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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 5h

I could watch this all day.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 5h

Congratulations!!!

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Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · 8h

Spot the difference.

YouTube video by U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 1d

I am hiring! - looking for a Staff Scientist to co-run my research group with me. Staff Scientist is a senior professional scientist role at EMBL. Please forward to people you might know who could be interested! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Staff Scientist

About EMBL-EBI EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute is a data powerhouse, utilised on a global scale to advance scientific discovery through bioinformatics and solutions to some of the world’s mos...

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 14h

The thing about this that's worth recalling is that it *wouldn't* even offend most Americans: just the group of reactionary grifters who make money by being professionally offended online.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 19h

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 11h

A few weeks ago I nearly bought another house and sold mine. It didn’t end up happening. And I’m not sorry. I can’t imagine a better place to make me relax.

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 11h

It’s been a stressful week. And this morning I took ten minutes before driving to work early, to commune with my neighbors.

Geese in the Mist.

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 1d

Less than 70% of science Nobel prize winners awarded this century hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize.
“Mobility benefits everyone. Each newcomer brings fresh ideas, new techniques & different ways of looking at old problems”
🧪 #academicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

www.nature.com

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · 1d

Rubio’s leadership in Myanmar.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

Masterclass in decisions-based evidence making

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 1d

Are we “healthy again” yet?

Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 1d

It looks like Trump's EPA is stonewalling the release of a major scientific report on the health effects of "forever chemicals" in our drinking water.

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

www.propublica.org

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 1d

... with the expectation that the collaboration will continue after the meeting concludes. Preference will be given to groups who plan to produce a synthetic review or special feature aimed for either SSE society journal (Evolution Letters or Evolution).

Great idea @sse-evolution.bsky.social

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 1d

... These groups are intended not just as symposia, but as launchpads for novel ideas, new syntheses, and continued collaboration. By bringing together diverse researchers around an emerging or synthetic theme, the working groups will catalyze interaction at the meeting,

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 1d

@sse-evolution.bsky.social just announced the following:

Call for Proposals: Research Synthesis Working Groups
The Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) invites proposals for sponsored Research Synthesis Working Groups at the 2026 Evolution meeting (up to two in-person and one virtual). ...

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 1d

This:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Absolutely yes. And I'm proud that @asn-amnat.bsky.social has led the way on this with requiring code and data editors checking code for about five years now!

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

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

www.nature.com

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 2d

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 2d

My father worked on US aid projects in Myanmar and taught development economics to students at a university there. He passed away two years ago and I’m almost relieved that he’s not around to see this.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 2d

Fun times... explaining to university accounting why my travel reconciliation included BOTH a flight from Connecticut to Vancouver AND a ferry ride to get to Bamfield. Surely, they argued, a ferry ride must be a personal side-trip

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-short...

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 2d

Missed our last MEE live? Watch it now!

In our latest workshop, we were joined by author Ata Kalirad, who talked through their recent paper and illustrated how EcoGt can be used to simulate ecological competition on various topologies.

Watch the video and find the paper below📃

MEE live! A hands-on workshop on Ecological Graph Theory

In this workshop, Ata Kalirad illustrates how the EcoGt can be used to simulate ecological competition on various topologies — including complete graphs, random graphs, small-world graphs — as well…

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 2d

A mining road through a national park? Hell no,
www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

Trump Just Ordered a Mining Road to Be Built Through a National Park

Gates of the Arctic is home to one of the largest caribou migrations on Earth

www.outsideonline.com

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 2d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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