Jung Choi "not going back!"

US forces land in Iraqi western desert, clash with Iraqi troops, leave one dead: Sources A US special force has landed in desert areas in Iraq’s Anbar, Najaf and Karbala provinces, resulting in reported clashes with Iraqi forces that left one soldier dead and two others wounded, according...

Secretary of Lethality Maxxing doing a bang up job

"A US special force has landed in desert areas in Iraq’s Anbar, Najaf and Karbala provinces, resulting in reported clashes with Iraqi forces that left one soldier dead and two others wounded, according to Iraqi officials and security sources."

Frankly, not holding my breath. Dem Senators seem to think nominees from Senatorial ranks deserve respect and courtesy. See Rubio.

Amen!

Sincerely hoping someone steps up! Seems like an especially opportune time to take advantage of Trump's stumbles to crest a national blue wave this year.

Hoping for a domino effect - just the first to topple.

Trump fires Kristi Noem as DHS chief, names Sen. Markwayne Mullin to replace her Stepping in as acting secretary is GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma who Trump said had "Wisdom and Courage required to Advance our America First Agenda."

For those who wish not to patronize NYT:
www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...

How a DHS shooting of a third U.S. citizen went unnoticed for months No state or federal agency disclosed that a Homeland Security Investigations agent had killed Ruben Ray Martinez until it was revealed in a public records request.

“Martinez is now the first known American citizen shot to death by federal immigration agents during President Donald Trump’s second term.” Gift article: wapo.st/40d1rzS

Dang! Flu virus stealing cap from a baby.

If you can't outright reject the additional $$, at the very least wring concessions. Fund ACA subsidies, restore Medicaid & SNAP benefits, claw back equal amounts of ICE/CBP funding, etc. Don't just roll over!!

Critic of FBI’s Fulton County raid is not seeking reelection Saira Draper has represented her east DeKalb County district since 2022.

Then will Becky Evans run for the seat she lost to Draper in 2024 as a result of redistricting?
www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/03/04/c...

Satellite imagery shows strike that destroyed Iranian school was more extensive than first reported The images suggest that precision munitions struck other buildings, including a clinic that was also inside the complex.

Precision strikes still cause horrific collateral civilian casualties if the targeting info is out of date. www.npr.org/2026/03/04/n...

Yet, this well-documented pattern did not appear among Black participants. The data provides evidence that Black women do not shy away from competition, nor are they any less willing to take financial risks than Black men. This suggests that the broad behavioral generalizations scientists have made about men and women for years are heavily skewed by predominantly White study samples.

*looks at camera Black womanly*

I won't be in town for this #StandUpForScience march this Saturday (March 7), but I urge all of my science-loving peeps in the Atlanta area to show up & represent for science in Georgia. 🧪

The most useful advice from this review:

- Randomize samples across batches during study design
- Include reference samples in every batch

Assessing and mitigating batch effects in large-scale omics studies Batch effects in omics data are notoriously common technical variations unrelated to study objectives, and may result in misleading outcomes if uncorrected, or hinder biomedical discovery if over-corrected. Assessing and mitigating batch effects is ...

Paper: Yu et al. (2024) Genome Biology
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PM...

Batch effects once caused 162 patients to be misclassified.

28 of them received incorrect or unnecessary chemotherapy.

The culprit? Contaminated RNA extraction that introduced technical artifacts into the data.

BREAKING: Babe, wake up. New war just dropped. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

It’s Election Day, Texas!

It’s Election Day, North Carolina!

It’s Election Day, Arkansas!

Please get out and vote in the primaries!

Dear lord. Some DACA recipients have been here since they were toddlers.

Please read. This is the clearest explanation I have seen of the danger of relying on AI, not only at the tactical level of your own research but even more worryingly at the strategic level of corrupting our entire knowledge base. Serious stuff that I wouldn’t have spotted.

No congress, no constitution, and a king.

What a way to celebrate 250 years.

Great news in treatment of human African trypanosomiasis #IDSky

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.

The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.

He spent a year in jail for this.

We've got beyond the practice of agents wearing masks to outright deception and abuses of trust. The lesson they are teaching the public is to not trust their government.

Meet the neuroscientist running for Congress Sam Wang, a neuroscientist running for the U.S. House of Representatives, has been interested in “fixing bugs in democracy” for decades.

I spoke with Laura Schenkman at The Transmitter about my candidacy for the House!

Going from the lab to public life is a huge transition. From a lifetime of research to biotech to democracy to running for office, here’s the story of one scientist: www.thetransmitter.org/policy/is-th...

Thank you for seeing the need and getting engaged. Best of luck in succeeding the retiring Bonnie Watson Coleman in the 12th Congressional District of New Jersey.