Nearly Everyone, Everywhere, Veers Left When Walking www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/s...

Nearly Everyone, Everywhere, Veers Left When Walking

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Good luck to everyone who's also submitting a grant today. Bon chance, little R01!

New DHS Secy Markwayne Mullin, in an interview with Bret Baier, says he wants to consider pulling Customs out of international airports in “sanctuary cities,” which would effectively shut down a huge amount of international travel to the U.S. LA, NYC, BOS, SF, Chi, SEA, Miami, DEN, Phil, SD….

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People https://theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415/

Gilligan & the Skipper are briefed on their “excursion” to open the Strait of Hormuz…this won’t be a 3 hr tour.

I’d rather live next to wind turbines and solar panels.

Large oil refinery explosion near Texas coast forces residents to shelter in place

Officials say a large explosion at an oil refinery near the Texas coast has shot plumes of smoke into the air and forced nearby residents to shelter in place.

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Unlike one of my opponents, I believe in running in the district where I live! Central Jersey, 26 years strong! SamForNJ.org

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Big Beautiful Blue Wall@buildbluewall.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Run against a MAGA in a MAGA District Kean, Van Drew, Smith

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For the Same Cost as Another Mideast War, We Could Make Oil Irrelevant

The price tag for building enough renewables to power the grid is eerily close to America’s typical price tag for the kind of war it would take to fully secure the Strait of Hormuz.

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The #NIH comprises less than 1% of the federal budget. 80% of that is allocated to universities and research institutions. That $$ ($36B) yielded $94 BILLION in new economic activity in 2025.

China is watching & taking action as we throw away the best thing we have ever built. China has proposed to increase its overall research & development expenditure by at least 7%/yr over the next five years, which translates to billions of extra dollars each year. 🧪 go.nature.com/4rqZQ4u

China pledges billion-dollar spending boost for science

Funding for national laboratories and important research projects would increase under the government’s plans.

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$1B per day and $4B so far of your tax dollars to kill 1000 people in 4 days And they are just getting warmed up Let that sink in

BWJones@bwjones.bsky.social · 5mo ago

With this war on Iran costing $1B per day, we are now at 4$B, an amount that would fund 3,200 five year NIH biomedical research grants.

If Congress were serious about its Article I powers, it wouldn’t vote to fund a war it didn’t authorize. This is not complicated. SamForNJ.org

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

If you vote to fund the war, you support the war. www.huffpost.com/entry/ruben-...

Today, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, born on February 1, 1952. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday www.nature.com/articles/nme...

How embarrassing!

They numbered the manholes in my neighborhood and this one is just down the block. I’ll take it as a good omen.

Supplementary Figure gone out of hand ... 🤯 #sciencepublishing

John Prensner@johnprensner.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Wow this is a seriously serious supplementary figure from @cellpress.bsky.social today. Panels A through UU. I get that Cell likes to minimize the number of supplementary figures. But is this really what is happening here? www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Because what you don’t know Can’t hurt you. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

We are hiring! Interested? Apply here: go.mbl.edu/AS1887

Sharks absolutely get cancer, and people claiming otherwise are pseudoscientific grifters preying on the desperate. Even if sharks did not get cancer, eating shark would not cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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This is what ICE is so afraid of that they think they need the national guard as backup.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.

I kinda remember Trump pardoning a bunch of people for this, many of whom beat up cops and put them in the hospital. I think they were yelling something about the Vice President as they stormed the building.

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs. 2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar. 3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo ago

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

There are more people employed by NIH than coal mining (though Trump et alia are working hard to reduce NIH-related employment...)

NIH And Coal Mining

Il Trumpe has made bringing back coal mining jobs, no matter how unrealistic that would be, a key component of his economic plan (such as it is…). After last week’s ‘budget’…

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jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 10mo ago

there are almost certainly more people — more blue collar laborers, specifically — involved in the cultivation and production of chardonnay grapes and wine than in coal

Finally, I’m currently on the job market, and would love to hear about any open faculty positions you have in your department! I’m interested in tenure track positions both in the US and abroad. 12/12

Out of the blue, Trump called the Norwegian finance minister to ask when he would get the Nobel prize suggesting he would impose tariffs if he did not www.dn.no/politikk/fre...

Kilder til DN: Trump tok opp nobelpris i tolltelefon med Stoltenberg (+)

Ut av det blå, mens finansminister Jens Stoltenberg gikk på gaten i Oslo, ringte Donald Trump fra Det hvite hus. Han ville ha Nobelprisen – og diskutere toll.

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Every night Stephen Miller must return to his carefully calibrated vat of restorative goo, made of ground up small mammals and the tears of children, for a full 10 hours, or his skin, already so sickly, will begin to slough off in chunks.

Thrilled to have as guest lecturer David Berson, our own personal Yoda, bestowing his great wisdom on the MBL Visual Neuroscience class!