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DrWorms @drworms.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our lab in collaboration with Michael Wolfe, Jesse Wiley, and Kim Green (UCI) received a Keck Foundation award to study potential new triggers of Alzheimer's disease. Anyway, I was interviewed about this new effort here open.spotify.com/episode/07vJ...

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Alternatives to Alzheimer's Disease Research (ft. Dr. Brian Ackley)

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Chris Collingwood @lookparkmusic.com · 06/10/2026

Hey come see us in Palm Springs! $5000 to every citizen if we win the concert www.ticketmaster.com/fountains-of...

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Musician Charles Manson, who led a religious revival in Los Angeles during the counterculture era of the 1960s and later became embroiled in controversy, has died.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The problem is that we have yet to hear about any benefits of AI

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't trust people who make part of their online identity always coming to the defense of anyone accused of rape.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is a weird position to take even among theologically illiterate evangelical powermad lickspittles.

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Plain Simple Garak @psgarak.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My man looks like he's cutting an ad for a new veneer-friendly toothpaste called White Replace-Mint.

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🎃🎃🎃Michael Scare-anicolas🎃🎃🎃 @karanicolas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

University administrators are often *deeply* conservative, because their aggressive fundraising needs mean leadership has to be closely networked to government & industry. People picture university leaders as these sandal-wearing hippies when it's usually just three oil executives in a trench coat.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Dig deep, Pitchbot. You need to channel some Kafka to keep up with the vast and unrelenting moronity that now governs us.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

No matter what metric you use, Republicans have been worse for the economy than Democrats for a century now. And yet they’ll *still* point to the latest mess they created as an argument to elect them again. And half the media will happily help carry their water for them.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm sure I'm like the millionth person to make this point, but if I were a strong, independent woman who took pride in her successful career, I probably would not want to date a Republican in this year of our Lord 2026.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

For the past ten years, the NYT has been extremely concerned that Republican single men aren't getting laid by hot enough babes. I feel like they do some version of this story every 9-12 months.

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DrWorms @drworms.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

New NIH Grant Proposal Format to be revealed soon- Who won the 2020 Election? ____ That Loser Biden ____ That Winner Trump (Attach any laudatory descriptions of the winner as an appendix)

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DrWorms @drworms.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Me when THAT one person is standing behind me in the halls.

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Javier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We need your help spreading the word about the C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program! Please talk about the program in your next lab meeting and share this slide with your lab: docs.google.com/presentation...

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Mentor match QR codes 2026

Join the C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program! sign up for mentors sign up for mentees and to join peer-mentoring groups https://forms.gle/nfNWQRnpymu6tCYC9 https://forms.gle/pZdwor7wERmQ4oMG8

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The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Sometimes when doing genealogy research you stumble upon stuff that leaves you speechless.

A gravestone marked as follows with a picture of a semi truck above it and a small black dog to the left of it.

SPEARS
LEONARD

MAY 2, 1943 KAZABAZUA, QUEBEC
MAY 3, 2013 OTTAWA, ONTARIO

BORN ON A MOUNTAIN RAISED IN A CAVE, TRUCKIN' AND F___IN'S ALL HE CRAVED

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Meet three of our #Dros27 plenary speakers! 🧠 Vanessa Auld 🪰 @nabroderick.bsy.social 🧬 Don Fox From glial biology to host-microbe interactions to genome stability and regeneration, they'll bring exciting science to Philadelphia. 🔗https://buff.ly/7IBPyFM

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/07/2026

19. Biologists study the theory of photosynthesis but few can convert light energy into chemical energy in the form of simple sugars....The result is a generation of researchers who can model phenomena mathematically but cannot create their own food by standing outside with arms outstretched.

oo many of our universities and elite science and technology curricula have severed the connection between theory and craft. Engineering students study the theory of combustion, but few can disassemble and rebuild a combustion engine. Graduate programs reward theoretical contributions measured in citation counts, but not practical applications measured in jobs and dollars. The result is a generation of researchers who can model phenomena mathematically but cannot repair the apparatus in their own laboratories.

