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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

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Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social · 7h

I laugh and cry because it's so damn true

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7h

Cartoon by @mattdaviescartoon.bsky.social.

Chilling.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1d

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

These are scary times, and it’s okay to feel afraid. The challenge is learning how to respond instead of retreating. This piece offers insight into managing that fear and transforming it into courage, understanding, and tangible steps forward.

The Fear Factor

The right and the left both use fear to drive politics, but the difference in how is striking

thinkbigpicture.substack.com

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

Thrilled to see that Omar El Akkad's unflinching and utterly essential book has been named a finalist for the National Book Awards.

lithub.com/here-are-the...

Cover of Omar El Akkad's book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social · 1d

We are not told everything 🙆

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"You are a transformative president" -- I regret to inform you that Mark Carney is kissing Trump's ass

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 1d

Biology is much more complicated than most non-biologists can imagine. And AI is not going to change this anytime soon.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...

We still can’t predict much of anything in biology

Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.

blog.genesmindsmachines.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: What guarantees are you giving your Arab partners that Israel will not resume its offensive once the hostages are released?

TRUMP: We have a lot of power and we're gonna do everything possible to make sure everybody adheres to the deal

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1d

Six former U.S. Surgeons General have issued a joint warning saying RFK Jr.’s actions “are endangering the health of the nation.”

Surgeons General Unite to Torch RFK Jr. in Unprecedented Warning

Six agree Kennedy is a “profound, immediate” danger to the health of Americans.

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Nils Wilcke @nilswilcke.bsky.social · 1d

Les préfets ont reçu ordre de l'Intérieur de réserver les dates du 16 et 23 novembre pour des élections, selon mes infos (source préfectorale), qui confirment celles du Canard. Macron semble préférer prendre le risque de mettre le RN au pouvoir que d'appeler la gauche à Matignon. #Off

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 1d

My friend David Adler, a Jewish-American who was on the flotilla and was kidnapped by the Zionist regime, is detained illegally in an Israeli prison and no one has had contact with him for four days.

Shamefully, the US government has done nothing to help him.

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 1d

Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow!

These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:

eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

eeb.msu.edu

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Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social · 1d

Peut-être lui même? Mais je m'avance peut-être un peu.

Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social · 1d

Jeffrey Epstein is dead, long live to his successor! BTW who took over his activities and where exactly?

Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social · 1d

Merci Fiammetta pour ta superbe BD toute en subtilité et ta trop généreuse dédicace 🙏

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Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social · 1d

Les grands artistes, comme la dessinatrice et scénariste Fiammetta Ghedini, auteure de la nouvelle BD 👇🏼, ont ce pouvoir unique de mettre à nu nos désirs les plus cachés, dans mon cas le désir que les rats de labo brisent leur long silence épistémologique et se mettent enfin à parler 😅

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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 1d

Still puzzled by the debate on organismal agency? Our edited collection brings historians, philosophers, and scientists into dialogue—offering a wide array of perspectives. An affordable paperback edition will be out at the end of the month! www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #HPS #evobio #philsky

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Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you once again to Pr Marco Leyton who has been a wonderful host 🙏

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Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social · 1d

Look what I received as a gift for giving the Dalbir Bindra 2025 Lecture 😍

This rare book from the 1970s was given to me by one of the giants of our field, Pr Jane Stewart 🙏

One of its first figures shows the brain as a highly interconnected neural network with the thalamus as a central hub.

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Annals of Human Biology @annalshumanbio.bsky.social · 1d

🗣️COMMENTARY

A timely piece for AHB addresses the current public health divide in the U.S., highlighting the need to ‘create space for dialogue rather than continued confrontation’, and how academics can better reach communities their research impacts

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Whose health? Whose truth? Navigating the “Make America Healthy Again” – public health divide

Published in Annals of Human Biology (Vol. 52, No. 1, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Liberal South Carolina
Judge Diane Goodstein's home is burning to the ground after an explosion. SLED is investigation as arson and refer attack as Judge Goodstein had been receiving multiple threats.

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Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social · 3d

Israel is now a defensive wall for who knows what in Asia, an outpost of a perverted and declining civilization against humanitarian activism coming from Europe and elsewhere.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3d

As Argentina’s economy starts to rapidly unravel, let’s never forget the comments by our own politicians.

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"It's Thatcherism on steroids - this is incredible, cutting and slashing public expenditure, doing all the things he's done….. That's leadership... He is amazing."
Nigel Farage
"[Milei] is the 'chainsaw-wielding, bushy-sideburned wild man of Hayekian free-market thinking'. He hailed Milei for giving Argentina 'the economic medicine it needs' through drastic spending cuts."
Boris Johnson
"Britain needs shock therapy. A Milei-style approach would mean radical surgery. First: stop the bleeding. Slash wasteful public spending. Shut down unproductive agencies and quangos... We need to aim for a primary
[surplus."
Jacob Rees-Mogg
"Milei is the template."
Kemi Badenoch
"Javier Milei rightly tells the elite [at the] awful WEF the facts of life - socialism and state intervention tends to make people poorer."
Richard Tice

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Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you Marco 🙏