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Stephen Matheson 🌵🚲 @sfmatheson.bsky.social · 9h

Dang right

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 9h

Seriously, politicians need to cut the f'n swearing:
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Politicians Aren’t Cool Enough to Curse This Much

Political leaders once watched their language. Now they delight in using obscenity.

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Stephen Matheson 🌵🚲 @sfmatheson.bsky.social · 9h

Gila

Stephen Matheson 🌵🚲 @sfmatheson.bsky.social · 3d

BS biology, PhD neuroscience, orig from Arizona but 11 years ago discovered that we were meant to live forever in Cambridge. Back in AZ for 5 years (thanks COVID). Became reaganite about same time as evangelical conversion, then slowly grew up. Not sailing (Arizona!) but cycling. Fleetwood Mac.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 3d

People are giving the Yankees a hard time for not scoring runs in Toronto, but in Canada, the law is completely different, judges have much more limited power.

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Stephen Matheson 🌵🚲 @sfmatheson.bsky.social · 3d

Well I like him for lots of reasons, one of which is..... he's me, heh. Same age, overlapping music tastes, former conservative. (Yes I know he's still a conservative and I'm not but whatever) But "panties in a wad" is separate from "didn't read but will post anyway", eh?

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Stephen Matheson 🌵🚲 @sfmatheson.bsky.social · 3d

Tom, you are either overly patient or you get deranged pleasure out of fronting the ignoramuses in your feed. Maybe both, but either way I'm worried enough that I will try to shake your hand or buy you a beverage when I'm in Cambridge at the end of the month. Me being the model of healthy restraint.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 3d

You'll put down strangers,
Kill them, cut their throats, possess their houses,
And lead the majesty of law in line,
To slip him like a hound.

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Stephen Matheson 🌵🚲 @sfmatheson.bsky.social · 4d

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 4d

www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...

The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools

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Cordero-Vásquez Lab @cvlab.bsky.social · 5d

Our new PNAS paper "Enhanced PIEZO1 function contributes to the pathogenesis of sickle cell disease" is out: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/3

Enhanced PIEZO1 function contributes to the pathogenesis of sickle cell disease | PNAS

Sickle cell disease (SCD), an inherited blood disorder caused by a mutation in the β-globin gene, is characterized by sickle erythrocytes that are ...

www.pnas.org

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Stephen Matheson 🌵🚲 @sfmatheson.bsky.social · 5d

I actually read the article, what is wrong with me

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote about Kash Patel's cringe, weird challenge coin. Perfect for him:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Kash Patel’s Challenge Coin Is Perfect for Him

The FBI director has created a memento that symbolizes his unfitness.

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Stephen Matheson 🌵🚲 @sfmatheson.bsky.social · 5d

I love my alma mater, the University of Arizona (BS 1984, PhD 1996). We live nearby, and I deliberately commute by bike through the campus, twice a day. I signed this, enthusiastically. (I'm kinda proud that we got targeted by the fascist goons.) Join me!

alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

Trump attacks 9 universities: Sign the alumni petition to defend your school now

Are you an alum outraged by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition in support of these 9 universities as well as campus communities across America.

alumni.controlshift.app

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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 7d

The October cover of Molecular Biology and Evolution features the work of Han et al., who investigated the origins of East Asian domestic pigs.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf214

#evobio #molbio #domestication

Molecular Biology and Evolution | October 2025 cover

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7d

i don't understand conservative toughness, which involves being scared shitless of everything but also talking about how tough you are

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Stephen Matheson 🌵🚲 @sfmatheson.bsky.social · 10d

outlook = 👎 = 💩

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 11d

War ravaged Portland yesterday and today

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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 12d

I received this award as a second year student, and it was transformative and a big part of the reason I persisted. They are making things harder just for no reason.

I remember the days when we recognized that STEM fields were a worthy national investment 🤦🏾‍♀️

@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 12d

Continuing efforts to hurt the research pipeline, the very late NSF GFRP solicitation no longer allows 2nd year PhD students to apply. Lots of these students chose not to apply last year because they were told they would have a better change once in their thesis lab www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 12d

Although highly topical, kleptoparasitism does not get nearly the attention it deserves!

Here, a plant exploits the kleptoparasitic behavior of a fly that likes to snatch ants killed by spiders.

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So the thief itself gets taken advantage of. Nice going, plants!

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Olfactory floral mimicry of injured ants mediates the attraction of kleptoparasitic fly pollinators

Mochizuki reports a plant that lures pollinating flies by imitating the scent of ants injured by predators. This study reveals the first known case of ant mimicry in flowers and uncovers previously un...

www.cell.com

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Stephen Matheson 🌵🚲 @sfmatheson.bsky.social · 12d

Option 1: Bats. Flight. Sleep. Neuroscience. Also bats.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Option 2: Beautiful writing and thought about Haldane's (so-called) Dilemma. Disclosure: first author carries about half my genes.
doi.org/10.1093/gene...

Replay and representation dynamics in the hippocampus of freely flying bats - Nature

Wireless large-scale recordings of neural activity in freely flying fruit bats reveal that hippocampal ensemble properties are associated with sensorimotor rhythms, and that previous models of replay and sequential dynamics, based on experiments in rodents, might not be applicable to other species.

www.nature.com

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 17d

via Ingrid’s always brilliant buttondown.com/perfectsente...

Perfect Sentences, 143

And the everything-else of Kirk’s politics amounted to little more than a loathing of those whose mere existence provoked his ire. "Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A...

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 19d

The "debate me bro" tactic has been the backbone of creationists and anti-climate-change activists for decades. If you want to know why it's stupid to play their game, or want some advice on how to avoid it, talk to any science communicator.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 21d

I had some thoughts about people saying that "debate me bro" trolling is somehow the height of democratic discourse.

Techdirt @techdirt.com · 21d

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas

Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 19d

This preprint title for the win! "The First of Us: Ophiocordyceps use a novel scramblase-binding peptide to manipulate zombie ants" doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Science is cool too! Authors use #celegans to identify the targets... #cilia and scramblases

a painting of a girl with her eyes closed and the watermark tlouhq

ALT: a painting of a girl with her eyes closed and the watermark tlouhq

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20d

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

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Stephen Matheson 🌵🚲 @sfmatheson.bsky.social · 20d

Is there no bottom to this

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