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It’s only a world war if it comes from the World War region of France. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling shitshow.

NIH Says It Will No Longer Recognize the Research Fellows’ Union NIH leadership said the union “should never have been certified,” in an email to the union’s leadership.

NIH leadership wants to strip worker's rights from the majority of scientists on its campuses.

But, the NIH does not get to say whether we are a union or not. We do, and we are no strangers to having to fight for our union. Time for a short history lesson. 1/n

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This mosquito can breed in a bottle cap — and it’s spreading in California, officials warn Bay Area officials are urging residents to clear their yards of any items that hold standing water, as the non-native yellow fever mosquito continues to spread.

Bay Area officials are urging residents to clear their yards of any items that hold standing water, as the non-native yellow fever mosquito continues to spread.

God, the way this unlocked memories of how Get Your War On got me through the early 2000s

Anthropic trained their model on a zillion stolen science fiction books all saying "This is why you shouldn't invent the Torment Nexus" so I'm not entirely we should hand it to them for not tormenting the nexus.

The lolrus meme.

I was the first person to call my Congresswoman's office about this bill. It was fast and easy, and the aide I spoke to was pleasant--and horrified when she heard what they're trying to get away with. Please. Help protect our trans siblings.

Watching the ripple effect of ICE/CBP burning a ton of back the blue style goodwill is going to be interesting.

What's your personal/favourite crank/conspiracy theory?

Mine is that the weasel that burrowed into and ate wires in the CERN Large Hadron Collider messed with the space-time continuum and ultimately is the cause of a bunch of the wacky, unbelievably awful but obvious shit we've been living with.

The single most American thing anyone ever did in a film ever was when Slim Pickens rode the bomb down in Strangelove.

Don't know what made me think of that just now.

Hey.

Tell people when they do good job.

When you like the stuff they make.

When you like the characters they’ve created.

The stories they’ve told.

Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time.

Trust. They don’t.

Tell. Them.

Post old memes to confuse young people

Continual exposure to young physicists and engineers over time has convinced me that WIS is a far more important stat than INT and, boy howdy, is CHA not a dump stat.

Teen Phil would have been surprised by this but he barely qualified as human and was a young physicist, so...

Bill Watterson slams his head on the table and shouts, “It was supposed to a metaphor about making sense of the world during early childhood!”

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks Maria Loconsole1*, Silvia Benavides-Varela2,3, Lucia Regolin1 Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of this association, and whether it is unique to humans, we tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby domestic chickens (Gallus gallus). as a precocial species, chicks can be tested shortly after hatching, allowing us to control their pretest experiences. Similar to humans, both 3-day-old [experiment 1 (exp. 1)] and 1-day-old (exp. 2) chicks spontaneously choose a spiky shape when hearing the “kiki” sound and a round shape when hearing the “bouba” sound. results from naïve young animals suggest a predisposed mechanism for matching the dimensions of shape and sound, which may be widespread across species.

main fig from the paper showing the association between bouba/round and kiki/spiky in newborn chicks

the new paper on bouba/kiki in chicks is utterly compelling

canonical, elegant method from comparative cogsci & its partner in developmental science, ultra-simple design, ultra-clear effects, no need for fancy analyses, machine learning, or AI

it appeared in an appropriately badass venue (Science)

a flush is meant to signal an end. A passage. A discarding of remnants left useless to the body and the being from whence they came.

and yet.

and yet it is a beginning.

a flush marks the first steps of a journey towards renewal.

i say flush not to forget.

rather flush to forge ahead, anew.

“But wehhh, I have to use AI to make my storyyy”
I just dropped a 60-page Garfield manga featuring all 118 current periodic table elements, which I researched individually for each design. AI’s NEVER going to give you that and I require way less water

this is it

maybe a simpler analogy is to smoking

the big tech companies are selling a product that makes all our lives worse and that we are very bad at regulating our own use of

so yes children shouldn't be doing it but you have to address the harms to adults and drive down all usage

First of all, let’s look at who’s asking. It’s the provider about to treat the patient. Before any care is delivered. Across a clear power dynamic. As a patient, I have to think, do I want risk annoying my provider by saying no? 3/

'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that som...

The thing about this that is so fucked is that kids don't get to choose where they go to school. Their parents are choosing for them and choosing badly and the kids are the ones who will ultimately pay for it.

Reminder: if your community does not have an enforced code of conduct, it becomes possible to subvert it to attack or ostracise individuals and spread a whole lot of ugly that marginalised people will run screaming away from.

This morning, I got distracted while eating cheese because I remembered that the laughing cow is named Elsie and is married to Elmer the cow on the glue labels. To doublecheck that I hadn’t hallucinated that, I looked it up and fell down a dark internet rabbit hole.

I really wish Olympic media coverage was less focused on crowning winners before they’ve competed, and then throwing them under the bus when they don’t come through.

Meanwhile, I’d like to hear more about the actual gold medalist they completely ignored?

From the HobbyDrama community on Reddit: [Thomas the Tank Engine] “This is what Lore Poisoning looks like.” Incredibly small stakes drama within the Thomas the Tank Engine fan community. Explore this post and more from the HobbyDrama community

I am so, so tempted to dump this link into my dad's best-beloved narrow gauge discussion forum. www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama...

The Long-Lived King: An Original The Owl House Graphic Novel by Dana Terrace, Mikki Crisostomo: 9781368104548 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books In an all-new adventure set in the world of Disney’s The Owl House, Luz, Eda, King, and the gang return in The Long-Lived King, an original graphic novel cowritten by series creator Dana Terrace....

King never considered what it means to be a Titan. Burdened by the fact that he will outlive his beloved Owl House family, he’s still determined to enjoy every moment. Even if that means using one of the Collector’s devices to wipe away his sad memories.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804037

every single person writing credulously about "elon will put people on the moon" should have to pin this post to their monitor

DinoCon is more mindful of attendees’ safety than Harvard or MIT or Yale or Stanford (etc.) are of their students’ safety

(and some of those students are still legal minors, unlike the DinoCon participants)

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if you asked me to tell you FROM SOUND ALONE which 1960/70s-era song was not actually in English, despite purporting to be so, this would not be anywhere close to the top of my list.

And this is how I got the delightful news that there's a new season of For All Mankind coming.