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Kris Hite @gr8odinsravens.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Trying to hop back on BlueSky. At first this place felt great but I grew to feel detached and isolated pretty quickly as very few people I know IRL are on here.

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

How does our biochemistry differ from that of Neanderthals & Denisovans—our closest extinct cousins—& how did that affect our success? One piece of the puzzle could be an enzyme called ADSL; a change in just 1 amino acid made a version of ADSL unique to Homo sapiens, & may have shaped our behavior 🧪

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Enzyme unique to modern humans may have given us an evolutionary edge, research finds | CNN

A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest extinct relatives.

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Addgene @addgene.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Shoutout to fireflies: maybe the cutest bugs out there, plus they gave us the first luciferase ever cloned! Check out our latest blog post to learn more about these alternatives to fluorescent proteins and bring bioluminescence to your lab. 🌟🌟 twp.ai/4ipdt0

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Fluorescent Proteins 101: Luciferases

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Kris Hite @gr8odinsravens.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

(2 of 2) …the spread of misinformation, and the dominance of social media algorithms. These issues contribute to a decline in user experience and a sense that the internet is less fun and informative than it used to be…

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Kris Hite @gr8odinsravens.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I asked Google why the internet sucks now and I got a quite the concise and accurate response “The internet, once hailed as a space for freedom and connection, is now often perceived as frustrating and even harmful due to factors like rampant commercialization, (1 of 2).

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Kris Hite @gr8odinsravens.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

My mother gave me this gasoline ration card from WWII. Her mother and father used this piece of paper to buy 4 gallons of gas per week during the war.

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Kris Hite @gr8odinsravens.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Edward Jenner is not a household name, but it really should be. The inventor of vaccination. So fundamental was his discovery that pus from cow pox wounds induced humans to gain resistance to small pox that the word “vaccination” derives from the Latin word for cow.

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Kris Hite @gr8odinsravens.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Working along with my 6-year-old learning how to block in all over again with my favorite “learn to draw” book!

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Kris Hite @gr8odinsravens.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Summer goal. Create art that can double as textbook diagrams to teach about nucleosomal array accordion structure, interdigitated arrays, and heterochromatin formation.

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Kris Hite @gr8odinsravens.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I’ve been having nostalgia for the internet circa 2010-2014 lately. This philosophical espresso shot from Jason Silva satisfied my longing to put my brain back in that mode of early excitement and optimism about this whole endeavor.

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A MIND MADE FOR MATING! by @JasonSilva

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Kris Hite @gr8odinsravens.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Fun times in Chicago for the @asbmb.bsky.social annual meeting!

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Kris Hite @gr8odinsravens.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Ironic listening to former Chief Scientific Officer of Moderna; Melissa J. Moore talk about how women should take more risks in life. Encouraging young women to use poker as a good arena to learn how to take risks. It is ironic as I have lost thousands$ on Moderna stock I bought in 2022. 89% drop

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Kris Hite @gr8odinsravens.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Learning from Yael David Ph. D. that histones get glycated at a high rates in tumor cells and also in “exhausted” T-cells. American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center H3R17gly most common and stable

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Kris Hite @gr8odinsravens.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

While de-extinction is grabbing the headlines. Stewart Brand, founder of the While Earth caralog has some thoughts youtu.be/U1s1edvJgqY?...

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Reversing animal extinction | Stewart Brand

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AAUP @aaup.org · 10/04/2025

“When institutions & their leaders fail to fight back, it falls upon the people to stand up for the rule of law. The AAUP & AFT are doing what the Columbia board should have done: Fight Back.” — Jennifer Ruth

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

For years conservatives and some liberals complained incessantly about ‘cancel culture’ and the lack of ‘free speech’ on campuses. None of that stuff comes even close to what the right is now doing in power, in terms of the open bullying and pressuring of colleges and censoring of curricula.

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Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson

Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...

