when I reported on threats to mRNA research for @damemagazine.bsky.social something that came up frequently was how scared scientists were of losing funding, precisely bc their mRNA projects were already achieving the previously unthinkable
Researchers warn of severe long-term damage to the brain after Covid following new study
January study of essential workers (with blood samples before & after COVID infection) found those with long-term neurological symptoms had higher phosphorylated tau—a protein linked to early brain degeneration
Just a professor standing in front of BlueSky demoralized because exams my students used to get a mean of 83% on prior to 2020 are now failed in large numbers. It seems that their ability to APPLY concepts to new contexts/domains has all but disappeared.
I love these students & I am worried.
🚨🧵 This article makes clear what the dangers are with therapy chatbots. Below, I outline important, major points:
🔺️ The driving issue: "poor mental health days are up 25% since the 1990s. Suicide rates in 2022, as in 2018, were at almost an 80 year high.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
Check this out: The Streets of San Francisco
youtu.be/ZkP8FrB4fk0?...
Look at 2020 to 2024 compare it to last year and this year.
Dem leadership take note. Also, just effin enjoy this.
I never considered BART for commuting during rush hour!
Dog imitating Penguins 🤣
"There's only one majority in this country and that's the working class." —Zohran Mamdani
The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks.
The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.
It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.
Dear Media:
Blindly quoting the President without fact-checking or context is just misinformation with a press pass.
We don’t need stenographers; we need journalists. Do your job.
Alisa Valdes-Rodriquez explains it all, even neoliberalism. It's so convoluted and disgusting. youtu.be/PzYBWmrQS9w?... #epsteinfiles #zorroranch
NEW: the #AlabamaPenis has been freed!
A photo of a tray with three sections empty. One has chopped carrot in it. The other has what can only be described as a posit of brown dog vomit and an insole liner of a sneaker (or a used panty liner from the mid 1700s). The kind of meal that would have you happily tossing yourself overboard.
NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East.
This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family.
Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships.
Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Think about this: The leader of the Senate Democrats just voted against 85% of his caucus all to keep sending bulldozers to Israel, so it can continue to demolish Palestinian and Lebanese people's homes.
Oh:
A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.
The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.
Last year, Dr. Ezequiel VĂ©liz was named 2025 Resident of the Year at UT Health, Rio Grande Valley.
Last week, ICE detained him in McAllen, Texas—ripping him away from his family, his life, and his patients.
Astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch in their orange astronaut suits as they sit inside the side of a helicopter after it has landed
LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me
"LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts ....
This one is worth it.
First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important.
#ArtemisII
Cops fractured his skull for standing by in peaceful protest. And people in power claimed he assaulted the cops. No hell greater for those who smeared him. RIP.
I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.
The black and white photo shows African American attorney Theodore Landsmark, who is dressed in a three piece suit, being assaulted by a young white man, wielding an American flag on a flag pole as a weapon.
Fifty years ago today, in Boston, Stanley Forman made one of the most American photos I can imagine.
I gasped when I saw how he's holding the dog's paw.
I've always thought nothing would happen until TV/streaming was disrupted, OR coffee was disrupted. These are our opiates.
If the above article is correct, Platner was trolling people with his Blackwater cap eight months after the September 2007 Nisour Square massacre in which Blackwater guards killed 17 and injured 20 Iraqi civilians.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisour_...
Please, I am begging people: never again repeat the claim that only two people were killed in the occupation of Minnesota.
