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Dan Fulop

@danfulop.bsky.social
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Caraqueño | Evol 🌱 Biologist / recovering orchidologist | Velocipedder 🚲 | DataSci/Bioinfo 🇺🇸🇻🇪🇵🇸🕊️🇮🇱

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Among the alleged statements by the professor: “The goyim have woken up, Jew. Run. Flee. Leave.”
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A Haverford professor called antisemitism complaints 'Zionist witch hunts.' Authorities say he was stalking a Jewish person online.
Professor Guangtian Ha, arrested Tuesday for cyberstalking, once referred to student attempts to combat antisemitism as 'Zionist witch hunts'
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 22h
Came back bc Prof. Ha's work was close to mine--his new project was on blackness and Indian Ocean Islam. I had a series of negative interactions with him after Oct. 7, read the room, and quietly added him to my blocklist, non-reviewers list, and refused requests to give feedback on his writing...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Bumblebee asleep on a tomatillo flower
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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Of course, because it confirms your priors, you’re falling for a completely made up story that’s likely IRI disinformation 💀💀💀
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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We don’t hate anti-vaxxers enough!
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StreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 03/09/2026
State police and the District Attorney's office have not yet offered any information about the August 21 crash that led to Rose's death. This is a developing story and we'll add information as soon as it becomes available. mass.streetsblog.org/2026/09/03/m...
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MIT Professor Dies of Injuries Sustained In Previously Unreported Crash On Memorial Drive - Streetsblog Massachusetts
State Police, who are responsible for investigating fatal crashes and homicides on state-controlled roadways like Memorial Drive, have not released any information about Rose's death or the crash that...
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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hivemind: Can you connect me with people in Organic Ag that are knowledgeable about the crop protection needs of that industry? Thank you in advance!
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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Our recent episode "Flower Power" featured Guest David George Haskell and special host Clayton Glasgow, who discussed the key roles of flowers in ecosystem development, flowers' distinct genomic traits, and the significant relationship between humans and flowers.
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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Re-upping to see if someone knowledgeable chimes in
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🏺 Just have to share the incredible beauty not only of ancient archives, but of scholarly work in translating & recording them, including olds-kool hand-drawn illustrations. Here's a tablet from Tell al-Rimah, ancient Qattara, around 1800 BCE, recording agricultural produce. From Dalley 1976
Screenshot of digitized double page spread from Dalley 1976 publication on Tell al-Rimah tablets. It shows both sides of a fragmented but large clay tablet, upon which many columns of cuneiform writing are seen. The drawing of the tablet itself is in black and white with shading, and is exquisite.
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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
How good are LLMs at writing Stan code or code for another Bayesian sampler? What about Julia?
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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
THIS!!
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Both are city vehicles, but... Only one demands minimal space, doesn't threaten lives, and causes zero wear on our roads. Yet the cargo bike has to beg for every single scrap of safe infrastructure, while the massive SUV is just handed the entire city by default.
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Nicholas Mancuso @nmancuso.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
v0.2.0 of jaxqtl is out! Now supports dosages, MAF filtering, and fixed a few bugs that could result in models not converging in rare cases. We're still actively developing and plan to get addition features (eg GxE, etc) integrated soon. github.com/mancusolab/j...
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GitHub - mancusolab/jaxqtl: Flexible, scalable, QTL analyses using generalized linear models implemented in JAX
Flexible, scalable, QTL analyses using generalized linear models implemented in JAX - mancusolab/jaxqtl
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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Any Boston peeps here into the British band Jungle?
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Bayesian Workflow free pdf! statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/25/b...
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Bayesian Workflow free pdf! | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.
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Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🥔🧬Melatonin boosts salt tolerance in potato via StMYB55 & StWRKY28, which drive flavonoid biosynthesis. Overexpressing StMYB55 enhances stress resilience by activating flavonoid genes A key module for breeding salt-resistant potato. #plantsci @plantphys.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
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Melatonin enhances salt tolerance by inducing StMYB55 to improve flavonoid accumulation in potato
Melatonin boosts salt tolerance in potatoes by activating 2 key proteins that enhance protective flavonoid production, guiding efforts to develop salt-tole
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Natalie Alms @almsnatalie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You may remember that Trump fired nearly 20 inspectors general last year after he took office. The transformation of the system of watchdogs has continued since. They're "scared to do anything," one senior OIG official told us of those who are left. www.notus.org/agencies/tru...
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From Watchdogs to ‘Lapdogs’: Inside the Trumpification of Agencies’ Inspectors General
Between canceled reports, deleted pages and mass firings, the government is getting less oversight.
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Bacterial lipid structural diversity mediates commensalism and pathogenesis www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
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Bacterial lipid structural diversity mediates commensalism and pathogenesis - Nature Reviews Microbiology
In this Review, Heaver and Ley overview the different lipid structures present in commensal and pathogenic bacteria and their recognition by Toll-like receptor 2, Toll-like receptor 4 and CD1 molecule...
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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Here is the op-ed that was canceled at the last minute because of fears for legal threats from Cofnas. If you know an outlet that might be interested, let me know. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/apv1p...
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Carrie M. Tribble, PhD @tribblelab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hello world! You bored? My research group is documenting flower color variation and you can help! check out tribblelab.org/flower_color... and dm me with any technical difficulties or issues. Share with your friends! The more players the better.
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In Bloom — Flower Color Quiz
A crowdsourced flower-color observation quiz.
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John Hawks @johnhawks.net · 20/08/2026
I wrote about the impending end of U.S. federal funding for archaeology and anthropology in April. August numbers (reported in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...) show that no new grants have been awarded this year. www.johnhawks.net/p/us-federal...
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U.S. federal support for human origins research may be over
The field is generating more new discoveries than ever, but significant setbacks for students and many researchers.
