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Dr. CSP
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Retired scientist. Clinician. Artist. Mom. I hope something good happens to you today.
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carlbergstrom.com
Such a delight to revisit www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com yesterday. 🪶
Chickadee on cattails. Anna's hummingbird with berries and raindrops Fox sparrow in the underbrush Great blue heron croaks at the rain
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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patrickfenelon.bsky.social
This is the energy we need from everyone
December 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
sweetadelinevt.bsky.social Sweetadelinevt @sweetadelinevt.bsky.social · 13h
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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yalesph.bsky.social
Why do babies need the hepatitis B vaccine if they aren’t high-risk?

Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus.

Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️

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February 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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physiciandemocracy.medsky.social
#medsky
The ACIP process used to take months of rigorous review by CDC and medical experts. Now they’re inventing policy overnight with zero transparency. This isn’t reform. It’s sabotage of public trust and public health.
December 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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jcollins.bsky.social
At MPR now: Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make ICE agents' jobs as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
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‘Tinted windows and out-of-state plates’: How ICE watchers look for agents in their neighborhoods
Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make their job as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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vscharff.bsky.social
When you put it that way, it seems horrible.
sourcenm.com Source New Mexico @sourcenm.com · 13h
Applications for air quality permits confirm figures that Source NM previously reported: If approved, Project Jupiter could emit more than 14 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. By comparison, Albuquerque and Las Cruces emit a combined 6.7 million metric tons of greenhouse gases annually.
Data center Project Jupiter’s greenhouse gas emissions could rival NM’s largest cities • Source New Mexico
Project Jupiter's developers have asked the state for permission to emit as many greenhouse gases as the state's largest cities combined.
buff.ly
December 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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altyellonatpark.org
It has begun
Fox snooping through the snow.
December 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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physiciandemocracy.medsky.social
#medsky
Today the CDC notes rising SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the Northeast and Midwest.
December 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them.
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
A Navy warship mistook US fighter jets for enemy missiles and opened fire. The targeted pilot saw his life flash before his eyes.
New documents reveal how the USS Gettysburg shot down an F/A-18 and nearly hit a second one above the Red Sea last year.
www.businessinsider.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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thegodpodcast.com
Jesus and I would like to remind you that literally no one has ever stopped anyone from saying 'Merry Christmas.’
December 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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cdelawalla.bsky.social
This afternoon, I was in a meeting with Jay Bhattacharya, and I can confirm this is *exactly* what he both wants and will be doing.

THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE.
kgandersen.bsky.social Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 15h
I missed this from a couple of weeks ago, but if you're an NIH-funded investigator, please read.

Peer review will exist to make things look legitimate, but can, and will, be over-ruled. Funding decisions, ultimately, will be done by political appointees.

grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
Implementing a Unified NIH Funding Strategy to Guide Consistent and Clearer Award Decisions | Grants & Funding
grants.nih.gov
December 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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repgregstanton.bsky.social
Rep. Grijalva is doing what a Member of Congress should do: standing up for her constituents.

Pepper spraying an elected official doing her job is outrageous and does nothing to make Arizona communities safer.
December 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.
Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
futurism.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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gavinyamey.bsky.social
We must never forget: it wasn’t just the kooky Great Barrington Declaration dudes who promoted RFK Jr & his anti-vaxx BS—it was also some magazines, like The New Yorker, which celebrated him as a “maverick” who would take on “the establishment”

RFK Jr’s hype men will have dead kids as their legacy
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · May 22
For all his unfounded beliefs and suspicions, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s revolt isn’t against research but against the power long held by scientific insiders—and in this he might have a point, Daniel Immerwahr writes.
R.F.K., Jr., Anthony Fauci, and the Revolt Against Expertise
It used to be progressives who distrusted the experts. What happened?
www.newyorker.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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beatascienceart.bsky.social
All #CellBio2025 attendees! Here’s our phenomenal lineup for our session on #SciArt & #SciComm: @ahnaskop.bsky.social, @jiwasa.bsky.social, @mag2art.bsky.social, @nat-prunet.bsky.social, and Julia Licholai. Please come by and spread the word! Huge thanks to @ascbiology.bsky.social and co-organizers!
December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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kkostova.bsky.social
#cellbio2025 The Women in Cell Biology (WICB) Committee has put together some truly fantastic events for this year’s meeting! We can’t wait for you to check them out:
December 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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timisstuck.bsky.social
Read our top papers in cell bio from the past year, then come find me at #CellBio2025 and tell me what you thought!
lsajournal.org Life Science Alliance @lsajournal.org · 2d
Our annual collection of exceptional papers in cell biology is here! These articles advance our understanding of the structures and processes at the core of diverse living systems and human disease.
www.life-science-alliance.org/content/cell...
December 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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fisherspeaks.bsky.social
Porcupine are the north's spiky sloths. These slow movers will climb into trees and shrubs during the winter and stick it out for days and weeks at a time. #mammals #AB
Wide image of a porcupine clinging to a branch with a snowy landscape in the background. Close-up image of a porcupine clinging to a branch.
December 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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jcb.org
🎉 Congratulations to Yu Deng, winner of the 2025 Norton B. Gilula Travel Award! Yu is a PhD student from Dr. Peter Devreotes’ lab at @jhu.edu. Be sure to catch Yu’s talk during #CellBio2025!
Read about this year's winners 👉 rupress.org/jcb/pages/al...
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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alleninstitute.org
🍳🍕 Free breakfast and lunch? Yes, please!

