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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 42m

she was easy to track down

Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 47m

well, it *does* make me cranky when my stomach hurts

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 1d

"The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value."
- John Gurdon

Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · 1d

Very saddened to hear of John Gurdon’s passing. I’ve been lucky enough to interact with him at multiple points through my career - from undergrad lectures, through his position as former Chair of @biologists.bsky.social’s Board of Directors, and as an author at @dev-journal.bsky.social.

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.

www.cam.ac.uk

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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 1d

I can't really complain—somebody gave me a confocal once. Sadly, it's dead now.

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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 1d

envious

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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 1d

are you referring to the speaker of the house of representatives as "shit Ilan Wurman"

Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 2d

I've only read Bleeding Edge once (you've made me want to read it again)—but this is interesting given the comments in the introduction to Mirrorshades that Gibson and Sterling and the other early cyberpunks were unified in their worship of Pynchon.

Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 7d

but in that case, it's not a real Kavanaugh stop, because there's a legitimate cause for suspicion

Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 7d

UK numbers look large because of (relatively) large numbers of events early in the time series. It's interesting how UK falls behind Germany, then France and Canada at the very end. Gun control appears to be highly effective at reducing gun deaths.

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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 8d

as I recall, the last time I paid attention to this, this was an accurate statement of the full extent of our mechanistic understanding of the adjuvanticity of alum

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 9d

Hm is it bad if the industry somehow propping up a trembling economy is based almost entirely on our collective willingness to let it do crimes

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 9d

this is not gonna go down well

www.reuters.com/technology/o...

OpenAI's new Sora video generator to require copyright holders to opt out, WSJ reports

OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora generator that creates videos featuring copyrighted material, unless right holders opt out of having their work appear, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

www.reuters.com

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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 9d

second prize is two mosquitoes

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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 9d

mosquoin, surely

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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 14d

folate deficiency

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14d

This country made significant progress against racism in my lifetime - but we did not do so by chance. There is a visible visceral regression in experiencing of overt racism because the toxic fringe with the most extreme views have a sense of permission & impunity
www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...

Comment: Why are we going backwards on racism in Britain?

Black and Asian people have increasingly equal opportunities to reach the top, but a viscerally and unacceptably unequal experience of public space

www.easterneye.biz

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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 14d

Eric Adams thinks the way to retain the NYC mayoralty is to win over the voting bloc composed of Jews who can't tell Black people apart and think Sammy Davis Jr. is still alive

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 14d

Amongst pro-migration voters - i.e. Labour's base last year and the easiest votes to recover in future - support for this policy is...0%. Nil. Nada. Zip. Zero.

Goals don't come more open than this. Labour should be attacking this proposal at every opportunity.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 15d

Farage’s proposal to create a permanent underclass of migrants has 3% support. *3%*. If ever there was a golden political opportunity for Starmer’s Labour-whose support base let’s not forget is *pro-migration* - this is it. Is this mealy mouthed accountant language the best they can do?

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 15d

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 15d

in which we learn that Cass Sunstein would totally be friends with Stalin

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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 15d

The general approach of having a triage panel, then external review, then a *different* interview panel has always seemed nuts to me

Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 15d

I think there are a lot of people who deserve funding that aren't getting them, though, and a lot more who would deserve it but aren't even applying because it's so daunting.

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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 16d

at least we don't have to feel morally conflicted about applying for those Wellcome grants no one deserves, because mostly we won't get them anyway

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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 16d

The other good news: if you're reading this, you don't have to spend eternity with the most boring people in the world

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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 16d

Then someone should probably be making the point that the entire care sector will go up in flames if Reform tries to do the things they say they will

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