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Diana Fulmer

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Cardiac Development • Epigenetics • Postdoc • UPenn #devbio 🫀🔬🧬🐭 #firstgen #academicjobmarket 🚨Posts may contain science, bad jokes, cooking 🧵s &/or political snark. The typos are free.

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Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social · Jun 19

Conspiracy theories aren't limited to one political ideology. Anyone, left, right... even experts who study misinformation, can misjudge the legitimacy of a story. (Yep, scientists too 🫣.)

However, there are ways to protect yourself from getting suckered by pseudoscience and fake news. A long-ish 🧵

JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · Jun 19

There's a weird left-QAnon thing starting up centered around dubious claims about the 2024 results popping up at the periphery of the internet. I feel like we're gonna hear more and more about this so just laying down my understanding of it now.

I think its basically a hoax.

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Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social · 8h

Hope you’re doing okay.

a drawing of a ghost that says ghost hug you can 't feel it but it 's there .

Alt: a drawing of a ghost that says ghost hug you can 't feel it but it 's there .

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Michael @michaelbyrum.bsky.social · 1d

THE #CYBORGS - I'm just a #Cyborg and I don't believe in #God #Music
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THE CYBORGS - I'm just a Cyborg and I don't believe in God [Official Video]

YouTube video by inri.records

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Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social · 1d

Working on a scarf project to share with #knitsky but also trying my hand at crochet in the interim. Made some stuffed balls that can be incorporated into a future #science based project. A sneak preview…

#crafting #craftsky #yarn #art

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Michael @michaelbyrum.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight a simple #Meal: #Hamburger patties #Marinated in soy sauce and #Sazon spice cooked with #Onion. Served on Flour #Tortillas lightly seared in burger fat with a side of #TaterTots which we @dianafulmer.bsky.social let soak up the remaining fat. 😋 #Recipes

Paper plates with hamburger tacos and tots. The left plate only has mustard but the right plate also has ketchup

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Michael @michaelbyrum.bsky.social · 1d

#Halloween #Philly 🤪

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Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social · 1d

So sad 😞

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, we can fight for our tiny niche areas—make sure NASA gets XXX project funded or fight for one line of legislation. We may get an inch that way, but we give away a mile. Your research doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

Imagine what we will lose if we don’t have threads to weave.

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Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social · 1d

I say screw convention. Eat when you’re hungry! 🥪

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Michael @michaelbyrum.bsky.social · 2d

#Halloween #AI #Art / #Sebastian #ThugLife Tattoo ... honestly I never knew 🤪 IYKYK ✊

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Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social · 1d

In shocking first, leopard eats additional faces after promising more face consumption! 😱

I’m “disgusted” that I actually agree with ThreeToes on something.

a close up of a snow leopard with a national geographic logo behind it

Alt: a close up of a snow leopard licking lips with a national geographic logo next to it

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 1d

Regional Rail riders across the Philadelphia region are dealing with delays as SEPTA performs emergency inspections on its railcars.

225 aging Silverliner IV cars were flagged last week by the National Transportation Safety Board.

SEPTA Regional Rail riders face delays, cancellations due to emergency order

SEPTA is being forced to inspect 225 aging Silverliner IV cars that date back to the 1970s

www.inquirer.com

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2d

Dinosaurs got bone cancer, which means we can study TUMOR FOSSILS.

I've since read about some other dinos species with evidence of tumors, but I still suspect there was something about hadrosaurs that made them prone to it.

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Mar 15

One of the amazing things about science is we will never run out of mysteries.

Take "Naturwissenschaften (2003) 90:495–500", which performed a survey of 10,000 dinosaur fossils for evidence of tumors in the bone.

I was prepared for yes, no, but what I wasn't prepared for was:
"only in hadrosaurs."

It's a black and white paper header for a short communication, and I've copied the text below. Please stop reading if you don't want the literal copy to be read to you.
"Naturwissenschaften (2003) 90:495–500
DOI 10.1007/s00114-003-0473-9
SHORT COMMUNICATION
B. M. Rothschild · D. H. Tanke · M. Helbling ·
L. D. Martin
Epidemiologic study of tumors in dinosaurs
Received: 16 June 2003 / Accepted: 29 August 2003 / Published online: 14 October 2003 Springer-Verlag 2003"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

Stephen Miller in a gray suit, white shirt, and gray tie.

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Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social · 2d

Serious Santa vibes 🧑‍🎄

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Michael @michaelbyrum.bsky.social · 2d

#Chemists create red #FluorescentDyes that may enable clearer #Biomedical #Imaging. #MIT

The new dyes are based on #Boron -containing molecules that were previously too unstable for practical use. news.mit.edu/2025/chemist...

Chemists create red fluorescent dyes that may enable clearer biomedical imaging

MIT chemists designed a fluorescent molecule they hope could be used for applications such as generating clearer images of tumors. The dye is based on a borenium ion — a positively charged form of bor...

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Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social · 2d

Condolences. 💐 Just know it’s okay to have complicated & conflicting feelings in these situations. Try to be honest & kind to yourself however you process. 🫂