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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cool story, which emphasizes the science NEVER lies. (Which, sadly, now feels like a political statement.)

Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Over here at House Gilman, I have just signed an executive order declaring that the moon is, in fact, made of green cheese. Anything else you may heard is a hoax. Or, to resurrect a golden oldie from the Nixon administration, it is "inoperative."

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m just gonna try to take this at face value for a moment. So if people pay their premiums and make no insurance claims, they’re committing fraud. Therefore, I’ve been fraudulently paying for home and auto insurance for decades. I’m in deep shit.

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

People may remember the Nixon White House tapes as the quintessential Oval Office audio collection. But this one, man, it's the best.

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LBJ Orders Pants

YouTube video by pthiso

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This story is powerful. You can readily understand the frustrations all around. Fortunately, a happy ending for little Hazel. This is not really a Vertex issue IMHO. Rather it reveals systemic cracks in our entire system of drug development, regulation, and healthcare delivery. How do we respond?

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In a changed world for cystic fibrosis, a family's fight reveals a new gap in care

Drugs like Trikafta, first approved in 2019, have changed cystic fibrosis from a death sentence to a manageable chronic condition for the vast majority of patients. But the drug is only approved for c...

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Changing our clocks twice a year is such an unforced error. Look what we're gonna be dealing with after Nov 1.

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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We would probably have raised them in anticipation of energy costs but ngl was too funny to imagine Trump reading we held them. Lol

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The holiday cocktail menu. With best wishes for a sweet new year.

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Hump Day commercial makes me so happy.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

RIP to a legend

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hendrix did it better. Discuss.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In 1937, Stalin's census found the famine killed millions.⁣ ⁣ His government suppressed the report and shot the statisticians who made it.⁣ ⁣ Three weeks ago, that kind of suppression was illegal in America. Now it isn't. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…

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The Sentence That Used to Protect American Statistics

"Protection from inappropriate influence is a hallmark of scientific integrity." That line governed the Census Bureau and then the White House quietly disappeared it.

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dude misunderstands how insurance works. (Which I don't believe.)

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Doing the important work for America.

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Pretty sure this is my favorite Chartreuse-containing cocktail. It’s the Monte Cassino. Equal parts rye, lemon juice, Benedictine, Yellow Chartreuse.

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

OK, here's mine. TIL Burton Cummings, the golden-voiced Winnipeg-born lead singer of The Guess Who, who spent many years as a successful solo artist in California, now lives in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. And loves it there.

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Canada maybe the smaller "fish" in this battle, but who's got the biggest lake trout? (This is my brother, anonymity preserved - sort of - with a fish he caught this week in northern Manitoba.)

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. What is this thing?

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Why am I thinking about the Overton window again?

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Vanilla-ginger highball featuring Flor de Caña 7 rum. Have a great weekend, everyone.

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Nerdy confession. I have a personal weather station in my yard. Back on the other site, I had a script that would tweet out data hourly. It had a surprising number of followers. But at some point Twitter changed its API and the thing broke and I didn't have the time or interest to fix. (1/2)

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I have a bunch of new rums, so tinkering with my Mai Tai recipes. Have a great weekend, everyone.

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Read for the first time, as instructed. Wow.

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Fascinating data. And use of graphics.

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I have a bad feeling about this.

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Wait wut? This doesn’t look like Seattle.

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Although I usually agree with these critiques of the Times, my reaction here was, come on, did you even read this piece? It's funny, breezy, and well written. Not everything needs to be politics. Please.

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Yikes. What a story. It's always seemed like a trivial and unnecessary formality when a recruiter does a formal background check. But, hey, I guess this is why. (Also, if I were the hiring manager here, I'd be having a serious conversation with any references I spoke to about this guy.)

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A most-wanted fugitive appears to have been secretly working as a biotech executive

A former doctor accused of sexual assault but on the run for 20 years appears to have been living a secret life as a biotech executive.

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

As a grad student in Berkeley in the late 1970s, in a seminar on "great scientific papers," I selected Tonegawa's 1976 PNAS paper that demonstrated that genomic DNA rearrangement generates antibody diversity. This discovery was completely unexpected and anti-paradigmatic at the time.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This beauty is a Yellowjacket, another gem from Employees Only. Reposado tequila, St-German elderflower liqueur, Yellow Chartreuse, and a dash of Regan’s Orange Bitters. Exceedingly tasty, changed quite a bit over time.

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

(Although I haven’t been to one since high school) I stand with Taco Bell.

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