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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you have a R^2 of 0.85 for more than 4 hours, call your doctor

Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fooled me once already, won't get me again. This is just survivorship bias that comes from only the big F-15s making it back to base.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seems like it should be part of the "are phones ruining the kids" debate that every marker of teen mental health has improved since 2021 www.cdc.gov/yrbs/youth-h...

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Laura R Cortes @prefrontalcortes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My postdoc work at @uclacollege.bsky.social in the #CorreaLab is now published at @pnas.org! 🙌 Our broad question was - do estrogens act on the brain to coordinate thermoregulatory adaptations during pregnancy? 1/8

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SBN on Bluesky @sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Only one week left to submit an abstract for a talk at the 3rd Annual SBN Online Research Symposium! Talk submissions close September 28 at 11:59 PM PST. Poster submissions remain open until October 5 sbnorsc.wixsite.com/my-site-1

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Me finishing my 4th manuscript review in this first half of September:

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's as easy as taking pizza crust from a baby (impossible)

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"The Hugging Face Hack" by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1533

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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My lab is ALSO recruiting a new postdoc to work on an exciting NIH-funded project. Start date ideally by early 2027. Please share with any recent or soon-to-defend neuro/psych PhDs with experience in rodent labs. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

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About the Opportunity Job Summary The Shansky Lab is seeking a full-time postdoc to conduct National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded behavioral neuroscience research investigating sex differences in...

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I still want to start a scientific society for the study of how hormones act in early life to shape later stress and emotional responses. The Organization for Organizational Effects on Affect 🧪

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“NSF’s biology directorate also appears headed for lower spending. Its solicitation calls for spending $280 million for research across its three “core” areas—foundations of life, living systems, & innovation/infrastructure—compared with $640 million spent in 2023.” NSF is openly flouting Congress

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm looking for a postdoc! ...Long ago he killed my mentor and I am on a quest for revenge ⚔️

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My feedback: "I would be the first to agree that NIH grant review is in need of reform, but after reading the proposed changes, I don't see how omitting a final overall impact score will "empower program officials to utilize their substantial expertise... 1/3

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Q: Prof. Conan, what is best in academic life? A: To crush your reviewers, to see them go unfunded, and to hear the lamentations of their grad students

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Q: Conan, what is best in work/life balance? A: To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to set aside time to listen to the lamentations of your friends and loved ones.

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

New office art: "The Impatience For New Data" In 1965, the Mariner 4 probe sent back the first televised images of the surface of Mars. Unable to wait for the processed image, NASA employees hand-colored the data with crayons.🔭🧪

A "real-time data translator" machine converted a Mariner 4 digital image data into numbers printed on strips of paper. Too anxious to wait for the official processed image, employees from the Telecommunications Section at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, attached these strips side by side to a display panel and hand colored the numbers like a paint-by-numbers picture.

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

For sale: baby crib. Never used. Baby only sleeps when held 😥

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Hey, it's me, the guy who decided all canned beverage boxes should be printed with the image of the cans turned 90⁰ so when you open the cardboard flaps the cans all come rolling out. Greetings from hell!

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

ɢᴏᴅ ʜᴇʟᴘ ᴍᴇ, ɪ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴘꜱ ᴛᴇxᴛ. ꜱᴏ ꜰɪᴇꜱᴛʏ. ꜱᴏ ᴛɪᴛᴜʟᴀʀ.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I really hope someone checks my math and memory of public university starting salaries. The idea that inflation adjusted numbers reflect starting assistant professors making 20% less now than they did 25 years ago is….. whew.

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"This is bullshit. I am *too* elite" I tell myself as I try to conserve storebrand cheese

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is why everything is still mipped

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.

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‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)

A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026

Admirable clarity @science.org

The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Amazon Subscribe & Save session IPAs

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"So then Gustavo Dudamel conducts a vuvuzela symphony" -👽

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This halftime show feels like an alien parody of human art

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Q: How's the weather? A: [Morse code for SOS]

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"...We will not vanish without a fight. We're going to live on. We're going to survive. Today, we celebrate our Bastille Day!"

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SBN on Bluesky @sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Amazing job from co-chairs Drs. Will Kenkel and Alexandra Castillo-Ruiz in leading and presenting for Symposium 4: The Neuroendocrinology of Developmental Programming by Perinatal Experiences ✨#SBN2026

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Great talk by Peg McCarthy at #SBN2026 on how depriving animals of social play makes them more aggressive and less reproductively successful as adults.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A statement from the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee on the proposed OMB regulations. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit... 1/3

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Sen. Collins Asks OMB to Withdraw Parts of Grant Rule, Extend Comment Period | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Not true. In their list of grievances, the Founding Fathers complained that King George III was blocking colonial laws that would promote immigration and make it easier for foreign settlers to become citizens.

Reuters tweeted: "Pope Leo urged Americans to uphold the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, praising the country's long tradition of welcoming immigrants in his first major address to the United States." They then attached a video of the Pope speaking.

Someone named NoraNH replied: "The Declaration of Independence doesn’t mention immigrants"

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

🎆🎇🎆 America at 250! (parts per million)

AirNow reading for Washington DC showing Very Unhealthy air quality this morning

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Let "the obstetric dilemma" go, it's dead.

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

NEW! Explore @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s newest tool, Neuro Funding Finder. Discover grants, fellowships and funding opportunities for neuroscience research at all career stages. Find your next funding source and apply, all in one place: thetransmitter.org/neuroscience... #neuroskyence

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Gotta trust the Toy Story 5 writers know what they're doing making Andy the Prime Minister

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This is happening at the end of my block. We could simply choose not to live like this. What a messed up country.

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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Public comments might seem hopeless with an Administration hell-bent on destroying US science. But I've learned that these all contribute to the evidentiary basis for future litigation. Even if this asinine rule goes through, your comments can help our lawyer friends defeat it in court

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Well, this is going into all my talks from now on

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Good luck to everyone who's also submitting a grant today. Bon chance, little R01!

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

In the past week or so I have: finished an R01 (1 week ahead of deadline), submitted my dossier for external tenure review, and -best of all- built my son a mud kitchen for playing outside 😎

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