Reposted by EdGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 206188825364
Reposted by EdNicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🎧 Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica ? Answer this quick 5-min survey: 👉 www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en Take a break and listen to the voice of the forest 💚 Please like & share on 🦋 to reach more participants 🙏 🌐🌍🦤🧪🍁🪴 58578
Reposted by EdCameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 18/08/2026As a component of aseptic technique, Bunsen burners do not universally decrease deposition of microbe-containing particles journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs 77126
Reposted by Ed🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026As the queer kid my parents went no contact with I can tell you I’ve never once not one single time ever seen an essay to parents about why cutting contact off with your lgbtq child isn’t the answer. Not even to say ‘putting a child on the streets is dangerous for them.’ 71451337
Reposted by EdCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 10/08/2026hadn't seen this yet (though assuredly it's been done) 428571
Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Hosting family from LA and taking the subway to the beach. Sitting in the train yard waiting for trains ahead of us to move. Turns out you can take the subway and STILL get stuck in traffic. 010
Reposted by EdElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/08/20265. Vaccination coverage has a lot of downstream effects. An outbreak pushes healthcare facilities, healthcare providers, and public health practitioners to the brink. 6. An outbreak can also have severe economic impacts. 210720
Reposted by EdElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/08/20263. Letting a pathogen spread uncontrollably increases the odds of a mutation that can make the thing more transmissible or deadly or what have you. 4. Vaccines are not equally effective in all people, but with a highly-vaccinated population, the pathogen is firewalled. 214929
Reposted by EdElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Why should you care if childhood vaccination rates are dropping in your community? 1. All kids deserve to be protected from vaccine-preventable disease. 2. There are people who can’t be vaccinated, such as babies who are too young. If everyone around them is vaccinated, they’re protected. 15387104
Reposted by EdJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/08/2026Air quality. I grew up in the Los Angeles basin in the 70s and 80s and remember having to stay inside because the smog was so bad - Stage 2 smog alerts, they were called. Apparently they haven't had one of those since 1988. Haven't had a stage one smog alert since 2003. 2372380282
Reposted by EdChris 𓅨 @bigjuncofan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026We all have that one homie who scholars theorize was not a single individual, but a collection of different authors 0938249
Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 20/07/2026If you want to extend the World Cup energy a little longer, I really enjoyed this hour of “songs shaped by African football culture and its echoes in the Colombian Caribbean” from Edna Martinez on NTS www.nts.live/shows/edna-m...nts.liveChampeta w/ Edna Martinez - Stadium to Picó 14th July 2026Playing Soukous, Champeta. DJ and curator Edna Martínez, from Cartagena de Indias, presents champeta, a genre born inside the picós, the sound systems of Colombia’s Caribbean coast where music is pres... 000
Reposted by EdGraham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I've not got a ticket to the Odyssey, but I'll keep an eye out for one. 071
Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 16/07/2026🙋♂️ Once summer I played Too Much Civ2 and had a horrible dream where I couldn’t stop seeing the game, but also couldn’t control it. 😵💫 I took a break and haven’t really been into games since 020
Reposted by EdVaughn Smider, MD, PhD @vvsmider.bsky.social · 16/07/2026He discovered the basis for how antibody genes recombine [V(D)J recombination] to form large repertoires from a small number of gene segments. This basic genetic process underlies antibody induction by vaccines and >100 therapeutic antibody drugs for cancer and other diseases. 131
Reposted by EdPaul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 15/07/2026As the old saying goes: you never know which baby you bathe in a promotional photo shoot you're going to have to play in a World Cup Final. 06515
Reposted by EdJared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 15/07/2026England up 1 deciding to sit back and do nothing with 9 in the box for a half hour against Argentina in the World Cup 272993597
Reposted by EdSalena @salena.bsky.social · 15/07/2026“Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear greatly that the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar ever more loudly, ever more widely.”Churchill ‘40 0113
Reposted by EdGoodishintent @omnintensivist.bsky.social · 10/07/2026This baby was my favorite part of the game. 3285
Reposted by EdSake Barry @sakebarry.bsky.social · 08/07/2026That's it, the Internet is now closed for the day. 10449124
Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Congrats to Canada! Struck by how the SA players all freeze after the goal but the Canada players keep running to celebrate 000
Reposted by EdStefan Marciniak @profmarciniak.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Wonderful news! #VaccinesWork Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukCervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccineA new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008. 26922
Reposted by EdMista Kotta 💙 🇺🇦 @mistakotta.bsky.social · 15/06/2026The President was forced to resign after the Knicks won their last championship. May history repeat itself. 14976140
Reposted by EdLaurel Oldach @laureloldach.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Microscopy nerd alert: two scopes in California can now do phase contrast cryoEM - potentially fixing the tech's very low signal/noise ratio. The phase filter they used is a laser. Which is also the brightest thing in the solar system (outside of the inside of the sun). cen.acs.org/analytical-c...cen.acs.org15 years, flawless mirrors, and the brightest laser in the world: How physicists brought phase contrast to cryo-EMPhase contrast enables structures of smaller proteins, could drive in-cell proteomics 15722
Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Due to the funding situation, my position in the Arpaia and Danino labs at Columbia ends in September. Very sad to leave my projects and labmates, but eagerly (urgently!) looking for a post in academia or biotech in NYC. Cancer immunotherapy especially, but I have broad interests, background 🧬🔬🧪 000
Reposted by EdReese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026@johanduchene.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social Spent the last hour looking, found ten more apparently manipulated Western blots in Thermo Fisher's antibody verification data (across eight different catalogued products). Thread below. www.thermofisher.com/antibody/pro... 1517388
Reposted by EdCharlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 19/05/2026 4044851310
Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Listening: www.nts.live/shows/edna-m...nts.liveChampeta w/ Edna Martinez 19th May 2026Playing Champeta. DJ and curator Edna Martínez, from Cartagena de Indias, presents champeta, a genre born inside the picós, the sound systems of Colombia’s Caribbean coast where music is presence, ten... 010
Reposted by EdPrincess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Vaccines are starting to gain traction in cancer treatment. A DNA based vaccine is a potential treatment for glioblastoma. Developed by Geneos Therapeutics, it transforms “cold” tumors into “hot” tumors that can be targeted by the patient’s own immune system. 🧪 medicine.washu.edu/news/persona...medicine.washu.eduPersonalized vaccine shows promise against aggressive brain cancer | WashU MedicineA WashU Medicine-led clinical trial has found that a personalized vaccine to treat glioblastoma appears to increase recurrence-free survival in a subset of patients after surgery. 742165675
Reposted by EdCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 17/05/2026www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comThe Men Who Want Women to Be QuietA virulent form of misogyny has become the single most important force holding together the American right. 1156
Reposted by EdDr. Emily Arndt 🏳️⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 12/05/2026but the coursework is in fact THE MOST IMPORTANT THING 392
Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 04/05/2026@hels.bsky.social I enjoyed the column on Vato and Los Burritos Juarez, but no Bordertown? I haven’t had a chance to try the three new BK norteño burrito shops but hope to soon. I love that we suddenly have 3 options, and want them all to thrive. Meanwhile, in Manhattan, loving Son del North! 100
Reposted by EdMichael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 27/04/2026the body does not keep the score: www.frontiersin.org/journals/sys...frontiersin.orgFrontiers | The Body Does Not Keep the Score: Trauma, Predictive Coding, and the Restoration of MetastabilityThe Body Does Not Keep the Score: Trauma, Predictive Coding, and the Restoration of Metastability By Steven Kotler, Michael Mannino, Glenn Fox, Karl Friston ... 263
Reposted by EdRob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 25/04/2026This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already 160101951530
Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 05/04/20262023: plasmids in this paper will be made available on Addgene 2026: no plasmids from that paper on Addgene I wonder how many papers claim they’ll share through @addgene.bsky.social and simply never do? 😕 000
Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Would you give a book with this “interesting fact” in it to a kid under 10? 000
Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 16/03/2026This is a great survey! You get to look at pictures of forests - for science! 010
Reposted by EdNicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪 40551632
