Something I think about too much: we teach and define logarithms as the inverse of exponentiation. True of course, but I think there’s a lot of intuitive value describing them another way — the number of times you can divide the input by the base.
Log2(8)=3 because 8 can be cut in half 3 times.

The release of silksong while I have other time obligations is cruel.

former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."

There was also a long, boring meeting of the relevant FDA external advisory committee, which was streamed live and is still on YouTube (eg)
www.fda.gov/advisory-com...

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... )

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I haven't read the others yet but I can say with great confidence that if you love contemporary speculative fiction you really must read METAL FROM HEAVEN, SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS, and THREE EIGHT ONE (they also go remarkably well together)

In the earliest stages of adaptive introgression, beneficial immigration can drive genome-wide changes. In a new preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... colleagues & I document exceptionally rapid genomic introgression in a lake population of stickleback.

It is insane that such measures are needed to get Congress to care about the fact that the agency that keeps Americans healthy and safe has been completely dismantled and taken over by crazy people who are trying to kill us all

Tick tock. Tick tock. RFK Jr.'s time is running out. Today, Senators Cassidy and Sanders both challenge RFK Jr's reign of (t)error at HHS. Call your Senators and Representatives. U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Detail of two hyenas
#SciArt
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

American Public Health Association: “Legislators and officials at all levels of government who are interested in protecting their constituents should demand Kennedy’s removal.” That’s what I call leadership 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 www.apha.org/news-and-med...

TIL about the existence of corpse flower and durian brandy. Has anyone tried it?!?! tamworthdistilling.com/spirits/corp...

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.

A nice profile of the wonderful Annie Schmitt

www.ucdavis.edu/news/among-a...

If you mock a fascist for being fat, you mock fatness.

If you mock a fascist for being fascist, you mock fascism.

Stay on target.

🧠 Yes. Happy Tuesday. 🧠

Just received this statement from Lisa Cook:
"President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for:

1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature.

2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…

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Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!

We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.

Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...