E. Jean Carroll, one of my personal heroes, took on Trump and won.
She’s one of the bravest people I’ve met.
She shared some thoughts on Trump and Epstein’s awful friendship.
Something something... "business guys should run government"... Even better, a reality TV show business guy.
We deserve every bad thing that is happening to us because we voted for this complete incompetence, chaos and mayhem.
feel this also applies to scientists. The best presenters restate the big picture stuff that may be 'obvious' to other field experts in the room, because expertise is always a minority position
So easy to forget how much you have absorbed that would be exciting & cool for early career researchers
"My name may be forgotten when it comes, but the time will arrive when great outbreaks of cholera will be things of the past. And it is the knowledge of the way in which the disease is propagated which will cause them to disappear"
Happy birthday to John Snow! His name & his work is not forgotten.
Preprint Editors – Development's next step into the preprint landscape
In this Editorial, @reinierprosee.bsky.social, @amjeve.uk and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social announce a call for Preprint Editors in Development. Apply by 30 March.
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
For the record, this is my comment to the journalist on Colossal’s dire wolf.
No.
Some more client journalism from the Guardian here.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
new arrow of time just dropped
Gift link. NYT article about the fallout in one Harvard lab from the vandalism to the NIH.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
This is super cool!
The neuroscience implications are also interesting. Putting developmental stage aside, does the adult brain even need complicated and expensive credit assignment to learn?
Perhaps in situations where the animal is pushed outside its ecological niche (eg experiment tasks)?
God this is depressing, but y'all need to read it
"We are watching brain science gradually move outside the US, boosted by the efforts of the Trump White House, Russell Vought, Project 2025, and Jay Bhattacharya."
My travel to Cosyne was barred by the Trump admin, so I'm here on my personal dime. I care about the COSYNE community, I committed to co-chairing. And I always learn here.
But the worst part about this travel ban is my lab colleagues— students and fellows—couldn't come. /1
A point of contrast.
"Faster than a speeding bullet."
I love watching border collies work.
Trump and his oil-obsessed mega donors are hellbent on killing our planet to extract every last drop of oil—at the expense of our health and environment. With Trump it’s polluters over people, every single time. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/c...
take from grumpy old woman.
The only reason so many ML studies claim you can predict stuff from EEG is because it’s a multidimensional signal with excellent time resolution, so can be chopped up zillions of ways
If you want to have a giggle, here is me on the History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences podcast talking about my life in in the #hiphilangsci and, boy, did I have some lucky breaks hiphilangsci.net/2026/03/15/p...
The complex and emerging landscape of autism - Nature Mental Health - Editorial - 2026 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Now read this SUPERB piece by the inspirational virologist @angierasmussen.bsky.social, “Thirst for revenge—What Jay Bhattacharya has in common with Stalin’s crackpot science seer Trofim Denisovich Lysenko”
It’s a long piece but well worth your time
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/bhattachar...
My take on birthrate discourse: ARE YOU PEOPLE FUCKING INSANE THE PLANET IS WILDLY OVERPOPULATED WE SHOULD **WANT** BIRTHRATES TO GO DOWN WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PSYCHOS
Idan Blank (UCLA, psych) makes the complex intuitive
if you want to learn how LLMs work, watch👇
newly posted to YouTube (no ads)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGMn...
An opinionated Golden-browed Chlorophonia at Paraiso Quetzal Lodge #CostaRica
#birds #nature
Donald Trump is now just openly bragging about interfering in the media. He's the president. He's running a truck over the first amendment here.
NIH funds are not ever going back to real researchers under the new system. It's not about cuts, it's about redefining science as the junk these cargo cultists produce and diverting the NIH budget to that.
Bhattacharya's buddy Kulldorf laid it all out in their "journal" last year. It's all there.
✨Development from the tail up 🦎 Gecko embryo tail glowing with HNK1 🟢 and DAPI 🔵 under the microscope 🔬 Proof that even the tail end of an embryo can be fabulous. 📸 Image by Maria Elena de Ballard #FluorescenceFriday
And so I take that as an opportunity to highlight the dangers posed by @deevybee.bsky.social's "four horsemen of irreproducibility": hypothesizing after results are known (HARKing), low power, p-hacking, and publication bias. www.nature.com/articles/d41... ...3/n
No Kings Day is two weeks away and we’ve already surpassed the total number of events from October’s historic protests. Join us in the streets again on March 28 for the largest protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Great to see this. Many years ago I found a complete set of >100 years of Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science (predecessor to J Cell Sci) in a Dutch antiquarian book store. We scanned these as PDFs but COB have now converted the full archive to HTML 👏
