Okay, here’s today’s assignment: celebrate the joy of nudibranchs. First: read this thoroughly wonderful piece on artist Arina Bovenich and her felted nudibranchs. Tiny wool sea slugs. Maximum delight. If this doesn’t spark joy, nothing will.
#Nudibranchs #OceanHoptimism
Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public.
Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCz...
Academia is an environment of people w. unstable social skills in a context that doesn't really value being nice. It revolves around us making an internal (or even external) hierarchy of people whose work is better than others'. Breathe. It's not YOU, it's THEM & the circumstances we live & work in.
That column on the far right is the death of American biomedical science.
Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.
No wonder the tech bros think AI is superior of natural intelligence. This is their reference point. 😲
North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.
Michael Levin lab.
Unreviewable?!! What does that even mean?! Are the DOJ lawyers snorting cocaine off of toilet seats as well?
7/ In reality, my colleagues still inside NIH tell me that their assessments are largely ignored.
Once a grant or application is picked up by the tool, they are almost never able to move the grant forward as is - regardless of the scientific justification.
This week's Thursjay offering has been accepted.
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A study in Nature shows that the single-celled form of a tiny, aquatic organism can turn into a multicellular version by three different routes. The discovery adds insight to the possible origins of multicellular life, suggesting a previously unrecognized degree of flexibility. 🧪
The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"
"The Trump administration on Monday abandoned its attempts to impose potentially crippling executive orders against law firms that refused to capitulate to the president, walking away from its appeal of victories the firms had won against the White House."
Actually yes I am saying that you shouldn’t dehumanize anyone
No exceptions to the rule
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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
The Iranian regime is oppressive and must fall but solidarity with Iranians also means refusing to let their pain be weaponised by other powers pursuing their own agendas.
If you only remember a people's suffering when it serves your geopolitics, you were never on their side.
#AcademicSky
Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet.
OpenAI: We'll do it
We all know what happens to prices when there’s demand, right?!
I am surely getting sick of the AI being shoved down our throats.
A solution in search of a problem.
Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Anthropic CEO says AI company 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands to allow wider use of its tech.
In all fairness, he didn’t know sexual abuse of minors is something serious.
youtu.be/scQJPJtDk_Q?...
Gift link from the NYT story about Axel and Epstein. When I was at Columbia he ran a lab where sexual harassment of women was business as usual. We all knew. We all warned each other.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/n...
If you exclude healthcare jobs, the US labor market has actually declined for the past 24 months straight. And the healthcare coverage cuts have only just barely started to kick in.
More than 1,000 American nurses have been approved to work in British Columbia in less than a year.
Some said they are leaving the U.S. for one reason: President Donald Trump.
Shingrix and Arexvy RSV vaccines show the same protection. They both use the same AS01 adjuvant. I would definitely do a study with just the adjuvant in younger individuals.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
