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Bryan Gibb
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Associate Professor in microbiology at New York Institute of Technology studying bacteriophages (mostly).
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lollardfish.bsky.social
That motherfucker …..
thinkingautism.com Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 4d
How much of a wretch is anti-vax hoaxer and defrocked doctor Andrew Wakefield? Well, He was judged "guilty of some 30 charges, including four counts of dishonesty and 12 of causing children to be subjected to invasive procedures that were clinically unjustified."

www.bmj.com/content/342/... #autism
How the vaccine crisis was meant to make money
In the second part of a special BMJ series, Brian Deer reveals a secret scheme to raise huge sums from a campaign, launched at a London medical school, that claimed links between MMR, autism, and bowe...
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December 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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lukesteuber.com
Firefox is done :) The download is on the page. It auto installs if you're in desktop Firefox, because Mozilla's extension system isn't shenanigans.

I ❤️ u

I’ll add some more fonts in later; they’ll auto update on Firefox.
lukesteuber.com Luke Snowbrr ☃️ @lukesteuber.com · 3d
I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people.

I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇
ReCalibri
They always make us do everything ourselves, anyway
Dr.eamer.dev
December 12, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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aetiology.bsky.social
Cody Meissner now going back to correct some of the BS stated by other #ACIP presenters, including misunderstanding of waning antibody, decrease in HepB due to vaccine. Malone cuts him off.
December 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Post from Pete Buttigieg that reads: As a military officer, I was repeatedly trained on the law concerning illegal orders. Now, veterans citing this law have been targeted by the president with threats of prosecution and death - because they oppose him politically. If the government acts against them, it will further display President Trump's thirst for the one thing our Republic cannot abide: tyranny.
November 26, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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esmereldaohara.bsky.social
Everyone needs to read the history of Hugh Thompson and My Lai.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th...
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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eberlmat.bsky.social
Medic student advice update.

2015.
"Do not use Wikipedia as the main source of information for your essay."

2024.
"Do not use ChatGPT as the main source of information for your essay."

2025.
"Do not use the CDC website as the main source of information for your essay."
CDC website altered to reflect RFK Jr’s belief in link between vaccines and autism
Public health and autism specialists roundly condemn alteration to the ‘vaccine safety’ webpage
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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earlymodjustice.bsky.social
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
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November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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napaaqtuk.bsky.social
I teach an upper level writing class & also noticed more students were using AI. In my mid-term evaluation I asked students if they were using AI, 1/3 said they were. Those using it said they were only using it to clean up their writing*, those not using it said they felt at a disadvantage.
earlymodjustice.bsky.social Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 23d
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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digglelab.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Deaths linked to antibiotic-resistant superbugs rose 17% in England in 2024
Data also shows an average of nearly 400 newly reported cases of antibiotic-resistant infections a week last year
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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caulfieldtim.bsky.social
Good example of scienceploitation - use language of real science to sell bunk.

At-home gut microbiome tests? Hype. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11...

"Nearly half of the companies offering these tests also sell supplements or probiotics that they recommend based on the test results."
The hype and limits of at-home gut microbiome tests
The market for at-home gut microbiome tests is booming, with companies promising insights into health, chronic illness and even longevity through intestinal bacteria.
medicalxpress.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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thefarce.org
"There’s a non-zero chance that the government will be back in shutdown [on January], though with a few of the hostages — most notably, 40 million SNAP recipients — now protected by these minibus appropriations."
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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tbharat-lab.bsky.social
An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments

Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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podsaveamerica.crooked.com
There was a surprise guest at our show in Washington, D.C.

#CrookedCon2025
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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lizneeley.bsky.social
New-to-me but very helpful visualizations how all the actions of the past ten months are affecting the CDC www.cdcdataproject.org
The CDC Data Project
In the proposed FY26 budget, programs that help Americans live safer, healthier, longer lives are on the chopping block.
www.cdcdataproject.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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momscientist.bsky.social
Our department is hiring for 4 faculty positions! Come join a growing and dynamic group of scientists in a fun and engaging department!

Assistant Professor of Cell Biology: bit.ly/4okizhq
Assistant Professor of Microbiology:bit.ly/48ZVHz1
2 Lecturers of Microbiology: bit.ly/4qCwukr
A call for applications for the Department of Molecular and Cellular faculty positions. A faculty member looks into a microscope while students look on in the background.
November 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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mcbazacophd.bsky.social
I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet.

Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times.

Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀

#PublicHealth
October 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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mikeblazanin.bsky.social
Happy to see this paper finally out in @pnas.org!

#phage #microbiology #MicroSky #VirEvol 🦠 🧫 🔬

Gift link: www.pnas.org/eprint/YYDZ9...
September 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
"No, we don't want a monarchy, we want a theocracy" is a not the flex they think it is.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 20
Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."
October 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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SHE DOES NOT HAVE ANY CONSTITUENTS UNTIL YOU SWEAR HER IN, MIKE
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 20
Mike Johnson on Adelita Grijalva, who he refuses to swear in: "Instead of doing TikTok videos, she should be serving her constituents."
October 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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denwalt.bsky.social
Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related.

He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:
October 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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stephentang23.bsky.social
Genome maintenance by telomerase is a fundamental process in nearly all eukaryotes. But where does it come from?

Today, we report the discovery of telomerase homologs in a family of antiviral reverse transcriptases, revealing an unexpected evolutionary origin in bacteria.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...
October 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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harmitmalik.bsky.social
I think people adjacent to science (but who now find themselves deciding the fate of US science somehow) undervalue humility, valuing braggadocios hubris instead.
Yes it’s true that some scientific discoveries are complete paradigm changers, and we celebrate these. 1/
October 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM