Physicists witness pinpricks of darkness moving faster than the speed of light ‪—‬ without breaking the laws of relativity For the first time, researchers measured singularities in combined light and sound waves moving faster than the speed of light. The findings have implications in fluid dynamics, optics and many other ...

I, uh, never thought about the speed of a void. This is kind of amazing.

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anyone who knew someone with pancreatic cancer knows how big of a deal this is

Rusting Rivers: Alarm Grows Over Uptick in Acidic Arctic Waters Climate change has thawed permafrost and increased rainfall in the Far North, producing sulfuric acid that is turning rivers and lakes yellow or rusty orange. Scientists are scrambling to parse the im...

Rivers turning orange in the #Arctic? Thawing permafrost + more rainfall are generating acid that’s reshaping #freshwater systems—an unexpected fingerprint of #ClimateChange.

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Weird huge print on old style newsprint saying that verifying you are human will be key to future viable mass communications maybe ironic as this reads like an AI generated peice

Did anyone else get this weird way too large font mailer on newsprint today from an unidentified sender? The sentiments expressed were seemingly human centric but obviously AI generated.
Googling revealed: world.org/blog/announc...

As American's file taxes on #TaxDay, I am one of those who benefits. #NIH has funded our lab's discovery based research for 34 years. We contributed to understanding how cells chose fate & shape tissues and organs, & work in our field gave insights into colorectal cancer and cancer metastasis 1/n

Delighted to share our discoveries about one of the brain's neurotransmitter systems:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Together with colleagues at the @alleninstitute.org, we have learned a lot about a tiny cluster of neurons in the brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) that releases norepinephrine (NE). 1

Dean Allen welcomes the Byers Hall audience to UCSF’s GradSllam dwarfed by a big blue slide - someone looms on the upper left.

UCSF’s GradSlam! The judges will be hard pressed to choose winners.

OG Twitter: “Asia Murph sez ‘i still don’t get bitcoin’ yolo contendre replies ‘imagine if keeping your car idling 24/7 produced solved Sudokus you could trade in for heroin’” mansplain a little?- Asia is a woman of color yolo a poorly shaven white dude

no but i’m intrigued! Another fav:

Mesodinium prey choice by Amelie L’Etoile-Goga and Holly Moller

The kleptoplast, Mesodinium distinguishes between prey of differing “nutritional” value. That is, they choose to eat prey whoes photosynthetic machinery they can co-opt.

It’s waaaay out of my feild and
I have a disclaimer - my offspring is the first author!

NO KINGS Pajaro Valley · No Kings **We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.** What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading fr...

mobilize.us/s/OPusyj

USA - exponential growth of the top 1% wealth vs flat line for bottom 50. Nerds want to do some curve fitting to figure out this growth rate constant - RC. Rampant Capitalism

Can anyone do some curve fitting to find the exponential we need to fit to find the formula for the rise of the US 1%’s wealth and then maybe their delta over the bottom 50%?

ICE in Airports: What Are Your Rights? | KQED As the Trump administration deploys ICE agents amid TSA delays, here’s what experts and advocates say about encounters with immigration enforcement officers in airports.

President Trump has deployed ICE agents to airports around the country, causing fear and uncertainty for many travelers.

Know your rights and assert them.

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms.

You have to listen to this.

Waiting in a TSA line? Sign it out - play this song… it’s great for a sing along.

Protecting women and girls my entire ass.

Jury in Los Angeles finds Meta, YouTube negligent in social media addiction trial A jury reached a verdict in the L.A. trial focused on Meta and YouTube, a case that experts have characterized as social media's "Big Tobacco" moment.

A jury determined that Meta and Google were negligent and failed to warn users of the dangers associated with using YouTube, Instagram in a landmark social media addiction trial

Mike Bishop at his 90th birthday party surrounded by former trainees. Feb 23rd, 2026, Larkspur, CA

Devastated to learn of the passing of the great cancer pioneer J. Michael Bishop.

Mentor and friend, it was only a few weeks ago we celebrated his 90th birthday.

