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Anthony Berndt @anthonyberndt.bsky.social · 4h

Messy stuff on paper that you work to later un-fuck is the only way to get better.

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 20h

Codon usage bias maps ocean microbiome adaptation to temperature-nutrients regimes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs 🌊

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 03/10/2026

Canada is not actually 'battling for survival' in the context of secession, because in both Alberta and Quebec secession has relatively small amounts of public support. What we're battling is dipshit far-right populist politicians enabling/pushing for this destructive bullshit.

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Anthony Berndt @anthonyberndt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's not often you find something that is so "math rock" but also fundamentally bops

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

David Eby is running against one main opponent this election, and it’s not Lorne Doerkson. My column, montage, and chart for the day.

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

yep. I am too picky and these skills were too hard won for me to backslide into using Gen AI. also, I savor good writing and Gen AI is not that.

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Anthony Berndt @anthonyberndt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Let's assume it's all "real" ... for the fluorophore level you need for the super resolution systems you need to crank expression in to some *interesting* domains ... never mind me and my obsession of doing research a physiologically relevant levels.

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Anthony Berndt @anthonyberndt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

An improvement though, once we got the commerical-grade steamkettle over trying to cook it all in 4L Erlenmeyer flasks on hot plates which would occasionally explode with agar media then stick and burn to grad students I still carry scars ... If you ever wonder why I'm spicy about "academic culture"

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Anthony Berndt @anthonyberndt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For the same reason, pouring 10 mL/L of 10% mixed parabens every week in a basement poorly ventilated room into 32L of boiling fly food is most likely why I have allergies to parabens and have to buy the hippy-soap and shampoo these days

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Anthony Berndt @anthonyberndt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For a long time I remember the NSERC/CIHR advertising how many more papers X IF per research dollar Canadian labs put out The flipside was people like me dumpster diving and scrubbing out single-use Drosophila vials and burning ourselves on stem kettles to pour the agar-yeast-sugar media every week

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the most masculine video on the internet right now

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is real bad news (it's not like science writers do it for the money, I really find this kind of reputation theft and actual theft very offensive)

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Anthony Berndt @anthonyberndt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Had one of those experiment days where the variations I was pretty sure wouldn't affect extraction yield had no effect compared to my current approach, while the things I was hopeful would improve it, but were long shots, took the yield from mediocre to zero. ... time to open a beer or two

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Eleven years ago today 🌿 Como Creek aspen

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Anthony Berndt @anthonyberndt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

He very much is _that guy_ you encounter all over the Bay Area.

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Anthony Berndt @anthonyberndt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Although I worked in Canadian labs with pretty healthy funding, I was always amazed by the resources so many American labs had.

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

man, this is bad, bad news

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's not a fair fight

Graffiti of a riot cop holding a gun pointed at a protester with an umbrella. Source: Telegram (Nov 2019)

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

3. The commercial labs producing these products are claiminng to be at the bleeding edge of scientific discovery while not actually participating in the conversation of science. They drop press releases shaped (more or less) like papers, and the media plays along. >>

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Anthony Berndt @anthonyberndt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you've lived in the Bay Area, you probably have met at least one of "that guy"

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Imagine that - a novel, highly divergent, betacoronavirus with a weird-looking* furin cleavage site popped right out of a bat butt 🦇. You gotta wonder 🤔. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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ShoreFreak @shorefreak.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

本日9/9は"909DAY"ですこれはドラムマシン「Roland TR-909」の記念日です www.roland.com/jp/promos/ro... カナモノだけPCM音源で他はアナログ音源発売当時は不人気でしたしかしお金のないデトロイトやシカゴのハウス系の連中が中古で安く買えた909を使い始めたことで再評価され、世界中のダンスミュージックで使われるようになりました 909が使われてる超有名な曲を貼っておきますマドンナ「Vogue」 youtu.be/GuJQSAiODqI?... #909day

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Roland - The TR-909 Story

The TR-909 Story

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So (if I understand this correctly), the way AI (companies) will "solve" all the major problems in maths, biology, and medicine in the next 5 years will be by stealing and building on the ideas of researchers naive enough to think their chats with AI companies would be private.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Increasingly convinced this is the most important post

Twitter post from January 24, 2019, from @Merman_Melville reading

"Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day."

