Totally agree an overhaul is needed. It's hard when CIHR tells to bin, but all of the applicants you're reviewing are excellent (my experience for predoc ones) and there's little to no discussion/consensus. Then ppl score an entire level down on a minor thing bc it's not the top top in their pile

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@haleyv.bsky.social 's witchy druid Nakudama character for our Obojima campaign. #DnD #RPG #TTRPG #Obojima #Nakudama #characterart

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

Is CANGlia this far before CAN? It's before the room block discount applies at the conference hotel.

And make it off Paradise Island to check out the city, including the National Art Museum (not to be missed in 2028!) #ACNP2026

Always great to catch up with the #cannabinerds, even if I missed the picture 😞 #ACNP2026 @camielnik.bsky.social

And the view! #ANCP2026

It was great to present some new preliminary data from my new postdoc position in @descalzi.bsky.social's lab. We got a lot of great feedback!! #ACNP2026

I also really enjoyed all of the great science, especially the panel talks by my mentor this year @jessicalbolton.bsky.social and my mentor last year @caromenard666.bsky.social to name a few!! #ACNP2026

I couldn't pick just one, but I had such a great time at #ACNP2026! Thank you so much for the past travel award support!! Always amazing to see the reviewers for @npp-journal.bsky.social and @dpn-journal.bsky.social each year (and to be a top reviewer again this year).

[COVID zine front cover] [bold, handwritten] What’s Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition [Drawing of a person (me) with a shoulder-length shag haircut, wearing head-strap respirator mask a sweatshirt, carrying a Corsi-Rosenthal box (a DIY air purifier made with a box fan and furnace filters)] [word balloon] clean the air, basically! By Hazel Newlevant [COVID zine back cover] [handwritten text, circled by a chain which is breaking on the bottom] “Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23. Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. [arrow pointing to the citations QR code] [drawing of this zine, getting stapled with a long-arm stapler] [Creative Commons license logo] CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Citations: [QR code] newlevant.com/COVIDzine [bold, handwritten] ALWAYS FREE

What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition

I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:

Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control

Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇

It did and I still missed it :(

The Ornelas lab investigates the neurobiology of traumatic stress & alcohol use disorders

Current research in the lab explores the role of corticolimbic circuitry & the endocannabinoid system in regulating maladaptive stress coping behaviors and alcohol drinking #ACNP2026 / @lcornelas.bsky.social

Dr. Hayley Thorpe explores the intersection of complex traits with mental health using translational population genetics approaches #ACNP2026

Her recent work uses new GWAS of cannabis use traits to understand cannabis use genetic & biological underpinnings: tinyurl.com/57vdj3df

Thank you!! I'm super grateful for everyone's contributions!! I hope it'll be a use for the field

Effects of Prenatal Cannabis Exposure on Offspring Mental Health: A Focus on the Role of the Immune System Globally, there is increasing legalization, permissiveness and acceptability of medical and recreational cannabis use—including among pregnant people.…

Had a lot of fun writing this review on prenatal cannabis exposure and the immune system with some of my fave 🇨🇦 cannabinoid colleagues @mallarchak.bsky.social @cannabrain.bsky.social @johnhowland.bsky.social @drjkhokhar.bsky.social LaboTremblay @uvic.ca
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These work for immuno-EM IME, but for fluorescence might be different (or require a background reduction kit/protocol).

A short heated citrate buffer incubation can be used for antigen retrieval but keep it less than 15 minutes. Sodium borohydride (0.1%) incubation can also help with antigen retrieval. Happy to chat more!

If you can fix with acrolein over glut, that's going to be better for staining. An alternative is to do the staining prior following PFA fixation, fix with glut and then process for EM.

The Aves chicken one works well (Aves Lab, GFP‐1020) and I've also had success with an Invitrogen rabbit polyclonal (A11122).

If you were looking to avoid a specific host?

What species? Are you doing immuno-EM (and immuno gold or DAB) or IHC (DAB or fluorescence)? I know a few good GFP ones depending (I'll follow up with access to my computer). There's some tricks to help restore antigenicity with glut fixed tissues but if you can fix with acrolein it's better.

The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

Remember how we always talk about there being many, many ways to resist? This may seem like a small one, but it’s actually HUGE.

This administration is absolutely hell bent on the eugenics of the disabled and chronically ill.

Wearing a health mask is an ENORMOUS act of resistance.

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

The centrist democratic position between 2006-2016ish was all “lean orgs!” And I kept saying, “oh yes sure make it easier for stable institutions to break.” We need to own how much our bleating about bureaucratic efficiencies created an easier-to-capture university.

AI’s Invasive Species The slop is winning.

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

I miss Roxy Cerebellum

Oldtober day 19, and something entirely not RPG related at all! It’s a rat, for @haleyv.bsky.social.
#oldtober #notinktober #illustration