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Dr Sian Gramates

@drglam.bsky.social
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Biocurator, feminist, molecular neuroscientist, pagan, Drosophila geneticist, comics geek, cat adorer, coping with disability DrGlam nearly everywhere

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10h
rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived
Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 12h
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.bsky.social · 7h
LLM is right there Bezos.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Gyms for our brains," you say?
Don Draper meme showing him presenting with the words "Hear me out...We call it 'The University'."
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 06/10/2026
The service members were left to seek their own medical treatment. trib.al/cLKQe1P
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Soldiers Wounded in Iran Say DOD Made Them Get Their Own Treatment
The service members were left to fend for themselves.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026
Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8
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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Bleeding Cool @bleedingcool.com · 05/10/2026
Matt Howarth, Creator Of Savage Henry And Those Annoying Post Bros. Has Died, Aged 72 #RIP
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Matt Howarth, Creator Of Savage Henry And Post Bros Has Died, Aged 72
Matt Howarth, Creator Of Savage Henry And Those Annoying Post Bros. Has Died, Aged 72 #RIP
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The UK is worried that Trump wouldn’t be there for NATO if Russia attacked Europe… Mother fuckers, Trump wouldn’t be there for America if someone nuked a blue state!
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 05/10/2026
"Seven former Cornell students are accused of sexually assaulting another student who says she was incapacitated. Messages allegedly inviting other frat members were sent to a group chat during the assault. Everyone is talking about the seven. I keep thinking about the others." buff.ly/z7yWbR2
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An Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student
“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged...
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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One of the many things I love about fancy Sunday buffet brunches is that I can get all the shrimp I want to eat from the raw bar station. And that would be exactly one shrimp.
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Nonso Obikili @nonsoobikili.com · 05/10/2026
"Gary Marcus, a prominent AI sceptic and professor emeritus at New York University, said Altman was “saying the quiet part out loud: suck it up, so you can make us rich and powerful”." Eish. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 04/10/2026
This should be an entire impeachment trial on its own. The destruction of NSF through impoundment, office shuffles, etc. is obliterating 70 years of bipartisan efforts that turned us into a global scientific superpower and thus a technological and economic superpower.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We can talk about re-engineering government <after> we: - Restore all the NIH/NSF funds - Restore at the Dept. of Education Title VI/FLAS funds - Rebuild USAID - Hire back as many of the fired federal workers as possible & replace those we can't with new talent as fast as possible - Etc. - Etc.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 02/10/2026
NEW: A new USPS policy will eliminate evening mail pickups from select post offices across the country — a change that will eventually slow pick-up and delivery times for around 70% of zip codes in the U.S. We mapped those zip codes to help you figure out whether your mail ballot could be affected👇
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The Postal Service is slowing delivery. Will your mail ballot be affected?
Democracy Docket mapped the affected zip codes.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Please, for the love of God, can the media stop calling random cranks who write fan fiction about their personal heroes in the past "historians."
Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide turned Watergate historian and revisionist, recently gave a two-hour presentation at Justice Department headquarters that laid out his theory that the deep state took Nixon down. The title of his 78-page slide deck: “Watergate As Lawfare.”
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Go For It Ladies.......
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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump's tiny bit of correct is that it's not AI. But LLMs are even less super than they are intelligent.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 30/09/2026
"Right out of the gate, Muse launched with a nasty zero-day flaw that created a backdoor on Mac computers, allowing a hacker to not only gain total control of the Muse AI client, but surveil you without your knowledge."
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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 29/09/2026
It’s almost as if there are more ways to measure the value of work than just the amount of money it makes people.
 A country with fewer social workers and teaching aides, with less study of the arts and history, is a country that’s not investing in its own future.
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, the media, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101.
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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP
EP • Stevie Wonder
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Requiring scientists to be political neutral is to require scientists to shut up when the facts are inconvenient.
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justthisguy.net @justthisguy.net · 29/09/2026
“When you cut into your leanest, most efficient state university, you are not trimming excess. You are cutting into muscle.” — President Tisa Mason, Fort Hays State University
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Apparently Merck is no longer supplying Recarbrio. “In an unexpected move, Merck discontinued an important antibiotic from the U.S. market earlier this month, underscoring concerns about the commitment large pharmaceutical companies are willing to make to a field that is crucial to public health”
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Merck discontinues a crucial antibiotic despite concerns over superbug resistance
Merck discontinued Recarbio, an important antibiotic in the U.S., despite concerns over resistance to superbugs.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
If we make it out of this with the country more or less intact, the next administration should retool the federal bureaucracy into a prestigious elite on par with the military officer class
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Claude appears to be engaging in academic dishonesty, which could be fireable for a human researcher. But one of AI’s major functions is ethics displacement, a shield that allows cheaters and other bad players to escape accountability.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My favorite part is how people will immediately recognize the reasons for "$50" vs "$3,596.49." The first is the co-pay the patient believed; the second is because the doctor lied about insurance coverage while making them sign a giant legalese form that waived it and consented to the billing.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you love stationary and based on sales, I think a lot of people do. Here's a gentle nudge to move past "collecting" and to actually USE the stationary. Write letters to friends and family. Send thank you notes. Write actual cards and MAIL THEM.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Igor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The power of funding fundamental discovery in driving unexpected benefits for humankind are unmatched. We should be funding more basic research not less
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Désespérer @decervelage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is what talk radio sounded like before Howard Stern & Rush Limbaugh turned it into a circus. Jean Shepherd was an eloquent & melancholy barroom raconteur who wore the pose of an Everyman, without dumbing anything down or appealing to his listeners’ worst instincts. youtube.com/watch?v=jK3z...
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Jean Shepherd—"Geography" 1972/04/xx (edit/restored)
YouTube video by The Jean Shepherd Show
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Zebrafish Rock! 🎃 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lovely feature on the uber-talented @taylorblack.bsky.social 🐠 And, after you read it, pick up some cool fish merch to support student scholarships at @sicb.bsky.social: fineartamerica.com/featured/ora... #sciart #scicomm #fishsci
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Funnily enough, "bread prices skyrocketing >> the French Revolution" happened bc the French monarchy put "helping farmers"* as their top priority, over "keeping food prices sane." The things you can learn from history!
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MJ @bstnboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💥💥BOOM💥💥 Costco took its $184M in rebate refund and used it to lower costs targeting products that would have the most impact for members!! Kudos Costco!! www.seattletimes.com/business/cos...
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Costco clinches $184M in tariff refunds, with more expected
The big-box retailer said the money was reinvested to give "value back to our members." It’s more than a third of the total tariff refunds the company expects.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 26/09/2026
The lovely starburst amacrine cell scarf 🧪🐡https://artologica.etsy.com/listing/560710654
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Starburst Amacrine Cell Scarf in Silk Chiffon - Neuron Scarf - Retinal Cells - Etsy
This Scarves item by artologica has 41 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Washington, DC. Listed on Sep 26, 2026
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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Dawna and RealMonkeyCat @dawna9.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The trailer for the documentary that a vacuous billionaire wants disappeared. Like the thousands of federal jobs his doge dudes removed. Like the citizens & immigrants removed from American streets. Please watch & repost. Thank you for your attention to this matter. youtu.be/eY_8SyndC10
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I should also add that when the movie got to showing people burning Teslas and vandalizing dealerships, the theater of mostly older folks in Santa Monica started applauding. I think it is possible Trump and Musk turned libs over 50 into John Brown.
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Alt National Archives @altnatarchives.altgov.info · 27/09/2026
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in years. I am crying as I watch it over and over.
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