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@atomhammer.bsky.social
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🧪Scientist- Gamer- Theater- Grandpa- Chicago-Nerd. Ask me about graduate education. (he/they)

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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well, Eric Schmitt just made every voter in Missouri look like a dirtbag Nice elected representative you got there! He’s your best is he? Can’t tell a Hawk from a Hawkeye?
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sadly, the University of Chicago is gating its fantastic museum of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) with a large admissions fee. Continuing the spiral away from social good. Apparently, there was a marketing study.
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Excluder's Paradox: Exclusion cannot unmake them from our mind. Our children inherit both the excluded and the excluding.
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I am so tired of Dems and lefties agreeing with fascist apologists that “woke” went too far! There was no uptick in the amount of bad crap that happens to people because of bullying and corporate ineptitude. They just cherry picked and branded some awful stories for their project bothsidesism.
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Iran to begin charging ‘service fee’ for passing the #reflecting_pool.
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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 06/07/2026
You're laughing... I can't withdraw my Bonk from Kraken and you're laughing?
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Farming While Beige @sylvanaquafarms.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Nothing funnier than dusty white dudes on the Internet thinking they‘ve “won.”
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
www.blackbirdcoop.com
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Amen! This will destroy capitalism. It is not an inherently stable system. Any actual capitalist knows that. They just hope they can game it to get a bit richer before saying so. Now it’s musical chairs.
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Trump’s greatest gift to this country? ‘Covfefe’ or ‘he was never the sharpest bulb’? Best thing he has ever done!
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Just finished “the night manager season 2” What a terrible sequel! All style and no substance. Twists for the sake of twists, carried off without explanation or intelligence. How disappointing.
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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Bee-hunting beetles are the first animals known to fake the smell of flowers | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
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Bee-hunting beetles are the first animals known to fake the smell of flowers
Study of parasitic blister beetles reveals a new form of chemical deception
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
During Trumps term, immigration enforcement has committed more crimes, and more egregious crimes, than all of the immigrants in this country combined.
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A History Prof @bellhistory.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
And anyone in the Trump admin who ordered the strikes or knew about them is a murderer. It's also that simple.
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Honest request: Is there anyone who understands the social science research about diversity and excellence and opposes the practical efforts to increase diversity? I would like to read and understand that argument. All I can find are people who seem to be willfully ignoring the literature.
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Please Dodgers 🙏, stand with the people of your city. Stay away from politicians and the White House!
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Make Argentina Great Again! Trump has now introduced his Argentina First policy where instead of a foreign aid policy, we just give billions of US tax dollars to foreign governments at the whim of the executive / King.
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I dislike the phrase, “touch grass,” as a recommendation for grounding yourself, aligning your priorities. Don’t get me wrong! I love the message. I just hate grass. It is a scourge, or at least lawns are. Can I please touch a tree instead?
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Perhaps it is time for the UN to build a new headquarters, somewhere else. NYC made a lot of sense back in the late 40s. The US was a trust-worthy host, and a strong backer of the ideals that the UN embodies — alas, no longer true. How about Victoria, Seychelles as a great location? It seems perfect
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NPR @npr.org · 29/08/2025
NPR first wrote about the group "No Sex for Fish" in 2019 — Kenyan women out to end the practice of trading sex to a fisherman in exchange for his catch to sell. Since then they're faced tribulations.
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Whatever happened to the women in the 'No Sex for Fish' group?
NPR first wrote about the group "No Sex for Fish" in 2019 — Kenyan women out to end the practice of trading sex to a fisherman in exchange for his catch to sell. Since then they're faced tribulations.
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
As I watched the clips of the units marching in front of Dear Leader I was disconcerted, so I looked it up. According the US Army, they are ~50% White. api.army.mil/e2/c/downloa... That is not the Army that marched past Donald Trump!
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I watched some clips of the Army's Trump Parade. Strangely chintzy looking really. Hardly a show of power. The audio was humorous with the tanks rattling and squeaking. The units were all so spread out, with small, half-empty viewing areas. I guess the rain kept folks away ;}
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
@barenakedladles.bsky.social Chicago.
An empty stage ahead of the Bare Naked Ladies “last summer on earth” tour performance in Chicago.
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o... Great column today @jamellebouie.net
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Opinion | The MAGA Movement’s Empty Vision of the Future
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 18/05/2025
To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
news.uchicago.edu/story/harris... #urbanism #Chicago
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Harris students win policy challenge with plan to revitalize downtown Chicago
Pitch proposes creating pedestrian zone on Michigan Avenue’s ‘Cultural Mile’
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
#Chicago no more Arlington Heights Bears. Brilliant. Let’s find something more enjoyable to do with Soldier Field! #redstars
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Chicago Stars FC @chicagostars.com · 04/05/2025
She waited… and her hero showed up 🩵
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
If you have an okay life in a corrupt system, and you tell people that they should follow the rules, then you (and I) are Lawful Evil. May the Fourth be with you!
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Living the dream!
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
@ronlieber.bsky.social I really appreciated this article in the NYT! I’ve taught at my University for 20 years, and my two children went through college, and I never understood this mechanism. Wow! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/b...
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Colleges Know How Much You’re Willing to Pay. Here’s How. (Gift Article)
Schools turn to little-known consultants, owned by private equity firms, to find applicants and calculate scholarships. Here’s how that affects the price you pay.
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04... Does anyone know where Judge Hannah Dugan is being held? Is she still in Milwaukee?
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Trump Live Updates: China Tariffs, Ukraine-Russia War and More
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Bonnie Burton ✍️ @bonniegrrl.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Happy #Easter Weekend! 🤣
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Chat GPT humor
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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#HANDSOFF CHICAGO
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Huge crowd in Chicago
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Ah! Sir Terry.
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Scientists have not been bad scientists throughout the recent crises! Sure, there is always someone to point at. And sure everyone could have done better in some way. But there is not some group of scientists that have been bad scientists 1/2
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Gender Affirming Care: The medical definition usually includes patients changing genders, not all do. There is a broader set of treatments and procedures, many covered by medical insurance, that affirm gender. Erectile Disfunction treatments being one obvious one. CARE is the important part!
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This crap is bad for Chicago. The CPD has no history that we should be trusting!
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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Ordered my tomato plants!
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A single panel cartoon depicts a burning plane steeply declining. Inside there are panicked passengers. One calm passenger kindly says to a panicked neighbor, “You know, meditation really helped me with my anxiety.”
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
If your school is not on this list, it is either small enough not to be noticed, or an embarrassment. Mine is an embarrassment. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
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U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Sends Letters to 60 Universities Under Investigation for Antisemitic Discrimination and Harassment
The Office for Civil Rights today sent letters to 60 institutions of higher education warning them of potential enforcement actions if they do not fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil...
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
We will be at Federal Plaza Square in Chicago!
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Amuse-bouche?
An African lilac breasted roller perches on stick, unconcerned, as an out of focus lion in the background appears to focus on it.
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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org
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We're not done yet | 18F
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Adam @atomhammer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
🧪I also teach ethics in STEM, (5th year PhD Candidates). I am surprised by comparing fields. There are areas of research (at least here) that seem to be aggressive in denying equal humanity. It is particularly odd because the majority of the faculty actively oppose such attitudes!
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