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Although actually, I guess the scientists are ChatGPT in this analogy.
"Wow Jeffrey, what an amazing question! You are so insightful! Just the best person to fund my new project!"

Y'know, I feel like the Venn diagram of people - the non-sex criming ones, that is - who found JE charming enough to do business with and people who feel warm and fuzzy when ChatGPT tells them they asked a brilliant question is, if not a perfect circle, darn close.
See also: barista was flirting.

Right? And they're assholes but there's nothing in that email that's *illegal*. It's just the old boys network protecting itself.

Women who defend sexual predators. Jews who join forces with Nazis. Latinos who round up immigrants. Please explain tk me the logic. Why does anyone think "they are the exception" if they collaborate?

Why is this name redacted? Was the speaker a trafficked minor??

In terms of having more critical thinking practice than average and a high degree of cosmopolitanism, okay. And there is probably a stronger "make the world a better place" tendency compared to "get rich" overall.
In terms of interrogating the status quo, not so much, especially at high levels.

"doing fewer things better means that tough decisions will be necessary"
This is the phrasing I keep hearing from management. Whose line is it, anyway?

Still getting f*£%ed by Brexit, thanks for asking!

"rising energy costs and unfavourable movements in foreign exchange rates increased STFC’s annual costs by over £50 million a year."

Many of my science colleagues are not speaking out-I suspect due to the fear Phil notes, that they'll targeted for loss of funding. I hope they read this account of what happened at a faculty meeting at Frankfurt University in 1933 as the Nazi's took control 🧪
www.facinghistory.org/resource-lib...

Since antiquity, a stranger was always seen as both a potential guest and a potential enemy. This duality is encoded in our words. Host, hostile, guest, hospital “come from Proto-Indo-European (PIE) root *gʰóstis, meaning "someone with reciprocal duties of care/protection/inclusion.”

Please REPOST (“likes” don’t help in diffusion!) and consider applying: we work in such a fantastic context, we ask so interesting questions, and we have such a collegial and best-willing atmosphere… CRBM = Happy & Good Science

"These voters didn’t want Democrats to moderate. They wanted a stronger economic message and wanted Democrats to fight for them. But they often felt like they’d been supporting Democrats for years and hadn’t gotten results."

And if you get far enough NORTH it turns back into the South (or at least, the Borders).

I think they *do* care about climate catastrophe, in that, at least subconsciously, they see a slow motion oncoming train wreck getting closer and faster with no possibility of salvation. See also: no hope of improving life for their or the next generation. Hence the death wish.

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

Revolutionary therapy treats ‘untreatable’ blood cancer Gene therapy which turns white blood cells into a disease-busting “living drug” has reversed previously untreatable blood cancers

Great Ormond Street Hospital and King’s College Hospital in London treated nine children and two adults with T-cell leukaemia using the technique, which scientists said triggered a “deep remission” in the majority. Seven are still disease-free three years later.

www.positive.news/society/revo...

In some horrific files from a young victim that I can never un-read, he is called out by name (along with Minsky, Summers, and a slew of others). In fact, the victim excoriates "these pigs who call themselves smart and talk about Harvard [who] act worse than animals".

No no, the signs say "The NORTH".

β2-Integrins regulate dendritic cells through nuclear deformation and activation of phospholipase A2 and DNA damage–inducible GADD34 Dendritic cells (DCs) reside in tissues and are activated by danger or pathogen-associated signals, leading to expression of costimulatory markers and cytokines, downregulation of β2-integrin–mediated...

β2-Integrins regulate dendritic cells through nuclear deformation and activation of phospholipase A2 and DNA damage–inducible GADD34 - Journal of Biological Chemistry www.jbc.org/article/S002...

Three UK research councils suspend funding opportunities Temporary block on grant applications by MRC, BBSRC and EPSRC heightens concerns over funding cuts

Three UK research councils suspend funding opportunities
“Temporary block on grant applications by MRC, BBSRC and EPSRC heightens concerns over funding cuts”

Why on earth are they doing this? I am baffled.

Pam is not looking good. She's looking like a woman who hasn't had a good night's sleep in a long time, what with the blazing handwriting on the wall and the money she got for her soul being spent.

What do you think the cops are going to do about it? They are on the side of ICE, or at least enough are that they won't stop them.

Theranos?

You could house everyone in need of a home with the money being given to ICE. A society that chooses the latter over the former is truly evil and there's no way to spin that.

5 classes I took in college (that impacted me):
- Science Fiction (English Literature)
- Honors Cell Biology (esp. integrins)
- Cultural Studies of Advertising
- An elective module where we did deep dives into capsaicin and neutrophil migration (receptor signalling)
- Modern Dance Choreography

How do cells orchestrate themselves to achieve a directional movement as a group?

Hi, I’m @sayukihirano.bsky.social. In this thread, I’ll highlight key mechanisms of how cells communicate with each other to perform directional collective migration.

So, like, concentrating people ...

Version 1.5 is live in the Image_Viewer update site 😁
Visible changes are expained there : forum.image.sc/t/looking-fo...
enjoy!

PIEZO channels are opening the study of mechanosensation in unexpected places The force-activated ion channels underlie the senses of touch and proprioception. Now scientists are using them as a tool to explore molecular mechanisms at work in internal organs…

A wonderful piece by @callimcflurry.bsky.social on how mechanosensitive PIEZO ion channels are being used to explore how our bodies rely on pressure sensing. It is a thoughtfully researched article, with perspectives from many colleagues across the field.
www.thetransmitter.org/interoceptio...