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Matt Rich

@mattrich.bsky.social

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Geneticist in Erik Jorgensen's lab @UUtah. Trying to turn worms into yeast. Also neuron maturation and giant ankyrin. PhD with Stan Fields @uwgenome. Princeton ‘09. (he/him)

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 5h

when UNC scored on the first possession of the first game and Colin Cowherd immediately posted this, and then UNC lost by 34

Wasn’t really sure what to expect from Chapel Bill. But after that drive, I have him as second best college coach I’ve ever seen, just below Saban.

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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 1d

yeesh thank god

Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 1d

lol nothing like having to bring in your closer despite starting the 9th up seven runs. Surely that won’t come back to bite us…

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

Move over “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, there’s a new three word phrase in the zeitgeist

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s go do the fucking worm genetics

Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 2d

yooooooooo

TK from the Paper @pipedreams.blog · 2d

Montana is breaking out the copper, silver and gold unis for Homecoming this week.

Montana's retro helmet with a grizzly on it.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 3d

this is so sweet

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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 3d

must’ve watched the mariners last night

bird/h @birdperhour.net · 3d

#birdbot

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 3d

oof yeah there’s the mariners trauma

Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 3d

I definitely don’t have enough peace in my life to watch baseball anymore

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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 3d

goddamnit I’ve been down this road too many times, Mariners!

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 4d

Damn, ESPN is out for blood.

VOLUME UP.

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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 4d

OMG. Please clip the unc student saying the CU game was the saddest she’s ever been @bubbaprog.xyz

Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 4d

Unfortunately for Japan, she isn’t nice…

Takaichi has been described as having a
"staunch conservative" 2 or
"ultraconservative" [3),
, and is a member of
the Japanese ultranationalist organization
Nippon Kaigi. She has argued that Japanese war crimes have been
exaggerated, that Japan's role in the Second Sino-Japanese War and Pacific War was a "war of self-defense", and has made visits to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine.
In foreign policy, she supports the revision of Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan, 4)
151 which renounces the use of military force, and is considered a staunch China hawk. In domestic policy, she supports the continuation of Abenomics, and has opposed same-sex marriage and laws to address gender inequality in Japan.

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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 5d

At least one jar. Otherwise it won’t maintain the tuna krispies shape.

Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 5d

You love to see it

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 5d

Good morning! You feel like you’re going crazy because their attempts to bludgeon you into submission with weaponized unreality aren’t working on you.

Keep it up. You’re doing great.

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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 5d

(tbh it probably slaps, but not at 8am my god)

Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 5d

Trying the new neighborhood coffee shop, which has an “Australian Iced Coffee” on the menu (a coffee with a big scoop of chocolate chip ice cream 😳)

According to the owner that thing sells like hotcakes in Sandy but up here everyone is like “oh god just coffee please” lolllllllll

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Parker Butler @parkerbutler.bsky.social · 6d

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.

Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.

Legacy media failed the country.

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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 6d

(real talk: nearly lost composure talking about the soviets coming after muller and vavilov for telling the scientific truth about genetics and it LANDED with the students. They get it.)

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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 6d

Whipped that lecture’s ass. Had a student come up after to say how much she enjoyed it and how she learned a lot. TAs in tears bc it was so beautiful.

Contact my people if you want the “mutation” lecture. Also have a grad student available. 80min, let’s say…$5,000 + peanut m&ms.

Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 7d

(this lecture is half about Muller, so you know I’m gonna school these kids about how he had to flee the USSR in the night before being arrested for speaking out against Lysenkoism. And how his colleagues who stayed died in jail. For being geneticists.)

Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 7d

Like, maybe these exist and Google is just hella bad at finding them? If anyone has anything, hit me up! (preferably before 2pm tmrw lol)