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Scientists are now organizing events, called Stand Up for Science, on 7 March in Washington, D.C., and state capitals. So far, they have attracted more than 100 volunteers from some 30 states who are hoping to rally support for research as a public good. scim.ag/4328LAD

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I'm trying to sell a story about a flock of heavily modified sheep and their shepherd, and I love this exhibition and the painting in it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/a...

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Snow in Philly

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Testing a new inexpensive telephoto lens on whatever subject happened to be at hand, in this case, a frozen Quorn nugget. A great result under suboptimal conditions (full zoom, dark kitchen, shaky hands).

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'Gulf of America' --> references the continent, imo. Not going to feel too goaded over the name change until he makes the tech companies call it 'Gulf of USA' or something.

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BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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buffalo, washington dc and philadelphia are fine, upstanding eastern cities full of boisterous, good-hearted citizens. the full focus of this playoff season must remain on defeating the villainous kansas city chiefs and their vile, oafish fans. if KC loses, we all win

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'fly, eagles fly'... so wholesome. the school secretary will play it over the intercom 10x before 9am on Friday before the game. genuinely felt, even by me, a non-sports guy. now, the chiefs' 'war chant' and 'tomahawk chop'... that's bit more like going to spirit of halloween and playing dress up.

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meanwhile, my relatives in farm country are reposting memes about the "plan to make Trump look bad" by culling chickens. i guess we're losing the CDC, but we'll always have Facebook. virginiamercury.com/2025/02/06/v...

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in telling us that school will start on time this Monday: the SDP superintendent pointed out that, unlike the year they lost, there was no school delay the year the Eagles won the Super Bowl; this is a highly effective mind virus known to all anthropologists: sports magic.

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These New Protocols are a few episodes early.

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Buying some big-ass flags to cover the walls of my classroom.

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GM Philadelphia 🔔

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Ah, the thrill of a potential shortlisting forming around one of your stories on the Submission Grinder.

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The Martian Revolution podcast has been my favorite science fiction podcast to come out this past year. Probably my favorite science fiction artifact this year, period.

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I like The Invention of Prehistory bc it makes clear that these stories abt "primitives" are like playing with dolls; they're little facsimiles of humans you can dress up and create stories about to fit your dreams about what you want to be when you grow up www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

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The NIH diversity supplement pages have all been pulled down. What is a diversity supplement and why should the public care? A diversity supplement is funding to help diversify the research workforce. You may be wondering, “so what?”. Let me explain. www.nigms.nih.gov/Pages/PageNo...

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McWhorter believes that "the idea that there is no biological basis for racial distinctions is inaccurate" bc DNA tests can match groups of people to regions where their ancestors lived. Tautological 19th century race science or boring heterodoxy? (It's both.) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/o...

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Fellow scientists, please consider speaking w/ media about what this means for "regular Americans." The link below is to contact a reporter who's collecting stories about the unfolding NIH situation - pls share anonymously or on record. @anniewaldman.bsky.social www.propublica.org/people/annie...

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Having schools set up students for inclement weather day and then making us all go in anyway, school district admin, you’re wild for that one.

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Almost done w Gods of the Upper Air. I really liked it. I already knew much about Boas/Mead/Benedict/Hurston's antipathy to scientific racism & skull-measuring eugenicists, but King told a good story about the details. Wild how much today's nativism and racial chauvinism has survived unscathed, tho.

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Our new study on iPSC reprogramming is out: dx.doi.org/10.1155/sci/.... We compare the impact of non-integrating methods across source materials on hiPSC reprogramming success rates. The Sendai method outperformed episomal reprogramming while source material had no influence on success.

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I took pictures of tonight's lunar occultation of Mars. I didn't the right know-how or equipment to get both Mars and the moon at the right exposure, but I like my technique-challenged versions.

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A lesson was learned today: “I’m so livid right now I don’t even know what to do,” said Jimmy Harrity, an at-large member of City Council who supported the team’s move to East Market Street. “I feel as though I was used as a pawn.” www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

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Columbia apparently has a history of punishing its faculty for anti-militarism, as when Franz Boas' anti-war statements leading up to WW1 got him barred from teaching undergrads by the same university president who cultivated academic exchanges with Nazis in the 1930s daily.jstor.org/silence-in-t...

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after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

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Listening to chapter on Boas in Gods of the Upper Air. Couldn’t keep a job, fired from adjunct gigs, terrible public speaker, bad at politics, didn’t agree with anyone w influence in anthropology. “OMG he’s just like me,” I thought. Then he hits 40s and just gets a job at Columbia and elected to NAS

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Stuck an old Tamron 500mm f8 on a micro 4/3 Olympus to see what I could get down by Penn's Landing. Very difficult to brace myself enough to capture anything sharp.

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The "monsters" medieval people claim to have encountered were probably animals or demons

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Oh come on

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End of the year.

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The "races" of D&D (and Elder Scrolls, etc.) always had that 19th-20th century flavor of skull measuring. Given that nothing else about the game references the 19th century, why use that word? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/a...

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My science fiction story about a liquid robot, Icelandic hidden folk, volcanoes, and environmental personhood is in the world. I'm told I'm terrible at loading the dishwasher, but I think I got all that to fit in 1100 words.

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Going to read Sahlins' take on "metahumans" (e.g., Santa Claus, Lady Columbia, Elvis, hidden folk, ancestors, etc.)

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Nothing like preparing a short story submission, checking it 3x, and still getting the title of the magazine wrong :|

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Quiz on food preferences that cites Bourdieu on taste. I don't eat land animals, and there's a lot of "working class" and "middle class" meat dishes on this quiz. Probably I'm imitating my betters with my weak vegetarianism. www.idrlabs.com/food-choice/...

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Got my first "hit me with another one"-type rejection from one of the big three SFF mags today. Already in the queue!

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Just finished a rough draft of a 1200-word story about environmental personhood and huldufólk.

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I see lots of online eye rolling at the idea of land having rights and different peoples having specific connections to land and its features. But agribusiness also entails a specific connection to the land (not preferable to 'land having personhood', IMO). apnews.com/article/wate...

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Valley Forge

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