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They’re no angels. What a series of blunders. And disgusting disregard for their late player and his family.

Today I shared my thoughts with @skirsner.bsky.social of @masslive.bsky.social about the chill that has come over Massachusetts biotech, its causes and its consequences. cc @gilman.bsky.social

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Trump maintains funding freeze at NIH, defying court order The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information.

BREAKING

The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders.

The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.

Newspeak

There are beautiful metaphors in murmurations. Perhaps everyone else already knew this, but I loved learning recently that each starling monitors only the movements of the 7 birds immediately around it. That’s all we need to do to build gorgeous, mobile, protective solidarity.

NY Times review of movie “2073” published 12/27/24

Oh goody! Something to watch while waiting for the next novel in William Gibson’s Jackpot series 😃 @nytimes.com #movie #moviereview #filmreview

Okay, NOW can I unsubscribe?

Wide wide panorama of Sacramento, CA taken from about 20 miles away in Yolo Bypass. Snow capped Sierra Nevade mountains in the background. Downtown Sacramento is in the middle of the pic but only takes up about 1/10 of the width. The rest of the width shows some farm buildings. Water from Yolo Bypass is in the foreground of the picture.

Panorama of Sacramento from #YoloBypass today. Photo made by taking 23 pics (panned little by little) with #NIkonD500 #Nikkor500mm and then stitching together with Adobe Lightroom

Alice Brock was a funny and strong and generous person, and her cookbook is absolutely boss

I hope she was surrounded by love and comfort right up to the end

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Egrets tonight in Harwich MA on Cape Cod. Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max. cc @phylogenomics.bsky.social

Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility They don’t make ’em like they used to!

Last month Roku TVs held a bunch of people hostage, disabling TVs unless they accepted a ToS agreement. I wrote about how we are in a golden age of user hostile consumer products and the pervasive sense that the quality of the things we buy is decaying (GIFT LINK) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

7 years of planning went into this moment

😂

Cool!

Landris mælist á ný og engar vísbendingar um að gosið sé að klárast - RÚV.is Landris mælist á ný við Svartsengi á Reykjanesskaga, en það hafði ekki gerst síðustu daga. Það bendir til þess að jarðhræringar haldi áfram.

I have a strong suspicion that the geologists of Iceland are in a secret competition with each other about who wears the best woollen sweater in interviews.

(Here Kristín is saying that the eruption is still going strong and more magma is accumulating underneath.)

Ordered. Can’t wait to read. cc @josephcox.bsky.social

Cup of Coffee Everything you need to know about baseball, and a few other things, before your first cup of coffee

My Opening Week newsletter subscription sale ends at midnight tonight folks. Last chance to save some money on Cup of Coffee. cupofcoffee.beehiiv.com/upgrade

Key Bridge collapses; search underway for 'up to 20' people in water A search is underway for seven individuals that may be in the Patapsco River, fire officials said.

Holy sh1t. 😱

For those of you who are not from here: it's hard to overstate how important this is to our city, even leaving aside the fact that our very active port seem to be closed for the foreseeable future.

Lilies blooming

Spotted in Cambridge MA yesterday. Does this mean it's spring??

$500K Sand Dune Designed to Protect Coastal Homes Washes Away in Just 3 Days

Map of the Salisbur, MA, area, with red indicating many parts that would be underwater at 3 feet above high tide

Here's what the beach and town in question look like with only 3 feet of sea level rise or storm surge, something tells me half a mil of sand was never gonna cut it

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Brilliant as usual.

Job Opportunity at Arcadia Science

Computational Evolutionary Biologist

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A few days ago I met a pal, an OB-GYN who is working at a service that sends abortion pills (mifepristone and misoprostol) to women who need them in states that ban abortion. She asked me to help spread the word about how to use the service, and asked me to ask you guys to pass on the info. 1/6

Pond with waves reflecting the sun; Sandy beach with scrub bushes and trees

Walk in Brewster on Cape Cod yesterday

This is interesting

Lucky you

deck.blue Get the most out of Bluesky with a multi-column layout

For anyone who's new (or just hasn't seen it yet), if you liked TweetDeck, you may also like Deck Blue. I've tried a couple of TweetDeck replacements and this is the one I like best so far:

We caught the last performance today and it was over the top exuberant and enormously entertaining. Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Knicks beat the defending NBA champs by 38 points at home and the large website that the New York Times purchased to be its nonunionized sports section does not have either a game report or any sort of postgame from it.

Wow!