Man, I'm tired. When people who don't know how to build anything try to "reinvent" something, the only part they succeed at is destroying the existing thing.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2w ago

New White House plan for science and technology released yesterday www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202... 1/9

This is going to come across as pretentious and unhelpful, but I really recommend reading books. Reading a book is the only thing I do where I feel like I'm nourishing my attention span, rather than sanding it down. The trick is to just read whatever you enjoy — not what you feel like you should.

I don't remember this part in the book, so clearly I need to re-read the book *and* watch the movie now

v e l o c i t y@velocity69.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Bob Fosse in Little Prince movie, 1974 had a massive influence on Michael Jackson.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. I have many, but I'm gonna choose one that holds up

a couple of people standing in a grassy field

ALT: a couple of people standing in a grassy field

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Physgal ⚛️@physgal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star wars, star trek, lotr, dc, marvel, disney, pixar, dreamworks, spielberg, cameron, wachowskis, or ghibli. (like it's hard)

Yes, because they are superior in every way except the wire. www.soundguys.com/wired-headph...

Wired headphones are making a comeback: Here's why

Wired headphones are huge fashion accessories for Gen Z listeners, but we dig beyond the trend to learn why else wired cans are on the rise.

soundguys.com

Ursula bot bringing it on Earth Day

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot@leguinbot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We all do harm by being.

Actual footage of me becoming a standing member of an NIH study section two months before they end Continuous Submission. 🫠

a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag

ALT: a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag

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I'm glad to see the world hasn't completely given up on the concept behind the discontinued Choco Taco

Andrea@andreademonakos.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Just had my first Tacolate (a collab from Salt & Straw and Taco Bell) and I think my tastebuds might be forever changed. Cinnamon ancho chile ice cream are you kidding me??

Cool finding. I also like that the post makes it sound like there are institutes filled with full-time "velvet underground researchers." I'd like to live in that reality

jesse jarnow@bourgwick.bsky.social · 5mo ago

velvet underground researchers have apparently confirmed that this audio from a random youtube user is genuinely the long-lost july '67 performance from upbeat, a cleveland teen tv show, doing the unreleased "guess i'm falling in love" complete with screaming girls. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU2U...

💀 omg, more of this and less of everything else that is being normalized lately

Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗@madisonkittay.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

I gotta say, I wouldn't have clocked these for being from 1895 immediately after Roentgen's discovery of X-rays. I feel like the field of medical imaging moved pretty slow for the period after this.

The Public Domain Review@publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 9mo ago

#OnThisDay in 1895, Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays and altered the course of medical history. Pictured: images from one of the 1st series of x-rays ever produced (just 2 weeks after Roentgen published his discovery). More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e... #WorldRadiographyDay

Golden boy living his best life 🐈

As an imaging scientist, I will never type the word "imagine" without typing "imaging" first.

Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ@saimihanma.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Hello, I'm a professional author and I can never spell permanently or camouflage on the first try. Come, make me feel better and share your nemesis words.

"Chladni figures" from 1787 created by German physicist and musician Ernst Chladni, showing nodal patterns made by drawing a bow along the edge of a sand-covered plate. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/chladni-figures-1787

Also A+ use of what looks like video of a Yayoi Kusama installation in the background

𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭 🩷@jastuart68.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The state of America: Cyndi Lauper changes the lyrics to Girls Just Want to Have Fun to Girls Just Want Fundamental Rights.....

Is this the bar we're holding our tech entrepreneurs to these days? It seems difficult to spend trillions and *not* transform the world. Hit me up, I can do it for 1/10th of that.

As a fan of the em and en dashes prior to the explosion of its use with ChatGPT, I'm conflicted. One one hand, I am happy others will now use this helpful punctuation; however, I don't like that people view it as a signal that GPT was the source of the writing.

Writing 'Hope all is well!' in an email has felt increasingly awkward lately. Like, no, all is clearly not well, but what am I supposed to do, write 'Hope things are medium okay'?

