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Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
academic.oup.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
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Epstein-Barr, herpes, and shingles vaccines shelved should get people hounded out of society. That’s beyond anti-vaccine or anti-intellectualism. It’s reactionary know-nothingism. If there’s such a thing as technological solutionism, this is tech problematicizing.
February 13, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Epstein-Barr, herpes, and shingles vaccines shelved should get people hounded out of society. That’s beyond anti-vaccine or anti-intellectualism. It’s reactionary know-nothingism. If there’s such a thing as technological solutionism, this is tech problematicizing.
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Not only is this what you would do if you were trying to kill a technology and a company developing it ….
it's what you would do if you were trying to kill *people*.
it's what you would do if you were trying to kill *people*.
February 12, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Not only is this what you would do if you were trying to kill a technology and a company developing it ….
it's what you would do if you were trying to kill *people*.
it's what you would do if you were trying to kill *people*.
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If ICE doesn't kill us, RFK JR will.
February 11, 2026 at 1:14 AM
If ICE doesn't kill us, RFK JR will.
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So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine
The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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A year ago, we were on the cusp of turning many cancers into chronic rather than terminal diseases through immunotherapy and mRNA vaccines. Today, we're working through the curative qualities of a magical horse paste instead.
National Cancer Institute studying ivermectin’s ‘ability to kill cancer cells,’ alarming career scientists
The National Cancer Institute is studying ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment, according to its top official, alarming career scientists.
www.statnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:39 PM
A year ago, we were on the cusp of turning many cancers into chronic rather than terminal diseases through immunotherapy and mRNA vaccines. Today, we're working through the curative qualities of a magical horse paste instead.
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ICE exists to enforce CIVIL immigration law, not CRIMINAL law of any kind. Ergo, there is no legal justification for them:
* to be armed.
* to be masked.
* to kidnap anyone they want when they require judicial warrants to make CIVIL arrests.
* to provide security for the Vice President, ever.
* to be armed.
* to be masked.
* to kidnap anyone they want when they require judicial warrants to make CIVIL arrests.
* to provide security for the Vice President, ever.
February 7, 2026 at 9:13 PM
ICE exists to enforce CIVIL immigration law, not CRIMINAL law of any kind. Ergo, there is no legal justification for them:
* to be armed.
* to be masked.
* to kidnap anyone they want when they require judicial warrants to make CIVIL arrests.
* to provide security for the Vice President, ever.
* to be armed.
* to be masked.
* to kidnap anyone they want when they require judicial warrants to make CIVIL arrests.
* to provide security for the Vice President, ever.
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The year is 1998. You hit your local Tower Records store and buy a copy of Yield from the cardboard display. You get home, peel off the plastic, and press play for the first time. Life is good.
Cheers to 28 years of Yield, and to Kevin Shuss for keeping this in the archives!
Cheers to 28 years of Yield, and to Kevin Shuss for keeping this in the archives!
February 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
The year is 1998. You hit your local Tower Records store and buy a copy of Yield from the cardboard display. You get home, peel off the plastic, and press play for the first time. Life is good.
Cheers to 28 years of Yield, and to Kevin Shuss for keeping this in the archives!
Cheers to 28 years of Yield, and to Kevin Shuss for keeping this in the archives!
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A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
www.404media.co
January 31, 2026 at 3:37 AM
A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
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31 years ago today, Alice in Chains released 'Jar of Flies' - the first EP to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200, featuring "No Excuses", "I Stay Away", and "Don't Follow".
January 25, 2026 at 8:15 PM
31 years ago today, Alice in Chains released 'Jar of Flies' - the first EP to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200, featuring "No Excuses", "I Stay Away", and "Don't Follow".
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We're not allowed to see the faces of the taxpayer-funded goon squad who is committing crimes in the streets, but the goon squad is allowed to record the faces of taxpayers who have committed no crimes.
“We have a nice little database, & now you’re considered domestic terrorists” says an ICE agent after photographing a civilian who was videotaping them. Posted today by Brian Allen on X. h/t @allenanalysis.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 7:15 PM
We're not allowed to see the faces of the taxpayer-funded goon squad who is committing crimes in the streets, but the goon squad is allowed to record the faces of taxpayers who have committed no crimes.
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A different ICE observer says her TSA-Pre-check was revoked. bsky.app/profile/juli...
This ICE observer had her TSA-Pre-check revoked.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/72047...
"Three days after the interaction, on January 13th, I received an email notice that my Global Entry/TSA-Pre Check privilege for passing through airport security had been revoked."
www.courtlistener.com/docket/72047...
"Three days after the interaction, on January 13th, I received an email notice that my Global Entry/TSA-Pre Check privilege for passing through airport security had been revoked."
January 23, 2026 at 6:53 PM
A different ICE observer says her TSA-Pre-check was revoked. bsky.app/profile/juli...
