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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 10d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social · 12h

Link.

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Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social · 19h

Come on, Brown. Maybe now that others are showing backbone you could find yours.

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Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social · 1d

Did they hold you at gunpoint to get you to call it that?

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Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social · 1d

Can I at least know who wrote this bootlicking bullshit without paying for it?

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Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social · 1d

They’re not given Tylenol. They’re given sugar water. It’s kind of remarkable.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to scientists and not sociopaths in public office. Get your annual COVID vaccine.

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 1d

The problem is the administration considers non-white skin as reasonable suspicion

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Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social · 1d

Billy Joel. Indigo Girls.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 1d

Democrats should demand the firing of Stephen Miller as a condition for reopening the government.

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Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not a goal, it’s a tactic. Just fighting for the sake of dominance and sadism.

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Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll punish you until you do what I want” is the cornerstone of conservative strategy. It doesn’t work for pets, it doesn’t work for kids, it doesn’t work for employees, and it doesn’t work for society. Their ideas have lost because they are bad and wrong.

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Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social · 1d

I worked with immigrants from Somalia who had lost siblings to measles. They were still refusing vaccinations for their kids (after Wakefield got his tentacles on them). It’s not logic. I don’t know what it is…

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 2d

If you are an alum of:

Vanderbilt
UVA
UT Austin
U of Southern California
Dartmouth
Brown
MIT
U Penn
U Arizona

Your alma mater is RIGHT NOW weighing the costs and benefits of giving up its independence and abandoning academic freedom. SPEAK UP NOW:

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STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

alumni.controlshift.app

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Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social · 2d

If we don’t protect trans people we don’t have a hill. It’s all of us or none of us. Not just for morality’s sake; that’s the only way to beat fascism. Turns out the moral choice and the strategically smart choice are usually the same.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 2d

Can you [especially if you're here in Chicago/the area] plan to make this one call tomorrow?

LFG📱💪‼️

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 2d

🧵CHICAGO / SUBURBS

BACK OF THE YARDS / YARDS PLAZA

Friedman Real Estate: 888-848-1671
ext 2

I spoke with a lovely woman who took a msg & said she'd pass it on; she also transferred me to "one of" their CEOs, but I had to leave a VM.

If you do this: PLS BE POLITE, NO YELLING.

Sample script, next

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 2d

*10/8/2025 noncooperation thread*

Back of the Yards is a ~65% Hispanic/Latine neighborhood in Chicago - and hey now! Look what I found!

The website & phone number for Friedman Real Estate in Michigan: friedmanrealestate.com/property-sea...

888-848-1671

brb I have to make a phone call

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Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social · 2d

Twitter radicalized me. I am far more leftist and can articulate my positions well because of the people I followed there (and now here). I know how to stand up for the people around me, my students, my employees, because they taught me how to center harm and use my privilege. I’m a better person.

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Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social · 2d

It means socialism for white people, everybody!

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Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social · 3d

He advocated for impunity for war crimes. You cannot be serious.

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Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social · 3d

Name a single good faith, fact-based argument from the right. A single thing that dignifies press coverage or scholarly attention. One good conservative idea.

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Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social · 4d

Unpublished?

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social · 4d

Link

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Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social · 4d

They have such disdain for their customers and their product. They think we will pay for whatever nonsense they produce, whether it’s the same movie over and over or AI slop or “balanced coverage”. I think that is about to change.

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