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Mark Lewandoski PhD

@marklewandoski.bsky.social
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Developmental biologist & geneticist, avid bibliophile (often science fiction) & melophile (particularly piano and synthesizers). Please don’t DM if we don't know each other. All opinions are mine only! “Can't we all get along?" -Rodney King Show mercy.

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Mark Lewandoski PhD @marklewandoski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Got vaxed yesterday with Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine, which is 26% more effective than traditional vaccine (makes sense, right ?). Pharmacist said they’re having trouble keeping it in stock because of high demand. That was a pleasant surprise- I expected folks to be more stupid due to RFK blather.
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Mark Lewandoski PhD @marklewandoski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Rimeo” is not a word (accustomed Wordle). But it should be. Rimeo
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Mark Lewandoski PhD @marklewandoski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Mark Lewandoski PhD @marklewandoski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New cat species in Bolivia. #NYTimes articles stated "The cat had been kept as a house pet for a year, before the family realized it was a wild animal, ill-suited for domestic life, and brought it to the sanctuary around 2017." I'm curious about those pet details.. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Phylogenomics and museomics reveal five distinct species of tiger cats in South America
Lescroart, Nogales-Ascarrunz, et al. demonstrate that the contentious tiger cat species complex consists of five cryptic species. Based on analyses of 38 whole genomes from the Neotropical cat genus L...
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Mark Lewandoski PhD @marklewandoski.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/s...
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Spock Says Uh-uh, No Way
ALT: Spock Says Uh-uh, No Way
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Mark Lewandoski PhD @marklewandoski.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Emily Wilson is retranslating the “Odyssey”. Then Christopher Nolan plans to remake the film. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/b...
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The ‘Odyssey’ Scholar Emily Wilson, a Critic of the Movie, Is Redoing Her Translation (Gift Article)
Wilson, who was the first woman to translate the Homeric tale into English, caused a firestorm when she criticized Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film.
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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Behold:
A spaceship on an icy road.

Cover for The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2025
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Mark Lewandoski PhD @marklewandoski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Appropriate street sign
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Kathleen Alves @katalves18c.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dollyland employees, both part time and full time, receive 100% of tuition covered. Healthcare, medical, vision, retirement benefits, childcare. A saint that walked among us. Every other wealthy person should be ashamed of themselves if they don't live up to Dolly standards.
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Mark Lewandoski PhD @marklewandoski.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“Land” by Maggie O’Farrell was outstanding. It’s about an Irish cartographer and his family during and after the Great Famine. I found the artful shifting of narrative focus and perspective delightful and moving. #StoryTelling #literature
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Mark Lewandoski PhD @marklewandoski.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Vote
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Wizard of Oz: Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
ALT: Wizard of Oz: Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/08/2026
I am absolutely thrilled to present to you: How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking) available for pre-order now, wherever you buy your books! www.simonandschuster.ca/books/How-to...
Cover of the book "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack. The top right corner says "Author of The End of Everything" and the bottom left says "Brilliant and thrilling! - John Green". The cover motif is a space image made of puzzle pieces.
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Sigolène Meilhac @meilhacsigolene.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
New publication, new insights into left-right patterning in mice. We revisit the role of the node, from a left-right organiser to one biasing factor among others. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Wnt and Nodal asymmetries stratify mouse laterality phenotypes in the absence of node flow
Asymmetry establishment without node flow reveals an alternative symmetry-breaking event in the mesoderm involving WNT signaling.
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Trump’s U.S. debt compared to all U.S. Presidents in history put together. Do you think MAGA are still working it all out how billionaires became multi-multi- billionaire’s under Trump yet? 🤫
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Mark Lewandoski PhD @marklewandoski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
When will robots beat humans at bull-riding?
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Giddy Up Bull Rider
ALT: Giddy Up Bull Rider
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Mark Lewandoski PhD @marklewandoski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“Albert looked at me and said: No offense, but the examples you give seem not at all relevant.—That may be, I said, I have often been criticized for combining ideas sometimes to the point of blathering.” -The Suffering of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gosh, Werther, I know how you feel
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Mark Lewandoski PhD @marklewandoski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Project Runway used to be fun. Now it’s mostly nastiness and bad vibes.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
The CDC reports an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s quarter pounders has killed one person and hospitalized 10, with 49 cases identified so far.
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E. coli Outbreak Linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders
Learn about a multistate outbreak of <em>E. coli </em>infections linked to burgers.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Matthew @matthra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
John Oliver reading his cue cards the whole episode because he never actually looked at the person he was talking to, lawl. Made him look more crosseyed than Rita the entire episode. His personal wig didn’t help matters either. #WigsofOurLives #DAYS 💇🏻‍♂️
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Congratulations @catamaroon.bsky.social, Clarke Award winner!
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Children are "cum trophies" and women are commodities to be traded. A look at the world of Brandon Herrera, Republican seeking a congressional seat in Texas, who is fully backed and funded by Speaker Mike Johnson, and who reflects the new GOP family values.
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Opinion | He Says Obscene Things About Mothers and Children. Mike Johnson Is Raising Money for Him.
Thanks to Trump, G.O.P. extremism has become so ordinary that it breaks through only when it reaches an absurdly high level.
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Pedro Jimenez @pedropeterperico.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Matewan is so great.
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Stoner Philly Fan @stonerphillyfan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
John Sayles may be the most underrated writer-director EVER #TCMParty #Matewan
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it's an uncivil war @lucyksy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
IDK who needs to hear this but polio and smallpox never reached natural herd immunity. They were eradicated by vaccines.
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Mark Lewandoski PhD @marklewandoski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Arrival by mail from the UK reminds me to complain: too much UK #sciencefiction is not published in the USA or only as kindle. Why? Is it a symptom of the growing idiocy & ignorance of Americans? That is, as Americans grow more stupid, the market shrinks and publishers won’t take a chance?
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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It's more important now that ever before!!! VOTE!!!
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I fear we are in for ten unbroken years of increasingly contentious Odyssey hot-takes, until Homer himself returns to his poem and kills all the commenters with his bow.
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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
employees still qualify for Medicaid because their take-home pay hovers around (or below) the poverty line.
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Taxpayers spend about $2 billion annually on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employees
American taxpayers are spending billions every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 24/07/2026
Actions have consequences. It turns out that when we slash research funding and fire public health experts, we see entirely avoidable disease outbreaks.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Amen. #BookSky
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Mark Lewandoski PhD @marklewandoski.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Thea O'Ryan Files @theaoryanfiles.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Long live Patti
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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Hi Bluesky. I’m officially asking my network for help. It’s been a tough 10 months on the job market, and I am actively seeking policy and policy-adjacent roles in agricultural emissions, greenhouse gas mitigation, air quality, and biotechnology regulation. 🧵
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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"Shirley infuses poetry with his well-known storytelling skills to take us on an excursion through shadow lands of the living, dead and things in between ....This is how rhyming poetry is done." - Linda Addison, Space & Time magazine
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Ghost Confessions: Poems
Novelist, screenwriter, songwriter and Bram Stoker Award-winning short story writer John Shirley has made an indelible mark in a wide array of genres, including horror, science fiction, dark fantasy, ...
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MadAsHell-NeverTrumper 🌊💙🌈 @janl99.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Ancient Greeks proved Earth was round using sticks and shadows. Eratosthenes calculated its circumference to within 2% accuracy over 2,000 years ago. No satellites needed.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Sending ICE Agents to intimidate voters at polling places, declaring martial law to try to delay or cancel the election, seizing ballots-As he gets more desperate, there's nothing he won't do to try to save his pathetic orange ass. ALL states should preemptively prepare to defend Democracy! 🇺🇸 ✊
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The other day I noted that the human pelvis, evolutionary, is a mess. It's probably worth expending on that. Human birth canal is relatively very small, and that is a trade-offs related to us walking bipedality as well as pelvic floor stability. 🧪 Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2022.09.010​
Pelvic sex differences in humans and chimpanzees

