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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 41m

Montreal has a Stargate and the Ghostbusters building??

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Rachel Hutto @rahutto.bsky.social · 12h

This photo sent me on a journey wondering why a device like this would need clearance. It led me to perhaps the most engaging storytelling I’ve read in a declassified document. 😆 Maybe you’ll find it fun too? The discovery by bell labs story was a highlight. media.defense.gov/2021/Jun/30/...

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 12h

While documenting the front lines of the Korean War as a Marine Corps combat photographer, Robert H. Mosier met and befriended a Korean teenager known only by his surname of Kim. Now, more than 70 years later, Mosier's son is hoping to find Kim. From Stars and Stripes' Julie Masson:

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A Marine befriended a local boy during the Korean War. His son hopes to find him

More than 70 years after the Korean War, the son of a late Marine combat photographer is searching for a Korean man who, as a teenager, accompanied his father while he documented the conflict.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 12h

Post your best trees! Baldcypress along the Pedernales River, Texas.

Portrait oriented photograph of a massive old tree with a huge trunk and sculpted roots dipping into shallow turquoise river water on a sunny day.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 13h

"All religions are equal, but some religions are more equal than others." (Paraphrased from Animal Farm. If you’ve not read it, that is your homework)

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 13h

Mr. and Mrs. Flying Tomato-- the bright males are starting to molt out of their breeding plumage, sadly. 🪶

Bright red male vermillion flycatcher perched on a branch.

Female/ juvenile vermillion flycatcher perched on a branch. She's white, yellow and gray.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 13h

Sometimes classified things are pretty darned pedestrian looking.

A box with 3 red buttons and a red switch with a label that says, “SECRET
CLEARED UP TO AND INCLUDING TOP SECRET”

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 13h

On this day, in 2017. Versailles with Hilari. Miss you, Darlin’.

A man and woman looking into a mirror. People are walking behind them.

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Command & Couture @burnafterbriefing.bsky.social · 20h

Real talk? My cheeky governance & strategy threads aren’t just MilSky pedantry. Bake dissent into the DNA of plans, policies, COAs. Whatever you touch. Let em issue edicts. We still shape how, why & when this institution moves. Manage it up. All of it. Make capture structurally difficult again. 💅

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 15h

Graham Greene (with scenes from the Carol Reed film "The Third Man", written for the screen by Greene) - BOTD

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have been curating all of my Nature pictures from around the Davis and Yolo County area in the hopes of making a book or such. Here is an example of something that has come from this - all of my pics of borrowing owls in Davis over the years jonathaneisen.smugmug.com/Nature-Pics/... #birds

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2. Burrowing Owls in Davis CA

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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#FluorescenceFriday Pericytes are tiny cells that surround microvessels. Here we show how single cells wrap their "tentacles" around retinal capillaries 👁️ Color: renders depth bit.ly/3TFifQe @flaumeye.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 22h

Firefighters are the best!

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 22h

One in eight cases of cancer and likely multiple sclerosis is caused by Epstein-Barr. Imagine what we could do for global public he’s with a vaccine for this.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sam Visits, 2026 bryanwjones.com/2026/09/sam-...

$A still life in a museum of bright lights projecting in through colored and clear windows onto a red carpet. There are diffraction patterns in the light from wavy glass.$

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Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m hiring for a new psychology and cognition coach! If you get excited about cool results like in this thread and want to find ways to apply this back to players before games, in the dugout, and after games, check the posting out here: www.teamworkonline.com/baseball-job...

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Psychology & Cognition Coach - Cincinnati Reds

Title: Psychology & Cognition CoachDepartment: Baseball Operations – Baseball Analytics - Psychology & CognitionFLSA Status: Salary - ExemptDate Created: 10/28/2025Date Reviewed: 10/01/2026Minimum Req...

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump hit a new low approval today of 37%. Looks like the GOP is trying to go for Nixon's approval rating when he resigned of 24%. But here is the telling thing: Nixon's *disapproval* of his job performance reached 66% right before he left office. What's Trump's current disapproval rate? ~61%.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a bit of a parlor trick and is being hyped. The images are not being generated de-novo. They are being matched with a known set of prior images or text, meaning that they reconstruct the signals recorded by brain when shown images during training. Verrrry different than reading thoughts.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It took me a moment to realize what I was looking at. Gorgeous.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You, personally are spending, on average ~$2,500 per person that the United States is deporting. We could fund Medicare for 12 Million Americans with that national budget. By the way, you spend only ~$139 a year on biomedical research through the NIH. www.epi.org/publication/...

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The Cost of Deportations Calculator: Technical documentation

Updated August 6, 2026, to correct the teachers, firefighters, and nurses benefits percentages. The National Priorities Project (NPP) at the Institute for Policy Studies has estimated the federal gove...

