Jung Choi "not going back!"
@jung-gt.bsky.social
Retired Biology faculty from Georgia Tech. Headed up the MS Bioinformatics program until 2022. PULSE Fellow, promoting student-centered pedagogies and departmental transformation in undergrad life science ed. Ballroom dancer, bicyclist, avid reader.
That's a whole lot of correlation.
Using state level data, percent Southern Baptist is the second strongest predictor of state death rates. The effect is this strong, r=0.84, when Southern Baptist is the only predictor for the 15 most Southern Baptist states. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population
November 29, 2025 at 3:07 AM
That's a whole lot of correlation.
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
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To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
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From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
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"What if I told you there was a simple, safe, & effective treatment to vastly reduce the risk of suicidal ideation among one of the most vulnerable group of children & teens? You'd be pretty stoked, I would think."
"[G]ender-affirming care saves lives."
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
New Study: Gender-Affirming Care Dramatically Lowers Suicide Risk for Trans Kids
Twenty-seven states in the US ban gender-affirming treatments for trans youth, including hormone therapy.
truthout.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"What if I told you there was a simple, safe, & effective treatment to vastly reduce the risk of suicidal ideation among one of the most vulnerable group of children & teens? You'd be pretty stoked, I would think."
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I phrased the search a different way and the bot happily gave the opposite claim also as true, once again connected to a different set of semi-credible sources. Among the other issues, then, is that we are dealing with de-contextualizing tools. Information lifted from its chain of reference.
November 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I phrased the search a different way and the bot happily gave the opposite claim also as true, once again connected to a different set of semi-credible sources. Among the other issues, then, is that we are dealing with de-contextualizing tools. Information lifted from its chain of reference.
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This article provides more data showing how easy it is to manipulate humans on social media.
These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”.
It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.
These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”.
It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used thi...
www.science.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This article provides more data showing how easy it is to manipulate humans on social media.
These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”.
It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.
These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”.
It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.
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I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
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It's possible that the CIA is working with Venezuelans like this in Venezuela right now.
Gift link.
Gift link.
The National Guard shooting suspect was in one of the CIA’s ‘Zero Units’
The man charged with shooting two National Guard members in D.C. is an Afghan national who came to the United States in September 2021 and worked with the CIA.
wapo.st
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It's possible that the CIA is working with Venezuelans like this in Venezuela right now.
Gift link.
Gift link.
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This dish of green beans and bacon became a holiday tradition in my family. #immigrantThanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This dish of green beans and bacon became a holiday tradition in my family. #immigrantThanksgiving
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This makes me even more rageful that a friend just had to pay $800 because her insurance denied coverage of her 19 year old's HPV vaccine, claiming that it is no longer recommended. Appeals were denied. I can only assume RFK Jr had something to do with this???
This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This makes me even more rageful that a friend just had to pay $800 because her insurance denied coverage of her 19 year old's HPV vaccine, claiming that it is no longer recommended. Appeals were denied. I can only assume RFK Jr had something to do with this???
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Charité University Hospital in Berlin reports that CAR-T-cell therapy has sent people with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis into remission.
They lose autoantibodies and symptoms disappear.
Researchers call it something totally new.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
They lose autoantibodies and symptoms disappear.
Researchers call it something totally new.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘They don’t have symptoms’: CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission
Engineered T cells that have been used to treat ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus show promising results.
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Charité University Hospital in Berlin reports that CAR-T-cell therapy has sent people with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis into remission.
They lose autoantibodies and symptoms disappear.
Researchers call it something totally new.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
They lose autoantibodies and symptoms disappear.
Researchers call it something totally new.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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AI model Helixer predicts eukaryotic genes ab initio, directly from a plain text FASTA file.
No RNA-seq.
No protein homology.
No repeats, hints, or curated evidence.
Raw genome → accurate gene models.
Deep learning + HMM, published in @natmethods.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
No RNA-seq.
No protein homology.
No repeats, hints, or curated evidence.
Raw genome → accurate gene models.
Deep learning + HMM, published in @natmethods.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Helixer: ab initio prediction of primary eukaryotic gene models combining deep learning and a hidden Markov model - Nature Methods
By leveraging both deep learning and hidden Markov models, Helixer achieves broad taxonomic coverage for ab initio gene annotation of eukaryotic genomes from fungi, plants, vertebrates and invertebrat...
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
AI model Helixer predicts eukaryotic genes ab initio, directly from a plain text FASTA file.
No RNA-seq.
No protein homology.
No repeats, hints, or curated evidence.
Raw genome → accurate gene models.
Deep learning + HMM, published in @natmethods.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
No RNA-seq.
No protein homology.
No repeats, hints, or curated evidence.
Raw genome → accurate gene models.
Deep learning + HMM, published in @natmethods.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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From the new HBO documentary Thoughts & Prayers that looks into the impact of the $3 billion active shooter preparedness industry on schools and communities.
If you're not American/don't live in the US, I'm asking you to please not comment.
If you're not American/don't live in the US, I'm asking you to please not comment.
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
From the new HBO documentary Thoughts & Prayers that looks into the impact of the $3 billion active shooter preparedness industry on schools and communities.
If you're not American/don't live in the US, I'm asking you to please not comment.
