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Ellen L. Weintraub @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

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Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The End of Term Archive team @eotarchive.org crawled millions of federal webpages! If you are worried about a page going down or changing information on it, you can check to see if it is saved in the Internet Archive's @waybackmachine.bsky.social. 1/2

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josh @joshgoodman.org · 31/01/2025

This firsthand experience has shown me why having an experienced and qualified leader at HHS is critical to the health and well-being of everyone in this country.

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josh @joshgoodman.org · 31/01/2025

I worked in academia for HHS/NIH funded genetic databases for over 20 years and now work in the private sector on genetic variants. Throughout my entire career, I have relied on their support through grants and the numerous biomedical databases that they produce and maintain.

josh @joshgoodman.org · 31/01/2025

Another great post by @kkjetelina.bsky.social and company breaking down the important points from the RFK Jr hearings. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-hea...

yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com

RFK Jr. Hearings

Here are your cliff notes and what's next

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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I have heard from internal sources that OPM and HHS personnel have started going through notices of NIH and other funding opportunities to scrub any language about DEI or gender.

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josh @joshgoodman.org · 28/01/2025

Stopping fascism with $1.50 hot dogs seems on par with how this timeline has been so far.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH. No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts. And no indication how long the pause will last. With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.

washingtonpost.com

Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review

The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.

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josh @joshgoodman.org · 20/01/2025

The video of the Janis Stockhouse Celebration of Life (video by Duane Busick) along with many other written and audio tributes are now up on stockhouseconcert.org.

stockhouseconcert.org

Janis Stockhouse Memorial Concert

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josh @joshgoodman.org · 30/12/2024

Ms. Stockhouse was a beloved band director (and so much more) at Bloomington High School North in Bloomington, Indiana for 38 years until her retirement in 2019. She died unexpectedly on Dec 23, 2024.

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josh @joshgoodman.org · 30/12/2024

Tune in at 3pm EST today to Just You and Me on WFIU for @davidbrentjohnson.bsky.social's tribute to Janis Stockhouse. Listen here: indianapublicmedia.org/about/wfiu-f... #jazz #band #tribute

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How to Listen to WFIU

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josh @joshgoodman.org · 27/12/2024

She instilled a life long love of jazz music and beyond in me that I cherish to this day. Without her band room, her support, and her leadership, I would not be the person that I am today.

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 23/12/2024

New book for holidays

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ROSALIND | Problems | Locations

Lots of good resources here. The Reddit r/learnpython community has a wiki (www.reddit.com/r/learnpytho...) with some of these and a few more that are worth checking out. I would also recommend Rosalind for a good source of Bioinformatics problems to solve using python. rosalind.info

rosalind.info

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This is a good option if you want support for a variety of formats without spending a lot of time researching all your options. If you care about getting the highest quality output for your use case when dealing with these file formats, it may not be ideal.

For example, when converting DOCX (github.com/microsoft/ma...), markitdown uses mammoth to convert the DOCX to HTML, BeautifulSoup to extract the body, and markdownify to produce the Markdown. Similar story with XLSX only with one of the engines provided by pandas.read_excel().

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It looks like this is an abstraction over existing open source tooling for reading these various formats rather than a new library with MS Office read support by @microsoft.com. Still useful, but maybe not what some people are hoping for when they initially see it.

josh @joshgoodman.org · 04/12/2024

Looks like they will be going back to 2020. '"Scoping Review" will replace "Review" or "Systematic Review" on appropriate citations extending back to 2020, the first year this term appears in MEDLINE.' - www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbul...

nlm.nih.gov

Annual MeSH Processing for 2025. NLM Technical Bulletin. 2024 Nov–Dec

Learn about 2025 term changes in NLM's Annual MeSH Processing, such as exceptions made for Publication Types,

Chris Mungall @cmungall.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

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Many of my colleagues here in the biosciences rely daily on multiple databases, resources, and knowledge bases (GO, MODs, Monarch, plus many more ..). I don't know if you all know how fraught the sustainability situation is. Please consider signing the GBC letter: globalbiodata.org/open-letter-...

globalbiodata.org

OPEN LETTER CAMPAIGN - Global Biodata Coalition

Careers at the Global Biodata Coalition.

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10. Place in banneton with rolled oats, cover, and put in fridge (36 hrs) 11. Preheat oven and dutch oven to 450F 12. Score dough and place in dutch oven 13. Bake covered for 30m then remove lid and bake 10m

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5. Pinch in salt and several stretch and folds. 6. Rest for 1 hour, then 4 sets of stretch and folds every 30m 7. Bulk rise until volume increases by 50% (dough was 75F in step 5). 8. Pre-shape then bench rest for 20m 9. Shape into a bâtard, sprinkle cinnamon and nutmeg inclusions during folds

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Testing a recipe for pumpkin sourdough bread ahead of the holidays. This batch was a very tasty success. Might try to up the pumpkin for v1.1.0 #sourdough

Pumpkin sourdough bread, cut in half, and crumb facing up.

Two loaves of pumpkin sourdough bread on a cooling rack after baking.

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