Linda Barlow

I guess we’ve always known these slime balls and warned each other. I really had no idea they were all members in an f’ing club

I’ll leave this here since apparently we seem to have a problem with finding evidence.

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Grateful for the Glendale Cherry Creek’s thoughtful writeup of Next’s street safety coverage. But for the sake of accuracy, our viewers are Godless mercenary hordes, not “hords,” whatever that means.

Kids born the same year that the term “RNA-seq” was coined are heading to college this fall. We are all unspeakably ancient.

Figure 6 of the article: Birth order unifies vestibulo-ocular reflex circuit organization. (A) Functional topography for each vestibulo-ocular reflex circuit population, adapted from previous papers (Liu et al., 2022, Tanimoto et al., 2022, Goldblatt et al., 2023, Greaney et al., 2017). Orange and blue represent nose-up and nose-down domains for each nucleus (circles) and their axonal projections (horizontal lines). (B) Birth order-related organization of each circuit population, adapted from the present study (yellow box) and Goldblatt et al. (2023) and Greaney et al. (2017). Magenta and green represent early- and late-born cohorts, respectively. (C) Timeline of key developmental events for each circuit population in zebrafish. Data are from this study (yellow box) and from previous papers (Goldblatt et al., 2023, Greaney et al., 2017, Clark et al., 2013, Bianco et al., 2012, Leary et al., 2025). Up/down function in the vestibular ganglion is inferred based on correlations between anatomical position (this study) and functional topography (Liu et al., 2022, Tanimoto et al., 2022). The time course of sensory-central synaptogenesis is yet to be determined in zebrafish.

Time plays the matchmaker: early-born ganglion neurons connect with early-born central neurons

This Research Highlight showcases work from Stephanie Huang, @denagoldblatt.bsky.social and colleagues: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”

Excited to share this collaborative work with @sarathomasy.bsky.social- spearheaded by Raneesh Ramarapu and William Stoehr- where we visualized the unique spatial localization of tubulin isotopes in neural crest-derived corneal tissues during development. 🤩

Ceramic vessel in black with white dots and ridges coming from the small neck in a swirling pattern all on a white surface

Kitamura Junko, Japanese ceramics artist #womensart

Australian artist Meredith Woolnough's delicately embroidered sculptures express aspects of nature #WomensArt

This is just breathtakingly beautiful

The ICE surge in Minnesota isn’t over — it just moved outside of the Metro.

ICE agents are still terrorizing innocent people in the suburbs. They’re targeting bus stops and hospitals and parks and being more deceptive than ever.

This isn’t over until ICE is out of the ENTIRE state.

What NIH Staff Can’t Tell You—And Why That Matters The people who understand most clearly what is being lost at the NIH are also the people least able to say so.

Dr. Ginexi's latest blog states, "Constraint is not the same as consent." My colleagues and I move things. Maybe we move differently from before. Maybe we communicate differently. Please consider our safety. Keep talking with us. #NIHStrong #FEDstrong

Please share. And check your voter registration well in advance and often.

Year 2, Week 7 Feb 7-13, 2026 - with a paddle

Each Friday night, I cover what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪

Year 2, Week 7: Feb 13
- EPA revokes authority to regulate emissions
- FDA refuses to review new flu vaccine
- NASA funding frozen
- NCAR stripped of supercomputing
- so much more (a rough week)
buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Now do the current administration…

Hirschsprung disease is characterized by a lack of enteric nerve cells in segments of the colon

Here, Elly Sau-Wai Ngan & team find Vcl loss in mice influences multiple pathways during enteric nervous system formation, resulting in a partial aganglionic bowel: doi.org/10.1172/JCI1...

FYI: The switch to requiring the new NIH Biosketch format via SciENcv has been delayed until May. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Trump and his goons pushed out (or didn't replace) more than 10,000 federal government STEM Ph.D.s since he took office, representing 106,636 years of federal work experience. www.science.org/content/arti...

The loss of grants management specialists, those with the budget and accounting knowledge to actually get awards out the door is just as damaging for our agencies. May not have Phds but for some ICs we’ve lost more of them then folks with PhDs.

Photo of Frederick Douglass, who some say was the most photographed person of the 19th century

Happy birthday to one of the greatest, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, he didn't know his actual birthday, but chose to celebrate it on this day.

Please read his books and essays; please teach your children his story when they are old enough to understand.

Thrilled to see our latest work featured on the cover of Stem Cell Reports: www.cell.com/stem-cell-re... !

Tweet from NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya. It says Jay Bhattacharya.. @NIHDirector_Jay Follow If you want to pack a punch , start with what's on your plate. Eat Real food a . Be like Mike Tyson. @HHSGov @SecKennedy @MikeTyson Read the new Dietary guidelines here realfood.gov And there is a photoshop of Bhattacharya with Mike Tyson’s tattoo in his face.

I don’t want to be like Mike Tyson, Jay.

It’s incredible that Les Incompétents not only burned a fat stack of cash on a Mike Tyson Super Bowl ad, but are apparently building an entire campaign around him.

The food item for which Tyson is most famous is Evander Holyfield’s ear.

In our new poll with the Boston Globe of NIH funded scientists in Mass ...
- 72% say they have delayed or cancelled projects
- 66% reduced research scope
- 56% paused experiments or students.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Órale!

Springer Nature $489M in profits. For shareholders. Started as a publicly traded company in October 2024. FYI.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you know any senior undergraduate students or graduate students interested in my Arctic field course this year please have them reach out.

ryan.brook@usask.ca

Course starts and ends in Churchill, August 11-25.

Hands on research. Connecting with Indigenous knowledge keepers. Walking the land.