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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Today's ride was a welcome return to the saddle after replacing my controller and making MANY adjustments to get rid of the error (which means it might not have been the controller in the first place!) In any event, no issues today, so I'm feeling a bit more confident that the problems are solved

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Still a lapdog at nearly 50lbs

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I deeply hate this. I have been fascinated by the fall of the American chestnut tree and the efforts to bring it back. How grotesque this is.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

AAAAAAPPLES. (My favorite variety, er, varies, obviously. Grocery store apple would be a Cosmic Crisp. Heirloom, I’d say Cox’s Orange Pippin. Overall though, GoldRush is the goat.)

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Great book and a great time of the year to pick it up!

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bad/sad news: Got to the trail and the bike threw an error message and refused to move. Happy/glad news: That error convinced me the problem is a bad controller. Ecstatic/thrilled news: @AventonBikes is sending me a warranty replacement and I can do the work myself! They rock!

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today's ride is the first since Saturday (which I forgot to post). Thrilled to see the twin fawns that had been missing for a few weeks. They've grown a bit and are well!

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David W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Part two of Insulin Sensitivity Training just as EASD kicks off this week! I cover a couple more advanced topics and look at 3 different clinical trials that weave a story of how Eli Lilly proved the insulin sensitivity benefits of GIP agonism in humans and why GIP is the real hero.

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Advancing Insulin Sensitivity Training

Or how tirzepatide became king and GIP is why

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today's ride was a full and fully successful test of the adjustments I spent some time making yesterday. Might need a little fine-tuning, but no more power loss.

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ginger is convinced she is a lap dog. This does not bode well for my hips and pelvis in a few short months.

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today's ride was a nice return to the trail after all that rain. The bike mostly behaved, but I do think I've narrowed down the problem. Looks like the sensitivity on the rear brake lever is too high. That can cause the power to cut it out. I'll take a look at it tomorrow.

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🧵Lauren Boebert had sex with three of her staffers. Two of them were women. Her sex partners were Clarisse Navarro, Jeffrey Small and Raven Finnegan. Navarro's husband Jace Ratzlaff: "I assumed this would eventually surface. I’ll have no further comment on this topic.”

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Today's ride ended early due to a loss of power, even though the battery was full. Last 5 miles were, um, challenging (this sucker is heavy!) No obvious issues on inspection, so I just reseated the battery and chalked it up to a glitch in the controller. We'll see what happens!

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today's ride was uneventful, but I remembered my windbreaker, for which I was grateful. Unfortunately, my fall nemesis, horse chestnuts, have started to appear.

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today's ride was a welcome return to the trail after missing two perfect days due to regular life stuff. I started using patella bands a couple of days ago and they really seem to help! A lot cheaper than the uselessly bulky hinge brace I tried first.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations

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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown

Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today's ride was a nice return to the trail after 3 days off due to other commitments. Told Charlotte I would need my windbreaker. Forgot it. It was "bracing".

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I do not know why THE BOOK OF ACCIDENTS is a mere dollar ninety nine for your electronic book device, but it is, so if you want a weird "you can't go home again" haunted house story (that also connects a little to THE CALAMITIES, as a treat), then go grabby grabby.

Book cover: THE BOOK OF ACCIDENTS, Chuck Wendig, National Bestseller, New York Times Bestselling Author of Wanderers. Showing two houses, one upside down above the other, in an eerie green "black and white" hue. Horror novel.

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David W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm putting the finishing touches on my newest blog article about insulin sensitivity. Why does it matter? How are GLP1 drugs involved? What the heck is an M-value and what's this graph all about? Find out tomorrow!

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today's ride was about 20% obstinacy and 80% guilt, as I was almost hoping to be rained out. Surprisingly, my legs felt stronger than yesterday, but my knees aren't showing much improvement. The pain is manageable on the bike, at least.

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today's ride was a bit warmer than yesterday, but certainly beautiful. Given how my legs and knees are feeling, getting rained out tomorrow might not be the worst thing!

