steeljawpanda.bsky.social
@steeljawpanda.bsky.social
Recovering academic, bioinformatician, leftist… can I pet your dog?
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At some point you have to charge drivers their fair share if you want to have a walkable city.
January 21, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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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...
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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Which begs the question – who foots the bill for all the damage burning that coal, gas, and diesel will do to locals’ health and the global climate?

Sign our petition to the tech giant urging it to ensure data centers are powered by new, 24/7 renewable energy:
Tell Microsoft to run its data centers on renewables
No new data centers without local, 24/7 renewable energy
act.stand.earth
January 15, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Hey @adapalmer.bsky.social I want to thank you so much for #terraignota - I cannot remember the last time a series of books made me feel so many things… I think I cried as much as 9A 🥲
You are a gift and should be treasured!
January 16, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Sorry to read about your treatment by the Beeb
@robinince.bsky.social - very sad to see an institution I’ve always admired on the wrong side of history…
Bloody good on you mate, and Illegitimi non carborundum 🙌
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
#transrightsarehumanrights
January 15, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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💾 Prokka 1.15.6 is released!

This is the last major release of Prokka. But don't be sad, because @oschwengers.bsky.social already has an excellent replacement called Bakta you can migrate to.
#bioinformatics #microbiology #genomics

github.com/tseemann/pro...
Release Heading into the sunset · tseemann/prokka
The future This is probably the last release of Prokka. I won't be making any code changes except bug fixes. I will update the databases occasionally. I strongly recommend you use Bakta by @oschwen...
github.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Hitler did one good thing. It was also the last thing he did.
October 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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It’s official: the only Australian shrew is no more.
The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List, the world’s most comprehensive global inventory on extinction risk, has declared the Christmas Island shrew is extinct.” theconversation.com/and-then-the...
And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct
Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.
theconversation.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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DFAT has now confirmed Australians and others have been abused by Israeli authorities after their abduction from the flotilla.

Assaulted and injured. Deprived of sleep and medication. Still illegally detained.

The PM and Foreign Minister must urgently demand their safe release.
October 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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The Climate Risk Assessment report predicts 1.5 million Australians will be affected by sea level rise within 25 years.

The length of the average mortgage? 30 years.

@grogsgamut.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social
#auspol
September 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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In recognition of James Dobson's all too delayed death, we republished an account of his legacy -- a three part series about evangelical child abuse, a culture Dobson disseminated and propagandized. buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Ministry of Violence
James Dobson is dead, leaving behind the legacy of poisoned politics he created, and countless children and adults who live with the pain of surviving the...
buttondown.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
August 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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August 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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The administration will incinerate enough food to feed 1.5 million children for a week. When it burns, its label will read: THIS PRODUCT IS A GIFT FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 500 tons, from us, to no one.

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
www.theatlantic.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Child of Omelas? That’s thinking too small. What if like eight billion people suffered so a few dozen guys could live lives so insane they convinced themselves it’s more likely they’re inside a computer simulation
July 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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You’d think someone might ask why distributing aid in Gaza has proceeded like the opening twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan, every day, for weeks. Is it normal to fire machine guns at starving civilians trying to collect flour? Because we are currently at one, two or three massacres *per day*.
June 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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N95 masks are PPE.

They’re designed to protect the wearer from covid, airborne viruses, wildfire smoke & more.

They’re a public health tool.

Gaitors & bandanas are face coverings worn by ICE goons who want to conceal their identity because they’re kidnapping people

They’re not the same.
June 22, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Trans kids deserve to live.
Trans kids deserve to live.
Trans kids deserve to live.
June 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Nothing has dislodged my impression that men are judged great dads for doing more than nothing and women terrible mothers for doing less than everything.
June 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM