Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5843461195
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Another study finds no link between taking acetaminophen (Tylenol) during pregnancy & autism or ADHD The study examined data from 7 meta-analyses involving more than 3 million participants I wish RFK Jr & Trump would stop terrorizing people about this drug onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comPrenatal exposure to paracetamol and the risk of autism and attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder: An umbrella review and meta‐meta‐analysisThis meta-meta-analysis synthesizes evidence on prenatal paracetamol exposure and neurodevelopmental outcomes. Crude analyses suggest small associations with autism and ADHD, but these attenuate subs... 37141
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 24/09/2026This new paper is... a lot to read 🤔 #chemsky doi.org/10.1002/chem...chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.comBond Formation: Shaken, Not StirredShaking of seismo-molecules efficiently transforms kinetic energy into storable chemical potential, unlocking high-utility Gibbs free energy. This innovative mechanism pioneers uncharted scientific f... 183210
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026RUSSELL VOUGHT'S ILLEGAL ACTIONS MUST BE STOPPED 04211
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/09/2026This skit is not even funny, it's just stupid. SNL needs new writers. 101339
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!PBS News @pbsnews.org · 21/09/2026Sens. Susan Collins and Patty Murray are rejecting efforts by the Trump administration to give the White House control of National Institutes of Health grant funding. to.pbs.org/4iH9YW1pbs.orgKey senators reject White House proposal on NIH grantsSens. Susan Collins and Patty Murray are rejecting efforts by the Trump administration to give the White House control of National Institutes of Health grant funding. 2023760
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is the type of AI disaster scenario that I ACTUALLY worry about. (1) AI industry oversells the capabilities of its products to score fat government contracts. (2) govt puts the AI in charge of critical shit. (3) AI fucks up, because it has a nonzero error rate. (4) shit, now we’re at war. 30828257
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/09/2026Anyone remember when we had three branches of government? 1333153
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026Jill Lepore: "But of course, the machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends. Not to mention, supervising student researchers is our job."thecrimson.comArtificial Education | The Harvard CrimsonMachine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends. 08732
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBillionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UKIneos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea. 1031371463
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Lord give me the arrogance of a tax exile who feels the right to comment on the tax policies and general running of a country who you have deprived of billions by registering yourself in Monacobbc.co.ukBillionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UKIneos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea. 721181326
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026The Right is winning because they understand people can be influenced to change position on a host of issues including abortion, LGBTQ rights, and racial justice And a bunch of extremely online people are sitting here like "nobody's mind can be changed ever because those people are bad" ok 28016
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"IRS sent 10 agents and three analysts to national effort to police 'anti-capitalism' and 'extremism on migration, race, and gender.'" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fbi-nsp...talkingpointsmemo.comExclusive: FBI Builds Out National NSPM-7 Center to Track Dissent, Docs ShowThe FBI has tapped employees from across federal law enforcement to crack... 15247125
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Still plenty of time to REGISTER TO VOTE Still plenty of time to call your Family, Friends, Neighbors, Coworkers, and Young People STILL TIME TO CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION THESE NUMBERS MUST CHANGE Blue Wave in 49 Days 🗳 812588
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Standing firmly for the dogfucker lobby 🫡 1592081221
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Pop Base @popbase.tv · 15/09/2026Ed Sheeran’s tour opener, Irish singer Aaron Rowe, has dropped out of the tour in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore. 12909120
Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio! @ugresearchsci.bsky.social · 16/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKNi...youtube.comevery AI ceo all of a suddenYouTube video by Man Carrying Thing 010
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Imagine a Vice President of the United States getting a fact-check Community Note that the heckler was right and you are lying. These people just can’t stop lying. 693216597188
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Susan @naurielsjh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Notice how often we say this and not a single person has been sued? Hmm.. 291106573630
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...mathandai.orgDeclaration — Math and AIRead the declaration and add your name. 422077937
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026More details in Popular Information:popular.infoThe hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.orgThe slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine. 5349196
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC. 7345133688
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/202680 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing. 9533541382
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The world has gone mad! Folks getting arrested under the UK Terrorism Act for holding a sign that said "I oppose genocide" 🇬🇧 That is fucked up! The majority of those arrested have been pension aged women, often with disabilities. Do these folks look like terrorists? Shame on you England. #Free 🇵🇸 53562232335
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Ed Miliband’s parents survived the Holocaust, Ed Miliband is Jewish - that is immutable Questioning his Jewishness like this tells you all you need to know about people like this, and what their values are - and what they truly think about Jewish people that don’t behave how they want them to 371175225
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 07/09/2026Writing some scientific workflow slides for this week’s MPTC class. 1526975
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026New email to Director Bhattacharya to start Labor Day weekend regarding the secret transfer of appropriated funds to the Department of Defense. 15506168
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/09/2026The current NIH director is a grievance-driven weasel, a sycophant so desperately out of his league that he lacks even the most basic of bureaucratic reflex arcs: the impulse to protect if not expand his own domain. 639066
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 04/09/2026John Fetterman called in sick to avoid a meeting with three Pennsylvania paralyzed military veterans. Then he walked into the office less than an hour later to shoot a Fox News interview www.wsj.com/politics/pol... 1182366786
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:channel4news.substack.comExclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donationsUndercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 46694603997
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Parents refusing the vitamin K shot for their newborns has increased by 57% in 2026 alone. This puts their babies at risk for brain and GI bleeds. Rate of refusal is higher for girls than boys, as some hospitals won’t circumcise male infants unless they’ve had the shot. RFK Jr. caused this. 36405182
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously. 4331301631
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 31/08/2026NIH's Aug 2026 proposal would scrap exact scores and percentiles for three broad bins (top = top 25%). With funding rates at 5% or lower, too much then rides on administrative discretion. It devalues peer review and is a deterrent to engage. Tell NIH before Oct 13. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...grants.nih.govNOT-OD-26-088: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer ReviewNIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review NOT-OD-26-088. NIH 67558
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved." 8650381163
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 30/08/2026As expected, the Lake Ontario change is rolling out in the wake of GNIS updates. Bleah. Sure, “companies should simply refuse”, or “USGS employees should resign en masse”, or blah blah blah but the root cause is that the US was dumb enough to re-elect Trump and here’s another stupid consequence. 2560141
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026First RFK lied under oath during his confirmation. Then he lied about lying under oath. He’s not only nut job; he’s a nut job who lies. Impeach him already. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 apple.news/A4bNx_mEDSxe...apple.newsExclusive: RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that — The Associated PressThe Associated Press and The Guardian have obtained documents that contradict statements made by current Health Secretary Robert F. 10241127
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026So far, insurers have been very good about simply ignoring Trump administration vaccine recommendations. 51019
Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio! @ugresearchsci.bsky.social · 30/08/2026www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Why aren't companies refusing these summons?theguardian.comTrump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies 000
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Amazing to live in a country where the secret police are handling inter-chud beefs. It's like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General. 13171241556
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 28/08/2026life comes at you fast 11264021039
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten. 401203264086
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This was always the use case. 810440
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026THIS is an example of what many have been worried about wrt NIH Institute Directors. No NIH experience, limited publication record, minimal management experience but LOADS OF CONNECTIONS AROUND POLITICIZED ISSUES THAT OVERLAP WITH SCIENCE. 27935
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that www.statnews.com/2026/08/27/k... via @statnews.com “…lawmakers could use Kennedy’s statements as grounds for hearings, investigations, or an impeachment inquiry.” Yes, please. 🙏statnews.comRFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute thatHealth secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents obtained by The Associated Press and The Guardian refute that testimony. 08434
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/08/2026The ball is in your court, Pinker. 929454
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny. 34650601118
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 25/08/2026Texas cannot enforce restrictions on some public drag shows after a federal judge again declared a 2023 law unconstitutional. “For those who find such activities offensive, the solution is relatively simple... just don’t go,” Judge David Hittner wrote.texastribune.orgTexas’ limits on some drag shows found unconstitutional againA federal judge reasserted his 2023 ruling that the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals sent back for reconsideration. The law went into effect in March as the case proceeded. 15867871908
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Special bonus quote of the day The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. Dolly Parton 011419
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Measles, brought to you by "the secretary of Health and Human Sacrifice" (per Rosie O'Donnell) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w...nytimes.comTwo Unvaccinated People Died From Measles in Pennsylvania, Officials SayThe deaths were the first in the United States in 2026. 075
Reposted by Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio!kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT 88204136214