Digital asbestos is polluting science. Please, scientists, don't contribute to this. Even just by using ChatGPT to "help" with your writing or whatever. Just don't do it.
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Tho I have some deep criticism for the commentary during Mikhail’s program 😒 whole lot of backhanded and mean comments, as if he hadn’t won silver at 2025 worlds
Hot take time
The only performances at the #mensfigureskating that moved me was Maxim Naumov and Mikhail Shaidorav. Mikhail obvs had the jumps, but Max matched him in artistry. They were the only ones who gave me the same feeling as watching Yuzu, Javi, and Adam from 2018
Again, it just makes me so mad bc there’s so much lore to use and they went for lazy but ended up being cursed “recognition“ bc they had to get different actors anyway
What was the point? Other than a soulless cash grab 👀
She also would’ve been great a for that weird romance thing they wanted with Sauron, since her name literally means “Silver Queen”
It also would’ve been awesome bc they could contrast it with her actual romance with Elrond, the elf she hasn’t yet married!
Celebrian would’ve been perfect too bc she’s born after the First Age, so they could’ve written her to be curious and rebellious bc she was born in “peace”, that she didn’t understand why her mother won’t look for her father,
Watching this makes me wonder why, if they desperately needed a female protagonist, didn’t they write her as Celebrian?! You know, daughter of Galadriel and Celeborn?! There’s a canon character for them to use
And we know why Amazon chose to use Galadriel for #RingsofPower 🙄 they wanted a recognizable character even though they literally had the recognizable IP!
Like I’m mind blown at just how young Elijah Wood was in these fills but carried that emotional weight on his shoulders
You see, #lotr is a really vast world and one thing Peter Jackson did was to make sure he chose a good protagonist in both Frodo and Aragorn
So I started watching the extended editions of #lotr to do attempt the “so it begins” at midnight, but I needed to take a break to complain about #RingsofPower
Small good news: Since getting my PhD, I’ve been reading for leisure again
I finished 5 books so far this year and we’re onto #6 (#3 of the SA authors)
#books #fiction
Happy RNA Day to those who celebrate! 🧪 It’s AUG 1: the day we Met 🤓
It’s the end of an era! 🙁
Announcing the Final Release of WormBase
blog.wormbase.org/2025/07/23/a...
The White House's proposed budget would cut NIH research by billions, including slashes to cancer research.
My new home state Texas is projected to lose $2.1B in economic activity from the budget cuts, including $353M in losses from cuts to cancer research.
How about you?
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
This is infuriating, scary, and horrible. NIH needs to support a wide array of science that applies to ALL people. We never know when a finding in one area can apply to another disease or situation.
This is all very bad.
Also ngl but I’d rather get a drink or meal voucher instead of sitting in recycled air for longer 👀
Oh yeah, forgot to mention 😭
Worms have holocentric chromosomes, so they have to do meiosis with adjustments 😅
I swear there's a bunch of loop-extrusion model papers that I can't remember right now
But I know that in worms, Cohesin is only lost from the crossover during meiosis I but stays holding the sister chromatids together for the rest of bivalent – argument for around?
Picking new members takes time: NIH staff spend 1-2 years screening candidates, getting approval, doing background/ ethics checks.
Some staff are now screening candidates’ social media to see if they've said anything negative about the Trump administration or have been involved with DEI efforts.
NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding.
NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.
Choose something unhinged 🤷♀️
I chose the absurd cover and title on this romantasy that I knew was gonna be cringey and it’s fantastic for processing images
DCCC 2026 DISTRICTS IN PLAY NICK BEGICH AK-AL DAVID SCHWEIKERT AZ-OI ELI CRANE AZ-02 JUAN CISCOMANI AZ-06 DAVID VALADAO CA-22 YOUNG KIM CA-40 KEN CALVERT CA-41 GABE EVANS CO-08 CORY MILLS FL-07 ANNA PAULINA LUNA FL-13 MARIA ELVIRA SALAZAR FL-27 MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS IA-OI ASHLEY HINSON IA-02 ZACH NUNN 1A-03 ANDY BARR KY-06 BILL HUIZENGA MI-04 TOM BARRETT MI-07 MIKE LAWLER NY-17 MAX MILLER OH-07 MIKE TURNER OH-10 OPEN SEAT MI-IO MIKE CAREY 0H-15 ANN WAGNER MO-02 DON BACON NE-02 TOM KEAN JR. NJ-07 BRIAN FITZPATRICK PA-OI RYAN MACKENZIE PA-07 ROB BRESNAHAN PA-08 SCOTT PERRY PA-10 ANDY OGLES TN-05 MONICA DE LA CRUZ TX-15 ROB WITTMAN VA-O1 JEN KIGGANS VA-02 BRYAN STEIL WI-OI DERRICK VAN ORDEN WI-03
IF YOU ARE IN ONE OF THESE DISTRICTS PLEASE MAKE A CALL RIGHT NOW
DOES NOT MATTER IF YOUR VOICE SHAKES
CALL AND SAY YOU OPPOSE BBB
Scripts here: 5calls.org
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” Baldwin.
From From Mark Schlissel former President of University of Michigan! @umich.edu www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...
A parting gift to stay connected ❤️ 🧪
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Apparently the only difference between brassiere and brasserie is where the “i” goes 🙃
Good thing I learned the difference before I walked into this place 🤡
Need to start making some new time blocks in my schedule for Being Sad About the Careless Destruction of US Scientific Research