sucks that it’s come to this, but if congressional Republicans wanted to put up a national gerrymandering ban or multi member districts etc, it would pass *for sure*. until then fight fire with fire
The apparent theory here--SPLC was defrauding donors by paying right-wing extremist org informants, and also took completely legal steps for obscuring the money trail for very obvious reasons on this totally legal thing to do--is ludicrous even by the notoriously malleable standard for wire fraud.
Great to have someone who can do epidemiology in his head without having to collect any annoying data running HHS
I once ate at SnS in college and they gave me a whole damn breaded chicken sandwich where the chicken inside the fried breading was raw.
MAHA bringing that back?
Doing this video with a painting of Washington in the background is a level of irony that even he’d probably cross the Delaware again just to get away from
Pretty crystal clear the dean in this metaphor... is Trump.
What a week to be giving a lecture at Fort Ticonderoga on the Canadian campaign during the American Revolution, which was doomed by an outbreak of smallpox and mixed messaging on whether not soldiers should inoculate.
Happy to share our new work on how phages escape bacterial immunity.
We show that a phage homing endonuclease drives segmental amplification of anti-defense genes, pointing to a versatile and rapid mode of adaptation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PhageSky #MicroSky
Tis true.
"Finding the smallpox to be spreading much and fearing that no precaution can prevent it from running thro’ the whole of our Army, I have determined that the Troops shall be inoculated." - General George Washington, 6 Feb 1777
www.nps.gov/articles/000...
“Making the troops get vaccinated” is literally a foundational principle of the US Army
everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"
"I would've won Vietnam very quickly" is as good a psychopath test as any
“The MAGA crowd is made of dumb people — like, SUPER dumb people. And they fall for it.”
For my @wired.com feature debut, I talked to Sam, a guy who made thousands of dollars on Instagram by scamming MAGA men with Emily Hart, an AI generated, Trump-loving influencer. www.wired.com/story/ai-gen...
ANCIENT GREEK PRO WRESTLING PROMOTER: ok so you're going to be what's known as a "heel"
ACHILLES: fuck you
important work from my @gladstoneinst.bsky.social and @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social colleagues (also @harmitmalik.bsky.social!) on pro- and anti-HIV host factors. Just when you thought we couldn't do more! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.
At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.
Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”
wapo.st/4euUt1c
Video: ‘Homophobic’ 6-Week-Old Baby Cries After Gay Dad Tells Him ‘There Is No Mama’
Maybe we'll keep some InfoWars content up.
If the second Trump administration consisted of DOGE and nothing else it would still be one of the very worst in American history:
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/04/they...
Bhattacharya, Letai & other politicals at NIH keep trying to to say all at NIH is fine, because they spent the full budget last year. This well researched article from @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social explains exactly why many scientists are still struggling. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...
Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.
There's just gotta be a line somewhere.
Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
@pkrugman.bsky.social: “In my view, a full-on global recession is more likely than not if the Strait remains closed for, say, another three months, which seems all too possible.” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
NITROGEN FERTILIZER PRICES HAVE NEARLY DOUBLED SINCE THE IRAN WAR AND MAY INCREASE MORE DUE TO KEY SUPPLIES BEING STUCK IN THE PERSIAN GULF, AS STATED BY A MAJOR EXPORTER.
Stuck between a rock and a dumb place.
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"Silicon samples" are becoming more and more common in research and polling.
One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.
The updated version of this preprint is now online!
THREAD🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2509.13397
*EUROPEAN GAS RISES AS MUCH AS 9.8% AS IRAN CLOSES HORMUZ AGAIN
The lab has been defunded by the politicians elected by said voters
It is truly remarkably perfect that the company names itself after a powerful magical seeing device that both addicts and perverts those who use it, giving them false and dangerous understandings of the world
And then the company itself goes out to prove the myth correct
Jake Mangum spots kid in the crowd, tosses the ball, and her brother catches it and gives it to her. Dudes rock.
Great summary by @philipcball.bsky.social! Our findings certainly don’t invalidate the central dogma, but rather demonstrate an unexpected (and cool!) structural mechanism by which a sequence-specific DNA is created in a cell. (1/6)
