eartha mae

lmao was not expecting @livagar.bsky.social to pull out the Berthold 1851 citation in the latest QAA

Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.

What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.

Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

😬😬

Menzingers coming on the shuffle the moment I step off the plane, home in Philly

Saw someone repeatedly use “inherit” instead of “inherent” the other day and it hurt me

גוט שבת, אהבֿה ✨🌒

Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.

“Never again” is meaningless if it doesn’t include this. There’s no reason to mince words other than cowardice: these are concentration camps and never again is now.

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

You know what else died in the Middle East? The myth of Western humanity.

Western leaders they’re just watching hospitals and schools in flames and children buried beneath rubble.

I never want to hear any Western leader ever talk about human rights.

Sticker saying TRANSSEXUALS HAVE GOT TO GET MEANER

I understand the instinct to donate to orgs that are helping trans folks flee red states but let's not forget about the orgs that are still fighting for trans folks in red states.

bring back shame (with material penalties)

Alas I was not dealt the Dune card when I did my trans woman lottery so I’m missing the reference 😔 but otherwise totally agree with you 100%

It’s really fucked up! nauseating and enraging—

bsky.app/profile/tops... there’s also a news article about the court filing that shouldn’t be too hard to find

Who tf files a restraining order w the cops against another trans woman, esp a recently incarcerated trans woman??

Disgusting behavior

I got a girl who saw Zucker as a therapist to start HRT

This one’s special 🥹

Agouti integrates environmental cues to regulate paternal behaviour - Nature Expression of agouti signalling protein in neurons in the medial preoptic area is increased by group housing and negatively associated with care, and overexpression of Agouti reduces care and enhances...

Why are some males caring toward infants while others are neglectful or abusive? I'm so pleased to share work that my colleagues and I @princeton.edu have just published @nature.com (an explanatory thread to follow!) (1/8)

lol I’m going in today to prep for slice experiments for the first time in like 2-3 years today, who knows what I’ll find

the overseer of project 2025 is telling you out loud that every inch you cede on trans rights is part of the plan to create a white christian fascist state

Evidentiary Pragmatism in Transgender Health Care | AJPH | Vol. 116 Issue 3 American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)

It took a hot minute, but I can finally share my new paper on evidentiary pragmatism in transgender health care!

In it, I propose a new principle for evaluating scientific evidence based on the best reasonably achievable evidence, avoiding the ‘catch-22’ where trans care can never be justified.

Kyra and Eartha in a red bathroom light with John waters movie posters

Eartha smiling wearing an animal print dress at a restaurant with a red heart shaped tostada,

Happy first Valentine’s Day with my wife 💛💖💛 @endoeartha.bsky.social

יאָ, ביטע 😍😮‍💨

אַ דאַנק, חבר!!

You ever stomp on some glass with your wife?!

Sometimes it’s the last week before something you really care about and need to put a ton of effort into and you’re getting up at 5a to the tune of grape caffeine

Grape news, everyone: the grape flavored sparkling water electrolyte and caffeine drink I got (100mg) tastes just like Grape Soda 🍇

ס׳איז זייער שווער! אוי גוואַלד! און יעצט ס׳איז די גוטע גוואַלד 😅

I don’t usually remember dates on the Hebrew calendar, for better or worse — Tu Bshvat not withstanding

But I do know I got engaged on 2 Kislev and married on 12 Shvat 5786 🥰

חג החתונה שלנו!

It’s coming!!!