Dr. Jaequellin
@jackiecinmht.bsky.social
Biology nerd (Berkeley MCB PhD 2011) and manuscript editor. Former NH state rep. Mom. Go Sox, abolish ICE, and free Palestine.
Beginning to think the main priority for this trade deadline was splitting up all the BFF pairs on the team 🧐
Red Sox@redsox.com · 2d agoThe Red Sox today acquired LHP Erik Miller and minor league OF Carlos Gutierrez from the San Francisco Giants, in exchange for INF Marcelo Mayer.
Hoooooooly fuck. This is pretty worst-case-scenario in terms of controlling spread - hundreds of cases, months earlier than was officially known and reported?
EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected
A remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report says
science.org
Joni Ernst asks Fauci if it was really his plan to persuade Trump to try to slowing the spread of covid, as though her question is a gotcha and that was a bad course of action
ICE literally went into a national forest and arrested people who were swimming, etc. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/n...
ICE agents target NC’s Pisgah National Forest and make multiple arrests, feds say
Immigration and Customs Enforcement extends its reach to western North Carolina’s wilderness areas and makes 13 arrests in Pisgah National Forest, feds say.
charlotteobserver.com
Feel like I should explain this a bit more... it has given me great delight! Basically, I wanted a way to easily look up whether books on my Goodreads 'to read' list were available from the library. Turns out neither Goodreads nor my library system are particularly amenable to direct links. SO: 1/x
Dr. Jaequellin@jackiecinmht.bsky.social · 2w agoLook ma, I’m a dev 😄 chromewebstore.google.com/detail/shelf...
the Red Sox medical staff is like this with every injury Immediately after: no big deal, X-rays negative, he’s fine A day later: our mistake it turns out he was Murdered
Sources: Red Sox to place newly acquired infielder Curtis Mead on injured list - The Boston Globe
On Monday night, Mead got drilled on the base of his left hand/wrist by a 95-mile-per-hour fastball from Athletics starter Jack Perkins.
bostonglobe.com
I'll never forget the four magical innings of the Curtis Mead era.
Alex Speier@alexspeier.bsky.social · last wk.Curtis Mead, wearing a brace on his left wrist, said an MRI today revealed a fracture. He’s not sure if he’ll need surgery. He’s flying back tonight to meet with the Sox’ hand specialist.
Epic diarrhea outbreak has 40% of Americans avoiding fruits and veggies arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
Epic diarrhea outbreak has 40% of Americans avoiding fruits and veggies
Kennedy has focused on nutrition but has neglected food safety, critics say.
arstechnica.com
Everyone wants to yell at Democrats or "the left" but the plain fact is that Republicans are the only ones with the power to immediately save us from this nightmare. Every day they choose not to do so.
we screwed with using response duration for annotation, but not in a this-is-a-well-written-scientific-paper kind of way. super cool to see it done carefully!
Chaz Firestone@chazfirestone.bsky.social · 3w agoout today! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
It's one thing for most of the experience and knowledge I gained from writing and reporting on art for *three years* to just slowly leak out of my brain. But it's so much worse to think about all the gov folks laid off at USAID, NIH, FDA, and the EPA or the media folks at CBS and the Washington Post
So many people with 10, 15, even 20+ years of experience in government service, scientific research, beat reporting, software engineering or other specialized fields are still struggling to find new jobs in Canada and the US. Some people have been applying to full-time jobs for over a year.
The MAHA Administration has: -allowed coal plants to spew toxic methylmercury -worsened climate change -dismantled public health & driven up sickness/death from infections -rolled back food safety -cut funding to Gavi, which will lead to an estimated 600,000 child deaths We do not “need” MAHA
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w agoA lot of people in public health believe that MAHA is “nothing more than a subversive anti-vaccine, anti-science syndicate,” but the movement is an opportunity that the public-health sector “cannot afford to squander,” Craig Spencer argues:
i need to know more about this
Alex Eve@amjeve.uk · last wk.How do animals 'know' to stop growing? Christopher Arnold studies flatworms, whose body size is limited by asexual reproduction (fission) once they reach a certain size. But removing the gene that induces fission creates GOLIATH worms >6x larger. Chris shows how this growth depends on p38. #2026SDB
Gross to see a senator skip over the part where the aid was cut off illegally and without warning. Cooking their brains on a right wing owned social media site.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2w agoFuck you, Ian Bremmer, you abject ghoul.
Please do not inject yourself with random peptides/proteins/god knows what that you ordered from China
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2w agoThe market for peptides, chemicals that have been increasingly promoted as new medical treatments and wellness products, got a big boost this week as a divided FDA panel voted to recommend loosening regulations on six peptide treatments.
Our analysis shows that the measles virus seen in Utah as recently as May is very closely related to one that circulated in Texas a year ago. Given our findings, one expert said it’s going to be difficult for the U.S. to prove measles isn’t endemic: https://propub.li/4vKYjs3
bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
At least *one* neurodivergent individual is chronically obsessed with substance abuse in insects. Where are you, my darling?
Entomemeology@entomemeology.bsky.social · 2w ago
Do I have any Northern California colleagues affected by NIH nonsense? Send me a DM!
Got jumpscared by this thing at the thrift store yesterday *shudders in organic chemistry PTSD*
Stephen Colbert would be fun, I think
Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w agoYou 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?
Before tonight, Anthony Seigler had never had a game with more than two hits in the big leagues. He has four hits tonight. Before tonight, Anthony Seigler had never had a game with multiple XBH in the big leagues. He has three tonight. I believe he has also set a personal record for fist pumps.
i really hope the “tarps off” trend keeps going until October 😂
happy peachiversary gang. shake those trees.
Kitty Unpretty
on this day in 1953 shirley jackson sent this to an unhappy reader
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Orcas doing some A-Train moves 🫣
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2w agoScientists have now documented two instances of killer whales ramming into prey so hard that it explodes into little fishy pieces, a new behavior for a species known for smashing into human boats and playing with its food. Read more: https://wapo.st/4hsxxRN
