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StreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 03/09/2026

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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?

Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is great work Alejandra

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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

To be clear, now that the primary is over I want AES to win

Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There’s a symmetry in the public opinion that you’re eliding. Both polities have been engaged in a mutual ratchet of escalating animosity.

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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I mean narrrowly so. Why must we vilify an entire polity?

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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

How about opposing Netanyahu and his band of crazy radicals?

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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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Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I’m totally here for it! Fight the good fight!! ✊

Dan Fulop @danfulop.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hey Keira! (just saying hi, as this popped into my TL)

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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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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

Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation!

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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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Maybe it should be a joint effort with the city? This smells like unfunded IZ. Maybe the city should pay for or itself build the infrastructure part

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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

IDK if I’d call it free, as these sort of forced infra improvements make the apartments more expensive OTOH, in this case the developer *is still* making infra improvements, just for cars…

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Early-life stress-induced gut dysbiosis is ameliorated by nicotinamide treatment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Fair. You might be right there

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Janina Rinke @jannelrinke.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

He’s the worst thing to have ever happened in/for I/P

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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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Even with Twitter blocks, Venezuelans aren’t leaving Twitter. Even the Chavista regime continues to use it

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I would frankly prefer a conversation about I/P instead of petty social media snark, but I didn’t throw the first stone

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As far as I/P is concerned, I have quite a bit of family and tons of childhood friends in Israel. So, I actually care about what happens there, instead of engaging in naive virtue signaling like you do

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Or perhaps I should tell Nandita that you basically called her a bumbling fool FWIW, I really dig your new physics-inspired microbiome research direction. I wish you all the success in the world, truly

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