Freddie plays the tuba. That's the post. [NOTE: none of that LLM bull-pucky here: image is clumsily selected, cut, and layered in Pixelmator like the Ancestors taught us]
Mark Frey
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Tummy ache scientist, rock & roll keyboardist, Dad joke aficionado. Editor of American Journal of Physiology—Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. ADHD cancer survivor. d20 roller, SFF nerd. He/him.
“I think what they’re doing here is they’re trying to destroy a gender group,” he added. “And so I do think it’s genocidal. I think that the objective here is literally, physically to destroy this group.” www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/...
Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans
Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.Genocide scholars are sounding the alarm over what they describe as escalating attacks targeti...
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Saw this a few years ago at the National Museum of Natural History. Still can't decide if it's a sublime commentary on a fundamental challenge facing multicellular organisms or the product of an intern taking a silly joke a wee bit too far. #inandout #imeanthatis
Ohkaaaaay…I have to ask. What’s with this thing (possibly new, possibly I just finally noticed) where people are bagging up their dog’s poop, but then leaving the bag next to the sidewalk? Seeing it a lot lately. I mean, you already did the hard part!!! Why not finish the job?!?
I honestly, truly neither needed nor wanted the reminder that my car's "outside temperature" display has a third digit available.
Ridiculously good deal on a really enjoyable book! Was more than worth it at full price—for two bucks it's a no-brainer buy.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · last mo.A short thought in my newsletter: "Remember that one of the things authoritarianism and fascism do to us is try to convince us that facts don’t matter, that words don’t have tangible and material meaning, and that because the people in charge don’t respect facts, neither should we. Don’t give in."
Sometimes, only a bird gets it right. youtu.be/lRbZOr77Sbc?...
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RIDICULOUS. If you painted this everyone would say you have no idea what a dog's tongue looks like. In a movie, they would say it was crap CGI. And yet this is the reality.
The wily predator of the living room jungle stalks the landscape of piled-up squishies, waiting for the opportunity to pounce. Or nap. Yeah, probably nap. But there COULD be pouncing, mind you. There. Could. Be. Pouncing.
#Booksky We’ll be at virtual WisCon @wiscon.bsky.social this weekend in the Dealer’s Room and Catherine will be on panels! I’ve just posted the coupon code for this weekend’s sale in the self promotion channel on Discord - get a great deal on our books! wiscon.net
“This is why building on our national campaign is essential.”—APS CEO Erika Shugart #APS2026 #WeArePhysiology #FightForPhysiology fightforphysiology.org 🧪 15/21
My rental car counter in MSP is “in the terminal.” “In” is doing a whole lot of work there. I think I got my step quota for the day!
Gen X moment: I used to pass a person who looks like someone I know in the airport, then get an uncomfortable feeling of “oh crap what if that WAS them and I just blew them off?” These days, the uncomfortable feeling is “oh crap, no, that’s what they looked like 20 years ago” 😬
Violent disassembly at the elevator: apparently even my badge clip is upset with the state of the world today. It decided to channel those feelings into performance art.
A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.
Send help. Freddie’s need to sit on top of things is getting out of control (this is why she loves it when we vacuum the front room)
There's a market tomorrow, so it's time for my pre-market ritual... My plea for you to buy a t-shirt right here & now so my box of t-shirts isn't as heavy tomorrow! THAT'S right! I want this box to be a manageable weight! Get 'em at SquidFacts.net! Currently trying to fund a biodiversity mural 😘
I'm a white GenX dude from Indiana. I know <20 Spanish words. I never heard Bad Bunny's music before watching his 1/2time show today. I'm bawling my eyes out. THIS is what, as a kid, I was taught my country stands for. The right to be who you are. Love of life and of difference and of neighbor.
Q: Would you be surprised if President Trump directs DOJ to indict you? Jack Smith: “No.” That answer should alarm anyone who cares about independent justice. www.readtpa.com/p/house-repu...
House Republicans Buried the Jack Smith Transcript on New Year’s Eve. I Read It So You Don’t Have To.
12 takeaways from Smith's closed-door testimony
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When I explain to people what is involved with writing a successful grant, they simply don’t believe me. I explained it once to a famous person from Pixar, and he looked me square in the eye and said: You mean all the cancer and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be &$%#ing kidding me!
Dr Kathleen Millen@neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 9mo agoI don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1
January's "best of the best" from APS Publications is here and free to read! ➡️High caffeine intake may blunt exercise adaptation. ➡️Men and women process brain salt signals differently. ➡️Binge drinking worsens arrhythmias. Read more: https://ow.ly/nrBS50XL4Be #APSselect 🧪 📷: iStock
Freddie says Happy New Year but also what is this midnight bullcrap can we go to bed now?
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
When standard tools won’t work for tiny patients, innovation takes over. Read how APS member Fong Lam and his team are reshaping pediatric care: https://ow.ly/fe5s50XqcVl #TPhysMag 🧪
Dangit. Another day, another artist I stumbled upon whose music I liked...but then I read about them. Sorry, not gonna add to even the miniscule revenue from streaming for someone who discourages fans from getting vaccinated.
Amazing lab and mentor! Great postdoc opportunity.
Edelblum Lab@edelblumlab.bsky.social · last yr.👀 We're on the lookout for a talented immunologist to join us for a postdoc at Mount Sinai! If you are a recent PhD graduate, love spectral flow and want to join our γδ T cell crew, apply below! Livable wage + subsidized housing + Central Park. Help us spread the word! #gdTcells #Immunosky #GISky