❤️ I discovered Terry Pratchett late, and can't get enough.

One of the many many lines from Terry Pratchett's Equal Rites that made me crack up. A joke about the ignorance that lies at the heart of so many types of expertise: "They both savored the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were ignorant of only ordinary things"

As Biolabs Multiply Globally, Some Experts Worry About Oversight India’s policymakers have ambitious plans for pathogen research. Can safety infrastructure keep up?

Since 2021, Indian govt. has made plans to build several new BSL-3/BSL-4 labs, that handle dangerous pathogens, to conduct critical health research. Michael Schulson and I looked into how these labs are regulated, and the politics of biosafety, for @undarkmag undark.org/2025/01/02/u...

The boring truth about some of the interventions that are played up as sure-shot remedies for better mental health. Does exercise help? Yes, of course. But is it better than medication or other interventions, in all scenarios? The answer to that is probably very complicated.

Hello, new app with a "decentralised nature"