“feminization of veterinary medicine” so true bestie, I heard it’s now common practice for veterinarians to castrate your pets

It got drowned out in all the good news from last night, but Boston Mayor Michelle Wu became the youngest person to be reelected in the city's history. She ran unopposed because her opponent--Patriots owner Bob Kraft's son--withdrew a few months ago after realizing he had no hope of winning.

well I for one am shocked that "every aspect of your life gets worse forever and also look at my marble bathroom" did not turn out to be a winning election strategy

No Kings except for King Owlbert!

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Someone asked me the other day*: How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed? The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible. The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research. 1/ 🧪 #neuroscience

Babe wake up new hot criminals just dropped

"This passes the smell test" says a lot more about that person's sense of smell than it does about the odor in question.

This is phenomenal

Sharing this post-doc opportunity to work with one of my favorite humans, Nick Gilpin at LSU! Besides getting to do amazing neuroscience research, you get to live in New Orleans!!!

Back when the internet was fun

npr: so, no kings tyrannosaurus rex: yes npr: how shall I put this trex: this interview is over

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Brown is out! They had to do more dancing in their letter because they previously capitulated and needed to reference their previous agreement but, at its core, this reiterates MIT's letter. The clock is now on for all other institutions. www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Was lucky enough to see “One Battle After Another” in VistaVision last night. The hype is true, this film is a masterpiece. Everything about it is just peak - the acting, the editing, the pacing. It will make you believe in the fights we face now and in those that lie ahead.

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Time for Harvard to stop fending for itself and start building a coalition of universities to stand up to the govt’s continued extortion efforts. Great Op-Ed in the Crimson www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

“Elizabeth Taylor” is “Baby Come Back” by Player, I can’t unhear it.

"The disbelief that Trump could rise in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait; it’s a confession."

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale docs.google.com/document/d/1...

“the most sweeping pile of unconstitutional conditions that any American constitutional lawyer has ever seen in the wild.” Must-read analysis of the govt’s proposed “compact” with US universities. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

This is extortion. Faculty, students, staff, alumni across the country need to get to their Presidents & Trustees today. Just say no. This blackmail only works if most everyone folds. Capitulation now means the end of American higher education for a generation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

well I'm exhausted

I think the R01 is basically a non-starter at NIGMS now. Data from NIH Reporter for new and competing awards, comparing number of R01s issued relative to R35s (MIRA). This has major ramifications for basic science and basic science investigators that are not yet in the MIRA pool

Good morning, science friends. 1) It’s okay to laugh. 2) It’s okay to scream. 3) It’s okay to cry.

A spatially resolved transcriptomic atlas of the primate amygdala (human, macaque, and baboon) now out in Science Advances (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). The amygdala contains 32 types of neurons with many neuron types specific to particular subdivisions. Lots of updates from the preprint!

Nobody: Apple: what if everything on your phone was see-through

Don’t forget to look up sometimes

Stephen Colbert's Emmy victory speech: "Sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it. I have never loved my country more desperately. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!"

Excuse me but I think you would enjoy this sandwich I made today.

Timeline cleanse!

women can do anything

Please god let it not be martial law over Charlie Kirk.

OMG this whole thread.

I could not feel more seen rn

The best bridge

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

I'M LOSING MY MIND, THE BEST AND MOST EXCITING YHING JUST HAPPENED, BABY SNAPPING TURTLES HATCHED IN MY YARD, HOLY FUCKING SHIT WOW HOLY FUCK

Before this week, I was describing the numerous crises I was dealing with as department chair as a “sharknado” but today the sharks all gave birth to swarms of murder hornets and it’s only the 2nd day of the semester.

Important thread with context on the NIH budget

Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,

YOU DON'T SAY

As a Gen X who used to do nothing but listen to whole albums start to finish in a single sitting, I can honestly say there is no artist in the last 15 years I have done that for EXCEPT every Taylor Swift album from Folklore and later, dozens of times over. She has become a masterful songwriter.

Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant is back. Share with your ESI colleagues! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Happy Friday - the song of the summer is physics SciComm

welp