Undergraduate educators going to #CellBio2025 are invited to apply for our “Open Science & Authentic Research in Undergraduate Education” workshop happening on Dec. 5 in Philadelphia.

Apply by Oct 20: alleninstitute.org/events/open-...
Open Science & Authentic Research in Undergraduate Education: Pre-CellBio Workshop
Join the Open Science & Authentic Research in Undergraduate Education Workshop in Philadelphia, PA on December 5, 2025.
alleninstitute.org
October 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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rjwatt42.bsky.social
This is important, without any doubt: the link between slowness - timelessness - and healthy scientific practice.
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 4d
Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy
practices.

See section 6 here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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6 Slow Science Industry sells the narrative that AI can maximise efficiency, including within science. We are pressured to believe that it is possible to automate the scientific process. But science itself is a form of cognition, and therefore cannot be automated (Rich et al. 2021; van Rooij, Guest, et al. 2024). But this does not stand in the way of industry narratives that want to do away with thinking and deep reflection. Slow science was developed by Isabelle Stengers (2018), who explains: “Fast science refers not so much to a question of speed but to the imperative not to slow down, not to waste time, or else. . . ” (p. 115) Unless we push back against the use of AI products this will only further crystallise into the new normal (but see Guest, Suarez, et al. 2025; Guest and van Rooij 2025). AI not only epitomises fast science, but turbocharges it, nosediving us into anti-science and antiintellectualism. We see this pattern of condensing time in most computational fields (Guest 2025). “The ultra rapid computing machine” (Wiener 1948, 1950) serves two discursive purposes, as Sheryl Hamilton (1998) explains: “First, it forms an overall temporal backdrop against which various cybernetic dramas are played out. Second, condensed time becomes a measure of the performance of humans and machines.” (p. 193) There are simple ways to counteract this. We can allow flexible deadlines, and pursue ungrading with our students, while also explaining this is part and parcel of good science. In STEM programmes assigning essays in a possible way to support students to develop their ideas. We can also promote slow science by making space for our mentees, colleagues, and selves to take time to think and to make choices that move our scientific practices towards reflection and decolonisation. Building scientific knowledge and expertise takes time. By not allowing this we deskill our profession and corrupt our practice (Pfaffenberger 1988). We lose the ability to recognize and acknowl… Marcela Suarez has created a tripartite pedagogical method: 7 Guest et al. (2025) a) situating, b) reconnecting, and c) rendering power visible. First, the materiality of AI devices is situated through examining their geopolitical territories; second, we reconnect the digitality of technologies with their materiality; and third, we render the exploitation, extraction and domination visible. While academic discussion has centred around sustainability (Wynsberghe 2021), engaging uncritically can merely reaffirm its colonial past of reinforcing hierarchies between the Global North and South (Sultana, 2022). However, sustainability is reclaimable through questioning: What are the social relations, territories and resources that sustain AI technologies? For example, how is data mining not only a discursive metaphor, but also a material practice of companies to extract minerals that sustain AI capitalism (Parikka 2015; Valdivia 2025). Through teaching capitalist AI’s social relations, we can bring to the fore core fallacies, such as that automation requires more not less labour (Bainbridge 1983; Guest 2025). Flawed and false discourses on automation are materially sustained by the obfuscation of the exploitation of Global South workers at the intersection of racism, gender, ability, and more — through these discourses, AI products are gifted value. By the same token, we can explain the intensive power, computation, and infrastructures that these systems require, from internet cables, data centres, raw materials to water and energy to run data centres, as well as the aforementioned labour to operate and maintain these infrastructures, which in so doing re-enact existing colonial lines of extraction (Hao 2025; Parikka 2015; Suarez et al. 2025; Valdivia 2025).
December 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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altusfs.altgov.info
Seriously?

The amount of time, effort, and money here put into what amounts to bullying someone— during the government shutdown no less— is reprehensible.

CC: @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info, @altcdc.altgov.info
December 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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taniel.bsky.social
this sentence alone, my goodness
sweetadelinevt.bsky.social Sweetadelinevt @sweetadelinevt.bsky.social · 13h
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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chris-hhh.bsky.social
"How the mighty sambusa became a Minnesota school lunch hit" -- this is wonderful

www.startribune.com/sambusa-hoyo...
Yuen: How the mighty sambusa became a Minnesota school lunch hit
A Twin Cities frozen-food company created to employ refugee moms has introduced the Somali snack to a new generation.
www.startribune.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM