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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 16h

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Armed agents in Florida showed up at the door of a 77-year-old anti-Trump protester who wrote a postcard to the state's finance chief that said only "You lack values" www.axios.com/local/tampa-...

Armed Florida agents visited Largo man over postcard critical of CFO Ingoglia

The situation raises questions about how Ingoglia's office is utilizing law enforcement.

www.axios.com

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dharmalee3❌👑 @dharmalee3.bsky.social · 14h

'MIT Did the Right Thing': First School Rejects Trump Extortion Compact www.commondreams.org/news/mit-did...

'MIT Did the Right Thing': First School Rejects Trump Extortion Compact | Common Dreams

MIT became the first school to reject President Donald Trump's "extortion" agreement for federal funding. Critics of his compact urge other universities to follow suit.

www.commondreams.org

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sevinc @ercanlab.bsky.social · 1d

C. elegans is a little animal with sexually dimorphic tails. Fitch lab does wonderful work on the evolution and transcriptional regulation of tail tip morphogenesis in nematodes.

Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 2d

New in #GENETICS: Using Chip-seq and mutant analysis, Fernandez et al. show the transcriptional control of the male tail tip morphogenesis during development by the master regulator of a male-specific morphogenesis gene DMD-3. buff.ly/EGahYv2

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 14h

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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Peter McCandless @mycandlesp.bsky.social · 13h

This is war: the state against the people. I don't know what else you can call it.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 13h

.@miriamkp on what led a 1920s Brooklyn surgeon to remove the veins from a day-old infant, mount them on a board, and film them being pumped with air: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/jacob-sarnoff-and-the-strange-world-of-anatomical-filmmaking

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Jonasnuts @jonasnuts.bsky.social · 13h

Para quem não tem a certeza sobre a mesa de voto, amanhã, pode ir a www.recenseamento.pt

Ou por SMS:

escreva a seguinte mensagem: RE nº de Identificação Civil data de nascimento no formato AAAAMMDD (exemplo: RE 12345678 19531007)
envie para o número 3838 (serviço gratuito

Consulta dos cadernos de recenseamento

Saiba a freguesia/distrito consular onde vai votar

www.recenseamento.pt

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 14h

My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com

Title: Where writers really get their ideas.

A writer, holding a note in his outstretched hand approaches a cart in the park. The front of the cart reads 'Fresh ideas' and a colourful umbrella shades the server who is reaching deep into the body of the cart (much as an ice-cream vendor might) and saying:
"I'm all out of mind-blowing concepts and heart-rending narratives, but I've got an acerbic observation, an unexpected outcome and a couple of amusing notions."

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 14h

Why is this administration pro-disease? I simply cannot understand this.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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pastajoe.bsky.social @pastajoe.bsky.social · 14h

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 15h

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are walking back to Gaza City as the Israeli military begins its withdrawal from the area following the ceasefire agreement.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum is there, watching what he described as ‘an endless tide of humans’.

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 14h

'Renato Casaro, an artist who was called “the Michelangelo of movie posters” and whose work extended from the spaghetti western era of the 1960s through Hollywood blockbusters (...) died on Sept. 30 at a hospital in Treviso, Italy. He was 89.'

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/m...

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Dec 14

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know

this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 1d

'As suspeitas têm por base uma investigação levada a cabo por um consórcio de jornalismo de investigação, que inclui o alemão Der Spiegel e belga De Tijd, que descobriu que a Hungria enviou espiões que se fizeram passar por diplomatas com a missão de se infiltrar nas instituições da União Europeia'

Bruxelas vai investigar alegada espionagem húngara das instituições europeias

Investigação jornalística mostrou que os serviços de informação da Hungria enviaram espiões para se tentarem infiltrar nas instituições da UE.

www.publico.pt

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 1d

'In interviews with the police, Gratwick alluded to his past covert work for Thames Valley police, suggesting that the officers “talk to special branch”, the secretive unit responsible for monitoring political groups.'

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists

Trial of Nick Gratwick, 68, who schemed to rape children as young as six, exposes previous role among green protesters

www.theguardian.com

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 1d

Periodic Peacock, Lisbon University

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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 17h

This is a really interesting study with an incredibly creative approach, applying chemical-genetic tools usually used for neuroscience research towards understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying menstruation.

Çağrı Çevrim @cagricevrim.bsky.social · 1d

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding

During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...

www.biorxiv.org

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 17h

The authors of a Comment article discuss how scientists, research institutions, funders, libraries and publishers must all improve software practices. They outline recommendations for an approach to handle software better. #Academicsky 🧪

Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it

Scientists, research institutions, funders, libraries and publishers must all improve software practices.

go.nature.com

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 17h

This must be what it felt like to be in Plato's Symposium

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Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦 @d-macphee.bsky.social · 17h

BOOK REVIEW – KING OF THE DINOSAUR HUNTERS: THE LIFE OF JOHN BELL HATCHER AND THE DISCOVERIES THAT SHAPED PALEONTOLOGY

From The Inquisitive Biologist on the Fediverse @[email protected]
🧪 #Paleontology #Books
inquisitivebiologist.com/2018/12/10/b...

Book review – King of the Dinosaur Hunters: The Life of John Bell Hatcher and the Discoveries that Shaped Paleontology

Meticulous in its historical detail, King of the Dinosaur Hunters is the definitive biography of the quietly famous and influential fossil collector John Bell Hatcher.

inquisitivebiologist.com

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Josette Schoenmakers @josetteschoenma.bsky.social · 1d

After 3 months, South Africa has uploaded another BA.3.2.2.

It has 3 mutations in common with the Australian samples, which we haven't seen outside of Australia before. T1195C, C2592T and T6856C. So, it probably migrated after it gained those.

It gained some extra mutations after that.

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john dummett @dummypublic.bsky.social · 17h

practical help available for rising sea levels

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 17h

Goya's "Senior reviewer delays manuscript until he can publish 'back to back'"
Mixed technique & mural on wall and on canvas