Andrew Hardaway
@andrewhardaway.bsky.social
Nerd, Husband, Dad, and Neuroscientist in Alabama. Flawed. Occasionally opines on football, cats, and beer. He/him
"Forth Eorlingas!"
https://hardawaylab.org/
"Forth Eorlingas!"
https://hardawaylab.org/
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Today we celebrate the 34th anniversary of one of the greatest films of all time: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie"
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2026 will bring waves of innovation to GLP-1 medicines from mechanisms to modalities to molecules delivery systems and new indications. #weightloss #obesity A glimpse of the.future here www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The expanding landscape of GLP-1 medicines - Nature Medicine
This Review discusses the expansion of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) medicines beyond type 2 diabetes and obesity, outlining opportunities for new indications, key questions around benefits and long...
www.nature.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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Dr Janell Green Smith, CNM a respected midwife, scholar, and advocate has died from complications related to childbirth. She leaves a husband and newborn that need the support of her village.
If you are able, please consider joing me in donating.
www.gofundme.com/f/dr-janell-...
If you are able, please consider joing me in donating.
www.gofundme.com/f/dr-janell-...
Donate to Honoring Dr. Janell Green Smith, CNM, organized by Nichole Wardlaw
Dr Janell Green Smith, CNM a respected midwife, scholar, and advocate has died fr… Nichole Wardlaw needs your support for Honoring Dr. Janell Green Smith, CNM
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January 5, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Dr Janell Green Smith, CNM a respected midwife, scholar, and advocate has died from complications related to childbirth. She leaves a husband and newborn that need the support of her village.
If you are able, please consider joing me in donating.
www.gofundme.com/f/dr-janell-...
If you are able, please consider joing me in donating.
www.gofundme.com/f/dr-janell-...
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CBS cancelled another 60 Minutes piece…
This time on the Epstein cover-up.
CBS is basically a state-run propaganda rag protecting the President.
Oh, and btw, innocent people don’t force the news to cancel coverage of investigations into their sex crimes.
This time on the Epstein cover-up.
CBS is basically a state-run propaganda rag protecting the President.
Oh, and btw, innocent people don’t force the news to cancel coverage of investigations into their sex crimes.
January 4, 2026 at 10:57 PM
CBS cancelled another 60 Minutes piece…
This time on the Epstein cover-up.
CBS is basically a state-run propaganda rag protecting the President.
Oh, and btw, innocent people don’t force the news to cancel coverage of investigations into their sex crimes.
This time on the Epstein cover-up.
CBS is basically a state-run propaganda rag protecting the President.
Oh, and btw, innocent people don’t force the news to cancel coverage of investigations into their sex crimes.
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What is the computational role of dendritic excitations? Byung Hun Lee and team mapped voltage dynamics throughout the dendritic trees of CA1 pyramidal neurons in mice navigating in virtual reality. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 4, 2026 at 6:17 AM
What is the computational role of dendritic excitations? Byung Hun Lee and team mapped voltage dynamics throughout the dendritic trees of CA1 pyramidal neurons in mice navigating in virtual reality. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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This is billionaire-controlled media. They want to sleepwalk us into another forever war. We must break free.
The Washington Post editorial board comes out in favor of the Venezuela attack/operation to capture Maduro
January 3, 2026 at 5:44 PM
This is billionaire-controlled media. They want to sleepwalk us into another forever war. We must break free.
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No. We need to tax the bejeezus out of billionaires and fund our scientific agencies to support scientific innovation the way they should be.
We need a Kickstarter for grants.
January 3, 2026 at 1:31 PM
No. We need to tax the bejeezus out of billionaires and fund our scientific agencies to support scientific innovation the way they should be.
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The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
January 3, 2026 at 9:32 PM
The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
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Not the point obv but the US already produces more oil and gas than any country in the history of the world
January 3, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Not the point obv but the US already produces more oil and gas than any country in the history of the world
What the actual fuck
January 3, 2026 at 7:10 PM
What the actual fuck
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www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/nih-... we need more voices of concern from the biotech sector on NIH and FDA instability
NIH instability grows with exit of neuro director, leaving half of institutes under interim leadership
The National Institutes of Health is adding another leader to its lengthy string of departures, this time in the form of National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) director Wal | ...
www.fiercebiotech.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:53 PM
www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/nih-... we need more voices of concern from the biotech sector on NIH and FDA instability
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My quote of the day
My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
January 2, 2026 at 11:33 AM
My quote of the day
My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
That feeling when the pinky-up steak restaurant in Mountain Brook on Dec 31, 2025 is playing Portishead's "Glory Box".
a man with a mustache is wearing a blue shirt and a blue sweater
ALT: a man with a mustache is wearing a blue shirt and a blue sweater
media.tenor.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:13 AM
That feeling when the pinky-up steak restaurant in Mountain Brook on Dec 31, 2025 is playing Portishead's "Glory Box".
