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Kenneth Peterson

@krpete.bsky.social
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Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, husband to cookie maker extraordinaire, father to son & daughter, "Papa" to 3 granddaughters, cat person, craft beer lover, traveler, 1902 four-square house assistant groundskeeper.

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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Device disruption may particularly affect tasks requiring sustained engagement or uninterrupted attention. From an educational policy perspective, results indicate that restricting phone use in classrooms can support learning.
science.org
Phones impede learning: Evidence from a massive phone-free classroom experiment
Lower-performing students benefited the most, but even higher-performing students expressed support for the policy
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Franklin knew the earlier photo had revealed a helix—the epiphany Watson claimed for himself—and that is precisely why she made a second, more refined version, photograph 51." Watson was a prick.
science.org
How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yes, the hosts may split their attention between party needs and guest conversation, but the value of friends and family in your home far outweighs that tiny inconvenience. We host 3 major parties per year and many smaller dinners or BBQs. I would not trade how much I treasure these for the world.
theguardian.com
The dreadful decline of hosting at home: ‘I feel shame any time a friend comes over’
It used to be quite normal to pop next door for a coffee or invite friends over for dinner. But not any more. What’s behind this change – and just how damaging is it?
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The 6 conservative SCOTUS justices are as evil, cruel, and heartless as the rest of the Trump Regime. These humans are living proof of the devolution of our species back to chimpanzee days. Chimps are murderous creatures. Please vote BLUE down ballot in November. Bring back Homo sapiens.
theguardian.com
US supreme court allows Trump officials to resume deportations to third countries
Conservative majority temporarily lifts lower-court decision as liberal justices dissent from ruling
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Authoritarian regimes work to destroy intellectual pursuits and the academy in order to peddle their lies and falsehoods as truth. These schmoes gotta go. Vote BLUE, straight ticket, or face the end of medical progress.
nytimes.com
White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Trump Regime is a cult of cruelty and death. RFK Jr is one of the henchmen carrying out the directives. Want to purge the Regime and it's terrible policies? Get out and vote straight BLUE in November.
theguardian.com
‘Clear retribution’: dismay as key Alzheimer’s study cancelled amid Trump attacks on science
Participants in Pittsburgh may never learn the results of their cognitive tests – and funding cuts that target ‘DEI’ have the potential to delay vital diagnoses
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Yes, indeed!! I will attest to that.
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Just a lot of bad news today regarding potential sources of human destruction. Our species is hell bent on making it happen.
theguardian.com
Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds
Emissions of planet-heating methane and CO2 from natural sources are worsening the climate crisis, paper says
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Existential crises continue to worsen - climate change, AI, politics, billionaires, etc. The rich and powerful promote and support the conditions that cause these crises. Let's eat them... Or regulate them. A Blue Wave would help with the latter.
npr.org
Scientists say August was Earth's hottest month they've measured
The European climate service Copernicus said the Earth just sweltered through its hottest month on record in August. Scientists said the heat surge is mostly due to human-caused climate change.
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Now this on top of the post I just made! If AI does not directly cause human extinction, development of powerful biological weapons by people with AI assist will lead to mass annihilation. Regulation of AI must happen NOW; hope for that rests with a Blue Wave to elect those who will enact guardrails
nytimes.com
Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons
In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine if the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work.
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be living the events I read about in Sci Fi novels when I was a young man. Better live large if humanity will be killed off in the near future. Maybe a Blue Wave of voters will put folks in place to regulate AI before it escapes human control.
theguardian.com
Anthropic researchers say AI could cause human extinction by 2030
One researcher who resigned said many in industry believe that without regulation AI could kill off humanity
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
AI co-opting the field of mathematics. Human understanding of this pinnacle of learning and achievement will wane as machines solve these problems.
nytimes.com
OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’
The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics.
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TakamineBill @takaminebill.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If you drive one, you are 99% likely to be a dick. An undersized one at that.
static.klipy.com
Marques Brownlee Driving Tesla Cybertruck
ALT: Marques Brownlee Driving Tesla Cybertruck
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Fuck Zuck!
theguardian.com
It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta | Joan Donovan
The CEO is the throughline in a history of billion-dollar blunders that have caused real harm, culminating in last week’s settlement
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Owen From Ohio @owenfromohio.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The CDC hasn’t added the 2 Pennsylvania deaths to its measles database. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
washingtonpost.com
The CDC hasn’t added 2 deaths to its measles database. Here’s why.
The deaths have been at the heart of a bitter political dispute between RFK Jr. and Gov. Josh Shapiro (D).
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 30/08/2026
Karen Hao describes billionaires convincing themselves they're not responsible for our problems. They just build themselves Plan B bunkers in New Zealand ahead of inevitable collapse. But billionaires are parasites to the core. They won't survive a world where they don't have us to feed on. 🧟‍♂️
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is how private equity groups operate in our neocapitalist society, especially under the current autocratic Regime. It's all about how much profit you can supply your investors at the expense of the folks you manage. Rich versus the rest of us. Let's eat the rich and vote BLUE! #fucktrump
nytimes.com
How a Private Equity Group Drove an Apartment Complex Into the Ground
After decades as a coveted address in Syracuse, N.Y., the sprawling Nob Hill complex descended into neglect, squalor and death. One family paid a terrible price.
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Come on Google Maps. I guess you are just another capitulator to demented ol' Trump.
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Cruelty is the point. The Regime is trying to create a worker bee class to serve the very wealthy through fear, intimidation, sub-standard social services, food insufficiency, low wages, and poor housing. Deportations are just one part of the plan to make us all subservient. Rebel and eat the rich!
nytimes.com
Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
After reading this I think Trump is most certainly a psychopath. 25th Amendment now!
theguardian.com
How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’
People with persistent predatory personalities cause an inordinate amount of pain. Recently, our shared understanding of them has grown – and it could help protect us
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Impeachment seems in order.
theguardian.com
RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate
Letters obtained by Guardian and AP contradict testimony that 2019 visit to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
When you reach a certain age (70 in my case), your kids often take the car keys away because you become an erratic, dangerous driver. In our case, they took away our Birkenstocks after my wife tripped and broke her hand in multiple places. Guess we are now erratic, dangerous pedestrians.
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Hooray, another loyal fucking stooge of the dictator will assume a position that will further disable public health by spouting policy based on lies and bullshit pseudoscience. Our nation is profoundly dumb and thinks going backwards in human enlightenment is progress.
nytimes.com
Trump to Nominate Heidi Overton, a Top Domestic Policy Aide, for F.D.A. Commissioner
Dr. Overton is a fierce opponent of abortion rights and a supporter of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again agenda.
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“Donald Trump should stick to what he knows best – ballrooms, bankruptcy, and bullshit.”
theguardian.com
Trump orders Pentagon to redesign US aircraft carrier to use steam catapults to launch jets
President has suggested steam catapults every year since 2017, saying digital systems are too ‘complicated’
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If the Amazon goes, the global consequences will be dire. Did I mention living in an end-of-times sci fi story in my previous post?
nature.com
A ‘super’ El Niño could transform the Amazon. Is the world’s biggest rainforest doomed?
The Amazon rainforest might be closer to a tipping point than scientists thought. Some fear that droughts and fire could nudge it into irreversible decline.
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Scary. I feel like we are living in an end-of-times sci fi story.
nytimes.com
Opinion | If You Weren’t Worried About A.I., You Should Be After the Past Few Weeks
If there was ever a time to consider halting development of A.I., it’s now.
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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“Together, there could be a possibility they’re quite lethal,” Trump said of the MMR vaccine. I am sick of these dumb fuckers and their baseless bullshit proclamations. Our 'leaders' and a good chunk of our population are simply ignorant to scientific fact and history; the USA is uneducated as hell.
theguardian.com
Trump signs order attempting to override CDC vaccine schedule and break up MMR shots
Order also recommends all shots be given at separate medical visits though cost of doing them together is lower
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Expansion of AI is a racist endeavor; redlining is part of the decision-making process in locating data centers.
theguardian.com
‘This is very real redlining’: outrage in Little Rock as two datacenters loom
Critics decry proposed hyperscale projects, fearing overuse of water and electricity, and ‘appropriating rural, Black-owned land for industrial purposes’
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"Trump’s rule has brought together a novel coalition, one divided by many issues but united in their desire to destroy universities as we know them."
theguardian.com
With their assault on science, Trumpists aren’t just harming America – they’re harming themselves | Jan-Werner Müller
The administration is subjugating science to political imperatives, a major blow to US soft power and technological progress
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Fossil fuel proponents, wealthy, powerful folks that deny climate is real, and nations that will not lift a finger to slow climate change must be reveling over the imminent deaths of so many poor souls that drain the resources of the rich.
theguardian.com
El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year
UN forecasters warn of worsening conditions in 45 countries currently experiencing severe food insecurity
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
AI-generated map. Did no one have the basic geography knowledge required to correct this map? As usual, the AI scam shines through all the bullshit claims regarding its unlimited usefulness.
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Jesus Christ, I just listened to an interview with him 2 weeks ago on NPR about his new album and upcoming tour. He even played some new songs. Very sad.
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Clinicians found the AI checkup helpful, but the question of patient benefit was left unanswered. The study did not find evidence of improved outcomes. There was a 23% decrease in treatment failures such as death or unresolved symptoms, but the decrease was not statistically significant. Fuck AI!
npr.org
This AI tool promises a 'second pair of eyes' to clinicians. Did patients benefit?
Medical workers in a Nairobi clinic used an AI tool to check their work. A new study evaluates the result.
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The stupidest President and dumbest self-styled deal-maker ever will now give the Saudis what he claims to have denied the Iranians. Talk about destabilizing the Middle East, he will ignite a nuclear arms race. Remember, the Saudis are responsible for the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Center!
theguardian.com
Why would Trump agree to the Saudi nuclear deal? | Kenneth Roth
The agreement offers the Saudis the same options Trump has sworn Iran will never have
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Two of the richest assholes on Earth are in a "the rest of humans be damned" race to fuck over the planet in as many new ways as possible, enriching them even further along the way. These, and other uber-wealthy douche bags, must be stopped before our planet is irreversibly trashed for eternity.
theguardian.com
Space datacenters proposed by Musk and Bezos ‘catastrophic’ for planet, experts warn
New US petition demands review of plans from tech companies amid fears of environmental destruction
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DarkDaughter @darkdaughter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Dehumanization is step number one. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner
Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
How is this man even qualified to hold this position? A Bachelor's degree in politics and no science experience. Appointed by the stupidest President ever.
nytimes.com
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 14/07/2026
Last Words of Joan Sebastian Guerrero: "I tried to stop." Last Words of Alex Pretti: "Are you ok?" Last Words of Renee Good: "I'm not mad at you." Last Words of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo: "They're killing me." -Via Headquarters
Last Words of Joan Sebastian Guerrero: I tried to stop.

