Tom Kash
@superkash.bsky.social
Goats. Great science. Gruyere.
Grad applications are way down this year.
To be fair, this is a kid who's seen both parents have federal grants terminated this year - hopefully the average young person isn't quite as discouraged (though our current reality warrants it), and even more hopefully we'll rebuild American democracy and science so they won't have reason to be.
December 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Grad applications are way down this year.
G is disputing gAte height.
Measurements to follow.
Measurements to follow.
Flame standing behind a gate... For scale.. the gate is 5 feet tall.
December 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
G is disputing gAte height.
Measurements to follow.
Measurements to follow.
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Early Career Faculty Opportunity! @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social Health Sciences Summer Institutes in Infectious Diseases - opportunity to work with mentors on enhancing research development and grant writing skills!
Applications for UC San Diego RAPID program's 2026-27 cohort are now open! This highly-rated and effective career development opportunity is for junior faculty researchers in #InfectiousDiseases.
Learn more and apply today at rapid.ucsd.edu!
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Learn more and apply today at rapid.ucsd.edu!
#UCSD_RAPID #FacultyDevelopment
December 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Early Career Faculty Opportunity! @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social Health Sciences Summer Institutes in Infectious Diseases - opportunity to work with mentors on enhancing research development and grant writing skills!
Flame standing behind a gate... For scale.. the gate is 5 feet tall.
December 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Flame standing behind a gate... For scale.. the gate is 5 feet tall.
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We went to a party on the rooftop of the Unscripted! They have these “igloos” that are heated inside with comfy couches and bar service. Very fun to see @hartsea.bsky.social and @wordnerdy.bsky.social !
December 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
We went to a party on the rooftop of the Unscripted! They have these “igloos” that are heated inside with comfy couches and bar service. Very fun to see @hartsea.bsky.social and @wordnerdy.bsky.social !
Views from Duke Forest this morning
December 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Views from Duke Forest this morning
In @elife.bsky.social: Sex differences in BNST signaling and BNST CRF in fear processing doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Official version finally out. Thank you to reviewers, made it better!
Official version finally out. Thank you to reviewers, made it better!
Sex differences in BNST signaling and BNST CRF in fear processing
Critical differences in how the BNST responds to different types of fear across male and female mice.
doi.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
In @elife.bsky.social: Sex differences in BNST signaling and BNST CRF in fear processing doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Official version finally out. Thank you to reviewers, made it better!
Official version finally out. Thank you to reviewers, made it better!
@thekenchilds.com wait..does DBAP always have this winter festival thing that I just got an email about. where you can have...an igloo on the field??!@?!@?!@
December 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
@thekenchilds.com wait..does DBAP always have this winter festival thing that I just got an email about. where you can have...an igloo on the field??!@?!@?!@
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The 5-HT1A receptor selective agonist NLX-204 displays analgesic activity in the knee osteoarthritis and plantar incisional post-operative pain models in rats https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.02.691847v1
December 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The 5-HT1A receptor selective agonist NLX-204 displays analgesic activity in the knee osteoarthritis and plantar incisional post-operative pain models in rats https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.02.691847v1
Its the night sky. Before wintry mix arrives.
December 5, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Its the night sky. Before wintry mix arrives.
Its clementine the cat.
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Its clementine the cat.
All seeing eye of cinnadog
December 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
All seeing eye of cinnadog
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This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”
“I walk around Portland, and I go, ‘Fuck you, assholes. Portland is fine.’” - John Darnielle, @themountaingoats.bsky.social. We're proud to claim you as a Portlander, sir.
The Mountain Goats Ascend to Revolution Hall
Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle discusses musicals, his new album, and why he keeps coming home to Portland.
www.wweek.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”
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these ARE made
they should ALWAYS be made
i WILL make them
i WILL help you make them
they should ALWAYS be made
i WILL make them
i WILL help you make them
December 4, 2023 at 7:57 PM
these ARE made
they should ALWAYS be made
i WILL make them
i WILL help you make them
they should ALWAYS be made
i WILL make them
i WILL help you make them
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The first one is not a test of replicability. It is a test of generalization. It is important to stop conflating these.
Just had a meeting yesterday with a team (2 labs) where team 1 tried to first replicate findings of team 2 but used different systems and couldn't do it. Then they used the same system and replicated the original finding beautifully. But now we're curious about why the other systems are different
December 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The first one is not a test of replicability. It is a test of generalization. It is important to stop conflating these.
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An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
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An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
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That spells moon
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That spells moon
December 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
M
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Rare photo coming up...
December 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Rare photo coming up...
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I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
If we are going to have a ceiling related catch phrase, it has to be 'The Ceiling is the Roof' MJ 2017
November 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
If we are going to have a ceiling related catch phrase, it has to be 'The Ceiling is the Roof' MJ 2017