writing my dissertation full-time with no expectation of publication or recognition was the happiest I’ve ever been

Greek, Indian, Jewish: the Hellenistic diasporas have reunited to take New York. The spirit of Alexander rides to victory once more

Ladies if you go to his apartment and his fridge is full of sequencing primers for his plasmid collection you DO NOT date him you deserve a man who does whole plasmid sequencing

Fun party trick is asking liberals who say they “support a Palestine state” if they think said state should have all the rights and privileges of the Israeli state. Watch as they mumble, say something extremely racist then proceed to describe a mix of bantustan and penal colony.

President Xi my country no longer respects my profession and longs for freedom, I offer you my services

Chinese Century, let’s go baby

an absolute shame. @harvard cutting PhD admissions "The Organismic and Evolutionary Biology department will shrink its class size by roughly 75 percent to three new Ph.D. students [...] Molecular and Cellular Biology will reduce its figure to four new students, and Chemistry and

A funny thing about this campus is that all their books seem to be purely decorative

🚨Breaking: @Harvard just announced massive cuts to dozens of its PhD programs, citing “financial pressure.” - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German

I want to assure everybody that normal people live in this city, too

They're calling it the realest economy of all time

Step inside the 3D genome of cancer with Dr. Kathryn Yost (@KatieEYost) from Whitehead Institute! She reveals how enhancer rewiring and genome architecture shape 15 human cancer types – discover tumor archetypes and new pathways hiding in the Cancer Genome Atlas. Don’t miss out:

Perspective essay by F. Sidhwa et al.: Standing by Our Colleagues in Gaza — A Plea to the U.S. Medical Community https://t.co/Sa7otEWYYc #MedicalEthics #GlobalHealth

absolutely brutal

I think it’s dangerous to have orators who are capable of whipping people into a frenzy like this. Someone who has this kind of charisma can get away with anything

What are you talking about

White boys never change

This horrifying graph is another data point for the hypothesis that the pandemic unraveled American society in ways that we haven't even begun to grapple with

Watching the Pod Save guys slowly be driven insane by staring into the moral abyss of a party they helped create the modern version of has been an absolutely perfect sweet spot of schadenfreude for me