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Henry

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Let’s go wolves

October 23, 2025 at 2:19 AM

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Science Magazine

@science.org

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

Qianjiadong Reservoir in southern Hunan, China, produces a double harvest: solar energy and yellow carp. The solar farm produces up to 80 megawatts of power while the fish forage beneath the panels. With a massive scale-up of solar and wind at home and cheap exports of the technology, China is driving a worldwide surge of renewable energy—Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

December 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM

Henry

@henrydavidk.bsky.social

Making these again, they rule

Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · Feb 15

One of you guys recommended this cookie recipe to me a while back and they’re indeed legit www.bakersbrigade.com/recipe/chewy...

Chewy Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies-Chocolatey and Spicy, My Most Requested Cookie

This recipe is my baby. It's the first recipe I ever developed myself and it's the recipe I'm most often asked for. These Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies will make you a potluck hero. They are chewy, ch...

www.bakersbrigade.com

December 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM

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Brandon Beck

@brandonbeck4.bsky.social

NAZ REID GAME ALERT

December 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM

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Matt DeLong

@mattdelong.bsky.social

A night out in Cedar-Riverside

Cedar Cultural Center marquee reads “We love our Somali neighbors”

December 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM

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public health guy

@publichealthguy1.bsky.social

some of the best science and pandemic prevention work — after tens of millions of pandemic deaths worldwide — defunded.

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 19d

Yesterday, we sent this message to the @viralemergence.org team, bringing a (hopefully temporary) end to our project three years into what started as a decade of planned work. /1

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share some sad news about the future of the Verena program.

As you know, in September, NSF delayed our annual payment indefinitely, and asked us to keep spending closer and closer to zero until they could “justify” another payment. We began to run out of funds at some universities this month, and will be fully spent out by late spring, so the goal was to get paid in December. We’ve been working with our program officer to make this happen, but sadly, we’ve learned we’re not getting an increment again, and there’s no clarity on when or how much we will be paid in the remainder of the grant (through September 1, 2027).

Because of this, the Executive Committee has made the difficult decision to essentially shut the BII down until / unless something changes. What that means is an indefinite end to all programs (e.g., seminar), training activities (integration workshops, trainee corner), and evaluation. On research, what’s able to continue will have to be navigated by each investigator; our goal is to work together to push out all the impactful science we’ve spent three years collecting and analyzing data for, but we also know that priorities may shift around to keep people employed.

If we’re lucky, Congress will pass a budget that lets us continue doing something like what we planned, and we’ll pick that back up when Zoe and Collin are back in April. Until then, Verena will continue to exist as a community where we can collaborate (and give and receive support!), and we’re working to find funding sources that can pick up from where the BII left off.

On a personal note: it’s been the privilege of a lifetime to work with all of you, and an unbelievably lucky thing to get to run an NSF center in my 20s. I’ve loved this project, and I hope it’s made as much of a difference in your lives as it has in mine.

In case I don’t see you later: happy holidays, be well, and so long and thanks for all the viruses.

Best,
Colin

December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM

Henry

@henrydavidk.bsky.social

Lights are up

A house with some festive holiday lights above the porch. There’s snow on the ground and it looks cozy.

The inside of the house featuring a scrubby but cozy looking Christmas tree.

A big old pine tree in the back yard all decked out in gold / white lights. Some bozo leaned a sketchy ladder against it for hours this day to put all this stuff up. Worth it though.

November 29, 2025 at 4:12 AM

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Ian Carrillo

@iansociologo.bsky.social

Brazil approves the first vaccine against dengue. The disease killed 6000 Brazilians in 2024.

This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.

Jornal Nacional @jnoficial.bsky.social · 28d

Anvisa aprova vacina brasileira contra dengue, a 1ª do mundo em dose única.

Após 12 anos de pesquisa e cinco de testes, imunizante foi produzido pelo Instituto Butantan. Em 2024, a doença matou quase 6 mil brasileiros.

Confira a reportagem completa: glo.bo/4rf9Hvg #JN

November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM

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Alexa Robles-Gil

@alexaroblesgil.bsky.social

In my latest for @nytimes.com, scientists and Indigenous sailors in the Marshall Islands are studying seafaring and the human brain. I became completely fascinated by navigation while reporting this story.

(gift link!)

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/s...

A Voyage Into the Art of Finding One’s Way at Sea

www.nytimes.com

November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM

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Cooper Lund

@cooperlund.online

It’s important to remember the reason for the holiday

November 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM

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Roasted Garlic & Herb Paoli

@huhhowdoibluethis.bsky.social

Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...

NBC's broadcast of the Macy's parade has superimposed the word "FOREIGNER" over the balloon of Mario.

November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief

@katie.bzky.team

everyone who works at openAI should be tried as an accomplice

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 28d

OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide

OpenAI’s response to teen suicide case is “disturbing,” lawyer says.

arstechnica.com

November 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM

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Indigiqueer Hummingbird

@riotousmuse.bsky.social

Let's go, Minneapolis & St Paul

Adam @mnorthstar82.bsky.social · Nov 20

The family of one of the workers taken by ICE from Bro-Tex yesterday has set up a Go Fund Me.

www.gofundme.com/f/fn4bw-help...?

Donate to Help Reunite Carlos with His Family, organized by Karla Alarcon

My name is Karla Alarcon Hernandez, and today I am asking for support with the heavi… Karla Alarcon needs your support for Help Reunite Carlos with His Family

www.gofundme.com

November 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM

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Raider

@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

Hiding in the woods like bitches

People from North Carolina don’t play; they’ll find out about North Carolina very soon.

November 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM

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Patrick Monahan

@pattymo.com

The orc from Return of the King saying “The age of men is over. Now the Jingle Hop has begun.” He is wearing a Santa hat

December 24, 2024 at 4:52 PM

Henry

@henrydavidk.bsky.social

Feels like we’re being Normal about Christmas this year. Probably a recession indicator

November 16, 2025 at 5:29 AM

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Gillian Branstetter

@gbbranstetter.bsky.social

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

Republican Accountability @accountablegop.bsky.social · Nov 13

Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."

November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM

Henry

@henrydavidk.bsky.social

Aurora tonight in Minneapolis

Northern lights appear as a blend of green and red colors in the sky above a neighborhood, silhouetting several trees which have the last remnants of fall leaves still clinging to their branches

November 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM

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Jonathan Cohn

@jonathancohn.bsky.social

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN

A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.

www.cnn.com

November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM

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The Onion

@theonion.com

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM

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Colin Carlson

@colincarlson.bsky.social

🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...