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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨🚨🚨 Very urgent for many of us. I also just learned this today. Tell your friends. Tell your grant admins. 🧪

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Science peeps: Looks like SciENcv updated the digital certificate used to sign Biosketch and Current & Pending documents without notification. The old certificate expires Saturday, September 26, 2026. SciENcv docs before that date may fail validation in eRA Commons delaying or blocking submission.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.

The Ebola virus doesn’t need to spill back. It abides in its reservoir host, and awaits its next opportunity. A virus can’t climb out of a bat or a monkey and fly off in search of human prey. It can only spill over. If humans left the reservoir host alone — not hunting it, not capturing it, not eating it, not exporting it live, not disturbing its forest habitat — the virus wouldn’t re-emerge in humans. It would remain where it is, harming no one. But of course that’s not what happens. And when viruses spill, they often spill into us, because the human population is such a big, busy target.

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Browned Butter ♎️🍁🍂✨ @brownedbutter.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

Example of the fact that there’s never been any “trad wife/womanhood” for us

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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For science journalists: this always works for me, though it might take a day or two

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Let me talk about this OpEd from GOP PA Senator Dave McCormick (whose office doesn't answer phones or respond to emails) 1

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 23/09/2026

If academics were as sensitive as these people are to rejection and disagreement — not to say we're unique of course, but we certainly take a beating — then we would not last a minute through peer review or whatever else. They really come unprepared if they think bullying works on people like us.

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Don't be evil, kindness is good, make your memorial last through love of you. (Instruction of Merikare) (ALL)

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NYT tech reporter sings the praises of Meta Muse. It can do everything for you! Even set your fantasy football lineups! My dude... you know that's called "cognitive surrender," right? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/t...

"To test Muse, I experimented with it nonstop for two weeks... I had it perform dozens of day-to-day tasks, including (...) setting my fantasy football lineups."

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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Republicans passed legislation that requires people to work at least 80 hours per month to receive Medicaid. Over the past two months, Republican leadership worked, on average, for only 56 hours. They wouldn't even meet the work requirements they forced on working families.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026

"OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump's super PAC a whopping $25 million" is one of those things that could really stand to be pointed out more:

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OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift

The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A typical morning at the Anthropic head office

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

"AI responses are for educational purposes only and may not always be accurate"... surely it doesn't matter if it is misleading/inaccurate if the purpose is education @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social, do you see the absurdity of your logic

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

(Another) 5 alarm fire for biomedical research in America.

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Peanut @peanutium.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's really wild to me how people will say "trans people should just have their own bathrooms/sports leagues" like bro do you even understand what you're suggesting?

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M. S. AtKisson @igrrrl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

QotD:

What are our systems actually optimised for?
One question I keep returning to is money.
Money is extraordinarily useful. It allows coordination, exchange and planning at a scale human beings could not otherwise manage. But somewhere along the way, a tool for organising human activity began to look increasingly like the purpose of human activity.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What’s a pirate’s favorite computer programming language? You’d think it’d be R, but their first love will always be the C. Happy talk like a pirate day!

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Spongebob Captain Oooooh Meme Reaction

ALT: Spongebob Captain Oooooh Meme Reaction

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Brendan Harley @profharley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The risk to the NIH and NIH-funded investigators is not going away.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19/09/2026

It's even simpler: the technology is the industry. To exclude the industry from our understanding of AI is to misunderstand the technology. So-called AI just doesn't work without the whole industry behind it. How do we know? We tried for decades and even more than a century under some definitions.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

👇👇👇👇

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have another idea for you.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For ere they drown, drowning things will twice rise to the surface; then rise again, to sink for evermore.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 17/09/2026

I tried to explain rationalism to a philosophy major friend of mine, who scoffed and said "so they're Cartesians, but racist"

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17/09/2026

The primary use case of consumer-facing “A.i.” is fraud.

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Kris Willis @kawillis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As a former program official, I know it takes time for the community to become aware of a funding opportunity, no matter how hard you work to advertise it. 4 weeks between publication and application due date means only a subset of potential applicants are likely to respond.

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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If enacted, this bill will pilot the coverage of Medically Tailored Meals in Medicare—providing nutritious meals to patients with chronic illness to help improve their health & manage their conditions, while also lowering healthcare costs for all Americans.

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peter_donnelly @peter-donnelly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"The publicity surrounding the study caused a sharp decline in vaccination uptake, leading to a number of outbreaks of measles around the world and many deaths as a result." "Wakefield reportedly stood to earn up to US$43 million per year selling test kits" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_...

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Andrew Wakefield - Wikipedia

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is so bad

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They live in a false reality they have built around themselves…..

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My quote of the day I've always been the kind of person who just feels like 'Okay, well, people think I can't do this. I'll show them.' Ketanji Brown Jackson

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Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography · 13/09/2026

Getty makes a ton of money out of selling public domain footage. Which is crazy. But that’s Getty. The footage is usually available free elsewhere but it’s hard to find. Great video that helps you understand where and how to find it. youtu.be/2dzqQItDmdg?...

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I Killed A Business Model

YouTube video by Elroddd

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This. You don't have to like trans criticism of anti-trans Dems. But telling us we have to shut up and pretend to love them is dehumanizing bullshit. We have consciousness, emotions, agency. We get to decide our own votes. Don't like it? Fuck off.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Let's talk about an excuse I'm seeing, that politicians are just using transphobic rhetoric to temporarily win conservatives and will revert to more pro-trans positions in office. So we should vote for them anyway. I've investigated governments for over 20 years. That ain't ever how it works.🧵...

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...

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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

Just a reminder, for no one particular reason and not at all necessarily inspired by any real events, that "interdisciplinarity" does not just mean "which other flavours of STEM can we partner with."

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

so the exact scenario all of us opposing this have warned about for the last 2 years

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nora, but like, spooky @noralenderbe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

no one knows how stupid gussied up markov monte carlo methods are better than mathematicians

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Take this seriously. #ai #bias 🚨💻👇🏾

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