This is the sort of thing Universities do when they plan to throw their profs under the bus at the first sign of trouble. “You promised it wouldn’t violate any EO but Vought says it does so you lied and are fired!”

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 4d ago

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

My favorite news from the past week - Tyrannosaurus Rex was *warm blooded*!!! And they figured this out using isotopes from tooth enamel 🤯https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb7653?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.bsky.app%2F

The body temperature of Tyrannosaurus rex

Despite an extensive history of study, quantitative constraints on the thermophysiology of Tyrannosaurus rex remain limited. Here, we derive a thermodynamically based determination of T. rex body temp...

science.org

And now furries. These people know only one thing: scapegoating. They’re just like the OG Nazis. They’re not going to stop. You could be next.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 4d ago

Tommy Tuberville: Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community. It's terrifying.

Still accepting applications! ❄️

James Bradley@drbradbrad.bsky.social · 2w ago

Paid Masters M2 internship: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere 🦠❄️🌡️ @erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA @lassezj.bsky.social 📢 PLEASE RT 🧬 Microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, ecological interpretation ☀️ Marseille, France @mioceanologie.bsky.social ‼️ Apply via email ASAP & before 15 Oct

Midichlorian assay variability is explainable as a combination of kit contamination and bioinformatic pipeline error

☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 5d ago

What’s your fake starwars academic paper

Banning press from the white house the same week you set up a state Dear Leader TV station is absolutely dictator shit

One of the unexpected joys of having a teenager is someone who knows my taste in music intimately and is constantly sending me new stuff.

“I don’t have a problem with trans people, I just don’t think they should be able to use public bathrooms or play sports or get healthcare—“ ok so that’s segregation. you are functionally a segregationist. and you want me to believe that fights fascism somehow. ok.

Y’all, for real: if you’re old enough to remember two different millennia, get yourself on a a strength and flexibility program, with instruction from someone competent. Your spine doesn’t have to be sad! Heavy squats can work wonders!

Sarah Andersen@sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · last wk.

Chelsea Peretti (whom I do not know personally) gave me the key hook rack from her house

Jon Phillips@jowiph.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"I own William Faulker's cake knife," a sentence that is both straightforward and true, and yet sounds completely deranged

Humaning.

I would like to point out that the local people in Bolivia were already familiar with the new cat species, traditionally calling it "Tilcayo", a name honored by the scientists who carried it over into the formal scientific name Leopardus tilcayo.

I do not like the natural, obvious endpoint of this recent swing. Our lives are already really fucking hard as it is.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last wk.

Holy shit. Marcy Kaptur becomes the latest Dem to release an anti-trans ad, and its worse than all the rest combined. "I voted WITH Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of schools, and let me be clear, boys should NOT play in girls sports." This is getting out of control.

You know what's also interactive? Reading the paper. Talk to your colleagues about the paper you just read. Tell them why you loved it. Tell them why you hated it. And even better: invite the authors to talk about their paper 🧪

Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is the future of scientific papers. Instead of a PDF, the paper is an AI agent that you can talk to, ask questions, run analyses. No more digging through supplements - just ask the paper directly: "what p-value cutoff was used in Fig 3B? Re-run at 0.01." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 2w ago

i've seen this ad three times already today

This is clarifying!

Allan Konopka@hamatsa50.bsky.social · 2w ago

The latest from Think Like a Microbe thinkmicrobe.substack.com/p/jumping-to... What should be the standard of evidence for a claim? Here, 'metabolic cooperation' between auxotrophs and prototrophs 🧪🧫 #philsci

restoration ecology:

Frog and Toad Bot@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2w ago

“Now seeds,” said Toad, “start growing.” Toad walked up and down a few times. The seeds did not start to grow.

Other democrats, is this so hard?

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · last mo.

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections

Hell yes

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’ve either visited or lived in all parts of this country. It is a beautiful place, our ugliness aside. I may be biased but you would be hard-pressed to find a more beautiful state, mile for mile, than North Carolina. Why yes I did just drive through the mountains. Why do you ask??

I was the single worst data entry clerk anyone at my temp agency could remember

SarahJSloat@sjane.bsky.social · 3w ago

Happy labor day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid job you've had? Mine was probably as a reader for a medical professor at Rutgers, whose eyes were failing. I read him many academic texts, as well as Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh."

Replying to emails is a trap! The people just reply back. It's bullshit.

I've been running VS Code on a remote server and connecting from my laptop. This allows my agents to cook while my laptop is shut. I was really surprised that terminals in VSC don't use tmux by default. I changed the config so it would use tmux. but surprised I had to

everyone is going insane for this but it's a slop machine. the first character i rolled was a child who died in 5th century BCE Iran and the site generated me a picture of "his home" which had drainpipes and telephone wires. fuck this.

Jeff Asher@jeffasher.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is so incredibly addictive anyhumanever.com

2026 CFB names thread:

Currently responding to a review that claims to be positive, and contains nine (9) pages of "major comments". (Plus two more pages of minor comments!) Y'all: don't do this. If the manuscript is too flawed to publish, say so. If not, maybe accept that the authors had reasons for their choices.

Works for scientific writing too

Elle Cordova@ellecordova.bsky.social · 3w ago

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

Students who nod and smile during lecture when we try to make a point? Heroes

I have TALES of the BBC's shittiness in this regard from trans friends, to which I have been sworn to secrecy (and also it's not my story to tell, but suffice it to say it's worse than you probably think)

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 4w ago

Do not speak to the BBC if you are trans. Just don't do it. Tell them to go fuck themselves. Even if you know the reporter and they are not an ass, tell them to go fuck themselves anyway because they work for the BBC and their editors will do this regardless of the journalist's intent.

I'm dealing with a broken centrifuge, and as best I can tell, VWR's customer service just... doesn't exist? We and our sales rep have emailed them several times over >2 weeks and gotten no response. Our rep gave us a phone number to call, which just auto-hangs-up after 5 minutes on hold. WTF?