ClutchScience (Jen Phillips)

I've now received five NIH notice of awards for new or continuing grants since January. Almost enough data to detect some patterns. Here are a few observations. 1/n

This same attitude is running our country now

Was checking who the youngest man to win a mixed doubles slam title was, thinking it was perhaps 17-year-old Richard Gasquet at the 2004 French Open.

Google AI was loud wrong with a guess I knew was wrong.

AI remains terrible and should never be trusted or relied upon. 💫

I cannot stress enough what a huge percentage of the 1000+ Oregon Catholics from 50+ parishes and schools who signed onto our 2023 letter of protest to the Archbishop on behalf of trans/nb kids were cishet parents or grandparents of cishet children who were like "this is simply objectively wrong"

This school rejected a student because his parents are gay. Now some parents are leaving. - LGBTQ Nation “Silence is acceptance,” said one school parent after the kid was kicked out.

shit continues to unfold at St. Agatha y’all

—parents pulling their kids en masse
—teachers resigning
—lemonade stand over the weekend raised $1500 for LGBTQ rights
—protest outside Mass got spicy
—cowardly priest flailing, desperate to pass buck to Archbishop Sample
—the mood is EXPLOSIVE

When I bring the feeder inside to wash and refill it they sometimes hover outside the kitchen window and watch me do it. Hilarious little hooligans

WANT

Remember who your base is. It ain’t racist grandparents

More cis women need to show up to these things. Yes, even in Texas. Especially in Texas.

Neocon columnist Jonah Goldberg posts response to 5-year-old Zohran Mamdani tweet: https://x.com/JonahDispatch/status/1942014424228704365 It says something he’s not deleting these tweets. Original tweet from Zohran Mamdani, giving the finger to a statue of Christopher Columbus: https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1273410176003997697 Take it down.

Christopher Columbus was a bad person who is undeserving of historical honors and who also contributed literally nothing to the history of the United States of America.

This might as well be a statue of the Easter Bunny.

They say unicorns bow to virgin maidens, but they don’t say what happens after they kneel. They don’t say what the horn is for. They say they are gentle, but only in the way a trap is gentle when it waits.

I am still haunted by this poem, "The Myth Was Never The Unicorn," written by one of the teens who participated in the creative writing program at the museum this summer. A reminder that girls are always aware.

Read the full piece and listen to the author recite it: journey75.org/2025/the-myt...

Yawn

Me three months ago:

1) She was a tenured Associate Professor; I will point out firing tenured professors requires a LONG process that includes right to hearing with a lawyer
2) Who knows if it means anything, but she is a first generation #immigrant from Iran who came to US after her PhD

Hope @aaup.org takes this up

A black coffee mug painted with an Indigenous Pacific Northwest artistic rendering of two hummingbirds in flight, depicted in light gray. The mug is resting on a dark metal table and a long shadow of the mug stretches toward the viewer, the result of the morning sun positioned just above the edge of the red umbrella visible in the top of the frame. Out of focus Douglas fir trees behind a deck rail populate the background

Morning Coffee

Quote for a 63x objective. The objective is $12,784. The tariff is $1,661.92

Zeiss 63x objective

We need a new microscope objective. A $1.6k tariff for something that you can hold in your hand and that is only manufactured in Germany

I’m going to die mad that a majority of Alabamans voted this wonderful man out of the senate in favor of Tommy Tuberville

A Not-So-Fond Farewell to Vinay Prasad The Steve Urkel of COVID Twitter turned out to be incompetent at both drug regulation and being an authoritarian apparatchik

Angie Rasmussen takes a blowtorch to Vinay Prasad #scicomm

It’s gorgeous!

ok ok i wrote about it
buttondown.com/theswordandt...

I think step one to getting laid is being capable of considering the fact that many women and enbies also like to fuck, actually

And the unique focus on getting men laid in a way that they enjoy is just patriarchy

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Looks inspirational! Congratulations ❤️

🧪🦣🏺 Who wants to hear a story about biotech billions, unscientific claims, and shoddy smear tactics attacking women in science*?

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*which, for legal clarity, are totally denied as being connected

Exemptions from childhood vaccines for school entry reached record highs for the 2024-2025 school year, with a corresponding drop in vaccine coverage.

This is a disaster, and we can see it in the measles outbreak.

Every state must end exemptions unless in the case of a medical contraindication.

A few months ago there was a TikTok trend of Gen z employees sincerely confused that older customers would ask them product questions. Someone explained that employees used to know things. Then we had to tell them about Radio Shack.

I realized they truly had no idea that things used to…work.

Seeing Kamala Harris openly say that the system is broken was so powerful.

Just having someone in her position say it so candidly without qualification was beyond powerful.

Or live tennis from Montréal? I am so perplexed!

Why is the Tennis Channel re-airing the Gauff-Kudermetova match instead of live tennis from Toronto? 🎾