It’s going to be very close, Virginia. Please be sure to go to the polls today and vote YES! Every vote counts!!! 💙🗳️

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National Science Foundation’s future in limbo as Trump eyes cuts The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) future is in limbo as President Trump pushes for more budget cuts and his nominee to helm the research agency awaits Senate confirmation.  Since Trump’s retu…

'The NSF has only committed $500 million of the $8 billion it was appropriated for the fiscal year, which began on Oct. 1. The NSF will lose the billions of remaining funding if it does not spend it by Sept. 30.' thehill.com/homenews/adm...

This paper is so cool and so important. Rex took a verbal model seriously and showed that it just doesn't so what people say it should do, and it opened up a ton of questions

My university's push to adopt AI is really demoralizing. Like, why am I even here? Just tell my students to ask ChatGPT for all the answers.

Why Yale’s term paper on what’s wrong with college gets a ‘D-’ | Will Bunch An Ivy League university’s report on the loss of faith in higher ed ignores what really killed the American dream of college.

"The New York Times seems to constantly forget, or just doesn’t care, that only about 1% of U.S. college kids attend the dozen so-called Ivy-plus top-tier universities, and that less than 30% attend any type of private university." - @willbunch.bsky.social

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Eugenics

Indifference to process is a pretty good indicator that you don’t truly care about the quality of your output - especially if that output is “facts”.

No.

Holy crap. I'm so sorry.

Question about Github etiquette: I just have a simple question about a pipeline on github that isn't really an issue. And it is probably a dumb question. Should I submit an issue or would it be better just to email the person?

a bird with a large beak is standing in the grass with its wings outstretched . ALT: a bird with a large beak is standing in the grass with its wings outstretched .

The only good bird

Maybe it will come when I'm closer to retirement, but I really which I could channel the "I don't give a shit" attitude of some of my colleagues.

Me. #TeamFish

I found this? www.ubiquitomebio.com/qpcr-machine

Has anyone come across a cheap or DIY qPCR instrument that can easily be used in the field?

Oh! I haven't heard of that brand.

Me:

*Terrified of the sun after getting new tattoos this winter*

Quick and Meaningless Data Collection Help me collect some data to use for student examples! The questions on geographic region and gender will only be used for subsetting the data, not for student analysis. No questions are required -…

I NEED HELP!

Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats!

I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again!

Please circulate widely!

Tim Curry IS VERY MUCH ALIVE.

It is his birthday so he is trending because people are gushing about how great he is, which is deserved.

Congress must act: Stop the Forest Service workforce dismantlement Tens of thousands of U.S. Forest Service employees represented by the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE-IAM) are urging members of Congress to oppose the Trump administration's announced ...

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This is incredible.

Also. Fuck RFK Jr.

The Democratic Party doesn’t have a leader. Ken Martin is no leader. Biden is not our front. And Schumer and Hakeem have lost all credibility.

To the extent we have anyone, it’s Barack, and it’s well past time that the party starts to embrace Mamdani. He is the most effective and popular Dem

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

Honestly, I always get the best extractions with phenol chloroform.

Let me guess, they are rationalist.
#fuckingcults

Her project directly tests what many geneticists + biologists have been observing: LLMs will, with very little promptly, direct users to information about human genetics and evolution that is at best outdated and biased, and at worst actively promotes scientific racism.

Modification of figure from Crick https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/figure?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2003243.g001

But I don't want to change my lectures!

HAHA SUCK A DICK CENTRAL DOGMA 🧪

The College Affordability Crisis is Real, but the Media is Looking at the Wrong Schools Sturges Hall (Photo by Keith Walters ’11) Opinion By Costas Solomou, Vice President, Enrollment Management Published by the Office of Enrollment Management When Yale University released its Committee ...

"the colleges that dominate the headlines are not the colleges that most Americans attend

their core mission: to serve students from all backgrounds, at a price families can actually afford, prepare graduates for real careers and meaningful lives."

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