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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 5h

Keep going…
Keep going…

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 8h

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 5h

Well it’s preprinted so

a man in a leather jacket with the words you 'll figure it out

ALT: a man in a leather jacket with the words you 'll figure it out

media.tenor.com

Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 5h

Funny how one “accepted” in the subject line can make the whole torrent of email bearable.

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 6h

Which is the worst high volume software company and why is it all of them?

Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 1d

Having a hard time mustering enthusiasm for the upcoming seminar on “TBA.”
#maybeDontSendThatEmailYet

Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 2d

an elderly man with white hair is asking why don 't you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it

ALT: an elderly man with white hair is asking why don 't you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it

media.tenor.com

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 4d

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 4d

Go Brewers. #MLB

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting examples of authoritarian governments losing power to united opposition movements focused on positive messages.
Does anyone have book recommendations for more depth on these examples or others?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

www.nytimes.com

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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 6d

(real talk: nearly lost composure talking about the soviets coming after muller and vavilov for telling the scientific truth about genetics and it LANDED with the students. They get it.)

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting examples of authoritarian governments losing power to united opposition movements focused on positive messages.
Does anyone have book recommendations for more depth on these examples or others?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

www.nytimes.com

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 6d

Compassion isn’t a weakness.
Empathy isn’t a sin.
Cruelty isn’t a strength.
Vengeance isn’t a virtue.

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness." -Isaiah 5:20

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Jonathan Sebat @sebatlab.bsky.social · 6d

Please repost: we are recruiting a postdoc for a project in my lab on genes and environment in autism

Jonathan Sebat @sebatlab.bsky.social · 12d

We are proud to be one of the 13 projects funded by the NIH Autism Data Science Initiative. Our project: "Elucidating the Interplay of Genes and Environment in Autism Using Genomic and Exposure Data from Large Populations" 🧵https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/health/autism-research-trump-kennedy.html

Despite False Claims, Trump Funnels Millions Into Credible Autism Research

www.nytimes.com

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 6d

Did not come from me

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 7d

And It Can’t Happen Here is literally about opposing a fascist take over of the US by a populist demagogue running to FDR’s left in 1936.

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 8d

a baby in a striped shirt is covering his face with his hands .

ALT: a baby in a striped shirt is covering his face with his hands .

media.tenor.com

Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, I hate that.

a man wearing a hat that says camp very

ALT: a man wearing a hat that says camp very

media.tenor.com

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 9d

* furthest off the regression line.

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 10d

Rockies fans, we see you. We extend our sympathies-and graph axes.

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 10d

Congratulations to 2025 wins/$ champion Milwaukee Brewers.
#MLB #Baseball

Scatter plot of MLB teams for 2025 regular season wins and total payroll (per Sportrac, September 28, 2025) with dashed linear regression line and gray confidence interval #Rstats.

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 10d

Shout out to people who have only found whelming evidence.

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 11d

Vaccines are a triumph of medicine and public health.
And rocking the jersey #LFGSD

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 11d

Related, we have had good experiences with @genetics-gsa.bsky.social and @plos.org journals.

Dr. Jennifer Glass (she/her) @methanojen.bsky.social · 11d

A reminder to please support non-profit publishers.

It’s good for science and scientists.

It’s a responsible use of taxpayer dollars.

It requires resisting peer pressure to submit to Nature journals.

Thanks @bacteriality.bsky.social for this helpful slide for microbiology journals.

Slide with text “Support Society Journals:
Society-based journals help build and advocate for our scientific communities” showing the logos for non profit publishers ASM, ACS, ASBMB. microbiology society, Science, and ISME. Underneath “for-profit journals do not” showing logos for Nature, Elsevier, Frontiers, CellPress, and MDPI.

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 11d

PI at the bench FTW.

Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 12d

F’ those f’ing f’ers and their f’ing f’ery.

Episome as rhetorical device.

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