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Sean Ekins

@collabchem.bsky.social
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#PhD, #DSc, #CEO #CollaborationsPharma, #GenerativeDrugDiscovery, #WinningGrants #RareDiseases #BattenDisease #ML #AI #DualUse #Jazz #UnknownKillerRobots #DrugDiscovery

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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 8h
Sen. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.), a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, is urging the administration to pull back on its immigration sweeps. He says ICE is removing people who have been part of their communities for years. www.rawstory.com/jim-justice-...
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GOP senator shocks with 'remarkable break from Trump': 'Maybe we're doing something wrong'
Sen. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.), a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, is urging the administration to pull back on its immigration sweeps. He says ICE is removing people who have been part of their c...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 44m
"For decades, we've provided election coverage that's based on in-depth political reporting by an experienced team of journalists backed by commentary from political leaders. But now we're throwing that aside so we can tell you what some of the most irredeemable uninformed gamblers are guessing."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 43m
Too much of a fuckup for the Trump White House. Jesus.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 40m
Given that Secretary of Grooming Regs Pete Hegseth trotted out his "no beardos, no fatties" shit again today, I'm going to throw this back onto the timeline.
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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 1h
People were upset when the government tried to position AIDS as an equal-opportunity disease in the 1980s. They’re at it again with an HIV plan that doesn’t mention the key populations at higher risk, incl gay men, trans women, Black & Latino people, sex workers, PWID, homeless. What’s the point?
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 9h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Sean Ekins @collabchem.bsky.social · 14m
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Collaborations Pharmaceuticals, Inc. case studies describe the safe real-world applications of AI over the past decade
Collaborations Pharmaceuticals, Inc. highlights how select case studies from a decade of using AI have positive applications for research and development.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
for the second straight day, Trump -- face drooping -- is struggling to stay awake during a televised event
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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2h
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h
He's so far gone he can't even maintain consciousness as his little toadies blow him
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h
Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4h
This is an example of why Donald Trump is just a simple-minded bought-and-paid-for stooge for tech when he talks about AI being self-regulating.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11h
Ebola is spreading through Congo faster than it did in West Africa. Trump’s USAID cuts weakened detection systems as the virus spread undetected for weeks. Now 3,924 are dead, health workers are striking, and a politician was beaten to death after urging people to take Ebola seriously.
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Ebola is out of control in Congo after Trump's USAID cuts weakened its early detection system
Congo is facing its deadliest Ebola outbreak as it spreads faster than it did in the W Africa epidemic. Trump’s USAID cuts weakened warning and sample-transport systems that experts say contributed to...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“You don’t have to stretch to paint this picture: OpenAI models are attacking websites and taking anything they can out of them because that is the business model of the company.”
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Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American Prospect
OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“We’re losing billions and we’re making a product that’s an existential threat to humanity” is a hell of sales pitch www.ft.com/content/c768...
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Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectus
Long-awaited S1 filing reports Claude maker lost $8bn last year on $4.6bn in revenue
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's difficult to engage in diplomacy when you're too simple-minded to think about anyone except yourself . . .
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
he's fine
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/09/2026
Russell Vought is upset his ideas are overwhelmingly unpopular, but he won’t stop until he is the evil henchman for all NIH grants. 🧵
The graphic displays a photo of Russell Vought and the red Stand Up for Science logo. The graphic reads: "Update: Russell Vought joins the war on cancer, on the side of cancer."
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand sharing a billing with Jay Bhattacharya, RFK Jr, and Dr Oz is really all you need to know about what MAHA is (it's one and the same as the manosphere: www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...)
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Nurse Ratched @nurseratched64.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.
