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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thanks to the indefatigable Suzy Brown of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social the #Drosophila conference registration website glitch has been fixed. See you in Philadelphia this coming February! #Dros27 genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2...

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well, that's a new one! I tried registering for the #Dros27 conference, just past midnight on 3 October 2026 (less than 48hr after early registration opened) and I got the most bizarre error message: "Regular member (PI/Lab Tech) $628 — SOLD OUT." How can that be @genetics-gsa.bsky.social?

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here's an important head's up: Today is Sept. 28, 2026... Registration and abstract submission for the 2027 #Drosophila research conference both open in THREE DAYS, on Thursday, 1 October 2026. I hope to see you in Philadelphia! genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2... #Dros27

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year

Hi all,

We received a package with no name to GSB 2144 with 80 sheep brains in it. If you are expecting this package, please reach out and we can coordinate the pickup!

Best wishes,
Jenna

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ali Velshi just interviewed Emily St. John Mandel concerning her new book, _Exit Party._ They discussed the concept of "counterlives" — the alternative versions of "you" that could exist if you made a crucial life decision differently. I see three such "hinges" in my own life. What about you??

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's an important head's up: Today is Sept. 24, 2026... Registration and abstract submission for the 2027 #Drosophila research conference both open in ONE WEEK, on Thursday, 1 October 2026. I hope to see you in Philadelphia! genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2... #Dros27

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ali Velshi's The Night Light commemorated the four girls killed 63 years ago by racist bombers at the 16th Street Baptist Church in #Birmingham #Alabama. This year, the man who successfully prosecuted two of the killers, @dougjones.bsky.social, is running for #governor. #VoteDoug

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Here's an important head's up: Today is Sept. 17, 2026... Registration and abstract submission for the 2027 #Drosophila research conference both open in two weeks, on Thursday, 1 October 2026. I hope to see you in Philadelphia! genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2... #Dros27

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Twelve transposable element invasions of Drosophila melanogaster in the last 200 years by horizontal transfer! A consequence of human activity?

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Herbert Hoover only promised a chicken in every pot… That’s what 100 years of inflation gets you.

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The Economist @economist.com · 10/09/2026

OpenAI claims its agents have cracked one of maths’ most important unsolved problems. Mathematicians will be pondering what it all means for the future of their subject

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OpenAI's apparent maths breakthrough raises profound questions

It has stirred controversy about how the discipline should work

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Mamdani may now be the mayor of New York, but Rudy Giuliani will always be America’s mayor

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Gareth @gwinch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

TBF, are we really surprised that AI companies would steal other people’s work and pass it off as their own?!

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Reuters @reuters.com · 10/09/2026

President Trump said he would pay every American adult a $5,000 "Trump dividend" if Republicans retain control of Congress in November's midterm election, an extraordinary attempt to persuade voters to back his party. reut.rs/4cF0lmV

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You're looking at a piebald DEER FAWN, video by wildlife rescuer Leondra Scherer in Upstate NY. I'd like to explore the biology of how animals get these unusual coats & what it can tell us about how animals develop. But first, let's meet a piebald MOOSE. (📷: L Scherer, @fuzzyfawnwildlife on IG)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Hi there! I'm the Secretary of Agriculture in a nation where just about every single kind of food has been recalled because it will give you explosive shits and then kill you dead. Well, I'm here to tell you about how government regulation and oversight is baaaaaaaad."

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“I did that!!!” — Donald J. Trump #Gasoline and #diesel #prices seen while driving along I-65 in #Alabama on Sunday, 9/6/2026.

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Nu? They stopped hiding their hypocrisy years ago. And I don’t mean in 2016 when they embraced the p*ssy-grabber.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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Emily @emilyyour8.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So the GOP's whole midterm strategy is "Alex, I'll take Things That Never Happened for $1000"

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Bold Strategy, Cotton

ALT: Bold Strategy, Cotton

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Brooke Rollins said not ONE WORD about screwworm, Cyclospora, and mystery meat coming from South American cattle ranchers who donated millions to Trump’s inauguration fund. But she _has_ defended “closed borders,” “low crime,” and “reindustrialization.” Girl — you’re SecUSDA. Stay in your lane!

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Lab leak folks argue the FCS in SARS-CoV-2 is a "smoking gun" that "proves" the virus was made in a lab; they say the FCS isn't seen in nature But it *is* seen in nature & *has* been found in coronaviruses The FCS in BRZ batCoV only differs by a single amino acid compared to the one in SARS-CoV-2!

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

AI is like if leaving your car idling occasionally produced solved Millennium Problem solutions that you could use to juice an IPO

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

From NASA Do you recognize this area? If so, you might be a Star Trek fan! 🖖 This NASA satellite image shows Vasquez Rocks Natural Area in Southern California. Multiple Star Trek scenes were filmed here, including an iconic battle between Captain James T. Kirk and a reptilian alien t.co/lBf60zYLHu

Natural color satellite image showing the Vasquez Rocks Natural Area and surrounding area in Southern California. Most of the landscape is brown and mountainous.The Vasquez Rocks appear as a patch of curved gray stripes just below and to the left of center near Agua Dulce. Palmdale is barely visible in the top right corner and the Bouquet Reservoir is near the top left corner. Credit: NASA

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm attending the "No Kings: Vote Early Kickoff Call" — sign up now to join me! Remember that the main #NoKings event is Election Day, Nov. 3. Check your registration status at your state's website. Don't get fooled by third-party operations that harvest your PPI! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

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Join our September 10 No Kings: Vote Early Kickoff Call to learn more about the vision, urgency, and strategy behind the No Kings coalition’s early vote activation and election protection campaign and...

