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Michael Glotzer

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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 14/09/2026
Why did a Russian oligarch close to Putin fund Trump Jr.’s wedding in the Bahamas? Umar Kremlev spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the President’s son. What did he get in return? We need answers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026
Ossoff: "I have zero interest in running for president in 2028, and frankly zero interest in the 2028 fantasy football right now ... these midterms are the whole ballgame ... I don't know that we have a free and fair election in 2028 unless we restore checks and balances in these 2026 midterms."
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
No one is thinking about this now but: the Fed will not raise interest rates to bring down inflation while Trump is in office. It will raise them sharply one he’s gone, trigger a recession, and sabotage the next Democratic president.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 16/08/2026
Breaking: “The Nerd Reich” book has developed superintelligence and escaped containment. Be on the lookout for early copies hitting the shelves at your local bookstore.
Photograph of someone holding the nerve Reich book by Gilda Duran. Caption reads gorgeous fall day in Silicon Valley. Time to read about the narcissistic fascists around me who are destroying the world.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Look, I like El-Sayed and I hope he wins. But I'm going to need him, I'm going to need the entire left wing and Democratic party, to do a LOT better on court reform. Because without it there *is no* progressive agenda. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The Gaping Hole in El-Sayed’s Progressive Agenda
The Senate nominee has woefully undercooked ideas on Supreme Court reform—and that’s a problem.
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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Today is National Lighthouse Day. This is Chicago Harbor Lighthouse. Help light the way to the restorations of this landmark along Chicago’s lakeshore, SaveTheLighthouse.org
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 05/08/2026
Trump & Russ Vought proposed a rule to take every federal grant in America hostage. They don't care about making our tax dollars work better—they just want them to work for Trump. Well, Democrats BLOCKED their corrupt rule, and I'll be fighting to kill it permanently.
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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
My editorial in this week’s Science @aaas.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪
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The enduring pursuit of science in America
Imagine an American organization that convenes scientific experts not to advance any ideology or interest but to provide the nation with a clear understanding of complex problems. Imagine this body wo...
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 25/06/2026
Public health research at world-class institutions like the NIH is an important public good. Rep. Suzan DelBene, Rep. Lori Trahan and I are leading 122 of our colleagues to oppose the Trump Administration’s efforts to give partisan political appointees final say over health research grants.
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Raskin moves to stop ‘disastrous’ threat against medical research
Rep. Jamie Raskin seeks to stop the Trump administration from putting political appointees in charge of federal health grants.
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Michael Glotzer @mglo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Image playground in iOS27 has to learn the principles of mitosis
A completely screwed up picture of a “mitotic” cell, except all the chromosomes are lined up along the spindle axis, rather than aligned perpendicularly to it.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 21/06/2026
Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here: Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track.  Spread the word. Stand up for science.
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Michael Glotzer @mglo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Best thread of the day!
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Steven Kahn @sekahn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Thanks for the principled stand by past Principal Officers of the American Diabetes Association. Hopefully, this letter will get the current leadership to reach out in an appropriate manner and set the record straight. They owe it to everyone, and particularly to people with diabetes.
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EMBO @embo.org · 09/06/2026
Congratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-go…
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Bob Henson @bhensonweather.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
From the CEO of AAAS: “If this rule becomes final, Americans' hopes for future cures, national security and economic strength will rely on the scientific sensibilities of the nation's chief bureaucrat. Alzheimer's disease will not be cured by a budget analyst from either political party.”
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Daniel Gorelick @danielgorelick.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Scatter plot showing that Fast & Fair peer review reached first decision with reviews much faster than conventional peer review: mean 5.5 versus 37.7 working days. Most Fast & Fair manuscripts met the 7-working-day target, while conventional manuscripts were slower and more variable, up to 116 working days.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/05/2026
I figured I'd write a short something wondering why Sam Alito said we couldn't force Texas to change its unconstitutionally gerrymandered maps in December because people there need "certainty" but he's happy to help Louisiana change its maps now, even as ballots have already sent...
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Michael Glotzer @mglo.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Do I understand correctly: December 2025 Alito blocks further challenges to Texas redistricting due in part to the Purcell Principle wrt 2026 midterms. Late April 2026 Purcell has no limits on the possible impact of his opinion on 2 of VRA for the 2026 midterms?WTF IOKYAR? @stevevladeck.bsky.social
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
We're beginning to suspect Kash Patel was a DUI hire
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Michael Glotzer @mglo.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Almost OpenAI, almost
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak “This country has given me endless opportunities…: The America we inhabit today bears almost no resemblance to the country I chose all those years ago” newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-nobel...
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I’m a Nobel Prize-winning immigrant. I can no longer recognize this country.
Attacks on science and immigrants are destroying America.
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Hironori Funabiki @hirofunabiki.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Excited to share our structural insights into how microtubules differentially guide phosphorylation of kinetochore-microtubule regulators, Ndc80 and MCAK, for chromosome segregation. Heroic efforts by Yiming Niu with a fun collaboration with Jennifer DeLuca lab! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Microtubules guide Aurora B substrate geometries for accurate chromosome segregation
Cryo-EM reveals how kinetochore-microtubule attachment is regulated by Aurora B substrate accessibility on microtubules.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Tell Your State To Pass This No-ICE-At-Our-Precincts Model Law. Now. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tell-...
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Tell Your State To Pass This No-ICE-At-Our-Precincts Model Law. Now.
I’ve gotten a number of helpful responses to my post from earlier...
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Michael Glotzer @mglo.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Chicago, Butler Field
Pic from a No Kings protest against Trump. On says, I’ve never wanted a Big Mac to attack more than now with a picture of trump eating a Big Mac Pic from a No Kings protest against Trump. This one says, “Elect a Pedophile, expect to get fucked”
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
🧪This is important. Russel Vought fact check by @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social When a non-scientist says w/ certainty that NIH caused the Covid19 pandemic, it is a red flag & arrogance. His intention is to destroy science & implement Project 2025. Articles of impeachment have been drafted.
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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Won't You Be My Neighbor. Chicago City View on Thursday from Wrigleyville.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
10th paragraph
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This is insane.
By Maxine Joselow
Reporting by Washington Post
Article linked below
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Chris Murphy: “This is the most incompetent, incoherent war America has fought in the last 100 years — this administration has no idea what they are doing I have great sympathy for our soldiers & our military leaders — they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) speaks to the media after attending Congressional briefings on Iran at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.
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Michael Glotzer @mglo.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Am I reading this right, these negotiations with Cuba will ensure the Americans have the right to dissent and to have freedom of speech. That would be a nice change from the last 14 months. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/w...
Any meaningful deal between the United States and the Cuban government, experts say, would have to include the release of all political prisoners, an end to the criminalization of dissent, permitting independent political organizing, the legalization of political parties besides the Communist Party and a restoration of basic
civil liberties, including freedom of speech and the press.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Kristi Noem is out
Writing her political obituary
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Dummymander? Maybe. If Texas emerges from the midterms with only an R+1 that's hysterical
Here are 4 districts the TX GOP gerrymandered to gain seats in November, with the Dem and GOP primary vote. Dems outvoted GOPs in every one of them.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Some shit is about to go down with NIH study sections, friends. Keep your eyes peeled for change that may affect your grant submissions.
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
We’re excited to welcome six new editors to the #G3Journal and #GENETICS editorial teams! 🎉 Their expertise spans quantitative genetics, RNA biology, evolution, genome integrity, neurogenetics, and more. Meet them and learn more: buff.ly/4dTWxIJ
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Trump’s billionaire allies will now own CNN, Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ and NY Post — plus 185+ local tv stations and news in 100 markets. They also control X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth and Twitch. This is all by design to manipulate and surveil us. Pay attention.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Journalism job alert: @wired.com is hiring an experienced politics writer. I might be biased, but WIRED is doing some of the best political coverage out there. This is your chance to join our amazing newsroom! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
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Senior Correspondent, Politics
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Eye-popping margins in the Pennsylvania special elections today: —Democrats won HD94 by 63 points. (Harris won it by 30 in 2024.) —Democrats won HD42 by 35 points. (Harris won it by 17 in 2024.) [The 2024 numbers are via the essential @the-downballot.com].
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Getting word of federal immigration agents operating in multiple areas around Chicagoland this morning. Rapid responders report agents took at least one person around 7 a.m. from Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood; agents were also seen in the suburb of Berwyn, though it's not clear if anyone was taken.
An alert, in English, letting people know federal immigration agents took one person near the intersection of Armitage and Kedvale, in Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood, around 7 a.m. on 2/24/2026.An alert, in Spanish, letting people know federal immigration agents took one person near the intersection of Armitage and Kedvale, in Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood, around 7 a.m. on 2/24/2026.An alert, in English and Spanish, letting people know federal immigration agents were seen at a gas station near 16th and Ridgeland in the Chicago suburb of Berwyn around 8 a.m. on 2/24/2026.
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Do you remember that very night -- the night before the day of all days, four years ago? How many of us didn’t sleep at all. We sat in the dark in silence, in front of our laptops, refreshing news feeds.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
A second email, this with a more substantial insight about "The Replication Crisis"... 1/5
Dear Director Bhattacharya and Deputy Director Lorsch: I saw a post Director Bhattacharya retweeted about replication in economics. This begins with:

Between 1974 and 2014, only 0.1% of publications in the top 50 economics journals were replication studies.
That's 40 years. Thousands of papers. Almost none replicated.
We've built careers on findings no one has verified.
When economists finally replicate studies, 40-67% fail depending on the study.
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Michael Glotzer @mglo.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Question for election law lawyers, can the ludicrous case that was used to confiscate the 2020 Fulton Co. ballots be used to file a preliminary injunction to preemptively block the “DOJ” from ratfuckery the midterms? @democracydocket.com @rparloff.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social
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Fraochs 💀👀 @fraochs2.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
This is such a great idea everyone! Please talk it up, pass it along, let’s make it an Election Day thing all over the country.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 12/02/2026
Weren't GOP senators demanding $500k because the DOJ researched their call records on January 6th?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/02/2026
Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/02/2026
The man who told reporters it’s time to move on from the Epstein files won’t shut up about the 2020 election.
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