HL Eisthen, defective human product
@hleisthen.bsky.social
Neuroethologist, chemosensory scientist, herp lover. Immigrant and child of a refugee. Haver of snarky opinions. All the disclaimers.
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Brian Phillips is an incredible writer who just made me throw up in my mouth.
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Brian Phillips is an incredible writer who just made me throw up in my mouth.
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Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)
RTs appreciated.
RTs appreciated.
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)
RTs appreciated.
RTs appreciated.
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Every American should have this in their wallet:
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Every American should have this in their wallet:
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"We know that air and water belong to all mankind and not merely to industrialists." - James Baldwin, 1970.
(The year the US EPA was created.)
(The year the US EPA was created.)
Every paragraph is a banger. I’m so happy right now. Sometimes you find a piece of writing just when you need it.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
"We know that air and water belong to all mankind and not merely to industrialists." - James Baldwin, 1970.
(The year the US EPA was created.)
(The year the US EPA was created.)
Speaking as a scientist, I just wanna say that we're fucked.
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Speaking as a scientist, I just wanna say that we're fucked.
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replace the Supreme Court with the remaining members of the Wu-Tang Clan
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
replace the Supreme Court with the remaining members of the Wu-Tang Clan
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RFK Jr described by those who know him best:
"A liar and a terrible human being"
"Messianic self-regard"
"Sadly off his rocker"
"A predator addicted to attention and power"
"Sickening and destructive"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
"A liar and a terrible human being"
"Messianic self-regard"
"Sadly off his rocker"
"A predator addicted to attention and power"
"Sickening and destructive"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Most Powerful Man in Science
Why is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. so convinced he’s right?
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 AM
RFK Jr described by those who know him best:
"A liar and a terrible human being"
"Messianic self-regard"
"Sadly off his rocker"
"A predator addicted to attention and power"
"Sickening and destructive"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
"A liar and a terrible human being"
"Messianic self-regard"
"Sadly off his rocker"
"A predator addicted to attention and power"
"Sickening and destructive"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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"What the Epstein class understands is that the more accessible information becomes, the more precious nonpublic information is."
If you have the time and patience this is recommended. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o... [email protected] [gift link]
If you have the time and patience this is recommended. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o... [email protected] [gift link]
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"What the Epstein class understands is that the more accessible information becomes, the more precious nonpublic information is."
If you have the time and patience this is recommended. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o... [email protected] [gift link]
If you have the time and patience this is recommended. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o... [email protected] [gift link]
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This is concerning.
NIH is changing their policy so that staff have to prepare justification for every application that is funded BUT NO DOCUMENTATION FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE SKIPPED (BASED ON PERCENTILES).
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NIH is changing their policy so that staff have to prepare justification for every application that is funded BUT NO DOCUMENTATION FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE SKIPPED (BASED ON PERCENTILES).
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November 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This is concerning.
NIH is changing their policy so that staff have to prepare justification for every application that is funded BUT NO DOCUMENTATION FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE SKIPPED (BASED ON PERCENTILES).
1/2
NIH is changing their policy so that staff have to prepare justification for every application that is funded BUT NO DOCUMENTATION FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE SKIPPED (BASED ON PERCENTILES).
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Our 10th studio album Cabin In The Sky, now available to stream and download! Cover artwork by Hebru Brantley. Production by DJ Premier, Supa Dave West, Pete Rock and features by Killer Mike, Yukimi from Little Dragon, Common, Nas and Black Thought.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Our 10th studio album Cabin In The Sky, now available to stream and download! Cover artwork by Hebru Brantley. Production by DJ Premier, Supa Dave West, Pete Rock and features by Killer Mike, Yukimi from Little Dragon, Common, Nas and Black Thought.
☁️🏠⛅️ de-la-soul.sng.to/cabin-in-the...
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Whoever set up a functional gmail style inbox of Epstein's inbox deserves a journalism prize.
jmail.world
jmail.world
Jmail, logged in as [email protected]
You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
jmail.world
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Whoever set up a functional gmail style inbox of Epstein's inbox deserves a journalism prize.
jmail.world
jmail.world
Is this the Victorian-era equivalent of comparing someone to a used car salesman? 🏹
November 24, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Is this the Victorian-era equivalent of comparing someone to a used car salesman? 🏹
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
Shots fired! "Our data supports a model whereby electro-magnetic input from the semicircular canals activates
a vestibular-mesopallial circuit within the pigeon brain." #neuroethology
a vestibular-mesopallial circuit within the pigeon brain." #neuroethology
The magentic sense is undoubtedly one of the greatest secrets in sensory biology. Whole brain activity mapping in response to 🧲 stimulation revealed a light-independent activity in the medial vestibular nuclei & the caudal mesopallium in the pigeon 🧠
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon brain
How animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field remains a mystery in sensory biology. Despite extensive behavioral evidence, the neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms responsible for magnetic sensin...
www.science.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Shots fired! "Our data supports a model whereby electro-magnetic input from the semicircular canals activates
a vestibular-mesopallial circuit within the pigeon brain." #neuroethology
a vestibular-mesopallial circuit within the pigeon brain." #neuroethology
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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Good 🧵🧪
Oh my gosh. This is... A thing. Please allow a microbiologist who has played with the microbe that makes this to waffle on for a bit in a short thread. (1)
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Good 🧵🧪
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I mean, maybe as an external entity but a lot of people still in agencies and some indication that the National Design Studio is just there to provide similar cover
Judge for yourself at dogetrack.info
Judge for yourself at dogetrack.info
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
The Department of Government Efficiency claimed to have slashed tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but it was impossible for outside financial experts to verify that because the unit did not provide detailed public accounting of its work.
reut.rs
November 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I mean, maybe as an external entity but a lot of people still in agencies and some indication that the National Design Studio is just there to provide similar cover
Judge for yourself at dogetrack.info
Judge for yourself at dogetrack.info
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I'm now at the part of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein where the creature, like many young men, has decided, "A girlfriend will fix my identity crisis"
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 AM
🔩 📖
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It's been SEVEN hours and
fifteen days
fifteen days
November 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It's been SEVEN hours and
fifteen days
fifteen days
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we have fallen so far behind China in sick-ass water slides and I feel like nobody is talking about this
INSANE! 2-MILE GLASS Water Slide Ride Down the Mountain! | Longest Glass Water Slide in the World!
YouTube video by Attractions 360°
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
we have fallen so far behind China in sick-ass water slides and I feel like nobody is talking about this
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My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My favorite piece of content today.
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Anyone posted this one yet?
November 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Anyone posted this one yet?
Can a journal publish a retraction for a cover?
Still thinking about this. If a *scientific journal* is willing to publishing misleading and inaccurate AI-generated illustrations, what's to stop them from publishing AI-generated text? I bet they wouldn't knowingly do the latter. Where's the line? Why are they treating illustrations differently?
The fuck? Hard to even know where to start with all the things wrong here. (Also hope Glenn Northcutt doesn't see it -- he'll have a stroke.) Just appalling. not #neuroethology
November 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Can a journal publish a retraction for a cover?