Kevin Moran

Behavioral Neuroscience PhD from the University of Texas at Austin 🐹. Longtime tabletop rpg player and GM. Real professional nerd. he/him. 🌹.

[Kevin Moran @Kevin_M_Moran]

5th pub wooo 🎉🎉🎉

Adolescent social stress alters the role of orexin innervation in the hindbrain in male hamsters!

https://t.co/rCnKYeZuTR

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Trump just broke multiple FEDERAL laws and went against Article II of the US Constitution with this post:

Election Interference

- 18 U.S.C. § 595: bars federal officials from using “official authority” to interfere with or affect the nomination or election of candidates.

Bribery / Extortion-like statutes

- 18 U.S.C. § 201 (bribery of public officials) or § 872 (extortion under color of official right) could be argued if funds were used as leverage to coerce political outcomes.

Civil Rights Violations

- Retaliating against voters or cities for election choices could violate 18 U.S.C. § 241 (conspiracy against rights) or § 242 (deprivation of rights under color of law).

Constitutional Violations

- Violates Appropriations Clause, Take Care Clause, and First Amendment protections. Even if prosecutors declined charges, it would clearly be grounds for impeachment/abuse of power.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

If you are in even the tiniest position of power to do anything about this and you try, you’ll never regret it even if it costs you personally and professionally. If you don’t you will live with the shame the rest of your life. This is one of those moments.

[Kevin Moran @Kevin_M_Moran]

@_princebambi Punk has always been this

[Joe @electionsjoe]

We need to ban AI in politics immediately

[Will Sloan @WillSloanEsq]

I basically like my life, but I also feel that living in the world right now - I mean, especially right now, but really all the time - requires a level of radical compartmentalization that gives me the constant low-level burning sensation of going insane. Anyone else feel this??

[Kevin Moran @Kevin_M_Moran]

@atrupar The US doing coups on democratically elected leftist leaders around the world is as old as time. Why wouldn't we do it here?

[Kevin Moran @Kevin_M_Moran]

@EvolOdonata It's surprising that in even the most epigenetic and gene*environment integration-focused societies, concepts like "instinct" and "innate behaviors," which arrive from such simplistic notions, still thrive.

It's still a problem in biology and it's holding us back.

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

Independent experts today urged the UK 🇬🇧 not to ban the “direct action” group @Pal_action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000.

“Acts of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, should not be treated as #terrorism.”

[Kevin Moran @Kevin_M_Moran]

@mikeduncan You'd think Mike would be familiar with the extremely normal French fear of islamo-gauchisme by now

[Jad Salfiti @JadSalfiti]

Why you can’t see rainbows under the rubble.

My latest for the Guardian. 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

🔗 https://t.co/AgBTzJcs1d

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

zohran, much like ilhan omar is one of the most progressive politicians in america & has been getting called a sharia supporting jihadist by actual white christian fundamentalists who want to do christian sharia and advocate for more death all around the world.

[Kevin Moran @Kevin_M_Moran]

@mikeduncan i always knew mike duncan was hiding his power level and this spread proves it

[Kevin Moran @Kevin_M_Moran]

@ryanstrug @xgigglypuff damn my PhD woulda been way easier if i just followed this one simple trick!

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

while i believe kamala would also bomb iran, this isn’t abt winning an argument. i welcome every liberal or rep who joins anti war protests w open arms. every $ spent on weapons to kill children overseas, should be spent on our children’s education, food, healthcare & housing.

[DSA @DemSocialists]

We refuse to watch quietly while Trump marches us into yet another war in the Middle East, this time following Israel on their genocidal mission. No war with Iran! Free Palestine!

[Max Burns @themaxburns]

If these guys jumped out of a car and grabbed you on the street in Indianapolis or Tampa, would your first thought be that they are government officials? Would compliance be your natural reaction??

[Elise Joshi @EliseJoshi]

Trump is a symptom of a larger problem. Our public schools are defunded. Healthcare and rent are expensive. Our tax dollars are funding deportation and war crimes.

This isn't about party. Working people don't have a political home.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

The House is preparing to vote next week on a resolution that would deem “Free Palestine” to be “an antisemitic slogan.”

If anybody votes against this, they’ll say they voted to support the Colorado terrorist attack.