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2

A dinosaur on a white background with the text SAve the academy of Natural sciences museum rally Tuesday Sept 8 10am in front of the academy 1900 ben Franklin Parkway. "Tell Drexel University "Keep the museum open!" with the logos for Philly Science Action, Skype a Scientist, and Green Philly

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 03/09/2026

I have beaten the emails that were in my inbox & which you were probably hoping I'd answer Forgive me there were so many received & so old

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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Nothing like hits from a forward genetic screen to send you down multiple rabbit holes from which you may never emerge. But the absolute bestest fun ever!

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The line hits particularly hard because, like Rogers, HKers in 2019 had not really moved on from what happened 5 years before - the Umbrella Movement in 2014 failed to achieve any political goals . But like the Avengers, we had vowed to return, and... boy, did we Source: TG (Sep 2019)

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Anthony Berndt @anthonyberndt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

FWIW: English is a deeply fucked language with enough regional/international variations and spelling weirdnesses that anyone who speaks it as the 2nd+ language with mispronounciations and an accent should get the benefit of the doubt. Even native English speakers can't agree on a lot of things

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Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

[Siren wailing ⚠️] It's bank holiday Monday, which is basically another Sunday! Time for pigment shenanigans, this time: Buddleia flowers which I share with moths, butterflies, bees, and hoverflies like this absolute chonk of a unit (hornet hoverfly) also make dye. Also here's the prev thread.

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Anthony Berndt @anthonyberndt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

That's like 15% of the way to getting your pre-internet brain back

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Anthony Berndt @anthonyberndt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I've actually seen a few targeted adds for stuff I've already bought. Not really productive if they already have customer conversion.

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Anthony Berndt @anthonyberndt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Anytime I get through to someone they seem completely overwhelmed (I do enough customer service in my current job to make sure not to be an asshole!) I also had the same problem- we had a couple invoices bounce so I wanted call them directly and pay them like I had done in the past. No such luck.

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Anthony Berndt @anthonyberndt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Offff I am worried that whatever skeleton crew of a customer service they have left is being put in thumbscrews via AI-powered metrics.

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Anthony Berndt @anthonyberndt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Is it just me or has the basic customer support at Thermofisher gone to absolute shit? I've had a few instances now whereI get zero email responses after a week for basic billing actions and/or spend 45 minutes on hold to then be given an email address that doesn't exist anymore.

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James Ferguson @psy-fer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Sign up for the Garvan Long-Read Research Symposium 2026, a day filled with talks/discussions on the latest advances in long-read sequencing technology and related genomics, transcriptomics and epigenetics research using @nanoporetech.com and @pacbio.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com.au/e/garvan-lon...

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Garvan Long-Read Research Symposium 2026

Join us at the Garvan Long-Read Research Symposium 2026 for a deep dive into groundbreaking discoveries in medical research!

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Ash⁷ @arajellybean.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Fuck. Fucking shit. Fucking shit fuck this week fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Faculty, if you know of tenure-track positions that I should be listing, or see an error, please e-mail me at please e-mail me at chemjobber at gmail dot com

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My sentiments on reading this are: “Use a full stop, for the love of God. Use several, in fact. You can stare them coldly in the face. Or not. But please use them.”

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Anthony Berndt @anthonyberndt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A bunch of maybe too r/Quebec minded people are angry that the trade deal fell through because the Anglo Liberal Federalist Party of Canada decided to defend part of Canada against American introgression and domination. This is why: youtu.be/qsCdPxdvu98?...

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Angine de Poitrine - Fabienk | Later... with Jools Holland (2026)

YouTube video by BBC Music

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

The Girl With The Cat Earring, featuring my mum and dad's cat Bridget.

Bridget hangs out with Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Hunters In The Snow

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm crankier than usual but I go back to one of my aphorisms: if governments can't deal with obvious issues that regular people can wrap their head around, then people get more radical and stop trusting governments promising schools/community centres again and again and not delivering qualifies!

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Iran doesn’t need to DDoS attack Bluesky. All it needs to do is post is “what if a DoorDash driver got caught by a speed camera on the way to someone who was having a bad day of executive function”

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