I feel like a bare minimum criteria for Primate Leadership should be Understanding How Bananas Work. Like, on one hand, of course we’re not going to ask you, ‘Do you understand how bananas work?’ We will just assume you do. BUT! If you demonstrate inability to clear that hurdle you must resign.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · yesterday

Spoken like a man who has never had to shop for himself.

Our review of inflammatory mechanisms in EoE is now available! #medsky #eoe #eosinophils #egids #immunosky #newPI 🧪 www.dovepress.com/emerging-ins...

Emerging Insights into the Inflammatory Phenotypes of Eosinophilic Eso | JIR | Dove Medical Press

Addressing cellular and molecular mechanisms that drive inflammation in EoE, and consequences of inflammation for epithelial damage and fibrotic remodeling

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'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Do you know why airlines are so safe? Because we regulate the ever-loving shit out of them. You don't have to like government regulations. They can be annoying. I promise they have saved your life. They happen when people get hurt or die. Every single one is written in blood.

David Attenborough

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w ago

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

Support at the university/institutional level is an enormous part of what allows individual scientists to succeed and especially to pursue innovative, game changing ideas. Allow me to explain. 1/11 🧪 #medsky #research #science

Shobita Parthasarathy@shobitap.org · 2w ago

It's very clear that Kratsios/Trump wants to destroy universities (and the indirect costs they receive), or, what he calls "legacy institutions". It seems that there is very little understanding of how current science works, particularly the massive infrastructure it needs. Who's gonna pay for that?

This is absolutely despicable. Chaco canyon is home to incredible, irreplaceable archeological sites. Please take a moment to leave a comment!

Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨@kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 3w ago

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

Let's learn a lesson from the nearly 500K of us who mobilized to comment on the OMB rules. We can leave the sidelines, take action and it can make a difference. After 15 months of inaction, our scientific societies finally woke up and mobilized members. It doesn't stop there 1/n

PHASE ONE of our fight against the OMB rule is complete and YOU ALL SHOWED UP!!! HALF A MILLION COMMENTS is WILD. We absolutely exceeded our goal of 100,000! So, what happens next??? Welcome to PHASE TWO: Pressure and Preparation! 1/x

Review @natimmunol.nature.com Rediscovering eosinophil identity through tissue adaptation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy Bastille Day A bittersweet day recognizing to the inevitable consequences of unchecked institutional inequality

Lego Bastille

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We’ve assembled hundreds of people with autism/ADHD/AuDHD and dozens of people who are *also* neurospicy (but older) with no soft skills to manage them. Their goal is to decode all of biology, full stop. We call it biomedical research, and we think it’s going to work great. 🧪 #medsky #research

Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · last mo.

Evergreen.

Hold on to your hats but… sometimes pregnant people travel. I’ve traveled (domestically) to 2 research conferences for work during this pregnancy, and taken one vacation. This approach endangers the health of pregnant people, full stop. Story time. 1/? 🧪 #momademia #research

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

WH spox Abigail Jackson: "Another option we're going to be pursuing is keeping the border closed and ramping up deportations, getting people out of the country who have no legal right to be there before they can have a child that anchors them to this country."

America has gotten to that last part of Monopoly where the game is effectively over and we're all just watching the Elites suck up all the money, nobody else is allowed to really keep playing the game & we're all getting more pissed by the minute. Flip the damn board over already.

Fighting through the heartbreak over the CO dem senate primary and appreciating the wins. Melat Kiros beat Degette, proving that the DSA platform resonates outside of NYC. Manny Rutinel got more votes than the republican nominee, sparking hope of turning that district from red to blue. 1/2

It appears that AI flagged landmark physics papers from the 40s for plagiarism and removed them from the journal’s digital archive.

Thiago Carvalho@cyrilpedia.bsky.social · last mo.

This is what makes it art: '(...) the publisher posted a blank white page with the cryptic phrase, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.” Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.' www.science.org/content/arti...

Narcissists have a history with reflecting pools

The reflecting pool is being sabotaged by paid protistas

One in six kids who have used AI chatbots say an AI has shown or said something they felt “wasn’t OK or wasn’t meant for someone their age”—and most never told a trusted adult about it. 6/

Three years ago and they hit a perfect bullseye

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 2mo ago

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

Kinda feels like we’re saving our joy for one *particular* celebration that will outshine all national celebrations for the past 200+ years.

Comemorando Vitória com Champagne

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The Liberal BoJack@thelibbojack.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's pretty crazy how we have both the World Cup and America 250 this year and almost no one cares about them because the administration has wholly sucked the joy out of even momentous national events.

Good god I hope not. If my grad students are working 20 hours per day then we need an intervention. Also, there’s no robot in the world that can do what we do. GTFOH.

Eos@eos.org · 2mo ago

Doing so will make research more reliable, trustworthy, and efficient, she said. “Robots work 24 hours a day. Your graduate students probably only work 20, so this is an advantage."

Funny story… Setting up our lab meeting schedule is tricky for a few reasons. The process we finally found is that i create a draft schedule and we edit it as a group, it takes about 10 minutes. One student tried to get AI to make the schedule and it failed spectacularly. At making a schedule.

Eos@eos.org · 2mo ago

AI assistance will reduce researcher bias, allow for more efficient use of expensive equipment, create more reproducible research and "bang for the buck" with research investments, and help the U.S. rise in research rankings, she said.

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

Dearest shoalmates: Please consider posting a comment to the NIH regarding the Strategic Plan that includes reducing funding for animal research. Responses from the research community are currently greatly underrepresented compared w/ advocacy groups opposing animal experimentation. 🔗 below ⬇️ 1/2

One fun pregnancy symptom is rhinitis due to increased blood flow at mucus membranes. Meaning I’m already congested, and it makes it hard to sleep. And my body already aches. And I’m already tired AF. I don’t want so much as a common cold to make that worse. Better believe I’m in a N95 on flights.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Some of us just don't like getting colds

#momademia in a nutshell 🤦🏼‍♀️

Agathe Chaigne@agathechaigne.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Between being a parent and academia, sometimes we get so little positive feedback that when my hygienist said "your teeth are great, keep doing what you're doing" I almost cried 😅

Since my first pregnancy was during COVID lockdown, this time I get to enjoy some *fabulous* symptoms that make being pregnant in academia truly breathtaking. Literally, presenting seminars when I can’t catch my breath. Now it’s vision changes that make reading difficult. #momademia 🧪 #newPI

Hannah Pregnant: Baby Kicking

Alt: Animation of a pregnant woman lying on her back while a baby dances gleefully in her abdomen

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New review out now on precision medicine in #EoE. Big thanks to my co-author Caitlin Burk! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42134747/

Precision medicine in eosinophilic esophagitis - PubMed

Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a common, chronic, immune-mediated disease of the esophagus, affecting approximately 1 in 700 individuals in the United States. Despite rising prevalence, clinical ma...

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