Any mascot hints???? An amphibian? An ungulate? A now-defunct profession?

You say 45, and I say 47?

Let's call the whole thing off.

Is it true that the first cave drawings of DNA structure were horribly inaccurate?

Every Sunday we listen to The Jet (95.7) rebroadcast one of these while driving to the UU church, 10:50-11:10am. We learn what songs were hovering around the top 10 that week in 1980-something.

Today: #11 Somebody (B. Adams), #10 Much Too Late for Goodbyes (J. Lennon), #9 Fresh (K. & The Gang).

It is a bit insane that the Artemis II crew started from the earth, flew around the moon, and came back to the earth, faster than it takes for the journals to send your paper out for review.

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something.

For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate the resilience of transgender Americans. We affirm, today and every day, that trans rights are human rights and that all our neighbors deserve to live safely and authentically.

An Exam is a Moral Document | Advances in Physiology Education | American Physiological Society It is sometimes said that “a budget is a moral document.” In other words, despite common perceptions of a budget as a dry set of numerical tabulations, the corresponding decisions as to how money is c...

My essay "An Exam is a Moral Document" was published today in Advances in Physiology Education. Thanks to the @apsphysiology.bsky.social for the invitation to write it!

journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Opinion | Joe Kent’s Resignation Letter Is Dangerous Because It’s Half True

“Given Israel’s deep involvement in almost every aspect of this war, it takes care and subtlety — both in short supply in our politics — to tease out the difference between reality and conspiracy theory.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/o...

I'll have you know that one of my former anatomy students just gave me a mug that says "I found that humerus" [referring to the arm bone]...

The 7-year-old wanted tater tots for dinner. I said no. "But it's St. Patrick's Day!" he protested. I found this persuasive and gave in.

Year 2, Week 7 Feb 7-13, 2026 - with a paddle

Each Friday night, I cover what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪

Year 2, Week 7: Feb 13
- EPA revokes authority to regulate emissions
- FDA refuses to review new flu vaccine
- NASA funding frozen
- NCAR stripped of supercomputing
- so much more (a rough week)
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This is part of a pattern that is impeachable: Trump cuts previously appropriated Congressional funds, but only to states led by Democrats (California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota).

MAHA

Last I knew he was kind of a second-tier Mark Hamill on Twitter... (in a good way)

Not gonna stop until you're satisfied, eh? (as Richard would say)

Spectrum of Allies The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.

I truly believe discourse about voters (especially those who may have voted for Trump) would go better on this app if everyone was using the spectrum of allies as a framework

commonslibrary.org/spectrum-of-...

Yes!

Graphic Text: The people ICE grabbed up, the people they shot, are not threats to you and me. They are not the violent criminals that Trump promised to go after. These are our neighbors, they are our friends, they are our colleagues. The people who treat us when we are sick.

No one is made safer by ICE snatching up our neighbors, our friends, or our colleagues.

Unsolicited script for combining the two: "I can't wait for Heptagonals. The Big Green's Noe Kemper is totally gonna *crush* those Quakers in the 800 meters..."

Do not fall for this garbage. DHS came into my city with an offensive posture, conducted itself as an invader, often attacked residents without any plausible connection to immigration enforcement, violently seized people off the streets. Now it’s our fault people died?

Big if true.

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

“Don’t call us the Gestapo or we’ll have to summarily execute people.”

We're mourning yet again in Minnesota — and struggling to square the gut-churning video of Alex Pretti's final moments with official accounts.

I'm teaching techniques of neutralization this term, so I made this quick slide on the DHS statement. Share if it's useful. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...

Raise your hand if you know approximately where Kamchatka is because of playing Risk as a kid.

What?!? You don't have to pick them in the wild from maraschino cherry trees?

Hi there, I would like to talk about paywalls

Today I had a rather large article drop in Slate and there was a soft paywall. A lot of people commented upset about that paywall

Let's talk about:

a) how to get around paywalls
b) why you shouldn't be mad about them

I can't say this loudly enough: THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PROTEST ACTIVITIES.

Year 2, Week 2 Jan 3-9, 2026 the evidence of our eyes and ears

Each Friday, I write a briefing on what is happening to American science & higher ed. 🧪 This was Year 2, Week 2:
- science budgets avoid catastrophic cuts, but NOT okay
- vaccination schedule hijacked & kids will suffer
- university mergers in Oregon & so much more

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