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Matt Rich

@mattrich.bsky.social
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Geneticist in Erik Jorgensen's lab @UUtah. Trying to turn worms into yeast. Also neuron maturation and giant ankyrin. PhD with Stan Fields @uwgenome. Princeton ‘09. (he/him)

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10h
This guy literally packed the courts because Utahns passed an anti-gerrymandering referendum and the state Supreme Court justices, many of whom he appointed, repeatedly sided with the people over him and his fellow Republicans. Spare me the white man tears www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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Utah governor signs bill adding justices to state Supreme Court as redistricting appeal looms
Once the new seats are filled, Gov. Spencer Cox will have appointed five of the seven justices.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10h
I love living in a country where a politician can sign a law banning the health care I need to live and be greeted as a hero of comity and good sense
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Aside from this being obviously steroid-build (and I guess always skipping leg day), I think it would behoove Elon to (1) spend a little more time in mountain pose bc his posture is awful and (2) wear wider leg jeans bc those skinny jeans make him look like an ostrich otherwise lol what a freak
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
The White House is steamrolling Congress' power of the purse — its constitutional power to decide how taxpayer money is spent — zeroing out programs that legislators wrote into law while pouring money into airing Trump campaign ads on television
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Russ Vought Takes a New Path Toward Overriding Congress
Programming Note I’ve been gone for two days! I forgot to say...
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This poll from Cook is bonkers. A *huge* plurality of voters (43% overall, 61% of Ds) want Dems to focus on changing the political system overall vs. just opposing (21%, 36% of Ds) or working with Trump (35%, 3% of Ds).
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved
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Jeff Egnaczyk @jeffegnaczyk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A level of ingenuity not seen from our youth since Dorothy tweeted from her fridge.
"I do not know if this is going to tweet I am talking to my fridge what the heck my Mom confiscated all of my electronics again," Dorothy tweeted via the LG Smart Refrigerator.
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
👉 Protect basic research—the foundation for future therapies and cures 👉 Preserve the speed of grant review and disbursement 👉 Oppose political review of individual scientific grants 2/3🧵
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
rolling up to alta in the gophearse
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
hide yo kids hide yo wife
A cartoon house with a crowbar opening a window: “the goose breaks into your home”
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
undergrads walk so sloooooooooooow
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
maybe OSU WILL lose to Michigan again this year
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There are worse Princeton alumni, but goddamn if he’s not the one I’m most embarrassed about
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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No Escalators @noescalators.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is Drake Maye’s worst nightmare: playing against a team that is good
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
HE’S IN EAT MY ASS DRAKE MAYE
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
nfl kickoff will never not be offputting
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
lock’d in baby! (in hell)
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Ernest Luckman @ernieluckman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Elizabeth Holmes got away with crimes because she looks like Gadget from rescue rangers became human.
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes doing the "we're just normal men" meme
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
homie cant design a 3D printed computer fan holder to cool a microscope lamp without extensive prompting but sure it has a 10% chance of ending civilization on its own
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
LFGGGGGG college football is THE reality show. 10/10.
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libby watson @libbycwatson.com · 08/09/2026
LIBBY'S OCARINA OF TIME REMAKE OPINION: environments look nice everything else terrible, slop for pigs, horrible voices, horrible faces, stupid shiny bullshit unnecessary, the original is still good and widely available ask me how to set up OOT randomizer and your life will improve
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New OoT trailer looks like a nicely polished re-skin of a nearly 30 year old game. There had better be a Japanese language track for the voice acting though, no way I’m listening to that. Learn to read.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
the necessary step 1 of rebuilding trust with our allies is prosecuting almost everyone in the trump administration for the countless crimes they have committed against the country and the world
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 07/09/2026
Y’all.
Dubs Dubs
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Went to the volleyball vs Pitt. Olivia Babcock is a menace (complimentary).
A view from half court of the Utah v Pitt volleyball game
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
lol
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It gets worse when you remember that the Strait of Hormuz was open before the war started. So we’re spending $40B and people are dying on both sides to return to the status quo from January. Everything is socialism unless it’s money for killing people in pointless forever wars.
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Nozomu Yachie @nzmyachie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Maybe it’s time to say goodbye to UMAP and other low-dimensional embeddings (at least in many single-cell analyses). We developed MILK to encode single-cell populations into tree representations at unprecedented scales. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Here’s what MILK is: 🧵
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Still speak like an Ivy Leaguer, I guess. This one shows more of the minor South East growing up (but I don’t say y’all so that’s probably bringing it down).
The dialect map from the nyt ca 2013
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
today in the kids were left behind
From r/uofu:

