Bob Darnell

Condoms, gift cards and wedding gifts: Arizona parents allegedly misspent $10 million in ESA funds The Arizona Department of Education records obtained by 12News show misspending could be 20% of all purchases in the $1 billion voucher program.

Princeton's @jenjennings.bsky.social research takedown of AZ Dept Ed: stunning & seeming willful abuses of their voucher program. Hope the AZ Attorney General makes all accountable for > $400M in stockpiled/misused voucher money. And hats off to AZ 12News for pursuing! www.12news.com/article/news...

Jennifer Rubin (@jenrubincontrarian) The women’s team represents the best of America. No wonder Trump felt compelled to denigrate them.

Spanberger’s rebuttal and dominance of Woman’s Olympic feats—Jennifer Rubin nails it…worth an end-to-end read substack.com/@jenrubincon...

Actually the problem is the opposite, as pointed out be this case: dubious scientists (can be) viewed as brilliant … kudos to this thread, Paul Knoepfler and his Niche for being on top of this

I have entirely deleted my X/Twitter account today. A sense of relief has ensued.

He’s too busy making podcasts about 2020 to talk about his supposed job today.

You can't buy a rotisserie chicken for humans with SNAP $, but you can buy rotisserie chicken-flavored cat and dog toothpaste (last line) with Arizona ESA $.

Voucher supporters say Empowerment Scholarship fraud is 1%. New records peg misspending closer to 20%. 12News obtained Education Department records showing that one in five ESA purchases—such as cellphones, TVs, and diamond rings—were on the "unallowable" list.

I discussed new Arizona ESA data with Arizona 12 News’ Craig Harris. 20% of transactions deemed unallowable.

Imagine letting public schools spend taxpayer dollars with this little oversight or auditing. We wouldn’t. Release the data, and let the public see what it’s funding.

Not a well thought out ad to learn from an "educational program" for scientists to learn how to buy/use their instruments

Bring it

Tensions in Minneapolis

amazing that Tensions can deploy tear gas and abduct 5 year olds.

the new york times is undefeated.

Erin Maye Quade I want to try and describe what it is like in Minnesota right now for my friends in other states. As a reminder, Alyse and I live in the suburbs -- Apple Valley -- not Minneapolis. This federal...

If I could ask everyone outside Minnesota to read one thing to understand what's going on there (on ICE's side, not the community response), my current pick would be this public Facebook post by @erinmayequade.bsky.social, a state legislator in Apple Valley, an outer-ring suburb of Minneapolis

shel silverstein was a prophet

An email to NINDS staff from Walter Koroshetz announcing that his reappointment request has been denied.

More news (not good) from NIH

The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.

I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.

Dr @lucygossage.bsky.social was the first keynote at our 2025 Retreat.

Oncologist, professional Ironman champion, and founder of 5K Your Way, Dr Gossage also did her PhD at @cruk-ci.bsky.social.

Recalling this time, she said "completing a PhD and training for an Ironman are remarkably similar!"

Words of wisdom from a trusted Nobel Laureate…most of science is troubleshooting failure. Perhaps this is true of the rest of our lives as well, where success overcoming internal and external challenges, while keeping a positive spirit = contentment.

Known for decades as the Big Three of Groundbreaking Research - and now first in line for federal grants

This is heartbreaking 💔 to read. Thank you 🙏 for sharing this with us. I want to apologize to you on behalf of real Americans. It’s a painful reminder that we must keep resisting these harmful policies so we don’t lose more people like @wwenneuro.bsky.social, whom we spent over a decade training.

Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students

A thought article written by a thoughtful human, touching on the essential nature of human language. “Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Wow, seems so important to publish this! Both for the information in its own right and as a warning shot across the bow. Go Brandon!!!

I can’t wait for the day we get to call him Mayor Mamdani.

Convergent transcriptional specializations in the brains of humans and song-learning birds

The authors suggest this may have allowed “speech-relevant neurons to accommodate elevated levels of FOXP2 without toxicity associated with protein aggregation”. This reminded me of the discussion of Parvalbumin in this paper on vocal learning by @erichjarvis.bsky.social

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

Congratulations to Princeton's Tom Muir, one of the most creative and thoughtful scientists I know, for being awarded the BMS Enzyme Chemistry & Chemical Biology Award chemistry.princeton.edu/news/tom-mui...

An entirely unnecessary fold. Adding “this celebration is open to everyone” - as we have done for all affinity events and celebrations at Princeton - makes these events legal.

Congratulations Tanino! ... but you are not a geriatric :)

Thanks for posting a path to directly "chat" with Jay Bhattacharya-encouraging everyone to submit comments/questions!

Here is mine: "A Physician's credo is to do no harm. Either step up and be a Physician, stop ripping apart the efforts of so many to do good, or look in the mirror and step down."

Went for a walk to Central Park, New York and ran into a massive protest. Decided to join and document. Thousands of marchers were protesting everything the Trump administration and his supporters represent, walking around Trump Tower and then onto the park. I post the messages that resonated most.

Massive protest in New York against the current administration.

Shout out to @asiepel.bsky.social and his team for their extremely thoughtful collaboration, helping us solidify findings of human-specific NOVA1 variants-RNA regulation's contribution to the origin and contribution to human vocalization -- either I missed your original handle or welcome to Bluesky!