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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 4h

“This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” said @govpritzker.illinois.gov. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head … He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.”

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

Democratic governor’s comments came as he continues to oppose President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago area for deportation efforts.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 3h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 1d

I just got a phone call from someone wanting to chat with me about data governance and AI solutions. No sir I will not be divulging our org chart to you. Stranger danger how did you get my phone number.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 2d

At this point, you can trust the entire medical profession as a whole or a guy who saws the heads off of whale carcasses and straps them to the roof of his car

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · 2d

Any cancer epidemiologists looking for a tenure track position? We (Dept of Epi at USF) are hiring. Happy to share more info if you’re interested 😊

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 2d

I would much rather an organization offer a writing class than a class in promoting AI to write documents and emails.

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 3d

Have hunkered down at the neighborhood Irish pub to watch the Mariners game.

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Michelle Arbeitman @marbeitman.bsky.social · 4d

Big thanks to everyone that contributed to keep FlyBase operational. I wish our FlyBase colleagues the best navigating this challenging situation-special thank you to those that moved on. FlyBase is an essential/amazing resource for Drosophila scientist and the broader scientific community.

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 5d

There's an update on the state of FlyBase on the FlyBase.org front page. You can contribute to FlyBase at this link wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
We express enormous gratitude to the people, labs, groups, and foundations who have already helped us.
#FlyBase #Drosophila

FlyBase Update – October 2025
The termination of the NIH/NHGRI FlyBase grant has placed the long-term sustainability of FlyBase at risk. However, thanks to the generous support of several key individuals and institutions, we are pleased to announce that FlyBase will remain operational through the coming year. We extend our deepest gratitude to Yukiko Yamashita, Cassandra Extavour, Hugo Bellen, Thom Kaufman, the Genetics Society of America / Drosophila Board, the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center, an anonymous donor and the Wellcome Trust. We are especially thankful for a generous gift from Seemay Chou, Jed McCaleb, and The Navigation Fund. We also greatly appreciate the continued support from the broader Drosophila community – your donations and service fees have been vital in helping us stay afloat. Special thanks also go to Jessica Manning for her tireless administrative work at Harvard, to Ruth Lehmann, Hugo Bellen, and Paul Sternberg for advice and efforts, and to the Board of the European Drosophila Society for all their efforts. Sadly, we must also share that several long-standing FlyBase team members have recently moved on. We are immensely grateful to Susan Russo-Gelbart, Lynn Crosby, Gil dos Santos, Kris Broll, Victoria Jenkins, and TyAnna Lovato for their many years of dedicated service and contributions to FlyBase. Looking ahead, ensuring FlyBase’s sustainability beyond the next year – and successfully integrating with the Alliance – will require new funding sources. We kindly ask for your continued support:
• European labs: Please consider contributing to the Cambridge, U.K. FlyBase group
• U.S. and other non-European labs: Please consider contributing to the U.S. FlyBase groups
• Both U.K. and U.S. FlyBase are working diligently to establish an invoicing system. We appreciate your continued patience.
For more information on how to support us, please visit: Contribute to FlyBase wiki page https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 4d

Jealous!

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 5d

Some of the people they rounded up - IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT - are US citizens. Some of them are kids who are US citizens and have been stolen from their parents.

If you ever wondered how so many Germans could pretend not to know what was happening in the 1930s/40s, now you know.

Armed Agents Raid South Shore Apartment Building Overnight Tuesday

Federal agents arrived in moving trucks and knocked down doors inside the building, witnesses said. The Department of Homeland Security said 37 people were arrested.

blockclubchicago.org

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 4d

Another pause in graduate school admissions for 2026.
UCSD dept of math this time.

www.math.ucsd.edu/students/gra...

UCSD’s Department of Mathematics has paused PhD admissions -- we will not be able to admit new PhD students in Fall 2026.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4d

You.
Are.
Allowed.
To.
Insult.
The.
Police.

It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences.

That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras.

Rightly confident in his impunity.

“[t]he freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.”

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 5d

Having recently been laid off and then transitioning into a new chapter I wasn’t expecting I found it so important to process the emotions. I’m probably still processing.

Eugene Day, DSc @eugenedaydsc.bsky.social · 6d

The Emotional Side of a Layoff in Midcareer:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snqh...

The Emotional Side of a Layoff in Midcareer

YouTube video by T. Eugene Day, D.Sc.

www.youtube.com

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 5d

All their story points are assigned to napping.

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 5d

I made a Trello board and had a sprint planning meeting. With the cats. The cats have no stories. Slackers.

Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 5d

I’m thinking about applying an Agile framework to keeping my apartment clean.

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 5d

I’m thinking about applying an Agile framework to keeping my apartment clean.

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 6d

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 6d

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 6d

Attention I ask from all the sacred people, greater and lesser offspring of Heimdall! Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 6d

The training was so painful. I don’t expect day 2 to be any better.

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R. Souissi @rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 6d

My sub-entity agency within the Department of State was instructed to implement messaging in our "out of office", targeting the Democrats.

We were told they would check our emails individually, and it could cost us our jobs if we didn't.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

“.. What this administration is doing is unprecedented, illegal and flat-out wrong. .. I’ve been deeply engaged in our federal government for over 30 years and there is nothing that has come close.”

@nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 6d

Our department name now includes “artificial intelligence.” We just had day 1 of 2 full days of artificial intelligence training. I just sent our data engineer on a wild goose chase because Gemini hallucinated something that doesn’t exist.

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 6d

Ah good to know. If an earthquake quakes in Seattle and the USGS didn’t feel it did it really happen?

Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 6d

So it wasn’t just me. I don’t see it on usgs. Wonder if they are working today.

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