This weeks Star Trek Academy really hits

Trying to squeeze in one more set of experiments today before the blizzard comes. Nothing like being a senior postdoc on job market 😅

“.. People take part in a rally on the day of a general strike to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's deployment of thousands of immigration enforcement officers on the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota.” @reuters.com

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

אַ דאַנק צו יעדער וואָס האָט מיר געהאָלפן נעכטן אָוונט!

Can someone explain to me the difference bw ״איך מוז״ און ״איך דארף״? #yiddishsky

More than any other show of its time, Star Trek dared - still dares - to imagine something that feels impossible: in the future, leftists and scientists will be able to afford rent in San Francisco

this is very much not the core of the issue. we tolerate all sorts of biological advantages and disadvantages in sports. the real fundamental question here is: why is this one different than the others?

Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number— Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many—they are few. -Percy Shelly, The Mask of Anarchy Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Erin Andrews Dark-Crystal-core is sending me.

Aren’t you the congressman?

Ohhhh I’ve wanted this for a while now to help me continue to learn my Yiddish — 100+ year old collection of Sholem Asch’s plays, including God of Vengeance and the first lesbian kiss in American theatre

I love teaching my cats to nose poke for food when they’re hungry ✨

after further consideration, I’m glad that Gen Z killed off skinny jeans

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

A bifunctional optical reporter for tracking estrogen response dynamics in neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.14.694224v1

חג שׂמח חברים 🕯️🕯️ From @kyrabee.bsky.social and I 💛

Beets

I refuse to pronounce גיי as "guy". In dos hoyz s'iz "gay"!

Star Trek fans sure love to hate Star Trek instead of having fun smh

Neuroscientist and “do you know this podcast by Andrew Huberman?”

It is amazing to me that, in my lifetime, I have seen HIV/AIDS go from a death sentence to a medication-manageable condition

@profanity.accountant I'm curious

🎵🎶 everything sounds so much better on vinyl + real speakers

Okay, this was after DS9. Now we've watched all of Buffy, Lower Decks, and TNG, and are in the middle of the freak shit that is VOY plus we're doing my first watch thru of Avatar when we have 20 minutes to spare. Also, she's my fiancée now 🥰

Reminder that TRANSplants Zine Issue 4 is available for pre-order! This is a limited print run and if past Issues are a predictor, is likely to sell out <3. Really excited about this one! asterolsen.bigcartel.com/product/tran...

Fannie Getsoff Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, City Death Certificates, 1803-1915

Every year or two, I remember how much this John McCauley side project slaps

Hey y'all 🥺 gofund.me/f032b760

If you've never seen The Harder They Come, do yourself a favor and watch it youtu.be/vTOvtfVhKe8

Oh nooo 💔 RIP to one of the greats

So incredibly happy to marry my best friend 💛💞

We went down to the river. Proposed to each other, and then the sun peaked out through the clouds for us 🥰 I can't wait to marry this woman!! 💛💛 @kyrabee.bsky.social

Riley is such a beautiful name for a trans women

i know everyone is making their little jokes like "haha it's me and my 3 girlfriends" or whatever but they're lying for comedy. i want you to know it's actually going to be me, the other two hosts of @nogodsnomayors.com, and one lucky contest winner

Started rereading @kierongillen.bsky.social & @mckelvie.bsky.social 's Wic+Div a decade and a new gender later and wow, just devouring it. Absolutely fits the bill of "yep makes sense I read this right before coming out". Thank you for this refuge 💜💞✨

You can tell I'm a Philadelphian now, fully assimilated into the beautiful garbage

it's possible that Chicago and O'Hare suck and should feel bad, but it's also possible that I forgot to take my stimulants and am at the trough of my estrogen cycle, so who can say

For every Nobel that goes to a criminally under-recognized woman scientist (Brunkow, Karikó), or fails to go (Candy Lee), a week of mourning and reform for an academic system wherein you can do Nobel-prize-worthy-work and still end up without a conceivable path to being a professor.

I have such wonderful luck, been to Oregon for cumulatively like 10 days the last two years. It rained one day, briefly.

I had a lovely time in Portland today, beautiful city

Y'all I'm blown away. I grew up here with Newt fucking Gingrich as our house rep. Couldn't be happier to see how Georgia is changing.

No for real, even 6 years ago a 24 year old Black man in Cobb County sure as hell wasn't just 87 votes from a MAYORAL SEAT

In Cobb FUCKING County of all goddamn places.

Seeing this bubble grow from the front row and yelling into the void as we head towards 2008 part deux is making me lose my mind.

Hi Jay, why has your institute illegally terminated the MOSAIC program then?

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

I'm just two episodes away from finally hitting everyone's least favorite TNG episode, I'm so excited