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Aivars Cīrulis, PhD

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Researcher at Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Docent (Assistant Professor) at the University of Latvia, Head of Ethics Committee and Representative to PLI at political party "Izaugsme", and Vice-President at sex ed "Papardes zieds".

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Aivars Cīrulis, PhD @aivarsc.bsky.social · Jun 18

Pirmoreiz pabiju radio 📻: lr1.lsm.lv/lv/raksts/zi...

Dzimumhromosomu loma cilvēka organismā

Izskan ziņas par pētījumiem, kuros atklāts, ka vīrieši ne tikai dzīves laikā zaudē Y hromosomu, bet pakāpeniska šīs hromosomas samazināšanās notiek arī evolūcijā. Kāda ir dzimumhromosomu loma cilvēka ...

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 1d

Photos of scissor-tailed flycatchers in Oklahoma from Pratyaydipta Rudra

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.

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Aivars Cīrulis, PhD @aivarsc.bsky.social · 3d

Examining gender-specific mental health risks after gender-affirming surgery: a national database study url:
From 107 583 patients, matched cohorts demonstrated that those undergoing surgery were at significantly higher risk for depression, anxiety, suicidal...
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Aivars Cīrulis, PhD @aivarsc.bsky.social · 5d

Guest Prof. Michael Bailey, author of the (somewhat infamous) book The Man Who Would Be Queen. Spoke about research on sexual orientation, including autogynephilia, and the attempts to cancel him in response to his work. Be warned, this is quite explicit!
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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 9d

A new study of mountain gorillas in Uganda shows that a high proportion of females live on after they stop reproducing: showing menopause. Animals known to show this include humans, chimps, gorillas, and, curiously, some toothed whales like orcas.

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Aivars Cīrulis, PhD @aivarsc.bsky.social · 12d

"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good (...). But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion..."
John Stuart Mill

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23d

An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it.

Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device.

The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 27d

15-year-old Anastasiia Hrytsiv and her family were killed by a russian strike in their house in Lapaivka near Lviv💔

russia continues to murder chidren and other innocents on purpose. There can be no atonement for russia's heinous crimes against humanity.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26d

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 27d

The Sunday Times applaudes a new book arguing that there's very strong evidence for God. But it's the same old stuff: we don't understand the Big Bang, ergo God, and we don't understand how life began, ergo God. In other words, it's the God of the gaps.

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Aivars Cīrulis, PhD @aivarsc.bsky.social · 27d

To be honest, academic integrity is not at the highest peak as well..

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Datagraver @datagraver.com · 29d

USA total outstanding public debt grew with $1.65 trillion in 90 days time since raising the debt ceiling on July 4th.

Graph showing per day the total amount of public debt outstanding in the USA in billions of dollars, plus dividers for the era's per president.
It starts at 4175 and is now at 37880. Only the first period saw a relative slow growth from 4200 to 5700, under Clinton.
Datasource:
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny

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Aivars Cīrulis, PhD @aivarsc.bsky.social · Sep 30

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Aivars Cīrulis, PhD @aivarsc.bsky.social · Sep 30

Shame on them. Cheers to all the atheists who have survived the woke crusade!

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · Sep 28

TOOL USE IN COWS! Using a stick to scratch its testicles!

cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · Sep 27

ummm.. holy shit? tool use in bovids confirmed? holy holy shit?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 28

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right.

The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter.

Everyone must choose which side they’re on.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 28

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%.

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 25

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move.

1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 25

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · Sep 24

Pictures of Green Herons from Marty Riddle

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · Sep 19

Front-running Democratic candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from Texas says that there are six biological sexes. Oy!

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Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate seat in Texas says that there are six biological sexes

You may remember the attack ads on Kamala Harris put out by Trump’s team during the last election. Some of them singled out her statement that the government should fund gender transitions fo…

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 15

Trump's policies are hurting everyone except for the richest 1%.

"New Golden Age" for whom?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 14

The common good is a set of shared commitments.

To the rule of law. To democracy. To tolerance. To equal opportunity. To upholding the truth.

We cannot have a functioning society without these shared commitments.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 11

No one is safe from gun violence in America.

We do not have to keep living like this.

Instead of inciting more violence, our political leaders should use this moment to unite us around common sense gun reforms that a majority of Americans support.

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Aivars Cīrulis, PhD @aivarsc.bsky.social · Sep 6

Iraqi university dean linked to paper mills has more than a dozen retractions
Latvija arī pieminēta.
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Iraqi university dean linked to paper mills has more than a dozen retractions

Yasser Fakri Mustafa A professor of pharmaceutical chemistry in Iraq has been steadily racking up retractions since 2022, with reasons ranging from authorship manipulation to irrelevant citations, …

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