Wonderful article in VOGUE on Jody Potts-Joseph… who is also mother to Quannah Chasinghorse!!
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Wonderful article in VOGUE on Jody Potts-Joseph… who is also mother to Quannah Chasinghorse!!
Another reminder that health insurers in the US are THE WORST.
This week it’s @bcbsm.bsky.social next week it’ll be another one.
5/ Want to help collect samples? Check out your state page on what opportunities may be available. Minnesota has a pretty cool program for volunteer water monitoring:
#AltCitizen
www.pca.state.mn.us/get-engaged/...
A green snake eagerly tries to get a peak at Toad in the water. From "A Swim" In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*
A snake crawled out of the grass. “If Toad looks funny in his bathing suit,” said the snake, “then I, for one, want to see him.”
Aka a miss. A failure to hit a target useful to the goals. A waste of the equipment used to hit the school. Two Tomahawk missiles, from reports. At $2.5m per that’s $5million cost to the taxpayers to BLOW UP 100+ CIVILIAN CHILDREN.
we remain firmly on track for 'republican president leaves the country an omnishambles, next democratic president is punished for not cleaning it up fast enough'
If any news outlets are covering this and want to talk to a trans Genomics PhD who specialized in human genetics and the evolution of sex, please reach out to me
This is complete nonsense scientifically. It's fascist eugenics, not biology
Setting a horrifying precedent for genocide
In other news, I just got a (real!) email meant for a different Doug Mack, letting him know that his financial advisor was prepping the requested $25,000 donation to Doctors Without Borders.
Usually my doppelganger emails are annoying but in this case, I salute you, Other Doug
I agree with this and it's something for which community groups should already be developing concrete plans. I think reparations are already due.
This 🧵 is incredibly important 👇👇👇
Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience.
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
Image of diary entry from March 11, 1936. Text is written in black fountain pen ink
Wednesday, March 11, 1936:
It is snowing. Marv & I thawed out pipe all day. Went to church & got stuck. We have a blizzard. Retired at 10:00.
#1936diary
1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.
An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.
It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.
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But price increases weren't the worst impact. We've been dealing with suppliers shrinking catalogs, leaving the market, or selling out to larger companies. We've seen a drastic decline in new product development. We've lost access to niche toymakers in Japan, Canada, & the EU.
We're not direct importers, so we don't pay tariffs directly. In fact, even tho we won our lawsuit, we can only document $1173.56 in tariff costs that vendors passed on directly to us via a line item on an invoice. The vast majority of vendors simply raised their prices.
Robins do kinda live up to this name
2026 essay competition
Oh wow. I know people here have THOUGHTS. Write them up & submit!!
I love that all essays have to be public before entering. This is exactly the type of conversation we need more of. (Also cash prizes + philanthropy is listening)
Now which on my list should I pick 🤔?
astera.org/essay-compet...
what do you do when your desired outcome (banning gender-affirming care) goes against the medical consensus? easy: simply exclude 97% of the relevant medical studies from your review...
I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves
YES
“we took the sensor out of the chamber, and we were like, ‘Screw it. We’re going to try to measure a fart.’” So Hall stuck the device down his own pants and let rip. “And the signal was enormous.”
www.sciencenews.org/article/smar...
a portion of a raceme with many white flowers on slender flowerstems facing all directions around a vertical main stem. the flowers have four white petals that alternate with four light green sepals. the petals are spaced apart from each other such that the sepals are easy to see; they're not very much shorter than the petals. the petals and sepals grow out at the same angle until the tips of the sepals, at which point the squarishly rounded petals flare out for a short distance. at the center of each flower there are six stamens with white filaments and pale yellow anthers surrounding a light green style.
a view from further back of the entire terminal raceme of this smooth rockcress. at the top of the plant, the flowers are still buds, encased in their green sepals. in the middle of the raceme, the blooming flowers have four white petals that alternate with the open light green sepals. at the bottom of the raceme, the flowers have faded and are beginning to develop long downward-curving green seedpods.
a smooth rockcress growing on a steep rocky slope in a forest, among fallen tree leaves. the rockcress has long, lance-like green leaves that clasp its unbranching stem. at the top there is a raceme of small white flowers.
🌼 smooth rockcress 🌿
Borodinia laevigata
#nativeplants #ecoregion71
More flowers!
It's just going to get more and more beautiful from here. I love spring!
#BloomScrolling 🌿
A causal link between severe Covid or flu and lung cancer risk by impairing immunity and promoting inflammation, as shown in multiple murine models www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
“Using specialized laboratory chambers and sensors, the researchers discovered that queen bees in diapause are consuming oxygen and producing carbon dioxide while underwater. Somehow, it seemed, the insects were breathing.” So cool.
Queen bumblebees hunker down during cold months in shallow burrows, which can become waterlogged from rainstorms and snowmelt.
While surviving for a full week underwater, the insects have the ability to breathe even as they are fully submerged.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/s...
Snowdrop flowers sprouting through a carpet of brown leaves
Sign of spring: snowdrops are sprouting at the Arboretum
Demtetre Daskalakis giving a speech about re-reenvisioning public health
Signs in a crowd: The power of the people is greater than the people in power & I’m with Mother Earth
Sign saying: Science Br U H in periodic chart format
Guy with bicycle and sign saying Impeach RFK Jr
Stand Up for Science NYC
Great speeches, inspired by all the young scientists who spoke out!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
age and gender distribution of directors in the max planck society. shows a more than 3:1 ratio of men:women above age of 55. But the ratio is much more even in younger ages.
The Max Planck Society has a junior research group program for women named after Meitner. It's existence is evidence that things haven't changed enough. It wouldn't be necessary, if they had. But there are signs of progress. Look at this age/gender dist of directors:
what will the curve look like for FY2026? we know that total $$ and MYF fraction are roughly the same as in 2025. However CSR moved the triage line (% of apps discussed and scored at study section) to 1/3 instead of 1/2. This will likely shift the 2026 curve upward, particularly at the left end.