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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Personally, I think the USWNT players that went to play in Europe and are now perpetually injured (Girma and Coffey) is a scheme that Todd thought up to bring us the bullshit…
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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
People say they want "authentic" people as politicians. Interesting to me that she's not getting the resources she needs in this race.
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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When I checked this week, my registration was gone. Durham County, NC voter in good standing for many years, and I was no longer a registered voter.
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am-mccarthy.bsky.social @am-mccarthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Universities keep rewarding the architects of the demise of our democracy.
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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Excuse me ? 😭
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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I wonder how many "competitive but not discussed" applications belonged to ESIs..........
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Dr. D Boulware, MD MPH @drboulware.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NIH Funding rate of Early Stage Investigators (ESI). 2025 was a major drop. 2026 will be worse.
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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This might be the one that does it. *laughs maniacally* grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
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Funding Rate Data for R01-Equivalent and R21 Awards by Career Stage: Encouraging Early Stage Investigators to Pursue Larger Awards | Grants & Funding
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you get NIH funds at your institution, you will HAVE to comply with these policies. AND these policies will drive ALL of your institutions biosafety policies, even if you aren't getting NIH funding - so if your work touches biology in any way - MAKE COMMENTS ASAP #microsky 🦠
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey Biologists : Have you made any comments on the NIH Biosafety Policy for Biohazards? Because some of the changes are REDONKULOUS - and there are only 40 comments on file - Submit comments by Oct 19! osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form.... 🦠 #microsky
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Comment Form: Draft NIH Biosafety Policy for Research Involving Biohazards
Request for Information: Draft NIH Biosafety Policy for Research Involving Biohazards
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Dr. Cecília Tomori @drtomori.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
maybe not only about the science. controlling science has many different cascading impacts that suit the agenda.
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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey Microbiology folks, 🦠🧫 Have thoughts about the new NIH Policy For Research Involving Biohazards? They are accepting comments! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-112: Request for Comment: Draft NIH Biosafety Policy for Research Involving Biohazards
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Comment: Draft NIH Biosafety Policy for Research Involving Biohazards NOT-OD-26-112. NIH
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Black Microbiologists Assoc (Black In Micro) @blackinmicro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We're excited for our General Body Meeting on October 7! Pick your favorite time & join us to discuss #BlackInMicro news. Click here or use the QR to Register: 12 Noon: shorturl.at/Gpg3V 5:30 pm: shorturl.at/jWZJL
Promotional graphic for the Black Microbiologists Association Annual Meeting. The event is scheduled for October 7, 2026, with two virtual meeting times: 12 noon EDT or 5:30 p.m. EDT. The graphic invites viewers to register now, scan a QR code, attend online, and discuss BMA news. It features blue, yellow, and white text, a calendar and clock icon, and the BMA logo with a profile silhouette surrounded by illustrations of microorganisms.
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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
R16 was submitted last week and it’s officially past the deadline. So now I can say it officially. Fingers crossed I get this grant or I’m in …. Trouble 😬
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The obvious conclusion (to me): if you have proprietary research & you upload it into the Plagiarism Nexus, it's not YOUR proprietary research anymore. Behave accordingly.
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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shooting incident across the street from campus that resulted in a an hours long lockdown. Of course we get an emails that’s like profs make allowances for those affected but we aren’t gonna cancel classes. I don’t have class today but I just feel like maybe that shouldn’t be left up to us ?
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
This is why we shouldn’t feed anyone’s work to the plagiarism machine. Not ours, not our students, not our colleagues. Think about this the next time you try to use Turnitin for students or ChatGPT to do your reviewing.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been genuinely shocked by how rapidly & how extensively RFK Jr & Jay Bhattacharya dismantled the CDC It will take a generation or more to repair it & restore it to its former glory—pre-MAGA/MAHA, it was revered & seen as one of the finest public health agencies in the world Great reporting 👇
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
More of this Rep. Khanna. Please introduce a bill immediately to SIGNIFICANTLY RAISE the Fed minimum wage on DAY ONE if the Dems win the House and #1a2 is a vote to IMMEDIATELY defund the Iran War.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can't make it this weekend? Contact Josh Shaprio's Office Phone:717-787-2500 And Mayor Parker's Office Phone Phone: (215) 686-2181 City council is with us. Drexel thinks we're going to give up. Leadership thinks this will just blow over and they can cash out. Do not let that happen.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 24/09/2026
Access to Special Ed should not depend on effective parent advocacy: "When schools rely on parents to push for services using sophisticated advocacy skills, that widens inequities for children whose caregivers lack time, resources or English proficiency." www.the74million.org/article/why-...
