Not only is the turn-around time amazing, but the testing all appears have been done in country! Just incredible public health work here.

BK. Titanji@boghuma.bsky.social · last yr.

In under 24h following the newly identified outbreak of #Ebola in the DRC, the virus has been isolated, sequenced and the virus sequence data made publicly available. virological.org/t/the-16th-e...

I remember hearing koala brains occupy only 10% of the cranium... Just another one of those myths, like the one that we only use 10% of our brains.

Veeloxxy Bites@the-episiarch.bsky.social · last yr.

There is a common misconception that a koala's brain only occupies 60% of its cranial cavity. This comes from studies conducted on chemically-preserved cadavers. MRI scans have shown that the brain of a live koala is significantly larger than previously reported. 🧪 www.publish.csiro.au/am/AM06034

The leadership of Columbia University is contemptible Vichy scum. To its professors who stay: that’s who you choose to work for, the obeisance to totalitarianism you choose to promote? To students who stay: those are your values?

The ability to understand what makes us human - from a science and social sense - is being eroded at the nation’s university. Soon it’ll be too late to reverse the cack-handed cuts. Nobody can say they weren’t warned. We warned you. graemeturner.org/2025/07/20/w...

Why do they hate us? That’s the question academics in the humanities are asking. - Graeme Turner

This is the question I was asked last week. Why are government, the media, even university administrations, so carelessly participating in the gradual demolition of one of the foundation stones of our...

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Reasonable, minimal collective action for a better scholarly publishing ecosystem

Anna Abalkina@abalkina.bsky.social · last yr.

A new open-access Springer journal brand Discover, has absolute resemblance to MDPI and its strategy. A shocking new analysis by @paolocrosetto.bsky.social and other members of the Strain Team the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post... HT: @deevybee.bsky.social

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

You can freeze omelettes?!?

Dasha Sierra@dashasierra.com · last yr.

What's the stupidest way you've hurt yourself? Oh I'm so glad you asked! I knocked myself out with a frozen bag of omelettes.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

A literal miracle - saving this beautiful baby's life with a miraculous procedure built on decades of federal investments in scientific research. Think of how many more we could save. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

/3 The student in question was clearly terrified. But he did it anyway. “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.” bsky.app/profile/jswe...

Jacqueline Sweet@jsweetli.bsky.social · last yr.

Here is a clip of the student's speech.

14yo is astute

Sean T. Collins@seantcollins.com · last yr.

14yo: Birds are all named either "Red-bearded Black-Bellied Finch," "Stupid Cocksucker," or "Wilson's Little Guy."

For anyone working on insect neurobiology who is looking for a tenure-track position

International Society for Neuroethology@neuroethology.org · last yr.

Open university professor (W3) position for #BehavioralPhysiology in Würzburg, Germany @uni-wuerzburg.de: ↘️ www.nature.com/naturecareer... ↙️ Share or apply 🤗 #InsectResearch 🧪🐝🐜🦟

Merlin has made it possible for people who can’t afford field guides to learn their local birds. In many disadvantaged areas, those people can then find work as birding guides for international tourists. Merlin has worldwide benefits. @cornellbirds.bsky.social

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last yr.

The Merlin Bird ID app wouldn’t exist #WithoutNSF. 🪶

30 April 1945 | As Soviet forces neared his command bunker in Berlin Adolf Hitler shot himself. Hitler's Thousand Year Reich lasted twelve years, four months & eight days. We need to commemorate all the victims & remember where ideologies of hatred may lead humanity to.

Same goes for "No offense, but..." Instead, just shut up.

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social · 2y ago

/6 Also if you are ever inclined to open non-ironically with “this is probably an unpopular opinion, but…” just fucking don’t. Say what you think or don’t say what you think but spare the special pleading and mattress-laying.

“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

We heard anecdotally that Canadians weren’t visiting the states, now we have the data. A massive, shocking drop.

The claim that the destruction of essential civilizational institutions is being done in the name of the Jews is itself a form of antisemitism—cultural vandalism carried out in our name. That, my friends, is rank bullshit.

Wild to see this gibberish being pointed at Canada

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y ago

Peter Navarro: “Canada has been taken over by Mexican cartels” Big if true

Tate is like Trump in this sense: the most grotesque thing is not that he exists, but that he’s hugely popular, and what that says about us as a species.

Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Donald Trump just helped free Andrew Tate from his rape and human trafficking charges. Tate has bragged about grabbing women by their necks, breaking their jaws, and said “I am absolutely a misogynist.”

Very embarrassing for Canada

Sarah McLaughlin@sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 2y ago

This looks very troubling. Canadian Yves Engler faces harassment and indecent communication charges over a 2024 post saying a media figure "supports killing Palestinian children." That's not all — Engler says police *added new charges* after he spoke about the arrest. www.jurist.org/news/2025/02...

Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias. This cause was once championed by *Republicans.* Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

Oops: Trump-Musk Cuts Just Wrecked an NIH Org Championed by GOPers

Republicans once lavished praise on an NIH center that deals with Alzheimer’s. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are hobbling it. What will they say now?

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Ms. Ghasemzadeh described a sweltering encampment, overrun with cats and dogs. Then, she sent a text message saying that the authorities were confiscating all phones. Her last words: “Please try to help us.” Don't look away. This is happening. Read ⬇️. And, this is why a free press is essential.

Hamed Aleaziz@haleaziz.bsky.social · 2y ago

UPDATE: Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

Trump and RFK Jr starting to go after some of the world's most successful and impactful outcomes of neuroscience research

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2y ago

Trump’s latest executive order (that was no doubt written by psychopath RFK Jr.) goes after antidepressants. As someone whose life was saved by them, you will pry my prozac from my cold dead hands. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I had to check this wasn't some sort of deepfake. This monster can get stuffed. Getting far worse than even I thought it would be. Solidarity with our Canadian friends and allies.

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2y ago

President Trump declares that the US will no longer provide military protection unless Canada becomes the “51st state”

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Not everyone can fight Trumpism and Trumpists directly. But remember this: kindness, decency, and fidelity to American values are defiance in the face of Trumpism. So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1