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Ameet Pinto @watermicrobe.bsky.social · 21d

Congratulations!!!

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 23d

This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23d

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What happened to Jimmy Kimmel is not about one comedian who said something he should not have said. The Trump administration and its enforcers want to control your speech, your behavior, even your public expressions of mourning. You are not allowed to criticize the president’s associates. You do not even retain the right to remain silent; you must make public expressions of emotions demanded by the administration and its allies or incur its disfavor, which can threaten your livelihood. This is the road to totalitarianism, and it does not end with one man losing his television show.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 23d

Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It’s a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you’ll lose your job or worse.

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure

www.nytimes.com

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 24d

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting

www.nytimes.com

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 24d

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel

Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

www.yahoo.com

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Sep 10

Full professor complaining to an assistant professor on how hard it is to get funding nowadays

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Falk Hildebrand @bioinf.bsky.social · Sep 9

How do you long-read sequence metagenomes? I would argue it starts with the right sample storage & DNA extraction, to enable efficient @nanoporetech.com /@pacbio.bsky.social sequencing, which we investigated in our new paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Massive thanks to Klara for driving this

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Ameet Pinto @watermicrobe.bsky.social · Sep 4

you should definitely do it.
and then destroy them at ping pong (..which I know you will!)

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Ameet Pinto @watermicrobe.bsky.social · Sep 4

While I love "innovative interdisciplinary research projects", all of my projects require coding experience, strong engineering & microbiology foundations, & quantitative skills - so the "minimal experience required" really irks me, even tho the screenshot is a spam email.

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Ameet Pinto @watermicrobe.bsky.social · Sep 4

If you receive an email like this from this (see screenshot) from an email address like this "ameetpinto6[at]gmail[dot]com"... it's someone trying to impersonate me. PLEASE IGNORE.

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Ameet Pinto @watermicrobe.bsky.social · Aug 22

today’s harvest is purdy. #glassgemcorn

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jul 14

🧪 CRITICAL UPDATE: The House draft version is now out.

✅ Like the Senate's version, there's no cut to NASA's budget.

❌ There's a 23% proposed cut to NSF's budget.

8-page summary: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Draft bill: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jul 10

🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding.

Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.

See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.

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Subcommittee Markup of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

www.appropriations.senate.gov

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jul 10

The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi

Senate spending panel would rescue NSF and NASA science funding

Its support for a flat budget is a sign of congressional resistance to drastic cuts Trump has proposed

scim.ag

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Ameet Pinto @watermicrobe.bsky.social · Jun 30

Uppsala 10:20 pm.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Jun 11

We feed you.
They hunt us.

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Ameet Pinto @watermicrobe.bsky.social · Jun 23

Protein shake and shirt color coordinated this morning 😂

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · Jun 22

I was briefed on the intelligence last week.

Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · Jun 22

yes i am sure

tvos app text:

Are you sure you want to exit HISTORY?
Ok
Cancel

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 21

a sitting federal judge — appointed by trump of course — awarded a student for a paper that basically says dred scott was right and should have gone further

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Jun 21

Words fail me.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.

www.nytimes.com

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · Jun 20

BREAKING: Judge denies NSF's 15% indirect rate plan. Like the DOE and NIH attempts, it too has now been rejected by courts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com

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Ameet Pinto @watermicrobe.bsky.social · Jun 20

when was the last time you tried to open your office with buttons on your car keys and wondered why the door wasn’t opening?

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · Jun 19

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium.

ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · Jun 19

Protect Trans Scientists.

cowritten with a lot of amazing people (I tagged those I could find but there are so many more incredible folks)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@thepunkscientist.bsky.social @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social @bfrancescol.bsky.social @drsueishaq.bsky.social

Protect transgender scientists

Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGnC) people are a primary target of the Trump administration. Multiple executive orders seek to erase TGnC protections; mandate denial of gender identity; and ba...

www.science.org

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