Austin Lawrence

It’s #AceWeek2021! If you want to learn more about asexuality and our experiences as asexual people, check out this episode of the @queer_science podcast I did with @ProfessorKira, @kassthefish, and Mackenzie Carter! queerscience.show/podcasts/6/wev…

Hey so this is a concentration camp

Black American man stripped of citizenship by Trump administration. Five alarm fire.

477 daily flour massacres since Feb 29 2024.

New study. Olympic athletes. Post-COVID outcomes. Researchers tracked 65 Olympic-caliber athletes from Germany’s National Olympic Training Center — not weekend warriors, but elite professionals at the top of their sport. Here’s what they found after confirmed SARS-CoV-2…

But if we only use gametes to define sex in people, you end up with a bunch of strange consequences. First, it’s ahistorical. The concept & categories of sex predate the discovery of cells (& gametes). Did everyone before 1677 have sex wrong? Of course not 3/

NIH funding cuts could cost the U.S. $16 Billion and 68,000 jobs. An interactive tool from @joshuasweitz and team shows the local impact across the U.S. - down to the county level. This isn’t abstract - these numbers affect real communities and real lives: scienceimpacts.org

My last paper may have left you wondering, “What about the #trabecularbone?” Well don't you worry, "Locomotor signals in the trabecular structure of the hominoid clavicle" is out in @JournalofAnat! #OpenAccess 🦴💪 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo… 🧵👇

Hey everyone! Check out our new paper on the evolution of cranial kinesis in birds out in PNAS! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… We used 3D muscle modeling, linkage mechanics, and phylo methods to investigate feeding across the dino-bird transition 🦖🐦‍⬛(1/?)

In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”. go.nature.com/4i2EaIb

There are more cases of measles than there are NCAA trans athletes. You’d never know it listening to lawmakers.

The NWS isn't just "in the weather business" it's a critical public safety infrastructure that private companies can't replace. Private forecasters actually rely on NWS data and models. No profit incentive exists to serve rural communities or provide equal access to life-saving…

Just an FYI: Medicaid fraud is rarely perpetrated by beneficiaries. The fraudsters are almost always the doctors and CEO's that administer Medicaid. For example: when a doctor charges the government $600 for an $8 breast pump and pockets the cash and the third party administrator…

You guys the Vice President of the United States just blew off the Chancellor of Germany to meet with Nazis instead. Does it need to be more fucking clear to Americans what kind of people are running the country & what they are doing? Time to decide how you want to be remembered