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AnthroGeek not quite Ph.D. @anthrogeek.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

These are really neat! I bought a bunch at @seattlein2025.org last year 💯

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Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Just a reminder: NASA Astronaut Chris Williams will discuss His Space Station Mission Today, August 4, 2026, at 2:45 PM EDT. www.nasa.gov/news-release...

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NASA Astronaut Chris Williams to Discuss Space Station Mission - NASA

NASA astronaut Chris Williams will recap his recent eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station during a news conference at 2:45 p.m. EDT

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AnthroGeek not quite Ph.D. @anthrogeek.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I’ve made it out of the house (it’s been a rough few weeks) #Nerd signalling And people recognised the shirt!

Woman with red hair smiling in front of a sign for a Weird Al concert.

A woman with red hair wearing a shirt that says “RITOS”

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AnthroGeek not quite Ph.D. @anthrogeek.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I’m a @sunyofficial.bsky.social graduate This is excellent! I highly recommend SUNY colleges #highered

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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This morning, the Park Police and ICE set up a checkpoint on the Clara Barton Parkway, pulling over work vans under a law that until this year, was rarely if ever enforced. People leapt into action to try and protect their neighbors. (photo pulled from DMV Noticias on Facebook)

Bright orange block letters on a black background spell out, “ICE ON CLARA BARTON” on the Persimmon Tree Rd Beltway overpass.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.

Are you having fanatical thoughts about other people's crotches?
Has hating a minority group become your entire personality?
Do you obsess over other people's toilet use?
If so, you could be a danger to others - it's time to seek help.
Contact our team: youneedhelp@leavetranspeoplealone.com

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

England and France are only playing for third place, but the winner does get to reclaim the North American fur trade

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AnthroGeek not quite Ph.D. @anthrogeek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Honestly I’m going to start putting on any papers I submit for publication - This paper & it’s research was created, analyzed & written without the use of “AI” & LLM.

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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 18/07/2026

This smoke event in DC is worse than June 2023 in some ways, meaning it's right there with worst on record. DC has now 36+ hours of observed smoke... the longest period on record. Read our full analysis of this event, and what is making it stand out: www.capitalweather.com/this-smoke-o...

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This smoke outbreak ranks with the worst in modern DC history

With 36 hours and counting of smoke in DC and air quality peaking at code purple or worse, this event rivaled — and in some ways exceeded — the historic smoke outbreaks of 2023.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 18/07/2026

New: Late last night, Taylor Farms quietly posted an official recall notice We now know that the parasite-linked iceberg lettuce was shipped to Walmart & food distributors in 27 (!) states It was for some reason still being sent out up until Thursday July 16 www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

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Parasite-Linked Lettuce Was Sent to Walmart Stores and Food Distributors in 27 States - Consumer Reports

Taylor Farms' recalled the parasite-linked lettuce it said was sent to Walmart stores, Sysco, and other food distributors in 27 states.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

on this day in 1995, scientists discovered bisexuality. happy 31st birthday to all my fellow bs

cover of newsweek magazine shows three mysterious people standing together in dramatic shadows. the text reads “Bisexuality. Not gay. Not straight. A new sexual identity emerges.”

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

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Proloe 🌙🧚‍♀️ Very Fairy Vtuber @proloe.gay · 28/02/2026

I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere

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AnthroGeek not quite Ph.D. @anthrogeek.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This weekend I lost 1/2 a tooth (that had a root canal on it years ago.) Not fun. Do not recommend. & my dentist practice whom I've been going to for years, sold their practice & didn't say say & is now kids only! While I'm childish ;-) I'm not actually kid. Got a temp varnish on it today.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 14/07/2026

Gratitude and congratulations to @cdelawalla.bsky.social, @colesci.bsky.social, and the @standupforscience.net team. With 3 hours until the comment period closes, there are 341,699 public comments! Still time to submit one: www.regulations.gov/docket/OMB-2...

https://www.regulations.gov/docket/OMB-2026-0034 OMB docket showing 341,699 comments

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Episode 4 is out today! 📻 Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts!

