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Retinal waves are known to be important for proper wiring at the retina's downstream targets: but their role in the development of microcircuits -within the retina itself- is less understood. Some nice work on this topic by @miah-pitcher.bsky.social!
Before mice open their eyes at two weeks old, the retina exhibits spontaneous retinal waves. Waves at the start of the second postnatal week show a bias to propagate in the nasal direction (or right to left in the movie below). (2/11)
February 6, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Retinal waves are known to be important for proper wiring at the retina's downstream targets: but their role in the development of microcircuits -within the retina itself- is less understood. Some nice work on this topic by @miah-pitcher.bsky.social!
I don't know if you actually care about bodily autonomy if you're not paying attention to what is happening to trans people.....
February 6, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I don't know if you actually care about bodily autonomy if you're not paying attention to what is happening to trans people.....
These kids have more moral conviction than Chuck, sleeptime tea Schumer.
Tomorrow morning, students at Fitch High School in Groton Connecticut are planning an ICE Out walk out — they've been threatened by building leadership, by district leadership, and by batshit crazy maga's online.
I think they're going to walk out anyway.
I think they're going to walk out anyway.
February 6, 2026 at 4:35 AM
These kids have more moral conviction than Chuck, sleeptime tea Schumer.
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I’m pathetically cliche but Pisces is what got me hooked on Jinjer.
#TheTenx5
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Jinjer
Pisces (Live Session)
Single
2016
Ukraine
11 POINTS
The Voice That Launched A Thousand Reaction Videos. And sure, she deserves all her plaudits, but everyone was on fire for this tune.
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Jinjer
Pisces (Live Session)
Single
2016
Ukraine
11 POINTS
The Voice That Launched A Thousand Reaction Videos. And sure, she deserves all her plaudits, but everyone was on fire for this tune.
February 6, 2026 at 2:14 AM
I’m pathetically cliche but Pisces is what got me hooked on Jinjer.
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Look if I let myself start crying about all the women, especially women of color, that I saw pushed out of physics and astronomy by people who subscribe to sexist and racist views, I truly might never stop
The things I saw and heard
the grief feels enormous and bottomless
The things I saw and heard
the grief feels enormous and bottomless
All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.
February 6, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Look if I let myself start crying about all the women, especially women of color, that I saw pushed out of physics and astronomy by people who subscribe to sexist and racist views, I truly might never stop
The things I saw and heard
the grief feels enormous and bottomless
The things I saw and heard
the grief feels enormous and bottomless
Wish I only had 302 neurons
February 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Wish I only had 302 neurons
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BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
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February 5, 2026 at 9:08 PM
BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
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Can't wait to see this. www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens...
New 'Māori gothic' film Mārama draws on horror of colonialisation
Mārama tells the story of a young Māori woman lured to Victorian England under false pretenses, and her fight to keep her identity.
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February 5, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Can't wait to see this. www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens...
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There's actually some good news this week! First vaccine targeting SARS virus family enters human trials! Four EU orgs form international federation Long COVID Rise Up! Metformin helps prevent Long Covid! And check out that sweet neon green mask fit. Click, share!
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February 5, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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What's so stupid is how AMA and ASPS aren't actually saying anything new...this has BEEN their positions....the choice to say this in the press was negligent.
Wildly infuriating that the AMA decided to hedge on trans youth care like this.
Trans people deserve the right to bodily autonomy and to go through puberty at the same age as their peers.
Trans people deserve the right to bodily autonomy and to go through puberty at the same age as their peers.
February 5, 2026 at 9:05 PM
What's so stupid is how AMA and ASPS aren't actually saying anything new...this has BEEN their positions....the choice to say this in the press was negligent.
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If Kamala is on a project it’s not progressive
February 5, 2026 at 8:19 PM
If Kamala is on a project it’s not progressive
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It's a moral injury, yes, just like people who help with executions. Turns out, concentration camps are bad for lots of people idk what else to say.
