Dr. Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈

I think it's a good thing, because it shows students that science is iterative and how it changes. I do think this is a general biology thing: I remember similar lectures about the history of the field in genetics, microbiology, and biochemistry too, usually in the context of specific experiments.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

I've shared multiple articles about the ICE raid at 75th & South Shore Drive because no one of them captures everything important:
-simmering tensions over Venezuelan migrants into a Black neighborhood that is the eviction capital of Chicago
-prior deplorable conditions & lack of maintenance

(That said, most of them already know. I've been lucky enough to have known a lot of savvy undergrads.)

Absolutely. I am pretty realistic with them about the level of uncertainty going on right now, and then we talk about the political will necessary to return these industries to some kind of solid footing. It's really hard, and it sucks, but I don't think it's kinder to not share truth of situation.

“Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated. But . . .”

This is one of those rare instances where what follows “but” is not terrible—not throat-clearing weasel words—but something glorious.

Where have I been the past couple months? Working on a project that will feature #DisabledInSTEM chemists who pushing the boundaries of their fields! Can't wait for that to go live Monday!

Until then, I invite you to read about 8 disabled scientists who left a lasting mark on modern chemistry. ⬇️

Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman remembered as funny, savvy and 'a true leader' Friends and colleagues remembered her as grounded, kind and compassionate.

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

Emmett Till’s Cousin Is Running for US Senate in Mississippi Priscilla Williams-Till, a cousin of Emmett Till, is running for U.S. Senate in Mississippi against incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith.

Priscilla Williams-Till, a cousin of 14-year-old lynching victim Emmett Till, is running for U.S. Senate in Mississippi as a Democrat against incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.

She says that Hyde-Smith's infamous remark about being "on the front row" at a public hanging helped inspire her to run.

Trump shares video highlighting discredited theory linking vaccines to autism Trump’s post comes just days after Kennedy was grilled by senators, including multiple Republicans, on his stance on vaccines.

While the Trump administration consistently cuts grants focused on autism, Trump is just spreading misinformation around autism and vaccines. As I wrote in my book, Trump has long played footsies with anti-vaxxers going back to his friendship with Bob Wright.
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

The other thing I would look for is players running "rescues" that take abandoned or cheaply-sold pets in and then try to level them up or otherwise make them marketable and seek to get other people to take them in. THAT I can certainly find people still trying to do, usually ignored by others.

Most of this kind of "rescue virtual pet animals from harm" behavior is annoying to other players, so this genre of game tends to actively discourage it these days. If I had to guess where it'd be most common, I'd try Howrse (large, younger-skewing userbase last I checked) or maybe Wolvden?

They actually used to have a spay/neuter function that was mostly used by "rescue" oriented players, which was removed when the site transitioned from beta specifically because the function mostly created friction. I also see that the "no" list contains "no taking dogs away if not cared for".

Part of it is that game designers have gotten better about simply streamlining away distress. My older game, Furry Paws, actively has a faq "not happening, stop asking" sticky with 3 rules (from 12) intended to discourage this kind of "rescuing" player approach.

www.furry-paws.com/forum/topic/61268

hm! you know, I cannot. Both of the games I play now I play pretty asocially & the one that isn't 20 years old has the most dogshit forum search function. I might be misremembering it (Furry Paws) from the first time I played it (mid-late aughts, up through 2010ish) or thinking of another game.

I still play virtual pet games, and you still routinely do see people crusading against the abuse of simulated animals. It never went away, even though these games have faded in popularity from their peak.

Thinking these people have to be competent in order to create effects that benefit them is actually a really dangerous conflation

We have at least one example of a species that has been domesticated but for which we have lost the domestic strain completely, while the wild species continues to exist: the culpeo of South America and the (now extinct) Fuegian dog of the Selk'nam people.

No, they wouldn't--horses are descended from the extinct tarpan, for the most part. Ponies are all feral at this point.

Evolution of thumbnails across Rodentia The unguis (hoof, claw, or nail) of the first digit (D1, also known as the thumb or pollex) of the tetrapod hand exhibits numerous functional adaptations, but its macroevolutionary association with ec...

You learn something new every day: apparently rodent thumbs are super cool! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

He's exploiting what sociologists call the availability heuristic: the more people hear about something, the more common they assume it to be.

If he can spew vaccine skepticism all over the airwaves, then he can create the perception that such skepticism is more widespread than it is. 1/

I did! You too!

Hey it's Erin from the protest!

To be clear, they’re standing on the sidewalk immediately in front of the buildings the shooter fired from, across the street from CDC. I was a crying wreck the whole time, including over this.

It happens in private schools and public schools; in Catholic Churches and AME churches; in gay nightclubs and country music festivals; in blue cities and red cities. We are all of us the victims of our politicians’ failures and cowardice.

r/ancientrome u/eventualdeletion25 • 1h I don't understand how Diocletian just came in and wiped away many old traditions. Where was the Senate and Roman people!? It's just incredibly bewildering to mean how this provincial genral who's never been to Rome, never partook in the civic administration of the city, did not even know his Vergil, his Cicero, etc... can just come in and do a clean slate on the empire. Of course, I don't claim to support Carinus, but let's observe how just a few years prior the Romans had Tacitus as their emperor and the Senate was functioning quite well. Why did they just accept the division of the empire? What about the Patricians who owned land and were very close to the city's government? Or how about the priests who were shocked that the Pontifex Maximus would no longer be in the city of Romulus? The court officials who adjudicate with the emperor present? The tutors who instruct and guide the emperor's family? What about the ludi and anniversaries!? The holidays like Saturnalia and the officiating of Lupercalia!? This must have been seen as a monstrous betrayal and slap on the face of the Roman Senate and People. It must have been heartbreaking for the Romans to be put on the back-burner like that. 5少 17

incredible posting is happening in the Reddit Ancient Rome community

"Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated and is derivative of a legacy that good medicine and science should continue to shun."

~Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases resignation letter

This the bravery and solidarity we need right now.

Congratulations! Eminently deserved.

At Harvard, Trump administration cuts hit young scientists hard More than 700 graduate students and nearly 800 postdoctoral researchers at Harvard get salaries, stipends or tuition support from federally funded research.

“We feel like the lost generation.” A story on the collapse of US science, which is hitting young scientists hardest www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...