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Jack Lawrence

@jackmlawrence.bsky.social
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Scientist working on pancreatic cancer & research integrity. Care about free speech, democracy, magic. Troublemaker. Occasionally write about online political and scientific misinfo. He/him. Email: Bluesky@jlawr.com | Signal: +44 7763 517488

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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NEW - Ivermectin is becoming the chemotherapy of the anti-woke. It’s not that there’s zero evidence it can fight cancer; but the data we have is far from convincing. My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
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Ivermectin for Cancer Is Putting the Cart Before the Horse Paste
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the name of a drug most people had never heard of before was suddenly on everyone’s lips. An off-patent antiparasitic blessed by the World Health Organization, ...
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Don't write anything in a college essay that you don't want ransomware hackers to make public in 2026.
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Matt Jordan @mattjord.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I am thrilled our education system is totally dependent on monopoly platforms like Canvas which along with using AI to surveil all my IP & my students data are really easy to hack thanks to AI. Let's double down on technology & praise our tech overlords for delivering us this shattered world.
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Jack Lawrence @jackmlawrence.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I’m shocked the Canvas hack isn’t massive news yet. It’s going to impact millions of people and the fallout in the HE community has the potential to be huge
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Jack Lawrence @jackmlawrence.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Reading through Reddit forums like r/professors is often deeply depressing. Some of the educators on there seem to just really hate their students and teaching and have a reductive us vs them mindset. If you hate and distrust the students that much just quit?
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19/11/2024
We love links because we love the open web
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MishMei @mishmei.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
kitten 😸 or frog 🐸 you decide
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Belinda Barnet @manjusrii.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Twitter is cratering. Despite the inevitability I still feel sad. He didn’t buy that place to save it, to grow it…he bought it to shift the Overton window to the right. But it was also home for millions of people.
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Jack Lawrence @jackmlawrence.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Realising I have followed far too many American lawyers on this site today. Looking for anyone not falling into this category to follow now (unless you’re like a cool American lawyer)
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Jack Lawrence @jackmlawrence.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Coming back to Bluesky after some time away and seeing gifs are now allowed. If I see any of you using any of these ones I’m blocking you instantly. Please leave them on twitter.
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Jack Lawrence @jackmlawrence.bsky.social · 17/08/2024
I have a spare ticket for Lion King on Sunday (tomorrow) at 14:30 at the Lyceum theatre. It is a Disney Magical Mondays ticket so only £29.50 (a big saving on the normal price). The seat is in row ZA at the back of stalls. Anyone interested?
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 17/08/2024
I am begging and pleading with the media (I see you @bloomberg.com) to stop taking Elon's false framing that he's a "free speech absolutist" at face value. It is actively misleading people and is journalistic malpractice. www.techdirt.com/2024/08/16/c...
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Can We Finally Stop Pretending Elon Musk Is A “Free Speech Absolutist”? He’s Not
A challenge for the mainstream media: can you stop saying that Elon Musk is a free speech absolutist? Over the past few years, we’ve had a number of posts highlighting just how laughable it is that…
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
Things we're leaving in 2023: -apologizing for credit card fraud -being a people-pleaser with the FBI -feeling shame about the things that bring us joy (walking around cemeteries looking for names to put on loan applications)
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Jillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
Giving a big talk tomorrow in Brisbane about the decline of free expression globally, and its particular impact on LGBTQ+ communities and sex workers, and how it's all intertwined, just as human rights are interconnected. I'm excited and also a bit anxious—this is my first keynote since 2019!
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
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Period 26: Journalists - stop saying that menstrual products are tested with saline and please do so...
Ok, sidebar newsletter. Share this one, please. Last week for the weird period fact I shared a recent paper that looked at menstrual product...
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Adam Cerious @adamcerious.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
doctor: your parents were in a car accident me: how are they? doctor: extremely critical me: so they're awake, that's good
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
Elon Musk understands the value of the block feature. I know this because he blocked me over this post:
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Ken Klippenstein on TikTok
Elon Musk just announced X will be ending the ability to block other users, which reminded me of the time Musk blocked me. #Musk #Elon #ElonMusk
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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 18/08/2023
Phew. I'm in, thanks to @jackmlawrence.bsky.social. I feel like a bank robber reaching the vault. Except without the robbing. Or the bank. Or the vault.
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Colin @yesitscolin.bsky.social · 20/06/2023
RFK Jr: Pee is stored in the balls, OK? Rogan: Wow. In the balls? How does nobody knows this? RFK Jr: There are literally tens of thousands of studies that show pee is stored there, in the balls Rogan: Wow. Wow. So like, does that mean girls don’t pee? RFK Jr: Now you’ve gone beyond my expertise
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/07/2023
Should note I was/am a reporter (still freelance), and I’m trying to sell a book right now. So I 110% get the business importance of these huge platforms - but I’m not sure I believe it’s *worth* it anymore. Or ethical.
