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deborahapthorp.bsky.social @deborahapthorp.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Amazing colour palette, I want to decorate a room in it.
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deborahapthorp.bsky.social @deborahapthorp.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Well… many of them are even able to read! 🥲
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deborahapthorp.bsky.social @deborahapthorp.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This is an insult to kindergarteners, they most definitely have more empathy and humanity (I know several and can confirm this is the case)
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deborahapthorp.bsky.social @deborahapthorp.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Perish the thought, define a construct??
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deborahapthorp.bsky.social @deborahapthorp.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Uhhhh
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deborahapthorp.bsky.social @deborahapthorp.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Super proud of my former PhD student Reuben Rideaux, named ACNS Young Investigator of the year #ACNS2025
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deborahapthorp.bsky.social @deborahapthorp.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
GET IN THE SEA
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I wrote another essay, just out at my newsletter site.
meditationsinanemergency.com
Protect Our Neighbors: The Journey of a Sign
When word went out that border patrol agents had been sent to the Coast Guard island off Alameda near Oakland on the eve of October 23, Bay Area residents sprang into action. Before dawn the next morn...
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IsThatDonHeath? @donjheath.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Birds of a feather Photo by Stephen Liptrot
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deborahapthorp.bsky.social @deborahapthorp.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Oh no wait it was the GLM episode. My bad.
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deborahapthorp.bsky.social @deborahapthorp.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
@quantitude.bsky.social I just listened to the episode about non-parametric tests, and now I wanna hear about the NyQuil Limit
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deborahapthorp.bsky.social @deborahapthorp.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Release the MoCA scores!
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deborahapthorp.bsky.social @deborahapthorp.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I’m calling it, AI has jumped the shark
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Nathalie Van Raemdonck @nathalievanraemdonck.com · 27/06/2025
"the process of becoming a scientist is getting called out" ain't that the painful truth. Great podcast by @grimalkina.bsky.social @analog-ashley.bsky.social who dissect the infamous MIT preprint on "Your brain on ChatGPT" www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...
changetechnically.fyi
You deserve better brain research - Change, Technically
SHOW NOTES:For an example of a consideration of learning with information searching, a paper by Saskia Giebl and co-authors explored students learning basic programming concepts aided with a search en...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Little update on Facebook's decision to shut my account.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Trump appointees at the State Department are illegally blocking nearly 200 Fulbright scholarships, awards meant to send American professors and researchers abroad for educational exchange.
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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
My science planning app also does some reviewing so students can see common problems in published papers. The logic is somewhat unique - a really long checklist of how science falls short. scientific-paper-planner-test.vercel.app
scientific-paper-planner-test.vercel.app
Scientific Paper Planner
Scientific Paper Planner Application
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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
“… it also will separate you from your students” I decided to finally ask students how they felt about all things AI in education last week, not really knowing what they were going to say. They had a lot to say—and the message was ridiculously clear. thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/what-my-st...
thebrokencopier.substack.com
What My Students Had To Say About AI
Students shared how they felt about AI usage—for students and adults alike
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
No tariffs on Russia. Huh?
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deborahapthorp.bsky.social @deborahapthorp.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Plus they cost very little to run and nothing does wrong with them. Anyone wanna buy a Nissan Leaf? Her name’s Ada.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I can’t compete with this
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Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"The US government ordered the 'collapse' of a residential building because their Houthi target...walked into it to visit his girlfriend.... How is it legal, under international humanitarian law, for the US to destroy an entire building filled with civilians to kill one man?"
zeteo.com
Forget the Signal Chat, What About the Yemen War Crimes Revealed in It?
Much of our media is missing the biggest story of all: US officials are not just breaking US and international law but confessing to it in writing.
