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Looks like an interesting preprint— reskeeting hoping someone with expertise in this field can weigh in. This is solidly out of my wheelhouse but I’m fascinated by the title, and would love to learn more

thetranscendedman @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 4h

Generate Biomedicines tested the first AI-designed COVID-19 antibody in humans.

In 51 healthy adults, the antibody GB-0669 was safe, lasted about 54 days in the body, and neutralized Omicron variants for at least two weeks, supporting Phase 2 trials.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

First-in-Human Study of a First-in-Class AI-Designed Monoclonal Antibody (GB-0669) Against the Conserved SARS-CoV-2 Spike S2 Stem Helix

Background Antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor-binding domain provided effective COVID-19 treatment until resistant variants emerged. GB-0669 is a half-life extended monoclonal antibody o...

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Frogs protesting ICE is brilliant memetic arms buildup— in this media ecosystem mere protest is not enough to reach escape velocity and push protest coverage to greater saturation— Even dingus Newsom got in on it— LA has had protests for months and hasn’t seen nearly this reach

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Oh and she’s all in on a parade 🥴 Toxic positivity through and through with that one

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peacock leasers www.science.org/content/arti...

Peacock feathers can be lasers

Tail feathers can emit narrow beams of light, a first in the animal kingdom

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Kim Rosvall @rosvall-lab.bsky.social · 13h

Check out this podcast about the paper, which speaks to the joys of community science, teamwork, and quantitative wondering: www.science.org/content/podc...

How birds reacted to a solar eclipse, and keeping wildfire smoke out of wine

On this week’s show: Citizen scientists and AI help measure how birds behaved during an eclipse, and a roundup of online news stories

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 11h

It was really cool how the birds behaved during the eclipse, and so neat to see citizen science on it!

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

www.science.org

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My reply exceeds character limit 😩

My reply is +151 characters over the limit: “It was great when it happened. It's too bad not enough blowback occurred and she's still quoted in media today. I mean, caping for explicitly anti-LGBT Moms For Liberty while running an HIV clinic in the same hospital as one of the first AIDS wards while minimizing COVID harms and downplaying the importance of vaccinations while Omicron burned through thousands deadweekly. so schools would reopen is a HELLUVA thing to not ruin someone like that O_o”

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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you, Cassandra. I certainly hope that more people realize exactly who Gandhi is/was and how much she was put on tv and quoted everywhere by corporate owned news outlets.

Also--one of my fave Mehdi Hasan clips:

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Mehdi Hasan Questions Doctor On Covid Predictions | The Mehdi Hasan Show

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Ed Belongia MD @belongia.bsky.social · 14h

CDCs demand to break up MMR vax into separate monovalent shots is public health malpractice.
These vax are widely used worldwide. The 2 manufacturers (Merck & GSK) could easily decide to abandon the US market rather than take a big financial risk on clinical development & licensure of separate shots

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 19h

Andrew Wakefield claimed without evidence in a retracted study that there was a link between autism and the combination MMR vaccine -- but not separate shots.

Wakefield filed a patent for his own separate shots the year before the study was published.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak

Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated

www.theguardian.com

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:

www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 1d

guide to protecting yourself and your community from rubber bullets, water cannons, batons, pepper spray, surveillance, and snatch squads.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · Jul 22

Right now—before the next wave of street protests—is the best time to learn how to make and use shields and reinforced banners.

Protect yourself and your community from rubber bullets, water cannons, batons, pepper spray, surveillance, and snatch squads.

crimethinc.com/reinforcedba...

A photograph of demonstrators forming a shield wall in Myanmar. Their shields all have circle-As painted on them, signifying anarchism, the movement for a world without oppression.

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For anyone who needs it here's the best catalog of Proud Boy/ Moms For Liberty-- paywalled these days but here's the citation nonetheless www.radicalreports.org/p/moms-for-l...

Moms for Liberty County Chapters Growing Connections to Far Right Groups

At least nine county chapters of Moms for Liberty have connections or associations with the far right violent extremists street gang the Proud Boys.

www.radicalreports.org

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There's so much to keep track of like omg lol

I forgot how quick the blowback from her decision to join Let Them Breathe got her to request removing her from their posted member list x.com/amorvincitom...

