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Coleen Murphy

@ctmurphy1.bsky.social
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Scientist, citizen, mom, and occasionally athletic; author of "How We Age: The Science of Longevity"

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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 18h
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🌻Tyler Breuch @flattop100.bsky.social · 15h
I think it was an intentional pratfall to keep attention away from this:
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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 20h
Oh, to have the confidence of the men who email me their "theories on aging" and offering to guide my lab in carrying out experiments to prove said theories
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23h
It's one thing to be so incredibly incompetent as Eric Schmitt that your dramatic "GOTCHA" moment falls apart in real time. It is quite another thing to be so incredibly dishonest as Eric Schmitt that you then go on a right-wing show and pretend it didn't happen. "My job is to ask the questions."😜
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23h
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Bills-Chick @bills-chick.bsky.social · 23h
legal wins and losses. We need to view them morally. Was what the frat brothers did morally wrong? Yes. They had minimal consent. Sexual activity should always be enthusiastic between consenting parties. It's clear Jane Doe was too fucked up to remember everything and to give her consent.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22h
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Truth 👇
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Me whenever I see someone taking a phone call on speaker in a crowded place. 😒
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Your taxpayer dollars are being illegally spent to air a literal Trump 2024 campaign ad.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If these stories feel incessant, and overwhelming… it is because they are. These stories are a drumbeat, telling you, telling America, telling the world that our government is being destroyed. This is indistinguishable from a foreign attack on our country. But the attack is coming from within.
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Matt May @mattmay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
To connect another dot: Thiel always seems to be giving money to self-taught Very Special Boys to keep them from going to college. One-dimensional prodigies are valuable to someone who wants to destroy democracy. A liberal education, OTOH, is a direct threat to that.
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Critical Bill. @criticalbill76.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 What Is It? It's a law forbidding throttling appropriated funds. Why Does It Matter? Because Republicans were fascist cunts who fancied themselves above the law in the 1970s too.
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Resistbot @resist.bot · 26/09/2026
The ERA was ratified by the required three-fourths of state legislatures when Virginia ratified in January 2020, but the Archivist of the United States still refuses to certify it, citing a deadline Congress set decades ago. A petition calls on Congress to formally recognize the ERA as ratified.
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Pass the ERA honoring Gloria Steinem & Dolly Parton
> ACTION ITEM!: now is the time to push to get The Equal Rights Amendment passed in Gloria Steinem’s honor. (Add Dolly Parton‘s name to that as well if…
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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We were discussing an interview with a uni pres (not ours) who is proud to have avoided probs w trump bc they are pushing this lie of "lack of trust" - w/o saying who is pushing the lie
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elite universities mea culpas about the “loss of trust” in higher education so often fail to consider the force of the longterm propagandistic attack on universities, given extensive play in conservative media, that long preceded Trump, but which he has massively accelerated.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Important thread I’ll admit i was unaware of the scope of what they have been doing It’s enormous
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
These are the 7 Cornell fraternity boys who ruined that young girl's life. Matthew Ingalls Jonathan Newell (also spelled Johnathan Newell) Winston Lee Gillio Lopes Diego Sarabia Scott Norris Scott Kretzschmar www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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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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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"We're here today to say... war criminals are not welcome in this city &.. this is bigger than just Netanyahu. This is about the fact that our govt has been funding and enabling genocide & apartheid & it has to stop" Beth Miller from Jewish Voice for Peace in New York yesterday.
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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Epic lecturing of LAPD for violating a court order. Most of LA cops are moonlighting as ICE slave catchers.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's a lot to say about this, and other folks are saying most of it. I just want to focus on one thing: the claim about the relationship between universities and "the real world."
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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This came up at an informal faculty lunch the other day and all the men were freaked out. It's unbelievable
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🇺🇸Blue Dot in Red Missouri🇺🇸Antifa🇺🇸REPEAL CITIZENS UNITED!🇺🇸 @mshoemaker3.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don’t want peaceful politics after the 2026 midterms,nor after the 2028 presidential election! I expect the political criminals to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,and our constitutional laws to be strengthened for the future generations!
