Take a wild guess

As someone who has cultivated this dynamic in my own relationship, I could tell this is a good match in like less than a second. Y’all need to be having impassioned conversations about all topics, consequential or not!!!

Opinion | NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess

Gift article written by @drkatemarvel.bsky.social What happened/is happening at NASA is happening throughout US sponsored science. The impacts on our trainees/young faculty will take decades to rectify. also as she notes, be wary of this year's western fire season.

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Also, importantly, these people weren’t born with all this knowledge. They have lots of training!!! And no one person is sufficient, it’s the culmination of talent across thousands of people.

“You don’t need to be an engineer to participate in this kind of work.” - Teasel Muir-Harmony

I think this point can’t be emphasized enough! It bums me out when people tell me they’re not “smart” enough to work in science. We need all kinds of skills/contributions to achieve these amazing feats.

Science is good. We should fund it.

The thrill of designing a little cloning experiment after I’ve been away from the bench for several months……

Lucas Oil Stadium Final Four Michigan v Arizona, Michigan players entering

Lucas Oil Stadium Final Four Michigan v Arizona, Yaxel Lendenborg entering

go blue

While Washington wages war on science, NASA just sent humans to the Moon's vicinity for the first time since 1972. Bravo #TeamNASA — proof that public science, when it's funded and trusted, still does extraordinary things.

CNN has a rotating set of talking heads on to talk about the launch….thank goodness Bill Nye took the opportunity to point out the current assaults on science. Everyone else should be doing the same!

I love basketball, especially when Duke loses

2026 STAT Madness 2026 bracket Welcome to STAT Madness, a bracket-style contest to find the best innovation in science and medicine. Explore groundbreaking innovations from

🚨Dear Bluesky friends, we need your help to advance in 2026 STAT Madness, the March Madness of Science tournament! 🏀🧪
Please vote for our Univ of Michigan Caswell Diabetes Institute team in your bracket before Mon March 9. Thank you! 🙏 www.statnews.com/feature/stat...

Nextdoor is diabolical for so many reasons, including the fact that they send digest emails with “top posts” that aren’t time-stamped. You click through only to find out they’re from 10 days ago…..

Bar chart shows percentage completed for SFSU students and CSULA students with low and high GPA. All completion rates at in the 80s except for high GPA CSULA students which have lower completion rates in the 70s.

My colleagues at @sfsu.bsky.social used 3 decades of data to show that students with low undergrad GPA have equal PhD completion rates compared to students with high GPA. @sfstatebio.bsky.social

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It’s truly thrilling to watch all of this unfold with his reporting…

How many couches will burn on Franklin St tonight

We are doomed by a collective obsession with “exceptionalism”

I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond!

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Trump admin is "destroying medical research," Senate report finds In a Senate hearing Tuesday, NIH director dismissed concern about research chaos.

Trump admin is "destroying medical research," Senate report finds arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Please stop saying the bill allows "no more multi-year funding" - or at least be clear the 'more' is in reference to disastrous FY25 levels.

The bill allows 39% MYF, same as in FY25, which contributed substantially to a 24% drop in new research.

The bill has some wins. MYF is not one of them.

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up

Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

The very wise (and excellent committee chair) Mark Heise refused to refer to my oral exam as anything other than my “topic selection meeting,” which was a gracious and useful reframing for me!

Because, you know…he’s a traumatized little boy.

ABC News ran this photo tonight w the phrase “Liam sleeping peacefully in his father’s arms” (not a direct quote), which is missing crucial context from Castro’s other posts. His father said Liam is so depressed that he’s sleeping all the time, and constantly asks after his family and classmates.

BREAKING: ICE SHOOTS ANOTHER IN MINNEAPOLIS, TEAR GASSING OBSERVERS AT SCENE YouTube video by Status Coup News

ICE shot someone else in Minneapolis. This is a live stream from the scene www.youtube.com/live/ASr1zVu...

Thanks, I’m on the mend now!

If you’re on the faculty job market and having a super fun and not at all stressful experience, might I recommend an emergency abdominal surgery?

this, driving a person to suicide because they had the temerity to want to work in public service, is what russ vought hoped to accomplish

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left “We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.

“Not only is our health at stake, but this attack on science is an attack on freedom of speech and thought. What we have seen at NIH is a threat to the fundamental freedoms that all of us cherish”

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