Doing a linear stretch on these images shows how dramatic the "edits" were, revealing the deception in clear terms. This should be a complete scandal for Thermo Fisher and more people in the biosciences should be talking about it.

Wake up to a message that my mom sent me all her passwords in a bundle called “If I die” I swear parents can traumatize you no matter how old you get

a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes

I put this on my CV three years ago, thinking I was funny, and I guess I forgot to remove it. I don't know how many people I've sent my CV to for talks, jobs, etc., but no one has pointed it out… hm. Makes you wonder if the service section of your CV is even read...

They came for the lowly professors and I said nothing, for I was not a lowly professor, I was a famous national academy member…

lol science is so cooked @elisabethbik.bsky.social What do we do now‽

I wonder if thermofisher knows they can use AI for this now, no need to photoshop

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://bit.ly/44aNdkq

TREES DON'T EXIST, at least taxonomically. Like, there's no "tree family." An apple tree & a rose had a recent ancestor (~40 MYA), while oaks & apples are distantly related. There's no better example of the non-existence of trees than this succulent, the Boojum tree or cirio. (📷: Jeff Foott)

Surgeons have this impeccable timing in that they know exactly when a patient is conscious but still too high to remember anything, and they use that skill to determine exactly when to tell them a bunch of critical shit and then disappear.

Lol another banger from @inprep.bsky.social

But Clarence Thomas says racism is over.

Every photo of Kash Patel looks like they caught the dude in the midst of realizing 'that wasn't just a fart.'

I'm reposting this because I'm proud of myself, not because this app is especially amazing. Though, it is kind of cool. *pats self on back*

Word now requires OneDrive for autosaves; local autosaving isn't supported. Creating an offline versioning would be easy, but Microsoft removed that, which is some BOWL.SHIT. So I vibe coded an app that does local versioning and live autosaves locally for Mac. word-history-website.pages.dev?v=2

Will Putin win back in Bulgaria what he lost in Hungary? Analysis including an interview with Bulgarian political analyst Ekaterina Dimitrova about the elections in Bulgaria. inved.eu/insight/bulg...

Someone gave us their demo CD from Eastern Europe. It’s decent for nu-metal, but the track titles are better than the actual tracks.

If you think legislation that targets “low enrollment degrees” only impacts the humanities please look at this list. Degrees in chemistry, math, physics, political science, data analytics, psychology and economics are being eliminated. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/16/o...

The Supreme Court long relied on careful, time-tested procedures to issue decisions. But secret memos by the justices, obtained by The New York Times, show how the court decided to bypass those procedures and create its modern “shadow docket.” See key takeaways: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Hey, I’m a Fellow of the @aimbe-official.bsky.social now!

Pretty nice set of structure drawings at NYT here #chemsky www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In town for the @aimbe-official.bsky.social thing. Very pretty day.

West Chester, PA

🧪Typically, the NIH approves roughly $5.3 billion in cancer research funding every fiscal year. The amount that’s been distributed so far this year has alarmed researchers. At just under six months into the current fiscal year, only $541 million in cancer research grants have been delivered. 👇👇👇👇

Dunno source, but LOL #chemchat

Oh. Stage an assassination attempt, you say? Interesting.

2007: US DOJ Prosecutor Marie Villafaña Prepared 60 Counts Against Epstein, Her Bosses Stopped Her Villafaña interviewed teen girls. Drafted a 60-count indictment charging Epstein, and assistants with sex trafficking. Alex Acosta, Menchel and Filip killed it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Well this is horrible. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

Update 3/16: A very small handful of NIH apportionments have come through — with big exceptions. The ones that OMB has approved are all Congressionally mandated/earmarked. The broad discretionary funds that fund most NIH grants not yet been authorized. (1/2)

This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

Nature Publishing Group finding more dastardly ways to lock us in, well beyond what I complained about in my letter declining reviewing for them

Bacteria build conductive MOFs to communicate… kinda wild. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Oh god you can use Gemini to make music now. I can finally express my teen angst through an industrial rock dance remix on the worst part of growing up g.co/gemini/share...

"I'll just run that past m'anus and see if it outputs anything that's not shit"

Like having PhDs in your back pocket my ass… absolutely worthless now.

lol

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.