#RFKJR #medicine #snakeoil #fda We have reached the formal institutionalization of snake-oil phase. Peptides for cancer! Peptides for dementia! You there! Suffering from the dreaded Low T Syndrome? I’ve got the peptide for you! You know they’re safe because a panel of peptide distributors said so!

#horse #cliffsofmoher #ireland

#birds #birding #swallow #stanford Violet-Green Swallow/Cliff Swallow tornado feeding frenzy at Lake Lagunita.

#worldcup #USMNT Only took 10 minutes for Trump’s FIFA corruption to poison the USMNT.

#worldcup #dogs #chihuahua My chihuahua mix could not bring herself to watch Mexico’s valiant struggle.

#wildlife #stanford #hares Hare pair.

#earthquake #geology #waves #seismology Calling all earthquake specialists. Please explain this ripple effect on Tomales Bay yesterday. The epicenter was about 90 miles north of here.

#birds #birding #crows Is there a more resourceful bird than the humble crow?

#coyote #stanford Slightly mangy (possibly young mother) coyote earning her lunch among the tall grasses of Lake Lagunita

#birds #birding #crow #moth How many crows does it take to subdue a dangerous moth? Evidence of tool use in Corvus brachyrhynchos, if by tool you mean beak and if by use you mean bludgeoning a beautiful moth (and still I love them).

#birds #birding Parallel play

#birds #birding #hawk #finch Bold little house finch giving this imperturbable red-tailed hawk a piece of its little mind

#birds #birding #americantreecreeper American Treecreeper’s gonna creep

#coyotes #stanford Two coyote sitings on two days at Lake Lagunita. But two coyotes or same coyote? First one looks a bit mangier but cannot convince myself one way or the other.

#mimicry #camoflage #leafbug I am neither a bug specialist nor a leaf specialist, but this bug looks a lot like a leaf.

#trump #archdetrump #politics Fantastic public comments to the National Capital Planning Commission on Trump's "garish", "grandiose", "ugly", "unoriginal", "too tall", "galling", "egotistical"... arch. Descriptions of potus also great: "litte-minded", "morally-underdeveloped"... tinyurl.com/v9mra3f4

#birds #birding #goldfinch #bluebird Communal bathing on the engineering quad.

#birds #birding #spottedtowhee #towhee #stanford Spotted towhee dusk song.

#thecomeback #Friends #lisakudrow #beatles Lisa Kudrow's amazing work on The Comeback (all 3 seasons) cements her reputation as the George Harrison of Friends.

#bunnies #venogram #rabbit #bunny Bunnies coming and going. Nice ear vasculature silhouettes at the beginning. Sun-fueled venogram.

#bunny #rabbit #timelinecleanse Bunnies and birdsong

🧪 #alzheimer #amyloid Amazing new paper from @sfackley.bsky.social that exposes the statistical alchemy Lilly applied to their donanemab data: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... There is little to no correlation between amyoid removal and clinical outcomes with donanemab (or lecanemab).

Methodological Considerations for Quantile Aggregation in Alzheimer Disease Trials

This study evaluates the quantile-aggregation method using both simulated data and publicly available Alzheimer disease randomized trial data.

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#birds #birding #greenheron North American Green Heron takes off over Lake Lagunita

#birds #birding #juncos The first two weeks of life for a quartet of dark-eyed junco chicks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Zb...

Dark-Eyed Juncos: A Developmental Odyssey

YouTube video by Thoroughly departmental

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#birds #birding #junco Short version of a ~30 minute video documenting the rapid development of dark-eyed juncos from eggs to hatchlings to fledglings. Long version coming soon on my underutilized YouTube channel: Thoroughly departmental

🧪 #neuroskyence #Alzheimer's #Alzheimer www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... New paper describing the AD association of two rare APOE variants seen in admixed Native American ancestry (AMR) individuals. Small sample sizes, but consistent results across 2 cohorts. R189C 3x ⬆️ risk and W276C 3x ⬇️risk.

#bunny #bunnies #rabbitt #vantheman Bunny going to town on our jasmine (accompanied by Van Morrison’s St. Dominic’s Preview).

#movies #organ Big studios worried about no one going to the movies just need an organist and a big red curtain for every showing of every movie in every multiplex in America. Example here from the Stanford Theater (entirely subsidized by Packard foundation, but I’m sure there’s a profitable model).

#birds #feather #crows Magic crow feather

#bunnies #chihuahua Supposed to be a bunny cam but Lola has a tendency to chew up the scenery. Little drumsticks in the last couple seconds!