I'm hiring! I'm recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to help launch and shape my new lab at @uoknightcampus.bsky.social!! careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...

Quote a record you found in your parents' collection when you were young

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · last yr.

Quote a record that you found in your parents’ collection when you were young.

Finally fulfilled my dream of owning a 1952 Topps card with this Larry Doby gem. Sharing it on Jackie Robinson Day because Doby was the second African American in MLB, following Robinson. Both legends broke barriers, inspiring us toward equality and inclusion. #JackieRobinsonDay #LarryDoby

Pub alert for a paper written in collaboration with Mike King's lab where we used focused ultrasound to mechanically stimulate prostate tumor cells in vivo, enhancing apoptosis. Congratulations to our brilliant team members, Abigail Fabiano and Malachy Newman, for their exceptional work!

Michael King@profmikeking.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share our new paper using Focused Ultrasound to mechanically stimulate prostate tumor cells in vivo, now published in Advanced Science! #OpenAccess Great collab with @cfcaskey.bsky.social Congrats to Abby Fabiano and Malachy Newman 🔊 news.rice.edu/news/2025/ri...

I don't see any other way to look at this: Trump and Republicans are killing cancer and brain research while vacuuming $126 million out of our economy

Charles F. Caskey@cfcaskey.bsky.social · last yr.

I've been calling every day to see what our Republican Senators in Tennessee's official stance is on the NIH cuts and firings: Marsha Blackburn: (202) 224-3344 Bill Hagerty: (202) 224-4944 No word yet. The interns at Hagerty's office are friendly. Marsha's goes to voicemail

I've been calling every day to see what our Republican Senators in Tennessee's official stance is on the NIH cuts and firings: Marsha Blackburn: (202) 224-3344 Bill Hagerty: (202) 224-4944 No word yet. The interns at Hagerty's office are friendly. Marsha's goes to voicemail

💯 A company might have a much lower IDC rate but they are not responsible for training their employees for 5 years with the intended goal that these people move on and bring these skills to another company.

Bita Moghaddam@bita137.bsky.social · last yr.

Many in biotech/private sector are boasting about their ways of funding and doing science But they are staffed with PhDs and postdocs we train in our NIH and NSF funded labs in universities With university labs lacking funds to train, the private sector will be profoundly harmed

In Tennessee - NIH FUNDING: $770M Jobs supported: 9,362 Economic activity supported: $1.99 B www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research

Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

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Alyson Smith@pedsaly.bsky.social · last yr.

In Illinois - NIH FUNDING: $1.23B JOBS SUPPORTED: 14,225 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED: $3.46B

Total novice on this topic, but I'm pretty sure the indirect rate is negotiated between the NIH and research institutes. It's not a made up number. It's what both parties agreed on as the cost to perform research

Happy to share our latest research on tracking tumor response in triple-negative breast cancer using ultrafast doppler ultrasound, paving the way for personalized treatments. Grateful for the amazing collaborative work with Shannon and the Rafat lab! 🩺🔬 #CancerResearch #BreastCancer #Immunotherapy

Rafat Lab@rafatlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

See the profile of grad student Shannon Martello's Theranostics paper! This work was done w/ @cfcaskey.bsky.social 's lab! Ultrasound imaging of breast cancer tumors offers non-invasive monitoring of radiation and immunotherapy response effectiveness engineering.vanderbilt.edu/2025/01/28/u...

Seth Trueger@mdaware.org · 2y ago

news: this got worse before it got better @choo.bsky.social explains what the NIH "pause" means

"If you look at conditions like depression or epilepsy, [up to] a third of these patients just don’t get better. It’s those groups where a technology like this could be a life-changing solution." www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Brain implant that could boost mood by using ultrasound to go under NHS trial

Devices may have potential to help patients with conditions such as depression, addiction, OCD and epilepsy

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