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Why Access to Special Education Depends Too Much on Parents
Richards: The biggest predictor of whether children receive special education services shouldn't be how effectively their parents can advocate.
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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
OMFG THIS 100x
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.
Aminata Seck, 26, a student-athlete at Kentucky State University, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport while traveling with her school's basketball team Aug. 7, said Sadiqa Reynolds, a lawyer helping coordinate Seck's case.

Seck's team was headed to New York for a tournament, and she was taken into custody after going through airport security, said Reynolds, former president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League.
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newblue25.bsky.social @newblue25.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/jenn...
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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The older I get, the more I just wanna lay in my own bed.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Certainly there can be a temptation to name a range of other empiricisms to go with it, and I have always felt that people could have more to say about it, but I think it's important to recognize "white empiricism" as a structural feature built around a power structure, not individual identities
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For @motherjones.com, I looked into how Meta could be using disabled people to promote its Meta glasses to the masses. As one expert told me, “companies have used accessibility...as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy and security threats.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Is Meta using disabled people to promote its glasses?
AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance.
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Pablo Nepomnaschy @pablonep.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not new, and not discovered...still great news. I offer a, perhaps, more accurate, less colonizing, title: "Western scientists describe a felid known to local communities as Tilcayo. It is the first description of its kind in over a century"
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 17/09/2026
"researchers having to read scientific literature" is not a problem that needs solving
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 17/09/2026
I am genuinely concerned about the editorial direction of Nature and other prominent scientific publications in the "AI" era, it's not great
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 17/09/2026
speaking as a science journalist who is also a trained physicist, this is the FUCKING WORST POSSIBLE THING. This is the opposite of trustworthy. You can't trust a damn thing an "AI agent" tells you. An article needs to be unchanged between queries, or any change needs to be documented clearly.
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Colm Atkins, PhD @atkinscolm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
No this sucks shit actually.
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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
No.
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Supernova Momma @supernovaparenting.org · 16/09/2026
Good morning you handsome and gorgeous lot! The phenomenal Tisha Campbell just revealed her late AuDHD (Autism and ADHD) diagnosis she got after caring for and advocating for her son!
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Supernova Momma @supernovaparenting.org · 16/09/2026
One of the most amazing things about this to me is more people fully understanding the spectrum of autism and not seeing it as just something to cure or fear in the Black Community
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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Am I leaving today to give a seminar on the west coast? Yes. Am I packed ? Nope. Why am I like this ?! Thanks ADHD and parent life 😭
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The cuts in staff across federal health agencies are staggering. Great analysis from @ourpublicservice.bsky.social. 1 in 5 people gone from NIH. More than 1 in 4 gone from CDC. Nearly 7 in 10 gone from AHRQ. ourpublicservice.org/resource/the...
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The Cost of Cutting American Science: How Federal Cuts Diminish Public Health Capacity
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I left the stadium at the 75 minute mark with my daughter. What the hell happened ?!
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🏳️‍🌈Riss Willett 🩷💜💙 @risswillett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Spirit fammmmmm i am under the weather so your match day coverage is coming straight from the couch!😂 Here is your Washington Spirit Starting 11 Ngock and Bethi getting the start again for today’s game.
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Donnalie Jamnah @talespinningdj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thank you again to everyone who helped with contributions and boosting. 💜
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Niq Fury @niqfury.com · 10/09/2026
The AC has been repaired! I'm still figuring shit out with regards to surviving past the crowdfund, but at least I can sit in my office and research and work comfortably again. (And play my games and stream 🥰) Thanks again to those who contributed! 🙇🏾‍♀️🙏🏾
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is my preferred kind of racism: blatant and unmistakable.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
If the dems were competent, they would take this clip and blast it everywhere during midterms.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
Remember when some people tried to claim this guy was just a kind of overly-crunchy progressive? Anyway. The republican party must be dismantled from root to branch.
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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And then you show this to the Dems and they’ll tell you your over reacting and that this (cheating aka election rigging) is not actually going happen.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ultimately, this letter from NSF is an announcement that universities will be funded a lot less and politically-connected industry will be funded a lot more. Fancy words around old-fashioned corruption.
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NSF leadership in a new golden age of science
The U.S. National Science Foundation was established in 1950 to keep American discovery at the frontier. That mission has not changed. The science and technology ecosystem around it has...
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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s bad enough I have to avoid the internet on 9/11 but now folks are posting about it the day before and I need everyone to not.
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