Note the analysis on the discordance between the health and economic burden of endometriosis vs relative federal investment in research. TL:DR, very bad.
www.owlposting.com/p/endometrio...
Thinking of starting a new party business in which I bring around a soundproof booth with padded walls so people can take turns going in and screaming. Just screaming and thrashing and getting it out.
Available for your next kids birthday party, holiday shindig, or book club meeting.
The people with the most money-fueled power have always been envious of what can’t be bought, and sought to diminish and destroy it.
The #NIH comprises less than 1% of the federal budget. 80% of that is allocated to universities and research institutions. That $$ ($36B) yielded $94 BILLION in new economic activity in 2025.
sometimes I wonder why everyone on here is so on edge all the time and then I remember that we are all living with a constant stream of horrors going by too fast for any of us to process
“Ancient peoples who could trade genes could surely also trade ideas. Understanding such multiregional connections has long been important to my own work: Episodes of gene flow, idea exchanges, and coevolution of genes and cultural adaptations.”
www.johnhawks.net/p/did-levall...
The first 3 Qs you need to be answer if you’re thinking about running for office:
1) What’s the problem you care about solving?
2) What office gives you power to solve it?
3) Why should voters want you to win?
The rest is logistics (& that’s what @runforsomething.net specializes in!)
NEWS: The Trump administration is reviewing DACA renewals so slowly that the delays are causing people to lose their jobs, licenses, and deportation protection. It’s happening across the country. Our Sunday story with @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/15/d...
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We’ve really weaponized the concept of resilience in the shittiest possible ways
I know why pieces like this focus on places like Harvard, and I understand that the ability to ride out what this regime is doing is admirable and a compelling narrative, but MANY MORE will leave or stop doing science altogether and their loss is important too
"The law does not make it a crime to take misoprostol, and the law hasn't changed. It is still not a crime to take misoprostol."
It appears it’s too much to ask for police not to file wrongful charges, but a DA dismissed a case almost exactly like this one. State law requires them to do it again.
Yes, that’s the issue. I’ve been trying to find a way to articulate this: to the extent that LLMs serve a purpose in education, it’s an indictment of the education system, not a praiseworthy feature of LLMs.
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Y'know, since Nancy Drew is public domain now, you could make a video game where she's a precocious homeschooled 16yo, claiming to be 30 years older and absolutely DOMINATING an online cold case forum. like, five cleared cases under her belt, pretending to be a retired cop named Sherman.
I read this EXCELLENT article yesterday advancing us past lamenting false symmetry to consider what follows if our politics were truly asymmetric, such that only one side had broken the bonds of civic friendship & seeks to subordinate their fellow citizens: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
I was just reading @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's great essay on not meeting Nazis halfway the other day (lithub.com/rebecca-soln...), & she makes an interestingly related argument.
I'd be interested in her take here; it feels like her imperative of 'inviting them to come over' is distinct from this?
Desperately worried for all the early career and established researchers who cannot rely on philanthropy or rainy day funds to start or keep their labs funded while this regime, and the OMB in particular, dismantle federal funding agencies
“No for-profit company could possibly withstand all the false leads required by that process,” he recalled telling them, “all the weird, random science that never panned out.”
Super grateful for this piece highlighting the threats to this country’s biomedical research infrastructure
NYT feature on their website's front page about our local C. elegans colleague Will Mair and NIH funding
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
Have not had the chance to cook for friends for a while- busy with work, travel and the general state of the world 😳 this weekend afforded me that luxury.
The greenest thing I know how to make is also the most delicious. It's the cover star my third cookbook, a celebration of roasted garlic butter and fresh greens, tangled with spaghetti and it's the kind of recipe we made once then again and again.
smittenkitchen.com/2022/11/gree...
What I kept thinking about, reading all these horror stories of working at Noma, is how the restaurant’s exceptionality, its sheer extraordinariness, was essential to its culture of abuse — the institution weaponized its status. My @newyorker.com column ⬇️
OK, this Tucker Carlson impression on Saturday Night Live last night is uncanny! Has all the verbal tics and go-to phrases down, and nails the high-pitch cackle.
holy shit I found this on the street
Yeppers. "several professors spoke about concerns that AI will exacerbate a widening divide in US higher education and that small numbers of elite students will have access to a more traditional, largely tech-free liberal arts education,
If you need a few laughs amidst this hellscape:
The 2026 Academy Awards have (finally) arrived. Here’s the full list of Oscar winners, updating live.
Read @sjjphd.bsky.social's brilliant book A Second Sight this weekend. With Sinners leading the Oscars with historic noms, she offers a crucial framework & context: Black mediamakers as visionaries at the vanguard of telling the true American story, pushing the nation toward its purported values.
Oh, OK
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...
