@drellenlemosy
Science Ellen, curious but a little frazzled. Working toward another career chapter and life balance. Sustained by cats. Motivated by young people and IDEA(s). Personal beef with cancer and crushers of dreams/careers.
Applications are due this Friday to the 2026 CSHL Mouse Development, Stem Cells & Cancer course @cshlcourses.bsky.social!
I learned a lot as a teaching assistant for the course last year, so you're bound to learn lots as a course participant!
Irene Montero (right), speaking to reporters in Madrid, Spain. (Photo By Diego Radames/Europa Press via Getty Images)
Spain MEP Irene Montero: “Send your son, Donald Trump — If you want war, send your own people to the front line. We in Spain want our children, our daughters, & our loved ones at home, safe. We don’t want war — those who want war should send their own children”
This recently happened to us, with similar tells… infuriating.. you can see how it unfolded in the public peer review file: static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10...
<sigh>
One reviewer used AI to review our manuscript.
How do we know?
Suggested papers to cite that do not exist. Some titles correct, but everything else is wrong or just fabricated out of whole cloth.
Requested citations for things I’ve said in review papers that were citing other papers.
I'm going to share this story one more time, because I think the problem it describes -- being unable to determine what is true online or in the news, and just giving up entirely on trying -- is going to get more and more common. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”
Oil and peace don't mix.
I like the part where your broker, second wife, dentist, and anyone willing to say you're 30 days late on a bill all automatically get the kind of stranglehold on your military career that foreign intelligence agents need to work YEARS for.
Not only the "tight t-shirt" requirement, but senior officers not allowed to have any medical conditions / permanent injury limitations, must be married with no more than 1 divorce, and minimum net worth of $1M for O6. This is from an active duty officer? 🙄
Canada lynx kitten
Every year the news slouches closer to an all clickbait model, where every article is called “this will make you mad”
Would you look at the time, it's "must plant the fall harvest now and my window to fertilize it is two weeks or else I just eat the yield decrease" o'clock
oh yea, look at urea prices [haber-bosch strikes again]
Edelman’s steady stream of trust publications and events, as well as branded efforts like its Trust Institute, a thinktank that publishes company research, supplement the firm’s aura of expertise about the topic. “We know how and when to use it – and how to create strategic opportunities to maximize trust,” reads a promise on the landing page for Edelman Trust Management, one of the “core solutions” the company sells to clients (along with the Edelman Net Trust Score and Edelman Trust Management Studies). “What they can show to a potential client is, ‘We’ve helped move these companies into a better place in society, where they’re more trusted. We can do the same for you,’” said Kert Davies, the founder and director of the Climate Investigations Center, which has uncovered many of Edelman’s relationships with the fossil fuel industry. “They’re … trust specialists because trust is the finish line for a PR campaign.”
Other trustworthy Edelman clients include: the Saudi government and the Sackler family.
Here's the Guardian from 2023:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
China increases science funding again (by at least 7-% over the next 5 years) as it pledges billion-dollar spending boost for science
🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Rapid Response 47 tweet with a screengrab of a Trump TS post about Larry Summers resigning from teaching appointments "over Epstein ties"
if i was the Trump rapid response dudebros I would simply not highlight people facing consequences for Epstein ties
omw to a national security briefing
You all, the artist is on Bluesky! Instant follow! bsky.app/profile/shou...
How the Roberts Court destroyed our Democracy
"Five presidential elections ago, before the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling that lifted many remaining campaign finance restrictions, the share of billionaire spending was almost zero — 0.3 percent, to be precise."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
Hey post-docs in Environmental Sciences that need to catch them all... Job posting
#academicsky
#postdoc
#phd
#ecology
I wouldn’t say I’m desensitized. I’ve seen a lot of fucked up things in my life but this one sticks. This and USAID are up there with watching Rodney King get the crap beat out of him when I was in high school. Something is broken inside of anyone who can defend those choices.
A tomahawk missile costs the taxpayers the same amount of money as one five-year major NIH research grant. Remember that every time they tell us one of those missed the target, blew up paintings of enemy aircraft or tanks, or was the fifth and unnecessary hit on the same target.
Idiot plot
5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.
Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Just about the most rational possible response on Iran's part. That the Trump regime has gone into this so staggeringly unprepared suggests it won't be that hard for Iran to do this.
If only the fascists had a theory of mind to conceive of others as agents who also have a say in shaping the world
MAHA Institute President, Mark Gorton:
11/2025 (@nytimes.com via @sherylnyt.bsky.social):
”I’ve come to this anti-vax conference with a message that we need to be more boldly anti-vax."
This week:
"The childhood vaccination schedule needs to be eliminated.”
What does the Acting CDC Director say?
When the MAHA Institute President shares slides that say "Polio is a fraud" and the RFK Jr-appointed Chair of ACIP Kirk Milhoan questions the need for polio shots, then the American public must know: is the NIH/CDC-Acting Director advancing an anti-vax agenda?
www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/v...
