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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 6d

I support gifted and talented programs. I am personally the product of public school gifted and talented programs

BUT the program in question is for *literal kindergartners* which is dumb as hell. Start it in 3rd grade or something when they’re learning real math and reading real books.

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 6d

My wife is an elementary gifted ed specialist. The idea that gifted kids either don't exist or don't benefit from gifted education services is both wrong and harmful to those kids. Phasing out gifted programs is stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

Mamdani Says He Would Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted Program for Early Grades

www.nytimes.com

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 7d

I have just submitted my review of Matthew Cobb’s @matthewcobb.bsky.social excellent new biography of Francis Crick published by @profilebooks.bsky.social to Science magazine @science.org. I have to say that I greatly enjoyed it. It is set to become the definitive account of Crick’s work and life.

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Jim "James" Jones @jim.cryptoanarchy.network · 7d

Not a lot of people know this, but Jamiroquai is actually the hat's name. It's a sentient, eldritch being that gains power by enthralling humans with song.

The rest of the band is animated by its sheer force of will.

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · Aug 19

My youngest coworker had no idea what Virtual Insanity is.

I say this in the past tense because he is dead.

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The Lustgarten Foundation @lustgarten.org · 7d

NIH will spend its full $48B budget — but multi-year funding means fewer projects, record-low grant success, and a warning for U.S. science.👉 lfdn.org/3KOs2hT
💜Learn how you can support NIH funding: www.lustgarten.org/forging-ahead
#ResearchMatters

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 7d

One of my favourite ongoing history bits is the 800 years of attempts and failures to establish regular transport links between Oxford and Cambridge. it’s hilarious

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 7d

Flying electric taxis will be travelling between Oxford and Cambridge next year. A six-month pilot project (geddit) aims to prepare the infrastructure and develop a business case as a first step towards “commercially viable regional operations”.

Flying taxi over English countryside somewhere

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Jessica Tollkuhn @tollkuhn.bsky.social · 7d

yaaaaaay, congrats! well-deserved ❤️

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Jessica Tollkuhn @tollkuhn.bsky.social · 7d

i was having issues 2 weeks ago when i booked shots for myself and 14yo, but just tried again (thanks to your post) and it seems pediatric doses are now available at CVS stores on long island!

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David Schoppik @schoppik.com · 7d

Applying for the neuroscience/psych position at Baylor University (Waco)? Take a look at the last question on the app. To be 100% clear: I think it's great to be upfront about institutional values in this way.

apply.interfolio.com/168937

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 8d

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!

Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!

apply.interfolio.com/174371

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apply.interfolio.com

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Jessica Tollkuhn @tollkuhn.bsky.social · 8d

was hoping to get the $50K i am owed on this year's R01, but alas, no updated NOA

Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 8d

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget.

“Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NIH races to spend its 2025 grant money — but fewer projects win funding

Despite political obstacles, officials are on track to disburse all of the research funds allocated to US biomedical behemoth.

www.nature.com

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Lookout Santa Cruz @lookoutsantacruz.bsky.social · 8d

Cabrillo College and UC Santa Cruz have officially broken ground on Costa Vista, a $181 million, 624-bed joint student housing project aimed at combating homelessness and housing insecurity among students.

Cabrillo College, UCSC break ground on joint housing project after last-minute deal to save state funding

Cabrillo College and UC Santa Cruz have officially broken ground on Costa Vista, a $181 million, 624-bed joint student housing project aimed at combating homelessness and housing insecurity among students.

buff.ly

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Zach Pennington @zachtpennington.bsky.social · 9d

Excited to share that I landed my dream job!🎉🎉🎉 The Pennington Lab will be opening at the University of British Columbia in January 2026!
@ubcpsych.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 9d

Linder, Untitled, 1976
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1133728

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rat posting from the lab @gizmouse.bsky.social · 9d

academy award contending tiktok

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 9d

an ai slop nostalgia video for life in neolithic Çatalhöyük is going viral!!! “do you still enter your plaster structures via a ladder opening on the second story in 2025? remember when you would paint elaborate geometric patterns and hunting scenes on the walls?”

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Dominik Hrebik @dhrebik.bsky.social · 9d

This comic is becoming increasingly realistic.
m.xkcd.com/3056/

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Jessica Tollkuhn @tollkuhn.bsky.social · 11d

Mervyn’s and Sears were the anchor stores for the Capitola Mall until it expanded in 1988. Mervyn’s had cooler clothes.

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Jessica Tollkuhn @tollkuhn.bsky.social · 11d

bought all my airwalks here

Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 12d

Im here you fuckaas bitch

a mervyns department store exterior. The sign is blue and the building is nondescript and tan. There’s a few minivans parked outside

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14d

i made a helpful reference

$top right: a fractured black rectangle where one half is labeled "autism is bad" and the other side is labeled "FACT CHECK: autistic people are productive members of society". top left: WRONG -negating their frame reinforces it -starts with what it isn't instead of what it is - your argument is shaped like their argument bottom right: large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "autism is bad" fragment, labeled THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS bottom left: RIGHT - you eat their frame -starts with what's actually happening -contains and explains what they're doing -your argument is shaped like kirby$

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Kata Karáth @kkdfv.bsky.social · 13d

Linda Guamán and Xiména Abarca fought bravely through humiliation, ignorance, and threats of a 10-year prison sentence to defend their scientific expertise that ultimately saved thousands in Quito during the pandemic.

My follow-up story for @science.org
www.science.org/content/arti...

Ecuadorian scientists cleared of criminal charges in COVID-19 testing case

Prosecutors alleged officials and researchers defrauded government during the early months of the pandemic

www.science.org

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katie dzwierzynski @kdzwierzynski.bsky.social · 12d

SIR MIX-O-LOTL

facebook post from brookfield zoo chicago with a picture of an axolotl and the caption:

“And the votes are in...

Please give a warm welcome to our newly named axolotl: Sir Mix-O-Lotl. Thank you to everyone who cast their vote in our naming contest. Stop by The Living Coast to say hi to Sir Mix-O-Lot on your next visit!
Brookfield Zoo Chicago recently took in 20 rescued axolotls that were illegally imported at O'Hare International Airport and seized by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officers. These salamanders were imported from Indonesia and needed professional care to survive. Axolotls are listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List).
You can symbolically adopt Sir Mix-O-Lot to support the care, education, and conservation of this critically endangered species at https://bit.ly/4mFQXlh.”

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 13d

tired: defensive walking

wired: offensive walking

photo of a white car driving on a road. obscuring the car is a service pole with a sign on it that says: "BE SEEN - GRAB A BRICK! 1. GRAB 2. LOOK 3. WAVE 4. CROSS" the sign has an illustration of a person holding a brick and standing in a confident pose. beneath the sign, there is a yellow basket full of bricks mounted on the service pole

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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 13d

Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
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Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 13d

Spaceballs 2 has officially entered production — and with it comes a first look at the cast’s table read.

The film marks Rick Moranis’ return to acting after retirement, reuniting him with Bill Pullman and Daphne Zuniga.

Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

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Seth Miller @wandrme.paxex.aero · 14d

Some really good news this evening out of Nevada: Avelo's requests for a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order against the #avelNO! campaign were denied!! 🥳

I've always believed my efforts were protected political speech. This is another ruling suggesting I was right.
#nhpolitics

Final page of a court order, noting that Avelo's requests to shut down my avelNO campaign are denied.

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