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David W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This data is preclinical but it is actually something I discussed in my blog almost a year ago. This natriuretic/diuretic effect of glucagon that conserves free water has some very interesting beneficial implications for renal disease and heart failure. Something to keep an eye on going forward!

the-incretins.beehiiv.com

GLP-1 and the kidneys

Incretins are changing the narrative of chronic kidney disease

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today's ride included very carefully inching past two utility trucks and a bucket truck parked nose-to-tail on the trail. Maybe 6" of clearance before the very steep drop to the river below, which had me sweating a bit, but I'm glad they are there working on whatever they're doing.

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Today's ride features yet another Bluetooth drop out (thus the weird map). My thanks to the crews that cleared the remaining tree from the trail!

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Today's ride was the first after that crazy storm on Thursday. It looks like they cleared about half a dozen trees on the Moxham end and maybe as many on the part closest to Sandyvale. Today also marks over 3k miles since I bought the bike last year

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Today's ride was marginally cooler than yesterday, but we're talking fractions of a degree. I'm impressed with how well the trail is drying out from some of these insane storms. Makes for a nicer ride.

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today's ride was uncomfortably hot, so I guess I made the right decision skipping yesterday. My car claimed it was 102 at the end of the ride and only dropped to 98 after driving home. Sheesh!

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

To folks who think caving on things like “Lake America” doesn’t matter in the long run… It does. It invites more such ego-serving It suggests that there’s no push back. It teaches people to expect more of the same. It matters.

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dawneelizabeth.bsky.social @dawneelizabeth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Was it only because Google couldn’t profit enough from China🧐

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Today's ride was a successful test of the Flat Out! I added yesterday after getting that puncture. Confession: I've had the product in my garage for a year and just never got around to using it. It probably works even better if you add it before you need it! Highly recomended, in any case.

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Today's ride unfortunately came with a small puncture in my rear tire and tube half way through the ride. I was able to finish the 20 with two re-airings, so I decided to see if Flat Out! could stop the leak. Holding so far, but we'll see!

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Today's ride was COLD for the first loop and only mildly warmer for the second. I saw 4 English Cream Goldens, including a trio walking together. I assume all the field Goldens are out practicing their retrieves.

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Turns out there is a third fawn in roughly the same spot that was fooling me. Saw that one today with the other three. 2/2

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Today's ride made me happy because I saw the twin fawns (and their mother) that I see frequently. I was worried that one had been killed after spotting one on the side of the road earlier in the week, but they are alive and well. 1/2

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Today's ride was much warmer than Monday's, when I had to wear my windbreaker. What can I say; I'm a delicate flower.

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wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It's been such an awful couple of years. Let's honor one of the best people on the planet.

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David W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'm a little bit loathe to share some of these real world evidence trials because the caveats and confounders can be numerous but still fun to see what they find...and again a trial showing an outsized all cause mortality benefit for tirzepatide. This keeps happening and it's making me go 🧐🤔

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Very well expressed, and absolutely true.

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Underdog KC @realunderogkc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

So many kids starting school today... For the parents, per Toni Morrison, “Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don’t mean a thing.”

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'll never forget, very early in my study, and before I got comfortable eating out, I overindulged at a pizza place while traveling for a wedding and spent much of the next day feeling like I was gonna die. Not a discovery I was happy to make!

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Today's ride is the first "after school" ride of the academic year. I've got just under 600 miles to go to match last season's riding distance, which should be doable over the next 10 weeks or so. I might need to put snow tires on to get those miles in!

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Met this guy headed into church this morning. Keys for scale.

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Today's ride, and yesterday's since I forgot to post it. Ginger has been handling being kenneled periodically during the day well, even after extended periods when I was on campus. Such a good girl!

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

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Artificial Intelligence Policy

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Today's ride was the first I tried to get in after returning to campus this week while solo puppy parenting. Ginger was kind enough to accommodate me. Bonus, a very considerate fallen tree.

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David W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Keytruda + mRNA cancer vaccine trial. Benefit was apparently overwhelming enough that they stopped the trial at the first interim analysis. Wow. Can't wait to see the full data readout on this trial. Science is awesome

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Lots of dogs take the squeaker out of their toys. Ginger cut out the middle-man. I don't even know where she found them (they're old) and, of course she had one in her mouth while chewing on the rest of the package.

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Dr. Eric Ecklund @eecklund.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Yeah, yoga is awesome, but have you tried putting on socks in front of a 4-month old Golden?

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