‘Mumpsimus’, 16th century: one who insists that they are right (or wronged) when all evidence points to the contrary.

This is Beacon. He's a therapy dog and one of USA Gymnastics' busiest volunteers. He attended the Olympic Trials with a badge that literally says he's the "Goodest Boy." His job is to comfort athletes and coaches, giving them a belly to rub whenever they need it. 14/10

When a papermill boasted how they could increase Google Scholar citations and showed their working, Reese Richardson and I decided to try for ourselves. Introducing Larry Richardson, a cat with a Google Scholar profile and an h-index of 11. reeserichardson.blog/2024/07/18/eng…

End of an era. Hope these two iconic theaters can continue to operate in the future (The Village will, the Bruin currently has no plans)

IYKYK

1st year PhD student showing up at the 8 am panel with 25 expertly crafted slides, 57 backup slides, and print-outs prepared four weeks in advance vs Tenured professor giving the keynote with two slides of mood pictures clicked together in the hotel lobby 15 minutes earlier

Looks like my grant reviewers also write the instructions to assemble furniture

We need a Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares for science. Gordon going into struggling labs, revealing the horrors lurking in fridges and file drawers, calling a postdoc a donkey.

If I had a nickel every time this week someone I've never met came to my desk and immediately started asking me technical science questions without introducing themselves I'd have a dime, but it's still weird that it's happened twice.

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Seminar refreshments

I don't particularly follow the Superb Owl, but as one team currently supports my research on developing therapies for individuals with profound autism, GO BIRDS!

"Dear Markwayne Mullin, Capito, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D., Collins, Cornyn..[6 others]" "These hastily-executed NIH contract cuts will damage medical research for diseases like cancer&dementia... It would be taking the side of cancer to do nothing to stop [the cuts]" Letter sent to R Senators:

New preprint from our lab led by an amazing team, Celine Vuong and Alexis Weber, were we employ single-cell multi-omics in the developing brain to uncover mechanisms of Down syndrome. #brain #singlecell #multiomics #DownSyndrome biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Story out today from UCLA Health on one of my projects in Geschwind Lab @ UCLA studying rare neurodevelopmental disorders using patient stem cells and brain organoids. UCLA #ResearchPowersProgress uclahealth.org/news/article/r…

After years of unanswered questions, a rare NR4A2 gene mutation gave Franklin Henry and his family clarity, and sparked new research into the genetic roots of #autism. Now, he's helping UCLA Health researchers better understand how the brain develops. uclahealth.org/news/article/r…