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Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My conversation with historian of science @jowiph.bsky.social is now available on the public feed. We discussed Charles Murray, his enthusiasm for measuring skulls... his wider anti equality project, overlaps w the New Atheist scene, The Pioneer Fund & more! open.spotify.com/episode/3a36...

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Fashademics 4 - Charles Murray & The Pioneer Fund

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Moral subjectivity is a big tent that includes "leading an obviously race-motivated lynch mob" and "telling good from bad"

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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Look, I know I’m radical, but I simply don’t think one should be able to be hired for a job they’re unqualified for under questionable pretenses & then use that sinecure to start lynch mobs against a Black academic as part of a personal vendetta to prove the biologically inferiority of Black people

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Genes and genomes are not binary, regulation is not binary, the products of genes are not binary, cellular fates are not binary, yet somehow the product of those things is binary

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

TBH I feel like Mamdani has bent over backwards to demonstrate that he's not remotely antisemitic, and guys like Frum who will call him an antisemite anyway on the basis of his religion and anti-Zionism are doing the work of bona fide antisemites

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Earlier this year researchers at Stanford University published a paper on a protein that seemingly broke the Central Dogma, the cardinal rule of biology. For @sequencermag.bsky.social, I wrote about whether the scientific dogmas are important at all. www.sequencermag.com/when-the-cen...

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When the Central Dogma bends, will it break?

The discovery of a protein that seemingly contradicts a fundamental law of biology raises a question: how important are those laws anyway?

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

With a few exceptions science media in general has largely shrunk from criticizing the administration, for many reasons but one is that publishers (like Springer Nature, former owner of SciAm) are multinationals with business interests that are more lucrative than journalism.

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Jonathan Basile @jonothingeb.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I wrote this essay to correct recent obituaries of Craig Venter, which overstate the significance of his human genome sequencing work, repeating the hype and exaggerated promises of his own self-promotion, which was designed to fuel speculative investment in his biotech companies

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The good vibes that a Sabres or Bills win would generate could explode the sun. Sports viewing as a type of religious repression.

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

among the many things i learned in this fascinating article by @dsamorod.bsky.social is that when you get sunburn a bunch of your skin cells have to decide whether to kill themselves or not :( www.quantamagazine.org/rna-is-the-c...

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RNA Is the Cell’s Emergency Alert System | Quanta Magazine

How does a cell know when it’s been damaged? A molecular alarm, set off by mutated RNA and colliding ribosomes, signals danger.

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

all hail the glorious People's Republic of Minnesota

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

sure I walked up and down lyndale saying hey to my neighbors but it was also one million degrees outside with air like a wet towel

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

If it makes you feel any better your senses of hunger, thirst, and the passage of time are also constructs of your brain and your cells.

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

why is he not funding day car e in the beautiful nation of Israel

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

There's a scene in the Paths of the Dead where a skeleton comes to life and yells spooky stuff at Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli that I found so unexpected it literally jump scared me.

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“Hucklebuckets” @hucklebuckets.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

THANK YOU SABRES

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Anyone who liked The Vegetarian is out of their minds I will die on this hill. Go ahead, shoot me.

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The crowning achievement of any education system in the world is the State University of New York, which puts a 2- or 4-year college in basically every burg with 5,000 or more people in it in the state. When I went to SUNY Binghamton, in-state tuition was $2k, out-of-state was $5k.

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"My political opponents are simply too childish to understand that unregulated financial power, the crushing of the middle class, and unremitting bombing of civilians into dust are all good things" is a key conservative talking point.

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 29/04/2026

pretty excited to share a recent project that was a total joy to work on—a poster for @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social in minneapolis! designed by me & printed in-house with @mothdude.bsky.social's expertise, this project was inspired by book fair & library posters of my early '90s childhood

risograph-printed 11x17 poster hanging on a textured multicolored wall. the poster depicts a ginger tuxedo kitten with a book opened to images of boneshaker bicycles in a cameo frame with a scalloped edge. the background is a textured abstract collage surface. the text is white with red shadow and black dots outlining it all, with MPLS in a red heart

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

why is he not walking the beautiful streets of tel aviv

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Sure he says "The Jewish people are part of the land and they should remain that way," and "I want to liberate everyone" but that is actually coded anti-semitism.

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Elizabeth @elizcall.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

What is he doing answering constituent calls? Why isn't he visiting the beautiful country of Israel? Is it because he doesn't believe that Israel has the right to exist?

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Lilly Richard @lillyrichard.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Hello!! Please listen to my podcast, I've been working very hard on it! Trailer out today, ep 1 drops in 2 weeks. Subscribe to Agroecology Uprooted wherever you get your podcasts. youtu.be/4z7xhH_P13k?...

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Introducing: Agroecology Uprooted

YouTube video by Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Minneapolis --> North Platte, NE --> Denver --> Black Canyon --> Capitol Reef --> Kodachrome SP --> Bryce Canyon --> Zion --> San Diego --> Santa Clara --> San Francisco --> Elko, NV --> Somewhere in South Dakota --> Minneapolis. 5000 miles solo, about a month. Most fun I've had in my life.

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I worked a little on O157 in grad school. One Wednesday a lab mate didn't come in to work. No one heard from him Thursday, Friday, the weekend. He reappeared Monday 10-15lbs lighter, having been hospitalized the whole time shitting and vomiting himself to death from a lab acquired infection.

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

NOW: In Minneapolis, Powderhorn Park's rent supply fund is short this month. If you chip in you will be helping hundreds of families with not only this month's rent but back rent also. Every little bit helps! www.gofundme.com/f/support-po...

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Donate to Support Powderhorn Families with Urgent Rent Relief, organized by Powderhorn Neighbors

HELP US MEET A $50,000 MATCHING GIFT! March is a critical m… Powderhorn Neighbors needs your support for Support Powderhorn Families with Urgent Rent Relief

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war

Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Ok. This is a painterly description of blackbody radiation, not anything to get upset about. It is from (the end paragraph of) a piece for Pioneer Works. I've written for them, and my science writing there is definitely more floral and "that's deep, man" like this than it is elsewhere.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

"What, then, is the meaning of a phrase like 'never again' when the institutions that proselytize it also argue that Holocaust memory cannot be sullied by the present tense?" —Noah Kulwin

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Whose Concentration Camps?

AOC is drawing the correct lessons from Holocaust history, unlike mainstream Jewish institutions.

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kd @katalogued.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

If you are not in Minnesota, this is what our peaceful arty neighborhood lined with some of the best food in the state has turned into. This is an occupation. This is extremely hard to watch and hear. This is how bad it is. It is worse.

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em cassel @biketrouble.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

once again i am asking literally anyone in a position of power to do literally anything so that our neighbors stop getting fucking murdered in the street

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Boneshaker Books @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

no sales today in solidarity with the ICE out strike!! if you come by and attempt to buy a book we will instead make you peruse our free zines and buttons, sip some free coffee from our neighboring cafes (also closed for business), and/or do some crafts. space open for community time 11am-8pm. 💀📚🖤

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 23/01/2026

gotta shout out moon palace and boneshaker books, if you want to buy books from people who are very abolish ICE and end-policing aligned

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