One day, it will be on the front page of every newspaper, and the fact that I don’t even have to specify what “it” is says it all

I put a call out for mural walls yesterday and I got a lot of VERY good walls for projects of a variety of scales. Unfortunately I have only sold enough shirts this summer to cover 2 of those walls. This means more people need to buy shirts. Thems the breaks. More shirts more art. SquidFacts.Net

have you all seen jimothy

“It could take at least a year for OMB to respond to the comments and amend the draft rule”. Friends, this is a direct result of our collective action. The OMB Rule that would require political review of grants has prompted at least 50K comments. Thanks to all who commented, and you still can.

A Proposed Rule Would Politicize Medical Research. Scientists Are Not Happy.

In tens of thousands of comments, researchers, doctors and others warned the rule could hamper progress on important health issues.

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1. A bit of evolutionary biology. I'm really intrigued by a new perspective piece from Steve Frank that explores connections between how natural selection creates systems that generalize and recent work in machine learning about the surprising capabilities of massively overparameterized systems.

Generalization as the great leap in evolvability: insights from machine learning

Abstract. Natural selection encodes learned information in the genome. Learned solutions may be tuned specifically to past challenges, failing in altered e

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This is the NIH grant screening disfavored words list published by Nature: media.nature.com/original/mag...

literally watergate

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · last mo.

Just when you think it can’t get more weird….. Fencing going up around Reflecting Pool

lol

Let's Streisand-effect these people. Here's the editorial that somehow merited calling the cops. Read and share.

Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!

The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2mo ago

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Twenty five years on from Dolph Schluter's book "The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation" that reshaped the way adaptive radiation was studied, this review revisits key questions raised to evaluate the progress made over the past quarter century, 8 of which remain unresolved...🌍🧪👇

‘The ecology of adaptive radiation’ revisited: A 25-year reflection

Abstract. Twenty-five years ago, the book The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation by Dolph Schluter presented a testable framework that integrated ecology, genet

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NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

It's the End of American Science As We Know It

We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.

news.chanda.science

impartial scientific research is the enemy of despotism and so naturally vought wants to destroy it

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Feeling like it's officially #pupfishweek, so here's another one of my favorite videos but this time from the field! I took this video of a cutely colorful male #Cyprinodon beltrani while swimming in less than a meter of water in Laguna Chichancanab during our last field season with … 🧵👇

Zebrafish Rock!@zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fun facts about #pupfish: Actually a kind of #killifish, they get their names from their active and playful lifestyles. But don't let the name fool you, they are famous extremophiles and can withstand lethally high water temperatures, high salinities, and extremely low oxygen levels. #TeleostTalk 🧪

What's the most abundant vertebrate on earth? Forms a crucial link in the global #carbon cycle? And why don't we have any idea whether this group is adapting to #climate change and ocean #acidification? Led by my postdoc @evolbyo.bsky.social and #NSF funded - now we know! #lanternfish 🐟🏮💡🌊

NIH funded peeps: This is insane and coming for us.

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

Just laughing at how it’s possible for a black woman to be so beautiful and talented that she sends a racist into a six day public stroke

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

I'm on NPR "All Things Considered" today talking about the near-extinction of the Devils Hole pupfish this past year and the federal agency management chaos that ensued! 🐟😈🕳️ www.npr.org/2026/05/07/n...

As federal scientists faced turmoil, the Devils Hole pupfish reached a crisis point

The Devils hole pupfish lives in just one spot in Death Valley. Wildlife officials have managed this iconic fish for decades, and last spring, just as the Trump administration was laying off all kinds...

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Move over "cellar door", "distinctively ornamented ichthyolith" is the new most beautiful phrase in the English language

Matt Friedman@friedmanlab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There are more individuals of the deep-sea fish Cyclothone than any other vertebrate genus, maybe as many as one million billion. Distinctively ornamented ichthyoliths place the origin of Cyclothone in the greenhouse world of the early Eocene, ~55.6 Ma. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Same energy:

Exactly 💯 I did the same with our funded NSF climate change adaptation grant in 2025

Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There's some chatter about whether avoiding the phrase "climate change" in an NSF grant constitutes censorship or dishonesty or cynicism or capitulation to fascism or whatever. I thought I'd share my perspective as someone who has grappled with with this (both now and back in 2017-2020).

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing. (image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

I hate when fantasy films I made a long time ago begin to come true in real life.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

Buttigieg: "For the leader of this country to make a nakedly genocidal threat against another civilization as if the US was a death star that was going around blowing up civilizations, of course that is a new low ... the whole country is being judged just for tolerating that kind of thing at the WH"

AOC all the way!!!!!! Siemens high school science fair award winner, too ☺️

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 4mo ago

the 'electability' question is increasingly clear www.sosavstate.com/p/gavin-news...

Tiny shellear fish in central Africa scale a 50-foot vertical waterfall using suction cups and tiny hooks. This convergent evolution places them with some island gobies and Brazilian bumblebee catfish, who all do world class bouldering. 🐟🌍 phys.org/news/2026-04...

Tiny African fish caught climbing to the top of a 50-foot waterfall

For over half a century, people in Central Africa have told tales of the fish seen climbing waterfalls, but these claims have never been officially confirmed. Now, these fish have finally been caught ...

phys.org

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