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New court documents reveal even more ways DOGE improperly accessed and shared sensitive personal data last year — and how that data appears to have been used to advance dubious fraud claims. n.pr/4qDfABZ
Trump administration admits even more ways DOGE accessed sensitive personal data
New court documents reveal even more ways DOGE improperly accessed and shared sensitive personal data last year — and how that data appears to have been used to advance dubious fraud claims.
n.pr
January 23, 2026 at 10:12 AM
New court documents reveal even more ways DOGE improperly accessed and shared sensitive personal data last year — and how that data appears to have been used to advance dubious fraud claims. n.pr/4qDfABZ
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🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year.
That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027.
A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications.
A short 🧵
That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027.
A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications.
A short 🧵
Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026
Thirteen of the agency’s advisory councils, which must review grant applications before funding is awarded, are on track to have no voting members.
www.nature.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:46 PM
🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year.
That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027.
A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications.
A short 🧵
That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027.
A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications.
A short 🧵
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* MODERNA IS CURBING INVESTMENT VACCINE TRIALS DUE TO US BACKLASH -- BLOOMBERG NEWS
* MODERNA IS CURBING INVESTMENT IN VACCINE TRIALS DUE TO OPPOSITION TO IMMUNIZATIONS FROM US OFFICIALS -- BLOOMBERG NEWS
@reuters.com #$MRNA
* MODERNA IS CURBING INVESTMENT IN VACCINE TRIALS DUE TO OPPOSITION TO IMMUNIZATIONS FROM US OFFICIALS -- BLOOMBERG NEWS
@reuters.com #$MRNA
January 22, 2026 at 3:53 PM
* MODERNA IS CURBING INVESTMENT VACCINE TRIALS DUE TO US BACKLASH -- BLOOMBERG NEWS
* MODERNA IS CURBING INVESTMENT IN VACCINE TRIALS DUE TO OPPOSITION TO IMMUNIZATIONS FROM US OFFICIALS -- BLOOMBERG NEWS
@reuters.com #$MRNA
* MODERNA IS CURBING INVESTMENT IN VACCINE TRIALS DUE TO OPPOSITION TO IMMUNIZATIONS FROM US OFFICIALS -- BLOOMBERG NEWS
@reuters.com #$MRNA
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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Astounding things are happening in medicine. Eg, in the US we were about to conquer diseases like Parkinson's, and immunological diseases. It'll happen in other countries. But here, the Trump administration--along with Musk, and DOGE, and RFKjr--have gutted research, defunded researchers.
Noninvasive brain scanning could send signals to paralyzed limbs
People with spinal cord injuries often lose some or all their limb function. In most patients, the nerves in their limbs work fine, and the neurons in their brain are still operational, but the damage...
medicalxpress.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Astounding things are happening in medicine. Eg, in the US we were about to conquer diseases like Parkinson's, and immunological diseases. It'll happen in other countries. But here, the Trump administration--along with Musk, and DOGE, and RFKjr--have gutted research, defunded researchers.
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“.. Conclusion: The claim that foreign countries 'pay' these tariffs is a myth. The tariffs are, in the most literal sense, an own goal. Americans are footing the bill."
@scottlincicome.bsky.social
www.kielinstitut.de/fileadmin/Da...
@scottlincicome.bsky.social
www.kielinstitut.de/fileadmin/Da...
January 19, 2026 at 7:52 PM
“.. Conclusion: The claim that foreign countries 'pay' these tariffs is a myth. The tariffs are, in the most literal sense, an own goal. Americans are footing the bill."
@scottlincicome.bsky.social
www.kielinstitut.de/fileadmin/Da...
@scottlincicome.bsky.social
www.kielinstitut.de/fileadmin/Da...
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“.. foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.” 🤡
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
January 19, 2026 at 3:37 PM
“.. foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.” 🤡
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
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When ICE fires multiple chemical rounds directly at the head of a praying, priest, DOJ concludes it is completely justified.
When protestors make noise during a sermon by a right-wing ICE pastor, DOJ announces a major investigation.
It's not about immigration; it's about control.
When protestors make noise during a sermon by a right-wing ICE pastor, DOJ announces a major investigation.
It's not about immigration; it's about control.
DOJ vows to press charges after activists disrupt church where Minnesota ICE official is a pastor | CNN
The U.S. Department of Justice said Sunday it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcemen...
www.cnn.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:38 AM
When ICE fires multiple chemical rounds directly at the head of a praying, priest, DOJ concludes it is completely justified.
When protestors make noise during a sermon by a right-wing ICE pastor, DOJ announces a major investigation.
It's not about immigration; it's about control.
When protestors make noise during a sermon by a right-wing ICE pastor, DOJ announces a major investigation.
It's not about immigration; it's about control.