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Jeremy BOO! Yoder 🎃💀🕷️

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Evolutionary biologist, runner, writer, gay. Not necessarily in that order. LAX and SEA Signal @jbyoder.82 Also ecoevo.social/@jby, jbyoder.org

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Jeremy BOO! Yoder 🎃💀🕷️ @jbyoder.org · Jan 30

Okay, here's some of what we've learned thanks to support from my lab's current NSF project — and there's a more to come, because of course analysis and the publishing process will carry on past the end of the funding ... 🧵

Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Jan 28

Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 1h

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

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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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 3h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1h

There has got to be a version of the Bible where “Nate silver kind of admits he’s wrong” is one of the four horsemen

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 5h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 1h

My buddy is back.
#birds
#owls

A rufous Eastern Screech Owl in his tree hole.

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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 2h

Katie Wilson: clean, accessible, and safe bathrooms!

Bruce Harrell: talk to the 10-foot AI hallucination wall!

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3h

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 1h

Two more Asclepiadoideae (among 3000 #milkweed species), a Hoya and Cynanchum - every thing comes in fives #flower #oldworld

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 5h

"Within his own party and social circle, sympathy for fascism was not unusual." www.liberalcurrents.com/a-popular-fr...

A Popular Front of Memory

As the right begins to revise their view of Hitler, we must revive the example Churchill set in that era.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10h

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 1d

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 11h

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10h

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 10h

Very specifically, Wilson was talking about this article in the Seattle Times about the ways in which SPD is "undermining" the CARE Team's ability to respond to calls it is explicitly authorized to respond to under the agreement with police.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Seattle officers ‘undermining’ city’s police alternative, report says

The CARE team has become a darling both inside City Hall and among candidates for office, but Seattle police often aren't using this resource, records show.

www.seattletimes.com

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 10h

I was at this debate. The Seattle Times is totally misrepresenting what happened to further the false narrative that Katie Wilson is a nitwit. Wilson was talking about the fact that the CARE team has not been allowed to exercise "its full latitude of responsibility" under the existing contract.

At a recent Seattle University/KOMO TV debate, Harrell’s opponent, activist Katie Wilson, didn’t appear to recognize that she has no authority under labor contracts to order police to do anything without going through a bargaining process.

“As mayor, I will absolutely be working with SPD to make sure that they’re allowing the CARE team their full latitude of response and also to make sure that the CARE team can respond without police when appropriate,” she said.

It’s not that easy.

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Nick @rookman.bsky.social · 11h

A few hours this morning watching the pair of hoopoes catching insects near the hotel. #birds🪶🦉

#Naturephotography
#birdingspain #birdwatching
#birdphotography #hoopoe
#NatureTherapy🇪🇸

This close-up photograph features a Hoopoe (Upupa epops), easily recognized by its distinctive cinnamon-colored plumage, long, slender, down-curved bill, and the partially visible, striking orange-tipped crest that is often fanned out.

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Maxime Dahirel @mdahirel.bsky.social · 10h

The 'direct, specific and distinctive' is specifically why it reminds me of that tumblr post so much I guess

Tumblr post by user spookyoboro: my favorite thing about the title ‘teenage mutant ninja turtles’ is how every word throws you a new curveball

Tumblr post by user spookyoboro: like, teenage? Solid starting point. Popular protagonist demographic. I can understand that. Suddenly hard left into ‘mutant’ and oh shit that’s wild are we going into xmen territory here? How are they gonna play this? Let’s wait and s- ninjas? Yo this can’t possibly get cooler ninjas are wild right? And then suddenly they end with ‘turtles’ and your hopes and dreams don’t know what to do anymore and your entire worldview has been shattered. Good title.

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Jeremy BOO! Yoder 🎃💀🕷️ @jbyoder.org · 10h

Yeah that’s a great one, direct and specific but still distinctive

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11h

Guys and ladies and everyone else: I revived the newsletter. I hope you’ll take a look. It is free.
bsky.app/profile/howt...

How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 11h

The first edition of the new newsletter is out! Check it out IF YOU DARE (halloween)
www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-glorious...

The glorious return of How To Read This Chart

Chapter 1 So, uh, what have you been up to? The last time anyone received an issue of "How To Read This Chart," President Trump hadn't yet deployed the military to D.C., the Mets were only a game-and...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

Page One in Boston.

@bostonglobe.com

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Jeremy BOO! Yoder 🎃💀🕷️ @jbyoder.org · 10h

In service of a Thing I have been mulling for a bit: what are your favorite and/or least-favorite journal article titles? Recent, classics, even your own (but I reserve the right to side-eye bragging and self-flagellation) — quote-post or reply with ‘em

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 14h

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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Rocky Rex @rockyrex.bsky.social · 11h

This is Australia, but you could apply it anywhere.

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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 12h

I'm the incoming SSE president and am behind this idea -- if you're interested in putting together an app and have questions, pls reach out!

Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 2d

Now accepting proposals for new Research Synthesis Working Groups! Each funded group will present a symposium at the Evolution meeting, collaborate on a publication, and establish a lasting research network. Submit your proposal by January 6: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Call for Proposals: Research Synthesis Working Groups. Deadline: January 6.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 11h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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