If the hackish and quisling management at @cbsnews got control of @cnn, their owners @paramountco would order them to run old episodes of Petticoat Junction rather than, you know, do news like this. Let me stress again: They are not interested in anything but toxic pablum and lazy both sides nonsense and defocusing people from the real facts.
RE: https://www.threads.com/@kaitlancollins/post/DT85FAlkftg
Do the journals you publish in align with your values?
We push for an alternative to traditional journals that perpetuate a system of prestige and skewed incentives.
Why are there only parallel universes and not perpendicular universes? You don’t know how they parked their universe.
@cstross
Seems valid, but implies that there is a last number after which the character is a finished adult organism.
From my new piece Schrödinger’s Democracy: Why Isn’t Anyone Doing Anything?
https://catvalente.substack.com/p/schrodingers-democracy-why-isnt-anyone
Senate Democrats need bold new leadership to fight the Trump regime — and that starts by making Chuck Schumer step aside. Urge your Democratic senators to call on Schumer to step down as minority leader: https://indivisible.org/resource/call-now-tell-your-democratic-senator-its-time-chuck-schumer-step-aside?source=mastodon
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I am deeply ashamed of my alma mater. NorthwesternU, you are dead to me. I am headed to the basement to find my diploma and rip it in two.
Northwestern strikes deal with Trump administration to restore federal funding
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/28/campus/northwestern-strikes-deal-with-trump-administration-to-restore-federal-funding/
The Saudification of America Is Under Way. “Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/18/saudi-arabia-america-jamal-khashoggi
From Vienna to New York, a family rug became a witness to history, survival, migration, and change.
Eve Marder draws connections between personal stories of displacement and the essential role of migration in sustaining science today.
https://elifesciences.org/articles/109153?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_features
To think -- some of us spent all that time and effort in school studying science, history, and math. We thought deeply about ethics and society.
Now, our government and businesses are run by the kids who cheated on all the exams. Our law enforcement and defense are run by the kids who skipped class to drink behind the bleachers. And our health care and science policy are run by the people who ate the crayons.
Special Issue on Understanding Brain Disease with Live Imaging is out and looking terrific! Great THANKS to the editorial crew Adam Bauer ,
@nozomi-nishimura.bsky.social
and Bistra Iordanova!
The cover image by Julie Perroy's lab at CNRS, Montpellier
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/neurophotonics/volume-12/issue-S1
#Neurophotonics #Neuroscience #OpticalImaging #Microscopy
This is personal: "Appointing the 4 Horseman of the Scientific Apocalypse — RFK Jr. as Sec of #HHS, Dr. Oz to run Medicare & Medicaid services, Dr. Makary as head of the #FDA & Dr. Bhattacharya to run# NIH — has signaled the end of any serious approach to biomedical #science & public health by the federal govt. Together & separately, they have taken a wrecking ball to our august scientific institutions that were previously considered to be the best in the world."
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/16/donald-trump-goes-nuclear-in-the-gops-war-on-science/
How can we test theories in neuroscience? Take a variable predicted to be important by the theory. It could fail to be observed because it's represented in some nonlinear, even distributed way. Or it could be observed but not be causal because the network is a reservoir. How can we deal with this?
Increasingly feel like this isn't a theoretical problem but a very practical one that comes up all the time. I'd be interested if anyone has seen anything practical that addresses this.
Our authors can freely speculate the meaning and implications of their data in our new section:
💡 Ideas and Speculation 💡
https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/e3e52a93?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
OK. With all that's going on int the world, this might not be the most important bit of news right now. But @mitpress has announced that my book, How Not to Study a Disease, will be on the Penguin Random House Backlist Marketing program. On April 21st, the ebook will be discounted to $1.99, and marketing will run with Kindle and BookBub.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Study-Disease-Alzheimers-ebook/dp/B08S7DWJ3S/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40110649/
I love how the abstract puts a reverse spin on the results. They conclude that cognitive decline does not predict amyloid deposition. For me the data is really telling us in no uncertain terms that amyloid does not drive cognitive decline. Did I miss something?
I keep going back and thinking about that moment during the state of the union when Green was kicked out. The democrats chose to stay seated throughout Trump's address as a demonstration of discontent. Yet, when Green was confronted and forcibly removed, the democrats remained silent and seated. They chose not to stand up - both literally and figuratively - for one of their own, all to keep up an easily ignorable theatrical gesture.
It's just such a simple yet perfect depiction of liberalism. Prioritization of optics at the expense of others and calling it solidarity. Instead of supporting another democrat, they chose their performative demonstration that ultimately undermined their collective strength. Democrats and liberals will not save us or protect us from fascism. They will sell us out and continue to appeal to the oppressors, like they always do, both in the White House and on the streets.
🇺🇦🇺🇸 JD Vance’s cousin fought for over two years in Ukraine as part of the "Da Vinci Wolves."
47-year-old Nate Vance, a former U.S. Marine, joined Ukraine’s forces in 2022, saying he "saw history being written."
"JD is smart, but what they did to Zelensky was a dishonest ambush. Being relatives doesn’t mean I’ll accept him aiding in the killing of my comrades." – Nate Vance.
When I was in graduate school, nothing in the world felt more important to me than publishing a paper in the scientific literature. It was not about getting a job or competing with my peers. It was about being part of something vastly larger than myself and profoundly meaningful human history.
I still remember the feeling of peace I felt when I made it happen. Even if I never achieved my dreams of being a research scientist, I had been able to contribute, in however tiny a way, to a community stretching over countless generations and striving toward a common and profoundly meaningful aim.
Thinking back on all this I better understand the pain I feel to see science under devastating attack here. It’s not just about my livelihood or my university. It’s about my identity. And it’s about a pursuit that I see as standing along with art, literature, and music as among our highest callings.
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