Campus Shuttle Stop Requests [commuting & transportation]
Hi everyone!
This may be a stupid question, but how are people requesting stops on the campus shuttles?
I know how to use the app to see which shuttle I'm on and where it's going, but most of the time they pass by the stops I need and only go to the main ones (union, presidents circle, etc.)
There is a sign at the front of every shuttle that dings and lights up anytime someone needs to get off, but I can't figure out how to use it.
Thanks! :)
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Mine is mostly consistent with having repressed all Southern-isms when I moved to NC in the 2nd grade. No idea how I got so far into New England, though…
A map of the united states with dark blue centered on Mississippi and red at the west coast and new england.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 04/09/2026
Right. Vought and Bhattacharya tried to gut NIH in 2025 via stopping spending (Fed Reg bans) and rescission. That failed. Now in 2026, they’re still using bureaucracy inside the agency to try to slow spending. But they need a new way to get the leftover money (meant for science!) out of NIH. 1/
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hellabores92.bsky.social @hellabores92.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Congress already appropriated funds to the NIH for specific projects. The defense department cannot divert these funds from the NIH. As taxpayers, we should know what interagency agreements have been made. thehill.com/homenews/hou...
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Pentagon sought to divert NIH funds for defense use, top House Appropriations Democrat says
The Pentagon is attempting to divert billions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to bolster the agency’s budget, according to the top Democrat on the House Appropria…
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Monster Energy UofU Health Utes Football www.sltrib.com/sports/utah-...
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Utah football finds its first jersey patch sponsor — and it’s close to home
Here's what Utah football's jersey patch partner is expected to be, according to multiple sources:
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
More on the U pushing out all of the existing food trucks. www.sltrib.com/news/educati...
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Longtime campus food truck operators say the University of Utah ‘pushed us out.’ Here’s what we know.
A U. official said the campus overhaul is meant to offer “more consistent and better quality” food trucks. Longtime vendors say they got little notice.
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Kage damagé @kagedamage.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’ve been enjoying doing the cryptic crosswords, but you give me a 8+ letter anagram and I’m out. Who has time for that?
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Didn’t realize that all the college football watchers were wearing perfume now
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Lucy Rohden @lucyrohden.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
and with that college football is officially back
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/08/2026
happy bill belichick embarrasses himself in college football day to all who celebrate
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Apparently, what you pay journals $$$$ for these days is for the editor to email you every morning with opaque instructions about how there’s one sentence you have to change or how you misformatted your supplement in some miniscule way
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
oh wow who could have guessed that trademarking “College Town Magic” wouldn’t fill your dorms that cost more than renting an apartment 🙄 www.sltrib.com/news/educati...
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More than 900 empty beds: Here’s why the University of Utah says it’s now struggling to fill dorms
The school has more than 900 empty beds across its dorm buildings this fall. That comes after campus housing was booked up with a waitlist last fall and the year prior.
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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
oh thank god it isn’t a restaurant we like going to www.sltrib.com/artsliving/f...
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Utah has its first Michelin-starred restaurant. Here’s who the prestigious guide honored from the state.
Utah finally has its first Michelin-starred restaurant. Here's who shines from the Beehive State in the first Michelin Southwest Guide.
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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
You’ve got to understand the WNBA’s dilemma here: on one side are the hardcore, dedicated socially liberal fanbase who supported the league during the dark days when it was barely profitable and on the other side are the people who hate women and don’t think the WNBA should exist.
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