Not enough people are appreciating this, my greatest work

I am selfish I am wrong I am right, I swear I'm right I swear I knew it all along

Hope is a fuel. Use it to burn down something terrible.

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

This is not on the screening questionnaire but I'm pretty sure this counts as an ACE

lol

the senate appropriations bill explicitly limits MYF while the congressional budget doesn't. Making sure the language in the senate appropriations bill ends up in the final budget seems like an clear goal tp push our representatives on

A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

We have friends everywhere

A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees

An “all you fascists bound to lose” sort of night

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

Protip for NIH reviewers.

Anybody else worried that because of the long standing Republican war on SNAP people are going to experience painful hunger. Lets do something. @nanopharmnc.bsky.social and i are going to donate to some local nc food banks. Join us! Gonna match up to $500.

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

when my 2-year old niece won't eat something her parents offer her the option of having it with "dip" which is ketchup, sharing for no reason

direct relief is legit, and because they work in the region already, they can scale up more easily. please donate if you can

We have to absolutely hammer this home: Science suffers without the values embedded in DEI 🧪

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

If you’re able, please find a local food bank today and make a donation of *any size.* We need to show up for those being hurt by this administration’s actions that will ultimately force people to choose between having health care or *not starving.* Please show up for them. No amount too small.

Normalize replying to manuscript reviewers' comments with emojis.

Making a recurring donation to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. Now is a great time to either set one up or increase your existing support. Find a food bank near you: www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

Hard on any given day, especially after listing out the scale of the abuses and harms happening now, just 10 months in, and not feel despair, or betrayed, or both. We live in this particular hell, downstream from the failures of the past to prevent it. History is contingent but man, what the hell.

@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"

As I had to point out many times during post #metoo years, no one is owed a big Hollywood contract. No one owed a comedy special. Now: No one is owed a Senate seat. This dude was not murdered & he’s not in jail. He made poor decisions & his actions now are sus & so he doesn’t get the job. The end!

It’s all very cool when there aren’t armed masked guys in your neighborhood.

Happy to share my lab's first review article! We outline how the lateral habenula is a critical regulator of almost every type of social behavior, from pro- to anti-social behaviors, in both sexes, and across the lifespan. Hopefully this can serve as a useful reference! rdcu.be/eLWPw

Gang it is so easy to not get or defend Nazi tattoos

Also when the Cleveland guardians will win the world series. Looking forward to it

I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder at 28, just the blood tests and scans and specialist appointments that year would have been financially devastating without the (very good!) health insurance my postdoc institution offered

Are we doing "The ACA Sucks" Discourse again? I'm going to guess most people hating on it from the left have never received a hospital bill the size of book; I put the apple there for scale. That's the $1.3 million bill my kid incurred in his first ~94 days. Why does that make me respect the ACA?

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually. The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

It is true every day, but days like today just are huge reminders that for all it's many and varied faults this country was always great and it deserves better than what it's political branches give it in return

[Exit King.]

#nokings Hillsborough NC

Suggested protest chant: WHO LET THE FROGS OUT (WHO WHO WHO WHO)

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.

Congratulations to Rebekah Rashford and team, it’s finally out! We tagged early life stress-activated neurons in VTA and found that chromatin those cells was much more open, even into adulthood, and that open CREs predicted greater gene expression in response to stress later in life rdcu.be/eLa9z

University administration: "We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible." Also university administration:

Speaking of which - a few brains are left in the shop! More soon, based on however long this shutdown lasts (sigh grumble sigh) www.brainedglass.com

was therapy not an option

The first school to volunteer for this will be making an unambiguous statement: we would be the first to resegregate our university if we could. Sure would hate to see any school I’ve been affiliated with go down in history as that kind of scum

In which my family continues to support my career

While America is sick with chronic disease and obesity, we have been sheltered from far worse by agencies like the CDC. As a society the US has become complacent and largely ignorant about the horrors of the diseases we have kept at bay. I worry for a future where they return.