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I thought I’d seen it all but 6 equally contributing last authors and 7 equally contributing first authors?

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

Chicago-born Pope moves to replace communions wafers with Franco mints, communion wine with Malört.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Show me where you spend your money and I'll tell you what your values are. Broad elimination $$$ for health, the environment, housing for the poor, and education - endless money for defense and homeland security!!! The Sparta-nization of America.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

submitted 12 days ago • 49 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 18 days ago • 614 comments

Trump’s ICE is going to pay a company up to $1 million/person to house detainees in a tent city at Ft Bliss? Where’s the Government Efficiency?? www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Relearned an important lesson tonight. Do not fly American Airlines. Do not fly international into JFK. And under no circumstances do you ever fly American Airlines International connecting thru JFK.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

I think he’s being modest - it’s likely 5x higher. #idiotsincharge www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

submitted 41 days ago • 829 comments

At this point I guess we should be glad the idiots weren’t going over classified war plans on Facebook Messenger?

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

"You and your family created Hell, and you're going to burn in it” is going to get a lot of mileage...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Song popped up on this morning’s playlist - not new but vibes with 2025 pretty well.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Hateful racists rewriting history.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

UNC-CH is searching for a new Chair of Psychiatry. Please share. www.nejmcareercenter.org/job/863298/c...

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!

submitted 68 days ago • 1205 comments

Is DOGE leveraging the GSA to cancel leases to require closing offices as a reason to fire people??

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

New technique dropped. vDISCO - turn the whole brain into actual glass chunks!! Verified in humans! Not going to lie - Getting it through IRB is gonna be a problem. “Envelop subject in ~500C hot ash” www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

submitted 82 days ago • 46 comments

Of course times are tough, but is anyone (or does anyone know) of anyone in the DC-VA-MD area with openings for a masters-level researcher with experience in molecular biology, RNA and DNA work, transcriptomics, and specific experience with both plant and nematode genomics?

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

I need an SNL skit where Musk is played by Rachel Dratch (acting like she’s on ketamine) and Trump is played by a small, yappy dog that Musk ignores and/or talks over.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

I’m sorry. Did Depeche Mode license their music for a Jesus ad in the Super Bowl? I hate it.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

In these dark and troubling times, it’s good to know that I am subscribed to The NY Times and can count on them for important information like <checks email> “which mediation app is best”.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments