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Ken Gilmore

@kengilmore.bsky.social
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Australian medical doctor fascinated by evolutionary biology, ancient Near Eastern studies, Syro-Palestinian archaeology, biblical studies and vintage electronics. Eclectic is not a dirty word. He/his.

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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Like “every other scientist, I was not allowed to speak in any kind of scientific meeting or public setting,” Francis Collins, a geneticist who had worked for the biomedical research agency since the 1990s, said during an episode that aired Sunday. Least surprising news ever.
insidehighered.com
Ex-NIH Director Says Trump Silenced Him, Others
A former director of the National Institutes of Health—who resigned in February—told CBS’s 60 Minutes that working at the agency became “untenable” after President Donald Trump started his second term...
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
So how long before the the military snaps and turfs out its incompetent, juvenile leaders? This level of incompetence and petulance is simply unsustainable.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Turns out contemporary conservatives hate all of science. Being ignorant is now a tribal identity marker for them.
youtu.be
Study: Conservatives Hate Science (All Of It)
YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
In the least surprising news of the day the Trump regime fakes evidence to justify their treatment of a person.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
That moment when you find sceptical figures you once respected think “woke ideology” is a far bigger threat to science than the right wing extremists in the Trump Administration.
youtu.be
The “Skeptics” Are Crashing Out HARD
YouTube video by Genetically Modified Skeptic
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I went crazy ages ago, and now I just watch the train run off the bridge for the dark side of the moon.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Not a few Christian Nationalists have been vocal in calling for the repealing of the 19th Amendment. This is one way to achieve something like that. Gotta stop those handmaidens voting.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/04/2025
exhibits A and B in how lying all the time makes you stupid
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Making the Chinese look like the good guys and adults in the room isn’t hard when you’re dealing with couch boy, admittedly.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Exactly. Remember, he’s a corrupt stupid conman and convicted felon. There’s no Machiavellian plans here. He’s just behaving like he always has in the business world.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Now that those tariffs have been reversed or paused, are we now back in the emasculated free-trade wilderness? Curious minds want to know.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Just so long as Temu Trump loses the election. Conservative parties worldwide since Trump have pivoted hard right and the last thing I want is for Australia to be ruled by Murdoch / Rinehart sock puppets doing their best to Make Australia Great Again.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The more she lies the smaller her nose gets and the larger her cross grows. It’s like an inverse Pinocchio of the far right.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The gestapo allusions can be taken as given.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
“In derelict sidings the poppies entwine, with cattle trucks lying in wait for the next time.”
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
One would like to think that blatant insider trading by a president would be considered one of the worst enables of malfeasance ever. Alas, it’s just a Tuesday in Trumpistan.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I have no problems with the research as such but we’re not resurrecting dead species. They’re gone forever and misleading hype like this is irritating.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Fundy on fundy fight. I’ll take my small moments of happiness where I can find them.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Away from the political madness; nice short article on respected archaeologist of 1st-10th century CE Palestine / Israel Jodi Magness.
thelocalreporter.press
The Archaeologist’s World: Jodi Magness and Her Ancient Discoveries - The Local Reporter
As the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 2002, Jodi Magness has established herself as a preeminent author...
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Exactly. Who would come to the U.S. to build a scientific career when future Republican regimes could deport your postdocs and grad students or just make them disappear?
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This is true just from a scientific and medical research perspective. Even if the cutback are reversed, goodwill and trust have gone. What young scientist would ever come to the U.S. for research now?
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I’m more than happy for every one of the contributors to be cancelled forever. All of them have hosed away whatever good will they once enjoyed.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I’m quite happy for all of them to be cancelled forever, which is a shame because the Blind Watchmaker still remains my favourite evolutionary biology book.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Just waiting for the Trumpenführer’s American Jewish supporters to condemn this unreservedly. Any time now.
newrepublic.com
Trump Claims Nazis Treated Jewish Prisoners With “Love”
Donald Trump made the unbelievable claim during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
She’s now made it to the top of my list of Trump administration people I want sent to a supermax for the rest of their lives. In solitary. On prison loaf.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Charlie Kirk lies again. It’s all he can do.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The pathetic trigger control underlines the fact these are cruel morons cosplaying a government.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
One third of America is fundamentally broken. It can only be outvoted and outlived.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Tired of the Trumpenführer’s belligerent idiocy? How about a reminder about looming food insecurity?
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
As no one is safe there is nothing to lose. America needs to make itself ungovernable, France-style. The regime is not fit to rule so the people need to withdraw their consent to be ruled. Strike, boycott, flood the streets.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Pretty much this.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
That last paragraph needs to be branded on the foreheads of every pearl-clutching conservative who whines about drugs but dies absolutely nothing to address the root causes of the problem.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Pah! Who needs turnips? Any competent cook can make a meal without food.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Pah! Who needs turnips? Any competent cook can make a meal without food.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Barrett’s behaviour of late not only has surprised me but made me wonder whether the lawlessness of the regime and the cowardice of the legislature is pushing her away towards the centre.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This is about as dystopian as your authoritarian regime can get. When the courts fail to uphold due process, anyone can be disappeared.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Officially now even more evil than the Dred Scott court.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Brainworm Jr has reached the “precious bodily fluids” level of insanity.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I think we need to stop Republicans ever again nominating people to the Supreme Court.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Always rely on the fascists to provide you with a list of good books to read.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
As a rule, there’s always good reading in any banned book list. I’ve now got more titles to add to the to-read list, courtesy of the pig-ignorant fascists driving the U.S. into the ground.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Tariffs will be lifted on penguins who agree to be completely white. by Stephen Miller
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
So, who’s on weed in this administration?
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
For example, this is what is considered the biggest news in the world according to Fox News. Seriously, people in the right wing info sphere are negatively informed; they become actively dumber by watching it.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
There is of course zero chance of Fox News viewers ever seeing either this delightfully mocking image or the news.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Like conservatives everywhere, Dutton is channeling Trump hard. That means no conservative anywhere should be let anywhere near the levers of power until that poison is dead and conservatives are pushing just plain old classical liberalism.
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
If you think the disaster afflicting American medical science reminds you of Lysenko’s reign of terror, you’re not alone. Even if the current regime was magically deposed tomorrow, the impact on American science will last at least a generation.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
“Make America Healthy Again”: The new Lysenkoism
Trofim Lysenko was a Soviet scientist whose dogmatic science denialism led to mass famine when his ideas were applied to agriculture. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a lot like Lysenko in his science denial
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Ken Gilmore @kengilmore.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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