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 06/07/2023
It's perfect.
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
Threads stole Elon Musk’s idea, a social media platform that sucks
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fishttp:// @fishttp.website · 06/07/2023
Every screenshot of Threads I've seen is basically 𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐳 who getting they ketch upped?? 8,729 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 · 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘍𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘴𝘣𝘺
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/07/2023
The perfect summary of Threads
legitpat on threads asking “what if we made twitter cheugy”
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Tatjana Vejnovic | aka Siyra/Ryden @digitalvix3n.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
It's somehow so much worse than that. @zitron.bsky.social said it's like a "truncated Facebook comment section where everyone wants you to follow them" and it could not be more accurate. Only feed you get is filled with random bullshit.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 06/07/2023
Threads is fucking awful
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 06/07/2023
This is god damn awful. Jesus Christ
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 06/07/2023
This feels like a platform specifically designed to drive me mad with animal rage
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
thread review: absolute dog shit app for terminal cases of linked in everything you hate about instagram with nothing you like, assuming there's anything left of insta to actually like
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Jack Lawrence @jackmlawrence.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
Vibes on Threads are utterly rancid. Much prefer Bluesky. Corporate accounts are thriving and no one is being threatened with hammers
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 30/06/2023
The fundamental problem with how Spez & Elon Musk are running Reddit and Twitter is that they assume people have no choice but to keep posting and reading their sites. This is such a stark contrast from Meta which is eternally paranoid about users growing tired and leaving its apps.
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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 01/07/2023
No, it makes total sense. Just like when the networks set limits on how much TV you can watch.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 01/07/2023
absolutely incredible
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Emma™ @cockremover.bsky.social · 28/04/2023
"delete this tweet bestie" oh yeah cause book burning has historically always worked out great huh
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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 20/06/2023
[meeting the aliens for the first time] me: oh god they hate me
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 27/05/2023
I'd say it's probably not ideal for the CEO of Twitter to tweet a fake Voltaire quote that's actually a quote by US neo-Nazi, white supremacist and convicted paedophile Kevin Alfred Strom.
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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 24/05/2023
If I were running a media service unable to manage 600K simultaneous streams without falling over, I would simply not try to host a presidential campaign announcement
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Jack Lawrence @jackmlawrence.bsky.social · 27/04/2023
This is my frist post on bluesky. Better make sure I don’t include any typos
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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 16/05/2023
This from Sam Thielman (via @attackerman.bsky.social) is really good. foreverwars.ghost.io/daniel-penny-g…
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A Strangler in a Strange Land
Daniel Penny killed Jordan Neely with his bare hands on video, but every institution in New York seems to be on Penny’s side. Why?
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/05/2023
On Twitter, reportedly incoming Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino (@lindayacc) follows: - Chaya Raichik - Jesse Watters - Michael Shellenberger - Ron DeSantis - The Babylon Bee - JK Rowling - Maye Musk - Catturd - Vivek Ramaswamy - Tulsi Gabbard - Bari Weiss - Matt Taibbi - Giorgia Meloni
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/05/2023
part of what is happening is those conservative academics — the most vocal of which have enviable positions at ivy league universities — simply do not think or care about the institutions that educate most american college students
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Jack Lawrence @jackmlawrence.bsky.social · 01/05/2023
Was listening to a new song and every few seconds there was a random scream. I was like “okay odd choice but it sort of works.” Then the next song came on and the screaming continued. Turns out it was someone screaming outside my house
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Jack Lawrence @jackmlawrence.bsky.social · 01/05/2023
The combination of people skeeting like they’re in a private DM group and the fact that deleted skeets aren’t actually truly deleted atm is going to have some interesting consequences in a few months or years
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Jack Lawrence @jackmlawrence.bsky.social · 01/05/2023
YOU try making a hive when you’re upside down
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Jack Lawrence @jackmlawrence.bsky.social · 01/05/2023
Very considerate of the UK giving everyone a day off work tomorrow so we can use bluesky more. We also get next Monday off too. (Well I’ll probably still have to go into the lab - cancer cells don’t seem to take days off)
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Jack Lawrence @jackmlawrence.bsky.social · 01/05/2023
An underrated benefit of bluesky only allowing image posts is that I never need to see these goddamn gifs again
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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 29/04/2023
Before many came in: Just so its known this was how the hype wave started. Black people
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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 29/04/2023
Please don't forget @pariss.blacktechpipeline.com cause she ate that making community posts.
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