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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 15h

Here are the details: literally any time, any place, any network.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

Adam's account of what's going on at the universities in Texas is horrifying! Every paragraph is somehow worse than the one that came before. But it's required reading for exactly that reason. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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All the Things You’re Not Allowed to Say In Texas

The state now controls what professors can teach.

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Sitting on a corn flake @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

David Sedaris on undecided voters

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

4 reasons the Trump administration is attacking science. 🧵 This is still one of the most common questions I hear from people - but why!? Isn't science good for everyone?! So, here is my current thinking on why...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Nothing to worry about, just the attorney general of Texas and a possible future U.S. senator engaging in a conspiracy-fueled crackdown on pediatricians administering life-saving vaccines to vulnerable children www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...

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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)

Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026

NEW: I have obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Trump's name in the Epstein files for supervisory review. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

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EXCLUSIVE: MSW Media has Obtained Descriptions of NINE Epstein Files Redaction Training Videos in FOIA Lawsuit

Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.

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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

webrarian is a new R package. It turns a folder of R scripts and data into a static website where R runs in the visitor's browser, with no compute server and nothing to install. blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/introd... #rstats #webr #webassembly

A card for the R package webrarian. Large text reads "A folder in. A website out." On the left, a small card lists a folder named lab-01 holding lab.R, setup.R and a data folder. A red arrow points from it to a browser window that shows a scatterplot of car weight against miles per gallon with brick-red points. The address coatless-wasm.github.io/webrarian is on the card.

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Breah LaSarre @blasarre.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And please forgive my error. I meant SeqCoast. Not CoastSeq. I should know better than to post something without proofreading. 🤦‍♀️

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Breah LaSarre @blasarre.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thank you for the recommendation!

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Thanks for the recommendation!

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Breah LaSarre @blasarre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What are people’s experiences or thoughts on SeqCenter vs CoastSeq for ONT sequencing? Is there a noticeable difference in sequence quality/turnaround time/etc? We will have 10+ samples to submit soon but have limited DNA so can’t try both places. Or is there a 3rd place I should consider? Thanks!

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 03/10/2026

Mark Zuckerberg tells investors that his AI push is a huge success. But when it files its taxes, Meta tells the IRS its giant data centers are an experiment that might fail. Why? Because calling them an experiment lets Meta claim a tax credit meant for real research.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 29/09/2026

This is an astonishing self-own by the Internal Revenue Service that will keep scores of hardworking, tax-paying, non-refund-seeking immigrants from paying billions in federal taxes. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/b...

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Trump Administration Prepares to Ask Tax Filers if They Are U.S. Citizens (Gift Article)

The new question, included on a draft version of the primary tax form, comes as part of an anti-immigrant turn at an agency that long prioritized tax administration.

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road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Zach Lahn, the Republican candidate for Governor of Iowa, has since deleted his profile. It's not the first time a politician has been caught out by the exercise app's tracking and mapping features. road.cc/news/cycling...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

this is legitimately very funny

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026

Love Daniel Dale & his work, but this piece is very frustrating. There's nothing in here about *why* Trump behaves the way he does, what it says about his psyche or his personality, how it ought to inform the way reporters or voters should deal with him. It's just, "gosh, he lies a lot!"

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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics

Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tragic. “”None of us have any experience treating this disease, because up until a couple of months ago, it didn’t occur,” said Dr. John Goldman, an infectious disease expert at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The learning curve among doctors, he said, is “very steep.””

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...

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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We’ve now reached the point of “black site” hearings – secret, illegal hearings as part of Trump & Stephen Miller’s wretched crusade to detain & deport our immigrant neighbors. Quite literally: hidden tribunals that disappear people.

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DHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal Plaza

A reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is an excellent summary of the state of play and players in the proposed/axed/postponed executive order saga that would have given Vought and OMB funding-item level control over NIH research decisions:

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Trump Backtracks on Plan for New Controls on N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)

Democrats and Republicans in Congress opposed the creation of a commission with the power to veto federal research awards.

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John Lovell @jotlovell.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

We are often asked whether pangenomes are worth the hassle. The files can be large and methods to explore them are much more challenging than linear references. Earlier this week, we preprinted a clear example of how and why pan-genome graphs are so important for trait discovery.

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Joe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hate to do this with real data, but this is a persistent data vis issue in chromosome synteny riparian plots that we Need to get better at. Left, a synteny plot published today. Right, a rearranged version with exactly the same gross arrangement but with reordered chromosomes:

chromosome synteny riparian plot in which every chromosome has crossing lines

chromosome synteny plot in which no chromosomes have crossing lines. The underlying structure is identical.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Update on the condition of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez at the South Texas Ice Processing Center. He’s being taken to the hospital. He is in tremendous pain and tells us that the bullet is still inside his left side. He can’t move the left side of his body.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Did you know that DHS is authorized by Congress to intentionally defame private individuals all day, every day and it cannot be sued for defamation? Now that you know that, does it make you more or less likely to believe anything it says? (Oh, he didn't illegally enter)

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 21/09/2026

This is happening to my clients. Makes it impossible for me to know if they're still in Minnesota or even in America. ICE can shuttle them around without my knowledge and, unless they get word to me, I have no way to access them as counsel

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026

The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals

A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.

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Nature @nature.com · 20/09/2026

A man with an uncommon type of motor neuron disease experienced improved symptoms after becoming the first person to receive a drug designed to target the genetic mutation that causes his disease go.nature.com/4ArQ08j

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First for RNA therapy: man with rare motor-neuron disease improves after treatment

Nature - Gene-targeting treatments could be used to treat other people with rare forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What Trump has realized is that to really defend Washington from terrorists and antifa and other bad guys you need to concentrate the drones and machine gunners in one highly visible building that can be attacked line of sight from any direction or just blown up.

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Petra Levin @redrockcity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

4 years (!) in the making, in this review Jade Wang and I detail the fundamental processes underlying growth, the cell autonomous nature of homeostatic control, and the contribution of stochasticity to both. TL;DR Bacteria are more like teenagers than you think. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Bacterial growth rate in populations and single cells - Nature Microbiology

In this Perspective, Levin and Wang give a brief history of bacterial growth rate and discuss how it is connected to nutrient availability and macromolecule synthesis, with a focus on (p)ppGpp as a ce...

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026

This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...

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Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets

The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When even MDPI decides your article needs to be retracted…woof.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.

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Tulilab.com @tulilab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

IU is hiring a virologist. I am so excited. Come join a great group of scientists and people.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🌊 Kelp forests are estimated to be losing ~1.8% (~11,500 km²) of their area annually. The striking part? The carbon-sink capacity lost from the climate-driven decline is 1,000–10,000× larger than the gains achieved via seaweed restoration, afforestation & farming. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Seaweed carbon removal cannot keep up with climate-driven loss

Seaweed forests are widely viewed as natural climate solutions, yet warming oceans are driving their rapid decline. This Essay reveals that losses are outpacing restoration efforts by orders of magnit...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Zohran Mamdani "was the only senior elected official who stayed at the 9/11 memorial ceremony at the WTC until the end…Vance was the first to leave the VIP area, and other elected officials began 'schmoozing.'" Per Steve Kastenbaum:

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Mayor Mamdani was the only senior elected official who stayed at the 9/11 memorial ceremony at the WTC until the end. It started at 8:40 AM, and concluded close to 12:30 PM. Most of the other current electeds left at various times. Former Mayors Bloomberg & Giuliani stayed.
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Mamdani stayed until the end of the memorial ceremony at which point he was seen talking with 9/11 victims' family members. All of the other senior elected officials left the 9/11 Memorial before the reading of the names concluded.
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The source tells me that V.P. Vance was the first to leave the VIP area, and other elected officials began "schmoozing." At some point, Mayor Giuliani's people started "bringing people over to talk with him." CORRECTION:I used photos in a previous similar post that were from 2025

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

When everyone is a priority, no one is a priority. That means that Mullin and ICE are going to treat a murderer who just got here with the same level of priority as a guy who’s been here for 25 years raising a family and living like a saint. That’s bad for so many reasons.

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Kind of astonishing to tell this blatant and disprovable of lie about such an emotional national trauma. Trump was in midtown that morning

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