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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
O hey Reminder that in (homophobic) '94 as Dookie was blowing up, Green Day picked queercore Pansy Division to open for them + a lot of venues pressured them to drop them as openers -- Green Day told the venues they wouldn't play if PD didn't - and the venues (mostly? all?) backed down. huh.
green day x pansy division flyer
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Josh T Cuperus @rnanerd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Check out our preprint on Duckweed combo-stress responses and chromatin accessibility. ACRs have ⬆️ GC content much like maize, even with small genomes and low TE numbers. One speculation we had for this in maize was TE insertion avoidance, guess we were wrong. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Duckweeds as Multiplexable Plant Models for Exploring Abiotic Stress Responses
In nature, plants experience complex combinations of environmental stresses. Prior studies using Arabidopsis thaliana show that transcriptional responses to combinatorial stress are unique and cannot ...
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
okay I'm sorry but this is actually kinda funny
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Anyone who thinks there is a remote chance any of this money will be used for any research has not been paying attention (and I’d to interest you in purchasing the Seattle Space Needle from me)
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Honors roll student who applied for legal admission through the now-defunct CBP app. Lost his college sports scholarship when the feds revoked TPS for all Haitian refugees. Wanted to be a doctor. They're killing our kids, our neighbors www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Haitian student dies by suicide after ICE issued him an ankle monitor
Pierre Damas Bel, 20, of Springfield, Ohio, expressed feeling “shame and humiliation” at having to wear an ankle monitor. The college student died by suicide days later.
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virologyunmasked.bsky.social @virologyunmasked.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
virologyunmasked.com/michael-emerman/ This month's titan of virology and vaccinology. Dr. Michael Emerman. Dr. Emerman is an HIV researcher who helped unlock its molecular mysterious. He is also a pioneer in the field of 'plaleovirology' and a mentor to over 100 students! @memerman.bsky.social
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Michael Emerman
Dr. Michael Emerman “You align priorities to favor the trainees (so) that what is good for the trainees will end up being good for the lab” Emerman on successful mentoring, Virology Unm…
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“X’s algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)…It also showed that X serves more ragebait to people who say they are Democrats, although the exact reason for that is unclear.”
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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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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Whenever I talk about the lab leak I get 50 replies going, "It doesn't matter anyway." This is why it does: Leakers have a specific set of policies they want enacted, none of which will help us predict or respond to the next pandemic.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Dude woke up one day and became one of history's worst monsters by blowing up the greatest permanent humanitarian aid institution ever to exist.
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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
is out of the bottle and now there should be a moratorium until the morality, ethics and safety of this approach can be discussed and established. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/s...
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This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature
Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It’s a Fair Question….. “Why is it that it takes 900 years and 5000 impact studies to build high speed rail but a 5 minute city council meeting is all it takes to approve a massive data center?”
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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Bernie Moreno was a car salesman with a record of wage theft and employment discrimination. Anthony Fauci was the director of NIAID from 1984 to 2022 and in 2008 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work fighting HIV/AIDS in that role.
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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 23/07/2026
We won. Thousands of kids in Seattle will not go hungry this school year because we organized, fought hard, and won. Huge credit to @mayor.seattle.gov Katie Wilson for pushing the universal free school meals proposal. It’s her victory too.
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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I do not know. I haven’t looked. But to paraphrase the ending of Velshi’s essay, I hope there are some fifteen-year-olds out there who stayed up late to hear it, and have been inspired by his account of Mary-Claire King’s life… and whose discoveries will be celebrated in the US Tercentennial year.
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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Cops measurably stopped enforcing traffic laws during COVID and never started again. We instantly lost over a decade of progress, and saw a huge increase in deadly/unsafe driving as a result.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Olive Garden's owners say that you do not have to show ID to get pasta at an Olive Garden. A guy who shits himself in public and struggles to pass basic cognitive tests says that you do. For busy restaurant-goers, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/07/2026
Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.
