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VP Biology. Neuroscience, Drug Discovery, Startup Biotech (Aliada, Vigil, Rodin etc). I post/repost eclectically. Semi-retired with light consulting, including for the science in tattoos.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 4h
Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8
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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 3h
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3h
Some people are saying that @deisseroth.bsky.social shared the Nobel with Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel. But if those two are so smart, why don't they have Bluesky accounts?
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 18h
Among the more notable documents is a redacted version of a report produced by Cornell’s disciplinary hearing panel. It sheds additional light on the university’s investigation and summarizes the panel’s findings. Here’s a link to the doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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John Doe v Cornell University Hearing Panel Decision and Report
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 17h
if he dies, he dies
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J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 16h
"i miss vine"
Tarzan's last thought as he plummets to the jungle floor
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 15h
ACCURATE AF. Don't even get me started on their weird obsession with drinking people's tears, and delight in the suffering of others.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 21h
The reckoning is here…
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The Calitaliano Kid 😎🇺🇦🗽 @moved2italy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There is… A LOT to unpack here‼️ Talk about “Thinking out of the box!” When you begin to understand that the “MAGA Movement” is a countryless, extractive, global revolution, based in and on greed, corruption and social engineering, the whole 💩 🎪 begins to make more sense! youtu.be/TKwfEs71VQI?...
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Corruption and Regime Change with Anne Applebaum and Tim Snyder
YouTube video by Timothy Snyder
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Justice Alito is confusing court reform with attacking the court. Many of us simply want the Court to be better. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito says
Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 22h
"Superpower suicide" That's what yam tits is doing to us.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Most state attorneys general released Meta from Cambridge Analytica-related claims as part of the child safety settlement. New Mexico wasn't part of that deal, and a jury there just found 26 of 29 past statements about Cambridge Analytica, hate speech and misinformation willfully deceptive.
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Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe
A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 22h
Listening to experts can be good. Sometimes they know things.
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Face Facts Not Lies @facefactsnotlies.bsky.social · 22h
Literally women are having to “prove they are NOT pregnant under Trumps future “travel restrictions”? To top it off women in their 60’s are being asked if they are pregnant? WTF www.facebook.com/share/r/19YB...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h
Money stolen by scammers hijacking UK social media accounts rises 400%
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Money stolen by scammers hijacking UK social media accounts rises 400%
Many cases involve criminals using other people’s identities to sell fake event tickets to friends and family The total amount stolen by criminals who hack into people’s emails and social media accounts and then pretend to be them has risen by more than 400% in a year, official UK data shows. In many cases, the scammers are hijacking people’s accounts in order to use their identity to sell fake event tickets – such as to sold-out gigs – to unsuspecting friends and family. Continue reading...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h
Strikes by North Sea oil workers could ‘severely disrupt’ UK fuel supplies
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Strikes by North Sea oil workers could ‘severely disrupt’ UK fuel supplies
Union says staff left with no choice but industrial action after breakdown in pay talks with Texas oil firm Apache A looming strike by oil workers in the North Sea could “severely disrupt” UK fuel supplies, the Unite union has said, adding that staff were left with no choice after a breakdown in pay talks with the Texas oil company Apache. The union said Apache workers had “emphatically” backed strike action after being given what it said was an unacceptable pay offer that amounted to a real-terms pay cut for many employees, at a time when the company was “raking in eye-watering profits”. Continue reading...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
🥊 Hassett gets his ass kicked by Tapper 🥊 Hassett's efforts to insist Trump's economy is the greatest ever and POTUS has never failed to deliver on his promises did not go well on CNN, as Tapper brought receipts to back up the feeling the majority of Americans have about how hard it is to get by
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 23h
While national headlines focus on the high-profile “Cornell Seven” civil lawsuit, a strikingly similar breakdown of campus justice is unfolding at Louisiana State University. This time, a young Black woman, Kendall Francis, is blowing the (cont.) www.theroot.com/after-cornel...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Any action to restrict abortion pills would immediately break Trump’s 2024 campaign pledge that he would “not block” access to the drugs..." www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/ab...
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White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms
Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h
seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22h
One of the few things that would turbocharge important institutional reform:
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
On Twitter and in the several-year spate of legacy media pieces sanewashing far-right pronatalism.
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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
