Kathleen Childs

A picture of a frog on a leaf with the SICB and Skype a Scientist logos on the bottom right with the following words on top: "Call for Artists!" Learn about the latest animal research adn create art inspired by the science at the SICB meeting in Portland, OR. Deadline to apply: dec 12, Project dates Jan 3-7, Stipend $1000"

ARTISTS!
I need your help!

In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.

Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

Trump’s Tariffs Don’t Help Workers. Labor Solidarity Across Borders Does. Nike supply chain workers across Asia are joining with US labor to shift the balance of power.

Nike supply chain workers across Asia are joining with US labor to shift the balance of power.

GRANDE DIA

i would rather watch a video of around the length you generally make than most five hour ones if that helps

Academic intros that go hard

"rejects conventional wisdom around representational politics, form or even what a movie is" -Sight and Sound

good job, straight white boy hivemind

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NEW YORK CITY I.C.E HOTLINE SI VE LA MIGRA LLAMA O ENVÍA UN MENSAJE A +1 (229) 304-8720 6:00 - 18:00

SPREAD THIS FAR AND WIDE

A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.

Glad to see education reporting on the heds here — because this is absolutely an education issue too.

i just dont know

turns out to get in finity growth all you needed to do was multiply it by 74,

This is why I love Ura. He’s facing a generational talent and he just throws everything into it anyways — win or lose, he’s having a great time. #sumo

ok, NOW you're bragging

I'm glad we're finally acknowledging this again. I feel like the discourse has been set far back that we've got to focus on the fundementals

Disability advocate Alice Wong on resistance in the new year: ‘Life is a dumpster fire, but I’m not alone’ The activist, who received a 2024 MacArthur ‘genius’ grant, reflects on a moment that changed her life – and why she finds hope in sci-fi

RIP Alice Wong, author, #HumanRights activist, disabled warrior and fierce with it! Farewell @sfdirewolf.bsky.social
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If you haven't heard of Alice Wong, here's an interview from earlier in 2025 on her receiving a 2024 MacArthur ‘genius’ award.
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www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

a pencil drawing recreating the ending of drakengard's ending E where there is a gigantic woman made of salt towering over a grey tokyo. also banjo and kazooie are there and kazooie is asking if this is the land of the gods.

Banjo-Tooie Ending E

Bandmix is just like tinder also in that people either write one sentence per message or they write one long run-on sentence that doesn't quite answer your question.

(and like basic normie things like bread for all, universal housing, and roses too obviously)

Mandatory education in both basic physics and cooking. Every human being should understand why acceleration is more important than speed and also how to make a soup from the ground up.

Explaining bandmix to babyqueers: "Drummers are like tops. Everyone wants one, but no one wants to try because they think it's too high stress"

Periodic reminder that the Office for Victims of Crime stopped funding services altogether on Oct 1 (unrelated to the shutdown), leaving over 5,000 survivors of trafficking in the lurch, and somehow no one outside the sector talks about it even with all the Epstein buzz

There’s a few groups whose right to unionize isn’t legally protected, but only two who legally *cannot:* military and prisoners

Everyone getting mad at the New York Times for sitting on or suppressing mountains of evidence about Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump need to realize that they had a lot on their plate with trying to keep the country afraid of trans kids and Palestinians

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

ABSTRACT Administration of HIV-1 neutralizing antibodies can suppress viremia and prevent infection in vivo. However, clinical use is challenged by envelope diversity and rapid viral escape. Here, we performed single B cell profiling of 32 top HIV-1 elite neutralizers to identify broadly neutralizing antibodies with highest antiviral activity. From 831 expressed monoclonal antibodies, we identified 04_A06, a VH1-2-encoded broadly neutralizing antibody to the CD4 binding site with remarkable breadth and potency against multiclade pseudovirus panels (geometric mean half-maximal inhibitory concentration = 0.059 ug ml-1, breadth = 98.5%, 332 strains). Moreover, 04_A06 was not susceptible to classic CD4 binding site escape variants and maintained full viral suppression in HIV-1-infected humanized mice. Structural analyses revealed an unusually long 11-amino-acid heavy chain insertion that facilitates interprotomer contacts with highly conserved residues on the adjacent gp120 protomer. Finally, 04_A06 demonstrated high activity against contemporaneously circulating viruses from the Antibody-Mediated Prevention trials (geometric mean half-maximal inhibitory concentration = 0.082 ug ml-1, breadth = 98.4%, 191 virus strains), and in silico modeling for 04_A06LS predicted prevention efficacy of >93%. Thus, 04_A06 will provide unique opportunities for effective treatment and prevention of HIV-1 infection.

This finding potentially opens up new perspectives for the prevention and treatment of HIV infections.
• uni-koeln.de/en/universit...

The study has been published in Nature Immunology. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Do people remember that this same NYT reporter solicited a $30,000 donation from Jeffrey Epstein for a Montessori school and then got pushed out of the Times by Ellen Pollock shortly after?

And he refused to share Epstein's contact info with another NYT reporter assigned to do the piece about him.

is that good

You mean that The Angry American didn't stand the test of time? Gen Alpha aren't all shaking their fists with lady liberty?

This affects you - the audience - more than you think.

Because there are no residual payments on videogames, many actors rely on convention appearances as a replacement income.

Because cons = $, cons have begun expecting talent to make it through YOU (no appearance fee).

You’ve been tip-cultured.