Vinci Parks

@britt-chamberlain.bsky.social #StandUpForScience2025

I see. So what you’re telling me is we need to organize a grassroots, civil-rights-style mobilization of the people to fight for the restoration of the germ theory of disease.

For those who sneer at this:

It doesn't fucking /matter/ if lawsuits like this are meritless. It doesn't matter if it'll get dismissed.

What matters is that companies now know that they will have to spend money defending expensive lawsuits like this from state AGs.

Because they hire women & POC.

Spent this Valentine’s Day with @vincip.bsky.social standing up for science! I’m very grateful that she puts up with my shenanigans - today this included designing stickers with a QR code to contact reps about the current attacks on scientific research.

Did @britt-chamberlain.bsky.social and I have to cut them out by hand because I spent too long on insignificant details? Yes. But that means each one is unique! 🙃

Come early for *limited edition* shiny stickers (the rest are plain and the design will be improved on, so this is your one chance!)

Come early for *limited edition* shiny stickers (the rest are plain and the design will be improved on, so this is your one chance!)

Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling

Might just be me, but this heater for my betta

In a nervous oversight, my dog (and the inspiration for my defense date) was the only one who had her own acknowledgements slide.

To everyone else, I defer to Jane Austen: “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” #phdone

Ah yes, the rubbernecking principle of publishing

this is what long-time Elon watchers call "The Realization": when Elon stumbles into your area of expertise, and you realize everyone just gives the guy the benefit of the doubt because he talks about complicated things people don't pay attention to

Lots of retrospectives at the moment, so you can probably speedrun (watching at 2x of course)

Keeping life exciting in Powerpoint by using both Biorender images (hold shift to resize and change proportions) and inserted images (hold shift to resize proportionally)

Currently: Gracie Abrams “Risk” — my dissertation

Forget Spotify Wrapped, I want a list of songs I’ve put on repeat for days on end, and the corresponding life event.

Cell Type Specific Enhancers for Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.01.626253v1 The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is crucial to primate cognitive functions, but a paucity

Cell Type Specific Enhancers for Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.01.626253v1

If it’s the former, I must have been born old 😂