I have just discovered that the proprietor here at exTwitter now does not allow you to fix a typo in your own writing unless you pay money to the proprietor. What an intriguing way to run a business!

The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony webcast happens tonight, Thursday, September 14, 2003, at 6 pm (US eastern time. improbable.com/ig/2023-ceremo…
[NOTE: I have pretty much stopped using exTwitter. Yu can find me instead at mstdn.science/@MarcAbrahams ]

🌲🪲When a #BarkBeetle challenges Donald Trump's hairstyle... Or is it more BoJo? These female Pityokteines spinidens are amazing anyway💃🔥! Fancy more diversity of bark beetle heads and butts? Check out Jiri Hulcr and Marc Abrahams' fantastic book shorturl.at/cDPQ5

Johnson & Johnson is the latest pharmaceutical company suing to try and stop Medicare’s drug price negotiations.  Let’s be clear about what’s happening here — they’re fighting to put profits over people.
reuters.com/legal/jj-sues-…

Is it possible to love Samuel L. Jackson more?

INVITATION: Throw paper airplanes in the 2023 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony youtube.com/watch?v=4bTp3b…

Yeah. No shit. We all knew they were lying. We knew it when they overturn roe. We knew it for decades before that.
We knew that their plan was a dystopian criminalization of any perceived reproductive freedom or failure.
The thing is; exRepublicans all act shocked. 1/

Indicting Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 elections could have chilling effect on future defeated candidates' ability to overturn the elections they lost.

Must watch.

'Trump is far, far more unhinged now than he ever was during his presidency—
the outlines of the 2024 presidential election are now fairly clear. The GOP and every candidate running under its mantle is handcuffed to Donald Trump. There’s no turning back.' talkingpointsmemo.com/newsletter/vol…

It was explained to me very simply by a Producer. It’s hard to steal a million dollars from a 13 million dollar budget….

We made the frontpage of the The New York Times with our publication 'Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes'. Read the open access paper in #Deinsea Het Natuurhistorisch here hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/fileadmin/user… #ornithology

As someone born and raised in the South, and very familiar with this particular flavor of this phenomenon (racism, of course, being geographically non-exclusive), Scalzi’s take is spot on.

Delighted to talk about the class I will be teaching this Fall ⁦Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health⁩ hsph.harvard.edu/chc/2023/07/10…

So cool! I get to be a presenter at this year's Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, which 'honors achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK...
improbable.com/ig/2023-ceremo…

Yes, that's Marc Abrahams of IgNobel fame.

This, by comparison, was one of the BIGGER scandals in Watergate when Nixon did it….

Thanks Tufts University for supporting many, many Tufts Biology Department PhD students & undergraduates while making so many new discoveries about #firefly flash control✨, courtship✨👩‍❤️‍👨, mating, nuptial gifts🎁, light pollution💡🥴 and more! 🙏

From my new book about Nonfiction and Truth.

Data graphics on television, advertising, and second-rate news reports are going for cute.

We've got a big truth problem, not a lack of cuteness problem.

Cutting remarks: The power of few words improbable.com/2023/06/30/cut…