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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 1d

P.S. Jennifer Lopez is talented and beautiful, but she'll never replace Sonia Braga.

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 1d

My HPLC was definitely overlooked

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery

The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality.

www.nature.com

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 1d

I love me some Jennifer Lopez just as much as the next guy (or gal), but I'm not sure this movie needed to be remade. It'd be hard to top the original. RIP Bill Hurt and Raul Julia.

KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN | Official Trailer | In Theaters October 10

YouTube video by RoadsideFlix

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not going to bother going down this rabbit hole (i.e., reading the primary literature), but $50 says that they compared circumcised kids (i.e, boys) with non-circumcised kids (i.e., all girls and some boys). Males are 3 to 4x more likely to develop autism.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. I've walked by that a thousand times without noticing. Now I'm never not going to see it.

Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 2d

"The other day"? That training isn't daily?

Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 2d

Here is one of Cheetolini's "Antifa experts" sitting in the White House as he paints the early German opponents of the Nazis as the bad guys.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 3d

This helps sooth the sting of UCSB having fallen off of Playboy's Top Ten Party Schools list in recent decades.

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an...

www.nobelprize.org

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 5d

Massie, I'll note, is a Republican.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

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Al Franken @alfranken.bsky.social · 8d

Today is Franni’s and my 50th wedding anniversary! We met in college 6 years earlier and decided to get married a week before the first SNL show because we finally both had jobs (Franni working for NBC News and me writing for SNL). (1/2)

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 5d

Sign up here for immediate notification if terrestrial neutrino detectors detect a core-collapse supernova anywhere in our galaxy. Apparently this has been running for 20 years without a single detection, but this type of SN is predicted to occur once every 50 years or so in the Milky Way.

Alert Signup – SNEWS

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 6d

This is cool. An interstellar comet (only the 3rd interstellar object yet discovered) as seen from the surface of Mars.

Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 6d

Last night, NASA's Perseverance rover looked up at the night sky once more, to capture interstellar #comet 3I/Atlas flying by the red planet.

The distance was "only" 0.2 AU or 30 Mio km, far closer than the comet ever got to Earth. 🔭 #3IAtlas

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß

Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 8d

I have my issues with Newsom, but I definitely applaud this.

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 8d

IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY.

CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.

New York Times: "Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference."

The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.

Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 11d

I refuse to ever grow numb to his grotesque behavior.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

This is one of the most demented things Trump has posted

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 12d

The end game: every university will bow down or lose funding, and every company will bend the knee or face tariffs, H-1B visa fees, and regulatory blackmail.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13d

Awarding scientific grants based on scientific merit? That pales in comparison to my strategy, giving grants based on political loyalty

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Wp EXCLUSIVE
White House considers funding advantage for colleges that align with Trump policies The proposal could potentially transform the government's vast research funding operation, which has long awarded university grants based on scientific merit.
Today at 6:00 a.m. EDT

Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 13d

This is particularly funny coming from Ken "kicked Jeopardy ass like no one before me" Jennings.

Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 15d

I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.

Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 13d

Apparently, he considers this leadership.

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 13d

The Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful.

Here’s a thought.

Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 13d

"Apparently mislead" = a combination of willful ignorance and Reichstag-fire-style mendacity.

Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 14d

"This past week would have surely led to impeachment proceedings against any other U.S. president. That Mr. Trump is likely to plow forward should chill every
American."

Opinion | Trump Can’t Be the One to Dictate Who Gets Indicted

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 16d

That was thought provoking.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 16d

If, like me, you remain confused about which 7, long-standing wars Trump has graciously helped to end, here's a useful map.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17d

From Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s Defence Committee:

Map showing Cambodia v Armenia battleground

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d

"Where Nixon had to contend with a Supreme Court that rejected his claim of absolute immunity and a Congress that stood ready to impeach him, the other branches of govt these days have no interest in reining in Trump. He can do a Watergate every week safe in the knowledge that no one will stop him."

Trump posts his Watergate tapes

It ended Nixon's presidency. For Trump, it's just another Saturday.

www.publicnotice.co

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 20d

Just because it's out in the open in a social media post doesn't mean it's not abuse of power and political corruption of the highest order. I weep for our country.

Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 20d

There’s no hiding the political retaliation and weaponization.

It’s all out in the open.

Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 20d

No matter how much stupidity and cruelty is packed into an EO, there's always room to add a bit corrupt cronyism as well.

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21d

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.