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Kris Hite @gr8odinsravens.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The Water’s Andrew Plus making a quadrupl

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AAUP @aaup.org · 25/03/2025

BREAKING: We are suing the Trump admin on behalf of our members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding for crucial public health research to force Columbia University to surrender its academic independence. Stay Tuned.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 24/03/2025

Columbia political science professor & scholar of post-soviet policy Tim Frye speaking out today as the rain fell at Columbia AAUP’s press conference in response to Columbia’s shocking surrender to the Trump administration’s threats to defund. #defendhighered #academicsky

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/03/2025

Hey guys remember the Hillary Clinton email server? Seems kinda, small today, doesn’t it?

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/03/2025

Many conservatives who fought against cancel culture on college campuses and championed free speech are now behind a growing crackdown on political expression at universities, in ways that try to sidestep the Constitution’s free-speech guarantees.

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Republicans Once Championed Free Speech on Campus. Now, Not So Much.

President Trump and state politicians are pushing new laws and policies that crack down on curriculum, protests and speakers.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 18/03/2025

"ICE officials’ activity at Columbia is the administration’s opening salvo in a battle against two of its most frequently invoked bogeymen: higher education and immigrants." www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

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International Students Navigate Escalating Threats

The Trump administration is arresting foreign students in their dorms and threatening deportation. Students are rattled and uncertain about their future in America.

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Kris Hite @gr8odinsravens.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The greatest dedication page I have read in the last 5 years. #PandemicInc

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Kris Hite @gr8odinsravens.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Winged Migration -2001- is one if the greatest films of all time. Change my mind

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Trump’s administration governs by fear.

Excerpt from a news article in Nature reads: ‘In the past, some institutions have offered their researchers stopgap money if there is a lapse in funding. But with the Trump administration also threatening universities with research-overhead cuts and taxes on their endowments, institutions have not yet offered these funds, says a researcher at Stanford University in California who requested anonymity because she feared retribution from the federal government for speaking out.
"I've been funded by the NIH for more than 30 years, and I've never experienced anything like this," she says. "I'm scared to tell people in my lab how dire the situation is."’

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Kris Hite @gr8odinsravens.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Logging on to BlueSky very much now feels like old Twitter. I love it!

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Michael Leo Owens @milophd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

“Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?”

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs & the research that could save lives. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

😥 bsky.app/profile/jere...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 11/03/2025

We call for the immediate release of former Columbia University grad student Mahmoud Kahlil, a legal permanent resident of the US. His abduction is an assault not only on basic immigration law but on our 1st Amendment protections of freedom of speech & assembly. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...

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AAUP Condemns Trump Administration’s Punitive Weaponization of Federal Grant Funding at Columbia

The Trump administration has taken the unprecedented move of cancelling $400 million in federal contracts and grants to Columbia University in alleged response to “inaction by Columbia’s administratio...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 28/02/2025

HOT off the press: A MUST READ somber assessment of the war on American higher ed & the fight to save it. From Harvard AAUP member Dennis Hogan in the @defector.bsky.social “In the war between colleges & Trump, too many Americans are choosing Trump.“ defector.com/the-nih-cuts...

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The NIH Cuts Are Part Of An All-Out War On Higher Education | Defector

In a presidential administration with an unlimited capacity for chaos, colleges and universities have become targets of this early phase of right-wing assault. This is not so surprising: Many of the k...

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Brian J. Karem @briankarem.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.

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Kris Hite @gr8odinsravens.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Are there interesting words you’ve learned or become reacquainted with lately? Two stick out for me, the fist is amniote; a class in the phylogenetic tree encompassing all terrestrial and some amphibious tetrapod vertebrates. The second is equipoise which means balance between left and right sides

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Kris Hite @gr8odinsravens.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Precise. Thanks to Nick Anderson for drawing this!

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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/02/2025

Hey congressional Republicans, still waiting for you to announce how much you’re cutting from congress’ own $6.5 billion budget….

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Kris Hite @gr8odinsravens.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Biden was an ally to the sovereign nation of Ukraine. Trump is an Ally to his hero - Vladimir Putin.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This is a vitally important point. Journalists need to start telling the story of people whose lives are being destroyed, upended, damaged as a result of the actions of this administration.

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Kris Hite @gr8odinsravens.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

If I were in charge of the US government I would remove the ability of pharmaceutical companies from advertising directly to consumers through Internet, TV, and radio advertising. Also, I would increase the corporate tax rate to 80% but make allowances for R&D expenditures to be tax exempt

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