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Megan Killian

@megankillian.bsky.social

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I was a #firstgen college student, now I'm a tenured professor at UMich. Skeets are my own I lead a team studying musculoskeletal physiology, development, and healing. We study how the skeleton grows and how connective tissues guide this process.

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Megan Killian @megankillian.bsky.social · May 31

Yesterday was an awesome day in science, with the 9th annual MSK Symposium for the MiMHC @umich.edu!
Great talks from faculty and trainees, featuring work from across Southeast Michigan🦷🦴
🎉Lavi won the Speakers Choice poster award
💪Alayna Loiselle was the keynote speaker @urochester.bsky.social

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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 3d

3 hospitalized following reported Edisto Beach fire, SLED investigating

SC Court officials release statement on house fire that appears to be associated with Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein

3 hospitalized following reported Edisto Beach fire, SLED investigating

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating a house fire that hospitalized three people Saturday afternoon.

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donnadeka.bsky.social @donnadeka.bsky.social · 4d

“Judge Diane Goodstein is known for her recent ruling that blocked the Trump regime from accessing all sensitive information about South Carolina voters.”

www.live5news.com/2025/10/05/3...

3 hospitalized following reported Edisto Beach fire, SLED investigating

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating a house fire that hospitalized three people Saturday afternoon.

www.live5news.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

WHOA: DHS says that their officers were “rammed and blocked in” in Chicago and got out of their cars and shot an U.S. citizen who reportedly also had a gun and who had been tracking ICE raids. They are blaming the shooting on her, and say they were already tracking her socials. More details to come.

Tricia McLaughlin • @TriciaOhio
X.com
This morning, during routine patrolling in Broadview, in the same area of Chicago that law enforcement were assaulted yesterday, our brave law enforcement officers were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars.
Agents were unable to move their vehicles and exited the car. One of the drivers who rammed the law enforcement vehicle was armed with a semi-automatic weapon. Law enforcement was forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots at an armed US citizen who drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds.
The armed woman was named in a @CBP intelligence bulletin last week for doxing agents and posting online 'Hey to all my gang let's fuck those mother fuckers up, don't let them take anyone.'

Thankfully, no law enforcement officers were seriously injured in this attack.
Pritzker's Chicago Police Department is leaving the shooting scene and refuses to assist us in securing the area. There is a growing crowd and we are deploying special operations to control the scene.
This is an evolving situation and we will give more information as soon as it becomes available.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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NPR @npr.org · 8d

On hot button issues, a majority say children should be vaccinated; controlling gun violence is more important than gun rights; and Epstein files should be released, in a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.

Poll: Agreement that political violence may be necessary to right the country grows

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13d

This is the point of the new EO: it is to make people think twice before they provide their honest evaluation of the Trump regime. You called them fascist? Well, you must be antifa. You call them authoritarian? You are inciting terrorism.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13d

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 17d

When we build the greatest stereotype engine the world has ever seen we should not be surprised when it reproduces bias

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17d

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases.

This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review

Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human de...

arxiv.org

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Entomemeology @entomemeology.bsky.social · 20d

Keep rollin’

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Noriaki Ono @noriakiono.bsky.social · 27d

As Vice Chair of the GRC Bones and Teeth, I am delighted to invite you to join us for our upcoming meeting, on January 25–30, 2026, at Hotel Galvez in Galveston, TX, a cherished venue for our conference.
We look forward to welcoming you to what is sure to be an exciting and memorable meeting!

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · Sep 7

Nobody who’s spent a week in Illinois winter has thought “yes, I willingly want to fuck with the people who live here”

Brian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social · Sep 7

Chicago Gadsden flag design. Made by Brian Wasik.