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Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

#DBfeature #ICYMI 🪱 Expression of pal-1, the C. elegans Caudal homologue, is required for correct positioning of motor neuron cell bodies in the larval ventral nerve cord and is regulated by the nuclear hormone receptor SEX-1 By N Noblett, T Roenspies, S Flibotte, A Colavita tinyurl.com/2u963pvx

(E) Schematic showing DD and DA neuron organization along the VNC. (F) Representative images of anterior DA and DD neurons in pal-1(zy117), sex-1(zy130) and double mutants. Asterisks mark dorsally mispositioned neurons. Scale bar = 20 μm. (G) Quantification of worms with dorsally mispositioned neurons at L1. Statistics: (C) one-way ANOVA with Tukey's Post-hoc Comparisons, and (G) Chi-squared test with Monte Carlo simulation for 10,000 replicates, followed by a pairwise analysis using Fisher's exact test with Monte Carlo simulation for 10,000 replicates and adjusted with Holm corrections.

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James Greenwood-Reeves @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

the undecided voter of cartoons

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ceej @ceej.online · 27/03/2024

every dead senator gets a thoughtful obituary lauding their “courage” and then if you look it up the courage was filibustering the Give Medicine to Cancer Kids act

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Happy Lindsey Graham is Dead Day to all who celebrate. 🎉

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Live your life in such a way that, when you die, people don’t have to rush to say, “Please be polite!”

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DrWorms @drworms.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Is it possible to die suddenly of a massive hypocrisy attack?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/07/2026

USDA Fills Key Advisory Role With Prominent Chewing Skeptic theonion.com/usda-fills-key-advisor…

USDA Fills Key Advisory Role With Prominent Chewing Skeptic
New Appointee Calls For ‘Gulping It All Down Whole’

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is funny until the end where it becomes amazing.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

DOGE officially ended over the weekend. One of its crowning achievements was cutting $15M from the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1B to combat the screwworm outbreak. "Efficiency."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

No-one ever expects the Islamic Republic of Japan. Surprise is their chief weapon.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Trump: Iran, a country, very morally bad Reporter: [nods] Trump: but we’re winning the war, we won it already several times Reporter: [nods] Trump: and we’re fighting it very hard Reporter: [nods] Trump: We just defeated the United Arabia Estonians with our hard men Headline: Trump addresses NATO

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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

this is a lie. Just complete revisionist history.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/07/2026

more broadly than just the looksmaxxing weirdos i think the Influencer Era is going to be a golden age for Weird Celebrity Deaths unseen since hollywood in the 1920's. giving people the national fame of movie stars with the institutional mental health support of the wrestling industry is a bad combo

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The main thing Greg Gutfeld doesn’t understand is that it doesn’t matter in the slightest that Greg Gutfeld doesn’t understood.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/07/2026

Cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world. Imposing Taxes on us without our Consent. Depriving us in many cases of the benefits of Trial by Jury. These were all complaints written about King George III 250 years ago. Unfortunately, they could've easily been written about Trump today.

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Here are the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against King George III. Many apply to Trump.

It's uncanny.

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I feel like we are technologically advanced enough that drawstrings should never disappear into sweatpants. I don’t feel like this is a big ask. I’d rather have this than LLMs

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DrWorms @drworms.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I ❤️Chemical Biology! This is so cool!

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DrWorms @drworms.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Congratulations Varsenal on the title

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The Wellness industry has the same greed as the biomedical industry but nothing it sells you actually works

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DrWorms @drworms.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

You are a soon to be graduating student, you are looking for a great place to be a postdoc, and you're looking for a fantastic mentor. Well look no further, here's the opportunity!

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

today I learned the title of the tainted cup in Japan is “the man who was killed by a tree,” which is making me laugh pretty hard

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/04/2026

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

the goal of going to an airport is to leave the airport as swiftly as possible. as douglas adams put it, there is a reason no one has ever invented the phrase "as pretty as an airport."

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

It remains notable that The Onion — The Onion! — has had a stronger moral compass and more clear set of values in this moment than nearly every powerful and well-funded institution in American life.

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