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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 3h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 1d

Happy World Cephalopod Day! 🐙This sucker for adventure feels its way through the world!

With thousands of chemical receptors and millions of texture receptors packed into each sucker, the giant Pacific octopus has a real sense for exploration.

A red-colored giant Pacific octopus with one eye poking out from its body while stretching out its arms, and showing off its white, round suckers

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

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

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Listeria monicytogenes 😱🦠 @pkpd-babe.bsky.social · 1d

The second my baby got a tiny bit easier, my iPhone started bombarding me with pics of my then 2yo holding the newborn, and my ovaries were about to explode.

Listeria monicytogenes 😱🦠 @pkpd-babe.bsky.social · 1d

Was just there! Enjoyed a delicious seafood platter at Phillips outdoor deck.

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Listeria monicytogenes 😱🦠 @pkpd-babe.bsky.social · 2d

I know this is spurred by a recent JAMA piece, but I have seen this type of piece many times over the past several years, and it is a disgusting framing to shift climate change blame to the people suffering its consequences rather than the actual perpetrators.

Breathe on, guilt-free, MDI-users.

CNN @cnn.com · 3d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Listeria monicytogenes 😱🦠 @pkpd-babe.bsky.social · 2d

gather ’round the prayer circle

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

variety.com

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Listeria monicytogenes 😱🦠 @pkpd-babe.bsky.social · 2d

3yo: I can make you as beautiful as me!

Me: Oooh, I’d love that. What should we do?

3yo: You’re gonna look amazing. First, you put on your elmo costume.

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Listeria monicytogenes 😱🦠 @pkpd-babe.bsky.social · 2d

I kept scrolling back up, like I was subconsciously trying to make them all stay, even if just a moment longer.

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Listeria monicytogenes 😱🦠 @pkpd-babe.bsky.social · 2d

A painful read 💔 #GiftLink

We Tried to Reach Gazans We Interviewed Over Two Years of War. Here’s What Happened to Them. (Gift Article)

We kept wondering: Did they find their missing relatives? Were they even still alive?

www.nytimes.com

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 3d

A reminder: 40% of US Nobel prize winners since 2000 have been immigrants.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on quantum mechanics

Trio led experiments demonstrating that bizarre properties of quantum world can translate into measurable effects in the everyday The Nobel prize in physics 2025 has been awarded to British, French and American scientists for their work on quantum mechanics. John Clarke, a British physicist based at the University of California at Berkeley, Michel Devoret, a French physicist based at Yale University, and John Martinis, of the University of California Santa Barbara, share the 11m Swedish kronor (about £871,400) prize announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Continue reading...

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Listeria monicytogenes 😱🦠 @pkpd-babe.bsky.social · 3d

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 3d

Ink paintings of mitosis in drosophila embryos were a little too niche for the art festival crowd, but I know my Blooskies will love them #sciart 🧪🪰 www.etsy.com/shop/artolog...

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Listeria monicytogenes 😱🦠 @pkpd-babe.bsky.social · 3d

Especially when these “hikes” largely put the risk and burden on sherpas who will find the paths and sometimes even carry the hikers’ supplies.

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JAMA @jama.com · 3d

Approximately 5 million adult #Medicaid beneficiaries risk losing coverage due to HR 1's work requirements, with a substantial portion having chronic conditions, particularly among those aged 50 to 64.

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A research letter from JAMA, published online October 1, 2025, titled "Clinical Characteristics of Adults at Risk of Medicaid Disenrollment Due to HR 1 Work Requirements." The letter discusses the impact of HR 1 on Medicaid recipients.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 5d

The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Listeria monicytogenes 😱🦠 @pkpd-babe.bsky.social · 5d

Good to go!

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 5d

A recent study shows that the presence of high levels of structural inequity in a society causes changes to children's brains, both children from families w/ lower incomes as well as those from wealthy families.

Take home: structural inequity harms everyone (with the most vulnerable most impacted).

Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains

Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’

www.theguardian.com

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Listeria monicytogenes 😱🦠 @pkpd-babe.bsky.social · 5d

All set!

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Listeria monicytogenes 😱🦠 @pkpd-babe.bsky.social · 5d

Toddler: I have some magic

Me: Oh yeah?

Toddler: I turned you into a mommy

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 6d

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana, as big as 70 football fields, requiring more than twice as much electricity as the City of New Orleans.

Louisiana has had to greenlight $3 billion in new energy infrastructure to service Meta's facility.

New Meta Data Center Needs Twice as Much Energy as New Orleans

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana requiring more than twice as much electricity as New Orleans.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 7d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Listeria monicytogenes 😱🦠 @pkpd-babe.bsky.social · 6d

Yes; the White House crew has since deleted. I guess someone there actually read the statement.

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Listeria monicytogenes 😱🦠 @pkpd-babe.bsky.social · 7d

Growing up, I could have sworn my pronouns were ahmagh and toolehsag

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