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Diana Fulmer

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Cardiac Development • Epigenetics • Postdoc • UPenn #devbio 🫀🔬🧬🐭 #firstgen #academicjobmarket 🚨Posts may contain science, bad jokes, cooking 🧵s &/or political snark. The typos are free.

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Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social · Jun 19

Conspiracy theories aren't limited to one political ideology. Anyone, left, right... even experts who study misinformation, can misjudge the legitimacy of a story. (Yep, scientists too 🫣.)

However, there are ways to protect yourself from getting suckered by pseudoscience and fake news. A long-ish 🧵

JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · Jun 19

There's a weird left-QAnon thing starting up centered around dubious claims about the 2024 results popping up at the periphery of the internet. I feel like we're gonna hear more and more about this so just laying down my understanding of it now.

I think its basically a hoax.

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Michael @michaelbyrum.bsky.social · 4h

#DateNight with @dianafulmer.bsky.social 😍 / South St. #Philly Nori #Sushi norisushiphiladelphia.com #Chicken #Katsu with dark #Curry sauce, #Tuna Pepper Roll, Salad, Sushi sampler, #Beer & #Peacemaker season 2 finale 🦅 🍺

Japanese takeout with chicken katsu in the upper left, two sauces to its right and a pepper tuna roll. On the next row down, is a container of rice with black chopsticks folded over it, a 5pc sushi sampler, and a small salad with brown chopsticks on the corner.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 11h

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Michael @michaelbyrum.bsky.social · 13h

trump Gonna Sell #StudentDebt To #WallStreet. Remember How Great That Worked With #Mortgages?

This shit again? We could subprimal scream. www.wonkette.com/p/trump-gonn...

Trump Gonna Sell Student Debt To Wall Street. Remember How Great That Worked With Mortgages?

This shit again? We could subprimal scream.

www.wonkette.com

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Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social · 13h

Motherf@cker 🤬🖕

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Michael @michaelbyrum.bsky.social · 14h

#Venezuela ’s #Opposition leader María Corina #Machado wins 2025 #Nobel Peace Prize ✊ www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

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Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social · 16h

Ah yes, I can see the Nobel committee debates now…”shall we award him for indiscriminate murder in the Caribbean, the creation of Florida concentration camps, or quelling the Great War of Portland” 🤔

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StarBucket @aquagyrl.bsky.social · 1d

I buy a lot of yarn from littleknits.com because her products are good quality and very inexpensive. She also gets bonus points for being a sweet person.

LittleKnits - Your online stop for yarns and more

Little Knits, based in Seattle, is committed to providing the highest quality yarn and knitting supplies at the best value to our customers. We strive to maximize our customer's experience through our...

littleknits.com

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Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social · 1d

Awesome, thanks! I just started knitting so all suggestions are always appreciated ☺️ Will definitely check it out

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 1d

An Interview with Azim Surani

Ashley Moffett and @geraldinejowett.bsky.social spoke to Azim, recipient of both the 2025 Kyoto Prize and 2026 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, about his non-traditional and inspirational route into academia:

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Picture of Azim Surani in a dark blue jumper and light blue collared shirt sitting by a microscope.

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Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty yarn 🤩

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Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social · 1d

Reading

as in “RED-ing Terminal Market”

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Hannah Rutherford (she/her) @lomadiah.bsky.social · 2d

Please signal boost, it's for a good cause! 🙏

Hey folks - I'm working with an MS (multiple sclerosis) charity to find streamers to support fundraising in November. It's retro gaming themed, so if you're interested in more info - or you know someone who would be amazing - please chuck me a reply 💚

a young boy covering his face with his hands while a man says please say yes behind him .

Alt: a young boy crossing his fingers and screwing up his eyes, saying please say yes

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Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social · 1d

Better now 🤪

Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social · 2d

Hope you’re doing okay.

a drawing of a ghost that says ghost hug you can 't feel it but it 's there .

Alt: a drawing of a ghost that says ghost hug you can 't feel it but it 's there .

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Michael @michaelbyrum.bsky.social · 2d

THE #CYBORGS - I'm just a #Cyborg and I don't believe in #God #Music
youtu.be/MchgeWdkgHs

THE CYBORGS - I'm just a Cyborg and I don't believe in God [Official Video]

YouTube video by inri.records

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Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social · 3d

Working on a scarf project to share with #knitsky but also trying my hand at crochet in the interim. Made some stuffed balls that can be incorporated into a future #science based project. A sneak preview…

#crafting #craftsky #yarn #art

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Michael @michaelbyrum.bsky.social · 3d

Tonight a simple #Meal: #Hamburger patties #Marinated in soy sauce and #Sazon spice cooked with #Onion. Served on Flour #Tortillas lightly seared in burger fat with a side of #TaterTots which we @dianafulmer.bsky.social let soak up the remaining fat. 😋 #Recipes

Paper plates with hamburger tacos and tots. The left plate only has mustard but the right plate also has ketchup

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Michael @michaelbyrum.bsky.social · 3d

#Halloween #Philly 🤪

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Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social · 3d

So sad 😞

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3d

Sure, we can fight for our tiny niche areas—make sure NASA gets XXX project funded or fight for one line of legislation. We may get an inch that way, but we give away a mile. Your research doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

Imagine what we will lose if we don’t have threads to weave.

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Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social · 3d

I say screw convention. Eat when you’re hungry! 🥪

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Michael @michaelbyrum.bsky.social · 4d

#Halloween #AI #Art / #Sebastian #ThugLife Tattoo ... honestly I never knew 🤪 IYKYK ✊

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Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social · 3d

In shocking first, leopard eats additional faces after promising more face consumption! 😱

I’m “disgusted” that I actually agree with ThreeToes on something.

a close up of a snow leopard with a national geographic logo behind it

Alt: a close up of a snow leopard licking lips with a national geographic logo next to it

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 3d

Regional Rail riders across the Philadelphia region are dealing with delays as SEPTA performs emergency inspections on its railcars.

225 aging Silverliner IV cars were flagged last week by the National Transportation Safety Board.

SEPTA Regional Rail riders face delays, cancellations due to emergency order

SEPTA is being forced to inspect 225 aging Silverliner IV cars that date back to the 1970s

www.inquirer.com

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 4d

Dinosaurs got bone cancer, which means we can study TUMOR FOSSILS.

I've since read about some other dinos species with evidence of tumors, but I still suspect there was something about hadrosaurs that made them prone to it.

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Mar 15

One of the amazing things about science is we will never run out of mysteries.

Take "Naturwissenschaften (2003) 90:495–500", which performed a survey of 10,000 dinosaur fossils for evidence of tumors in the bone.

I was prepared for yes, no, but what I wasn't prepared for was:
"only in hadrosaurs."

It's a black and white paper header for a short communication, and I've copied the text below. Please stop reading if you don't want the literal copy to be read to you.
"Naturwissenschaften (2003) 90:495–500
DOI 10.1007/s00114-003-0473-9
SHORT COMMUNICATION
B. M. Rothschild · D. H. Tanke · M. Helbling ·
L. D. Martin
Epidemiologic study of tumors in dinosaurs
Received: 16 June 2003 / Accepted: 29 August 2003 / Published online: 14 October 2003 Springer-Verlag 2003"

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