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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 2h

It's thrilling to see the advances in this field and their translation to the clinic.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 4h

Who did the head of the US Travel Association vote for in 2024

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 18h

Jesus. I guess we can assume it isn't trained on siloed data. 😬

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 14h

Global meningitis is in retreat. Meningitis is one of the top ten infectious killers worldwide, causing an estimated 259,000 deaths in 2023. That’s down by a quarter since 2015 & half since 2000, with the sharpest reductions coming in deaths among young children. buff.ly/4BvmwnO #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Global, regional, and national burden of meningitis, its risk factors, and aetiologies, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023

Although mortality and incidence have declined significantly since 1990, progress is insufficient to meet WHO 2030 targets. Despite marked progress in reducing bacterial meningitis via global…

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404 Media @404media.co · 11h

BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned

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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

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Mathilda Lennartz @mathilda95.bsky.social · 20h

UPDATE!: I am absolutely stoked that the second paper of my PhD is now out in @natcellbio.nature.com :D. We combined lipid imaging, STED microscopy, and mathematical modelling in a super cool team effort to quantify lipid partitioning inside clathrin-coated pits. www.nature.com/articles/s41....

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Quantification of lipid sorting during clathrin-mediated endocytosis - Nature Cell Biology

Lennartz et al. evaluate lipid enrichment in clathrin-coated pits and observe that the differential lipid partitioning into clathrin-coated pits is largely driven by the lipid asymmetry of the plasma ...

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nothing but super intelligence all around at the White House.

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economymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Of course they created their own dumber version of compartmentalizing

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

“…Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered abortion pills in states with abortion bans”

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Dox for Me, O Muse

Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another abject failure emerges from Harvard Law.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think one thing that the MAHA-friendly people of the world do not appreciate is how terrible it is for you to have viruses invade and then live in your body

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 29/09/2026

If you felt this earthquake, submit a report: zpr.io/UA6upKKXB4C3 Also, a reminder that we are practicing for earthquakes at 10:15am, Oct: 15 for the Great ShakeOut Earthquake and Tsunami Drill! Shakeout.org/washington

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Absolutely love to see a 2-author paper in a glam journal in 2026.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Making fundamental due process rights a nullity with the emergency docket (again)

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Absolutely corrupt court — legally and morally.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit denies Trump and lawyers’ request to stay the sanctions order in Trump v. IRS pending Trump and lawyers’ appeal of the sanctions order. Notably, the panel is unanimous and included a Trump appointee (Newsom). Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-irs-...

Before JORDAN, ROSENBAUM, and NEWSOM, Circuit Judges.
BY THE COURT:
The appellants, some of whom were the plaintiffs below, move for an order staying aspects of the district court's post-judg-ment sanctions order pending appeal. After review of the record and the parties' briefing, we deny the motion.!

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just had a second to tune into the MAHA shitshow. They have a bunch of techbros talking about longevity and how AI and tech will allow people to live longer. Of course they utterly ignore access to healthcare, income, and all other social determinants of health that actually dictate lifespan.

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dying laughing at this chyron on MS NOW

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

If I’m Jack Smith I’m putting that picture on a t-shirt

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pre-2023: Make sure you have no typos in your CV!!! Post-2023: Make sure you have typos in your CV!!!

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amazing the sides these guys put themselves on

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 29/09/2026

Photography is the intersection of knowing how to see, and knowing how to use a contraption to capture that. Both sides require constant practice and exercise to stay in shape. Not every photo will be a great photo but no photo taken with intentionality is ever wasted either.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Great 🧵 about the history of American labor in Pacific Northwest extractive industry.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's a pity Graham did not live to see this fail at the box office.

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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@gruber.foo points to this Zuckerberg profile. At the core is a fawning overview of Meta's AI efforts and the idea that the tech is likely to be a commodity, with benefits going not to technology leaders but to those who find uses. Timing: the article is designed to harm Anthropic and Open AI IPOs.

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Jeremy Stern’s Profile of Mark Zuckerberg for Colossus

Link to: https://colossus.com/article/mark-zuckerberg-profile/

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Without commenting specifically on the allegations at issue, my recommendation to the Cornell board of trustees in 2003 was to abolish fraternities and sororities at the university.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The self-appointed defenders of western civilisation would love nothing more than to extirpate western civilization.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/09/2026

Well-deserved. The guy is a hero and an inspiration

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Kimberly Beatty @beattylab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please share: OHSU is hiring an Assistant Prof. in the Dept. of Chemical Physiology & Biochemistry. We are looking for a chemical biologist who will apply novel chemical tools in physiological systems. Apply online: www.ohsu.edu/human-resour... (Job # 2026-41667).

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OHSU Faculty, Physician and Academic Jobs in Oregon

Find higher education faculty, physician and research jobs and build your academic health career at OHSU in Portland, Oregon.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rufo literally offered a bounty to anyone who could produce a video of Haitians eating dogs. He got nothing. So he found a video of Congolese men grilling chicken and tried to claim they were cooking cats.

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Jez Carlton @jezcarlton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey! Submit your papers, and spread the word, this will be great! Thanks for inviting us @jcellsci.bsky.social and great to work with @pihanson.bsky.social on this issue!

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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I genuinely think the rape accusations are a bonus for some of these people. It's transgressive to elevate utter pieces of shit just to spite the libs. It's not like he's some incredible talent, he's just an unfunny dipshit who stupid people think is smart because he has a British accent.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#ShareGoodNewsToo

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Lzvolk @lzvolk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Most hilarious in months!! 🤣 (Esp the ‘ape-o-enzyme’)

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Now attacking science institutes, and hospitals 😢

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