Jessie Slater PhD

The lost Lego still washing up after 28 years From dragons to wands, pieces lost from a cargo ship in 1997 continue to wash up around the world.

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Percentage of US lawmakers who will do anything about this

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MOTHERBOARD TECH BY VICE The Louder the Monkey, the Smaller Its Balls, Study Finds Howler monkeys can be well-endowed in the voice box or the family jewels, but not both.

This is about SecDef.

hi, cis folks!

trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too.

we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi

info & script in the🧵⬇️

From my little thread on “able-bodied” and its origins in the labor laws after the Black Death.

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So exhausting..

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Elderly elf?

I don’t want to hear anything else about what we should or shouldn’t be putting in our bodies (Tylenol, artificial sweeteners, sugar, or fat) until something is done about the BULLETS being put into bodies

Withholding an endorsement for the Democratic nominee for mayor in your own city is bad enough, but then issuing a glowing press release praising the corrupt incumbent no one likes? All while doing fuckall to stand up to Trump?

I swear, he's got the political instincts of an Amish child.

OK. The #Klein + #Remnick lovefest in @newyorker.com is a bridge too far. If I could ask Klein a few questions. Dear Ezra, you suggest that you are still "community" with the far-right, even as many see that as impossible at the moment. 1/

What people should realize about "breaking up the MMR vaccine": Standalone shots for measles, mumps, and rubella are no longer licensed in the U.S.

So convincing parents to demand "separate shots" will lead those parents to a dead end ... because their doctors can't currently provide those shots.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Rest as a productive act I’m a member of an online support group for the autoimmune condition I have and one of the recently diagnosed people wrote a post about how hard it is to cope with the pain and fatigue alongside their...

"Instead of looking at our to-do lists and seeing that we’re being asked to do way more than is reasonable, we assume that we just need to find new ways to become more productive."

meredithfarkas.substack.com/p/rest-as-a-...

#Yunxian 🏺🧪
Reconstruction of Yunxian 2, identified as an early member of the Homo longi (Dragon Man) lineage.

This group also contains other Chinese and Denisovan fossils. Phylogenetic analyses suggest heidelbergensis, neanderthalensis, sapiens and longi lineages all originated more than 1 mya.

What if NIH had been 40% smaller? Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

No clue, but the patina is gorgeous!

Aggressive squirrel seeking food sends at least two people to ER in California ‘Very mean’ animal, appearing out of nowhere and clawing and biting people’s legs, still on the loose in Bay Area city

Innocent.

Gold standard science requires gold standard scholarship Scientists often casually refer to research and “library work” as separate endeavors. Research involves the execution of experiments in the laboratory whereas library work means finding references to ...

'Treating careful scholarship as somehow less important than the acquisition of data can adversely affect the reliability of the scientific record & consequently, the course of science. In today’s tense environment around science & politics, meticulous scholarship has never been more important.' 🧪📚

Whose papers have an edge at Science? In unusual study, journal looks in the mirror Confidential data show being in the U.S., at a prestigious institution, and in a large team all may help

'The study shines a light on potential biases in acceptance and where they may arise in the complex process of choosing papers for publication.' 🧪📃📚

@nerdychristie.bsky.social 😁

ChatGPT is probably the biggest honey pot of willingly-turned over highly confidential information that has ever been created in human history.

The Poison Pill to End the MMR is Tylenol If you think Tylenol is bad for babies, wait until you hear about rubella virus

Yesterday's Tylenol press conference was at "inject bleach" levels of insanity, but it also revealed the plan for cancelling the MMR. Here's how I think this is going to go down.
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The Man Calling Bullshit on the AI Boom Ed Zitron built a massive following by saying what tech journalists won't: that generative AI is an unsustainable bubble propped up by hype and bad math.

Had a great time talking to @parkermolloy.com about my work on the AI bubble

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You've Worn the “Protect the Dolls” Shirt. Here's How to Actually Live Up to the Slogan “Give Money Directly to Doll.”

"'The harsh reality is that it tends to be trans people saving each other,' Angel says. 'If we could depend on cis people to protect us, then maybe we wouldn’t need to fundraise, or share each other’s mutual aid posts, or even do this interview.'"

Black rhinos are a critically endangered species. Here in Kenya, they suffered a catastrophic 98% decline between 1970 and 1983, as poaching decimated their population. But today, Kenya’s black rhinos are growing in number. In honour of #WorldRhinoDay, read Chamboi’s full story: swt.bio/chamboi

U just never know who you're gonna meet at the London Pets Live

Issy the African Giant Pouched Rat meets Isi the Scribe!

These cuties are literally saving lives by being trained to sniff out landmines and tuberculosis in placess like Cambodia & Tanzania.

#pets #herorats

@herorats.bsky.social