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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026
In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mild consideration & curiosity might lead one to think that putting Peter Thiel at the heart of 🇬🇧’s NHS and military logistics might not be prudent…
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unnerving @washingtonpost.com exclusive: US and Russia worked in secret to remove "a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of artificial intelligence in weapons." For instance, leave targeting to AI, no human review required. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4yWadkR
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oops 🙄
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“OpenAI has said it has notified dozens of entities of instances in which its models bypassed security controls or negatively affected websites” OK, see also: my reporting above, in which OpenAI’s model helped a school shooter ‘bypass security controls’—literally its own www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
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OpenAI Agents Used Aggressive Techniques to Access U.N. Website
Autonomous bots hit the public data site more than 16,000 times and circumvented a filter.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Denmark is trolling Trump.
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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Donald Trump. Corrupt as hell.
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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since Manchester City’s owners are guilty of systematic cheating, surely the punishments (relegation, huge fines, transfer bans) should also including stripping them of their right to run a football club?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No more shoulder-shrugging when a machine programmed by a person commits a crime. That means the person, not the machine, has committed a crime.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Vought broke the law when he tried to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). He also made it easier for wealthy corporations to cheat average Americans. www.courthousenews.com/judge-orders... Time to impeach & convict. ImpeachVought.com
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Judge orders feds to restore consumer watchdog funding
Created from the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $20 billion to consumers since its inception, according to the plaintiff states.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"A woman leaving the facility 'dropped to her knees. She did the sign of the cross in extreme relief. As if coming out of a nightmare,' he said... “May we never become so accustomed to suffering that we stop seeing the humanity of those experiencing it.” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Amid whistleblower claims, advocates ask lawmakers to visit ICE office in Miramar
Community leaders demand Florida lawmakers investigate Miramar ICE facility amid whistleblower allegations of severe overcrowding and filthy facilities
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As Office of Management & Budget Director, Russell Vought continues to knowingly & willfully break the law. Yesterday, he again attempted a pocket rescission of almost $1B, alerting Congress of plan not to use appropriated funds with too little time for them to act. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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Trump Proposes $810 Million in Education and Health Cuts, Defying Congress
The attempted clawback represents the second time in as many years that the White House has sought to cancel funding approved by lawmakers.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Whenever these “dangerous foods” recalls happen under RFK Jr’s watch, someone always finds a photo of him looking exactly like the recalled product 🤣
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🤮🤮😱😱
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 25/09/2026
FYI to everyone submitting this October NIH cycle You need to re-certify your ScienCV AFTER Sept 26 (tomorrow) for your application or it may not be accepted. Great timing!
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Science peeps: Looks like SciENcv updated the digital certificate used to sign Biosketch and Current & Pending documents without notification. The old certificate expires Saturday, September 26, 2026. SciENcv docs before that date may fail validation in eRA Commons delaying or blocking submission.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 26/09/2026
Science world (and everyone who knows someone with cancer or dementia): Keep an eye on this! It looks like another try at the pocket rescission gambit.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Folks, we are going ti need to LOCK IN this last week of September (and the fiscal year).
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Trump declares $1B canceled in ‘pocket rescission’ in another affront to Congress’ funding power
Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the tactic is illegal.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But hey! I’m sure American science is in totally good hands!!!! I’m sure we are totally going to see evidence based policy!
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Anyway: bsky.app/profile/cdel... I need to log off for the night lest I get myself in more trouble.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wait one more thing. “ThIs Is PuRiTy TeStInG!” Someone who voted to fully fund ICE, provided money for INTERNMENT CAMPS FOR KIDS, has voted to stripe voting rights, allowed millions to die post-USAID, funded genocide, and supports flock cameras and data centers…IS NOT AN ALLY TO SCIENCE.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 26/09/2026
I want to draw attention to this as often as I can - not only is this *action* terrible, the intention behind it is to consolidate power and eliminate the three branches of government. The courts are already severely compromised. The power of the purse belongs to Congress.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
LETS GO NYC ✊
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“.. a surreal week in the life of Washington. The president of the United States barred American reporters .. and rolled out a literal red carpet for the communist president of China ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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bluevoter24.bsky.social @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck the GOP. #politics
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It would have been easier to write down the delegations that *stayed* to listen to the war criminal's lies.
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