Data, where it should be?

I dunno, sounds a little too good to be true

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

Update:

Paris? Pretty nice

Paris when the sun actually comes out? Just a little nicer

Yes plz

Physicist has written a fascinating big beautiful paper.Let’s not be afraid to call it what it is - groundbreaking.

arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852

Today is my and @scienceetc.bsky.social's birthday. In lieu of birthday wishes, I would like all yall to tell me just how much you detest Apartheid Isr*el and everyone who enabled them to continue destroying my motherland. Ty 🫶🏽

And include pictures of your pets

🤮

I've had my phd for almost 2 years now and I've not been asked to review a paper at all

Rubble and ruins -- Iran Pasteur Institute in Tehran, bombed by US-Isreal

Rubble and ruins -- Iran Pasteur Institute in Tehran, bombed by US-Isreal

Rubble and ruins -- Iran Pasteur Institute in Tehran, bombed by US-Isreal

Rubble and ruins -- Iran Pasteur Institute in Tehran, bombed by US-Isreal

Pasteur Institute of Iran, founded in 1920 now destroyed by Israel-US bombing😞

It played a pivotal role in developing vaccines & public health services, for over a century, now gone😞

A few days ago a pharmaceutical plant was bombed, accused of making anesthetic fentanyl

#War
#PasteurInstituteIran

This rather cryptic tweet apparently refers to a plan to boot SROs off their study section and move them to another one if they’ve served “too long”. Unclear what interval will qualify for this movement. Domain expertise is apparently a bad thing.

The Shingles vaccine is linked w/ reduced risk of Alzheimer's in 4 large natural experiments
Today, the potential of high-dose flu vaccines vs standard dose in a large retrospective age 65+ cohort for less Alzheimer’s. More pronounced in women (like Shingles vaccines)
neurology.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

Academics of the world, do with this info what you may. Even better, uninstall it from your devices 🧪

Hear ye, hear ye!!! All applicants and/or reviewers for NIH: update to late submission policy, end of continuous submission!!!

Because recruiting reviewers wasn’t hard enough.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Cancelling continuous submission for reviewers seems like just about the worst possible idea. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Unless of course breaking the system is the point.

Many PIs are already quietly boycotting review. Some not wanting to lend credibility to an increasingly corrupted NIH…

Whelp. NIH just got rid of continuous submission completely. Because it’s “too much work” for them 😩. This is baffling. It doesn’t take months to assign a grant to a study section.

tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world

Context-dependent effects of SOM neurons to enhance the responses of corticocollicular neurons to repetitive sounds Stimulus-specific adaptation is a key feature of sensory systems, where the repeated presentation of a stimulus results in diminishing neuronal responses specifically to that stimulus, but not to a di...

Hey, would you look at this cool new paper that just dropped?

This is my postdoc work from WVU, examining how SOM and PV neurons contribute to corticocollicular pyramidal neuron responses to an oddball task using calcium imaging and optogenetic inactivation

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

SOme of them have essential oil diffusers!

Actually, also do i know anyone in Europe working in infectious disease/virology? 🥹

Friend is postdoc hunting!

Can I turn on the frying chicken noise machine?

Hi friends, weird ask: do i know anyone, or have a contact by extension, who is working in microbiology in Canada?

I have a young family member interested in pursuing post-bacc micro research or doing work as a tech or starting a master's degree, but only in Canada (their country of residence)

Me in this job market to my new phd grad friends while I stare blankly at fellowship apps

The me telling people to apply for something even if they don’t meet all the requirements and the me trying to do the same are very different me’s.

Well, firing is half the battle!

But did the pace go?

"genAI can be used to create podcasts from a paper to teach st-"

Let me stop you right there. Before you feed somebody's paper to a slop machine, invite that somebody to talk to your students about their paper. We're right here. We academics won't shut up about our work, man. 🧪

“Broken down into what government finances would look like as a household budget:

“Household earns $52,446 and spends $73,378 — running a $20,932 annual deficit. Total liabilities and unfunded promises amount to $1,361,788 against just $60,554 in assets. $1.3 million in the hole.”

You know it! Just waving my baguette around 🤣