Last Words of Alex Pretti: Are you ok?

Last Words of Renee Good: I'm not mad at you. 

Last Words of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo: "They're killing me."
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Nordic News @nordicnews.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Ro! Ro! – Norway's World Cup team "rows" with 90,000 people outside Royal Palace in Oslo tv.vg.no/video/383250...
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“We have launched a frankly enormous campaign educating the public and scientists on what is included in this rule,” said @cdelawalla.bsky.social , CEO of @standupforscience.net Up for Science, a group she founded last year amid the Trump administration’s disruption of science."
insidehighered.com
Comments Flood OMB Proposal on Political Control of Grants
The White House Office of Management and Budget has so far received 90,000 public comments on its plans as scientific and other groups rally against them.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 10/07/2026
THREAD: 🧵 FIFA rigging Egypt v Argentina represents something larger about the systems we live in. Systems that are meant to look open to everybody. As if we all play a fair game. ⚽️ Yet they’re actually rigged for powerful people to close ranks and protect those they deem valuable. 🧵
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
We are so far gone. I no longer love the shithole country we have become. I just want to leave. Everything seems so hopeless.
nytimes.com
Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Nick Mader, owner of Alma Mader Brewery, asked me how retirement was. I was slow on answering, and he immediately said, you have an 800 hp brain, and "how's the garden" doesn't cut it. You need to keep that machine engaged. Can't say as I disagree. It doesn't help that no one talks to 70+ olds.
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Do not capitulate to The Regime!
nytimes.com
Yale Seeks Trump Administration Deal as It Faces Sprawling Investigation
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Trump will award the trophy to the World Cup winner. The team should refuse to accept it from the demented despot in protest of all his evil policies. His presence ruins the world's game; FIFA can suck a dick for kowtowing to to this vile excuse of a human being.
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Kenneth Peterson @krpete.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The Roberts SCOTUS is a puppet court, dutifully supporting the worst leader in the world and enabling all his cruel, selfish whims. Their legacy is shit; historical works will not remember them kindly. So many folks corrupted by money and power, harming the decent folk for their own sick pleasure.
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