“Skin patch helped me spot lung rejection” says beneficiary One of the first lung transplant patients to receive a skin patch from his organ donor in a trial says it has been

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Sometimes the OBVIOUS is not really that - but once you have seen/read about the idea - it is so OBVIOUSly a good one! 🧪

“2/3 of mass shootings in the US are linked to domestic violence, & 40% of the victims in domestic violence-related mass shootings are children….

Research consistently shows that the period of separation & divorce is when the risk of intimate partner homicide is highest.”🧪🛟

An ep featuring former Pfizer VP Mike Yeadon illustrates the early agenda of the show.

Yeadon left Pfizer nearly a decade before Covid-19, but claimed to have insight into why new vaccines are “dangerous.”

Shortly before appearing on the pod, Yeadon encouraged ppl not to get vaccinated.

Will RFK Jr’s podcast actually address Americans’ public health concerns? Secretary Kennedy Podcast so far seems designed to promote Trump administration talking points over any specific public health message

Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. has no public health credentials to his name, but he does have a few years of podcasting experience under his belt, which he brought to the role of Health Secretary with the launch of a new show last week.

My latest.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Caroline Henry presents research on her Senior Honors Thesis project on the microbiome of green and brown anoles.

Ellie Rice next to her poster on the effects of antibiotics on gut health and behavior.

CURE lab student Andrew Holman with his poster on gene expression and behavior.

LSU Discover Day 2026 was an awesome chance for lab members (and one of our CURE lab students!) to present research from the lab! Thanks to @lsudiscover.bsky.social for organizing! @lsuscience.bsky.social @lsubiosci.bsky.social 🧪🧫🦎

THC drinks gain popularity in the US – but can they fully replace alcohol? A growing trend of state laws permit the sale of cannabis drinks – and beverage companies are angling to make the next hit alcohol alternative

The same law that lets you buy flower online is also why some grocery and liquor stores sell THC drinks. I wrote about whether they could be real competition for alcohol.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

The Effects of 31-Day Exogenous Ketone Consumption on Running Performance, Cognitive Function, Metabolism, Body Composition, Hemodynamics, and Mood in Recreational Runners: A Randomized-Control Trial Exogenous ketone supplementation acutely elevates circulating beta-hydroxybutyrate (R-BHB), but the impact of chronic repeated dosing on exercise performance, cognition, mood, and cardiometabolic h...

🧪Ketones improve cognition and glycemic control in young adults

The Effects of 31-Day Exogenous Ketone Consumption on Running Performance, Cognitive Function, Metabolism, Body Composition, Hemodynamics, and Mood in Recreational Runners: A Randomized-Control Trial www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A handmade silver pendant imprinted with the tread pattern the Apollo 11 astronaut moon boot.

[On the bench ⚒️ #BehindTheScenes]

In honor of Apollo 16 landing on the #moon on this day in 1972: a throwback to my Apollo moon boot pendant! 🌕

Yes, it's on fire... 🔥

🔭🐡🧪🎨

This is figure 3, which shows Structure from Motion (SfM) orthophotographic overviews of the excavated artefact lenses and surfaces at Jojosi 5 and 6.

A study in Nature Communications shows that hominins were consistently and specifically procuring a single kind of raw material to make stone tools at the South African site of Jojosi between 220 and 110 thousand years ago. go.nature.com/4cyKgiX 🏺🧪

😀👏👏🙏

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#CelebrateEarthDay
#EarthDay
#GreenSky
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Chicago’s United Center to offer cannabis drinks – could other arenas follow? Drinks to be sold at concerts under federal legislation but attenders may have to wait to imbibe at sporting events

More recently, my local stadium that’s the home to the Bulls and the Blackhawks became the first ever to offer THC drinks.

(Only at concerts not sports though lol.)

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Nearly 43,000 people commented on the DEA reclassifying cannabis. What did they say? Analysis shows 69% of commenters want the proposed rule change to go further and for marijuana to be decriminalized or legalized

Happy 420, everyone. I’ve been covering cannabis for for nearly two years now. Sharing some of my favorites.

Here’s one from way back in 2024, when it seemed like cannabis might actually be rescheduled.

Nearly 43k ppl commented, many wanting full legalization.

2 years later, still schedule 1.

Comparison between modeled and proxy-derived ranges of atmospheric pCO₂ during the Phanerozoic. Panels (A), (B), and (C) show comparisons for the Paleozoic (∼541–251.9 Ma), Mesozoic (251.9–66.0 Ma), and Cenozoic (∼66 Ma–present), respectively. In each panel, the modeled pCO₂ range reflects simulations in which volcanic outgassing rates are varied within plausible bounds, and is compared with proxy-based reconstructions for the corresponding interval. The results indicate that variations in outgassing exert a first-order control on long-term pCO₂ variability, with no statistically significant difference (p-value >0.05) between the modeled ranges and proxy-derived estimates.

Sometimes I nead to deal with the line "if no one was burning fossil fules in the geologic past, how come we got temprature spikes?"
The answer is outgassing by deep Earth processes, which can tap huge carbon pools. 🧪

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000...

Cosmography alert 🚨

Discovery of a Giant Ring on the Sky, a ring-like, ultra-large-scale structure at z~0.8, located in the same field that contains the previously-documented Giant Arc and Big Ring.

By Alexia Lopez and Roger Clowes
arxiv.org/abs/2604.17534

#Cosmology 🧪

I don't think that last insight is novel, many many people have said it. But my sense is we now have the conceptual and experimental tools to make wide progress with complex or even natural behaviors. It will still be challenging!

I think this is generally correct, and I was saying to someone today that 10 yrs ago I was in favor of very controlled behaviors.

But in the past, estimating info from a few neurons required many trials and controlling attention and other fluctuations. We need less artifice now w/ population data.

My apologies to democratic Americans, but we in Canada hope Iran crushes Trump. 🇨🇦

🤬🤬🤬

The National Science Foundation which funds a quarter of all basic scientific research in the country is being dismantled.

Not the best picture but this is my little buddy. He lives out in my backyard. I see him often. He's head of rodent control. A beautiful and harmless little black racer. #photography #wildlife #ECK #snake #snake #herping #SnakeConservation #reptiles #SnakeLover

cross stitch in progress of Castle and Dragon

Dragon Stitch: filled in most of the brickies

2 dead, 5 hurt after planned fight leads to mass shooting at Winston-Salem park Two people have been confirmed dead after a mass shooting at Leinbach Park in Winston-Salem, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation announced.

Mass shooting in Winston Salem NC kills 2 kids and 8 injured Schools nearby all went on lockdown all day! Not even a blip on the radar really. 😔🤷🏻‍♀️ #NC #NCpol wlos.com/news/local/m...

“I can’t believe what you say because I see what you do.” — James Baldwin

They are physically grabbing citizens and illegally detaining them in those privately run “immigration prisons”

CITIZENS !!!!!

ICE has to be dismantled
And guilty ICE personnel should be prosecuted.

#PedoTrump

Epstein Files

#Iran

#Epstein

For those attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend, a small question:

When you're sitting there at your table, do you think it'll cross your mind that the guest of honor is actively covering up his role in a massive child sex trafficking operation?

ICYMI — new HUNGARY 🇭🇺 PM Magyar says Netanyahu will be arrested if he goes to Hungary

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is leaving Trump's Cabinet after abuse of power allegations Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is out of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet after multiple allegations of abusing her position, including an affair with a subordinate and drinking on the job.

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is leaving Trump's Cabinet after abuse of power allegations
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