Unfortunately for the cat, the most recent picture is documentation of her lack of repentance for her most recent crime (scratching my nose)

It’s been a long day. Treat yourself. Enjoy this video of a large lad playing pickleball with a frying pan. You deserve it.

[wakes up] “I’m sorry, what”

Ohio has our first pediatric #flu death of the season-- unvaccinated 16 year old, previously healthy. No child should die of this. Vaccination isn't perfect, but it's the best protection.

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

hope is a discipline and we are going into 2026 with those discipline guns ablazing

My point is that science funding requires large investments, very long timelines, and strong stomachs for failure and disappointment. That needs to be part of how advances are described.

“having to mask made me go fash” is so common and it’s just baffling I mean, yes, it was annoying to wear one all the time? it also wasn’t that big a deal? if, today, someone asks me to put a mask on I go “ok” and put one on and yet so many people treat it as a life-ruining imposition

And actually--Comet Pizza was a page out of a playbook that started with daycare decades before. In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵

stage 2 lasts for 0.25 meetings

Cats figured out that if you're going to be annoying you also have to be funny and that's something we could all learn from

Statement from the American Academy of Neurology: “This decision was made without consulting key neurology stakeholders, and there was no formal announcement nor a clear succession plan for NINDS leadership. NINDS plays a vital role in funding and directing research into the brain”

My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.

Heads up I will be hiring a postdoc and some techs in the new year! Lots of ephys and fiber photometry. If you've got soon to graduate PhD students or undergrads, send 'em my way!

That time of year again!

The light shines in the darkness and darkness has not overcome it

The light shines in the darkness and darkness has not overcome it

In every Boomer's kitchen is either a can opener that no longer works or a needlessly elaborate can opener that is "more convenient" but incredibly opaque to understand. There will be no other can opener.

banner year for teaching evals, in which I got several comments that my lectures were funny and only one that the way I talk is annoying

10 year old child of friends a couple years ago: "I am into the really cool stuff, old classic rock like Green Day" (this did give me the opportunity to be coolest auntie ever by introducing her to OK GO videos)

every time I submit a paper, I have worked on it so long I practically fucking hate it the only time I hate it more: when it's been accepted 😂

Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974

This whole thread on what’s happening at the New School should terrify anyone with any vested interest in the survival of higher education in this country. I fear other schools aren’t far behind…

submitting between Christmas and new year so you can put the submission on your 2025 annual report but know it won't be looked at and sent for review until the new year when everyone's had a breather

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU!🎄✨

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

My response to anything over the next two weeks

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME. I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center. People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.

❤️ East side pockets, ate a gyro at least once per week throughout my postdoc

“Basic neuroscience hasn’t produced new drugs.” 💊 Not true - zuranolone (PPD), suzetrigine (pain), gepants (migraine), and more... were born out of a long arc of studies in the lab. I wrote a Perspective on why this matters. @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...

on my high school honors chemistry trip to a tiny lab on an island in Lake Erie my pals and I found a rock on the shore that was perfectly cube shaped, wondered if it was salt, and took turns licking it. it was not salt.

went to bed with a mass shooting, waking up with a different mass shooting

COVID Vaccines Slashed Kids’ ER Visits by 76 Percent, Study Finds www.scientificamerican.com/article/covi...

“The only reason I don’t have this funding is because my last name is Rodriguez.” MOSAIC checked many of the boxes of the administration — but that didn't matter. It was terminated, and left grantees scrambling Next installment of American Science, Shattered: www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.” Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?

It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

A lot of suicide attempts, especially among young people, are impulsive, which means that throwing up even temporary obstacles can save lives. It's not true that everyone who gets advice on how to kill themselves from an LLM would have figured it out anyway. These tools are causing avoidable deaths.

omg they've got me reposting George F Will

Under Trump, the NIH is giving fewer grants to fewer scientists. The grants awarded are smaller and scientists have less time to spend them. Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded. “Make America Healthy Again.”

the mirror reveals many things...things that are, things that were...and some things that have not yet come to pass

Another reason the damage from this administration will long outlive it.

presented without comment

‘They don’t have symptoms’: CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump-GOP War on Poor Children Will ‘Leave Lasting Scars on Millions’

Guardsmen weren’t being shot less than a mile from my home when Biden was president.

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