Trump: "At one year, you should have 5 separate visits for vaccines rather than getting them all in the same day. I've seen proof of where they have a vaccination thing that looks like the size of a bottle of soda and pour it into a little child's body."

Here's some explosive etymology: In the 1600s, an audience annoyed by an actor’s performance might clap loudly to drive them off the stage. That’s where the word “explode” comes from: “ex-“ (away) + "plaudere" (to clap). Boom.

initially seems good, but the more you use a tool like this, the more you lose your own ability to forecast cylones

Matt Kane@mk.gg · 4d ago

Spicy autocomplete

I treat life like a math problem: I quickly give up and never figure it out

Our year in Cyclospora so far. cyclo-resources.pophive.org#trends-over-...

The headlines are still covering the cyclosporiasis outbreak from lettuce, but let's talk about a different summer, long ago. The headlines in Bavaria would have called it "summer diarrhea" & it was killing babies. Enter our hero, Professor Theodor Escherich of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg.

The number of injured in Kyiv following Russia's massive attack has risen to 33. Nine people were killed. 📹: Horrifying footage of Russian strikes on Kyiv overnight (Sound on, if you can)

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Complete surprise and disbelief were among the first reactions that Jacques Miller [...] encountered when, in 1968, he presented findings about thymus function in mice.

What’s your name, immune cell? - Nature Methods

Groups of immunologists are advancing recommendations to address nomenclature challenges in their subfields.

nature.com

Getting banned from the only disguise store in town would suck. Sure, you could sneak back in… with the help of a convincing disguise

The bus will never respect you if you run to catch it. Be cool. Make the bus come to you

Musk's gutting of USAID killed hundreds of thousands, possibly millions. He has used his net worth to stoke hatred against people he dislikes and to fuel white supremacy. So no, I don't think he is uplifting humanity.

When I struggle to structure my thoughts about what's happening I turn to writing. Today about the recent US Anthropic ban news, what it says about power and dependency, and what it should mean for Europeans and citizens of the world. It's a long one. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/13/am...

Dangerous Technology For Americans Only

AI nationalism, safety and European weakness.

lucumr.pocoo.org

I wish I could write like this. And I wish Lindy West wrote tutorial papers in psychometrics. (Source: Lindy West, 2019 essay collection 'The Witches Are Coming')

We really hope no one sees our definition of 'Streisand effect.'

That also means that EVERYTHING YOU SAY in a car with Gemini will be recorded and sent to Google for analysis and storage - forever. Purely for your convenience, of course.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

“If you want to make sure your dinner arrives home when you do, you can also ask Gemini to place an order through a food delivery app. Using voice commands, we asked it to order two fish tacos from Pacific Catch on DoorDash.” IN THIS EXAMPLE, YOU ARE ALREADY ON THE ROAD

Quote from a former colleague: "Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."

Winners of the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026 - A collection of some of this year’s winning and honored photographs. Nearly 9,000 entries were submitted to organizers by member photographers from 15 countries. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

New post, who disc/disk? ‘Disc’ is found more often in the music industry and throwable objects such as Frisbees. ‘Disk’ is the preferred spelling in computer-related lingo.

One reason that threat modeling for your digital privacy/security is harder than it looks is that most people don't know what data is being generated about them and who has access to it. www.proofnews.org/womans-talks...

Woman’s Talkspace therapy app sessions exposed in court

Talkspace has amassed “one of the largest mental health data banks in the world,” according to reports to investors, containing 140 million message exchanges.

proofnews.org

Mr. Nice Doug

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

We are literally at the point in history where the Pope is battling the Antichrist. 🍿

That's a heck of a graphic www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

As a Catholic, I was fine with Epstein, Iran, Venezuela, the felonies, grab em by the pussy, January 6th, ICE, and Kid Rock but Trump posting himself as Jesus has gone too far!

(via @atomjack.com)

Other specialties: A block of experimental designers A stratum of survey samplers A realization of probabilists An ensemble of data scientists A cohort of epidemiologists A coherence of subjectivists A chain of Bayesians

Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 4mo ago

A closure of research software engineers #RStats

For me, this could not have been any more on target.

Minas Karamanis@minaskar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

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