grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
First question is what room is that window belonging to?
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First question is what room is that window belonging to?
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
There are automatic feeders you can get...
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Are we even sure he wrote that? Too many coherent sentences and too little all caps.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, lets talk about how slowly Biden walked today instead!!
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
I was wondering what the motives were for destroying our health, this would make sense. Vanity from a man with a voice like calk screeching on a blackboard though...
Luca (@lucagalletti.bsky.social) reposted
Yeah robots are definitely not taking over the world. Not the red one, at least. ๐คฃ
The Onion (@theonion.com) reposted
Texas Blocks Law That Would Ban Gun Stores From Operating Inside Psych Wards http://theonion.com/texas-blocks-law-that-would-ban-gun-stores-from-operating-inside-psych-wards/
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social)
Such an archetypical tone-deaf human (in the most negative) advertisement. Speaking of the wonders and beauties of the natural world - and then eating them. @princesscruise.bsky.social
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
During protest in NY early March some speaker (forgot who, worked at NIH) said they showed years back RFK a day long at NIH all the data on vaccines. He still didnโt believe them. He doesnโt want to.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Flashback to my residency in ๐ฉ๐ช. All Sunday on call. Home Monday morning. Since Uni hospital admin said we only work 60% on a Sunday call compared to 100% during reg. hours (Monday) they cut 40% of salary for being all day in the hospitalโฆ
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Still requires a working brain and that is debatable.
Johanna Joyce (@johannajoyce.bsky.social) reposted
Cells swapping their #mitochondria - this sounded like science fiction ๐งช when the first studies started coming out! But now this has been observed in #cancer, #yeast, #molluscs, and under normal physiology - as a way to regulate energy demands, metabolism, cell fate & much more - true #powerhouses!
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Pssst. ๐คซ Donโt let RFK knowโฆ ๐ฑ๐คฏ
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social)
Dreaming of a country/time where milk & honey flows, everyone gets along and there is plenty of funding to do cool research to move things forward. Instead I find myself daily in a horror show going backwards with pollution, war and famine everywhere and the horsemen waiting at the side line.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Not sure if this an insult. I think it is. Kindergarten level of development and stupid are a hint. As far as I am aware with my stupid MD, PhD brain America is a real continent and this bird is in the coat of arms of a rapidly failing American country. This then is some second level meaning.
BK. Titanji (@boghuma.bsky.social) reposted
The pre-vaccine era was HELL for kids. We have already failed them on gun safety, we cannot fail them on the issue of vaccines. #VACCINES cause Adults!
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Tripod required I assume. So you basically sit in the dark with the camera shutter open and the lightning acts as the flash then. How do you do it if there is still daylight or dusk?
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Great that we donโt have a functioning CDC any not e
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh he took a wrong turn way sooner, somewhere 2010ish.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
With him that has been the case since 2017... Every accusation is a confession. Every statement the opposite has to be assumed true.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social)
Thanks to GOP, Trump and RFK this will drop again in the US likely. Why? less research but also worse healthcare and no vaccinations. I,.e, higher comorbidities.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Ha, I didn't even notice that, thanks Mac autocorrect...
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social)
Ever since I saw this in the original show I was in love with that car. Not with the price though. youtube.com/shorts/cuBZV...
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Phew...
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Have you seen who is President?
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Not really my question but fair point. Third option would be AI my guess. Though I was curious how one captures a lightning strike which is as fast as a, well,...
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Sushi and desert in one!
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Peace Nobel price right there, can't you see it? Yet another war HE stopped. Incredible feat!!!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Not to worry they can call in the National Guard to he... Oh, wait.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Nosferatu and Maskera man will run the show then (if they are not already).
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
How did you get the photo of the lightning?
Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves.bsky.social) reposted
Terrific and terrifying piece by William J. Broad for the @nytimes.com: โ'Trump once said he wanted the generals that Hitler had,' Dr. Josephson wrote. 'Heโs certainly working on getting the science that Hitler and Stalin had.'โ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
And lost trust. Why coming (back) to the US if it failed you once and you may have find greener pastures or other careers elsewhere in the mean time.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
The Nuremberg defense: At the Nuremberg trials after World War II, this defense was no longer a complete defense if the order was "manifestly illegal" under international law. Individuals are held responsible for following orders that are clearly criminal, such as murdering civilians.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social)
And here comes the anti Pritzker fraction. So he is not good. newsome is not gut. Theyโll find something to nag about with every potential dem candidate - and we will end up (or continue) with The Fรผhrer and the Fourth Reich.
