A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.
In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."
Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!
American science is shrinking.
A Post analysis found that, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. https://wapo.st/3OgoHKV
Is the airline called Delta because the plane changes your location
Not how I assumed this worked! So weird!
For me the concept of non-inferiority will never not be witchcraft, and I almost always find myself revisiting this visualization in the linked FDA Guidance to figure out what's going on.
www.fda.gov/regulatory-i...
Whenever I’m starting a project I’m like “wont it be so great to discover something mysterious and be in the Uri Alon cloud”
And then it happens and I’m like “oh actually this is unpleasant I have no idea what’s happening “
www.weizmann.ac.il/mcb/alon/sit...
Humble, it Sounds “massively parallel” to me
i am reading a paper about "multiplex screening" and it is 2-plex
you can screen two things
i love the confidence to call this multiplex
Rebecca Solnit: “The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.” [theguardian.com]
the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow
Reading Maurice by EM Forster but the problem is it really upsets me how British people say the name “Maurice”
Ten years of CRISPR screens
We should do a bracket of screens, winner is declared THE CRISPIEST
It often seems like there has been little progress in fighting back against The Regime’s war on science, but this is a major victory.
The proposed cap of 15% for indirect costs for NIH funding has been defeated in court.
Doesn’t mean they won’t try again, but this is worth celebrating.
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
Pleased to share our recent work out today in @natmetabolism.nature.com. This study addresses a longstanding mystery - NRF2-driven cancers increase cysteine acquisition (via xCT) by ~5x - so where does all that cysteine go?
pretty tired of everyone on earth being involuntary contestants on Celebrity Apprentice Deathmatch
New PI presenting to senior PIs at faculty mtg
wrote myself a note last week. it says
"don't forget to talk to that guy."
amazing work, self.
just read Discipline by Larissa Pham.
Short chapters talking about what it means to be an artist, and how the narrator can reconcile and move on with her life after a damaging encounter with her art professor.
it was weird and i liked it!
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/b...
learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit
*five minutes after getting out of my time machine and meeting Jesus* it's a bit of a misnomer, but yeah it's called Good Friday
Fair
Swimming through a nuclear pore and getting stuck in a tangle of dna 😂
Letters of intents for grants are weird
I have to write a letter saying “please let me do even more writing”
Do you ever wonder what would happen if you could touch an organelle
Like would the membrane pop like a bubble
Unfortunately I’d need a lot more fingers
Knuckle tattoos that on one hand says “necessity” and the other “sufficiency”
Today is the anniversary of the April 1 RIFs at NIH and HHS.
Thinking of my colleagues who lost their jobs last year.
These cuts did no improve efficiency. They undermined the functioning of our government.
Yeah this happens standardly
