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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”

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Do car-free zones hurt disabled people? We asked experts.

City planners and advocates are seeing "accessibility used as a political football."

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

2nd- or 3rd-year PhD student? Applications for @hhmi- science.bsky.social's #GilliamFellows Program open 9/1! Robust dissertation support, an incredible community of scientists, tailored professional development (for you *and* your faculty thesis advisor), & so much more. Bookmark bit.ly/4qQArRh!

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PhD and Postdoc Transition Program | Gilliam Fellows | HHMI

The Gilliam Fellows Program supports PhD students and their faculty thesis advisors to advance cutting-edge research, facilitate the transition to postdoctoral scientist, and foster the development of...

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Scientists: if you have pursued/secured philanthropic funding in the wake of federal research funding cuts, I want to talk to you. Reposts appreciated!

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

“US immigration agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain people they deem illegal immigrants.” www.bmj.com/content/392/...

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ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt “illegal immigrants”

US immigration agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain people they deem illegal immigrants. The revelation comes as ...

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 07/12/2025

I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

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Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Andrew Sprague PT @aspraguept.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Duke for the Dukes! Let’s go!!!!! JMU to the playoffs

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Andrew Sprague PT @aspraguept.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Glad they’re trying to investigate this

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John Foley @2008philz.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Mood 🦅🏈

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Andrew Sprague PT @aspraguept.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Fetterman’s office doesn’t even have a voicemail for constituent feedback anymore…

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Andrew Sprague PT @aspraguept.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Just got our first one last month. Love how they have reading guides to help your child engage with the books at different ages

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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...

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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.

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Andrew Sprague PT @aspraguept.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Read this and imagined Lowry hustling to finish his delivery route to get to the arena on time

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Jonathan Wosen @jonathanwosen.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I'm a science journalist for @statnews.com looking to talk with folks who applied to biomedical Ph.D. programs and had offers rescinded earlier this year. What have you been up to since then? You can reach me at jonathan.wosen@statnews.com or via Signal (username jwosen.27). #journorequest

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Andrew Sprague PT @aspraguept.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

You’re right! Ectomy would be the removal and lysis is breaking it up with drugs or other means

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Orthopaedic Research Society @orssociety.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

📢 Pittsburgh #orthoresearchers! Join us for a special networking event on Aug 14, 7:30–9:00 PM. Meet fellow scientists, enjoy free drinks/appetizers, and learn about ORS. Open to all! Hosted by ORS Ambassador Ke Song, PhD. www.ors.org/ambassadorev...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/08/2025

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

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Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

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Andrew Sprague PT @aspraguept.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

We just welcomed our IVF miracle and were lucky enough to have family support to afford it (insurance coverage stinks). We would have done anything to have a family. It’s disgusting that he manipulated such a vulnerable population

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Jason Franz @franzbiomech.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Will you be at ISB or ASB in the coming weeks? Definitely come talk to me or someone from our group about a new Postdoc Position we are looking to fill asap in foot neuromechanics, aging, and gait. I'll post the official call for applications soon. Join us at UNC Chapel Hill! Reposts encouraged.

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Andrew Sprague PT @aspraguept.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Thanks! Yeah, we have the e5 and I agree, it kinda sucks

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Andrew Sprague PT @aspraguept.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Which one do you have? Ours is constant frustration

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/07/2025

Peer review meltdown in one diagram. Greater emphasis on glamour journals leads people to try their luck with mediocre papers. This drains the review pool (they often have to be re-reviewed elsewhere). That drops the accuracy of peer review, creating more incentive to submit mediocre papers…

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PTJ: Journal of APTA @ptjournal.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The quality of #ClinicalTrials in PT and rehab has improved, but we still have work to do. Learn about the important pitfalls to avoid in rehabilitation clinical trials in our editor-in-chief's latest editorial: academic.oup.com/ptj/article/...

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The Continuing Trials of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Clinical Trials

A little over 10 years ago, I worked with several other PTJ Editorial Board Members to address recurring problems we were seeing with clinical trial submis

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the irreducible @anguilline.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Again, write to press@johnfetterman.com for your refund.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

*International students represent about 15% of all higher ed students. *They subsidize US students, so expect domestic student costs to increase *Trump complains about tariffs but he is destroying an industry where the US is a huge net exporter www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...

Higher education is, effectively, a major American export — and one where the foreign students consuming it do so in American communities, also spending money on housing, groceries and books there. More than 1.1 million international students contributed about $43 billion to the U.S. economy during the 2023-24 academic year, most of it on tuition and housing, according to an analysis by NAFSA, a nonprofit association of international educators.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Senator Durbin noted that some (I believe Republican Senators) had indicated the US had been doing more than its share of biomedical research and it was time for other countries take a turn. I felt I had to interrupt to respond...

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Andrew Sprague PT @aspraguept.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🙋‍♂️free lunch and CHIP allowed my mom to go back to school as a single mother after being laid off from a 25 year career

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Folks, my course that teaches professional skills to graduate students is going to discuss professional email etiquette when emailing potential PhD advisors, committee members, colleagues, or employers.

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.

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Andrew Sprague PT @aspraguept.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Didn’t know him, but I’m glad I do now. Great, soulful voice

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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

ICE opened their detention center in Newark WITHOUT permission from the city, and in violation of state law. Mayor Ras Baraka has been fighting to close it down. RT this to THANK Mayor Baraka!

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Taylor Dick @taylorjmdick.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

We are recruiting a postdoc for an exciting multi-disciplinary project that explores the use of quantum sensors to measure muscle behaviour - looking for someone with skills in ultrasound, mocap, and EMG - funded by QLD Government's Quantum 2032 Challenge uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Neuromechanics

School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Full-time, fixed-term position for 3 years Base salary will range from $80,448 – $107,104 (Academic Level A) + 17% Superannuation Based at our vibrant St L...

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Matt Harkey, PhD @mattharkeyphd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

🚨 Now recruiting 2 PhD students @ MSU! Join a funded study investigating early arthritis after knee surgery using: – 🖥️ Ultrasound imaging – 🦵 Movement biomechanics – 🧠 Psychological & hormonal factors 📍: East Lansing, MI 📩: harkeym1@msu.edu | hartharv@msu.edu 📸 Flyer below 👇

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Pittsburgh's Public Source @publicsource.org · 17/04/2025

TODAY: Hundreds gathered in Oakland to protest what they called an “all-out assault” on higher education, referring to federal actions that they believe undermine the mission of universities. “It’s going to be a long fight, but we’re going to win." buff.ly/7OCnKlw

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Pitt scholars urge resistance to Trump attacks on higher ed

As the Trump administration makes demands of Harvard and other universities, local scholars and their allies asked Pitt to ‘stand up.’

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

NEW: Blue Cross authorized mastectomies & breast reconstructions at one hospital, then refused to pay the full doctors' bills. BUT... The insurer did make some exceptions. On several occasions, Blue Cross execs signed deals to pay for their wives’ treatment. By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social

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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

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Aaron Shaw @aaronshaw.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

University presidents, the time is now! Unshackle the general counsel's office! File all the lawsuits! Release the faculty upon the op-ed sections! Write to your alumni, parents, and donors! You have nothing to lose but a tiny percentage of your enormous endowments... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

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Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern

The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

It rocks that the tv show that has the multiple real life celeb marriages attached to it that all appear to have gone the distance is… always sunny

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