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Federal agents are not to be trusted under basically any circumstance - so we got that going for us.

VSU fired tenured professors with no justification, no accusation of wrong doing, and no due process. VSU attempted to coerce them into signing a retirement package, then escorted them to their car without being able to get their stuff and told them they’d be arrested if they come back.

Due process violations don't get worse than this. Appalling stuff from Virginia State, every administrator involved should lose their job

AI agents grading the papers your students also wrote on AI. “Now you can bring the dead internet theory into the classroom!”

I’m lucky to still have my grandparents. It’s always a treat to get birthday cards from them, and the incredibly morbid notes they write are always good for a birthday chuckle.

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

350 Roentgen, not great, not terrible.

NJ lawmakers introduce the FUCK ICE Act. The bill "permits civil action for violations of US Constitution related to immigration enforcement."

Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Today I learned that E. coli are pressurized. The cells are roughly pressurized to the same level as a car tire. I really love working with my microbio colleagues. These little bugs are so neat.

BREAKING: @lizzylawrence.bsky.social reports that CBER director Vinay Prasad overruled career #FDA staff and unilaterally decided to refusal to accept #Moderna 's #flu vaccine submission. www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...

This is an Indiana thing?? I had no idea those free Pizza Express breadsticks were a regional delicacy

The freeze in north Texas had… consequences.

Soooo you have to now use SciEnv to write your biosketch for NIH/NSF grants. There are no WYSWYG tools, so you have to use HTML for formatting and outlay. Asking a bunch of NIH funded scientists (the median age of whom is like 92) to use HTML to write their biosketch is just crazy.

Schadenfreude

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

This is Alex Pretti.

The federal government’s official story—which is of course likely a lie—is that DHS killed a guy for simply having a gun. This is the gun rights lobby’s nightmare scenario, and they likely won’t utter a mumbling word of opposition.

Oh god let’s not call it that. It is called lufting. We aren’t burping houses, we are lufting them. According to English word law all words are English words even if some of them don’t know it yet… so luft not burp. www.countryliving.com/uk/homes-int...

Hakeem Jeffries deserves to be unemployed.

Before 2025, IU held the FBS record for most all-time losses (over 700), endured a 34-year bowl win drought, and once called a timeout just to photograph a 7-6 lead before losing 47-7. #IUFB

it's more or less impossible to find issues that poll this badly and he's decided to make it a major, public priority www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...

My (now) weekly update on 2026 NIH funding. New and competitive renewal awards. 3 new awards (compared to ~100 expected based on recent years). No new ICs... still just NIA, NINDS, NIDCD, and NIDCR. 1/2

Pizza was one of many types of flatbreads in the Mediterranean and the word likely (though debated) evolved from the Greek word for flatbread—pita. US troops happened to click with the tomatoey topped version, which makes sense, considering American-Italian food is heavy and tomato based.

Slightly diminished a band Nine Inch Press-Ons

Well. That’s not very smart

Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.

This would make me so happy

Nothing prepares you for how rapidly you accelerate between these three states #chemchat

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

Well, this is an utter disaster for science. This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next. 🧪

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

The NIH grant cuts in 2025 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ce papier de Annalisa Fico est scandaleux. Pas de mention d'accord éthique pour l'expérimentation animale et des tumeurs représentant 20 à 30% de la masse de l'animal, imaginez ce que ça fait en termes de souffrance animale merci @elisabethbik.bsky.social et forbetterscience.com/2025/11/28/s... 🔽🔽🔽

“Thousands of very competitive projects in areas like cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorders and public health improvements most like went unfunded in 2025. Similarly, at the National Science Foundation, the roughly 3,000 fewer new grants encompassed reductions to every area of science”

the further you get into the epstein emails, the more it feels like global elites were actually kicked in the head by a mule

We should rest assured that on Mark Zuckerberg's watch, nobody, and I mean nobody, will do sex trafficking eighteen times.

new trolley problem just dropped: Elon vs. 10^58 randomly chosen people. let's see what Grok has to say

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM, YOU FLAMING SHITBIRDS. THE LAST TIME HHS, AS CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY RFK JR., CONDUCTED A “COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT” OF THE CAUSES OF AUTISM THEY BLAMED TYLENOL AND THEN, BECAUSE IT WAS BULLSHIT, HAD TO WALK IT BACK.

I had a great time speaking at Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany, this week. Halle an der Saale is a beautiful city (it was hardly bombed!), and my host, @frederikhaase.bsky.social, showed me some mind-blowing stuff he's doing with COFs. #ChemChat #ChemSky

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

crazy IG em_clarkson

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

ChatGPT is such a great teacher…

Now that the legal question of assault by sandwich is settled, we need to ensure we’re on the right side of the law @chemjobber.bsky.social: Burritos and tacos are legally sandwiches. In Indiana (as of 2024)it is now legally required that you order a “taco sandwich” natlawreview.com/article/indi...

This labeler is such a clever way of making spam visible. Bluesky wins yet again: bsky.app/profile/stec...

Huh. Conservative/Reform Voters in the UK are more racist than MAGA voters in the US. By quite a bit…