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You might know the Negroni, and the Negroni Sbagliato. I humbly suggest my creation: the Negroni Sporco (dirty Negroni).

Equal parts:
Campari
Carpano Antica
Gin
- classic Negroni plus:

Fernet Branca - the dirt.

Layers in more bitter to balance the vermouth, plus adds some light mintiness.

Every day feels like Friday the 13th now.

Person using lawnmower with a Twister bearing down upon his yard

Principal Investigator submitting grant proposals for federal funding

Circa June 2025

Every year I hope that Dallas gets knocked out of the playoffs by having a goal scored against them that absolutely 100% was illegal and should have been waved off after review. Buffalo craves revenge.

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

This is high art

Wonderwall!

A research scientist at a major university who voted for Trump: I am an NIH-funded biomedical scientist with conservative leanings. I know at least a dozen scientists (a small closeted minority) who voted for Trump, largely because of frustrations with DEl and extreme wokeness that had permeated every aspect of University life. Each one of us deeply regrets their vote for Trump and are utterly ashamed of it. We are absolutely horrified at how mindlessly destructive this admin has been to scientific institutions. They are single-handedly destroying the STEM dominance US established over decades. Average Americans simply do not realize that we are now on the verge of a precipitous decline in STEM. We all admit that the warnings about Trump/MAGA were on target, and the thing we argue about now is whether the damage is even reversible. All the Lefty overreach was annoying as hell but the MAGA disdain for science is 100X worse.

"I am an NIH-funded biomedical scientist with conservative leanings. I know at least a dozen scientists who voted for Trump, largely because of frustrations with DEl and extreme wokeness that had permeated every aspect of University life.
Each of us deeply regrets their vote..."

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oh look y'all… a way to contact Schumer despite the fact he's doing his slimy, wiggly best to dodge the american people:

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these are schumer's chief of staff and legislative director… two of the most critical staff positions:

I think it come in second behind “put only one figure on each slide”

Labeling your axes and then explaining them slowly is perhaps the biggest bang for the buck you can get for making your slides more understandable.

UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR

A few thousand standing up for science in San Francisco #standupforscience

Standing up for Science in Iowa City

“This is the time to actually stop this, before things get really bad.” -Annamaria Vranceanu from the Mass General Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research, whose work helps people with dementia, chronic pain, &more and their caregivers #standupforscience

#StandUpForScience Big crowd at the Lincoln Memorial enjoying sage words (and even a song!) from Dr. Francis Collins.

With @ethzurich.bsky.social colleagues & friends, we decided to #StandUpForScience this afternoon to express our support for our US colleagues. Science is a common good. Thanks to all those who joined so spontaneously!
@usyseth.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social

#StandUpForScience

Woman in a colorful dress with science motifs standing next to a man whose shirt says pretend I'm a school bus

Ms. Frizzle in the House #standupforScience

A woman holds a sign that says Colorado Loves Science

At the #StandUpForScience march in Denver

Puffer coats and fleece aplenty as #standupforscience kicks off in Seattle — med student Anders Ledell recycled a Godzilla Halloween costume to advocate for basic research

Une salle du college de france pleine de journalistes !

Salle comble au Collège de France pour la conférence de presse #StandUpForscience France.

Short snippet of my speech today at the #StandUpForScience rally in DC, with the Lincoln Memorial behind me (courtesy of @ianlivingston.bsky.social)

Nature journalists will be at #StandUpForScience protests across the US later today; and in France the actions have already begun. Events will take place in more than 30 French cities, says @standupforscifr.bsky.social

🔬A un moment où la #science fait l’objet de mises en causes préoccupantes aux Etats-Unis 🇺🇸 (censure, arrêts de grands programmes et annonce de licenciements massifs dans la recherche publique), INRAE soutient le mouvement #StandUpForScience ✊
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Grande mobilisation #standupforscience a Lyon, pl. des Terreaux. Plusieurs centaines des personnes !