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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 16h

🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.

Screenshot of LinkedIn’s menu: “How LinkedIn uses your data”. Near the bottom, is the option to turn off “Data for Generative AI improvement”, shown with a red arrow.

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 22h

New work in #GENETICS from @bahome.bsky.social and the team investigates unexplained phenotype differences among premature termination codon variants caused by small, frame-shifting deletions in Zfp423 in mice. buff.ly/8xVpAkC

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UC San Diego @ucsandiego.bsky.social · 1d

@uofcalifornia.bsky.social, including UC San Diego, wins 5 Nobel Prizes in 3 days — and sets a new world record www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-wins...

#NobelPrize #UCSD #UCSanDiego

UC wins 5 Nobel Prizes in 3 days — and sets a new world record

These discoveries span decades and disciplines, but they all have one important thing in common: They’ve all relied on competitive funding from the federal government.

www.universityofcalifornia.edu

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 1d

“Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America’s research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.”

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2d

Talking to Congressional staff is a great way for scientists to inform Congress about the impact of science in their state and the nation. We just had a superb meeting with Abigail Lancaster of NC Senator Budd's office. She was knowledgeable and emphasized their support for science funding 1/2

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 2d

Alchemy. When he says “gold standard “ he means alchemy.

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 2d

Now officially official in the October issue @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Open access #OA
academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 3d

Keep going…
Keep going…

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 3d

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 3d

Well it’s preprinted so

a man in a leather jacket with the words you 'll figure it out

ALT: a man in a leather jacket with the words you 'll figure it out

media.tenor.com

Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 3d

Funny how one “accepted” in the subject line can make the whole torrent of email bearable.

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 3d

Which is the worst high volume software company and why is it all of them?

Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 4d

Having a hard time mustering enthusiasm for the upcoming seminar on “TBA.”
#maybeDontSendThatEmailYet

Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 5d

an elderly man with white hair is asking why don 't you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it

ALT: an elderly man with white hair is asking why don 't you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 7d

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

sites.stat.columbia.edu

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 7d

Go Brewers. #MLB

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 10d

Interesting examples of authoritarian governments losing power to united opposition movements focused on positive messages.
Does anyone have book recommendations for more depth on these examples or others?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

www.nytimes.com

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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 9d

(real talk: nearly lost composure talking about the soviets coming after muller and vavilov for telling the scientific truth about genetics and it LANDED with the students. They get it.)

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 10d

Interesting examples of authoritarian governments losing power to united opposition movements focused on positive messages.
Does anyone have book recommendations for more depth on these examples or others?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

www.nytimes.com

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 10d

Compassion isn’t a weakness.
Empathy isn’t a sin.
Cruelty isn’t a strength.
Vengeance isn’t a virtue.

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness." -Isaiah 5:20

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Jonathan Sebat @sebatlab.bsky.social · 10d

Please repost: we are recruiting a postdoc for a project in my lab on genes and environment in autism

Jonathan Sebat @sebatlab.bsky.social · 15d

We are proud to be one of the 13 projects funded by the NIH Autism Data Science Initiative. Our project: "Elucidating the Interplay of Genes and Environment in Autism Using Genomic and Exposure Data from Large Populations" 🧵https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/health/autism-research-trump-kennedy.html