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Riley Hannan

@rileyhannan.bsky.social

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Kirschstein-NRSA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UVA studying B1 cells in various diseases w focus on fibrosis. Likes making tools. Flow cytometry + microscopy + data wrangler. Wannabe polymath. Leftist/anti-authoritarian hot takes are my own.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1d

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

AI’s Invasive Species

The slop is winning.

www.theatlantic.com

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Riley Hannan @rileyhannan.bsky.social · 1d

Sundog/22* halo?

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 6d

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Riley Hannan @rileyhannan.bsky.social · 7d

"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes" ... "Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return from shopping to find their houses sealed, their families gone."

Riley Hannan @rileyhannan.bsky.social · 7d

Will freely admit to having learned/thought/taught phenol red was the culprit. Mea culpa.

Riley Hannan @rileyhannan.bsky.social · 10d

Honestly it's a pretty easy and very engrossing read!

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Riley Hannan @rileyhannan.bsky.social · 10d

It's a wild read. Big jailtime for people if charges stick

out.reddit.com/t3_1o3dzi9?u...

Adobe Acrobat

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17d

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 13d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Riley Hannan @rileyhannan.bsky.social · 13d

Idk what you're talking about this is just very relatable computer trauma

Riley Hannan @rileyhannan.bsky.social · 13d

It was gone in a flash!

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Riley Hannan @rileyhannan.bsky.social · Sep 20

We also want to do citeseq and sample multiplexing. No we don't have budget for test runs. LOAD THE CHIP, SHINJI, STOP CRYING.

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Zaki Hasan @zakiscorner.bsky.social · Sep 18

All of this has happened before and it will happen again.

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

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Riley Hannan @rileyhannan.bsky.social · Sep 12

They took their pound of flesh but one wonders how much more meat is in the offing, explicitly accounted for or otherwise implied.

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Riley Hannan @rileyhannan.bsky.social · Sep 12

Its* . Heads up make sure your DAPI is set up to catch the emission from 421 - a lot of DAPI filtersets cut on too long and chop off a lot of the signal.

Riley Hannan @rileyhannan.bsky.social · Sep 12

Don't sleep on flow dyes - BV421 (the donor at the base of most of the Brilliant Violets) and it's analogues are very bright and photostable. A little more inclined to clumping than most, but surely you're already spinning your tubes and pulling off the top.

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Riley Hannan @rileyhannan.bsky.social · Sep 12

Why waste a perfectly good protein/antibody channel on some crappy nuclei. I KNOW I'm looking at cells!

Sytox blue is bangin if you have a 440/CFP setup. Easy extra color.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Sep 11

Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff

Everyone: oh, like what?

Every centrist hagiographer: very important things

Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said?

Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Sep 11

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”.

-Charlie Kirk

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · Sep 7

Uwu but hawwv you considered the epistemological standpoint of da vice president, including his twauma

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Riley Hannan @rileyhannan.bsky.social · Sep 4

What a horrible day to be literate

Riley Hannan @rileyhannan.bsky.social · Sep 1

I'm about to start in a microscopy core and I'm so excited to see all the places immersion oil can go!

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Riley Hannan @rileyhannan.bsky.social · Sep 1

Love figures 5+6, really illustrate the massive leap in relative performance that air objectives can achieve with RR :)

Riley Hannan @rileyhannan.bsky.social · Sep 1

Magnolias are simply the best.

Riley Hannan @rileyhannan.bsky.social · Aug 27

Yeah no it's really bad lol. Hope shipping isn't interminable on the cheap one!