C̶͚̃a̵̯͠s̸͌͜s̷̜̎ả̵̻n̵̥͑d̸̓ͅr̶̦̽a̵̛̠ Complex̸̗́ on X: "What a fascinating point of view by Monica Gandhi. She's suddenly no longer listed on the Urgency Of Normal website (https://t.co/H6rbVJkTB3), and now pushing for masks until after Omicron. Until the next variant blindsides her and only her for some reason." / X

What a fascinating point of view by Monica Gandhi. She's suddenly no longer listed on the Urgency Of Normal website (https://t.co/H6rbVJkTB3), and now pushing for masks until after Omicron. Until the next variant blindsides her and only her for some reason.

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Bonus fun fact for those who don't know! Before joining Proud Boys affiliated Moms For Liberty linked Let Them Breathe, Monica sent in not 1 but 2 declarations in support to strike down California COVID vaccine mandates for reopening schools. Here's the 2nd filing in full archive.org/details/37-2...

37 2021 00031385 CU WM NC ROA 236 11 01 21 DECLARATION OF MONICA GANDHI M D M P H 1636482015659( 0) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Monica Gandhi's ex parte application in support of Sharon McKeeman's anti-vax/mask group Let Them Breathe's lawsuit to reopen schools. Ex parte application...

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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: Monica Gandhi was once affiliated with the dark money funded group called "The Urgency of Normal" w now current Trump appointees Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth-Hoeg. Great little article about all of that.

synapse.ucsf.edu/articles/202...

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The entire economy is an exit strategy

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that Jack published a book last year called “unhumans” that makes the argument that all Democrats and anyone left of Francisco Franco should be rounded up and murdered en mass for the rest of the populations entertainment.
Jack is a Nazi and hell bent on the murder of his opponents

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 1d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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These days do be like Through the Flaming Hotels of California www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ooV...

DJ Cummerbund - Through the Flaming Hotels of California

YouTube video by DJ Cummerbund

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Lesser-known virus surges in Bay Area ahead of flu and COVID

Levels of enterovirus D68 have been increasing, according to wastewater testing.

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Well there’s no vaccine for this one so mask up (enterovirus D68) oh and hey Monica Gandhi makes an appearance in this article— she says it’s nothing to worry about. She’s the Jim Cramer of public health so take her advisory re: “mild meningitis” with, like, 10 grains of salt. Link below 👇

Data from Stanford University's wastewater monitoring program show high levels of enterovirus D68 in San Jose and
parts of San Francisco. This RNA respiratory virus is known to cause
respiratory, gastrointestinal and in some rare cases neurological symptoms,
including meningitis and polio-like muscle weakness.

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Evan Hill & @evanhill tweets on October 8th, 2025:
“Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.”

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Quarantegan @quarantegan.bsky.social · 2d

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famous bog body @bogbird.bsky.social · 1d

anyone: what are you going to do if this art thing doesn’t work out
me:

cat riding away on a skateboard. the background is like space or something

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A small additional datapoint recently brought to my attention re: Jay’s following habits on twitter. It’s not the first explicitly antivax disinfo bot account he’s followed. Periodically they’ll deactivate. Just another instance of a pattern from the last 5 years bsky.app/profile/amor...

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Why is the NIH director following this account?

h/t @/CyFi10 on twitter

Twitter account @Kate_Jones1234 bio reads:
Anti-Vaxxer (All vaccines, not just the Covid vax)
Pro-Russia
Pro-Palestine.

Joined May 2022

Followed by Jay Bhattacharya

@Kate_Jones1234 tweets on October 6th, 2025:

Dorit Reiss = Jewish
Paul Offit = Jewish
Peter Hotez = Jewish
Peter Marks = Jewish
Rochelle Walensky = Jewish
Scott Gottlieb = Jewish
Albert Bourla = Jewish
Just saying.
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Followers you know tab shows Jay Bhattacharya is confirmed follower of this account

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