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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈

@rolanddunbrack.bsky.social

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Computational structural biologist @Fox Chase Cancer Center. Gay, out & proud since 1986. I support transgender & nonbinary people. Living with CLL/SLL. Video about my LGBTQ+ life in science: https://tinyurl.com/45srzjdw. Views my own, not my employer's.

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, he is a small man that way.

Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 1d

More than that - he has negative 5'10" energy.

Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 1d

No, he's 5'10". She made that up to make fun of his appearance. Should have found another way.

Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks. But through this thread, there is a presupposition that short guys will overcompensate/be angry. I don't think most of us are. Everyone has insecurity over something. If we flipped this & said some women in the administration were hateful because of some bodily attribute, how would it sound?

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 1d

I'm pretty sure the most hateful guys in this government are reasonably tall (Trump (6'something, Hegseth 6'0", Miller 5'10", Sam Alito is taller than Trump in photos).

Short guys are not on average more hateful bigots than tall guys.

Find another explanation.

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 1d

He's 5'10". Don't put this on short guys. He's just a hateful bigot for some other reason.

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JP Mar.-Men. @jpmarmen.bsky.social · 2d

Why aren’t major news channels sending reporters to Portland and Chicago, and then refuting the Trump regime’s claims on live TV?

Oh! Because headlines are more profitable than facts. Residents be damned.

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller is 5’10”. He’s an angry bigot for some other reason. Or no reason at all.

Her clarification at the end helped.

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 3d

This feels like evidence Trump's aides are deliberately gaslighting him, which is unfortunately very easy to do with dementia sufferers (Trump did it to his father) and which aides are using to seize control of the US military for their own purposes.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 5d

Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

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Jann Matlock (formerly @autopsiesgroup in the Other Place) @drjannmatlock.bsky.social · 4d

Gift version of this article. a must read. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 4d

“Has been simmering” from one asshole billionaire.

Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 4d

There’s often some a$$hole billionaire behind Trump’s worst initiatives.

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 5d

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 5d

More "American carnage" caused by Trump and Jay Bhattacharya: www.science.org/content/arti...

After months in limbo, four NIH institute directors fired

Two leaders removed by Trump administration had hoped to stay at agency as in-house investigators

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d

Bari Weiss and JD Vance are very similar figures with very similar skills.

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 5d

That’s awfully convenient advice to the people that don’t seriously believe in the power of racism in American life in the first place.

Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 5d

It’s not just control. It’s repression of people they don’t like.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 6d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7d

Really disappointing from @royalsociety.org which is hiding behind "not policing politics" to sustain the membership of an openly white supremacist anti-science billionaire who never should have been admitted in the first place, talk about low bars 🧪

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

Royal Society rules out expelling Elon Musk after rally speech - Research Professional News

Society president criticises billionaire’s “language of violence” but says organisation should not “police political opinions”

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 8d

Read Thomas Zimmer to understand the current moment.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 9d

Is Trump Winning? Is He Losing?
(And are those maybe the wrong questions to ask?)

Kimmel uncanceled, Comey indicted, a terrifying “domestic terrorism” directive, and troops to Portland: Where does America stand in the struggle against encroaching authoritarianism?

Some thoughts from my new piece: