Yay, clean teeth! 😁 Turns out flossing regularly spreads the dental cleaning out over six months, so you don't have to do it all at once in the dental chair. 😆 (Slow learner, yeah, I know!)
I did not know all this background on Anthropic! We do need to try to support moral safeguards on AI where possible. (And the reference to Bandura's "moral disengagement" was just icing on the proverbial.) 😉
open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
I am amused that my trainer picks out a playlist for workouts based on what music I like; he asked what stuff I listened to and I said Warren Zevon (randomly!), whom he had never heard of. (He knew the top songs tho)
hee hee hee... I learned so much about US international evil deeds from Zevon.
Our I71 Footbridge crew is on a roll.
The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?
Need a reason to show up and fight tomorrow? Ohio has lost over $11 million in federal funding from the NIH. Funding research has been the United States' best investment for decades. In FY23, every $1 in NIH spending returns $2.46 in economic activity. (1/2)
Waah--I missed the protests and events yesterday because I wasn't feeling well! What happened??
Stand Up for Science rally poster March 7th, 1:00 PM at Allegheny Landing in Pittsburgh.
Very excited to be speaking at the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally in Pittsburgh on Saturday.
I am speaking just prior to Dr. Rachel Levine
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This is good stuff-+ I hope it is ok to sign up from outside the UK..
notinourname.org.uk
One of the most tangibly lifesaving efforts of @standupforscience.bsky.social to date was to send an on-the-ground investigator to Guinea Bissau to understand the context of the unethical &CDC funded Hep B infant vaccines study.
We presented to a packed room of horrified House and Senate folks.
A flyer for Stand Up for Science @ OSU Science does not equal Silence. Join us 12 pm, March 7. The location is Eupouria bar at the South Campus Gateway, 1568 North High Street, Columbus Ohio. website is standupforscience.net / march7
March 7 at noon (for those around Ohio State) -- it's an event full of speakers and information!! Watch the live stream! Show up for science! @standupforscience.bsky.social
Woot! Another previous undergrad RA who's working with a colleague of mine just sent me the draft of her first scientific paper she'll be submitting. So proud of her!
Love these kids. 😁
A night time scene of a waterway with red Chinese lanterns lighting it up and reflecting on the canal.
Fireworks behind a leafless tree, so it looks like the tree has sprouted fireworks as flowers. Night time shot, looking up.
A friend of mine sent me Happy Year of the Horse wishes, and I loved these pix of their celebrations!
🇺🇦 On the streets of #Lviv, daily life came to a halt for a minute on Tuesday, with residents sharing a moment of silence to mark four years since Russia's full-scale invasion of #Ukraine began.
Amid power and heating crises, Ukrainians find ways to power through.
Aaaand... It is snowing again... 😢
Nobody should participate in Trump’s State of the Union vanity project! That’s why MoveOn and many partners, including Indivisible, will present the People’s State of the Union, Tuesday, Feb 24, 8 pm. Register now. www.mobilize.us/moveon/event... 🍃
Flyer for a protest Sunday February 22 2026 at Phyllis A Jones Park near ohio state Columbus, from noon to 2 pm.
30 deg F today. Good afternoon to make pot roast...
There is a protest at Ohio State tomorrow about Wexner and Landon: see attached.
What’s this I hear about Trump imposing 15% tariffs on all imports from the US Supreme Court?
Oh dang, my sweetie whipped up a cocktail for me that starts dry, and ends spicy! Yum!!
and I have no idea what it is called...
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15 DAYS UNTIL WE RALLY NATIONWIDE TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! standupforscience.net/march7 ARE YOU READY?
FIND YOUR LOCAL EVENT OR HOST YOUR OWN! VOLUNTEER! DONATE AND FUEL THE FIGHT! standupforscience.net/march7
In just 15 days we are back for round two, nationwide! The fight for science needs YOU! Visit standupforscience.net/march7 to register to host a rally in your city, volunteer at a rally, find more info on your local rally, and donate!
#March7
#rally
#standupforscience
#ImpeachTheQuack
#ImpeachRFKJr
don't post pictures of daffodils and tell me it's spring.
It's spring when I see the crew team rowing on the river when I'm driving into work in the morning.
Currently, that river is still ice (or was, yesterday morning).
(Tongue in cheek--I love the daffodil pix--but it ain't spring yet here!)
Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
When you are reading your grad student's initial dissertation thoughts and plans, and it's so obvious she is brilliant and has pulled together some amazing hypotheses... ❤️ Chef's 😘!!
I really hope we can pull this off--I want to know what happens!
Aw geez. Dense fog advisory this morning and IT STINKS!!
I looked up what can make fog smell bad and apparently it's a thing this year. Pollutants in the air get caught by the fog molecules. It's being reported all over.
I think it is a commentary on the current leadership. 😂
Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
Because every now and again these petitions do make a difference, we've seen it a few times this year --
sign.moveon.org/petitions/do...
A day spent in the company of brilliant people actually wrestling with ideas and mathematical models -- ❤️❤️ am I lucky, or what? 😁
My lab folk said it was eye opening to see all the arguments on how to do things actually in development.
--we may have terrified a few of them and inspired others..
Cool! Thanks!! 😊
I have never seen a half time show in my life, so I am really just a bystander! But the reactions to someone singing in Spanish are just so over the top...
Talked to my dad and he actually saw the halftime show from the super bowl, unlike most years. He said it was a real dud.
I said Dad he was singing in Spanish, you should have understood it?
He said, the singer? He was great! It was the rest of the show that had low production value...
Sigh.