Dread Meadow (@deadlyflowers.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Pritzker's admin has been weirdly selective about which abuses he's been otherwise vocal about that they'll take material action against.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Everyone these days.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social)
This is how America should be now and feel. Like this Bald Eagle.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh we do what is lost. Ongoing trials for kids with brain cancer which means that these kids will now sentenced to death by the pro-life party. And you are right - as we will never know what new therapies we will NOT have now. But look at progress in cancer therapy so far. And then extrapolate.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
They are counting their rubles.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social)
The โPro-Lifeโ party everyone. Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
What is a physician supporting a quack? Also a (rubber duck picture)
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Your own or are you an editorโฆ.? Please be an editor as otherwise I am even more depressed.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
And we soon will again. Together with raw milk.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
The MYF was a disaster. Is a disaster. I know so many colleagues whose excellent grants were pushed by that (and the delay tactics early in the year with canceled council meetings) of the table as they now dropped under the pay line. Yours truly included.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Totally agree. But it doesnโt help if you and I and others agree -there has to be a systemic change. Which is happening now here but not in a good way..l
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
I was wondering. It looked familiar but yet something is different. Couldnโt quite put my finger on to it.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
True. Still think biology got more complex. I think one way out of this is reduce the โpowerโ of the IF. CNS reviewers require more and more and one of those papers for a PhD student can be career defining. I hear it again and again. So how to solve that?
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social)
@governor.ny.gov now do your thing. Access is restricted in NYS.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Not. At. All. No all caps to start with and somewhat coherent sentences.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Vaccines and food coloring. Oh and antidepressants.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Science just becomes more complex. Look at Nature papers from 45 years ago and now. The supplements fill a small book alone. Figures crammed full with panels a to z. Reviewers now demanding two additional mice models which alone can take. Year to make etc. Single cell sequencing etcโฆtakes more time.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social)
Accurate.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
And NH was just like, โnah, passโ Or is it the kid nobody wants to play with?
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
You live in DC, not Baltimore? I guess they are close enough?
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Shows that these people have never travelled and seen how bad American bread is. Like a sponge of cardboard.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
If I only knew the answerโฆ All the research but it will be coming more and more from abroad while science withers here.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
The press has turned a blind eye to many matters. The failure of the main news out lets (and the bravery of smaller ones reporting truthfully) will be another chapter in the history books,. Yes looking at you, @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Shall we tell him abbot the holidays in let's say Bavaria? 13, in some areas 14. US has 11.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
LoL. It took the pandemic for me to get used to driving in. Manhattan. โDrivingโ is more stop and go though.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh wellโฆ
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
His what pumping to his what now?
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Wedgie. Still prefer this one
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Good. For. Him.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
I donโt know, maybe - report them?
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
OR. Damn.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Next pulling out surgeons out of the KR and medics out of ambulances. And then mid- flight the pilot.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Reminds me of
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
What movie was that again??
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
More like a Snake Oil Wagon
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Most of them are phantastic. Unfortunately had the exception to the rule quite recently.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
They are yelled at at their town halls if their even show up. And then flee through the back door.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
It will be an entire textbook on its own.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Shanghai a few months ago. 1/3 or more of cars at airport were EVs. Most of them Chinese brands I have never heard of. Shopping center attached to hotel had four car makers in them. All Chinese. All EVs. And in science - this administration just rammed the dagger in and twists it.
Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) reposted
At some point in the not too distant future the conventional wisdom will be that this was a period where the US focused on dumb shit while China took the lead in multiple domains
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social)
Post an image from your summer that confers peace.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Include me, I called Cassidyโs office and left a message. Can we sue him for malpractice? RFK to practice medicine without license? Prasad for just being a ๐คฌ?
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) reposted
The Republican Congress is going to try to rewrite the history of RFK Jr.โs confirmation as HHS Secretary. โWe didnโt knowโ โNobody told usโ โHe promised he wouldnโtโฆโ This thread will be about the warnings from thousands of scientists and HCW who loudly and publicly opposed his confirmation.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Their what now??
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social)
If there is ever a Democrat President again, the first State of the Union address should start with โThe state of the union is brokenโ and then solely list all these cuts and thefts with number of lives lost. For hours and hours. The Fascists and SCOTUS curruptionists have to sit through that.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social)
To give money to billionaires. Canceling pediatric brain cancer research. For a tax break.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
I called Cassidyโs office yesterday. Though not a constituent. He needs to be flooded by angry calls.
Uncle Duke (@uncleduke1969.bsky.social) reposted
you just know somebodyโs being called by their full name right now
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social)
โNo, vaccines do not cause autism. The studies he showed are all bogus. โ
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Pic dropped. I guess there is always tomorrow, hopefully. These days even that is not sure.
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social)
Such a nice day. Perfect weather to worry about our and public health, grants, NIH, fascismโฆ Can you imagine doing that and itโs grey and miserable with rain?
grimmrad ๐งฌ๐ผ๐ผ๏ธ๐๏ธ (@grimmrad.bsky.social) reply parent
I donโt. And I get it. But look at what the alternative is. More Fascism. We had the same effect with โI cannot vote for Harris. She is way too soft on Israel.โ And where did that get us now? I wish we had an ideal candidate. But we wonโt. Thankfully (?) still time.