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · Sep 8

Here’s last night’s story about Donald Trump’s war on higher education, and what a young Stephen Miller looked like. Brace yourself. youtu.be/xk94il8L820

Trump vs. Higher Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Sep 4

Imagine at your summer internship a guy gives a talk about how women generally have lower IQ. It's awkward enough that a senior administrator later explains that the talk was inappropriate.
Now, imagine reading that the President has nominated this person to lead a major govt agency!

Antoni made the remarks about intelligence in a discussion with summer interns at Heritage in 2024. He said that women’s IQs generally clustered around average scores, while men’s IQs varied more between “geniuses” and low-intelligence individuals, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.

Shortly afterward, Roger Severino, Heritage’s vice president of domestic policy, spoke with the interns and said Antoni should not have shared that viewpoint, one of the people said. Severino told the interns that Heritage had no official position on the question of gender IQ differences, the person told The Post.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · Sep 3

Firefighters, famously, have a house they all live in, where they wait for people to call them, actually.

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Sun H. Peck @sunhpeck.bsky.social · Sep 2

Love seeing the #WhiteSneakers being packed for #ASBMR2025, keep them coming! Wear them at the meeting on Saturday 06 Sept to Take Steps to Improve Bone Health. Even if you can't join us in Seattle, post a pic with your favorite pair and join the MOVEment! @asbmr.bsky.social 🦴💪🚶‍♀️🚶

Noriaki Ono @noriakiono.bsky.social · Sep 2

Can't wait to join #ASBMR2025 @asbmr.bsky.social in just a few days! The first thing that I packed in my luggage was, of course, #WhiteSneakers, for Saturday, September 6, to support bone health! See you soon in Seattle!

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April Sharp, MD @ansharp.bsky.social · Aug 28

Firing RFK Jr would unburden a lot of overworked mitochondria in this country

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Brian Umberger @brianumberger.bsky.social · Aug 28

Please repost!

We have an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. At U-M we have great colleagues, exceptional resources, and biomechanics can be found all across the campus. #BiomechSky

Tenure-track Faculty Position in Biomechanics (Open Rank), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA - Biomch-L

The School of Kinesiology (http://kines.umich.edu) at the University of Michigan invites applications and nominations for a tenure-track faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor, Associate...

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Aug 25

This

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 25

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 24

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated.

[Gift Link]

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

www.nytimes.com

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Megan Killian @megankillian.bsky.social · Aug 22

Where are your friends tonight?

This was such an awesome show.
Thank you,
@lcdsoundsystem.bsky.social

Megan Killian @megankillian.bsky.social · Aug 18

Forever

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · Aug 14

Science is a long game.

Translational science, or clinical medicine is only possibly because of basic science discoveries where the clinical applications are not yet known.

Also: Nobels are typically awarded for basic science… *exploratory* basic science.

True story.

Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · Aug 13

Over 20 years after Julius’s lab and mine cloned TRPM8, it is rewarding to see this science helping patients. The TRPM8 agonist Tryptyr treats dry eye by increasing tear production. A reminder that NIH-funded curiosity-driven research translates to medicines.
tryptyr.myalcon.com?gad_source=1...

TRYPTYR (acoltremon ophthalmic solution) 0.003% eye drops | Alcon US

TRYPTYR is a prescription eye drop used for the treatment of the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. See prescribing information, how to save, and more.

tryptyr.myalcon.com

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Megan Killian @megankillian.bsky.social · Aug 12

"I will give ICE agencies one thing; the way they seem to view themselves is sadly increasingly spot on. And that is violent, cruel, and hiding behind a fucking mask." - @lastweektonight.com

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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · Aug 11

Operation Box Wine is a go

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 11

Bondi: "Our secret weapon here in DC is US Attorney Jeanine Pirro"

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · Aug 11

This week’s main story is about the Trump administration’s promise to deport one million immigrants, what follow through on that promise looks like in practice, and – to lighten the mood – which animal always looks like it was just caught cheating on its wife. Ok fine: The tarsier.

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Megan Killian @megankillian.bsky.social · Aug 12

He knows Darth Vader is bad right