Heinrich Gompf

View of the #dragonfire from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon

Grade F level diagram of an ostrich skeleton. The pelvis is labelled as a humerus, and sternum appears to be labeled as the pelvis.

The team of Ph.D. level experts in ChatGPT apparently doesn't include any anatomists.

Unbelievable that the HHS Sec pressures a top medical journal (annals of internal medicine) to withdraw a peer-reviewed paper with n=1.2M

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Good: apparently he believes he's gotten the water down to LA. The job is done and he doesn't need to bring any more down.

At any time he could create a drought by opening Shasta and Oroville, flooding the delta, CWP and CVWP. He wanted to do that in Jan when routine pump maintenance stopped him.

if I'm understanding this correctly trump intends to let the water come down to DC

Harvard never should have had these patents in the first place - nobody should be able to patent government funded work - and universities really do misuse their IP portfolios - but man this is some seriously unprincipled and incoherent bullshit.

Is this going to happen in Sitka, perchance?

Ben Lewin and _Cell_ moving the materials and methods to the back of the article, rather than between the Introduction and Results, was one of the worst things to ever happen in the life sciences.

That is a hill that I will die on.

to what extent does the administration intend to use this money to fund things that congress won't, and also, treating states like conquered territories to be dominated is one of those things that really makes you think the goal of these people is to dissolve the union

The Fascinating Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming Training the mind to enter this rare state of conscious sleep may bring surprising benefits.

The Fascinating Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming

www.brainfacts.org/thinking-sen...

Just to give the TL;DR on this one:

*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

A top-down control of stress-induced REM sleep shortening Chouvaeff et al. show that social defeat stress recruits prefrontal projections to the VLPO to selectively shorten REM sleep bouts, even after overall REM amounts return to baseline. This pathway prom...

Interesting study showing that stress shortens REM sleep through an action of the PFC 🧠💤
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Sorry, SRS, but nowhere in either Texas or Florida is ‘open and accessible’ for all attendees.

Try Puerto Rico instead if it’s all about the $$$.

Furthest I've been:

N: Ft Yukon, AK
E: Tokyo, Japan
S: Puno, Peru
W: Oahu (Waialua), HI

Combine harvester started it. Harvesting wheat.

The people who are so ready to call others "communists" institute one of the hallmarks of the Soviet Communist regime: political officers.

We must plant the seeds close together to maximize yield, for the Motherland

The logic of pairing concern about the alleged replication crisis with extra reviews to ensure no duplicative research …..

Mind blowing.

Does Sec 4 ii (A) imply that you can't do scholarship in a particular racial/ethnic group and *only* that group... even if the disease primarily impacts that group? E.g., sickle cell anemia research, or BRCA studies in Ashkenazi Jewish participants?

(i) Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities.

And of course we don't really know what his priorities are on any given day (except A, B, C in subsection ii), so that'll be entirely up to the political appointee.

Ridiculous.

Notice how "Gold Standard Science" is missing from Section 2's definitions, so Trump's commissars can define it however they wish

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab...

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

1/3

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

I think my brain is going to explode.

There is so much bad stuff in here.

Further codifies direct control of all federal grants by the Trump admin for political purposes.

Some fun quotes:

"Discretionary awards must... advance the President’s policy priorities."

#academicsky #edusky

1/x

Answer:

Basically none.

Grant-making authority, by statute, lies with the institute and center directors.

2/2

A message from UC President James B. Milliken On his first day leading UC, President Milliken addresses the suspension of medical and science research funding at UCLA.

"The research across UC saves lives, improves national security, helps feed the world, and drives the innovation economy in California and the nation."

Read the full message from UC President James B. Milliken: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/m...

New hope for Alzheimer’s: Groundbreaking Harvard study finds lithium reverses brain aging - The Boston Globe The research suggests a new approach to preventing and treating the mind-robbing disease.

Funding for this groundbreaking research on Alzheimer's was terminated by the Trump Administration
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/06/m...

What's that line up there in the sky? Is weather happening here in...August??? That's crazy!

[I don't think it's smoke or else it'd be on the Cal Fire map.]

Orexin brunch

*sobs in neuroscientist*