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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 1d

THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Andy Rivkin @asrivkin.bsky.social · 2d

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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Caitlin Hackett Art @caitlinhackett.bsky.social · 3d

The infected pollinator

Painted in watercolor and acrylics

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Rupinder Kaur, PhD @kaurr.bsky.social · 7d

#Wolbachia has puzzled scientists with its power to rewire insect reproduction. What if I tell you that we found one of the keys Wolbachia use to rewire its host AND a small molecule inhibitor uses this key to mimic what this microbe has mastered for millions of years.

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Beyond Wolbachia—Can a small molecule control insect reproduction?

Kaur et al. demonstrate reduced histone acetylation as a key mechanism underpinning Wolbachia’s paternal-effect embryonic lethality trait in Drosophila melanogaster. Recapitulation of this trait by in...

www.cell.com

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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 4d

Which only increases your audience.

Jack Boot @jackboot.bsky.social · 4d

If you're performing standup for ghosts and the audience starts shouting, "Boo! Boooo!" don't panic. You're killing.

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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 4d

I’d love to join! 🙏

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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 4d

The USDA page has been fully vandalized by this.

An orange banner blaming democrats falsely for the government shutdown covering the entire homepage of the USDA.

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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 4d

This is toxic Darrin. bsky.app/profile/jay....

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

Are you paying us? Where?

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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes the writing is on the wall. Sometimes it’s a giant banner above every government website clearly violating the Hatch Act!

a man is dressed as a clown with a rainbow wig

ALT: a man is dressed as a clown with a rainbow wig

media.tenor.com

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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 4d

I am still in my teneral phase personally.

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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 4d

Oh good another leader in social media high off their own supply shitposting. 🫠

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

Are you paying us? Where?

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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 5d

Yes more studies on insect sleep! And provide them with tiny blankets.

Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 5d

Characteristic motor features of fly sleep! Tho of course it would be cuter if they curled up under a blankie.

Mehmet Keles @flyman.bsky.social · Apr 8

I am proud to share that our work of 4+ years has finally been published. We wondered if there are distinct behaviors that mark sleep in 🪰, where sleep has been defined as prolonged immobility.
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 5d

what do you mean small talk isn't a talk about small bugs

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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · 6d

Like...this is the biggest corruption scandal the NIH has experienced in its entire history and its not even close. Half of a BILLION dollars to a single project as a result of political spoils. That's the equivalent of several hundred R01s.

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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 6d

Yes more of this. ✊

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6d

A strong statement from the Dartmouth President regarding the "Compact"

president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...

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Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President

president.dartmouth.edu

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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 6d

Such a cool video, David!

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 7d

By popular demand, here’s a video I made explaining the tools and techniques I use for shark tooth fossil hunting.

This is my first experiment with Meta video editor so please excuse rough edits.

🧪🦑🌎🦈

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 8d

"This is extortion, plain and simple.... The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher education."

A sobering analysis of the illegality of the administration's "compact" and its stakes for higher ed. 🎁🔗

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 8d

Pressure to reject the compact should come from all sides:

Alumni, students, current employees, AND anyone who engages with people or work from the institution, high school students looking to attend, etc.

We say NO.

@standupforscience.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 9d

I absolutely will. Thank you. Hopefully a couple papers on lil farmers to come! 👀

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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you 😣 bsky.app/profile/love...

Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 9d

So what’s next for me?

I am standing up for science full time at @standupforscience.bsky.social. I am so pleased to support their vision and urgency in this moment.

As I tend to, I wear a few hats, but I am happy to still be using data to tell the best stories possible. 💻 📈 🗞️ ✊

Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 9d

Today is bittersweet for me, as I have now officially retired from the USDA-ARS.

It is still difficult for me that the doors to the Lovett Lab have closed.

I am so grateful for the community and science we were able to stir up as a research scientist at the USDA.

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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 9d

So what’s next for me?

I am standing up for science full time at @standupforscience.bsky.social. I am so pleased to support their vision and urgency in this moment.

As I tend to, I wear a few hats, but I am happy to still be using data to tell the best stories possible. 💻 📈 🗞️ ✊

Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 9d

Today is bittersweet for me, as I have now officially retired from the USDA-ARS.

It is still difficult for me that the doors to the Lovett Lab have closed.

I am so grateful for the community and science we were able to stir up as a research scientist at the USDA.

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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 9d

Today is bittersweet for me, as I have now officially retired from the USDA-ARS.

It is still difficult for me that the doors to the Lovett Lab have closed.

I am so grateful for the community and science we were able to stir up as a research scientist at the USDA.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9d

Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.

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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you for saying! 🙏

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