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Cue the late great Garrett Morris #SNL star, cupping his hands & shouting a repetition… OUR… TOP… STORY… TONIGHT…

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day everyone... Here's an important head's up: Early registration and abstract submission for the 2027 #Drosophila research conference both open in just over three weeks, on Thursday, 1 October 2026. I hope to see you in Philadelphia! genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2... #Dros27

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A pedophile worked for the campaign of Ohio GOP Senator Jon Husted. Husted fired him. The pedophile donated money to GOP gov. nominee Vivek Ramaswamy. Ohio's Democratic nominee Amy Acton called out Vivek for accepting the money. Today the brother of the pedophile tried to assassinate Acton.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

Everyone doing this just needs to understand that they are actively skipping the thinking step

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“Generalissimo Francisco Franco is STILL dead.” — SNL Weekend Update, circa 1975-1976

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Joe @datamule.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

AIn't no model large enough AIn't no bias small enough AIn't no learning deep enough To get me keepin' you (Apologies to Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, and the English language)

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Warning: This is AI. But about that... This is what I suspected would eventually happen. There are issues with "star fleet protocol", etc. But, this looks like an episode from the 90s. Any show can now be brought back. CBS sues anyone tho that even says "Star Trek" on youtube, so that'll be weird.

youtube.com

Star Trek vs Star Wars: What Happens When Q Brings a Star Destroyer to the Enterprise?

YouTube video by The Machine-Made Muse

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Deming-Kruger effect:

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Heaven forbid you campaign for a day with Liz Cheney on Trump's threats to our democracy, without giving up a single policy position. @aoc.bsky.social will criticize you vehemently for doing that. But if you're reaching out to anti-science nutjobs, that's perfectly fine in AOC's book.

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

They're all lying soulless ghouls. Hegseth, RFK Jr., "Podcast Jay" Bhattacharya, Mehmet Oz, Russell Vought, Todd Blanche, Herr Miller, Borgum, Lutnick, Kushner, Witkoff, Rubio, Bessent, Hassert... the list goes on and on and on...

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Andy Ostroy @andyostroy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Trump refuses to attend this year’s 9/11 memorial in NYC because they won’t let him speak. Because even 9/11 must be about him. Disgusting…

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It can be hard to appreciate the vastness of just one (1) light-year. The most distant human-made object has been hurtling into space for almost 50 years, and its distance from Earth is just about to reach 1/365th of a light-year.

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A ridiculously huge fraction of your DNA is made from the remains of ancient viral infections.

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Reveal @revealnews.org · 05/09/2026

This week on Reveal, we follow a Long Island doctor who once treated 9/11 responders. Now she is a reporter, trying to figure out why the illnesses haven’t stopped.

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In honor of #Caturday, I share a photo of the 19-pound inkblot hanging out alongside me on this lazy morning… #catsofbluesky #cats #noircats

Photo of a large black cat lounging on a sofa.

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Alternate cartography was a plot point in an episode of _The West Wing_ back in 2001 (season 2, episode 16, “Somebody’s Going to Emergency, Somebody’s Going to Jail”)… …and guess what? They discussed the “Peters Projection Map,” but I don’t remember if they actually showed one.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 05/09/2026

This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.

anyhumanever.com

Any Human Ever

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Found a sticky note on my desk, in my own handwriting, that just says, “Find room for memory.” Poetic enough that I puzzled over it a moment! Then realized that it’s a reminder to find a physical small room suitable for performing fly courtship memory assays. 😂 🪰🧪

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A major Republican campaign donor, Elon Musk, is obsessed with European genetic purity. No wonder he promotes the GOP, which is the nation’s leading white supremacist organization.

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Sad to hear of Prof. Ada Yonath’s passing. 🕊️ Had the privilege of visiting her lab at Weizmann and being inspired by her groundbreaking work with ribosomes. She was also a role model to generations of female scientists like me, and the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 45 years.

A photo of the prof Ada Yonath and me at the Weizmann Institute of Science

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In case you were wondering (I doubt it), I am still receiving emails from random people who want to share their strange, delusional, and/or paranoid thoughts about MK Ultra. (1/6)🧵

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Read the entire thread. This Oberacker is a piece.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

DRUCKENMILLER (Bessent’s former boss): “.. You can’t buy your way out of a solvency conversation with liquidity tools. You can only postpone the conversation and raise the eventual price. .. Let the bond market speak.” www.wsj.com/opinion/let-...

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You were too cowardly to do it yourselves! First with Musk & DOGE, now you’re saying Vought goes rogue??? This is exactly what you dopes in the Senate voted for! Who are you trying to kid now?

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