If you're not American/don't live in the US, I'm asking you to please not comment.
The day before the day before Thanksgiving at our local food pantry, we served our record-breaking 358 families with large boxes of food, crates of produce, cartons of milk, and chicken or ham. We then had celebratory beers at our local brew pub. #TocoHillsCommunityAlliance
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The day before the day before Thanksgiving at our local food pantry, we served our record-breaking 358 families with large boxes of food, crates of produce, cartons of milk, and chicken or ham. We then had celebratory beers at our local brew pub. #TocoHillsCommunityAlliance
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🚨 Update! As of the morning of Nov. 25th…Dr. Abedini has been released & is safe. Thank you to all who advocated on his behalf. 🙏
November 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🚨 Update! As of the morning of Nov. 25th…Dr. Abedini has been released & is safe. Thank you to all who advocated on his behalf. 🙏
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I’m aware of this awful situation, shared by my constituent Dr. Landis. Nobody seems to know where Dr. Abedini is being held, tho he has contacted family. Rep. Deck reached out to Rep. Cole & Sen. Lankford’s office is looped in. Here to be a squeaky wheel & help however I can.
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I’m aware of this awful situation, shared by my constituent Dr. Landis. Nobody seems to know where Dr. Abedini is being held, tho he has contacted family. Rep. Deck reached out to Rep. Cole & Sen. Lankford’s office is looped in. Here to be a squeaky wheel & help however I can.
Informative thread reviewing evolution of omicron variants w/ respect to immune evasion & infectivity.
#Medsky🧪 #virosk #idsky #immunosky #publichealth Structural and functional characterizations of infectivity & immune evasion of #SARSCoV2 Omicron revival
@cellpress.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
@cellpress.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Structural and functional characterizations of infectivity and immune evasion of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron
(Cell 185, 860–871.e1–e4; March 3, 2022)
www.cell.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Informative thread reviewing evolution of omicron variants w/ respect to immune evasion & infectivity.
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My brother was telling us that his friend who paints houses was taken by ICE agents along with his gf a week and a half ago in Glendale Heights. He was let go a week later he said and she is still detained. I passed along the ICIRR hotline so he could share that. These things are still happening.
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
My brother was telling us that his friend who paints houses was taken by ICE agents along with his gf a week and a half ago in Glendale Heights. He was let go a week later he said and she is still detained. I passed along the ICIRR hotline so he could share that. These things are still happening.
Teaching genetics is good, actually.
"the interventions were more effective among students who possessed greater baseline genetics knowledge"
"the interventions were more effective among students who possessed greater baseline genetics knowledge"
How and for whom can genetics education reduce beliefs in genetic essentialism? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41267401/
"We also find that the 3 intervention curricula are highly effective across sociodemographic group characteristics [...] we offer evidence-based strategies for curriculum development"
"We also find that the 3 intervention curricula are highly effective across sociodemographic group characteristics [...] we offer evidence-based strategies for curriculum development"
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Teaching genetics is good, actually.
"the interventions were more effective among students who possessed greater baseline genetics knowledge"
"the interventions were more effective among students who possessed greater baseline genetics knowledge"
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A generalizable framework for rare disease variant interpretation, especially in singleton cases, demonstrating utility of calibrated, evolution-informed scoring models for clinical genomics. In @natgenet.nature.com, from labs of Mafalda Dias, @jonnyfrazer.bsky.social & @deboramarks.bsky.social.🧬🧪👇
Proteome-wide model for human disease genetics - Nature Genetics
popEVE is a proteome-wide deep generative model to identify and predict pathogenicity of missense mutations causing genetic disorders.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
A generalizable framework for rare disease variant interpretation, especially in singleton cases, demonstrating utility of calibrated, evolution-informed scoring models for clinical genomics. In @natgenet.nature.com, from labs of Mafalda Dias, @jonnyfrazer.bsky.social & @deboramarks.bsky.social.🧬🧪👇
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“I think most Americans would be stunned to learn that international adoptees have not all been automatically granted the same status as their U.S. parents. Several grown adoptees have already been deported, including individuals who came to the United States as infants”
A mother shares the terrifying reality that her internationally adopted son, raised in the U.S. since childhood, could be detained or deported by ICE because he was never granted citizenship. 35-70k adoptees remain in this legal limbo. Urge Congress to pass the PAAF Act. 🥚
I'm A U.S. Citizen. I'm Terrified My Adopted Son Will Be Snatched By ICE Due To A Heartbreaking Loophole.
"I lie awake at night worried that he’ll be snatched off the street and taken to a nightmarish prison in some other country, and I’ll never see him again."
www.huffpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“I think most Americans would be stunned to learn that international adoptees have not all been automatically granted the same status as their U.S. parents. Several grown adoptees have already been deported, including individuals who came to the United States as infants”
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Republicans increasingly oppose requiring healthy kids to get MMR vaccines to attend public schools
2016 19%
2019 20%
2023 42%
2025 47%
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪
2016 19%
2019 20%
2023 42%
2025 47%
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Republicans increasingly oppose requiring healthy kids to get MMR vaccines to attend public schools
2016 19%
2019 20%
2023 42%
2025 47%
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪
2016 19%
2019 20%
2023 42%
2025 47%
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