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Syd Sattler @sydsat.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
What if an embryo made immune cells before it finished building the tissue they usually come from? In our new preprint, we show that annual killifish embryos specify neutrophils before germ layers are fully resolved. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Huge thanks to my PI, @ohnolog.bsky.social ! 🧵
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Early immune cell development precedes gastrulation in annual killifish
During embryogenesis, cell types arise in a predictable order because developmental regulators act sequentially. But how evolutionary changes in morphogenesis reshape the signaling environments that a...
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Rebecca 🦋 @rebecca79903973.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 12/06/2026
A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Reminder — UW #Microbiology has an open search for an Assistant Professor, focusing on fundamental problems in #bacteriology! If you or someone you know would be suitable, here's the ad: apply.interfolio.com/185622
Screenshot of the job listing linked in full above
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
What position will she fail up to next?
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 05/06/2026
In case you didn't know, Republicans have put the entire Senate floor on hold so they can jam through a $70 BILLION check for ICE. After all the brutality we've seen, this is how they respond: A blank check and an absolute refusal of commonsense reforms. I'm voting NO.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs are savings.
Screenshot of Grist article title with the same info as in post. Image of Copenhagen bike-lanes filled with people on bikes.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Bhattacharya is at NIH (and CDC) to be a mouthpiece for the administration. He does the bidding of Russell Vought, who aims to destroy science - as we just saw in the 800 page tirade he called a proposed OMB rule.
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Jay Shendure @jshendure.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
“AlphaFold 3's representational coherence is deeply tied to evolutionary scaffolding, suggesting it functions similarly to an advanced fold-recognition system and highlighting that protein structure prediction from sequence alone is not yet fully solved.”
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Someday, When the madness is done, And there is a true accounting, Of the lives that were saved, And those that were lost, I know we will find the name of Ralph Baric On the right side of the ledger. I, for one, am grateful.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/05/2026
When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I've just been asked to share this petition to UCSF, which asks them not to put Vinay Prasad back in his old position, now that HHS has given him the boot. It seems a good ask, so here you go (the guy is awful): form.jotform.com/260836126659...
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OPEN PETITION TO UCSF LEADERSHIP
Please click the link to complete this form.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
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First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says
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dholmes.bsky.social @dholmes.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
@vp.govpeeps.us
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Neil Vigdor @gettingviggy.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The officer was traveling 74 miles per hour in a 25-m.p.h. zone when he hit Jaahnavi Kandula in a crosswalk while responding to a call. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
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Seattle to Pay $29 Million to Family of Woman Fatally Struck by Police S.U.V.
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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Elon Musk genuinely has to be regarded as one of history’s pre-eminent mass murderers
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"We're going to make sure your neighbors know you're heroes"
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
Screenshot of tweet from Huberman that reads: “The other is that dog breeds w/different shaped heads are predictive of their demeanor and intelligence. And while I don’t! believe in Phrenology I now do pay some attention to how the shapes of peoples heads relates to their intellect and steadiness, or lack thereof.”
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
If you’re a grown ass man in full tactical gear asking a child to show you ID or proof of citizenship you failed at life. Utterly & completely failed. Loser.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell, 1984 It is rare for a murder to be captured live on multiple cameras. Yet DHS persists with the obvious lie this was self defense. There are no more red lines.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
When a cop murdered my big brother at a road block 21 years ago, their post-facto justification was that he tried to run over a cop. His foot released the brake after the officer shot him in the chest, and the car bumped an officer.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 28/11/2025
I was one of those immigrants, and we commit fewer crimes than people born here. “Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the US by revoking their legal status.” apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump says he wants to 'permanently pause' migration to the US from poorer countries
President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the United States by revoking their legal status...
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Shawn Fayer @shawnfayer.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
The effects of genetic variants primarily occur in differentiated cells meaning we need to access these cell types to measure variant effects for most disease genes. We developed saturation genome editing in stem cells (iPSC-SGE) to enable phenotyping in diverse genetic and cell contexts at scale!
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Editing stem cell genomes at scale to measure variant effects in diverse cell and genetic contexts
Multiplexed assays of variant effect (MAVEs) systematically measure variant function but have been limited to cancer cell lines rather than disease-relevant cell types. We developed saturation genome ...
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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
parents, be sure to check your kids’ candy this halloween. I just found a novel phage defense system inside this snickers
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