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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 16h

Begging scientists (and media posts about science) to stop using ChatGPT-generated images

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Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 11h

Trial subscription please [email protected]

Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 11h

I just want to say that you can learn more about the business and ethics of human medical experimentation without being injected with dengue!

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Indivisible Georgia Coalition @indivisiblegaco.bsky.social · 17h

The Indivisible Georgia Coalition has been hard at work planning No Kings Atlanta.

Join us outside the Atlanta Civic Center at 10 on 10/18!

395 Piedmont Ave NE
Atlanta, GA 30308

NO KINGS in Atlanta · Mobilize

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

www.mobilize.us

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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 17h

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 16h

Incoming HHS secretary RFK Jr wiped out the federal advisory committee on #newbornscreening. Today the ACMG (American College of Medical Genetics + Genomics) @theacmg.bsky.social announced formation of a potential work-around: the ACMG Newborn Screening Coalition www.acmg.net/PDFLibrary/A...

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Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 16h

Proud to be an MIT alumnus today! #StandUpForScience www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

MIT Rejects Proposed Federal Compact

MIT is the first institution to reject a proposal by the Trump administration that would trade preferential treatment on federal funding in exchange for far-reaching changes.

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Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 16h

Excited to learn that Gita @ggnanadesikan.bsky.social , a talented biology researcher and science advocate, is scheduled to speak at #NoKings rally on Oct 18 @standupforscience.bsky.social #StandUpForScience www.mobilize.us/standupameri...

NO KINGS in Atlanta · Stand Up America

Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and o...

www.mobilize.us

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Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 1d

From his gaze while speaking, it looks like Miller is reading from something next to or behind the camera. A memo discussing "plenary authority"?

Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 1d

With all due respect, the utility of AI would be to replace the actors with simulacra and move The Wire to another city. Not to fill in any gaps in the script.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 1d

This makes a lot of sense but it is definitely the opposite of "they go low, we go high"

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats should just start insisting that they saw very real videos of people rioting at Mar-a-Lago -- overturning golf carts, setting fire to the brunch buffet, stabbing busboys with carving knives, whatever -- and calling on Trump to send the Illinois National Guard there to restore order.

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Matthew Cebul @matthewcebul.bsky.social · 1d

Greene is doing something that Dems should want to emulate: intentionally pitting Trump against his most vile subordinates.

Example: Trump wants a budget deal? We'd love to, but we can't trust that you'll keep your word with Vought and Miller driving the bus. Fire them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Marjorie Taylor Greene on polls showing Republicans are getting blamed for the shutdown: "I'm not putting the blame on the president. I'm actually putting the the blame on the Speaker and Leader Thune in the Senate. This should not be happening ... we control the House & Senate & have the WH."

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Emory Department of Human Genetics @emorygenetics.bsky.social · 2d

Hailing Shi and her lab are advancing a powerful technique called spatial transcriptomics. To drive their research, Shi’s lab recently installed a customized microscope set-up. #genesky 🧬 med.emory.edu/departments/...

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Emory Department of Human Genetics @emorygenetics.bsky.social · 2d

The director of our #newbornscreening follow-up program, Angela Wittenauer (3rd from right), won an award! The Judi Tuerck Newborn Screening Follow-up and Education Award From @aphl.org: www.aphlblog.org/aphl-honors-...

APHL Honors 2025 Newborn Screening Award Winners - APHL Blog

For Immediate Release Providence, Rhode Island, October 8, 2025 – At the 2025 Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) Newborn Screening Symposium, APHL presented six awards to leaders who ha...

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Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 2d

A country singer in his 80s who is known for having sung at Republican conventions

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Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 2d

My brain is boggling at how scientists are still finding clusters of neurons that they didn't know about before. In the parabrachial nucleus, no less. In my book I described the PBN as the fusebox in the basement #neuroscience

Nature @nature.com · 2d

The newfound ensemble of neurons could lead to therapies to treat persistent pain

go.nature.com/4gZHzrv

Brain area linked to chronic pain discovered — offering hope for treatments

The newfound ensemble of neurons could lead to therapies to treat persistent pain, which affects roughly one of five people globally.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 2d

Henry Farrell on the Trump admin’s proposed “compact” for universities, arguing that the rollout signals weakness, and that academics need to band together to reject this authoritarian attack on university independence and academic freedom.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

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Emory Department of Human Genetics @emorygenetics.bsky.social · 3d

A preview of research from our department! Spatial transcriptomics from Hailing Shi's and Jian Zhou's labs. Mouse brain with expression of 14 marker genes visualized -- blue nuclear cloud = DAPI, yellow marker = somatostatin (inhibitory neuron) #neuroscience vimeo.com/1125227430/f...

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Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 3d

Face meet palm

Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 3d

Hmm, based on email bounceback, HHS #FOIA officers are furloughed (for example, the one from HRSA) -- any insights @marisakabas.bsky.social ?

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 3d

I just emailed my "Silence" essay to the Presidents/Chancellors and Provosts of the 9 Compact universities as well as those from the 4 orgs with which I have been formally affiliated.

The essay can be found here:

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

and here:

www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremy...

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 3d

Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.

He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.

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Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 3d

I am a fan of Isaac Chotiner's work as much as anyone, but he doesn't always eviscerate people. If his interviewee is not an ideologue or self-styled contrarian, it's often not contentious

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Quinn Eastman @qeastman.bsky.social · 3d

Hey Matt, my younger daughter is interested in this kind of thing so I will pass it along to her.

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David Katz @katzlab.bsky.social · 3d

Very excited to share our very exciting story on how misinherited chromatin affects individual cells to cause a behavior defect in C. elegans (a thread👇) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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