This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
Box plots of mindfulness and emotion dysregulation by SES group (high, middle, low) and self-injurious thoughts. Across all SES groups, those with thoughts show higher emotion dysregulation. For mindfulness, those with thoughts show lower scores in low and middle SES, but not in high SES.
Across our three SES groups, those with self-injurious thoughts showed higher emotion dysregulation. Whereas for mindfulness, scores were lower for those with thoughts in low/middle SES, but not in high SES. (2/2)
New paper out! 📄
Postpartum self-injurious thoughts vary by socioeconomic status: The moderating effects of mindfulness and emotion dysregulation
Free access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mxU%7EbXY...
Low-SES contexts in pregnancy increased the odds of self-injurious thoughts postpartum
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"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Alive 6 years later is absolutely amazing
Virginia is the latest state to join the National Popular Vote Compact, bringing it to 220 out of 270 electoral votes needed to go into effect (court challenges notwithstanding). Story from @npr.org:
New whistleblower book reveals that Trump admin officials tasked with dismantling USAID had no idea what the agency actually did, with one official admitting he assumed it only did abortions, and asked career health experts to dumb down their presentations to the level of a children's TV show. 1/4
I'm gonna get this out of my system so I don't go insane: What Trump said about the pope is easily the most genuinely anti-Catholic thing any American politician has ever said in my entire lifetime, and if Obama or Biden had said it, there would literally be calls to disband the Democratic Party.
fyi, monday's not real. it can't hurt us
2,599 applicants offered NSF GRFP awards! Congrats to all the NSF GRFP award winners and recipients of honorable mention. https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do?method=loadAwardeeList
Massive and important positive news...
#NSF #GRFP awards are out.
2,599 awards!
+
1,440 Honorable Mentions.
A significant boost from last year.
Congratulations to the winners (and HM-s)!
& many thanks to the reviewers & program officers who made this possible.
www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
Plot showing GRFP awards by directorate shows a big dip last year and major increases for engineering and biology (though this only brings it back to parity with 2024).
The NSF GRFP is now out! There are 2,599 awardees, which is the most ever—and a big shift from last year which initially halved awardees (1,000 awardees + an additional 500).
I've thrown together a plot to break down the changes by field.
www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
NIAAA's P60 Alcohol Research Center mechanism is not being renewed.
I’ve had the chance of being part of one for the last 20 years.
Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that.
Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best.
Welcome home, Integrity crew!
A picture of two chimpanzees sitting on the ground
A three-decade long study of chimpanzees has revealed a primate version of a bloody civil war. It's now at risk of getting eliminated due to cuts at the National Science Foundation. My story here (gift link): nyti.ms/4mhr5NQ
New review paper! We provide practical guidance for assessing self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in perinatal POC guided by cultural theory & model of suicide and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Framework.
Good news - a little less paperwork for some human studies: Planning an NIH Application involving Basic Experimental Studies with Humans (BESH)? | Grants & Funding grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
"tapering plans" for HRT is a death sentence if you've had gender-affirming surgeries, like I have with my orchi, because your body will just wither away and die without hormones. Unspeakable evil. Demonic shit. You don't hate these motherfuckers enough.
A more parsimonious explanation: Congressional Republicans rejected cuts by the Trump administration—to science and elsewhere—primarily when they believed they would be electorally harmed because their district/state would lose out on funding.
Important, but distinct from being 'pro-science'.
Nobody believes this anymore but it’s absolutely true!
The COVID-19 pandemic was as bad as it was not just because Trump bungled it, but because he actively made it worse from the start. Almost everyone has forgotten this.
"Peace" achieved by force and control is called coercion. It's not true peace and it falls apart the minute the coercive person turns their back. It doesn't take a PhD in psychology to know this, but here I am anyway.
A cartoon showing a middle-aged mouse at an office desk, remembering (in a thought bubble) a childhood birthday, with his parent bringing him a cake with a single candle; cartoon glial cells are controlling a cable that links to his early memories. Infantile amnesia is the global loss of episodic and contextual memories formed in early life. Image credit: Birte Doludda
Infantile #amnesia limits our recall of early-life memories, but what is its cellular basis? @tjryan.bsky.social &co reveal that transient #microglial activity during postnatal development regulates infant #memory persistence & retrieval in mice @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4a0SoGH
New paper from our team: Can ML identify which adolescents benefit most from school-based mindfulness?
In 8,376 students (MYRIAD trial), models detected statistically significant but clinically negligible differential effects (d ≈ .07–.08).
Precision prevention is hard...
I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
"Meta is preparing to spend $65 M this year to boost state politicians who are friendly to the AI industry...To do that, Meta is quietly starting two new super PACs... The new PACs join two others already started by Meta, one of which is focused on California" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/t...
One can certainly do two jobs poorly but how would we know without verifying the theory.
Meanwhile the measles outbreak in the US continues to spread uncontrollably but I digress.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Wildly, the cumulative odds of being killed as a woman who had a baby every ~two years were roughly the same as those for a man who fought a significant battle every ~four years
#Statistics thought of the day: If you think you can find new disease subtypes by empirically clustering patients, think again: www.fharrell.com/post/cluster... #StatsSky
This editorial discusses the critical value of human-generated scientific writing in the era of large language models (LLMs), arguing that writing is essential to structured thinking and research comprehension. Writing as Thinking: The act of writing structure's thoughts, sorting research data, and identifying the main message, unlike LLMs which may lack true understanding or accountability. LLM Hallucinations: LLM-generated text requires rigorous verification because these models can produce incorrect information or fake references. Human vs. AI Roles: While LLMs are useful tools for brainstorming, improving grammar, or overcoming writer's block, human researchers must maintain control to engage in the creative task of shaping a compelling narrative.
Writing forces your brain to coordinate memory, reasoning, and meaning-making simultaneously.
Every time you write, you rewire toward clearer thinking. Every time you let an LLM do it, you rewire toward consumption.
