DrGeezer

Then governor Pence strongly opposed the program as he did other HIV-ptotection measures owing to his (then?) homophobic policies. Economic boycotts against the Hoosier Stacked forced a turnaround. And now this!

Hero with woodwind

Do it!!

Tall order...

He also put butter and salt on his radishes.

My wife and I did post docs at Cornell, she with Adrian Srb, who fits in this genealogy. In those days, early 70's, McClintock would spend a week or two at Ithaca in residence spending hours quizzing and listening to grad students and post docs. She maintained honest curiosity in every encounter.

Rhoades, Emerson, McClintock at top, center to right. The other two? And the dog, I've got no clue. Rhoades didn't talk about that in my classes with him at Indiana in the late 60s.

Barbara McClintock and Marcus Rhoades looking at odd maize kernels in Emerson's fields at Cornell in the late 20s theorizing that genes could jump around.

Lilian Vaughn Morgan's recapture of the escaped white-eyed fruit fly at Columbia, 1910.

Wait, someone on Bluesky is NOT a regular OTM listener? Inconceivable!!

Half staff flag at VW facility in NJ.

Half staff at VW today. Brain says, "Sehr gut"

On linking to a gifted a Bloomberg article on Bluesky, an essential, clear statement from their Terms and Conditions document popped up re arbitration. Bloomberg's practice is in stark contrast to Uber's in a case now before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. share.inquirer.com/g1icIo

Well done.

I'm SHOCKED!

Listened yesterday. Great interview. This week's release of new BSky Terms of Service worth a read. Wonderful.

Uncle Kai speaks...

What's it going to cost us, the viewers/listeners, to fund PBS & NPR?

W congratulates Michael Brown

"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

...blood-dimmed tied forecasts cut from NOAA budget.

Hadn't thought about population genetics in a bit. So I meditate this morning on island populations and the results of being isolated.

Randy Fine is a Nazi. I live in Florida and the things he says are pure Nazi bullshit.

"Budgets are moral documents.". -Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) 7/3/2025.

Among my Indiana University mentors was Marcus Rhodes who had been a graduate student with McClintock at Cornell in the twenties maybe? To say that he idolized her is perhaps an understatement.

2/2. Once, sat next to her at dinner and tried, unsuccessfully, small talk. Not her game. "Do you read?" She looked sceptical. Me-"Novels?" She- "But they're not true!" That's a price paid by genius, I concluded to myself. Today I reflect that no AI agent could comprehend her creativity.

🧵 1/2 We were postdocs at Cornell when she'd come back to work with genetics grad students and Postdocs. She was a kind and insightful mentor to us all, deeply interested in what we were doing.

American College of Physicians: Firing all ACIP members "interferes with the practice of evidence-based medicine and destabilizes a trusted source and its evidence-based process for helping guide decision-making for vaccines to protect the public health in our country."

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

NSF initiates more layoffs amid major agency shake-up The agency will also reassign all remote employees to in-person work at its Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters.

NSF is undergoing a massive shake-up: over 80 senior staff cut, remote work banned, the equity-in-STEM division eliminated, and hundreds of research grants scrapped.

This isn’t budget efficiency—it’s a direct attack on U.S. science, education, and equity.

www.eenews.net/articles/nsf...

How about some basic rules?
--All law enforcement officers should wear identification
--No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks
--All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams
...oh and...
--All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law

Pritzker’s speech in New Hampshire drives presidential campaign buzz The Illinois governor drew wide applause as he urged Democrats to abandon efforts to compromise with “a mad man” when he spoke in a key state on the road to the 2028 presidential nomination.

There are lap dogs and then there are attack dogs. I'm not certain Pritzker is the ideal candidate kudos for conjones and to the speech writer! wapo.st/4cXaWJ0