I founded @FancyComma, where we translate STEM to impact. A rarity in science, I'm a neuroscientist and writer who's worked in Congress and as a civil servant.
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1500 dollar bills after the hottest summers on record and life or death.
This Is What America’s Utility Bill Crisis Looks Like nytimes.com/2026/10/18/us/ok… via @NYTimes
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Every girl and every woman has the right to be safe.
We cannot accept a world where violence is a risk they are expected to navigate.
It's time to prevent violence, hold perpetrators accountable and put an end to violence against women and girls.
— via @UNICEF
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Women with high cognitive ability face "detrimental interpersonal ramifications" at work
Men do not.
The theory is that smarter women violate perceived social role expectations leading them to face backlash that men do not receive psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d…
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Exclusive: “The instant I saw the picture my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race.” So wrote James Watson in The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, his controversial account of how he and Francis Crick deciphered the structure of DNA in 1953.
The image, now known as photograph 51, showed an elegant, symmetrical pattern of spots formed by x-rays diffracted from strands of DNA—the fingerprint of the molecule's helical structure.
Rosalind Franklin, an x-ray crystallographer, had produced the image in the spring of 1952. But Watson's 1968 book, amid other slights and sexist language directed at Franklin, implied the flash of insight was his alone.
Popular accounts still routinely suggest Franklin missed the significance of the photo. She never had a chance to challenge Watson's dismissive narrative; she died of cancer in 1958, a decade before his memoir was released and became a bestseller.
But a new analysis of her notes on another x-ray image, which she made just days earlier using the same DNA sample, offers a firm rebuttal.
Learn more: scim.ag/4hNj7KB @NewsfromScience
ALT How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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I wonder how many of those asking “Where is Ed Boyden?” in the Nobel discussion knew his name appears in roughly 969–1,249 documents in the Epstein files, with multiple documented meetings after Epstein’s conviction.
Scientific brilliance shouldn't exempt anyone from scrutiny.
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Nobel Prize awarded for optogenetics.
Congrats to @KarlDeisseroth, Hegemann, and Nagel. The prize is well-deserved, for work that has been transformative.
a few quick thoughts 1/4 🧪#neuroscience
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"We do great when I’m on the ballot. When I’m not on the ballot, people don’t go and vote so much. Pretend I’m running, please. Just pretend. Because I am on the ballot. And if we don’t win, they’ll end up impeaching me." — @realDonaldTrump in #Durant nondoc.com/2026/10/02/we-jus…
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Supreme Court to weigh whether oil companies can be forced to pay for climate damage
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A lot of people should read this aeon.co/essays/your-brain-do…
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The Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association says that AI is already driving *up* healthcare costs, as hospitals use the technology to find instances where they can bill more for the same level of care. bcbs.com/about-us/associatio…
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Epstein and Evil Neuroscience fancycomma.com/2026/09/19/ep…
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Read more here:
notus.org/democrats/fetterma…
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More WSJ/Fetterman fallout--
A former senior aide described Fetterman as uninterested in the typical day-to-day responsibilities of the job — preferring instead to scroll on his phone, reading X and Apple News for mentions of his name.
“This is the behavior that makes me the most angry,” the aide told NOTUS. “You can have policy disagreements, but at least do the 101 basics of being a representative in a representative government.”
“We fought tooth and nail for him to go to hearings, to go to markups, to go to constituent meetings. His unwillingness to do the work is a disservice to Pennsylvanians and a disservice to the institution of the Senate,” the aide added.
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Hello, Twitter.
We’re a group of former campaign & Senate staffers for John Fetterman who are disgusted with what he's become.
If you were troubled by yesterday's Wall Street Journal story... trust us, that's just the tip of the iceberg.
It's even worse than you thought.
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Americans may also be concerned about AI’s effects beyond any one site: economic disruption, privacy, the growth of surveillance and military power, and what the technology does to culture. Those are legitimate too. They are not answered by calling people “backwards.”
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Communities have many legitimate concerns about data centers. To dismiss millions of Americans as people who just want to be “backwards and poor” shows how out of touch Trump has become.
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The House may kick the can on most legislation until after the elections
As House members return to Capitol Hill to kick off a one-month legislative work period before the November elections, there is no guarantee that much of anything will get done — and that includes work on some Miami Valley priorities - via @jamiedupree daytondailynews.com/local/u-…
