but also I’m just wandering around NoMa and Trinidad and there are soldiers freakin everywhere

Apparently DEI was the only thing standing between us and death lettuce

Reuters@reuters.com · 2d ago

Michigan reports two deaths in ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak reut.rs/4w4bd4E

Dude sounds like an unbalanced centrifuge

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

RFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking

🚨 Warning 🚨 ! New academic scam every scientist needs to be aware of: if you collect data you also have to analyze it.

Kaity get to work without spilling coffee on your white t shirt challenge, Kaity get to work without spilling coffee no stains challenge, Kaity you are an adult why is this so hard challenge,

The administration (via Jay Bhattacharya) even tried to falsely (and absurdly) accuse me of violating the Anti-deficiency Act (a criminal offense that carries jail time) when I spoke up!

I also appreciate Emily Wilson as a woman in a male dominated role, by which I don’t mean translator or classicist or public scholar but rather “curmudgeon.”

Nearly everyone in D.C. has a harrowing rat story — and for an upcoming story, we want to hear yours. Don't spare us the details! Need more characters? Tell us here: 51st.news/ratstories

Admirable clarity @science.org

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

Plz say psych

Senator Ruben Gallego@gallego.senate.gov · 2w ago

When we invest in men's health, we build stronger families and stronger communities.

ONE WEEK LEFT to submit your work to the NEW ENGLAND REVIEW OF BOATS We’ve gotten some fantastic submissions but there’s still room for many more. No idea too storm-toss’d or jury-rigged. DMs open if you want to chat

DoorDash trying to end home rule for 700,000 people over a TWENTY CENT FEE

Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 2w ago

In a statement, DoorDash tells me that the council passed the "arbitrary" new fee without holding any hearings. "We have always supported home rule for D.C.," says the company. "But will continue to defend D.C.'s small businesses, local economy, and underserved residents."

Loot drop after defeating me: - 1d6 aleve (+1 temporary bonus to HP each) - Potion of cold brew (+2 INT, -2 CON) -legendary item: linen shirt of the laboratory goblin (-1CHA, +2 INT, wearers of this shirt may re-roll attack on PCR once per long rest)

Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · 2w ago

Loot drop after defeating me: - bird guide - 1 pair masterwork binoculars - Hat of Magnificence (+1 to Intimidate and Performance, -2 to Stealth) - Wondrous Item: Author Copies* - Book Contract (cursed) - random cheese - cat hair (also cursed)

I wish I did not have to bring up this old tweet from ‘that other place’ every now and again but here we are (again) and here it is…

The phrase “vaccine skeptic” should never be used in a headline. This frames these people as rational actors, which they are not. They are dangerous ideologues who are immune to evidence

States Newsroom@statesnewsroom.com · 3w ago

Dr. Ryan Cole, an Idaho pathologist who has been a vocal critic of COVID vaccines, is staying on the board that advises the state’s largest public health district. via @idahocapitalsun.com

Most of the federal agency science budgets goes into the salaries of students and trainees, and the decision to take that money and instead give it to industry and already rich venture capitalists is fundamentally a decision to have many fewer scientists and do far less science in the future.

reading KSRs “ministry for the future” during all this is hilarious

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 3w ago

Future utilitarians living in a solar punk utopia having anguished debates about the credit owed to President Trump for supercharging green transition.

Was anyone going to tell me ?

Robert McNees@mcnees.bsky.social · 4w ago

Neurologist and science writer Oliver Sacks was born #OTD in 1933. 🧪 Photo: Douglas White

In addition to wishing I could put a union bug on my papers, I now wish I could join the society for artisanal sciences and certify my papers are 100% made by humans

Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 4w ago

Here in our small science shop, we'll continue to use time-honored human efforts to produce our low quality but artisanal science at a snails pace.... 🧪

I feel like the Mapquest generation lasted maybe three years? But a PAPER print out of essentially Google Maps is insane

Michael D. Green, PhD@michaeldgreen.phd · 4w ago

Can’t lie, the fact that y’all were driving with PAPER maps is insane. Even worse, you had to ask random strangers for directions??

This is in the weeds but you should do this, they are required by law to look at this comments and it actually can make a (small) difference. Think of it like posting except the Trump administration is forced to read it.

Mark Histed@markhisted.org · 4w ago

Only a few days left to comment if you have not! Please take the time. Just a few paragraphs are needed.

I’m out of DC visiting w/ family now, otherwise I’d be outraged about all the noise, bad air, troops, and brownshirts in masks. Be well, DC peeps. #DCStatehood asap, so everyone across DC gets a say in all this in the future

Pam Spaulding@pamspaulding.bsky.social · last mo.

"We’re not concerned about that.” — Trump's fireworks contractor, Pyrotecnico CEO Stephen Vitale, when asked about air quality concerns. "We’re going to be breaking a world record." “It’s going to be a disaster." — Dr. Anthony Wexler, Air Quality Research Center at UC Davis. 🧾 t2m.co/yKVEeGH3

This whole thread exemplifies the reasons why grad workers need and deserve strong union protections at work

Anna Meier@annameier.bsky.social · last mo.

A professor in Tufts University’s School of Engineering required one of his international graduate students to work an unpaid TA job this past spring semester. After she went to her union and blew the whistle, Tufts withdrew her from her program. A thread of rage. 1/

For the non-scientists, 3% means that Dr. Shepard's proposal (over 50 pages of documents attesting to whether you are qualified to do the work & your research plan) was reviewed by others in his field & they gave it a score that is in the top 3% of all proposals scored. Yet it might not be funded 🫠

Jason Shepherd@jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · last mo.

I am still waiting on whether a 3% scored R01 will be funded at the NIA (reviewed in Jan) and even the NoA for my funded R01 non-competitive renewal is a month late 😭. And this is preclinical science that shouldn’t have any “dirty” words!

A list of NIH screened/banned words published in Nature. THIS IS UNAMERICAN. media.nature.com/original/mag...

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - Argonaut2026@gmail.com

As a menopause researcher this would completely stop any project I would do…

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Does this make the ovarectomy/hormonal replacement model illegal?

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Dan Greene@dmgreene.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bring back some old countries too. Yugoslavia would smash. Austria and Hungary can't do it on their own, but together?

Should we let communicable disease rip through our armed forces? And other questions I thought we already fucking answered