Tim Verstynen

Dive into Wool Creature Lab's World of Vibrant Felted Nudibranchs How artist Arina Bovenich's job at a remote biology research station transformed into a unique craft practice.

A friend shared this with me this morning! Such color, diversity, and squishy cuteness of felted nudibranchs 😍

www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/wool...

I know someone from my hometown who’s a raving racist and ICE supporter, yet married to a Hispanic woman. The cognitive dissonance is befuddling. It’s why epistemology’s insistence on “justified true belief” often feels less like a theory of knowledge and more like a philosophical pipe dream.

This article shouldn’t be necessary but here we are. No matter who you are, you know at least one person who needs to hear this.

Big words @fetterman.senate.gov for a man too cowardly to even show his face in Pittsburgh any more.

We’re sending $1M missiles to take out $10k trucks and Secretary Call of Duty over here thinks that’s so cool that he sounds like it’s physically arousing him.

We are being led through war by children.

How immigration enforcement is affecting a Framingham kindergarten classroom The Framingham school district enrolled 719 fewer students compared to last school year, a "significant drop," said superintendent Bob Tremblay. While there are other factors driving the decline, the ...

Empty seats tell the story of Trump's cruelty in Massachusetts. A Framingham kindergarten teacher watched seven of her students disappear this year, their families torn apart by ICE. We're fighting back - in court and everywhere else.

With this war on Iran costing $1B per day, we are now at 4$B, an amount that would fund 3,200 five year NIH biomedical research grants.

How Kennedy Is Trying to Revamp Medical School

RFK Jr & McMahon wrote a vile letter to my medical school telling us we must stop generating a diverse medical workforce or they'd destroy us

🚨 He's also now forcing US medical schools to adopt HIS KOOKY CURRICULUM that "draws heavily on the work of Dr. Casey Means"

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

This is an absolutely bonkers statistic.

Yet this administration is trying to spend $500 billion on the military (that the Pentagon did not want and is having trouble spending) and the Trump administration is now asking for $50 billion more.

While teachers are having to do side hustles…

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

Know what water fluoridation is correlated with?

Fewer cavities.

Lower heath costs.

Increased equity as a universal heath benefit.

Likely lower rates of heart disease by reducing rates of Streptococcus mutans in the blood stream.

Which again, lowers heath costs and increases equity.

Time-lapse of various species of mushrooms growing

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The answer to problems in sociotechnical systems is not always "more software", "better software" or "open source software".
A lot of the time the best solution is _less software_ and sometimes even _no software_.

Too bad we let a drug addled tech bro and his team of misfit 4chan acolytes gut the USAID programs that were used to establish connections to dissonant groups and garner public support for US interests, like say initiating an uprising against a weakened regime.

Americans Stranded in the Middle East Aren’t Getting Help from the State Department “Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation,” a State department hotline said when NOTUS called Tuesday afternoon.

NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it.

We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."

Rubio just called the War Powers Act “unconstitutional”. Apparently any constraint on the Executive Branch is “unconstitutional” now that he sits in it.

Nit really. Just disappointed

Deep learning approaches to map individual differences in macroscopic neural structure with variations in spatial navigation behavior Understanding the association between structural properties of the human brain and individual differences in behavior is an ongoing endeavor, challeng…

From @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social's lab:

Deep learning approaches to map individual differences in macroscopic neural structure with variations in spatial navigation behavior

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Multiple demand" network cognitive control interrogation across humans and macaques. Lateral PFC more functionally heterogeneous in humans than NHPs. Very cool translational work from @markboxf.bsky.social and colleagues!
doi.org/10.64898/202...

This is an interesting discussion. While a Bayesian at heart, I find that most technical things can be done with either approach if you're skilled enough, but the different approaches make different things easier. Bayes4TW w convergence, priors, workflows and top reason bespoke modeling.

Satellite images show how Antarctica’s vanishing sea ice is changing the food chain With the loss of sea ice, tiny filter feeders known as ‘salps’ can thrive, while shrimp-like krill lose out.

With the loss of sea ice, tiny filter feeders known as ‘salps’ can thrive, while shrimp-like krill lose out.

I want to walk you through why it’s nearly certain Trump’s Iran War is going to be a massive, deadly, trillion dollar failure. And why you should be furious he’s set us on this path.

I love how MAGA is having a public civil war over Trump’s actions on Iran right now, but the New York Times headlines “subtle divisions” among Democratic politicians who unanimously oppose the war. Only one short paragraph, buried in the middle, even mentions the internal GOP conflict.

If you like Carl’s style (to which I strongly agree) then you might like Zoey Schlanger. Her book The Light Eaters was almost poetic in its style and managed to balance the depth/breadth issue of talking about science in a beautiful way.

www.zoeschlanger.com/the-light-ea...

Nope. Just disappointed

Making Americans Unsafe Again

I see this a lot from folks who stay on Twitter/X too long. It’s like a knee jerk reaction to anything that doesn’t conform to your immediate world view. Confirmation bias on steroids

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The price of gas at the station near my house went up 10 cents/gallon in 24hrs because President “Art of the Deal”
decided that talking and negotiating weren’t useful.