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Ana Maria Barral

@bioprof.bsky.social
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Biology prof, scientific teaching, CUREs, microbes 🧪 🇨🇺 Quaker, Conflict resolution, occasional Swiftie, sci comm, 🐈 person, hiking camping, 4x4. Live what you believe.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New article! On access journalism, AI replacements for people, and Trump's latest attack on freedom of the press: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...
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Gutting the Fourth Estate
The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
100 million years ago a chunk of ocean basin uplifted to form the island of Cyprus. Within this formation were copper deposits made by ancient hydrothermal vents. As they mined these vents, the people domesticated a small feral predator to control rodents. The first record of domestic cats.
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Ana Maria Barral @bioprof.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
On a separate note, socket wrenches 🔧 with the ratcheting thing are the most empowering tools ever, right there with the sawzall and the electric drill. Says she, proudly looking at a dismantled barbecue 💪
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Ana Maria Barral @bioprof.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Brief note about a salient moment from thisv weekend's #gratefuldead movie experience substack.com/@barralopoli...
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Went to see the “Meetup at the Movies” Grateful Dead concert film. In my neck of the woods (South OC), sadly, only a handful of deadheads showed up, but they made up for it in enthusiasm. I am not a d...
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Ana Maria Barral @bioprof.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
España 🇪🇸🎉😍⚽
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The 2026 Republican message: Shut up or we’ll kill more of you.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.
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Ana Maria Barral @bioprof.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I need to prep classes and attend meetings but I'm very distracted by this excellent soccer ⚽ Great work Egypt but my heart is so happy for 🇦🇷 and Messi 🤩
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Ana Maria Barral @bioprof.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Grateful if somebody could share a gift link to this article in the New Yorker www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... My uni library has access to articles, but it seems like interviews are a separate content available only on the website...
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László Krasznahorkai Writes Because He Fails
The Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai on his notoriously long sentences, our estrangement from beauty, and why he would “never voluntarily reread” one of his books.
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Ana Maria Barral @bioprof.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
OMG Paraguay! 🇵🇾 That was amazing ⚽
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Waging Nonviolence @wagingnonviolence.org · 22/06/2026
Campaign Nonviolence Action Days invites people into the existing movement toward a nonviolent, equitable and livable world.
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Nonviolent solutions are everywhere
Campaign Nonviolence Action Days invites people into the existing movement toward a nonviolent, equitable and livable world.
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Ana Maria Barral @bioprof.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Just subscribed!
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Ana Maria Barral @bioprof.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Yes and yes, thank you for the shout-out to @tinyearthnet.bsky.social
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
🧪 #philsci
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Jonathan Jacobs @bioinformer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Hey #genomics and #bioinformatics community: I need an "endorsement" in order to submit a preprint to @arxiv.bsky.social 😭 I'm registered, but can't submit our preprint to q-bio\GN (Genomics) section until we get an endorsement from an existing arXiv author w/endorse privileges. that you? plz DM me🙏
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Ana Maria Barral @bioprof.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Que tristeza! El profe era tan erudito, súper inteligente, y tan amable.
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harmodio @harmodio.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Buen camino, profe Raúl Pacheco Vega. Fuiste y serás siempre el investigador más chido.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026
Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 18/05/2026
How will populations across the world change in the 21st century? 🔧 Explore for yourself with our new interactive tool!
An image of the new interactive population simulation tool from Our World in Data, showing South Korea.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I wrote about the topsy-turvy un-realism of fascism and the ignore-ance of its comfortable enablers—who by their very use of the term "nonviolent" ignore an already brutally violent situation, and demand perpetual sacrificial performances to secure their support. www.the-reframe.com/are-you-brav...
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Are You Brave Enough for Nonviolence?
People who care, people who don't. Un-realism and ignore-ance. If you aren’t comfortable now, why were you comfortable before?
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Mark “Eco-Anarchist” Graham @emc2g.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
“are you willing to participate in nonviolence? Because if you only demand it from others, you're not nonviolent. You're just hiding behind the bully and giving the victim a thumbs up while they get pounded. That's a violent position if I ever saw one.”
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Simple. Radical. Spiritual. @quakers.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The national Silent Quaker Walking Vigil for Peace will take place in London on Saturday 19 September 2026, the weekend closest to the United Nations International Day of Peace. Information taken from the Ipswich Quaker Meeting House Facebook Page. More in the picture ALT text.
The national Silent Quaker Walking Vigil for Peace will take place in London on Saturday 19 September 2026, the weekend closest to the United Nations International Day of Peace.

The vigil has grown out of conversations and planning amongst Friends from across Britain, supported by the national Faith in Action Team, and seeks to offer a visible, prayerful Quaker witness for peace in our current times.

The walk will begin and end with Meeting for Worship and will take place silently and at a gentle pace. A circular route is planned, beginning and ending in Victoria Embankment Gardens, with a pause midway for worship, likely outside St Martin-in-the-Fields. Final details are still being confirmed as permissions are arranged with Westminster Council and the police.

The vigil is intended to be family friendly, and children and young people are warmly welcome.

