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microbiocarly.bsky.social @microbiocarly.bsky.social · 1d

A nice Linux Foundation micro-course on keys and digests for digital trust. Some of my Bite Size Trust videos for Trust over IP appear in it.

trainingportal.linuxfoundation.org/courses/keys...

The Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation online learning classes

trainingportal.linuxfoundation.org

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microbiocarly.bsky.social @microbiocarly.bsky.social · 1d

An interesting article about Trump's Friday post and the cryptocurrency suffering that followed. www.splinter.com/trump-bankru...

Trump Bankrupted Tons of Crypto Bros and Caused Its Biggest Wipeout Ever With One TruthSocial Post

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

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ORCID @orcid.org · 2d

🔍 Explore ORCID's Public Data File in Google BigQuery! Join @sjcporter.bsky.social of @digital-science.com in our Ask Me Anything session. Submit questions in advance & learn how to unlock open data insights.

🔗 Register: https://linktr.ee/orcid_org

#ORCID #ORCIDEvents

Ask Me Anything
Exploring ORCID's Public Data File in Google Big Query

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 3d

Positive counterprogramming to recent science news

**The OSF is back online with a new interface**

This key milestone makes OSF faster and cleaner. Also, now we can deliver more improvements efficiently and effectively.

Please check it out and send feedback to [email protected]

osf.io

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Ain’t Complicit 🇺🇸 @charlene411.bsky.social · 5d

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 6d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 8d

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

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microbiocarly.bsky.social @microbiocarly.bsky.social · 8d

A nice and understandable introduction to the reasons behind the protocol of bluesky.

overreacted.io/open-social/

Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

overreacted.io

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12d

Chris Rufo's disastrous takeover of New College in Florida shows what universities would become if they sign the Trump regime's extortionary "compact."

New College was supposed to model the anti-woke conservative higher-ed Americans crave. Instead, it showed the opposite, and serves as a warning.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12d

overt nazi language in this DHS job listing (which i’m told is for a low-level but important job in adjudicating immigration applications and requires knowledge of the law)

Homeland Defender (Immigration Services
Officer)
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Citizenship and Immigration Services
Field Operations Directorate

Protect your homeland and defend your culture. Join USCIS, America's frontline defense against illegal foreign infiltration and fraud.
This entry-level role requires no college degree and offers up to $50,000 in signing and retention bonuses. If you're driven and ready to serve with pride, join USCIS and become a vital part of homeland security!

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microbiocarly.bsky.social @microbiocarly.bsky.social · 12d

Very neat research on ribosomal proteins encoded in a virus.

Jozef Nissimov @jinoceanvir.bsky.social · 12d

(1/9) Latest preprint from our lab at
@uwaterloo.ca conceived predominantly by our very talented #PhD #student Isaac Meza-Padilla:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

microbiocarly.bsky.social @microbiocarly.bsky.social · 12d

He's a libertarian economist.

Also, from his wikipedia:

Wikipedia quote: "Cowen is a teetotaler, stating he is "with the Mormons" on alcohol,[35] later stating: "I encourage people to just completely, voluntarily abstain from alcohol and make it a social norm".[36] Notably, he also believes AI actresses being virgins is an important benefit of the technology"

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Jozef Nissimov @jinoceanvir.bsky.social · 12d

#algae matters. This is why:

uwaterloo.ca/news/science...

Inside Canada’s largest freshwater algal culture collection | Waterloo News

Algae may call to mind discoloured pool water or the green film floating to the top of your rain barrel, but they’re much more than a summertime nuisance. Algae have applications from carbon sequestra...

uwaterloo.ca

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 12d

Get — and I cannot stress this enough — fucked.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13d

From The Onion and Global Tetrahedron, this is Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile in select theaters tonight. Find theaters near you at theonion.com/badpedophile.

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Climate-Smart Data Collaboration Centre (CS-DCC) @cs-dcc.bsky.social · 13d

Our GitHub Training and Resources webinar recording is now up on our YouTube channel! Watch for free and don't forget to subscribe to our channel so you don't miss any new videos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPJw...

CS-DCC: GitHub Training and Resources

YouTube video by Climate-Smart Data Collaboration Centre (CS-DCC)

www.youtube.com

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 14d

Dear Ezra Klein, bodily autonomy is not a bargaining chip. What rights are you willing to give up? Let’s see you walk the talk. The burger is on me. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

Dear Ezra Klein, Bodily Autonomy Isn’t a Bargaining Chip

Let's see if you're willing to walk the talk

open.substack.com

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microbiocarly.bsky.social @microbiocarly.bsky.social · 14d

Bookmarking for later - this looks really cute
www.polygon.com/messenger-ab...

Messenger is a chill, lo-fi browser game you can play for free right now

Browser games are quickly becoming a thing of the past, but the relaxing lo-fi Messenger makes the case for why we need more of them.

www.polygon.com

microbiocarly.bsky.social @microbiocarly.bsky.social · 14d

Perun analysis posts are always fantastic and this recent one was really great. youtu.be/zG7sVKNP-yo?...

Russia-NATO Confrontation - Drones over Poland & MiGs over the Baltic

YouTube video by Perun

youtu.be

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 15d

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 15d

At tonight’s “consultation”…

When a high school kid tried to raise concerns about the teachers strike, Bruce McAllister cut the kids mic and then suggested his parents should have beaten him more.

Listen to the clip yourself…

It’s…

Telling.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 16d

The Auction
D.P. Brown
1975

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16d

When I was at NIH and shutdowns loomed, it was discovered that the administration was planning to shut down PubMed. The head of NCBI called the powers that be and pointed out that this would threaten patient safety

Who knows what will happen now

Just in case, remember Euruope-PMC
(europepmc.org )

a cartoon of donald trump with the words be prepared above him

ALT: a cartoon of donald trump with the words be prepared above him

media.tenor.com

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microbiocarly.bsky.social @microbiocarly.bsky.social · 16d

Funny, I missed this for so long until I read this article www.businessinsider.com/tom-holland-... and then I finally watched the video. Fantastic.

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