anyway, the American id understander himself, Hunter S. Thompson, the next week for goddamn ESPN of all places. the party's over, folks.

#Remembering Eamon J. McEneaney (December 23, 1954 – September 11, 2001). Classmate, friend, & a hero during the 1993 bombing of the North Tower. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eamon_M... www.legacy.com/legacy/memor...

Well this is good news

Chise@sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 11h ago

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine has SUCCEEDED in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. Phase III trial results in MORE THAN 1,100 patients shows the vaccine SIGNIFICANTLY extended the time patients lived without their melanoma returning AND reduced the risk of metastasis.

Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”

I just don't get why the administration keeps name checking Vannevar Bush "We have a plan! It's just like this cool guy from history who also had a plan. Except our plan is technically the opposite from his. But it's similar in the sense that they are both plans! He was so cool. We are cool" ok

Alex Wild@alexwild.bsky.social · yesterday

Ultimately, this letter from NSF is an announcement that universities will be funded a lot less and politically-connected industry will be funded a lot more. Fancy words around old-fashioned corruption.

Damn. The Florida mosquito-borne disease tracker update is out for the week ending September 5th, and Hillsborough County now has 95 diagnosed dengue cases, with a total of 111 cases statewide. That's unprecedented in the US in the modern mosquito control era. www.floridahealth.gov/wp-content/u...

Meanwhile back at the ranch I’d happily trade you my parking spot for your lack of chronic illness. By all means, take it, ya giant shitbird.

I am so fucking angry over all of this. It's not like the process was easy or tolerable before. Now it's apparently impossible for CDC employees. Nobody is going to be able to get new evaluation letter in 20 days.

My friend also works for the CDC and has MS. She said they’ve been denying accommodations for everyone. Just unbelievable.

Ultimately, this letter from NSF is an announcement that universities will be funded a lot less and politically-connected industry will be funded a lot more. Fancy words around old-fashioned corruption.

NSF leadership in a new golden age of science

The U.S. National Science Foundation was established in 1950 to keep American discovery at the frontier. That mission has not changed. The science and technology ecosystem around it has...

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tbh, anybody who wants to tell me that open source isn't on the ropes is going to have to answer why there are millions of dollars for Dotfile DHH but github sponsors mostly emits cobwebs and a faint wheeze for people who are making stuff we all use every day at work

It is hard to overstate how much money and time these rancid shits are burning for nothing, time lost by scientists, lost by science, and lost by American taxpayers.

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 2d ago

“The policies implemented in Bhattacharya’s NIH are not only harmful, they are cumbersome, taking time away from doing and supporting science.” 27unihted.substack.com/p/cumbersome...

Okay everything’s coming up millhouse this week. Just got approval from the Philly arts commission to install our moth mural in Campbell Square Park. They said I had pizazz 💅 Moth mural lets GO. Now back to the down the shore artist residency 🫡

Why bioRxiv exhibit 10000001

Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪@alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · 5mo ago

I'm going to have to get my butt in gear if I want to get one last publication out before retirement (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) 🤪

You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

I am a proud born and raised Angeleno but the New York City that New Yorkers are building right now is the greatest thing since forever and I think NYC is the best

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

I can get helpful, usable, work out of these models. It requires *significant* expertise to determine which outputs are useful and which are false, fabricated, or biased as fuck. Unless you have quite a lot of expertise, it's simply not possible to determine what's usable and what's shit. 🧵

ChatGPT refuses to recognize the reality of the situation we are in relative to public health. It routinely refuses to believe what's actually happening, e.g. CDC covering up measles deaths. It insists on the explanations most favorable to the trump regime. The systematic bias is intense. 🧵

Just saw this documentary on CNN. So heartbreaking. I went there to watch the 100th Birthday of the Brooklyn Bridge- amazing spot --learning about the people who made it work and their 9/11 experiences brought it home again.

Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · last wk.

“Top of the World”: Remembering the Restaurant Workers Killed Atop World Trade Center in 9/11 Attack

I'm excited to announce that @ucscscience.bsky.social has established five new research centers! A big welcome to the Center for Marine Genomics, Geohazards Center, Materials Innovation Center, UCSC RNA Center, and Santa Cruz Center for Astrobiology! 🧪

Science Division launches five new centers to foster multidisciplinary research in areas of growing importance and interest

These centers debuted July 1 with five years of initial funding and will focus on marine genomics, geohazards, materials innovation, RNA science, and astrobiology.

news.ucsc.edu

Repetition of Nazi imagery normalizes the regime’s horrors to make its views acceptable in political debate. These aren’t jokes. They are weapons.

Robert P. Jones@robertpjones.bsky.social · 5d ago

Trump's proposed new Space Force uniform. The Nazi vibes are not a joke. In my new book BACKSLIDE (publishes tomorrow), I write: "If we have any hope of finding our way, we must start by being explicit about the dangers of our current moment... This is our 1933." bookshop.org/a/56272/9781...

Has anyone here used @grimalkina.bsky.social’s informed patient skill? It is, quite possibly, the coolest thing she’s ever built and *legitimately* very useful. This could really be a game changer for grappling with rare diseases or complex intersections. github.com/DrCatHicks/i...

GitHub - DrCatHicks/informed-patient: A Claude Skill to create an evidence review to inform specific health questions

A Claude Skill to create an evidence review to inform specific health questions - DrCatHicks/informed-patient

github.com

The Francis Crick Medal and Lecture 2027 is awarded to Dr Thi Hoang Duong (Kelly) Nguyen for her ground-breaking discoveries into the molecular mechanisms of telomere maintenance. #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/francis-crick-lecture/

Dolphins are known to "pass around" pufferfish, lightly envenoming themselves with its narcotic-like tetrodotoxin Debate continues on whether this constitutes animal recreational drug use, but I want to ask a DIFFERENT question: What's up with the pufferfish's skeleton?

Puffer Fish Swimming

Alt: Puffer Fish Swimming: a spherical fish with angry looking eyes, a beak-like mouth, and spikes extending in all directions. The belly is cream colored, the back is a dull yellow-brown.

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The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 6d ago

We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.

pedagogy research, but also all of our basic experience being educated and being educators

Girish M. Duvvuri@gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 5d ago

The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.

The constant struggle, right? I too could be rich if I was just willing to hurt a bunch of people.

OMB is the belly of the beast. We’re here with @kamlager-dove.house.gov to say slow your roll to the Project 2025 Architect at the helm of the illegal take-over of our federal programs. Enough is enough.  We’re fighting back to preserve the power of the people and Congress!

Reps. Stansbury and Kamlager-Dove: It’s Time to Impeach Russell Vought

YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury

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