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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1d

Guy who is zip-tying American children and shooting pastors on the head with pepper balls wants Peace Prize.

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 21h

Hey, normal people, tracking disease and keeping people from unnecessarily getting sick and dying is a "Democrat-thing." Vote accordingly.

Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 21h

RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.

Figure showing the largest measles outbreak in the US in decades. There are over 1500 cases as of October 7 2025

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Manny Ares 👀 @mannyares.bsky.social · 20h

I remember the buzz the faculty got from her visits (was ug researcher '77). Srb's text General Genetics was required reading. I recall he smoked in his office, holding his cigarette between his 3rd & 4th fingers, which we all thought was cool then.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social · 22h

Please join us in congratulating ASBMB member Jennifer Doudna, who has been awarded the prestigious 2026 Joseph Priestley Medal for her groundbreaking work on #RNA molecules with enzymatic functions by @acs.org.
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Doudna wins Priestley Medal

She will receive a $20,000 research grant and will formally accept the honor at the ACS Spring 2026 conference.

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Danny IncaRNAto @incarnatolab.bsky.social · 22h

So excited to see this out in @natgenet.nature.com! An amazing collaboration with @gagneurlab.bsky.social, I am happy I was (a small) part of. Nucleotide dependencies can capture regulatory elements, including #RNA structures! Congrats to the whole team! Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nucleotide dependency analysis of genomic language models detects functional elements - Nature Genetics

Mapping pairwise nucleotide dependencies by leveraging genomic language models highlights functional genomic elements and predicts deleterious genetic variants more effectively than alignment-based conservation metrics.

www.nature.com

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 1d

Accurate.

#academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 2d

If I were choosing this year’s Nobel Peace Prize

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2d

The global whaling industry experienced a boom c. 1840-1950 as technology allowed whalers to hunt the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Under standard models, we would have expected krill populations to have *exploded*.

Instead, they DROPPED exponentially.

Let's talk about the KRILL PARADOX.

Change in distribution and abundance of southern right whales. (A) Shows historical and contemporary wintering distributions (Figure 1 from Carroll et al., 2018), and (B) shows decline in abundance and subsequent recovery (solid line is the mean, dashed line shows upper and lower 95% CI). Modified Figure 1 from Jackson et al. (2008). Contemporary sightings are divided into regions where large aggregations are seen during winter: Argentina (ARG), Brazil (BZL), South Africa (SAF), southwest Australia (SWA), south central Australia (SCA), and New Zealand sub-Antarctic (NZSA) and regions where sightings are typically of small numbers of individuals per year. The large aggregations are IWC management units and correspond to historical whaling grounds, although another 5 whaling grounds show little sign of recovery. Summer feeding areas are poorly described and so not shown.

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Manny Ares 👀 @mannyares.bsky.social · 2d

Classic BS reply! True expertise. Pass. 🤣🎖️

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Manny Ares 👀 @mannyares.bsky.social · 2d

I think you mean 1,6-phospho-mississippiramaladadingdongase.

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Manny Ares 👀 @mannyares.bsky.social · 2d

I like how the order of those particular consonants rolls the word out, especially when followed by Boulevard. It’s a tiny poem about LA.

Manny Ares 👀 @mannyares.bsky.social · 3d

Sepulveda same

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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 3d

Current Purdue RNA researcher @kylecottrell.bsky.social and former Purdue graduate student (Kasinski Lab) and RNA researcher Esteban Orellana together at the FASEB - RNA Processing in Cancer meeting.

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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 3d

Hear FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor on A Public Affair with host Dana Pellebon! 🎙️

She talks about decades of fighting for women’s rights, keeping religion out of government, and why it’s a great time to be nonreligious.

www.wortfm.org/theres-no-tr...

There’s No True Democracy Without Separation of State and Church - WORT-FM 89.9

Annie Laurie Gaylor says that more Americans than ever identify as non-religious, but Christian nationalists are endangering our democracy.

www.wortfm.org

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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 3d

"But thou, when thou prayest, set up thine camera, and when thou hast chosen a flattering filter, pray unto thy Father which is in the cloud; and thy Father which seeth thy engagement shall bless thee with many subscribers"

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 4d

Kristi Noem praying before sending her secret, masked goons out to harass the people of Portland

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Manny Ares 👀 @mannyares.bsky.social · 3d

People sometimes forget that Cornell has an Ag school - I would check them out!

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Blue Eyed Grass @blueeyedgrass.bsky.social · 3d

And so if anybody sees this has a recommendation on good graduate programs in soil sciences...

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Manny Ares 👀 @mannyares.bsky.social · 3d

From one of my former undergrads now applying to grad school:

"Despite how many people tell me we're in uncharted territory, it's still so hard to believe. But the world keeps spinning and research needs to get done regardless."

🥹🥹😭😭😭🥲💪💪👏🙏

The kids are alright, but we need to back them up, NOW!

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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 3d

meeting strangers from the internet is Good, Actually

Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 3d

Met my partner of a decade! @faineg.bsky.social. Met folks like @thesharlinator.bsky.social, @donachaidh.bsky.social, @forbesmm.bsky.social, @dohobob.bsky.social, and others who are dear friends and have been for 15 years.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 3d

POLITICS IS USED FOR PERSONAL GAIN

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 4d

One of the major benefits to adapting a class to include your own research? It sure makes the lab portion more fun!! I’m happy to bring #DevBio, evo devo, and comparative anatomy to our pre-vet and pre-med undergrads @ucdavis.bsky.social!

A woman giving thumbs up in front of a lab classroom

A woman standing over an axolotl staging chart

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 4d

www.nature.com/articles/pal...

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Cell & Systems Biology (CSB) @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social · 5d

We are pleased to welcome Prof Kristen Lynch for her talk on “Tuning Immune Response Through RNA Processing”
Please join Cell & Systems Biology on Friday Oct 10 in RW432 at 11am for this riveting presentation!

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