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 24/09/2026
The Trump admin keeps trying ways to break and take over NIH and we keep pushing back and winning. Two takeaways: 1. Together we have power; your voice matters. 2. This isn’t over; they are going to keep trying more ways to take over NIH and science for their political ends. Be ready!
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i don’t know how to make it any plainer that the vast majority of dem voters believe holding people accountable IS part of “getting back to work”
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
“Let Donald Trump save face” is how you got January 6 *and* why faced no consequences for doing it.
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A kidney-disease-linked protein variant failed to reach worm cilia and fell to about 15% of its normal level in nerve cells. A healthy copy still reached cilia and supported normal behavior. doi.org/hcj9sv
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A tiny worm helps scientists unravel a genetic clue to kidney disease
A microscopic worm that has no kidneys is helping Rutgers scientists understand a genetic change suspected of causing a serious inherited kidney disease.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I just checked my voter registration. I encourage all of you to do the same. Try your state's official site. AVOID VoteSafe.Org. It's an Elon Musk scam to harvest data.
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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's not that I dispute the data. But everyone I've seen saying that a woman can be elected president is a man. I'm not sure y'all fully understand the devastation to women that was watching two highly qualified women lose to an utterly unqualified & incompetent man.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
because the ny times wants to kneecap AOC the way they did hillary clinton. they don't do this for any other politician but her. and we must pound them into the dust for this.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I really hope people understand that stories like this are not anomalies or “mistakes.” They’re not the result of hospitals misunderstanding the law or legislative growing pains. This is simply what happens when you allow the government to interfere in pregnancy.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Can you give my dad back? I miss him.” 💔 ICE kidnapped her father Luis at a DOT inspection. Her mother says he is legal and did everything the right way. #AbolishICE
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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"If you allow the most wealthy and powerful segment of society to opt out of public services, those public services will get worse." Yes! (see also: charter schools in places like Princeton)
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Russell Vought cannot be given the power to decide what science is funded. He knows nothing about science; in fact, he seems to hate it and everyone who does it. And he has all of the worst characteristics of humanity. The Republican Congress is a fucking disease.
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Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court on Monday ordered Missouri to reinstate a gerrymandered map that eliminates a Democratic district in Kansas City, even though the state has already distributed ballots. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Missouri again ordered to use gerrymandered map for midterms — Supreme Court likely to decide
The circuit court ruling injects even more confusion into a year-long battle over which map the state will use for the general election.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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STAT @statnews.com · 21/09/2026
“We should be strengthening our investment in the NIH, not dismantling it,” writes Reed Jobs. www.statnews.com/2026/09/21/n...
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The NIH budget should be $100 billion per year
“We should be strengthening our investment in the NIH, not dismantling it,” writes Reed Jobs.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What does a sniper position at Memorial Circle actually defend against? Not China. Not a submarine. Not a missile. It overlooks a bridge, a traffic circle, and the front door of the National Mall. Those are places where Americans march. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 20/09/2026
their flawed views of the constitution, role of the executive and the Supreme Court, and governance of agencies. If we don’t push back on the presidential power grabs over government, we will never fix science for the long run.
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You do understand that everything he's doing to Washington DC is about fortifying the city when he decides he's not leaving office
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hbalaresists.bsky.social @hbalaresists.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Kennedy Center does NOT belong to Trump. It belongs to the People! He's destroying EVERYTHING and Republicans won’t stop this. Just like with the East Wing, the gilded of statues, the arch. Vulgarity and ignorance reign supreme... This shirt is perfect for Halloween 🎃👇
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American Horror! by Liberal Tees
Wear with pride!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I hesitate to over-learn anything from a single example, but Ossoff is a good argument for theory that people want a liberal who fights and this often gets missed in the spineless centrists vs. unelectable leftists discourse.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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