📣 The Editors of the Journal of Microscopy are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 ‘Best Paper’ awards for Early Career Researchers. For physical sciences, Dr Alexandra Sheader was awarded the prize and Dr Elnaz Fazeli won the Life Sciences prize.

do you have any bugs for my son? he is very hungry

… But failure was her signature accomplishment…

With a serious round of steam cleaning and disinfectant.

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

U2: The Miracle of Joey Ramone

We had a pair of these hanging out at the Med Center library last Friday in the middle of OKC.

Approximately 140/200 injured troops have so far suffered TBI during the current US/Iran #war This is of concern as TBI is a known risk factor for future dementia, esp if you’re: male, if it occurs earlier in adulthood, if it happens repeatedly over time and if sufficiently severe per episode .

Today's GOP

It’s the Acts of an Authoritarian….

Insanity:

amazing

#NoKings Sydney, Australia. See? Donald *is* bringing the world together.

Concentration camps. Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague. This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

Congratulations to the 2026 #HFSP grantees. The best grant ever. This year, two teams from #Czechia, one from @ceitec.eu and the obligatory @mpi-cbg.de Yes, I had my finger in this marriage. Proud Godfather.

Another example of the LDS church using it’s voice to protect people: “Latter-day Saint officials recently lobbied for a new law to protect people from being falsely represented” www.deseret.com/faith/2026/0...

A reminder that we don’t need billionaires to pay charity, we need them to pay their damn taxes. Billionaire philanthropy is PR to disguise their tax evasion. Don’t fall for it. Tax billionaires. Save our democracy. Period.

A free press matter.

The next crisis with nobody sensible at the helm is simply whatever the next crisis turns out to be, and the one after that , and the one after that,…

He warned us he would run our country like his businesses.

Hell yes.

This is arguably one of the rings of hell (you get choose which one).

ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.

Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find. Now? 🤷🏾‍♂️

A clear case of fixing the problem by making it worse.

This is Stinky and Binky. Their human jokingly started offering ad space on their backs, but then people actually started buying spots. Good thing Binky is running a special. 14/10 for both (TT: toocutelabs)

I am amazed, and thankful, that the sailors were able to overcome a fire that burned for 30 hours.

Even with all the news organizations and their taking-heads, this is still the best explanation for Trump's predicament I've seen so far.🗽

This is kinda bonkers. In addition, 20 amino acids were found on Ryugu, along with uracil and vitamin B3. These have been found in other instances, but since the samples from Ryugu were collected directly from the asteroid and delivered in sealed capsules, contamination on Earth could be ruled out.

True...

Who could possibly have predicted these problems before starting a war.

In a situation like this, the journal editors should flush that reviewer permanently- and desk reject any manuscript they submit to the journal.

Who remembers the orange ding-dongs?

1. Which data fit together in a way that tells a compelling, novel scientific story. 2. Its worth putting a lot of data together to create a big paper that has a real chance of publication in a high-impact journal. 3. High impact, high profile papers enhance grant success and promotion.

Sadly, this is not news.

Hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, and discrimination are viruses, magnified by suffering, carried in buckets, spilled onto the world. We cannot eliminate them by actions that magnify hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, discrimination and suffering - only by actions that relieve them.

Now give him a treat.. 🥺

USAID’s Emergency Food Security Program spent $4 billion in FY2022 to feed 114 million people in 55 countries. We just blew that much money in four days of this war.

Yup. Go figure.

Eisenhower

Right now Trump is spending billions of dollars for massive military force against Iran... without a clear congressional mandate or broad public backing. Meanwhile we're being told we “don’t have enough” for affordable care, living wages, or public services.

Moonrise and sunset #timelapse yesterday, with some sweet standing waves / lenticularis / gravity wave action. Crestone, Colorado USA #COwx The Little Things by 1000 Handz is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License.

I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗 beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Exactly…

As kids, all of us in the neighborhood spent *every* summer morning doing exactly this. It was a blast, and one of my favorite childhood memories. We used cheap plastic Flexible Flier sleds that went about a thousand miles an hour. I had a good childhood…

This seems like a very risky way to get rid of vegetable matter….

It makes good business sense too. Those business districts that removed parking for cars and replaced it with more pedestrian and bicycle friendly spaces, saw business *increase*.

These initiatives are all over the place, and distract from addressing numerous urgent needs.