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J.F Brinkworth @jfbrinkworth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Man, peer pressure is the worst.

J.F Brinkworth @jfbrinkworth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Two human beings have died on campus in the last 30 days. One of those humans beings was not staff or student of faculty of the university. The other human being may be. I wouldn't know because the university has policy of not acknowledging the deaths of human beings on campus regardless of cause.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I confess: had you told me when I started writing these that eventually I’d be writing them about the actual plague I would have picked a different name. And I confess: had you told me when I started writing these I’d be writing them for years I wouldn’t have started

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Deep in their evolutionary history, gastropods underwent a process called 'torsion' in which their digestive track folded back in on itself such that the anus exits directly above the head in nearly all snails. For this reason, I am afraid most snails identify with the Rationalist community.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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J.F Brinkworth @jfbrinkworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For the nth time I have been present when someone pitching ai use said the failure of students to adopt genAI software for research stems from a lack of imagination. This has to be in an ai co. higher ed talking points sheet right?

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 15/09/2026

Unbelievable www.instagram.com/p/DdUmGqOEpST

Katie Dippold Instagram post of a previously unseen babydook party photo in which she’s smiling and toasting the camera

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J.F Brinkworth @jfbrinkworth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I could care less about the Emmys bit Kate O’Flynn’s performance in widow’s bay is just all of the awesome.

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J.F Brinkworth @jfbrinkworth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

so I'm just going to put this out there - I did not experience the unity oft cited on this day and the overwhelming national mood did not have an upside.

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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

US measles cases approach 3,300—over 1,000 more than all of last year www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-m...

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US measles cases approach 3,300—over 1,000 more than all of last year

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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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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I met a dolphin the other day, and we got along so well. We just clicked.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Nobody: Universities: what if we kept trying to expand while having fewer and fewer staff

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Astonishing.

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Ellen Kuwana, MS (#SciComm at #SciWri26) @ellenkuwana.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Medical breakthroughs such as this #cancer treatment is based on research that started at universities that would not have happened without #NSF and #NIH funding. #SaveNIH #SaveNSF #StandUpForScience

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J.F Brinkworth @jfbrinkworth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

vertigo...so technically a lot of things are down.

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

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Sarah Moser @sarahkmoser.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Montréal has spoken! ⚡️⚡️

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/07/2026

This is not about the OP, but honestly, I think the constant harping on "no do THIS not THAT as a consumer" is designed to make you give up on climate. This is a job for good old fashioned government, one that regulates pollution, including greenhouse gases.

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J.F Brinkworth @jfbrinkworth.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The 60 million dollars in Bryan Johnson's grift would actually extend lives if it had been directed to any one of the International Rescue Committee's efforts. Childhood vaccinations in war torn regions would gift decades to a lot of people. www.rescue.org/outcome/health

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Health | The IRC

Millions of people, particularly women and children, die from preventable causes in countries affected by conflict and natural disasters.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Sharks get cancer. People claiming otherwise are trying to sell something to the desperate. And even if sharks didn’t get cancer, eating shark wouldn’t cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 18/07/2026

New: Late last night, Taylor Farms quietly posted an official recall notice We now know that the parasite-linked iceberg lettuce was shipped to Walmart & food distributors in 27 (!) states It was for some reason still being sent out up until Thursday July 16 www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

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Parasite-Linked Lettuce Was Sent to Walmart Stores and Food Distributors in 27 States - Consumer Reports

Taylor Farms' recalled the parasite-linked lettuce it said was sent to Walmart stores, Sysco, and other food distributors in 27 states.

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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

One fashion tidbit I keep thinking about lately is buttons. Do you know how massive button-making was? Before zippers and plastic, mind you, buttons were MADE BY HAND. First appeared in the Indus Valley 2800 BCE, made of shells--and not as fasteners, but decoration. Button holes came later.

An assortment of buttons from the 18th-20th centuries, featuring boats, a Virgo, playing cards, and a dragon. From the Met museum.

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J.F Brinkworth @jfbrinkworth.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The big fin squid just wants your love

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J.F Brinkworth @jfbrinkworth.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

so..just gonna float this notion that if you use a gen AI to write for you and do not disclose it you are not just failing to cite but committing academic misconduct because you are presenting a result and deliberately obscuring how you got it.

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J.F Brinkworth @jfbrinkworth.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Not a fan of sports ball but I did love and still do when an NYC team wins. Cries of joy out of every window.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Remote monitoring of sepsis patients does not reduce hospital readmissions. Various at-home surveillance methods for patients with severe infections do not prevent them from returning to the hospital, a new study finds. Read more: ow.ly/6jNH50ZbjV1

Sepsis concept photo: Wooden blocks spelling 'SEPSIS' surrounded by a stethoscope, spray, syringe, and blister pack of capsules on a blue surface.

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J.F Brinkworth @jfbrinkworth.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

tell me you want to cut personnel from your grant budget without telling me etc..

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Today I'm posting a new blog about an astonishing scientific own goal. Hundreds of papers have reported using a totally wrong antibody to investigate the tumor suppressor p16. This mistake has happened because scientists have muddled the names of two proteins. forbetterscience.com/2026/06/02/m...

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J.F Brinkworth @jfbrinkworth.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

primary reason I will never be able to go home. There is no work for me.

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J.F Brinkworth @jfbrinkworth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

okay - liver macrophages are critical to the magnetic sensing abilities of rock doves...and blue fin tuna co-opt their lymphatics to make high speed hair pin turns in water. THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IS AWESOME...and I'm using "awesome" correctly.

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Karma @karmawall.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is determination. These guys are determined to chase me off ….. 😆

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J.F Brinkworth @jfbrinkworth.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Been on HRT ~2 yrs. Every 90 days CVS has either not had my very common doses in stock or failed to released them to me within a week of the refill date b/c they need my Dr. to reissue the 12 mo. script. Why? FIIK. My insurer is CVSHealth/Aetna. So now every 90 days I menstruate 2x in 3 weeks.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"Beleaguered" is a wonderfully expressive word. I am beset by troubles so manifold that they have formed a league. I am playing host to a diplomatic summit of the United Nations of Fuckery, and negotiations are *not going well*.

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J.F Brinkworth @jfbrinkworth.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Absolutely happened when I was a kid - and it happened when my daughter entered preschool. I spent years afterwards trying to convince her that management of disruptive kids was not her job.

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Oh, but when *I* fall dramatically into the water while everyone is watching, I'm "ruining your kid's baptism."

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Sometimes I'm just boggled by the capabilities of other species and this is one of those times. A just-fed hummingbird has blood glucose of 757 mg/dL. That would put a human right in the ER. Oh and they feed every 30 minutes. www.sciencenews.org/article/bird...

sciencenews.org

Here’s how honeyeaters and other birds thrive on sugary diets

Birds that feed on nectar or fruit evolved better mechanisms for managing metabolism, blood pressure and high glucose.

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J.F Brinkworth @jfbrinkworth.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

He is the definition of failing up. Overdue.

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Christopher-J (aka Eustach the Wanderer) @chrjcar.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Fredericton's St. Thomas University could cease to exist and Sackville's Mount Allison University could be privatized under scenarios the Holt government is considering for cuts to post-secondary education. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Holt Liberals look at merging, privatizing some universities | CBC News

Fredericton’s St. Thomas University could cease to exist and Sackville’s Mount Allison University could be privatized under scenarios the Holt government is considering for cuts to post-secondary educ...

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