Phillies 1, Braves 0. A 109-pitch shutout for Jesús Luzardo. It's their first 1-0 CG shutout win since Roy Halladay did it Sept. 14, 2011.
Elizabeth Anne, PhD
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postdoc studying neurogenetics in zebrafish models at Yale University | AU and UM alum | first gen |🔬🏳️🌈🌎
jesús luzardo said “I want to get to my labor day bbq NOW!!!” and proceeded to throw 109 pitches in under two hours for a shutout complete game 😳
[Benoit Blanc during a Reacher Christmas episode crossover] Listen, son, I myself am of the conviction that violence is the crude weapon of an incurious mind, but I will admit that my gigantic friend here makes the most convincing argument I've yet heard on the virtues of expediency through force.
K.C. Mead-Brewer@kcmeadbrewer.com · 3y ago[benoit blanc in true detective] now i know you think time is a flat circle, but if i may, you’re thinking of a clock
I do not believe this is THE chonkers as we were in santa cruz, but this is certainly A chonker. he looks like a grizzly wandered onto the pier and fell in 😭
I keep debating if I’m willing to do another postdoc, but the reality is that when I left my paralegal role in 2018, I was making $69.5k base salary + OT + a $5k EoY bonus + a matched 401k, and the idea I would take a no benefits job paying $70k 8 years/two degree levels later is frankly ludicrous
This article succeeds where most on the same topic fail (most notably Heller's infamous New Yorker piece on the 'end of the English major') bc it shows the relationship between 'declining majors' and 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤, 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 defunding and disinvestment in programs administrators want to diminish or end.
Durba Mitra@durba.bsky.social · 4d agoThe attack and defunding of WGS at Harvard betrays the long tradition of wgs at Harvard’ with profound implications for the future of feminist scholarship @jennifercnash.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
1. Anti-trans Democrat Seth Moulton just lost his Senate primary in a LANDSLIDE to outspoken trans ally Ed Markey. To Moulton, trans kids were a liability the Democratic Party needed to abandon. But to Massachusetts voters, the only liabilities are Democrats like him.
Anti-Trans Dem Seth Moulton Loses Senate Primary to Outspoken Trans Ally Ed Markey in a Landslide
To Seth Moulton, trans kids were a liability the Democratic Party needed to abandon. But to Massachusetts voters, the only liabilities are Democrats like him.
transiticsnews.com
Yale’s Office of Public Affairs banned reporters from Yale’s campus today. It’s corroborated by Francie Diep in her story for the @chronicle.com. This was an attempt to squelch press coverage today of the rally protesting Yale’s attacks on freedom of expression, their pending deal with Trump. 1/
every day I come across dozens of jobs in academia and industry I’d be qualified for and would enjoy doing and every day not a single one of those jobs is in the Bay Area 😓
So sure, USAID was a tool of US soft power and political influence, and also, I sometimes get the sense that people saying this don’t quite comprehend the torrent of death, horror, and pain that is currently unfolding from the genuinely evil decision to suddenly destroy it.
pretty much my final act as a Yale postdoc was to vote “yes” on this union. I already knew I was leaving and wouldn’t see the benefits, but planting trees, future generations’ shade, etc etc now knowing I pissed off Mr “unyoke the sciences from the humanities,” the choice is all the sweeter 😇
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 2w agoOpinion | Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science. By Evan D. Morris: https://bit.ly/3Sus7fa #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
just opened a bag of dog food to find it completely full of webbing and teeming with moths so naturally I need to burn my fucking house and surrounding neighborhood to the ground California, I know wildfires are a problem, but you really want this one, trust me.
my niece turned five today and got her graduation email from the imagination library 😭😭😭
A tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that doesn’t need a fridge has passed its first human trial. UK scientists reformulated a licensed shot using trehalose, the sugar that lets desert plants survive without water, keeping it stable for up to two years at 30°C. Gavi buff.ly/1kNIUHB #ShareGoodNewsToo
Fridge-free vaccine passes first human trial, raising hopes for the hardest-to-reach
Unreliable electricity makes it hard to keep vaccines at the right temperature – this development could change that.
gavi.org
The real American 🇺🇸 “brain drain” isn’t that a few established scholars might get new jobs outside the US, it’s the enormous number of grad students - particularly international grad students - who can’t or won’t study in the US now or in years to come. That’s the body blow.
Major kudos to MIT, who just put out a report about AI on their campus that lucidly explains the threat posed by AI to cognition and the student experience, while at the same time prioritizes learning, students, and the value of education. 1/x aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
Report – AI and Education
aiandeducation.mit.edu
this was the most disrespectful camerawork at a sporting event I have ever seen in my life.
They don't even make arguments anymore. They just say the name of the fifth-best team's sixth-best player and look at you like this
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 2w agoLMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
I’m going through a health thing that affects my sleep but am at the limit of nights where I’m willing to use pharmaceutical sleep aids, so I’m falling asleep tonight the way nature intended: putting all 9 minutes 36 seconds of something corporate’s 2003 classic “konstantine” on repeat
Our top story: “How are they going to meaningfully find a solution? They are not holding themselves accountable. … It triggers memories of how those in charge didn’t really care about my wife or her life.”
Texas Maternal Mortality Committee's Next Report Will Skip Post-'Roe' Deaths. Lawmakers Suspect Political Influence.
And one Texan says the body’s decision “retriggered” the pain of losing his wife, who counts among the preventable deaths that soon followed the state’s abortion bans.
texasobserver.org
remember when I was taking snaps of two bark anoles fighting on my patio and then this happened?
Brinasgift: There's Always a Bigger Fish
Alt: GIF of Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace saying “there’s always a bigger fish” as the fish that had been chasing them gets eaten by a weird fish man monster with arms
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD@lacksauthority.bsky.social · 3w agothat they are.
Air pollution stunts children’s lung growth. New Queen Mary research found that improvements in air quality after the introduction of London’s ULEZ are associated with accelerated lung growth in children. Read more: shorturl.at/Jx86o
my first job was working at a melanoma research nonprofit. I met a few patient advocates during my time there. they aren’t with us any longer. this news made me cry. it’s like the progress with AIDS. night and day from what the world was when I was growing up. what a better world.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 3w agoAn experimental cancer vaccine kept melanoma from coming back. It’s the first successful late-stage mRNA study validating decades of custom-treatment research.
on this Black Cat Appreciation Day I am hoping somebody can connect me with a Bay Area contact/rescue that can take Anakin, Benji, and Harrison Ford (their mom) and their three tabby siblings. these guys deserve a happy, safe life inside a home.
Academia and its millennia long history would not exist without autism and adhd send skeet
猫好きな人@valoisdubins.bsky.social · 3w agoFrom her piece in UnHerd:
Trump 2.0 has blown up US scientific research in a way that will take decades to roll back. Labs that took years to build have closed, young people have left science. NYT Mag published a long report on Dismantling Cancer Research. Why does Ross Douthat lie like this?
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · last mo.also, describing a lack of legislative capacity as a point against authoritarian consolidation misses the point: the defining feature of Trump’s second term is consolidation of power in the *executive* - the lack of legislative authorization makes him more authoritarian, not less
i also don’t know what it means to have “no policy legacy,” but whatever it is i imagine the families of the civilians killed in Iran and the millions of people deprived of aid here and abroad would disagree