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Friends of Arlington's Planetarium @frnzplanetarium.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Join us tomorrow Sunday July 12 for the family friendly show “Magic TreeHouse: Space Mission” @ 1:30pm At 3pm we have “Legends of the Starry Realm” Info & Tickets events.ticketleap.com/events/frien... Show sold out? There may be a limited # of tickets available @ the door

This image from NASA shows the sun on June 20, 2013. The sun looks like a large round red and orange ball. There is a bright yellow light of a solar flare on the left side of the sun and an eruption of solar material shooting, which looks like a dark orange line, through the sun’s atmosphere, called a prominence eruption.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Here is the comment I posted commenting on the OMB Rules about federal funding. My is jut an example: It's key to personalize it and this tool from @faseborg.bsky.social helps one do so. Do it NOW--the future of American science is at stake www.faseb.org/science-poli...

I am a Professor of Biology at UNC-Chapel Hill and have run an NIH-funded research lab there for 33 years. The rule changes proposed by OMB would negatively affect our work and that of my colleagues in multiple ways and weaken American science at a time when international competition is accelerating.
I am especially concerned about section §200.205 which would require that a senior political appointee personally review and approve every discretionary grant, with authority to override peer review. I have reviewed grants for both NIH and NSF. The peer review system developed here is the envy of my colleagues around the world. Experts in the field assess the significance of the work, and its likely impact, and this is then used to rank grants for funding. It has made America the leader in biomedical research. Replacing this with review by political appointees without expertise in the areas of study will reduce the impact of the grants funded. I also am concerned that the sheer number of grants will overwhelm the ability of the relatively small number of political appointees’ ability to review all of the proposals, thus reducing grant funding.
The impact of this new policy will be amplified by section §200.340 , which would allow grant termination in the middle of a funding cycle simply due to a decision, likely made by a political appointee, that the agencies priorities have changed. We hire personnel, PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and technicians, based on the awarded grant funding. Allowing immediate termination where there was no noncompliance will leave people in our labs subject to immediate job loss, without the time to plan for a transition. This will further discourage young people for entering this important enterprise at a time when the need for and benefits of science have never been greater.

I am also concerned about Section §200.454, which would make Journal subscriptions unallowable. This will have a significant negative impact on lab alumni who are faculty members at some of the nation’s top liberal arts colleges, where the institution cannot maintain subscriptions to all needed journals. These small labs train the future generation of scientists. Without access to key journal publications, their work will be less impactful.

Section §200.461 would prohibit use of grant funds for publication costs without prior approval. Our lab publishes two or more research papers a year. I understand the concern over rising APCs at some for-profit journals, but a blanket prohibition will slow our rate of publication at a time when international competitors do not need to do so, reducing the competitiveness of American science.
Section §200.220 puts very severe regulations on foreign collaborations. Our group has had or currently has international collaborators in Canada, Germany, France, Israel and the Netherlands. These have allowed us to take advantage of approaches and technologies in our collaborators’ labs and have led to important discoveries regarding signaling pathways important in cancer and the mechanisms cancer cells use to leave tumors and metastasize. All are currently reviewed internally for any security concerns. Removing or substantially hindering our ability to collaborate will reduce the impact of our work.
Under section §200.202, programs proposed by funding agencies much must align with administration priorities. Once again, this sort of top-down management by political appointees who are not well versed in the relevant science is likely to lead to decisions that are less well founded than if programs are designed by experts in each field. It will also lead to uncertainty, as new Administrations with new priorities take office. When we write a grant to NIH, we already need to provide strong scientific justification of the significance of…

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AnthroGeek not quite Ph.D. @anthrogeek.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Hi everyone. If you haven't yet, @historians.org has info about submitting comments regarding the proposed changes to grant funding. This has potential impact to everyone from the humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields. Plz send a polite comment www.historians.org/news/action-...

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Action Alert: Protect Independent Historical Research - AHA

The federal government is proposing sweeping changes to the way research grants are awarded and managed. If adopted, these changes would mandate greater political involvement in funding decisions, wea...

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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Gift article. Depressing and inevitable: Stymied other places, tech eyes “Native lands, where outside exploitation has a long and ugly history and where technology companies see a chance for rapid development that gets past the red tape impeding projects elsewhere.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

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Big Tech Is Now Targeting Native American Land for Massive Data Centers

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 09/07/2026

space nerds 🤝 lego fans New Hubble Space Telescope set coming out next month!

