Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD

This is one of the two signature in-state polls. 51-45 for El-Sayed. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...

Nobels: Literature - Naguib Mahfouz, Abdulrazak Gurnah Chemistry - Ahmed Zewail*, Omar Yaghi*, Elias James Corey*, Moungi Bawendi (*=also Wolf) Medicine: Peter Medawar Peace - Anwar Sadat, Yasser Arafat, Mohamed ElBaradei, Tawakkol Karman Fields: Michael Atiyah Booker: Jokha Alharthi

Harvard keeps graduating complete idiots. Maybe it’s time to cut down those legacy admits.

"Flávio has given up." A Bolsonaro family adviser tells The Washington Post he’s terrified his father, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, will DIE IN JAIL, and that he could be jailed himself THIS WEEK. Flávio effectively conceded defeat after Trump stopped short of intervening, per WaPo

this is some animus that’s going to bite NIH in litigating grant terminations

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

Anwar Sadat (President of Egypt) won a Nobel Peace Prize. You know who didn’t.

The thing about RFK Jr is that he’s not just a eugenicist who peddles extreme and dangerous anti-science, anti-vaccine conspiracy theories that cause suffering, pain, and death, but he’s also a vile racist piece of s**t

he talks trash with the best of them

🚨 Gov. Josh Shapiro rips into JD Vance in a new interview. “The only smart thing it seems like [Trump] did was not endorsing Vance. That guy is just a profoundly and PATHETICALLY WEAK human being who wants to preach morality every day.”

One of the hallmarks of Trump is that he lies repeatedly about elections that he won.

Current Anarchy has a nice ring to it...

I don’t think we should get used to a man this wealthy, this full of hate and this willing to demonize a small minority having so much power in our economy and in our politics. To defend democracy, we must defeat the oligarchs.

man this is some ugly bullshit

I didn’t think Judge Bumatay would go for Trump’s argument here, but there we go.

No asylum!

Having failed to convict him yet, Trump prosecutors file criminal charges against Comey for the third time in 13 months, this time for a 10-year-old alleged leak that was already investigated without leading to prosecution. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/u...

Future MLB closer

HUGE, GOOD NEWS: In total reversal from Friday’s stonewalling, perjury-flirting “status report,” ICE now says it has secured a one-way travel document so Ahmed Soliman can return to the US via a commercial flight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/a...

HHS wants a new Medicare code that pays doctors extra only when they attribute a patient’s symptoms to a vaccine. Vaccine critics say doctors are paid to push vaccines. We aren’t. Under this code, we’d be paid to blame them. My new piece in @cidrap.bsky.social: www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Flavio has announced he will consider his options with his family, who have gathered to support him at his father's home: the emergency ward at Papuda Penitentiary.

Walter was more than Chekov. He was a writer, a teacher, a thoughtful man, and a loyal friend. To the fans who loved him for so many years, thank you. He loved you too. Rest well, my dear friend. Keep navigating a steady course. – George

Just last month, on Sept. 14, he turned 90, on the same day Brad and I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary. I will always treasure that he and I shared that date.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

This is one good example of how appropriations hardball can work if you're willing to not blink first. Another: take your pick for demands and restrictions on funding Executive Office of the President. Yes, literally defund the White House. EOP is the central hub of the assault on the Constitution.

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

chat I don’t think doubling down on this ad is working out real well for vivek

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

Judge Furman rules that Maureen Comey's firing violated separation of powers. Orders backpay. Govt's arguments violate 2 centuries of SCOTUS rulings & would "unsettle the equilibrium established by this Nation's constitutional system." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

People abroad don't understand the level of interference Meta & bots had in these elections. 5 days before the election a far-right politician posted a fake news video that got 157 MILLION views on Instagram in 24hs. For reference, GTA 6's reveal trailer got 90 million views on YouTube in 24hs.

Sometimes democracy needs someone who does not forgive and forget

local12.com/news/local/q... the Ramaswamy ad includes "a few shots of the woman's husband Vernon Edwards, who was convicted of gross sexual imposition in 2006 for molesting several of his nieces under the age of 13." at least they're consistent?

We lost ~30% of our international students over 2 years. These folks aren't just going to forego their education. Who do we think is educating them instead? And then whose tech companies, medical research companies, and hospitals do you think they're gonna work for? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/o...

Column: Sausage race controversy erupts as Fox Sports ignores Milwaukee’s finest tradition during World Series

meanwhile we have “Cheesecake Factory is canon in real America” debates

"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight" has been really bugging me because a) yes you can and b) you definitely should, that was the main problem

No one deserves this award more than @ctrue.bsky.social His (and his team’s) tireless work on #Fiji powers the daily research of thousands of scientists. Imagine your daily work without Fiji >.< Yet the work is often thankless. We reach out when things break, rarely when they work.

As an example the PC-3 cell line has a complete deletion of the STAT3 gene. I was able to identify 37 papers that presented a STAT3 western blot in this cell line anyway.

Link to the blog post: sholto.substack.com/p/over-200-p... And here is a link to the preprint: zenodo.org/records/2349...

Today I am sharing a new preprint and accompanying blog post. Hundreds of published papers include impossible western blots showing protein expression in cell lines that have deleted or mutated genes. These clumsy mistakes are widespread and repeated by LLMs.

Lula is to my left. Magyar is to my right. And I don’t care in the slightest, because they are the candidates of democracy against autocracy.