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Dan Hoops @danhoops.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Not only is the turn-around time amazing, but the testing all appears have been done in country! Just incredible public health work here.

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Dan Hoops @danhoops.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I remember hearing koala brains occupy only 10% of the cranium... Just another one of those myths, like the one that we only use 10% of our brains.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The leadership of Columbia University is contemptible Vichy scum. To its professors who stay: that’s who you choose to work for, the obeisance to totalitarianism you choose to promote? To students who stay: those are your values?

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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 20/07/2025

The ability to understand what makes us human - from a science and social sense - is being eroded at the nation’s university. Soon it’ll be too late to reverse the cack-handed cuts. Nobody can say they weren’t warned. We warned you. graemeturner.org/2025/07/20/w...

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Why do they hate us? That’s the question academics in the humanities are asking. - Graeme Turner

This is the question I was asked last week. Why are government, the media, even university administrations, so carelessly participating in the gradual demolition of one of the foundation stones of our...

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Reasonable, minimal collective action for a better scholarly publishing ecosystem

First, think twice before sending your work to a for-profit publisher. In biological sciences there are journal lists like DAFNEE that aggregate society and not-for-profit journals. Services like PeerCommunityIn review and publish work FREE OF CHARGE, with journal sections covering the life sciences and more. Invest your APCs back into science.

Second, IGNORE ALL REQUESTS from these publishers. Do not respond to requests to review. Do not respond to requests to head up special collections. Do not become an editor in these journals. Do not subsidise their business model.c

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/06/2025

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

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Dan Hoops @danhoops.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

You can freeze omelettes?!?

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

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Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

A literal miracle - saving this beautiful baby's life with a miraculous procedure built on decades of federal investments in scientific research. Think of how many more we could save. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

/3 The student in question was clearly terrified. But he did it anyway. “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.” bsky.app/profile/jswe...

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Dan Hoops @danhoops.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

For anyone working on insect neurobiology who is looking for a tenure-track position

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Dan Hoops @danhoops.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Merlin has made it possible for people who can’t afford field guides to learn their local birds. In many disadvantaged areas, those people can then find work as birding guides for international tourists. Merlin has worldwide benefits. @cornellbirds.bsky.social

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

30 April 1945 | As Soviet forces neared his command bunker in Berlin Adolf Hitler shot himself. Hitler's Thousand Year Reich lasted twelve years, four months & eight days. We need to commemorate all the victims & remember where ideologies of hatred may lead humanity to.

A newspaper - The Stars and Stripes - informing about the death of Adolf Hitler.

A photo of Adolf Hitler in an army uniform.

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Dan Hoops @danhoops.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Same goes for "No offense, but..." Instead, just shut up.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

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US Applicant Week

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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 02/04/2025

We heard anecdotally that Canadians weren’t visiting the states, now we have the data. A massive, shocking drop.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The claim that the destruction of essential civilizational institutions is being done in the name of the Jews is itself a form of antisemitism—cultural vandalism carried out in our name. That, my friends, is rank bullshit.

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Dan Hoops @danhoops.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Wild to see this gibberish being pointed at Canada

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Tate is like Trump in this sense: the most grotesque thing is not that he exists, but that he’s hugely popular, and what that says about us as a species.

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Dan Hoops @danhoops.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Very embarrassing for Canada

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias. This cause was once championed by *Republicans.* Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

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Oops: Trump-Musk Cuts Just Wrecked an NIH Org Championed by GOPers

Republicans once lavished praise on an NIH center that deals with Alzheimer’s. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are hobbling it. What will they say now?

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Ms. Ghasemzadeh described a sweltering encampment, overrun with cats and dogs. Then, she sent a text message saying that the authorities were confiscating all phones. Her last words: “Please try to help us.” Don't look away. This is happening. Read ⬇️. And, this is why a free press is essential.

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Dan Hoops @danhoops.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Trump and RFK Jr starting to go after some of the world's most successful and impactful outcomes of neuroscience research

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I had to check this wasn't some sort of deepfake. This monster can get stuffed. Getting far worse than even I thought it would be. Solidarity with our Canadian friends and allies.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca

In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Not everyone can fight Trumpism and Trumpists directly. But remember this: kindness, decency, and fidelity to American values are defiance in the face of Trumpism. So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1

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Dan Hoops @danhoops.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I vote that birds, and short-eared owls in particular, can be nemesis birds even if you've seen them before. They are a nemesis bird for me despite having seen one, briefly, 15 years ago. I just can't seem to intersect with them again, despite being a pretty common bird over a huge range.

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Dan Hoops @danhoops.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This seems like it’d be a good thing ecologically but a bad thing economically

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Coolioart - 3D Commissions Open! @coolioart.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I did it again! Jurassic Park with accurate raptors, a short part 2 #jurassicpark #blender3d

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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

As always I'm late to the party, but 'Hundreds of Beavers' is nothing short of a masterpiece. I'm serious. This is one of the funniest movies I've seen in years. An absurdist slapstick fever dream that I can't wait to re-watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m39i...

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HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS | Official HD Trailer (2023) | ACTION-COMEDY | Film Threat Trailers

YouTube video by Film Threat Trailers

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Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

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Dan Hoops @danhoops.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Paul Bernardo I remember listening from the stairs as my parents whispered about it after bed time.

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Two days left to apply for this! Please share.

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Dan Hoops @danhoops.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This is correct in all the ways it could possibly be correct

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 30/11/2024

Pentametron was one of the great web art projects, retweeting couplets of accidentally iambic tweets. Thanks to Bluesky's open feed, I have resurrected the concept.. Behold @iambic.bot!

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Nefarious Filth Bird 𓅾 @sasquatch.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety

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Dan Hoops @danhoops.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

This is why you must always drop everything and go immediately when a super rare bird is reported

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/11/2024

not me. it is not my job to say what a political party should or should not be doing. it is my job to tell the truth, and the truth is that a lot of people willingly abandoned their faculties to make a bad, destructive choice

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Libby 🎃Stink Gourd🎃 @libbystigaard.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

My phone just auto corrected "trauma dumping" to "trauma dumpling," so I painted this in case anyone would like a visual of my mental state. How's everyone else doing?

A small watercolor painting of a horrified looking cartoon dumpling.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 06/11/2024

cancel your subscriptions to newspapers run by feckless brunchlords and give it to these guys instead:

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 04/11/2024

Hey so this movie is great and you can watch it for free on Tubi if you want something silly and stupid to distract you. It’s like a live action looney tunes. www.hundredsofbeavers.com

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Hundreds of Beavers | Official Website

Watch the trailer, find screenings & book tickets for Hundreds of Beavers on the official site. Directed by: Mike Cheslik. Starring: Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Olivia Graves, Wes Tank, Doug Mancheski,...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

"Worry" is the wrong word here. This process is mostly complete. Most university administrators have ceased having any interest in running democratic organizations in which professors have much say. Anti-democratic, top-down corporatism is the norm at most schools. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/02/u...

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Professors Worry Their Power Is Shrinking at Universities

Faculty members are used to sharing power with presidents and trustees to run universities. But some presidents and lawmakers have made moves to reduce their say.

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