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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · Jul 30

Excellent article on the importance of US academic research for US private enterprise, and in particular for Silicon Valley.
open.substack.com/pub/theahura...

Silicon Valley is Wrong about Federal University Funding

Modern universities are more like a national research labs than colleges. Killing them would handicap America for generations.

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Jared Lewis @jclewislab.bsky.social · Jul 16

downloaded for the name, but it is quite good!

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Jared Lewis @jclewislab.bsky.social · Jul 16

i have felt this way since grad school. at this point i don’t even pay attention to them.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jul 16

america is already great folks www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/d...

Chinese Students Flocked to Central Illinois. Their Food Followed.

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Jared Lewis @jclewislab.bsky.social · Jul 15

i NEEDED an overpriced 808 tshirt!

Jared Lewis @jclewislab.bsky.social · Jul 15

fam has had an awesome start to our visit to japan, this pic was preceded by a great time in harajuku before the rain, and i had no clue there was a roland store here, apparently the only one in japan, but the rain was the perfect setting for finding that the store was… closed on tuesdays! so close!

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Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @scannerdot.com · Jul 14

This is utterly brilliant - Macintosh System Software 1.0, all the way to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, all with emulations of the software that actually work!! Incredible.

aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...

Frame of preference

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

aresluna.org

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Jared Lewis @jclewislab.bsky.social · Jul 10

still hilarious and all too accurate every time

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Jared Lewis @jclewislab.bsky.social · Jul 9

it appears that one of the trial locations is just a couple blocks from the hotel my family and i will stay at in shinjuku later this week. daughters will go crazy over this. thanks!

any record stores that cannot be missed in tokyo, nagoya, kyoto, or osaka?

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Jared Lewis @jclewislab.bsky.social · Jul 7

she was originally a so-cal girl. here she is back in pasadena in 2008.

Jared Lewis @jclewislab.bsky.social · Jul 7

had to say goodbye to Panda today. seventeen great years with this crazy border collie.

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Jared Lewis @jclewislab.bsky.social · Jun 27

arnold group alums out in force at tom ward’s repartzymes (repurposed and artificial metalloenzymes) conference. great science and awesome community!

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IU Biology @iubiology.bsky.social · Jun 26

Exciting news from the IU Biology Greenhouse!

Wally, our corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum), is officially preparing to bloom! 🪴🌸

🎥You can watch the livestream: go.iu.edu/8tM8

📷: Jessica L. Hooten, Department of Biology

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Jared Lewis @jclewislab.bsky.social · Jun 26

publican and smart bar are two of my favorite places in chicago. this bathroom in basel looks like the child of their bathrooms’ pagan union.

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Jared Lewis @jclewislab.bsky.social · Jun 26

have to give them a pass on this…

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Jared Lewis @jclewislab.bsky.social · Jun 26

i was initially put off by alchemist in basel because the glassware was not properly assembled, but i found out i could order absinthe feuerzangenbowle-style. and that you get forceps and a mortar/pestle at table… also the food was excellent. shared pak choi, spätzli, lamb shank, and pork belly.

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Jared Lewis @jclewislab.bsky.social · Jun 25

having a great time in basel. plattfon record store is a strong recommend.

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Jared Lewis @jclewislab.bsky.social · Jun 22

wording makes it sound like this could affect grad students also, but i didn’t read the bill text…

Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Jun 22

There are 100k students in med school each year. Room and board is about 100k per year. For 10b a year, med school could be free. We would see a wholesale change in the profession, career paths and the cost of care.

It would change the economics for every financial decision doctors

Republican plans to cap student borrowing could shatter an everyday profession

One GOP senator said anyone paying more than $100K to go to med school is "making a huge mistake." But the median cost of attending one is more than double that for the class of 2025.

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Jared Lewis @jclewislab.bsky.social · Jun 21

that could have gone on for an hour or so…

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Jenny Yang @chemjen.bsky.social · Jun 19

The International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry (ICBIC) is taking place in Long Beach, CA from July 28 - Aug 1! There is still time to register and submit an abstract! www.icbic21.org

ICBIC 2025, Long Beach California

Join the prestigious International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry (ICBIC) in Long Beach, California in 2025. Discover the latest advancements in the field of biological inorganic chemist...

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Jared Lewis @jclewislab.bsky.social · Jun 17

we just did this for a box turtle on the highway near our neighborhood a couple weeks ago. no pee thankfully!

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · Jun 14

Courthouse Square, Bloomington, Indiana #nokings

In front of the crowd at a No Kings protest, two people in foreground holding signs that say, "Fuck I.C.E." and "No Tyrants, No Fascists. No Kings."

Tight shot of No Kings crowd. Visible signs say, "No Dicktators in America," "Fox News is news like cowpies are pies," No kings in America, 8647."

Short line of demonstrators along the street, holding Mexican flags, with T-shirts that say, "Fuck I.C.E" and "Por Vida." A gold sign in red letters says, "Donald Trump sucks."

Crowd of protestors on a street corner, with a large banner in the foreground that says, "Honk to impeach Trump." Several other people are holding up large peace signs, some intertwined with hearts.

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Jared Lewis @jclewislab.bsky.social · Jun 14

i am somewhere between embarrassed (how could i not know about this band?), shocked (seriously, how???), and excited (a whole catalogue of new (to me) music!) that i was completely unfamiliar with The Young Gods before this article. great stuff.

The Quietus @thequietus.com · Jun 14

"This was when we wanted to share our love for ambient electronic music with our audience: our love for Aphex Twin and Plastikman. It wasn’t easy. It was hard to persuade Roli [Mosimann] to listen to #AphexTwin"

‘Moon Revolutions’ (Only Heaven) - The Strange World Of #TheYoungGods

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The Young Gods - Only Heaven album cover

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Jared Lewis @jclewislab.bsky.social · Jun 13

🌮🌮🌮

www.politico.com/news/2025/06... bc

Trump embraces Israeli strike after arguing against it

It hasn’t been a complete shift but the president’s calculus around the risks of an Israeli strike have changed.

www.politico.com