up and set things right.

RFK Jr. just said that immigration is to blame for the outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S., not him.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

My quote of the day We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. Ambrose Bierce

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

the guys walking around in shoes that don’t fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment

There’s still time to register for the upcoming @eosinophilsoc.bsky.social webinar! #immunosky #medsky 🧪 #scisky

Kiddo is sick and has been delightfully creative in describing how he’s feeling 🤢 This morning he was a rotten pepper. 🌶️ Now he’s a beat up pickle. 🥒 Hopefully soon he feels more like a kid than an abused vegetable ❤️‍🩹

I will never understand the mindset of people who reject modern medicine (vaccines) but then expect modern medicine (blood transfusions, ventilators, antibiotics, chemotherapy).

The progressive candidate has overtaken our “centrist” Democrat incumbent in the Colorado primary!! She’s running for universal healthcare, closing the wealth gap, and abolishing 🧊 Absolutely incredible 🔥

oh cool we’re doing the Wire Mother experiment again, but on all of society

A simple middle of the night search to determine if it’s still safe to sleep on my back and the AI result* CAN’T EVEN GET TRIMESTERS RIGHT. *I’ve turned AI off in the browser on my laptop but not phone apparently.

The thing about using generative AI is that the worst case scenario is that it hallucinates, fracturing the entire concept of knowledge/reality. It was never designed to generate truth, and its errors are deadly. Best case scenario is ::checks notes:: we don’t have to write our own emails.

I wonder... 🤔🤔🧪 #chemsky a) what program did the authors use to make the original (left) figure in the paper? Wild guess, ChatGPT b) how such high school science level of disgrace pass peer review in @nature.com? Note this was Fig.4.a NOT in SI www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The thing about me being a GenAI skeptic is that I am a third gen early adopter. My machine worker grandpa thought computers were the future and had an Apple IIE. I had two Geocities sites. Was on Facebook when it was still Harvard only. You know how hard you have to try to make me hate new tech???

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

✅ Oral abstract presented ✅ Posters posted ✅ Questions asked and answered #AAAAI26

Our PIKE-PREP student gave an incredible presentation in the CEGIR/TIGER session at #AAAAI26 Come see her poster (plus another from the lab) during the poster session tomorrow!

Hello, Bluesky 👋 This is the official account of the International Eosinophil Society (IES). Learn more about us here: www.eosinophil-society.org/about/mission

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

DENVER! Join your local March 7th rally to take back our science! Learn more at standupforscience.net/march7 #rally #March7 #ImpeachRFKJr #science #standupforscience

I’ve commented on “academic negging” but this is a much more sophisticated way to describe the phenomenon 😉

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it. Spread this one far and wide.

IDK if my algorithm did a thing or if we just passed a filing deadline or what, but I’m seeing several accounts for progressive candidates looking to unseat republicans and establishment democrats across my state and it is GIVING ME LIFE!!! LFG!! 🔥

The crafting community isn’t new to this. We’re true to this 😎 🧶