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Early-life stress-induced gut dysbiosis is ameliorated by nicotinamide treatment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Janina Rinke @jannelrinke.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Excited to share that our paper on Horizontal Gene Transfer is now out in its final form in @gigascience.bsky.social! 🥳 By analysing 163 high-quality ant genomes, we show that HGT from bacteria is widespread across the ants and likely has adaptive functions! doi.org/10.1093/giga... 🐜📸: Alex Wild
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“Big Oil’s use of AI to produce more oil and gas could create 3.3 to 13.3 times more climate pollution than powering AI’s data centers”
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Terrific piece Relman "does not explain why a majority of scientists currently favor a natural origin for COVID-19 — it is because this is where currently available data point to"
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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
For the record, William Shoemaker @manateemindset.bsky.social, I’d consider myself a post/non-zionist. I’d love to see a confederation à la “A Land for All” or a single binational state I didn’t actually tell Andy Kern @pastramimachine that you had been smearing him for months, but maybe I should…
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18/08/2026
"You were riding in the morning, or at night, or on a quiet road, or a main road. The only time and place to ride a bike is a time beyond time and a place beyond place, where the space-time continuum is bent so strangely that you are both everywhere and nowhere." buff.ly/bSa1Wm5
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You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault
You were riding during rush hour Why were you riding then? There are way too many cars on the road. If you were commuting, you should have contacted your bos...
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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Revised version of "Bridge sampling diagnostics" with Giorgio Micaletto arxiv.org/abs/2508.14487 - extended experiments with reference values - better diagnostic for estimate reliability - new hybrid score-matching proposal significantly improving the stability of the estimator 1/4
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In Bayesian statistics, the marginal likelihood is used for model selection and averaging, yet it is often challenging to compute accurately for complex models. Approaches such as bridge sampling, while effective, suffer from high variance when the proposal distribution overlaps poorly with the target posterior. To quantify this variance, we present a closed-form Monte Carlo standard error (MCSE) estimator for bridge sampling, extending classical variance approximations with a multi-chain effective-sample-size correction for autocorrelated MCMC draws and an exact log-scale variance. We show that the MCSE estimate itself is structurally capped at about 1.05, so values near this cap signal saturation rather than precision, and our calibration experiments show that the MCSE can be trusted when it is below 0.3. Furthermore, we introduce a hybrid score-matching proposal that regularizes the sample covariance using the local posterior geometry, significantly improving the stability of the estimator, and we demonstrate the efficacy of these methods using increasingly difficult simulated posteriors and real posteriors from the posteriordb database.
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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We love to see it!
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Not Fauci writing about me in his diary to compliment my Twitter combat proficiency vs problematic old academic white men 😎
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/08/2026
There are academics who falsified entire Datasets for years, their work leading to FEDERAL POLICIES that have gotten less coverage. Lucy Calkins and Columbia University's Teacher's College made it so a whole generation of kids barely learned to read and they didn't get this much attention.
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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A non scientist friend tells me that a scholar/colleague in my field has been stalking me and posting screenshots of my posts (must be my Twitter posts) with malicious commentary It’s Shabbat now, so I won’t get the details until this evening at the earliest because my friend is observant
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Arnon Degani ארנון @arnondeg.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
New article! 🧵 "Zionism’s flipside: a reconsideration of settler colonialism in Israel/Palestine." Out now in the Journal of Israeli History. This mother f-er was rejected for years as being either too Zionist or too anti-Zionist. That should tell you something.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Russell Vought, Director of the OMB, has issued a set of proposed changes that would dramatically alter federal grant funding. However, we can each take action to prevent these from taking effect. Here's how, a 🧵 🧪 1/n www.science.org/content/arti...
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White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking
Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees
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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Hola Cielo Azul How are y’all doing here today?
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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
kid2 just listened to me intently while I explained how air embolisms in xylem (often caused by winter conditions) prevent plants from bringing water up to their leaves, and how grapevines have the amazing ability to repair such embolisms This kinda made my day 🥰💚
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The weird new ant paper that shows queens laying eggs of a completely different species has me thinking that more species are probably cloning sperm in their spermathecae than we’d thought. After all, most queens only mate once and cloning would be a great mechanism for keeping the party going.
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Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species
Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 03/09/2025
Not really all that happy that the prime years of my life will be spent watching the world have to re-learn all the lessons we learned from 1900-1945
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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Best birthday present
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I'm tired of playing nice. I've been talking to Joe Jacobson from Progressive Action Fund about creating an ad targeting vulnerable members of Congress on cuts to scientific research at NIH and other agencies. I've raise about $30,000 for this but we need $50K. 1/ secure.actblue.com/donate/paf20...
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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
PSA: never plant Goji berry bushes directly in the ground These mfers are tenaciously invasive These shoots continue to come up from a few bits of root within a week or so of being removed I’m gonna have to dig up this whole section to remove any root remnants
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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
lol, mushroom fruiting bodies poking out of my worm compost bin
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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I go by there all the time. They hosted the dinner for the Law v. Antisemitism conference.
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Oregon Jewish Museum defaced with swastikas; police seek help in similar incident elsewhere
Two incidents in two months are being investigated as hate crimes.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/08/2025
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I just found a dead and rotting bunny in our garden shed FUCK! How do I get rid of it safely?!
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Instead of mitigating transportation costs, auto interest deductions are a $30B giveaway to the affluent and those who sell cars for a living. The new GOP tax break will further push people to drive, worsening pollution, road safety, and inequality. It’s a near-platonic ideal of terrible policy.
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The High Costs of Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ New Car Loan Deduction
By letting some buyers deduct interest on auto loans, the GOP megabill promises to lower transportation bills. But this tax break could do the opposite.
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