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Marcus Muench
@marcusmuench.bsky.social
🧪 Scientist with an interest in developmental hematology 🩸, transfusion science, stem cells, playing guitar 🎸, and bread baking 🍞. My thoughts, my account, don't blame my employer. 🖖🏻
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$125,000!!! Bow down before the knitters!
The pattern was designed by a Minneapolis yarn store. All sales are going to local immigrant aid organizations. They've raised over $125,000 (!!!) since the knitting pattern was posted a few days ago.

👏That's👏community👏action👏
Melt the ICE Hat pattern by YarnCultMN
In the 1940’s, Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a form of visual protest against Nazi occupation of their country. Within two years, the Nazis made these protest hats illegal...
www.ravelry.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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Our timing is stupidly impeccable. We are losing so many chances at great discoveries & applications for mRNA b/c of HHS.

mRNA vaccines engineered for high risk skin cancers reduced the risk of recurrence & death by 50% over 5 yrs, compared to standard treatment.
🧪 arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
mRNA cancer vaccine shows protection at 5-year follow-up, Moderna and Merck say
The vaccines are tailor-made to target each patient's unique cancer.
arstechnica.com
January 25, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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NEW: Some Iranian officials have continued to leak damning information about the regime’s brutal crackdown to Western media, which indicates that some regime personnel may oppose the regime’s crackdown. (1/3)

Read the Iran Update, January 25, 2026: isw.pub/IranUpdate01...
January 25, 2026 at 11:06 PM
www.nih.gov/news-events/...

Just in time for the Roe v. Wade anniversary (today), funny how that is not mentioned.
NIH Announces Major Policy Shift to End Use of Human Fetal Tissue in NIH-Supported Research
Agency to focus on next-generation, validated research models.
www.nih.gov
January 22, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year.

That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027.

A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications.

A short 🧵
Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026
Thirteen of the agency’s advisory councils, which must review grant applications before funding is awarded, are on track to have no voting members.
www.nature.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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In a post-Roe world, anti-abortion politicians continue pushing their attacks on our health care and reproductive freedom — but we’re not backing down.

Urge Congress to safeguard our access to affordable, essential health care, including abortion.
Restore Our Rights: Reproductive Freedom NOW
It’s past time for Congress to pass legislation that safeguards access to reproductive health care nationwide – including abortion and birth control. Take action now.
action.aclu.org
January 22, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal.

Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
www.propublica.org
January 21, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Cuban expats getting a brutal lesson in leopard biology.
To Their Shock, Cubans in Florida Are Being Deported in Record Numbers
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Buttermilk sourdough rolls.

#breadsky
January 20, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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Putin is laughing at how easy it was to make the “Useful Idiot” DJT, carry out his plan to create chaos & potentially the dismantling of NATO.
January 19, 2026 at 8:48 PM
It is not easy making sourdough baguettes look exactly the same.

#breadsky
January 17, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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REPORTER: Do you commit to not militarily engaging NATO partners?

TRUMP: I don't talk about that

REPORTER: You're not willing to commit to not attacking a NATO partner?
January 16, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Miche made using the King Arthur recipe.

#Breadsky
January 12, 2026 at 4:55 AM
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The regime likely determined that the current protest movement represents an extremely dire security threat and the regime has intensified its crackdown, including by taking the rare step of using IRGC Ground Forces to suppress protests in at least one province 1/7

Read more isw.pub/IranUpdate01...
January 9, 2026 at 4:41 AM
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The Islamic regime has opened fire on anti-regime protesters in Fardis, Iran.

Dozens of people are reported to have been murdered.

There’s a video. I won’t post it.
January 9, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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Seems as if the next administration will have to seize an incredible amount of stolen wealth from Trump’s children. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/w...
Ukraine Awards Major Lithium Project to Investors With Links to Trump
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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Trump on Taiwan. If any other president of any party had said this, congressional Republicans would be flipping out.
January 8, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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Sonoma County officials warned people against eating wild mushrooms after a local resident died.
One dead from eating wild mushrooms in Bay Area amid statewide poisoning uptick
Sonoma County officials warned people against eating wild mushrooms after a local resident died.
bit.ly
January 8, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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Five years ago.
January 6, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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Many don't realize that the most vulnerable or immune compromised depend on the rest getting vaccinated properly to keep diseases from spreading out of control. It's not just “my body, my choice” when it comes to saving lives.
January 2, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Cold night.
January 3, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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Researchers propose electronic skin that can feel pain for humanoid robots. Dynamic tactile stimuli is transmitted into neural-like pulse trains, enabling active pain detection that triggers protective reflexes. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/aAWn50XQGqy
January 1, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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In Washington state, where hands-on learning is emphasized, science remains one of the least supported subjects.

Due to the past withholding of Title I funds by the Trump administration, teachers were left to cover classroom costs out of pocket, wrote @pnwphysics.bsky.social. (Published August)
Perspective: The Quiet Collapse of Science Education Is Happening in Tacoma Classrooms
Impactful science education relies on adequate time for labs, functional spaces for conducting experiments safely, and quality materials. Without them, the learning experience is reduced to screens…
www.thexylom.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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I occasionally like to share these "Mercator vs Real Country Size" animations to encourage you to buy a globe. Nothing fancy - just a basic globe. It does wonders in helping you (and your kids) to understand the world. Source: buff.ly/EGdKGR3
December 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM