i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
Mao, Gould et al. introduce a novel tagged Col4a1 mouse model for studying basement membrane dynamics, which provides important details of COL4A1 turnover in cerebral vasculature & shows that Col4a1 heterozygous deletion is better tolerated than missense mutations rupress.org/jcb/article/...
PhD applicants: with 💙, navigate things carefully this year. Please read the 🧵 replies. Some schools are guaranteeing N years of support; others are doing so "contingent on funding"; others are offering provisional accepts (and sadly, some are rescinded).
You are not alone. Get some good advice!
it is truly wild that, as the authors here note, every argument against the plain text reading of the citizenship clause requires twists, turns, contortions and leaps that would make simone biles look like an amateur
I want people to watch this video and honestly tell me why it should be made *illegal* for this 14-year-old girl to play field hockey with her friends. youtu.be/yf9MfYZ-Bl4?...
A rainbow protest sign reading “Science Not Silence”
Proud to stand up for science today with my classmates!
We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
man i really hate the idea that oz would be aggressive towards tara though. it just feels so antithetical to his character and i always found the moment really upsetting
Other circumstances forced upon me the necessity of devoting myself to some absorbing occupation. I became impatient of the disturbing influence exercised by the other sex. I had always been extremely susceptible to this influence. I never remember the time from my first adoration, at seven years old, of a little boy with rosy cheeks and flaxen curls when I had not suffered more or less from the common malady-falling in love. But whenever I became sufficiently intimate with any individual to be able to realise what a life association might mean, I shrank from the prospect, disappointed or repelled. I find in my journal of that time the following sentence, written during an acute attack:- I felt more determined than ever to become a physician, and thus place a strong barrier between me and all ordinary marriage. I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.
Love and early women in medicine:
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), the 1st woman to get an MD in America, fell in love easily, she said, so she went into medicine very deliberately - because she definitely DID NOT want to get married 1/❤️
I will say though. This episode is (in my opinion) better than the next time we’ll see Oz, which is a profound character assassination 😬
Also I’m completely uninvested in Oz’s wolf plotline? It’s not interesting or character-deepening and the stakes don’t feel significant 90% of the time. So then when suddenly it’s a big deal it’s completely out of nowhere.
I like Oz and Willow’s last conversation, but man does this episode suck
Hard to imagine I would’ve gotten into medical school without that experience, and I certainly helped a lot of valuable research happen by working behind the scenes.
I was a staff research associate at UCSF! I did some “research” work sectioning, staining, and imaging mouse tissue, but I also did a lot of grunt work- ordering supplies, managing mouse colonies, genotyping, etc. #overheadcostjob
Two weeks into President Trump’s sweeping freeze on foreign aid, HIV groups abroad have not received any funding, jeopardizing the health of more than 20 million people, including 500,000 children.
You’re making me want to rewatch Buffy…
I love that episode so much. I think the next season is when I start getting frustrated with the selfishness of Buffy’s friends and family and their need to make her suffering about them (particularly Willow and Joyce- Xander never really pretended to be anything but self centered)
I completely agree, but I do feel like their chemistry in this episode makes even a weak plot memorable
NEW KIND OF ASTROLOGY JUST DROPPED HELL YEAH
Astronomer here! Most of North America gets to see Mars get covered by the moon tonight! Here's a handy chart from the Astronomical League so you know when to look! 🔭🎢🧪
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
SoCal friends, I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this. A few things I wish I’d known as we evacuated ahead of a wildfire (that took our home in 2021) 🧵
