Finally. 🚆

RAIL Magazine@railmag.bsky.social · 3w ago

After much delay, FRA is finally releasing some intercity passenger rail grants under the Corridor ID program of several years of inaction. Inclusion of this Hiawatha extension to Madison is not surprising but certainly needed… www.jsonline.com/story/money/...

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”

Today could really use some shoddy science journalism reframing one of my bad habits as having counterintuitive health benefits.

Now that it's been confirmed that this is Peter Thiel's chess.com account, here's the engine analysis of my Pyrrhic victory over a techno-fascist.

The fourth in Philly with the French.

I really hope this set ends with Bon Iver as Bob Dylan covering Bon Iver.

Bon Iver Unveil “Bon Dylan” Covers Band

“I thought it’d be cool to try to be Bob Dylan for a night,” Justin Vernon said ahead of the concept band’s Eaux Claires premiere

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We are excited to host the 2026 Midwest Neglected Infectious Diseases (MNID) Meeting in Madison from Aug 7-8. Registration (free) and Abstract submission are online. Please share! www.mnidmeeting.org #MNID26

🎉 Congrats to 2026 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal recipient Judith Kimble of @uwbiochem.bsky.social! Her work has built an entire field and inspired generations of scientists through her mentorship and leadership. 🔗Read more: buff.ly/0yzHXvk

“CELeidoscope: quad-fluorescent strain for tissue-specific spectral single-cell analyses”. Engineered a C. elegans strain that enables spectral sorting of multiple major cell types within a single strain population. Led by Clair Henthorn and Natalia Betancourt. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Equipped for success: genomes and metabolomes of the European Amanita muscaria are conserved in its novel South African range

Equipped for success: genomes and metabolomes of the European Amanita muscaria are conserved in its novel South African range

Plants and soils have been moved around the world for centuries, but invasive mushrooms receive scant attention. The Amanita muscaria species complex was introduced to South Africa in the context of...

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Madison, Wisconsin — 2026 Built in 1917, the Wisconsin State Capitol is a Beaux-Arts masterpiece constructed materials such as Algerian onyx, Italian marble, and Wisconsin granite. Designed by George B. Post, its massive dome is one of the largest masonry domes in the world. FORWARD!

“Deep phenotypic profiling uncovers cryptic effects of antifilarial drugs”. We found that drug sensitivity is driven by environmental context and parasite age. We also profiled drug-induced changes in the adult secretome to id new leads for detecting surviving parasites in post-MDA surveillance.

Characterizing gut microbiome and parasitome transitions along an urbanization gradient in the Colombian Amazon using dual 16S/18S sequencing. Work led by GHI postdoc Sebastián Díaz.

Me giving advice to new faculty.

These people are interested in developing AI for the common good in the same way eugenicists are interested in genetics and military leaders are interested in particle physics.

Meta allegedly buried research showing its products are harming users

Meta has been accused of burying research showing its platforms are bad for users mental health.

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Everyone should have the opportunity to live in the type of home that works best for their family, with access to transportation options. This proposal allows more flexibility for ‘missing middle’ housing and encourages more homes in places that are near transit.

Latest Housing Forward proposals adjust TOD requirements, allow new housing type

The latest measures being introduced to the Common Council on October 28 focus on creating a new option for the city’s neighborhoods and making more efficient use of Madison’s most-traveled corridors.

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Ken Burns pan-and-zoom with Peter Coyote voiceover is pure nostalgia for the wheeled in classroom VCR. Inject into my veins.

The American Revolution | All Episodes Now Streaming | Ken Burns | PBS

Thirteen colonies unite in rebellion, win their independence, and found the United States. Stream the full documentary from Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt.

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Wisconsin Evolution is accepting applications for our Seminar Series' Early Career Scientist Award. Come share your evolution research and visit UW-Madison's evolution community. Open to grad students and postdocs (<5 yrs post PhD) from outside UW-Madison. Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6

Early Career Scientist Awards 2026

Application to the UW-Madison Evolution Seminar Series - Early Career Scientist Awards.

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In Madison, if someone honks their horn, it’s probably an accident. And if it isn’t, treating it like one gives them the time they need to quietly regret their out-of-towner energy.

Relatable. I once went off-grid for a bit, checked my email, and discovered a dozen frantic messages informing me I’d forgotten to renew my lease and had to immediately fly back and clear out my apartment. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Scientist learns he has won Nobel prize while on digital detox in US mountains

Fred Ramsdell’s wife switched on her phone and screamed – it was full of messages congratulating her husband

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I commend Tao for speaking out, but it needs to be said that only speaking up when personally affected by a policy is part of the reason we are in this mess to begin with. At the institutional level, this has signified a willingness to trade away other people’s rights to protect one’s own share.

I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding.

The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

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Bar has a Boris Spassky portrait, obliged to order a White Russian.

This is really cool! A rabies vaccine, applied as a gel to fur, spreads quickly among bats as they lick and groom each other. That prevents rabies outbreaks in other animals. www.science.org/content/arti...

Vampire bats' mutual grooming helps spread innovative rabies vaccine

A gel that bats lick off one another’s fur could help prevent rabies outbreaks in cattle, a growing problem in Latin America

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Neat profile of a recent preprint led by a grad student in our lab, Cole Knuese, on orotopical rabies vaccination strategies in wild bat populations. Left field of most of what we do, but holds some promise!

Vampire bats’ mutual grooming helps spread innovative rabies vaccine

A gel that bats lick off one another’s fur could help prevent rabies outbreaks in cattle, a growing problem in Latin America

science.org

Exploration of miracidia sensory biology with a powerful imaging platform.

Nic Wheeler@wheelerlab.bio · last yr.

Very excited and proud to release a project that I’ve been thinking about for at least 7 years, well before I started my faculty position. We built an imaging and computational platform from the ground up to help answer some outstanding questions in schistosome miracidia biology.

4 am thunderstorm check-in

1/3 It’s official 🙌🏽 The Reyes Ruiz Lab is opening in 2026 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences. My lab will focus on host antibacterial effectors and adaptation of bacteria to host-imposed stress during S. aureus infections.

As part of the UW RISE-THRIVE faculty hiring initiative, our college is advertising three tenure-track positions focused on immunology, aging, and health span. Please share! rise.wisc.edu/rise-thrive/ #ttjobs