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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Remember how the Trump administration raged about "transgender mice" because of studies involving transgenic mice?

Well, the woman who just won the Nobel Prize in Medicine wrote her thesis using transgenic mice.

Early life and education

Brunkow was born in 1961 in Portland, Oregon.[2][3] She graduated at St. Mary's Academy in Portland in 1979.[3]

Brunkow received a BS in molecular and cellular biology from the University of Washington in 1983.[4] She received a PhD in molecular biology from Princeton University in 1991, where her advisor was Shirley M. Tilghman.[5] Her doctoral dissertation was titled Expression and function of the H19 gene in transgenic mice (1991).[1]

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 6d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 2d

READER: Did you know you’re on the SATs?
HEROINE: Say again?
READER: *presents phone*
HEROINE: …I’ll be damned.
READER: Thought you might like to know!
HEROINE: I don’t even know what to do with this in my brain!

Photo of a screenshot of a sample SAT note taking module which is about NETTLE & BONE

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2d

!!!!!!!!!

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 2d

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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Simon @smallpoxeater.bsky.social · 3d

VRASKA

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 2d

TREACHERY! BETRAYAL! AERIAL MAINE COONS!!!

N @ha1fbyte.bsky.social · 2d

AMBUSH!
Kelpie is very sneaky and is feeling much better much to Megs dismay.

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 2d

It’s Black Speculative Fiction month, so it’s only right that I have [finally] made issue #1 of my comic, UNDEAD DUO, available to read online for FREE.

Please, give it a read!

globalcomix.com/read/d501429...

The cover of Undead Duo #1.

It depicts a Black woman, ERA, in a tattered dress, holding a curved blade that resembles an Ethiopian Shotel. Directly behind her is the title, UNDEAD DUO, in all caps, with a red line that looks like a life plus running through the text. A little further behind Era is the wreckage of a red car.

At the top is the name of the contributors to this comic: BA Spann (me), Khalid Johnson (artist), Jamesia Bly (styling).

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 4d

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 19d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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DownOnThePharm (Shrultist 🦐) @downonthepharm.bsky.social · 4d

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 3d

This post shows up for me flagged as rude. I know some people think it's impolite to remind them that proportionately, most of the lives saved by vaccines are those of children; it's also true. Vaccinations save children. If you care about them, fight FOR vaccination, not AGAINST abortion.

Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · Jul 17

There’s a section in my shul’s cemetery that’s just babies, toddlers, and littles. The most recent died less than 100 years ago. If you love your kids, vaccinate them.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3d

"The fights for trans rights and Palestinians are over and we lost" is something I'm seeing over and over from cis white progressives. And I'm seeing variations of this popping up about racial justice, marriage equality, and disability rights too.

Sorry, but fuck that.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3d

Black and Indigenous people have been fighting for CENTURIES without giving up. My Jewish ancestors didn't give up through CENTURIES of oppression and pogroms.

And even if we're doomed, you'll forgive me if I put up a fight anyway.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3d

And just because we might not be the generation to win it outright doesn't mean we lost. It just means we have to keep the fight going for those who WILL one day win it.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3d

Fuck despair. Fascists should have to fight for every inch they get, on principle alone.

The fight is over when the fascists are defeated, and not one minute earlier.

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Alison Sampson A-21 MCM London Artist Alley @alisonsampson.bsky.social · 3d

Stop thinking you are old, if you want to do something like go and live in another country for a bit this is the time: you are probably at your most employable now.
Women, make sure you are maxing out your saving opportunities, the age related employment issues Are almost upon you. Have a plan.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 3d

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Effect Not Affect @effectnotaffect.bsky.social · 3d

What we do know is that the plaintiff can refile in NZ at her discretion. This doesn't mean that anyone found her claims unsubstantiated or that Gaiman successfully introduced any doubt into the proceedings; it just means that somebody made a really bad choice of fillings.

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 3d

I love my local librarians so much, how awesome is this display they made in the teen section of the library, featuring books by Korean authors?

A library display of books by Korean authors around a sign reading: “Love K-Pop Demon Hunters? These Books Are Golden”

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 2d

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 2d

racism in the trans community is extremely real and extremely dangerous.

unfortunately, a lot of white trans people haven't done the work to be anti-racist and don't notice how they mistreat and dehumanize Black and brown trans women.

you gotta put the work in. bring POC into your social circles.

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MTGLore.com @mtglore.com · 4d

Fellow #Vorthos:
At 2:00pm PT there is a Creative panel where you can donate to get questions answered and behind-the-scenes insight from Magic's worldbuilding and narrative designers.

Support an excellent cause, hear from excellent creatives behind the game!

Link: tilt.fyi/Jr23vhNVE6

Magic: The Gathering @magic.wizards.com · 6d

Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.

Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 3d

...I actually quite like this picture of me in a corn maze also I feel like it could be the cover of a horror novel

Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 3d

I fought the corn and the corn won

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eigenvogel.bsky.social @eigenvogel.bsky.social · 3d

Also the discourse here sometimes makes me want to grab people and say, "you know, in the old days we sometimes processed feelings privately, without shouting them to the world. It has a certain appeal, you should try it."

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 3d

If you lose to the Vikings in the UK you should be forced to change your team name to The Benedictines

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 3d

enslavers also understood that slavery was bad. the founding fathers in particular compared their own relationship to britain as being as bad as being enslaved, which was so brazenly hypocritcal that the british made jokes about it

wesin-🎃a spooky version of 🎃-japan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 4d

Enslaved people, in fact, understood that slavery was a bad idea. Etc, etc

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Denice (Dee), the Red Witch @deetheredwitch.bsky.social · 3d

Good Morning, World.

Printed sign on a wooden door that says 'we are recording screams and torture noises today (10/4). Don't call the cops.'

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 3d

Even More Pasta Just Got Recalled in That Deadly Listera Outbreak gizmodo.com/even-more-pa...

Even More Pasta Just Got Recalled in That Deadly Listera Outbreak

Check your freezer because the best-by dates are 2027.

gizmodo.com

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