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On a lighter note.

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BTW. If you’re a scientist and are feeling hollowed out, depressed, fried, frustrated, confused, and simply exhausted by everything, I understand you. You are perfectly sane and you are not alone.

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Not even a thinly veiled brag re-post, but the band I was in opened for Fishbone in the early 90s at the Limelight in NYC. My life has gotten a lot less interesting since then.

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Import read sorry to say.

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Town trails, Laramie.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhZG...

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Did the local protest today. Good crowd! Disappointed with the relative lack of young people though. Although come to think of it, there were a few young males in pickups who rolled coal at us, so at least they care I guess…

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Monkey traverse. Scene of much exfoliation ~30 years ago.

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My job, as it turns out, is not to make a good situation better. It’s to make bad situations less worse. That’s probably a lot of jobs it turns out!

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From Frank Bruni: We have by no means reached a point of helplessness, but we will most certainly get there if we declare defeat too soon. Hope isn’t an option. It’s an obligation.

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A recent PhD graduate who I know and like and respect and genuinely appreciate and care about just got kicked out of the country. What the hell has happened to us?

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Our only hope in countering this man-made disaster is to also bring back the Saber Toothed Tiger!

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It seems like most of the people protesting today are… well, older.

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Melt out. Last ski of the season.

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Stepwise photobleaching of the economy

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I was going to try to write something positive today. Maybe about how focusing on your science and getting papers written is still a productive and rewarding outlet. But then I started thinking about how the tariffs are likely to affect the costs of reagents, equipment, and services. And now I’m 😑.

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Just out! We used C. elegans to trace the cargo of ciliary EVs and found that their loading is a regulated process involving polycystins. @barrlab.bsky.social communities.springernature.com/posts/tiny-m...

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International scientists rethink U.S. conference attendance | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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BTW, the hype surrounding the Brit/Netflix miniseries, Adolescence, isn’t. Every episode a knockout punch. It will be (or already is) a culture touchstone.

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What can we learn in general? Women have better judgement than men. Older people have better judgement than younger people. Everyone has better judgement than white people. Education can improve your judgement. Our ideal president would an older educated black woman. Oh well…

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On a whim I just googled “compassionate nihilism”. Turns out it’s a thing. Alone no more! (To paraphrase Vonnegut)

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Sadly, one must question the premise of holding international science conferences on US soil.

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My favorite things about being a professor: 1) Trainings. Especially financial systems that I’ll never use or will be obsolete by the time I do need to use them. 2) Explaining why lab safety glasses are not compatible with looking through a microscope. 3) Assessing shit. 3) Doing more with less.

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I’m considering mandating a new lab dress code. Monocle Monday: 🧐 Turban Tuesday: Scarves and cravats acceptable. Whatever Wednesday: Only day you can wear whatever you want. Thrifty Thursday: You found it on the street. That morning. Freaky Friday: Open to some interpretation but must be… 1/2

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🤮🤮🤮 There are pluses and minuses associated with working at a public university, but at least I don’t have to deal with these entitled hedonists.

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www.baldwin.senate.gov/news/press-r...

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I have to give my College Dean huge credit for giving me the most accurate and honest annual evaluation that I’ve ever received. “David is nearly universally respected, valued, and admired by his colleagues.” If only all upper administrators were this truthful…

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Just got back from Congresswoman Hangman’s town hall that was just down the block from where I live. It was pretty nuts, as expected, and no real meaningful exchanges occurred. Seated next to me was an older guy. Looked like someone who had worked hard his whole life. He clapped a few times 1/2

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Sounds like the next NIGMS council meeting won’t be until mid May, same time as the previously scheduled one. Better than no date. Problematic with respect to concerns about going over financial cliffs with current lab members as well as extending invitations to graduate rotation students.

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Seems like something an opposition party would point out. If only we had one.

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Newest preprint from our lab. Congratulations to all authors!

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Thank you, @einsteinberlin.bsky.social, for recognizing the importance of raising concerns about scientific papers. Often, science sleuths face professional, personal, and legal threats. Awards like these are vital to acknowledging the significance of our work.

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One positive about passage of the CR (I also get the negatives) is that NIH will be able to pay new grants. Prior to this, they could only fund grants they’d already committed to. I also suspect that councils will recommence soon and push grants through as quickly as they can. Students will benefit.

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