People keep telling me about the good old days when people had civil disagreements face to face, but also my dad talks about how men used to get in a lot more fistfights as a matter of course and my grandfather had quite a lot of knife scars from knife fights.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The problem with this entire “talking across difference” approach to politics is that it assumes a shared consensus about democracy that no longer exists b/w the 2 main 🇺🇸 political parties. You don’t need to have lunch with people who don’t believe in free elections, equal rights, & the rule of law.
Przeworski, Democracy and the marketDemocracy is a system in which parties lose elections
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You’re not going to learn anything by sitting down to lunch with Kevin Hassett or Peter Navarro, other than they have gone all in on lying & fascism. So again, you need to take a step back & make clear that there are prior assumptions & table stakes antes about who one should sit down to lunch with.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In her last hours as DHS Secy, Noem's agency bought 5 planes from a donor at markups. In all, DHS gave $900M in contracts to that donor’s companies during her term. One plane had electronic bidets, 2 bedrooms, bar, wine chiller, a manta-ray skin table. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/10/2026
Texas-based Dynamic Frontier Holdings, linked to Konstantin Sokolov, RU-US businessman who was a private donor to Trump’s $350M WH ballroom, received authorization from the Treasury Dep to complete an acquisition of Teghut, one of Armenia’s largest copper mines, involving sanctioned Russian bank.
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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Kushner is only interested in amassing his own wealth.
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Mourning NAVALNY😢 @jan-readsalot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just when we think it can’t get worse … it does.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 04/10/2026
Short read on Senate polls and "fundamentals" coming out at Strength In Numbers later this morning. Many are surprised by how blue the state polls look. And they could be wrong! But they really aren't that surprising in the context of other non-polling predictors. www.gelliottmorris.com/subscribe
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“It’s this kind of scenario… that several physicians told me ranks among their most troubling cases. Each told me a version of the same haunting story: A patient with a treatable cancer delays standard care for an unproven alternative, only to return once the disease has metastasized.”
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Dying Patients Are Inundated by Misinformation. My Dad Was One of Them.
Cancer patients are being persuaded to spend tens of thousands on unproven treatments by alternative-medicine clinics.
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chris. @azedand2knots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Uh oh, SpaghettiOs," she whispers , moments before erupting in a geyser of meat sauce and dough rings.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Wes Smith Ω 🧢 @wessmith123.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Of all the boot-licking cowards in the Republican Party, Tom Cotton is one of the most prolific. 👉 His Reward: Trump threw him under the bus and gave out his mobile number. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Trump apparently shares Tom Cotton’s phone number in push to make Daylight Saving Time permanent
Trump called the Arkansas Republican “a friend of mine” in the Saturday morning post.
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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"he reportedly described himself as a content creator who reviews restaurants and throws food back at employees when he doesn't like it" So... He criminally assaults & batters people when he doesn't like his food. ... Nuisance influencers are a cancer on society. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Philadelphia restaurant offers $5,000 to find customer who allegedly threw a cheesesteak in an employee’s face, then he turns himself in
A Philadelphia restaurant offered $5,000 to help find a customer who allegedly threw a cheesesteak in an employee's face and ran away.
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A city that once held over 15,000 residents collapsed as businesses closed and population fled over the following decades. It is said that racism is expensive, my friends. It's true. What was once a vibrant place to live is now a ghost town. (cont) allthatsinteresting.com/cairo-illinois
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Inside The Turbulent History Of Cairo, Illinois, The 'City That Died From Racism'
Decades of economic decline and racial violence led Cairo to become a ghost town.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026
I split the G (train) with the Prime Minister of Ireland, Michéal Martin. Sláinte!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
been reading regime change and I had either forgotten or not realized that the initial justification for the ongoing national guard occupation of DC was that big balls got beat up by teenagers.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But ice cream shops can’t give a free cone to someone with an “I voted” sticker
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 03/10/2026
Atleast 355 Native American and Indigenous candidates ran or are running for office in 2026. That’s a new record! Representation matters. 🪶 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
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A record number of Native Americans are running in the 2026 midterms
At least 355 Native American and Indigenous candidates ran or are running in local, state and federal primary and general elections this year — a record number.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@dhookstead

Did we cancel D-Day because of a little rough weather? No. Play the damn game.

Readers added context

D-Day was delayed by a day because of the weather
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just saw my 5th grade math teacher at Chili’s. I yelled “isosceles triangle” and he gave me a thumbs up
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/10/2026
spoken like a guy found liable of sexual assault
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