Lego Hubble set in the box with white background

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Bronze disc depicting a goddess (900-700 BC), from Luristan (Lorestan), a province in Zagros mountains, western Iran. She is wearing a long pleated gown, the belt ties falling across her waist, and she is supposedly holding a veil in her hands. (D. 14.9cm) Walters Art Museum, Baltimore 🇺🇸

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AnthroGeek not quite Ph.D. @anthrogeek.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"Your last saved celebrity pic is your therapist" I collect memes.

Photo from the movie The 10 Commandments. It shows the character Ramses, the pharaoh of Egypt, looking scornfully towards the viewer. The text reads: Ramses watching you complain about just one plague.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/06/2026

"If the Free People are going to defeat Sauron, you need to let go of your elitist attitudes and choose someone who can appeal to the moderate orc vote. That’s why I support Saruman the White to lead the Council of the Wise."

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We Need a Wizard Who Can Appeal to the Moderate Orc Voter

“Gandalf has gotten a lot of attention by making the One Ring the center of his campaign. We all can agree that the Ring is important, but shouldn’t we also ...

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 27/06/2026

Joyless centrists: 🤬This is war! We're being attacked! Mamdani has crossed the line! Nooooooo! Mamdani:

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AnthroGeek not quite Ph.D. @anthrogeek.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I’ve been mostly offline - dealing with bouts of dizziness that have kept me offline. Not fun. If I owe you a reply I’m sorry & hope to be back online soon. 😕

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Remember That Guy? @rememberthatguy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

that's two blocks from camden yards go birds

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 23/06/2026

This needs a skeet of its own. In Boston: ducks (and ducklings) got cones. :) #SCO

Statue of mom duck and ducklings, with cones #SCO

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

People tracking raids by Trump's anticrime task force in Memphis (comprised of local and federal agents) are describing paramilitary-style raids on houses as well as attacks on and arrests of observers. Sounds like what the Twin Cities are going though without ICE and the threat of deportation.

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Stephen Barry @wa3zgt.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Meet the microbiologist and science advocate who’s headed to Congress. Jasmine Clark led a March for Science in 2017. She just won a Georgia primary for a safe Democratic House seat - by Jeffrey Mervis | 22 May, 2026 19thnews.org/2026/05/geor... cen.acs.org/people/profi...

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Meet Jasmine Clark, the self-described ‘mad scientist’ running for the US House

Jasmine Clark, a PhD microbiologist who won the democratic primary for Georgia’s 13th Congressional District, tells C&EN how being a scientist is propelling her toward Congress

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I need you to know that the shipping container into which the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was packed for transport to the launchpad is called the Chariot, and the barge pulling the container to Cape Kennedy is called the Pegasus. So yes, this is a picture of a Pegasus pulling a Roman Chariot.

Screenshot of a live shot of a river with a big grey and white barge followed by a little red tugboat.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The year of our lord 2026

A cyber truck in front of the covered Kennedy center front

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016

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AnthroGeek not quite Ph.D. @anthrogeek.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

But I did get to watch the Tony Awards 🎭 last Sun nite & it was fab. Although I don't know why Chess wasn't nominated for more. I thought increasing role of the referee to also be a narrator worked really well. And that the actor playing the American did not try 2 channel Murry Head & still was 💯

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AnthroGeek not quite Ph.D. @anthrogeek.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I'm looking forward to being back more fully online later this week. Deadlines and stuff *waves hands* 🫥 And feeling icky. Got new meds which definitely will require some adjustment (to me or the meds I don't know...)

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AnthroGeek not quite Ph.D. @anthrogeek.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

@allinwithchris.bsky.social FWIW Major thunderstorms thru the DC area this evening This is why they aren’t doing anything about the name right now & haven’t been able to do anything for a few hours.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/06/2026

Reminder: as ICE just got $70 billion more (fuck ICE), we are still sending out whistles to anyone who wants them. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

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3D Printed Whistles | Linktree

We ship community protection whistles for free. Need some? Click the email link below & tell us how many you need (between 100 - 3000) & where to send them.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/06/2026

When the Artemis program was first announced, the claim, all over the website, was that the landing mission (which has since been shifted from III to IV) would include "the first woman and the first person of color" to walk on the Moon. Last year, that language was deleted from the NASA site.

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NASA scrubs promise to land first woman, first person of colour on the moon from web pages | CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign to eliminate diversity efforts and language from government organizations has officially reached the moon, with NASA erasing references to its promise to land th...

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