Los Angeles County (red) has a larger population than each of the 43 individual states shown in blue. #mapping #geography

Note to all my 7 devoted followers: I'm trying a weeklong experiment in positive Tweeting. No need to alert the authorities re abduction...

The UCSF Medical School on Parnassus has to be one of the most beautiful places on the planet to study, well, anything. Wow.

Oh man I'm less than an hour into this and my commitment to snark-fee Twitter is being tested. May need to mute a couple of accounts, lol!

I think to do that i may have to throw my phone in the ocean, so that $500 will go nicely toward a new one. @JohnTuckerPhD

Bastard. @JohnTuckerPhD

Absolutely glorious day in NorCal, peeps. Life is good.

An important start to your snark-free twitter week is "bring your dog to work day." This is Wills. He rocks.

This is big. Proud to be an alumni of this shop--great scientists, making important medicines. Congrats Genentech! gene.com/media/press-re…

Excellent choice. One of the best films I've seen in quite a while; so much more than a horror flick. laurenoneal.bsky.social

OK peeps, as part of the Week of No Snark, let's try this: places you were skeptical about that turn out to be Not Overrated.

I'll start: Yosemite. Seriously folks...go there. Kevin Judice

"I shit you not", as the canonical statement of veracity. Rick Wilson

"Cain't hardly", when expressing difficulty in the task at hand. Rick Wilson

"Big enough to f*ck a turkey standing flat-footed", aka a large mosquito. Rick Wilson

Listen closely. If he says "leverage" that's just code for "my girlfriend is listening and I'm trying to impress her." laurenoneal.bsky.social

Well, it was apolitical snark, at worst. And I think just an attempt to make friends and have a chuckle. :) @JohnTuckerPhD laurenoneal.bsky.social

Oh man I picked *such* a bad week to go snark-free! x.com/jwgop/status/8…

"The end of democracy and total centralization of power were only side effects of the mundane primary objective of theft." Garry Kasparov

*takes four day Twitter break* *logs on, skims* "Yikes." *logs off*