“The short version, for folks who are listening, is that if they or a loved one is a victim of DV, & the perp has access to a gun, they NEED to create a safety plan. Bc the risk of murder goes up by 500% if there is both DV & access to a gun.”🧪🛟
“more than 70 women…[are] shot &killed *every month* in the US due to domestic violence. & we find that DV shootings often overlap w/other types of shootings…a history of DV is a big predictor for committing a mass shooting. & we also find that DV & suicide…often overlap”🧪🛟 @meganranney.bsky.social
This gutted me.
“That’s why herd immunity is so important. If there hadn’t been an outbreak when Renae was a baby, I don’t think she would have contracted it. She was eligible for the vaccine just seven months later”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
"I just said hi to be polite, Ethan.” Cartoon by Carolita Johnson April 16, 2026
www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a61719
“2/3 of mass shootings in the US are linked to domestic violence, & 40% of the victims in domestic violence-related mass shootings are children….
Research consistently shows that the period of separation & divorce is when the risk of intimate partner homicide is highest.”🧪🛟
This is what makes human so interesting - a tiny percentage aren’t as crazy as they seem.
“Her [doctors] rec’ed surgery to remove the tumor, & the voices ‘told her that they were fully in agreement w/ that decision,’ according to the report….
As she regained consciousness after the operation, the voices relayed a final msg: ‘We are pleased to have helped you. Goodbye’."🧪
Personal mantra: if it’s important enough (to them), they’ll write again ( and again)
“Their answers offer a [*lovely*] counter-narrative to some of the more alarming stories that ppl sometimes tell about their PhD experiences.
Some respondents describe life-changing acts of support. Others recall smaller but no less meaningful moments of trust, generosity, flexibility & protection”🧪
“‘The negative sentiment around AI has been growing steadily, and what’s changed is that the public has developed both the vocabulary and the lived experience to name what’s bothering them,’ @alondra.bsky.social says.”🧪
"AI experts who have been sounding the alarm within the tech community about the harms of building AI without guardrails see the public’s reaction as an escalation of the mistrust toward AI that has been simmering for years."
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
“76% of radiologists…didn’t know that tools like ChatGPT cld be used to produce realistic-looking X-ray images…Researchers also tested 4 LLMs’ ability to detect real vs synthetic images…Ironically, even GPT-4o,the tool used to generate synthetic images, failed to reliably recognize its own outputs”🧪
This woman’s work on calcium channels is one of the reasons why I am alive
“The poet John Keats described ‘neg capability’: the ability to remain ‘in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, w/o any irritable reaching after fact &reason’…neurosci increasingly…[shows that]capacity to tolerate ambiguity—to sit w/not knowing—appears central to flexible, creative &resilient thinkng”🧪
“Annette showed an interest in science from an early age, removing the heads from dolls to check what was inside, playing with her chemistry set & causing some hilarity at home when, as a very clumsy 12-year-old, she declared she wanted to be a brain surgeon.”🧪
“Scientists are trained for a world where data speaks for itself. Where misinformation moves slowly. Where scientific expertise naturally rises above noise. That world is gone.”🧪
@jpflores.rbind.io
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picture of a bacon egg and cheese with the caption: DC people — there's a place called Call Your Mother that makes an incredible bacon, egg and cheese. That is all
seeing the TMZ DC guys’ posts from the last week is like viewing the instagram stories of a DC summer intern lol
A gray-morph Eastern Screech Owl has eyes like golden kiwifruit. Her feathers fuzzily fluctuate between shades of ashy white and black granite. She's wrapped in a white towel, or, it would be white if not for the spillage of contents from her most recent meal; a mess of mouse juice soaking across her beak, chin bristles, and towel. Culinary etiquette aside, she's cute as a button.
Red Wolf Sanctuary posted this Eastern Screech Owl with the caption: "This towel is warm. I was just fed. My face is still messy. Red Wolf is taking great care of me. I'm gonna take a nap now."
Want to donate to RWS? redwolf.org/general-dona... Source: fb.com/102603184628... #owlsintowels 💛🦉
“The day before she was supposed to start chemotherapy, her docs told her about a clinical trial exploring the use of personalized messenger RNA vaccines for cancer. It was Feb 2020…. Very soon after, Gustafson was the first person to get one for pancreatic cancer.”🧪🛟
“Old ladies are wonders, winking lights in the universe, stars…
Moxie, confidence, charisma—old ladies have those in spades….
What is the secret here? What do old ladies have that sets them apart? I think it’s fierce hope. They look at problems, all problems, & they say: I can handle this.”
Gov. Bill Lee signed a resolution defining family as a man, a woman, and their children, a move critics say targets LGBTQ+ households.
I am a gay dad and this is FUCKED UP
YES 👊
When I think about public engagement & science communication, *this* is the kind of work I most admire.
“She also documented how few women were in Fed sponsored clinical trials for AIDS drugs. As of Feb 1990, there were just 546 women enrolled in the trials, compared w/ 8,263 men.
That was significant, she told The SF Chronicle, because ‘the clinical trials are the only way you can get treatment’.”🛟🧪
“Clinicians preserve uncertainty & iteratively refine differential diagnoses, whereas LLMs [across model generations]collapse prematurely onto single answers….
The risk is not just that LLMs are sometimes wrong but that their reasoning is brittle precisely where uncertainty & nuance matter most.”🧪🛟
Burrowing owl crouched down on some brown grass.
Good morning! 🪶
“The elderly gamer has plenty of company. ~36%of the Silent Generation, ages 80-90, play video games weekly….
Nearly 2/3 of Americans ages 5-90, ~205.1 million ppl, play video games….Mobile gamers like the Westlake woman make up 55% of the global video game population.”🧪
“‘How do you respond when you’re a 4th-yr grad student & your adviser, who has so much infinite power over you, requests this kind of stuff?’ A said. ‘You fear retaliation & for your Ph.D.’”🧪