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DO HARM TO YOUR ENEMIES; TREAT YOURSELF WITH KINDNESS!
December 31, 2025 at 11:08 PM
DO HARM TO YOUR ENEMIES; TREAT YOURSELF WITH KINDNESS!
A nice sunset from our short family beach trip to Oak Island, NC.
December 31, 2025 at 3:12 AM
A nice sunset from our short family beach trip to Oak Island, NC.
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Stop.
Read the post below.
Do what it says.
Look at Earth - our home world - from the surface of Mars.
You are a terranaut on that fragile planet.
This moment brought to you courtesy of NASA Science.
Read the post below.
Do what it says.
Look at Earth - our home world - from the surface of Mars.
You are a terranaut on that fragile planet.
This moment brought to you courtesy of NASA Science.
Open up this picture fully.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
December 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Stop.
Read the post below.
Do what it says.
Look at Earth - our home world - from the surface of Mars.
You are a terranaut on that fragile planet.
This moment brought to you courtesy of NASA Science.
Read the post below.
Do what it says.
Look at Earth - our home world - from the surface of Mars.
You are a terranaut on that fragile planet.
This moment brought to you courtesy of NASA Science.
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Great advice received as a postdoc: Do the easiest thing.
I was 3 years into my postdoc and juggling projects w/nothing concrete = career crisis
I went to my advisor Paul Sternberg for help. He asked what was going on & what mutant had the strongest phenotype.
"Clone the easiest one."
It worked.
I was 3 years into my postdoc and juggling projects w/nothing concrete = career crisis
I went to my advisor Paul Sternberg for help. He asked what was going on & what mutant had the strongest phenotype.
"Clone the easiest one."
It worked.
Blog post: Just quit
Quitting projects in science is hard, but we should be doing a lot more of it.
open.substack.com/pub/arjunraj...
Quitting projects in science is hard, but we should be doing a lot more of it.
open.substack.com/pub/arjunraj...
Just quit
Quitting projects in science is hard, but we should be doing a lot more of it.
open.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Great advice received as a postdoc: Do the easiest thing.
I was 3 years into my postdoc and juggling projects w/nothing concrete = career crisis
I went to my advisor Paul Sternberg for help. He asked what was going on & what mutant had the strongest phenotype.
"Clone the easiest one."
It worked.
I was 3 years into my postdoc and juggling projects w/nothing concrete = career crisis
I went to my advisor Paul Sternberg for help. He asked what was going on & what mutant had the strongest phenotype.
"Clone the easiest one."
It worked.
"Common decency stigmatizes people who do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
Including @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on Ezra Klein, living together, and the problem with “reading lines from the script of a fascist movement eroding basic democratic freedoms and aiming to subordinate whichever large swaths of the country are not simply removed outright”:
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
December 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people who do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
Sometimes your alternator goes out on your long drive home but shout out to Midas and Cookout on Bush River Rd in Columbia, SC for helping us make lemonade from this lemon.
a woman stands in front of an explosion and the words surprise surprise
ALT: a woman stands in front of an explosion and the words surprise surprise
media.tenor.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Sometimes your alternator goes out on your long drive home but shout out to Midas and Cookout on Bush River Rd in Columbia, SC for helping us make lemonade from this lemon.
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"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read."
-- James Baldwin
-- James Baldwin
December 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read."
-- James Baldwin
-- James Baldwin
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it's completely bullshit that if I am paying open access fees, that the journals are not depositing the paper into NCBI.
December 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
it's completely bullshit that if I am paying open access fees, that the journals are not depositing the paper into NCBI.
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BREAKING: The National Institutes of Health has agreed to evaluate grant applications that were wrongfully frozen due to the Trump administration’s ideological purge of biomedical research.
December 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
BREAKING: The National Institutes of Health has agreed to evaluate grant applications that were wrongfully frozen due to the Trump administration’s ideological purge of biomedical research.
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As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.