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Turns out that killing people is hard. And it's complicated. This is roughly 5% of executions that are botched. Setting aside the moral corruption of execution of prisoners, how does one handle professional incompetence? If 5% of airplane trips were fatal... 5% suggests supreme incompetence here.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don’t understand how a “protocol” that depends on non-consensual administration of anesthesia drugs gets past the Geneva Conventions ban on non-therapeutic medical experimentation on civilians, even prisoners who “consent”

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Botched or failed executions happen shockingly often. One study that was published in 2024 counts 73 botched executions out of the 1407 or so lethal injection attempts since 1977, even before you get to the question of racial bias and the other pile of issues.

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am going to be buried with all my data, like the Pharaohs of old

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Experiment: How many of you can hear this gif?

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Command & Couture @burnafterbriefing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The highly medicalized optics around a failed lethal injection seemed the obvi place to take the clash between professional ethics theater/selective contextual governance for a little walk.

BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Alice, waking me this morning.

A tortoiseshell cat in colored bedclothes.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is really good thinking on the ethics and policy of state sponsored killing. It applies to command and control aspects (do we have permission to carry out a military operation that may kill), as it does medical supervision of executions (you are screwing it up, stop). Competence matters.

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Command & Couture @burnafterbriefing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That’s a Dolomedes tenebrosus. Fishing spider. And she’s a lady spider. She likes your mailbox because fishing spiders like having retreats; they kinda pick a home base they hunt from. I’d call her Dolores. She’s a prodigious hunter; if you have garden pests, she’ll make quick work of them.

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Close-up of a Cute Jumping Spider

ALT: Close-up of a Cute Jumping Spider

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/10/2026

"An ambulance was seen arriving at the prison where Pike was to be executed and then leaving. Medical aid was being administered, according to online federal court records." The utter absurdity of the state trying twice to kill someone and then calling an ambulance. We must end the death penalty.

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Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer says

Christa Pike, 50, was 18 when she murdered a classmate. She would be the first woman the state has executed in more than 200 years.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Silly. Silly mood at Chez Jones.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Someone is in a silly mood.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hegseth as SecDef is less a strategy and more of a personality. Thats about as polite as I can be.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every effective culture/organization/society/company, and yes, military is more effective, more profitable, more resistant to attack, more resilient to attacks and more lethal if it is diverse. And yes, I have strong feelings about mechanical keyboards.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Talking w/ friend tonight and I just realized that this administration is using a whole bunch of strategies that Microsoft used years ago (move fast and break things, the stack ranking promotion strategy for employees, etc…). Outcome: stifled innovation, massive loss of morale, and loss of talent.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

More than 10,000 lawyers left federal service from the beginning of 2025 through early 2026 with 3,300 of them leaving the DOJ. These decisions are ethical. They are moral. They are legal.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A reminder: The United States Marine Corps was one of the first organizations within the Department of Defense that recognized climate change. Why? Because it immediately impacts combat planning, logistics and warfighting in littoral zones, where the Marine Corps primarily operates.

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DenseBreast-info.org @densebreastinfo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

DenseBreast-info.org is a comprehensive, medically sourced educational resource. Our mission: to educate on the importance of appropriate additional testing after a mammogram. 🔗 DenseBreast-info.org/europe #DenseBreasts #FindItEarly #WorldDenseBreastDay

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Samer @samer.is · 30/09/2026

Metro in motion

Two people stand on the platform as a metro train goes past

People are blurry as they walk off a metro train seen from the upstairs platform

A train is blurry as it departs the metro station

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Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NIH funding is now based on politics not science 💔🧪Just heard that an excellent lab with whom I have collaborated for years is closing 😡. Highly skilled specialized technical staff laid off & accumulated rare expertise lost probably never to be rebuilt. Hope & future cures lost. I'm so angry & sad.

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Bugs Bunny Crying Scene

Alt: Bugs Bunny Crying Scene

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m having to travel more because my colleagues (scientists, physicians, diplomats, etc…) don’t want to come to America. Go figure…

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I keep carrying this spider further and further away from my mailbox where the mailman shoves mail into. I keep worrying that it’ll get hurt, so I evacuate it and yet, it keeps finding its way back. Kind of amazing.

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Donna Mugavero aka Mugsy @msinformation.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I host a music show on our local NPR station. I will NOT play AI music. Also, my friend group is largely musicians and artists, and we are, in a word, angry.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We present a typology of traps to avoid: 1. Believing that AI systems are minds 2. Believing that AI systems are theories 3. Believing that cognitive science can be automated. Learn to recognise and avoid these traps. Failure to avoid leads to numerous problems.

Table 1: Typology of traps, what goes wrong if not avoided, and how the traps can be avoided. Note that all traps in a sense constitute category errors (Ryle & Tanney, 2009) and the success-to-truth inference (Guest & Martin, 2023) is an important driver in most, if not all, of the traps.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

People saying AI music is so good that the streaming services are dead are clueless as to what music represents, and why music exists… culturally, emotionally, mathematically, spiritually.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/09/2026

One of the most harrowing things about academia, when you're a grad student, is how vulnerable you are to how you're perceived by more senior researchers. Your career advancement depends on confidential letters of reference & private discussions amongst faculty. You have no information or control.

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