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Neuroscientist/mouse psychologist and mad about it. She

So the FDA is now "reviewing" the evidence on whether compounding pharmacies can make some peptides, complete with a panel full of people who, um, sell peptides. Peptides with almost no evidence that they actually WORK www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Peptides promise longevity and healing. Does the science back them up?

The world of peptides has exploded in wellness circles, but the benefits of injecting these gray-market molecules rest on little clinical evidence

scientificamerican.com

I just think it would be more newsworthy and a more acceptable excuse for sending me an email about it if the Fields medal were awarded to not-mathematicians for once For example when will my achievements in estimating the exact size of leftover container needed for these leftovers be recognized

I want to clarify that we are all free to share the facts of the case Academia has a history of silence around sexual harassment along with pressure to sweep it under the rug. A lot of people keep silent. This creates confusion, allows misinformation to spread, & keeps an unjust system it place.

This was bad enough, but he is now misleading people about it. For instance, yesterday he posted on LinkedIn that she was lying about the ruling. So I am writing to fact check the misinformation he spread and share the email with the official ruling from the NYU Office of Equal Opportunity:

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I love my life as a garum producer in ancient rome. living by the docks. pretty nice. dip my feet in the water as the senators shout in the street, why not. nobody minds if a rat gets in the jug every now and again. it’s all the same in the end. nothing to do mostly but wait

"I had not touched a cat in 15 yrs when an orange kitten wandered over to sit w/me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive. It instilled in me a raw, unbridled happiness that I had never felt before, not even as a child."

When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years

I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.

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I’m glad the Girled Cup is over. I did not expect to have to make a month-long bit out of a dumbass post I made when I just woke up and it would have languished in obscurity were it not for that one guy getting super mad about it. I will see you all for the actual Girled Cup of Footovary next year

Given what we know about AI psychosis already I now think the most science fiction thing in Star Trek is that only Lieutenant Barclay was ever depicted having anything like a holodeck induced psychotic episode

do we still do good news on here? i just learned that my 1939 ny world's fair research was awarded runner-up of best 2025 article published in the ieee annals of the history of computing. timely as ever, about corporate dreams of tech utopia + spectacular tech debuted to distract from rising fascism

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

Consultant: I vastly overestimate the demand for my expertise Microbrewery: I want to do lab work but those pipettes are too small Bakery: I really want a Hobart mixer but I can't justify buying one

The deal with academics based on their fantasy escape scenario: 🚲 Bike shop: I crave the achievement of fixing things but only if it's easy and low stakes 🛏️ Bed and breakfast: I am already comfortable with genteel poverty 🚕 Taxi driver: just tell me what to do ☕ Coffee shop: I like drinking coffee

Stephen Royle@steveroyle.bsky.social · 3w ago

A list of exit strategies (or pipe dreams) that colleagues have mentioned in the case of further HE crisis. - tea/coffee shop - bike shop - book/record shop - bed & breakfast - taxi driver - climate activism/social campaigning Tea/coffee shop seems to be the most popular dream. What's yours?

16) Stole this one from a recent skeet I saw: If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously.

Biological sex is binary, except when it’s not (isogamy). It’s defined by gamete size, except in large-spermed males. It’s binary, but one can be both at once (hermaphrodites), neither (sterile) or switch (clownfish), and it might depend on temperature (crocodiles) or parasites (Wolbachia). (1/3)

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 4w ago

Defining sex based on gamete size is a choice. Perhaps it's the most parsimonious of all binary single-criterion sex definitions. But to claim that gamete size is the "ultimate defining criterion of biological sex" (whatever that means) falls into the naturalistic fallacy the authors warn of.

Chromosomes are biological. Hormones are biological. Anatomy is biological. Behaviour is biological. Reifying one of the many aspects of sex as the only true definition of ‘biological sex’ is a political statement that I refuse to endorse.

I have absolutely no argument with the fact that gametic sex is a profoundly important aspect of biology in anisogamous species. And yet it is but one manifestation of sexual differences, *all of which are equally biological*

Spouse is looking at yurts online and saying things to me like "well if you were going to stay in a tent it would obviously need to meet commercial glamping standards"