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I prefer medium rare earth metals.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Oh my god, if this works it would redeem the whole damn week.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Dear Manager, here's what I've done this week: 1. Found myself living in a shotgun shack 2. Found myself in another part of the world 3. Found myself behind the wheel of a large automobile 4. Found myself in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife 5. Asked myself, “Well, how did I get here?”

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

And they didn’t make one, proving that the universe is not always bad.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

A+ #BookReview: Swordheart by T. Kingfisher @tkingfisher.com @torbooks.bsky.social #BrambleRomance #fantasy #romantasy #WorldOfTheWhiteRat

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I’m so excited to announce that my new book THE BIRDING DICTIONARY is available for preorder! It's a humorous dictionary of real birding terms and goofy definitions, plus a ton of silly illustrations. It's out May 6 but you can preorder it here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

For all the USPS's faults, Americans have to realize: It's one of the best postal services in the world, even after being kneecapped by DeJoy. Fight for our postal service, guys. I know I will. It is an essential public good.

submitted 5 days ago • 72 comments

#EndangArt "Un-charismatic." Here's an endangered fish that is pretty plain, the woundfin. Not charismatically hideous like a blobfish, or tremendously cute like a panda. It's a minnow from the Colorado River Basin area in the USA. I wanted to give it some cool art. #SciArt #Art

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

This was a REAL living animal. How was it real? 🤯

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Which universities have the most retracted articles - and the highest retraction rates? For @nature.com, here's a first-of-its-kind analysis of retractions by institutions. Full details in the story. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Minor correction. I don't think it is a "deep, persistent incomprehension of how scientific research works and what it provides" so much as a deep rejection of how science research works and what it provides. The Continuing Crisis, Part IV | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Here is a nice example of the shortcomings of bibliometrics. This is a key paper in the series of events that ultimately led to Ozempic and similar drugs: www.jbc.org/article/S002... About 100 citations (depending on which site you check). Which seems low considering the effects it's had.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

If you need help coming up with a 'hypotheses' you shouldn't be a scientist. Every scientist I know has 100 project ideas and lack time to get to them. No on is sitting around twiddling thumbs without an interesting question to ask. We are in the dumbest timeline.

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments

Reading through these quotes and seeing how many others had life-changing REU experiences is truly inspiring—but it also highlights just how vital this program is. REUs aren’t just opportunities; they’re essential to sustaining and strengthening the U.S. science pipeline.

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my favorite quote from Vincent van gogh is from a letter to his brother. He says “If I'm worth something later, I'm worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is grass in the beginning.” This is how I approach my writing and art. It strengthens me.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

but doctor i am PAG-LI-A-CCI

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If they are really cancelling NSF REUs, then we need to change graduate admissions to exclude or minimize the importance of past research experience. There's just no way to compete unless you are well connected or monied otherwise.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Please share: @delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group. They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

With Joann closing, and it being the most widespread source of garment fabric, we’re gonna need a tutorial on understanding fabric (and thus how to buy it online if there’s no garment fabric near you), huh?

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

Happy birthday to this king of fabulosity

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Someone came out of the yarn room

submitted 2 days ago • 179 comments

1. UPDATE The NIH is still blocking most ongoing scientific funding over concerns about DEI, according to NIH sources and internal NIH correspondence. The freeze has continued even after top NIH officials acknowledged that continuing to block the funding would violate a federal court order.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

this, all day long

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Couldn’t agree more. This is how the Tea Party transformed the Republican Party back in 2009: they kept confronting reps and Senators all across the country until it snowballed into a major media issue. Scientists all across the country: do this! Students, fellows, PIs, you all can do this.🧪

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Every responsible cat owner I know tries to maintain a veterinary emergency fund. (I say "tries" because the world is complex. I've known people who drained that fund for a human medical emergency, for a roofing emergency, or for a different vet emergency. Things cascade.)

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Working in peds meant I had a Trampoline Season each year. Also more people than you would imagine manage to run over their children in their driveway.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

I will go farther - if you have a child or children who is/are marginalized in ways you are not - by race, sexuality, gender identity, disability, etc - then you need to do the work to find them safe adult mentors who share their marginalization.

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Pro-tip: if you want a complete census of every animal in your garden that is not a rat... just try to catch one single rat in a humane trap. Because every woodland creature that is not the rat will "I'm Spartacus!" themselves into the trap, one by one, each night. I'm feeling like Chef Skinner.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Huge loss for students and researchers. The benefits for students to be paid to do research is obvious. At many institutions that are not research intensive, this is a not just an undergrad experience, it’s a critical chance for professors to do research. (I ran an REU program for 3 years.)

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Remote tech writer job!

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HOW COOL IS THIS? In preclinical studies, Stanford scientists discovered that a harmless skin bacterium triggers a powerful immune response. By tweaking a bacterial protein, they developed a topical NEEDLE-FREE vaccine, training the immune system to fight diseases like tetanus and diphtheria! 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

Consumers have the right to hardware products which are non restrictive in design; easily replaceable batteries, expandable storage, and ports with additional functionality (headphone jacks, etc.). BRING BACK THICK PHONES.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The thing about federal bureaucracy is that all the institutional knowledge that makes them work invisibly in such as making sure your milk doesn't contain formaldehyde, is stored inside people who would make twice as much money in another job.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Please please PLEASE request books from your local libraries! Those are some of our most important sales as authors!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Boozhoo Books is an Indigenous led imprint with Bindery Books, publishing exclusively Indigenous books. We are currently accepting submissions from agents and authors directly. We deserve to have our voices heard and our stories championed. Please share with you network.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

submitted 5 days ago • 250 comments

There's a transmasculine version of this. If someone assigned female can become a man, it means there's nothing so special or powerful about men. Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

Today is one of those windy/sunny days where you can almost see the pollen drifting. Makes me wish vacuums came with a sinus attachment......

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment