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Also, in case you're wondering, yes, Bosnia is back to the 4-4-2 which is why our offense looks anemic.

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There is absolutely no reason for that to even have been a foul, let alone a red card.

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Trying to follow Bosnia v Sweden on Fotmob so caught the glimpse of what is going on in the Poland v Romania game - that red card against Romania might be the worst call I have ever seen.

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I don't think he has any intention of going anywhere at the moment. He seems to be living his best life at Leeds. Not sure who is putting these rumors out but I don't think they are coming from his camp.

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I'm having a lot of very mixed emotions about the whole thing. Dzeko belongs to my generation of Bosnian kids who grew up in the war. War children. It is what it is. Everyone else left on the team are too young to carry those burdens.

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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In the most Bosnian way possible, Sarajevo is saying goodbye to Dzeko by its cevabcinice selling the "11" of cevapi as opposed to the classic 5 or 10.

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For a centerback, Muharemovic sure does score a lot.

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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s disturbing how often this happens. If you don’t have time to review, just decline the invitation.

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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And I am not trying to pick on phys scientists I just think that due to the varying institutional expectations, the pull on their time is great and they can easily succumb to the promises of LLMs

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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I need more physician scientists to absorb this message. Do not put your data into any LLM system.

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We have a reasonable assortment of offensive weapons but it doesn't escape me that the equalizer against Italy came from a Dedic cross into the box. Trying to replace Dedic with a centerback was a bad idea. Just play Malic for goodness sake, at least he knows the position.

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Game over, 0-0. Looks like we're still relying on our defense to bail us out and hope that someone pulls a rabbit out of the hat offensively. So frustrating because Sergej was an offensive player his whole career so you would think there would be more creativity on the offensive side of the ball

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Also Katic is a defensive beast.

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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can't watch the Bosnia v Poland game on TV but I am following it on Fotmob and all I can say is that we really miss Dedic.

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One of these was a very long, long road so it's particularly satisfying to see it funded.

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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Got an email that a client just got two NOAs today (two different ICs). Going to turn off my computer and end the day on a high note.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

But if you’re in the field you’re in the ‘most effecient way to teach fractions business’, not the ‘fix all of society’ business. You gotta focus on the problem that’s actually tractable and within the scope of what you can a-dress.

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I (and pretty much everyone in biomedical research) would love nothing more if we never had use another animal in our experiments. But our ability to model organ-level biology is nowhere close to that.

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There isn't - I have had to live in this space for a bit because of a few clients. Some great new models but none that can even come close to the complexity of a real organ (and lets not even discuss the fact that they cannot replicate the complexity of systemic biology).

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This is not to hate on all MBAs, I am sure there has been some general usefulness that has come of out MBAs for the economy, but honestly, if someone banned MBAs from working in medicine, I wouldn't be mad. 🤷‍♀️

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The most worrisome issue here is that this effort in NIH predates the Trump administration (and they have found ready allies in Trump staffers) and there is a contingent of biomedical engineers that have oversold their capacity to model physiological organ function.

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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

At this point I will pay people to stop writing/saying "precision medicine" as if it means anything. This term is a product of MBA-fication of biomedicine and it needs to be shunned from our vocabulary.

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Yes, let's increase the administrative burden on scientists, that for sure is going to help...

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Yuan He @yuanhejhu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A big week for the lab! Two new papers on how cells repair DNA double-strand breaks: one on getting NHEJ started in chromatin, one on processing the ends before ligation. Years of work by a fantastic team.

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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Looks like Dedic is out for the international matches too. Good for him (so he can recover properly), bad for the national team. His most likely replacement is Malic, who I like but is likely still too green. Not sure this bodes very well for Bosnia's matches.

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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Of course as soon as I tweet this his bad play leads to a Hull goal.

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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Miley looks excellent at RB. Maybe both Tino and Dedic have more competition than just each other? #nufc

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The "massive weekly grocery haul" is a symptom of car-dependent sprawl, not a universal rule of life. Healthy cities don't force you to drive to a warehouse store. Good design makes grabbing fresh food a quick, passive part of your daily walk or bike commute. These straw men arguments bore me.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The White House and OMB's diminished vision for science and medical research undercuts discoveries to come... ... and will lead to significant, near-term economic losses totaling tens of billions of $-s and tens of thousands of jobs. scienceimpacts.org/fy27

scienceimpacts.org

SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research

View Projected Impact of the FY2027 Budget Cuts to the NIH and NSF

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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hey, Spurs scored a goal. There is life in there, after all!

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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just realized I can't watch #lufc vs #nufc on Peacock. How in the world did USA swindle European football associations into signing up exclusive games to them? No one in the US has that network!

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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Bosnian Showdown is happening. 🇧🇦

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I have had to go to battle for him every year since 3rd grade (and none of it was overtly malicious, just a continuous stream of "we don't think he belongs here"). It's exhausting. I don't even want to think how many brilliant kids we lose this way whose parents can't afford to fight those battles

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Oh Needhi, I've got stories. Plus, our youngest is a white boy with an Anglo/Germanic name and 2 PhD parents and this is his experience. Imagine if he was a black kid from a working class household? Or whose parents were recent immigrants who didn't speak English very well?

A well timed injury, one might say... 😉 Just kidding. Genuinely hoping he's ok and he can play on Monday. And if he is out, I hope he recovers quickly. Both Bosnia and Newcastle need him.

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That's fantastic. We need to bring that back.

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And given that we have an older son who codes as a traditionally smart kid, watching up close and personal how differently the two are treated by their teachers is a daily reminder of how much bias remains in education.

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Nah. Forget projectors. All we need is a chalkboard. I am actually a huge fan of oral exams, especially in middle/high school. I know that seems terrifying to US folks but it's a fantastic way to test knowledge retention.

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At one point last year, we got accused by his honors math teacher of doing his homework for him at home. I mean, imagine! Thankfully his MAP scores arrived 2 weeks later and after that, she had nothing but great things to say about him. 🙄

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Yep. But rather than just getting rid of AI, I want to get rid of most tech in schools, especially K-5. They can get chromebooks in high school, maybe end of middle school, but only after taking a typing course.

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And inevitably, their opinion runs straight into his annual MAP scores (and his previous CogAt scores). And by the end of the year, they gush about what a great student he is and "how far he has come." Nah, he didn't change, they just realized that being smart and presenting smart are not the same

My youngest has ADHD and an unusual personality/interests - so he never codes as "smart" to either kids or teachers. Every year we go through the same thing where his honors teachers don't think he belongs in honors classes.

But I will push back against anti-standardized testing messages. I don't think standardized tests are be all and end all. But bias in K-12 is so pervasive that sometimes you need the test to identify kids who are smart but don't present as such.