Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦
@annealiz1.bsky.social
Professor University of Maryland, co-founder Silvec Biologics finding RNA solutions to plant diseases, love Plant Virology, author Real Science Behind The X-Files, and passionate about dressage!
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Happy 100 Dick Van Dyke
December 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Happy 100 Dick Van Dyke
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🧪This is how global collaboration of science is supposed to work.
Via @sciencestories.bsky.social on IG
Via @sciencestories.bsky.social on IG
December 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
🧪This is how global collaboration of science is supposed to work.
Via @sciencestories.bsky.social on IG
Via @sciencestories.bsky.social on IG
Who would ever come here again? We are going to make visitors get security clearances???
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Who would ever come here again? We are going to make visitors get security clearances???
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one of the worst days of the crumbling Trump presidency: loses In indiana, loses in Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, loses in Tish James grand jury, loses in House vote to override union busting EO, and FBI embarrassed in inability to answer basic questions about ANTIFA (which is not an organization)
December 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
one of the worst days of the crumbling Trump presidency: loses In indiana, loses in Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, loses in Tish James grand jury, loses in House vote to override union busting EO, and FBI embarrassed in inability to answer basic questions about ANTIFA (which is not an organization)
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Reuters: The deployment of troops to cities around the US has cost more than $340 million, Sen. Tammy Duckworth said, highlighting the expense of Trump's use of the military in the Democratic-led cities.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
December 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Reuters: The deployment of troops to cities around the US has cost more than $340 million, Sen. Tammy Duckworth said, highlighting the expense of Trump's use of the military in the Democratic-led cities.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
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Stephen Miller said that the children of immigrants fail society.
Fun Fact:
Of the 6 American winners of science Nobels this year, 3 were born outside the US. The émigré fraction of U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry & medicine now stands at 40 percent.
#Pinks
🧪 🎁🖇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/s...
Fun Fact:
Of the 6 American winners of science Nobels this year, 3 were born outside the US. The émigré fraction of U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry & medicine now stands at 40 percent.
#Pinks
🧪 🎁🖇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/s...
A Scientific Pipeline to the Nobel Prize Fueled by Immigrants
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Stephen Miller said that the children of immigrants fail society.
Fun Fact:
Of the 6 American winners of science Nobels this year, 3 were born outside the US. The émigré fraction of U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry & medicine now stands at 40 percent.
#Pinks
🧪 🎁🖇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/s...
Fun Fact:
Of the 6 American winners of science Nobels this year, 3 were born outside the US. The émigré fraction of U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry & medicine now stands at 40 percent.
#Pinks
🧪 🎁🖇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/s...
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This is Trump's America -- where an American walking down the street doing nothing wrong can be chased, assaulted, and detained by armed thugs who refuse to even look at his proof of citizenship.
Trump has repeatedly said Somali Americans are "garbage," so now DHS is treating them that way.
Trump has repeatedly said Somali Americans are "garbage," so now DHS is treating them that way.
U.S. citizen offered to show I.D. but was arrested by immigration officers in Cedar-Riverside
A Somali U.S. citizen, Mubashir, was arrested by federal immigration officers in Cedar-Riverside Tuesday during a mass enforcement.
sahanjournal.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
This is Trump's America -- where an American walking down the street doing nothing wrong can be chased, assaulted, and detained by armed thugs who refuse to even look at his proof of citizenship.
Trump has repeatedly said Somali Americans are "garbage," so now DHS is treating them that way.
Trump has repeatedly said Somali Americans are "garbage," so now DHS is treating them that way.
Been gone for years
”You can leave X. It's really not that difficult.”
• Mike Masnick •
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• Mike Masnick •
@mmasnick.bsky.social
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”X is a toxic media platform & (...) its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse,” news media The Guardian said in a statement announcing it would no longer be posting on the platform.
Leave X Now
#DeleteYourXAccount
#BoycottTesla
#Musskolini
Thread 1/4🧵
Leave X Now
#DeleteYourXAccount
#BoycottTesla
#Musskolini
Thread 1/4🧵
December 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Been gone for years
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First it was kidnapping in the United States.
Then it was murder on the high seas.
Now the Trump Cabal is dabbling in armed robbery.
Where is this going to end?
Then it was murder on the high seas.
Now the Trump Cabal is dabbling in armed robbery.
Where is this going to end?
U.S. seizes oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, Trump says
President Donald Trump told reporters about the seizure Wednesday after previously saying Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's "days are numbered."
www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org
December 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
First it was kidnapping in the United States.
Then it was murder on the high seas.
Now the Trump Cabal is dabbling in armed robbery.
Where is this going to end?
Then it was murder on the high seas.
Now the Trump Cabal is dabbling in armed robbery.
Where is this going to end?
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Hadn't heard that Bobby Jr.'s guys are changing the vaccine schedule of Hepatitis B without presenting ANY evidence to suggest that the change to the current schedule, which is backed by decades of data, is necessary.
Epidemiologist's "harsh words" for CDC panel after vote on changing hepatitis B vaccine guidance
YouTube video by CBS News
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Hadn't heard that Bobby Jr.'s guys are changing the vaccine schedule of Hepatitis B without presenting ANY evidence to suggest that the change to the current schedule, which is backed by decades of data, is necessary.
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Now officially published in Current Biology 🥳🥳 @mfseidl.bsky.social @binfutrecht.bsky.social
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December 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Now officially published in Current Biology 🥳🥳 @mfseidl.bsky.social @binfutrecht.bsky.social
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When we show up, we win! 🥳Congratulations @commisheileen.bsky.social
on your victory in Miami’s Mayoral race! The 1st woman elected Mayor of the city & the 1st Democrat in 28 years! Tonight’s victory is proof that when Democrats commit to year-round organizing, we can win.
on your victory in Miami’s Mayoral race! The 1st woman elected Mayor of the city & the 1st Democrat in 28 years! Tonight’s victory is proof that when Democrats commit to year-round organizing, we can win.
December 10, 2025 at 2:32 AM
When we show up, we win! 🥳Congratulations @commisheileen.bsky.social
on your victory in Miami’s Mayoral race! The 1st woman elected Mayor of the city & the 1st Democrat in 28 years! Tonight’s victory is proof that when Democrats commit to year-round organizing, we can win.
on your victory in Miami’s Mayoral race! The 1st woman elected Mayor of the city & the 1st Democrat in 28 years! Tonight’s victory is proof that when Democrats commit to year-round organizing, we can win.
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NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
DAY 9 DECEMBER 2025
CONGRATULATIONS MAYOR
BUT Tonight in Trump's back yard.. in RED Florida
DEMOCRAT EILEEN HIGGINS
WINS !!
There hasn't been a Democrat Mayor of Miami in nearly 30 years...plus Democrats are winning other down ballot races for commissioner !
DAY 9 DECEMBER 2025
CONGRATULATIONS MAYOR
BUT Tonight in Trump's back yard.. in RED Florida
DEMOCRAT EILEEN HIGGINS
WINS !!
There hasn't been a Democrat Mayor of Miami in nearly 30 years...plus Democrats are winning other down ballot races for commissioner !
December 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
DAY 9 DECEMBER 2025
CONGRATULATIONS MAYOR
BUT Tonight in Trump's back yard.. in RED Florida
DEMOCRAT EILEEN HIGGINS
WINS !!
There hasn't been a Democrat Mayor of Miami in nearly 30 years...plus Democrats are winning other down ballot races for commissioner !
DAY 9 DECEMBER 2025
CONGRATULATIONS MAYOR
BUT Tonight in Trump's back yard.. in RED Florida
DEMOCRAT EILEEN HIGGINS
WINS !!
There hasn't been a Democrat Mayor of Miami in nearly 30 years...plus Democrats are winning other down ballot races for commissioner !
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So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
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"Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud." 👀
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
"Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud." 👀
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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It’s as if Anne Frank was describing the state sanctioned terror in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
December, 2025
December, 2025
December 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
It’s as if Anne Frank was describing the state sanctioned terror in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
December, 2025
December, 2025
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Weakening universal HBV vaccination recommendations has accomplished nothing positive for public health. It is undoing a policy with decades of evidence, extensively demonstrated safety, and it is erroneously suggesting that there is some kind of substantive risk to the vaccine.
There isn't.
There isn't.
December 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Weakening universal HBV vaccination recommendations has accomplished nothing positive for public health. It is undoing a policy with decades of evidence, extensively demonstrated safety, and it is erroneously suggesting that there is some kind of substantive risk to the vaccine.
There isn't.
There isn't.
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"The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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The real danger are people who never once checked a fact but were claiming to "do their own research." 🙄
Vaccinated people had lower mortality, not just from COVID, but from everything. Reality doesn’t lie.
The science is clear: mRNA vaccines save lives. The conspiracy theorists don’t.
Vaccinated people had lower mortality, not just from COVID, but from everything. Reality doesn’t lie.
The science is clear: mRNA vaccines save lives. The conspiracy theorists don’t.
December 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The real danger are people who never once checked a fact but were claiming to "do their own research." 🙄
Vaccinated people had lower mortality, not just from COVID, but from everything. Reality doesn’t lie.
The science is clear: mRNA vaccines save lives. The conspiracy theorists don’t.
Vaccinated people had lower mortality, not just from COVID, but from everything. Reality doesn’t lie.
The science is clear: mRNA vaccines save lives. The conspiracy theorists don’t.
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Stunning footage from earlier today, when the new Kilauea eruption covered the USGS Webcam 3, which is situated in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater near the southern rim of the much larger Kilauea caldera.
This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw.
But it's not very far off.
This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw.
But it's not very far off.
December 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Stunning footage from earlier today, when the new Kilauea eruption covered the USGS Webcam 3, which is situated in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater near the southern rim of the much larger Kilauea caldera.
This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw.
But it's not very far off.
This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw.
But it's not very far off.
Woman profiled in this article will likely suffer severe consequences to her health if ACA subsidies go away, and yet her support of Trump and Republicans is only “wavering”
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
‘We Are Looking at a Massive Crisis’
Health-care costs are about to spike in a way that Americans can’t afford.
www.theatlantic.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Woman profiled in this article will likely suffer severe consequences to her health if ACA subsidies go away, and yet her support of Trump and Republicans is only “wavering”
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...