#fluorescencefriday showing another expose of interactions between amyloid (yellow), microglia (cyan) and pink (blood vessels) in the combined APOE4, App and tau KI humanized model. From the @mind-western.bsky.social team and @arashsalah.bsky.social

This year’s International Day for Biological Diversity is guided by the 23 targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. This series from Nature Reviews Biodiversity outlines challenges, proposes solutions and summarises progress in meeting the targets. go.nature.com/4nBUK55 🌍🧪

What makes the whole Duffy roadtrip so galling is something @lukewinkie.bsky.social articulates well here -- it's part of the larger MAGA project to shrink the American dream into the vain pursuit of "more Instagram followers" slate.com/life/2026/05...

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

EY retracts study after researchers discover AI hallucinations ft.trib.al/IK0xhlI

The United States ranked 128th in how it is viewed by survey respondents across 85 countries. We netted out at -16. That’s behind Russia, Syria, and Myanmar, to name a few notables. But hey, we’re ahead of Iran! By a point. trib.al/O0NNSY3

“.. Homebuilders relative to the S&P 500 ... four years of relative gains taken out ..” - Schwab

Montreal smoked meat sandwich named among world’s best sandwiches

Can confirm

Donald Trump’s Financial Disclosure Shows Purchases Of Major Media Company Securities Including Paramount, WBD And Netflix deadline.com/2026/05/trum...

Our paper on developing scFv mRNA therapy for Pseudomonas aeruginosa was just published in Nature Communications!

SpaceX is intending to guarantee Elon Musk cannot be fired and offering a trillion-dollar pay deal linked to building a colony on Mars. ft.trib.al/SOFm9II

I will bet good money that Russell Vought and his Heritage Foundation are on Xi Jinping's payroll. After all, who benefits from the destruction of American science? China.

NASA’s 16 Psyche Spacecraft Uses Mars as a Cosmic Slingshot truthsocial.com/@Tonynetone/...

Beautiful crescent view of Mars as Psyche continues it's approach for tomorrow's flyby. flic.kr/p/2sd9f6a

Commentary: More than four years after invading Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has failed to achieve most of his original war aims while leaving Russia weakened, isolated and locked in a costly stalemate.

Britain’s health secretary has quit the cabinet, apparently in preparation to challenge the prime minister. Although he has admirers in Westminster, Wes Streeting also has critics, many inside his party

UN structure reflects an 'earlier era', India tells BRICS meeting reut.rs/494EHa1

NEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the country, leaving labs reeling in the meantime. “I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”

Starship Flight 12: Ship 39 is back at Massey's after rolling out overnight for another round of testing, as teams make sure all flight hardware is good to go for launch, currently NET May 19th. nsf.live/starbase

Nearly 20% of the NIH's employees left last year, after layoffs by the Trump administration and resignations. The agency is now missing dozens of grants management specialists (GMSs), the staff members who are essential for handling the business and administrative aspects of issuing grants.

OHB Space UK to Begin Work on ESA EnVision Venus Explorer Mission europeanspaceflight.com/ohb-space-uk... via European Spaceflight

African public health agency says there is a confirmed Ebola outbreak in Congo reut.rs/4tG2h4m

🚨 Today is the deadline to put in your application to attend! It’s a super quick one, just a little info about yourself and your work. events.perimeterinstitute.ca/event/2128/

Streeting backs Burnham for return to Westminster, saying he is ‘best chance of winning’ byelection – UK politics live

Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”

“Fifty years from now, people are going to be amazed that we burned these rare, useful hydrocarbons for fuel, when the sun was just sitting up there providing an essentially infinite source of energy,” said Steven Cohen, a climate policy expert at Columbia University, the Los Angeles Times reported.

We all have occassion to say this a lot in this era, but seriously this is the craziest goddamn thing I've read in a very very long time abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

La puck ne semblait pas rouler pour les Canadiens ce soir-là… Vers 1973

“If you treasure your attention, and then use it to do hard things, with other people, in real life,” Jonathan Haidt tells the class of 2026, “your life is going to be amazing.” Read his full commencement address here: theatln.tc/z58NEiOp

Trump has destroyed the economy, the Constitution, and the Pax Americana. But Bluesky liberals admit that Woodford Reserve is pretty good bourbon. I have never felt more politically homeless.

Des armes à feu du New Hampshire transitent par Akwesasne vers le Canada

evil

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Black cemetery in Florida vandalized, 'Trump' spray-painted on graves reut.rs/495gOz8

Kash Patel lacks the experience to be the head of the FBI. But he has a perfect life experience to be the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.

Gift article - haven’t read yet but seems interesting. Let me know if you enjoy. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/t...

EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : la ville de Kiev décrète un jour de deuil national le 15 mai, après une attaque russe qui a tué au moins huit personnes

🇷🇺🇨🇳 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Vladimir Putin will visit Beijing next week for talks with Xi Jinping. Notably, Xi emphasized only China and the U.S. as the world’s two key global powers.

Satellite data shows that the Tonga volcanic eruption in 2022 partly cleaned up its own methane pollution, according to a paper in Nature Communications. Volcanic particles created chlorine atoms that broke down methane. go.nature.com/4359aB9 🌍⚒️🧪

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Honda suspend son projet d'usine de véhicules électriques en Ontario

Between Makary's resignation and this investigation into NASEM we can learn a valuable lesson: CAPITULATION WILL ONLY GET YOU SO FAR. The face eating leopard party will eventually eat your face. Might as well go down with your integrity and character in tact! burlison.house.gov/media/press-...

✨️ Les États-Unis et la Chine échangent sur la mise en place de garde-fous pour l'intelligence artificielle, a déclaré le ministre américain des Finances, Scott Bessent, les deux pays partageant notamment la crainte de voir l'IA favoriser des cyberattaques.

Several receipts above. My point being that DESPITE hundreds (if not thousands) of people telling us we are dumb for working on RFK Jr. impeachment and removal at this stage, OH LOOK. WHAT WR SAID WOULD HAPPEN IS HAPPENING. So follow @standupforscience.net and get involved. Science is a big issue

It’s almost like we’ve been saying SINCE JULY 2025 that RFK Jr’s unpopular anti-vax stance is going to be a serious issue in the midterms. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Démission du ministre de la santé britannique, Wes Streeting, l’un des principaux rivaux de Keir Starmer