Of course as you said, placement also matters!

Interesting!! I went to see if I could find an answer to our question. This review suggests men exert more vertical force sweeping (and can thus change stone-ice friction more) but women’s force is more consistent over the course of a match. www.jssm.org/vol8/n4/1/v8...

I was wondering the same! Maybe something to do with height / strength?? They had mixed doubles on today and I was noticing the men always seemed to be the ones sweeping 🧹🧊

Apply | leadingedgesymposium Apply. The 2026 Leading Edge cohort application is now open! This cohort is named the Zara Weinberg Cohort, in honor of 2021 Leading Edge Fellow, Zara Weinberg. Applications are due February 2, 2026.

Applications are open for the @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social program! Link here: www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

This group is fantastic and I would not be where I am today without their friendship, support, and mentorship. Apply!!

This is all great advice! Adding that, if you’re nervous about talking to a staffer, it’s OK to call after hours and leave a message! #callyourreps

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of you eyes and ears.”

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

All the latin speaking Soccer/Football nations should boycott the US World Cup right now. If we don't even follow our own laws we obviously will ignore the international ones. This makes us a rogue nation. Make America Great, my ass. He has turned us into a damn untrustworthy POS

Just really fucking angry at how unnecessary this all is and the pathetic cowards who let it happen.

Do your constitutionally mandated job and put him in jail before he does it to you first.

2025 Reading wrap-up
1. Favorite fiction: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
2. Favorite nonfiction: Prequel by Rachel Maddow
3. Favorite re-read: All Systems Red by Martha Wells
4. Favorite new-to-me author: Becky Chambers
5: First read of 2026: Isles of the Emberdark by Brandon Sanderson

WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Sosa Lab - Postdoctoral Researchers We are seeking postdocs to start in 2026!

The Sosa Lab is going to #SfN25 and actively recruiting ✨postdocs✨ with systems neuroscience experience! We study both fundamental memory processes and how memory changes during pregnancy and postpartum.

If you are interested in meeting at SfN, please email me! www.sosaneurolab.com/join/postdoc...

Candid photo of Zara Weinberg. She has short red hair, bangs and glasses. She is laughing.

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor.

The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.

www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

All of the cities where I trained (undergrad, grad school, postdoc) were places with excellent public transit and bicycling infrastructure. I knew I could never afford a car as an undergrad or grad student. But non-car transit options made these opportunities possible.

Zara Weinberg was a brilliant light both in and out of science. She changed the lives of everyone she interacted and loved for the better. Her legacy will live on through all of us and we will fight for a better world on behalf of her memory.

@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"

E15 Groups The Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Researchopens a call for

Looking to start your own lab? 🧬🧪 The Helmholtz Institute Würzburg (HIRI) is offering group leader positions in RNA biology, RNA medicine & RNA technology. Apply by October 31 at www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/jobs-tale...

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...

IMO this hasn't gotten enough attention: a recent memo at NIH announces that peer review will be devalued in determining which grants get funded, granting more power to political appointees to make decisions based on the admin's whims over scientific merit

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding:

"When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

It has been 7 years and these are still just as relevant!

Laura is awesome and I can't wait to hear about all the cool work her lab is doing! Prospective students you should definitely reach out!

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.

This is amazing: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

We are hiring at all levels! Interested undergrads and grad students should reach out about openings / rotations. Prospective postdocs should apply here: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
@chemjobber.bsky.social (3/3)

Extremely grateful for support from my graduate and postdoc mentors @danicafujimori.bsky.social and @pjorb.bsky.social, as well as support from @americancancersoc.bsky.social @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social (2/3)

A photo of a newly renovated science lab with metal cabinets and tile floors. Select pieces of equipment such as test tube racks and chairs are visible.

Excited to announce the opening of the @fitzsimmonslab.bsky.social at @michiganstateu.bsky.social dept. of biochemistry & molecular biology! (1/3)