A special corps of health care workers have been called in to work with detained immigrants and many feel deeply conflicted about the assignment, saying they're not able to provide good care.
Some Public Health Service officers quit rather than serve in ICE detention centers
A special corps of health care workers have been called in to work with detained immigrants and many feel deeply conflicted about the assignment, saying they're not able to provide good care.
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February 5, 2026 at 4:26 PM
It's a moral injury, yes, just like people who help with executions. Turns out, concentration camps are bad for lots of people idk what else to say.
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People who get all bunched up about parental rights don't really seem to give a shit about parental responsibilities.
February 5, 2026 at 4:43 AM
People who get all bunched up about parental rights don't really seem to give a shit about parental responsibilities.
What does it even mean to be bad at texting?
February 5, 2026 at 4:46 AM
What does it even mean to be bad at texting?
Unsolicited Career Advice: Who you know is important. But never underestimate the value of having raw skills and just cold-calling people you want to work with and learn from.
Who I "know" has meant absolutely nothing compared to "who I put myself in front" of.
Who I "know" has meant absolutely nothing compared to "who I put myself in front" of.
February 5, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Unsolicited Career Advice: Who you know is important. But never underestimate the value of having raw skills and just cold-calling people you want to work with and learn from.
Who I "know" has meant absolutely nothing compared to "who I put myself in front" of.
Who I "know" has meant absolutely nothing compared to "who I put myself in front" of.
Calling for objectivity and apolitical thinking in bioethics is the quickest way to tell me you're just in it for the careerism or because you failed organic chem.
There is no apolitical fulfillment of ethics unless you have no materialist lens for the work.
There is no apolitical fulfillment of ethics unless you have no materialist lens for the work.
February 5, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Calling for objectivity and apolitical thinking in bioethics is the quickest way to tell me you're just in it for the careerism or because you failed organic chem.
There is no apolitical fulfillment of ethics unless you have no materialist lens for the work.
There is no apolitical fulfillment of ethics unless you have no materialist lens for the work.
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If they ever release the rest of the files, we'll be down to 1 or 2 senior people in some academic fields.
February 5, 2026 at 2:18 AM
If they ever release the rest of the files, we'll be down to 1 or 2 senior people in some academic fields.
Reminder the FTC launched and RFI about transition related care… but this shit is fine.
America: where you can sell a random “wellness” drink at CVS, claim it “may” somehow “reinforce” your immune system, and literally call it “The Flu Shot.”
February 5, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Reminder the FTC launched and RFI about transition related care… but this shit is fine.
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We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
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The current CMS Administrator, who controls health coverage for 150 million Americans, emailed Jeffrey Epstein in 2016.
He's 1 of 22 people in medicine, science & public health I look at who maintained relationships with Epstein after his conviction for child rape
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He's 1 of 22 people in medicine, science & public health I look at who maintained relationships with Epstein after his conviction for child rape
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February 5, 2026 at 12:27 AM
The current CMS Administrator, who controls health coverage for 150 million Americans, emailed Jeffrey Epstein in 2016.
He's 1 of 22 people in medicine, science & public health I look at who maintained relationships with Epstein after his conviction for child rape
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He's 1 of 22 people in medicine, science & public health I look at who maintained relationships with Epstein after his conviction for child rape
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February 3, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Nonprofit staff, union siblings: New Digital Best Practices starts Thurs! Here’s fork in the road is: get the training you need or does your boss just not care if digital is successful? Register for @newmediamentors.bsky.social online webinar series. registration.socio.events/e/newdigital...
Journal of Controversial Ideas sounds like a 15-year-old came up with it after losing an argument on reddit.
February 4, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Journal of Controversial Ideas sounds like a 15-year-old came up with it after losing an argument on reddit.
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i would be overjoyed if the U.S. had a president as ethical and even-tempered as Chancellor Gowron
February 4, 2026 at 4:36 AM
i would be overjoyed if the U.S. had a president as ethical and even-tempered as Chancellor Gowron