Brendan Harley

George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Deeply ingrained, systemic racism is responsible for an incalculable loss & horrific suffering in our communities. I must do better. Listening, amplifying, celebrating, supporting, fighting. #BlackLivesMatter

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

JFC. This is a legit bonkers use of AI.

cool, cool

Curious about strategies to study how glioblastoma cohorts interact with the vasculature in the brain? Come check out Dr. Payan's poster. Z4. Right now! #harleylab #bmes2026

See you in Magnolia 78 at 9:15. Ali Nunes will share some really exciting work on developing an in vitro wound model to study graft integration #harleylab #bmes2026

As the person in my union who gets to handle grievances, can I just say that administrators should really stop trying to fuck with humanists. THEY ARE ARCHIVISTS. THEY ALWAYS HAVE RECEIPTS.

Come check out some #HarleyLab work at #BMES2026 on Friday! Ali Nunes, superstar Research Scientist (who is applying to grad school this cycle): tissue models of craniofacial bone regeneration. Dr. Btirrany Payan, postdoc extraordinaire: granular hydrogel models of glioblastoma progression.

*chain smokes into oblivion* This is just so STUPID. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/o...

NEW: A ProPublica data analysis shows that delays resulting from USPS’ cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots mailed in rural areas. Counties that voted for Trump in 2024 have been most affected.

Manuscript Monday** from the HarleyLab (with @profriggins.bsky.social and Paul Hergenrother). Heterogenous Model of Temozolomide Resistance in Glioblastoma Reveals Phenotypic Shifts in Drug Response and Migratory Potential Check it out: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Great op-ed about the local challenges in a college town. We can and must do better. www.smilepolitely.com/opinion/the-...

No waiting for NIH to add the "do you denounce the Muslim Brotherhood?" checkbox to all future applications.

Together with other scientists I’m suing the 🇺🇸 US National Institutes of Health for violating our 1st Amendment rights & censoring our health science. I’m ready to shine a light on the darkest days. Buckle up, read on. This gets pretty wild… THREAD

Bruh

democrats embracing transphobia earns them nothing and shrinks their own voter base, period. it's bad policy and it's bad electoral strategy, so stop fucking harassing trans people sounding the alarm about this and start harassing the dem candidates who are trying to lose

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

I've spent nearly a decade researching and writing this book, so I'm going to be excited to show it off. I guess I could've fed my research into AI and had it quickly shit out something that sort of resembles a book. But it's not as good as the real thing and I don't get to take pride in the work.

The people pushing this garbage are just untalented and lazy losers who assume the rest of us must be untalented and lazy losers too.

Never thought I'd have to say this but there's an inherent joy in working hard at something, slowly getting better at it and taking pride in the results. And you'll find that other people will be impressed by the results of your dedication too, in a way they will not be impressed by your AI shit

Boston Book Fair ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

I swear to god so much of this is literally just people confusing measles and chicken pox

@kateclancy.bsky.social's book is a compassionate, evidence-based look at pregnancy loss—how and why it happens, and why the assurances of the medical industry don't reflect the reality. Read the introduction here: buff.ly/eJxivlx

3. DOGE made false claims about employee performance in order to fire them, but did not want to put their names to these emails. So they would coerce civil servants into doing so. If the civil servants refused, they were fired. (Not just DOGE, other Trump appointees like Kash Patel did this).

Never in recorded history have corporations made more than they do today.   Never in recorded history have workers taken home less of those profits than they do today.   That's Trump's economy in a nutshell. www.axios.com/2026/10/13/e...

Looking forward to the same scrutiny being impartially applied to Elon Musk and Melania Trump, whose immigration documents are much much worse than anything alleged about Omar's father

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Why is it not surprising that the only MIT faculty to go on record here are women? www.cambridgeday.com/2026/10/07/m...

This quote exactly describes our current USA science policy right now. I was stopped in my tracks while listening this morning. Please educate yourself about what is happening. The destruction of USA science is horrific under this administration.

The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on the ICC that could cripple its operations, hours after one of the court’s founding judges won the Nobel Peace Prize.

strong statement from the Association for Human Mathematicians. "Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding."

This guy went to Yale.