Lee
@exspectator1.bsky.social
Bibliophile. Amateurish on keys and woodwinds. Lapsed writer. And so on. Still finding
my way through the tangled woods.
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🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
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Watch /listen to Boston’s mayor Michelle Wu live her dream..
Playing with Yo Yo Ma.. 🥰
Playing with Yo Yo Ma.. 🥰
November 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Watch /listen to Boston’s mayor Michelle Wu live her dream..
Playing with Yo Yo Ma.. 🥰
Playing with Yo Yo Ma.. 🥰
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Attempt number seven at uploading this video of intermediate filaments in an enormous COS7 cell. I have a feeling the BlueSky compression will not do it any favors.
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Attempt number seven at uploading this video of intermediate filaments in an enormous COS7 cell. I have a feeling the BlueSky compression will not do it any favors.
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The evil that men do lives after them
September 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The evil that men do lives after them
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woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
www.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...
At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine
After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.
www.quantamagazine.org
August 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...
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Killing MIT seems dumb to me
July 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Killing MIT seems dumb to me
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A plague a’ both houses!
June 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A plague a’ both houses!
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"The magnitude of [the stakes of new technology], taken together with the insufficiency of our predictive knowledge, leads to the pragmatic rule to give the prophecy of doom priority over the prophecy of bliss." Hans Jonas
June 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"The magnitude of [the stakes of new technology], taken together with the insufficiency of our predictive knowledge, leads to the pragmatic rule to give the prophecy of doom priority over the prophecy of bliss." Hans Jonas
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Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
May 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
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Heinrich Heine says good morning.
May 19, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Heinrich Heine says good morning.
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watching other anglosphere nations elect uninspiring technocrats
May 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
watching other anglosphere nations elect uninspiring technocrats
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The road to fascism is paved with bitches telling you “it’s not that serious”
April 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The road to fascism is paved with bitches telling you “it’s not that serious”
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elder millennial here. just checking in for my annual “unprecedented times”
April 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM
elder millennial here. just checking in for my annual “unprecedented times”
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Americans are in denial about the implications here because they wish it wasn't happening. But this is the behavior of a dictator. It's the sort of thing that warrants secession or revolution. The Republic is over the second federal funding is withheld pending a governor's personal apology.
Trump says he will withhold federal tax dollars to Maine colleges unless the Gov of Maine personally apologizes to him.
March 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Americans are in denial about the implications here because they wish it wasn't happening. But this is the behavior of a dictator. It's the sort of thing that warrants secession or revolution. The Republic is over the second federal funding is withheld pending a governor's personal apology.
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The Tower of Babel, rising ever higher above the city, 1580. Giant Nimrod at right criticizing architect: it needs to be taller! Taller! By Hendrick van Cleve, whose day is today.
March 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The Tower of Babel, rising ever higher above the city, 1580. Giant Nimrod at right criticizing architect: it needs to be taller! Taller! By Hendrick van Cleve, whose day is today.
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US Supreme Court rules 6-3 that poisoning your rival is an official act.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil former leader Bolsonaro knew and agreed to a plan to poison President Lula, top prosecutor says.
February 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
US Supreme Court rules 6-3 that poisoning your rival is an official act.
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Lol this sign
"Do not bring food into the library
Food residue will attract mice
Mice will acquire knowledge in the library
Get into university
Then replace you"
😂
"Do not bring food into the library
Food residue will attract mice
Mice will acquire knowledge in the library
Get into university
Then replace you"
😂
February 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Lol this sign
"Do not bring food into the library
Food residue will attract mice
Mice will acquire knowledge in the library
Get into university
Then replace you"
😂
"Do not bring food into the library
Food residue will attract mice
Mice will acquire knowledge in the library
Get into university
Then replace you"
😂
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February 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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If you’re wondering if you’re in a constitutional crisis and that the republic could collapse at any moment, you are.
February 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
If you’re wondering if you’re in a constitutional crisis and that the republic could collapse at any moment, you are.
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...