FINALLY! First episode should complain about how the ticket prices are so expensive for the ridiculous sports at the underground Olympics like breakdancing, battles of the bands, and sandcastle water gun siege
Legit paper, they even knocked down Fucosyltransferase3!
If you're wondering what the Artemis II astronauts will be experiencing during tomorrows reentry, I recently made this video showing the Artemis I reentry with a telemetry overlay. 🔭🧪 #Artemis
Full video on YouTube:
youtu.be/-QbYrs5SZ5M
So exciting you’ll be co-hosting the underground Olympics with @flavorflav.bsky.social! USA better beat Canada in breakdancing this time
The best part of the March today was marching in the vicinity of the Liberation Brass Band, who played fun music along the entire route. When we got to the 11th St. underpass tunnel, the band’s noise was magnified, the crowd started cheering wildly, and it was crazy and glorious!
#NoKings #Oakland
that's the Brass Liberation Orchestra on stage leading this chant (which is "stop deportations", not "demonstrations")
you can see me playing quads right in the middle of the group
Live for protest tuba
lichen katydids
A recent issue of Natural History magazine has a feature on tropical katydids
Incredible creatures! Hard to decide which were the most amazing, but these lichen katydids are *next level*
The AI Scientist paper is out in Nature today. Runs the full ML research pipeline: idea generation, literature search, coding experiments, running them via agentic tree search, writing the paper in LaTeX, automated review.
Towards end-to-end automation of AI research www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is important.
1. Congress approved higher #NIH budget. But # of awarded grants is low.
2. 94% fewer funding announcements released.
3. Majority of terminated grants have NOT been reinstated.
4. Early career scientists are in limbo.
Impeach Russel Vought.
🧪 actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...
Analysis of who the 2025 NIH grant terminations hit. 2,291 grants, $2.45B rescinded. Early-career researchers and women disproportionately affected. 59.8% of terminated asst prof projects were women-led. Training awards heavily cut. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
A Snow Leopard caught on a trail cam.
An important read by Elizabeth Ginexi.
New #NIH funding opportunities exist to solicit proposals for research that need attention.
75 NOFOs forecasted. 14 released. The rest are in limbo. And not due to scientific reasons. One factor that is killing US research.
🧪 substack.com/home/post/p-...
What’s the best bot-infested feed here?
I finally pulled the plug on Twitter after 17 years. What was once a genuinely useful space for scientific discourse is now a bot-infested sewer and has been for a while. The signal-to-noise ratio is effectively zero. Should have left sooner. I'll continue to post here and at blog.stephenturner.us
Massachusetts had the highest number of terminated #cancer grants in 2025.
This year, there have barely been any new funding announcement opportunities from the National Cancer Institute, the LARGEST funder of cancer research in the world.
🧪 www.cancerhealth.com/article/many...
Most statistical tests you learned separately are the same thing.
t-test, ANOVA, Mann-Whitney, Chi-square, Wilcoxon... all just special cases of linear models. y = b0 + b1*x covers almost everything.
Scientists discovered a caterpillar that murders insects and stitches their dismembered body parts onto its back as armor
You’re welcome. Happy day! 😆
From @nikomccarty.bsky.social on writing:
National day of action. Save science. protect health. defend democracy. March 7th. Washington dc and nationwide! standupforscience.net/march7
Hey @hcrichardson.bsky.social! Can you help us get the word out about our SECOND National Day of Action on March 7th??
#standupforscience
Will the Underground Olympics Committee give us a taste of #Ulympic break dancing at your celebration? Ppl are looking forward to stopover events in cities with connections to non-LAX airports (SF/Seattle/Vegas)
BREAKING NEWS: Unethical, CDC Infant Hep B Vaccination Study Cancelled!
The study was cancelled after Stand Up for Science held a closed door briefing with Congress last week, with an investigator on the ground in Guinea Bissau.
(1/2🧵)
www.cidrap.umn.edu/hepatitis/gu...
Single-cell integration and multi-modal profiling reveals phenotypes and spatial organization of neutrophils in colorectal cancer www.cell.com/cancer-cell...
Watched “The Alabama Solution” on the trip to Tokyo. I’m not sure I’ve been this outraged since…the Epstein Files? Will never voluntarily step foot in Alabama and will spit on Kay Ivey if I see her.
Is this guy running against MJ legit? If so, he needs a brass band
The underground Olympics will make up for it by hosting break dancing, brass bands, and rap battles featuring excerpts from the Epstein files.
Bonus track of the Brass Liberation Orchestra recorded by yours truly:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJhJ...
Brass Liberation Orchestra based in SF/Oakland was featured today on @kalwradio.bsky.social
www.kalw.org/2026-02-11/b...