He taught us that the seeds of cancer lie within us and spent his career combating cancer. 🧪

@ucsfcancer.bsky.social

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

An explainer graphic with a photo of a cat holding on to a stack of books. Copy reads: STUDENTS! YOU PAY RENT HERE. YOU LIVE HERE 9 MONTHS OUT OF THE YEAR. YOU CAN VOTE HERE. If you're a college student with a permanent address in one place and go to school in another, you can choose which place to register and vote in. HERE'S HOW:

YOU CAN REGISTER TO VOTE AND VOTE ON THE SAME VISIT! Online voter registration is closed, and the only way to register is via Same Day Voter Registration. * Only available in-person at YOUR polling place! * Registration requires 2 forms of ID, being 18 by general election day, 30 days of residence at an in-district residence, and U.S. citizenship. Illinois driver's license • Utility bill • Illinois state ID • Postmarked mail • Employee or student ID • Valid U.S. passport • Credit card • Public aid ID card • Social security card • Lease or rental contract • Birth certificate

EARLY VOTING LOCATIONS NORTHWESTERN Evanston Robert Crown Community Center 1801 Main St #2, Evanston, IL 60202 LOYOLA 40th Ward Budlong Woods Library 5630 N. Lincoln Ave. 48th Ward Broadway Armory 5917 N. Broadway St. 49th Ward Willye B White Park 1610 W. Howard St.

Students have more power than politicians want to admit.

Your rent is here. Your tuition is here. Your vote should be here too.

TOMORROW is election day, don’t sit this one out!

His Harvard Lab Was Thriving. Then Came the Cuts.

NYT feature on their website's front page about our local C. elegans colleague Will Mair and NIH funding
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

Jews are targeted in shuls & online.

Brown & Black people are abducted and sent to concentration camps.

Muslims are openly targeted by politicians.

Activists & journalists are targeted by the FBI.

Trans & queer people are being outlawed.

We are in this together. This is why solidarity matters.

DHS wants to build a system to surveil Americans’ travel records Previously unreported documents show the agency has asked companies for input. Last year, a similar program was shuttered over public outcry.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the US Secret Service want to build a tool for tracking US travelers’ flights and other personal information according to previously unreported documents reviewed by Mother Jones.

4th Circuit Rules That States Can Compel Trans Adults To "Appreciate Their Sex" Via Care Bans They ruled that states "encouraging citizens to appreciate their sex" through care bans is a constitutional goal, affirming West Virginia's Medicaid ban for trans adults.

1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.

An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.

It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2026 Sword & Sorcery magazine featuring short fiction, non-fiction, and gorgeous art. Made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling! Luxurious hardcover, clas...

Real talk. Everybody who's backed so far is INCREDIBLE and as a contributor I am so grateful! You've unlocked extra stories, story crits, and more pay for authors and illustrators!

We just need to get to ONE MORE AUTHOR RAISE and the reason is: I spent the money already (on a magazine sub).

Clergy-led activists block entry into Kansas Senate in protest over bathroom law • Kansas Reflector Rabbi Moti Rieber sat on the tiled floor, legs akimbo, in front of the arched passage leading to the Kansas Senate chamber with at least 20 people behind him and more lining the walls with handmade si...

Hey I want you to see what we did today kansasreflector.com/2026/03/10/c...

can the aggrieved drivers start a tort suit against Waymo?

Texas welder called ‘highway hero’ for stopping unconscious driver Rene Villarreal-Albe averted possible crash by pulling truck up to car and halting it as driver faced medical episode

The best news I've seen so far today.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February.

A record number of Americans are withdrawing from their 401ks to cover expenses.

Americans owe $18.5 trillion in debt — an historic high.

Meanwhile, the wealth of America's 935 billionaires soared by $1.5 trillion in 2025.

“Golden Age” for whom?

Americans aren't facing a democratic collapse. We’re living in its aftermath | Eric Reinhart The US was an oligarchy well before Trump’s first term. Recognizing this reality is essential to building a true democracy

“Democracy … begins when people decide they will not abandon one another.”

We are under the illusion that we have ever had a true democracy. Trump is the logical next step in the evolution of a system that was never democratic.

We need a grassroots movement.
www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.