Madhusudan 🦉 Katti

Stroke survivors can counterintuitively improve recovery by strengthening their stronger arm – new research Rehabilitation from stroke has traditionally focused on improving the function of the most severely affected arm. But training the other arm might actually lead to more gains.

Strengthening the stronger arm in stroke survivors can improve everyday hand function, in some cases even better than focusing only on the most impaired arm. Neurologists explain their new study. buff.ly/q06GED2

‘Frustrating and Demoralizing’: The Measles Comeback Gets Worse The disease is exploding in South Carolina, we’re about to lose elimination status, and RFK Jr.’s team says it’s just the “cost of doing business.”

CDC Deputy Director Ralph Abraham was asked if he was concerned about the US losing measles
elimination status. “Not really,” he responded, explaining that it was the “cost of doing business” in a world of global travel—as if global travel weren’t a thing 5-10 years ago, when measles was rare.

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The dissonance that the 'remigration' folks have about being proud of their 'European' heritage, and yet disavowing the multicultural, democratic Europe of today, makes more sense when one views it through the lens of settler colonialism--that land is 'their' land, and this land is 'theirs' too.

Google trends charge from 2005 when investigation opened to today. It's a flat line until 2018 when the stories from The Miami Herald came out.

Because there is a lot of guilt by association for people who interacted with #Epstein after his 2008 misdemeanor conviction, I think we should remember it was Julie K. Brown and The Miami Herald that made his rape club common knowledge in 2018. His crimes were not common knowledge before then.

Trump Drops Demand for Cash From Harvard After Stiff Resistance

The Trump administration is no longer trying to get cash from Harvard as it seeks a settlement. At this point, the White House seems happy to get a signature on anything they can call a compact.

As someone who is often reluctant to admit I am an alum, they are leading the way on this issue!

Probably not a coincidence that scientists who turned down Epstein were in countries that take state funding of scientific research seriously, so they had less reason to be tempted by offers of private support from a billionaire pedophile looking to launder his reputation

WOW and good for them

Day 2: John Blanke 🧶

John Blanke was a Black trumpeter at the Tudor court, best known from the Westminster Tournament Roll of 1511, commissioned during the reign of Henry VIII. Blanke appears twice in the ms & is shown wearing the same livery

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#BHM #yarnsky #yarnmarket #blackhistorymonth

Wake up

Oh Lord

When I said that I saw parallels between Milhoan saying he saw a great opportunity to learn from uncontrolled measles in the US & Stabell Benn planning a study in Guinea-Bissau to learn from withholding the hep B vaccine birth dose in newborns, I didn’t realize they had teamed up before!

"See also Magna Carta"

This field course is an amazing opportunity- Dr. Liv Baker is a colleague, a force for animals, and a wonderful educator and human. Please share! #elephants #Asianelephants #animalbehavior #conservation #fieldcourse

Hey folks who been tweeting at us all weekend

TIME TO GO OUTSIDE

I think that the crucial insight for dealing with Trump is that he has never experienced any meaningful consequences in his entire life and as a result, deterrence does not work on him the way it does for others.

How to Film ICE Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

Aaaand @wired.com is still slaying with the public accountability reporting amid current dystopia/the administration's assault on the constitution. A handy legal guide for documenting atrocity so that those responsible can be (hopefully) held to account:

It is definitely true that the vast majority of people -- even reasonable, well-educated people -- have no idea how bizarre, confusing, and irrational U.S. immigration law is. I only know enough to know how little I know, and I only know that because I have friends who are immigration attorneys.

John Lithgow defended his participation in the upcoming Harry Potter TV series, while also saying he found J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans views “ironic and inexplicable” in light of the content of her books.

Read: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Phylogenetic Comparative Methods in R Dates 15-19 June 2026

Interested in Phylogenetic Comparative Methods?

Registrations are now open for our next edition of the course with Alex Dornburg & Amandine Gillet in June!

If interested: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

#Rstats #Phylogenomics #ComparativeMethods

And the “Sociobiology” revolution started by Wilson, Trivers, et al, keeps on giving! 🤮

Can’t even feel good about being vindicated in my instinctive icky feeling about the whole field when I first encountered it as a teenager, and deeper despair as I later saw it morph into evo psych! Just… 🤢 🤮

Spelling Bee needs more science. It has tons of medical terms, but in the past week or so it has rejected gluon, ethology and hyphae 😕

@rapiduplift.bsky.social you’ve probably seen this already…

A couple of January lesser mohavea wildflowers sneaking in a bloom, Death Valley

Need something uplifting (OK, uplifted) for your Monday? Check out our new issue! #Evolution #Systematics

Lmaoooo time to break out the famous old man working construction ads

Books on Anarchism that aren’t by Epstein’s besty, Noam Chomsky

ICE in Minnesota – Days 57-62: Masses Protest ICE While Violence Continues and Feds Indict Journalists - UNICORN RIOT Minneapolis, MN – In the week after the third shooting, and second killing, by federal law enforcement in the Twin Cities, the landscape has somewhat shifted while the federal occupation under Operati...

“For some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned” - U.S. District Judge Fred Biery - from the ruling releasing Liam Conejo Ramos
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‘Fascism is here now’: the US athletes pushing back on Trump’s America World Series winner Sean Doolittle, Super Bowl champion Doug Baldwin and college star McKenzie Forbes have strong opinions on a troubled era

All the more reason why athletes should say something.

People are listening.

www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota.

This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup.

Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.