M. Drew LaMar

❗️RFK Jr. wants to link Tylenol use during pregnancy with autism, despite the best evidence saying otherwise.

Here’s why this is a dangerous claim...🧵

A placard with a C#/JavaScript code reference about privacy and mutability of gender.

Code Nerds for trans rights in Edinburgh.

This #NationalLibraryWeek, watch a preview of an upcoming documentary from Structure Films about the #InternetArchive's fight to defend online freedom & public access to knowledge.

Full clip ➡️ vimeo.com/1056104575/d...
Support ➡️ fiscal.thegotham.org/project.cfm/...

Title slide for the OEE-RCN talk at SGX3 webinar.

Drew LaMar @mdlama.me and I will be presenting a webinar for the SGX3 Science Gateways Community tomorrow at 3ET on our Research Coordination Network around the intersection of open science and open education. Feel free to join us.
sciencegateways.org/sgx3webinars
@bioquest.bsky.social

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

Some folks have asked, given recent news, “how do I show my friends/family the impact of NSF?” We have some easy Fact Sheets for you! Here’s a brief thread about this website: new.nsf.gov/about/fact-s... which hosts a ton of useful one-pagers.

If I'm interpreting this correctly, it is going to have a massive impact on science in the U.S.🧪

"...there will be a standard indirect rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs in lieu of a separately negotiated rate for indirect costs in every grant."
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Hassan, through tears: "I am the proud mother of a 36 year old with severe cerebral palsy. And a day does not go by when I don't think about what I did I do when I was pregnant with him... So please do not suggest that anybody in this body doesn't want to know what the cause of autism is"

Powerful

How does this compare to pandoc?

Uncertainty is part of being human, so how can we learn to live with it? A professor of statistics explains that living is about taking risks and not knowing the outcome, and why it’s important to accept and embrace that My father was an enthusiastic traveller, but as he got older he increasingly suffered from what he called…

Uncertainty is part of being human, so how can we learn to live with it?

Relevant @veritasium-science.bsky.social

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🚨 www.defense.gov/News/News-St...

I have 214.6K followers, and I figure at least some of them are looking to gift books this holiday season, so:

HEY AUTHORS OF BLUESKY: In the comments to this post, tell us (briefly!) about your most recent book, and put in a link to where people can learn more and/or buy the book in question.

Go!

Tommy Cappel, who co-founded the group Beats Antique, says the Archive is “hugely valued in the music community” for its preservation of everything from rare recordings to live sets. “This is important work that deserves to continue for generations to come, and we don’t want to see everything they’ve already done for musicians and our legacy erased,” he added. “Major labels could see all musicians, past and present, as partners — instead of being the bad guy in this dynamic. They should drop their suit. Archives keep us alive.”

Hundreds of musicians are speaking out against the recording industry’s lawsuit against our library for preserving 78rpm records 👉 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... (🚫🧱)

Want to show your support? ⬇️

YouTube video by Benn Jordan PSA - Musicians Are Being Misled Out Of Their AI Rights

Musicians, this is probably the most important message I have for you this year.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXnE...

🎶That’s me in the equator

it's kinda sad that digital work is so hidden

like there's no messy study room or bookshelves full of works you've read or letters from people and gizmos and widgets you've built or stacks of drawings and diagrams

it's all just, hidden in folders, already lost in space, and eventually lost to time

Two Burmese cats sleeping face-to-face in the shape of Yin and Yang symbol.

Yin & Yin

Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)

Sunday is usually Jazz Day around here and seeing it’s December…