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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

does it matter that I have nowhere to "leave," I'm just a guy in a room

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

looking into getting one of those "sinecures" I've heard so much about

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

been thinking about becoming a public intellectual, how do I do that

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Picture this: under 1100 times surface pressure, and at 1C temperatures, at the deepest part of the ocean where nothing much lives, bacteria thrive. My latest for @pioneerwork.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/pi...

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Picture This: Abyss Abundant | Broadcast

The bottom of the ocean may seem hellish and barren, but it's teeming with microbial life.

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

yes it's all in good humor, and filmmakers know what they're getting into

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just hanging out at Bryant Lake Bowl tbh

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Scream It Off Screen at the Parkview, Halloween pumpkin carving show at the Zoo, Dream State Cafe

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

On a personal note this is my first public writing since I lost my job earlier this year and I all but retired from journalism from sheer grief and anxiety, so I'm very glad that I still have this in me.

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The first scientists to visit the very bottom of the ocean thought they saw nothing but a flatfish. They were wrong. There was so much invisible life they didn't see. My latest, for @pioneerwork.bsky.social and the Broadcast. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/pi...

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Picture This: Abyss Abundant | Broadcast

The bottom of the ocean may seem hellish and barren, but it's teeming with microbial life.

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

there are parts of that book where I had to put it down and walk around my apartment just to process

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

absolutely screaming AND WHEN I GOOOOOOOO

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

would you like to hear about my AI/state fair start up

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I got mine at a random CVS in Minneapolis last year and I don't remember even being asked about preexisting conditions.

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

States don't really a method for okaying vaccines more than the FDA. It's essentially just up to how much an individual medical provider cares (I suspect most Walgreens/CVS pharmacists don't want to be vaccine police and will give it to anybody).

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

No it's just a method of throwing out roadblocks.

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I wonder if there's correlation between companies that have gone wild with AI (like AZ) and pre/clinical productivity.

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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

Polite Conversations · Episode

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

Race science isn't fraudulent? Lynch mobs aren't harassment?

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

It's the Claudia Gay plagiarism/Zohran Mamdani essay playbook over and over again.

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

Sasha respectfully but race science isn't some kooky but potentially fruitful hypothesis -- Cofnas led an all-but-literal lynch mob in the name of white supremacy. Is a university duty bound to pay him for that work?

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

Who am I to say whether this liquid running down my leg is piss or rain

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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 · 18/08/2026

I fell asleep during In The Mood for Love

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Still thinking about Olivia Wilde's oven-side squat while she points at her souffle

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I went to a random Friday showing at the Main of The Invite, a movie that's been out for at least a little bit, and it was packed! I was astonished.

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

watching it on the plane while my friends do the plot of inception

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

There were multiple moments in that movie that were intended as serious, where the theater was deathly silent except for me and my friends crying with laughter and kicking the seat in front of us

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In Oppenheimer when Albert Einstein appears out of a cloud of dust in the middle of the night

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

it's hot indoors, outdoors, spiritually, metaphysically, in parallel and perpendicular dimensions, etc

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

I think it was Sarah Richardson at the Harvard GenderSciLab who remarked to me that sex is "a collection of phenotypes" like gametes, genitalia, chromosomes, secondary characteristics, etc that do not assemble in just two ways, and now I think of all of biology that way.

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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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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

it's better than Reverie at this point imo

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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

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Sequencer

Decode the universe. A writer-owned popular science magazine

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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

Also many people who run science media outlets (owners, not editors) are either cowards or are altogether sympathizers.

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

LabX made its initial money in selling laboratory equipment second hand. This is like a used car dealer owning the two biggest names in science journalism.

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

I worked for Drug Discovery News, whose editorial process was to sell ads and then write articles that matched the ads. If an oncology biotech bought space, we wrote an article about cancer. Pure content farm stuff.

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

In 2022 LabX hired me and then fired me 11 months later in what I can describe as a deeply amoral, soulless ordeal. These people are not interested in science or even journalism, just in selling ads.

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