I had no idea!

That is an amazingly clear and HYSTERICAL mental image, thank you.

Can groundhogs climb? Because that was either the fattest squirrel I’ve ever seen or there’s a groundhog on my balcony.

Look, it all depends on who you want to like you. (Says the person who’s about to go gleefully share this fact with every chemist she knows.)

Back in the day when I fixed computers, someone brought me a Mac G5 tower that their cat had spite-peed in.

While I applaud their determination to keep their computer, I *still* wish they’d told me *before* I popped it open barehanded.

#JustDudeThings 🤣

My partner’s willingness to go find out where our laser level has fucked off to when we’re just hanging art as normal: 0%

His willingness to go find it to prove that he’s right and I’m wrong about whether two frames are level: 100%

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

I have to try this!

The oyster’s invisible architects

@harvard.edu just launched a cool new website about research across campus and, lo and behold, there's a bit about our latest publication in @pnas.org about oyster-microbial interactions. I'm very proud to be working with Andrea and the whole team!

current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/oyst...

And the cucumber cooks down well? Not too wet? (It does *look* delicious!)

Foolproof Pan Pizza Recipe A pan pizza recipe for those who love a thick and crispy crust that's golden on the bottom, but puffy and soft under the layers of sauce and mozzarella.

If you have a cast-iron skillet and haven’t tried this one, I recommend it. (It does two 10” rounds or one 14”, and it freezes *very* well.)

www.seriouseats.com/foolproof-pa...

Oooooooh, interesting!

Tell me more about this tzatziki base, please - is it a traditional yogurty one, or did you modify it for being pizza?

New rule: if you can’t recognizably describe what an animal looks like, you’re not allowed to try and shoot it.

It’s so good and SO waterproof that there have been days that the only place I *don’t* have a sunburn is on my tattoo.

You might already know about it, but just in case - I swear by Mad Rabbit’s tattoo sunscreen

There are two kinds of responses to 50-degree spring weather around here, apparently.

1: down jackets, long pants, maybe a hat?

2: shorts and flip flops. no gods, no kings, no masters!

AGREED.

Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

I’m a tiny lizard, a lizard so tiny
I sit in the palm of your haaaaaaand

I’m mostly torn between doing one of the octopus species I’ve worked with (like the one on my leg) or just going all-out and doing a blanket octopus in full psychedelic glory.

One of these days I want to get a shoulder octopus, and it’ll be shorts and tank tops for me forever. 🐙

As someone with a foot/lower leg tattoo that I really love, one of the best pasts of spring is when I can stop wearing anything longer than the knee for several months. 24/7 art show over here, babeeee!

A squared-off piece of seaglass, heavily frosted, with the word “Sylpha” in a stylized san-serif font

A pic from an Etsy listing of a whole version of a clear, squared-off glass bottle of Cabot’s Sylpho-Nathol, “REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. BOTTLE MADE IN U.S.A.”

Historical advertisement for Cabot’s Sylpho-Nathol, probably somewhat older than the bottle, since this uses an older-style script-like logo. The picture shows a woman in an early-1900s-style bathrobe pouring some of the goop into a bowl for a small girl. The headline reads “Keep your nose and throat clean”. “Everybody-old and young— should do this. For the mucous membrane of the nose and throat of healthy persons may become contaminated with the Infantile Paralysis virus. Without falling ill themselves they may infect others, chiefly children, so the only safe way is for everyone-man, woman and child-to keep the nose and mouth clean with the best antiseptic-then the child is safest. What doctors say Paralysis begins as a nose and mouth infection. Only a most powerful antiseptic will destroy the germs of this dreaded disease. Weak, un-scientific, high-smelling solutions do not kill the germs. The antiseptic used and endorsed by doctors and hospitals the country over is Sylpho-Nathol. Let every one, then, take this precaution. To clean the nose: Put two or three drops of Sylpho-Nathol in a glass of warm water. Pour a little in the palm of the hand and snuft it up the nose. To clean the throat: Gargle with this same solution. Do this two or three times a day and put the nose and throat in a clean, aseptic condition. A 10c bottle will protect your entire family for a week. Get it from your druggist. Don't risk the lives of your children with weak, worthless preparations that do no good. Take no chances. Use SYLPHO-NATHOL, the kind the doctors and hospitals use. The Sylpho Nathol Company, 14 Medford St., Boston, Mass.

More beach glass with a story: this frosty white “sylpho” fragment comes from a 1920s bottle of Cabot’s Sylpho-Nathol.

Sylpho-Nathol was a coal-tar-derived antiseptic that was advertised to prevent infantile paralysis - polio - if you gargled or snorted it. (Apparently it smelled just *awful*.)

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

I swear, I really doubt whether some of these dog trainers have ever tried the methods they recommend.

This morning’s recommended emergency temporary mutes to prevent discourse infection: “palantir”, “karp”, “ceo”

Ethan Daniel Davidson - The World We Wanted (Official Single) YouTube video by Ethan Daniel Davidson

Timely song that just showed up on shuffle: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9nk...

*emphatic waving torch of agreement*

It’s bad for cancer and cardiac disease - it’s worse for mental traits, most of which have a ton of potentially associated genes, tiny effect factors, and little to no mechanistic support.

Couple GWAS with IQ, another completely nonsense measure, and the error compounds.