Friends intending to come are encouraged to sign up via: quakervigilforpeace@gmail.com
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
*laughs in archivist* It always amuses me at how little historical material is actually not only digitized but also made available online compared to what lay people think.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Chief Justice John Roberts should be impeached and removed from the Supreme Court.
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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
💥🇭🇺🗳️ BREAKING: Péter Magyar says Viktor Orbán called to concede and congratulate him. Magyar will be Hungary’s next prime minister and, as it stands, is set to secure a 2/3 supermajority – enough to fully dismantle Orbán’s system. A 16-year chapter is over.
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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
What really bugs me is that there's a big chunk of the left that seems completely unaware that there is a whole lefty tradition with roots in various organized religions. Catholic Workers, Jewish Voice for Peace, Black church leaders, Engaged Buddhism, and more.
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.
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Iran
Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
'What emerges may look like evidence, but it primarily measures uptake. It does not measure the need or fit of the tool. And it tells us very little about whether the tool should exist in classrooms at scale.' Will sound familiar to academics grappling with HE EdTech adoption.
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Three red flags for “evidenced-based” EdTech - LSE Impact
Natalia I. Kucirkova outlines three ways claims about "evidence based" EdTech can be misleading and instrumentalised as part of market entry strategies.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/04/2026
Great stuff from @espiers.bsky.social:
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The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites
I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, and now every time a reactionary Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for Th...
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 01/04/2026
Leaked calls confirm that Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó is being run as a Russian intelligence asset in the halls of the European Union and NATO at the highest levels. Incredibly damning transcripts. Another EU foreign minister has likened Szijjártó to Kim Philby.
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Kremlin hotline: Hungary colluded with Russia to delist sanctioned oligarchs, companies and banks
A hotline between Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave Moscow strategic information on critical EU…
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
No Kings is international! Hope to see U.S. citizens and allies abroad out protesting!
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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 04/03/2026
Sánchez ha recuperado el “no a la guerra” que movilizó a la izquierda española en 2003 y fue el preludio de una pérdida del poder por parte del PP en 2004 tras los atentados del 11-M. “El mundo ya ha estado aquí antes"
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Pedro Sánchez, ante el ataque de Estados Unidos e Israel a Irán: “No a la guerra, no vamos a apoyar este desastre”
El presidente del Gobierno contesta a Trump sin citarlo: “No vamos a ser cómplices de algo malo para el mundo por miedo a las represalias de alguno”
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Ana Maria Barral @bioprof.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Asking for a frustrated friend: if @verizonofficial.bsky.social locked the app because of "suspicious" activity but the roaming hotline refers to the app to solve issues, what is the person to do? I'm so glad I have the purple 🟣 carrier 😁
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Here's a story about his death www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.
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Ana Maria Barral @bioprof.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Yes, thank you. And I'd add that the faculty who know most about education are teaching faculty. Either in mostly teaching institutions or whose main responsibility is to teach.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 18/02/2026
This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
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Ana Maria Barral @bioprof.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Thank you for the timely reminder 😁
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Ana Maria Barral @bioprof.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
That is so lovely and prescient and true, @nnedi.bsky.social Loved The Death of the Author 🙏❤️📚
In the last days of humanity, humans cultivated a growing disdain for their own soul. Many didn't even believe in the sanctuary of the creative process anymore, they wanted to eliminate it and usher in automation to do the work. But it didn't go the way humans wanted or expected; creativity meant experiencing, processing, understanding human joy and pain. For a robot to create a human, humanity had to ensure that a piece of themselves could live in us.
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Ana Maria Barral @bioprof.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
That was hard to read but necessary. Thank you for sharing it!
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Ana Maria Barral @bioprof.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Such a well written piece. Remaining empathetic and creative is more important than ever.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
New article! On the Epstein files, the cruelty of the release, and the crimes that came before: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/jackhammer...
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Jackhammering Into the Sewer
A look through the Epstein files.
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Ana Maria Barral @bioprof.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🧪 have to check this out ! @tinyearthnet.bsky.social
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 28/01/2026
Every "low and despised" person rejected by the elites has that of God in them. Every outcast has a home in the blessed community. And when they come together in love and solidarity, it can be, as George Fox urged us to be, "a terror to all the adversaries of God." quaker.org/2026/01/26/w...
Two protestors marching down a Minneapolis street carry a white sheet upon which is written WE BEAR WITNESS. Next to them, another protestor carries a homemade sign in the shape of a shield bearing the legend DEFEND LOVE.
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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
DreamHaven Books owner Greg Ketter emerging from a cloud of tear gas that ICE agents fired into the streets of Minneapolis.
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Ana Maria Barral @bioprof.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
As always, superb analysis by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social My fav quote: "As for restoring integrity, the only way to do it is to live your values and model that for others. Integrity is the one thing that once you lose, you can’t get back. Integrity is a form of power that no oppressor can touch."
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/01/2026
As clergy pray, arrests begin
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/01/2026
Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
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Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE
MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — The faith leaders, who hail from across the country and represent a range of religious traditions, deployed to neighborhoods with significant immigrant populations, where DHS agent...
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Ana Maria Barral @bioprof.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Yup.
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