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
How is the signal breach bigger than the war crimes discussed in the signal breach?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The Trump administration announced plans to expand drilling in the Arctic, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Interior Department stated it would begin steps to open the entire 1.56 million-acre Coastal Plain of the refuge to oil and gas exploration.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Circulate this widely! We need to know which NIH grants have been terminated. It goes beyond the list that HHS has released. Send to every scientist you know. @scott-delaney.bsky.social @noamross.net
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 20/03/2025
NEW: Judge Boasberg issues a show-cause order (precedes contempt sanctions) on why he shouldn't find that the gov't defied his orders. "In an ex parte pleading delivered shortly after today’s deadline, the Government again evaded its obligations." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
ORDER
On March 18, 2025, the Court ordered Defendants to provide by noon the following day
specific information regarding flights carrying individuals subject to the Court's Temporary
Restraining Orders issued three days before. See Minute Order of 3/18/25. Defendants instead filed a pleading shortly before the deadline seeking to stay the Order in large part on the ground that they were considering whether to invoke the state-secrets privilege. See ECF No. 37 (Stay
Motion) at 3-4. Although skeptical of the applicability of such privilege, the Court granted Defendants another 24 hours either to release the information ordered or to invoke the privilege.
See ECF No. 38 (Order).
In an ex parte pleading delivered shortly after today's deadline, the Government again
evaded its obligations. It submitted a six-paragraph declaration from the Acting Field Office
Director for Enforcement and Removal Operations at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Harlingen, Texas, Field Office, the contents of which the Government has informed the Court may be disclosed. After four paragraphs of identifying information, herepeated the same general information about the flights: "On March 15, 2025, two flights carrying aliens being removed under the AEA departed U.S. airspace before the Court's minute
order of 7:25 PM EDT, and before the Court's oral statements during the hearing." Decl. of Robert L. Cerna, I 5. He then stated, "I understand that Cabinet Secretaries are currently actively considering whether to invoke the state secrets privilege over the other facts requested
by the Court's order. Doing so is a serious matter that requires careful consideration of national
security and foreign relations, and it cannot properly be undertaken in just 24 hours." Id., 16 (emphasis added).
This is woefully insufficient. To begin, the Government cannot proffer a regional ICE
official to attest to Cabinet-level discussions of the state-secrets privilege; indeed, his declaration
on that point, not surprisingly, is based solely on his unsubstantiated "understand[ing]."
Although its skepticism concerning the suitability of such privilege expressed in yesterday's
Order remains, the Court at a minimum requires an official with direct involvement to swear that deliberations of the privilege's invocation are ongoing at the level Cerna attests. It further
expects such deliberations to be concluded by March 25, 2025, which only exceedingly good
cause may excuse.
In addition, to avoid further delay, the Court will require Defendants to show cause on
the facts that they have already disclosed as to why the failure to return the class members
aboard the two earliest planes did not violate the Court's Temporary Restraining Orders. Further supplementation may be required once particulars are ultimately disclosed.
The Court, accordingly, ORDERS that:1. By March 21, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., Defendants shall submit a sworn declaration by a person with direct involvement in the Cabinet-level discussions regarding invocation
of the state-secrets privilege;
2. By March 25, 2025, Defendants shall submit a declaration indicating whether or not the Government is invoking the privilege;
3. By March 25, 2025, Defendants shall file a brief showing cause why they did not violate the Court's Temporary Restraining Orders by failing to return class members removed from the United States on the two earliest planes that departed on March 15, 2025; and
4. Plaintiffs may file any response to such brief by March 31, 2025.
Is/ James E. Boasberg
JAMES E. BOASBERG
United States District Judge
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deborahapthorp.bsky.social @deborahapthorp.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
This one has been in my head a lot recently for some reason! This album was one of the few non-classical records my folks had in the 70s.
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deborahapthorp.bsky.social @deborahapthorp.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Satirical crime fiction is my current genre
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deborahapthorp.bsky.social @deborahapthorp.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
My cousin works with TB in South Africa with the poorest of the poor living in remote conditions. ALL of their grant funding has been cut.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
For all science/scicom curious - this is worth a listen. @alisongopnik.bsky.social is one of the greats-of-the-greats at simultaneously making impactful discoveries about the mind and clearly unpacking (with excitement) what they are and why they matter for everyone. Inspiring!
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Roses are red Violets are blue
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Tayray 🇦🇺 @tayray.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Worst Car Ever au.finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-r...
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Tesla to recall more than 46,000 Cybertrucks due to exterior panel issue
As a remedy, Tesla's service will replace the rail assembly free of charge. A detached panel can become a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash, according to the U.S. National Highway Traffic S...
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11/03/2025
UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)
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Amy E. Greer, attorney for Mahmoud Khalil provided the following update this evening:

                First, importantly, today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament.  He also greatly appreciates, and, typically for him, is moved by the extraordinarily broad and steadfast support he has received from a variety of communities that understand what is at stake.  He is in ICE custody in Louisiana, and arrangements have been made for local attorneys to visit him today and tomorrow.

                The remarks by government officials, including the President, on social media only confirm the purpose – and illegality – of Mahmoud's detention.  He was chosen as an example to stifle entirely lawful dissent in violation of the First Amendment.  While tomorrow or thereafter the government may cite the law or process, that toothpaste is out of the tube and irreversibly so.  The government’s objective is as transparent as it is unlawful, and our role as Mahmoud’s lawyers is to ensure it does not prevail.        

                Today Mahmoud's legal team, which includes Kyle Barron, CLEAR, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Amy Greer filed a motion to compel in federal court in the Southern District of New York, as part of the habeas corpus petition filed on his behalf over the weekend, seeking an order requiring the government to return to New York for any immigration proceedings.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that DOGE is subject to government transparency laws, allowing the public to access government records—a legal defeat for the White House, which had designated DOGE as an office exempt from open records laws.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
restoredcdc.org
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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deborahapthorp.bsky.social @deborahapthorp.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly is my new band name
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BancyCo @bancy.co · 06/03/2025
Holy shit, this "If a metal band made coding tutorials" video from @gamemaker.io could not be more up my alley! 🤣🤘 youtu.be/y-xA4cmmlho?... #gamedev #gamemaker
youtu.be
If a Metal Band Made Coding Tutorials
YouTube video by GameMaker
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Ashley Juavinett, PhD @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
In case you were wondering www.them.us/story/transg...
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Mice, Ranked From Least to Most Transgender
No matter gay straight or bi, lesbian, transgender mice.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We are working on launching an ALT DOGE website. It will soon feature a team page listing all of Elon’s staffers, our own wall of receipts (tracking the money he’s taking from America), and a section to help Americans keep tabs on the false claims on Doge’s website—which now exceed 52%.
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deborahapthorp.bsky.social @deborahapthorp.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Wow, super interesting study on #3Dprinted microelectrodes. All sorts of possibilities for #neuroscience 3dprintingindustry.com/news/new-stu...
3dprintingindustry.com
New study into 3D microelectrode technology could improve neural interfaces - 3D Printing Industry
Researchers from Pusan National University and Seoul National University have introduced a new method that could reshape neural recording and stimulation.  Led by Associate Professors Joonsoo Jeong an...
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Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺 @plantepigenetics.ch · 02/03/2025
As we can expect PubMed dysfunction more and more or to be swamped with fake journals I suggest you get acquainted to this nice alternative: europepmc.org
europepmc.org
Europe PMCHome - Europe PMC
Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The absolute brutality of this move is stunning. This will kill. Kill lots of people. Trump/Musk/Vought/Rubio are sociopaths who think nothing of pushing millions of people into the maw of death. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
nytimes.com
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...
The researchers collected their first data in October 2023 and March 2024. Initially, they were struck by how inconsistently Google showed its warnings. A deep learning model they built to analyze the queries suggested that the warnings should have appeared between 29 and 58 times as often as they did in practice. For motivated conspiracy peddlers, they were easy to evade: just adding quotation marks or a single letter to a query was typically enough to make the banner disappear.

The researchers were beginning to collect additional data last September when they discovered something unexpected: Google had stopped showing low-quality banners entirely, weeks before early voting began, without disclosing it.
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deborahapthorp.bsky.social @deborahapthorp.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
In rats
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Trifid Duane of Canada🍁🇨🇦 @trifidofcanada.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/02/2025
I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important: Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?
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