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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Until the Reagan years, the SEC considered stock buybacks to be illegal stock manipulation. Now, NVIDIA has announced the largest buyback in American history — fueled by the data center boom. It's time to make buybacks illegal again.

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Robert Reich explains that Trump's corporate tax is going to stock buybacks, leaving most workers behind.Watch More: Tru

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Tyler Parker @tylerparker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Impossible to overstate how important Dolly Parton was/is to American music. Had so many hits she couldn’t remember if she wrote “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” on the same day or the same week. The literacy project alone would make her a cultural titan. She should be on American currency.

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Matt Babcock @matt-babcock.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

We need strong scientific leadership in these times, not another organization willing to bend the knee to the most anti-science administration in our Nation’s history. Consider signing: c.org/m8RBSxww

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An Open Letter to the American Diabetes Association: Shame on You

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Brendan Boyle @brendanboyle.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I love the angle taken by @kenearlys on the Champions League final. He’s absolutely right to dedicate so much time to how Arsenal waste time 🗑️ The drinking water and human life lines

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Experimental Physiology @expphysiol.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Kiaya Johnston, Stephen Selinsky, Benjamin Langworthy and Daniel Craighead (University of Minnesota) explore lipid profiles and nutritional dynamics of long-distance hiking in a longitudinal study on the Colorado Trail 📖 buff.ly/olx3YCx

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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

feeling compelled to post this new yorker reject from years ago, for some reason

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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. CBP’s misconduct scandal is so long-running that today it would be old enough to drink.

In total, according to CBP’s own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves, some multiple times. (In 2018 alone, a single CBP employee was arrested five times.) To put that number in perspective:

• The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.

• Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.

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APS Publications @apspublications.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Congrats to Nathan T. Romberger, et. al, for the #APSselect paper "Sex differences in central salt sensing in the human brain" in @AJPRegu @mnnlab_ud @UDCHS ow.ly/lG4W50XTxrm

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

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Camilla Ferreira Wenceslau @camillawenceslau.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

🌟We’re hiring! 🌟 The Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy at the @UofSCSOMC is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor to join our collaborative and dynamic team! ❤️ Focus: Cardiovascular, cellular, and molecular research Review begins Dec 1, 2025 uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/196...

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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

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Matt Babcock @matt-babcock.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

"The government-university-industry partnership built the American economy in the 20th century," he said. "Everything from the iPhone to GPS technology to fortified vitamin D has had its roots in federally funded research." www.npr.org/2025/04/25/n...

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What losing billions in federal grants means for universities, and the nation

The Trump administration has so far frozen about $11 billion in research funding. University leaders say no other source can fill the void.

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Nathaniel Jenkins, PhD, FAHA @njenkinsphd.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Grateful to have had the opportunity to be one of the 70. As Scott said so well, “I hope we’ll say this was the inflection point ... when we stood up for science, for truth and for each other.”

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Jamie Burr @hplburr.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Fun speaking in this symposium today with a great line-up of presenters! Thanks @ausrob-phd.bsky.social and @matt-babcock.bsky.social for organizing and moderating

Poster board outside a lecture hall showing the title of symposium

"Pushing limits, preserving health? The impact of endurance exercise on multiple organ systems: insights from the marathon and beyond"

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

This is incredibly cool: if you search for a condition that’s affected your family, the site returns stats on how much NIH has done for that disease, *and* a contact form for reaching out to tell your Members of Congress why you want to see them defend NIH. Pass it on!

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

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APS Publications @apspublications.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

New AJP-Heart and Circ research published in the @apspublications.bsky.social Call for Papers on #WomensHealth and #HormoneReplacementTherapy & #Menopause demonstrates exogenous #estradiol administration does not restore ETBR-mediated vasodilation in #postmenopausal women. doi.org/10.1152/ajph...

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Austin Robinson @ausrob-phd.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Some good news from my team among the craziness... 🚨 Our latest findings were published in Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol ! ☀️💤 Meral Culver found that poor vitamin D status is linked to greater sleep variability in healthy adults. Read more: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39873709/ #SleepHealth

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Don't Sleep on Vitamin D: Vitamin D is Associated with Sleep Variability in Apparently Healthy Adults - PubMed

<span><b>Background:</b> Vitamin D is associated with sleep quality and duration, but it's unclear whether vitamin D status influences sleep variability. Therefore, we sought to determine whether vita...

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Brian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

People believe all kinds of bullshit conspiracies but the actual conspiracy to cook the planet for profit is somehow not getting as much traction as some weird shit about cyanide in fruit or seed oils or whatever.

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Nathaniel Jenkins, PhD, FAHA @njenkinsphd.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Join us on Wednesday! Topics to include networking, collaboration, ideation, using grant feedback to enhance resubmissions, etc. Trainees particularly welcome! #Physiology #APS @physoc.bsky.social

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

We’re not going back.

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Freddy Mercury died of AIDS 33 years ago today. With modern medical technology, he likely would have lived. Never forget how much progress against major infectious disease has been made in a short time. We are at risk now of rolling back much of that progress.

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Jon Lim, FRCP PhD @drjonlim.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov

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Austin Robinson @ausrob-phd.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🚨We have an open rank Tenure-Track position (Movement Science) in Kinesiology at Indiana University Bloomington. We are particularly interested in bringing in a talented biomechanist! Very competitive salary and great research support! jobs.chronicle.com/job/37750653...

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Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty Position (Exercise Science; Movement Science) Department of Kinesiology - Indiana, United States job with Indiana University Bloomington | 37750653

Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty Position (Exercise Science; Movement Science) Department of Kinesiology Appointment Status: Tenure Department: IU...

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