The upper row shows the average pelvis shape in human females and males (middle panels) along with 2-fold extrapolations to ease the interpretation of these sex differences (left and right panels). The typical pattern of human sex differences is visible: women have a wider subpubic angle, a wider pelvic inlet, and a relatively shorter sacrum. The middle row shows the corresponding mean shapes for chimpanzees; their sex differences resemble the human pattern. To compare the sex differences in humans and chimpanzees independently of the species differences, the bottom row depicts the pattern of sex differences in chimpanzees added to the human sex means after scaling it to the same magnitude as the human differences. The visualizations in the bottom row are virtually identical to the human sex differences shown in the upper row, reflecting the surprisingly similar pattern of sex differences in the species despite the difference in magnitude (from Fischer et al.)
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Siobhan Mitchell, PhD @esiobhanmitchell.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Wildfire smoke is getting worse every year. Studies show exposure can cause mitochondria dysfunction antioxidants that protect mitochondria can help in preclinical models🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Mark Lewandoski PhD @marklewandoski.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The bourgeoisie sure do have a lot of vowels.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/07/2026
everything is gender youtu.be/Hg-7zy8EnXg?...
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Pete Hegseth wants to test America's soldiers for testosterone.
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Mark Lewandoski PhD @marklewandoski.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Favorite sentence of the day: “But a sizable fragment completed its journey to New Jersey, and the homeowners spent weeks carefully gathering roughly three pounds of extraterrestrial material.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/s...
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New Jersey Couple Aids Meteorite Discovery After it Crashes Through Their Roof (Gift Article)
A New Jersey couple helped scientists uncover the makeup of an unusual asteroid after it fell into their bedroom.
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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This year we should be supporting our fellow artists and writers as much as possible. Help us continue to give independent creativity a space to be celebrated by reading Locus Magazine! linktr.ee/locusmagazine
Locus magazine cover- floating city on green background
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Lile @lilelile.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
You’re right but we’re very slow at closing them. And few of the wind project companies that took the money to stop their developments agreed to invest in gas instead.
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Is There a Coal Plant Near You?
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/06/2026
"The OMB has proposed a rule change to the Federal Register, 2 CFR §200.205. I know that sounds boring and incredibly small-ball. It’s not. This rule change is an attempt to politicize *all federal grants*." Yes, that is big deal:
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They Want to Disappear You
How OMB will politicize the federal grant system with this one weird trick.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
HEAR YE, HEAR YE! We are doing a virtual and accessible event on Monday (the OMB rule deadline day)! @standupforscience.net BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“The OMB has proposed a rule change to the Federal Register, 2 CFR §200.205. This rule change is an attempt to politicize all federal grants. This is a weapon designed to disappear disfavored people, groups, and ideas—and the blast radius on it will be enormous.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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They Want to Disappear You
How OMB will politicize the federal grant system with this one weird trick.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
HALF of all federally funded clinical trials would be “illegal” under the new OMB rule. LEAVE YOUR PUBLIC COMMENT AND YELL AT YOUR CONGRESS CRITTERS.
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