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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This feels like an incredibly alien take. Why would anyone care about this at all?

Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Terrible and heartbreaking news. She lived life wonderfully, few people can say they created something as incredible as the Imagination Library, or any other of the many amazing things she's done.

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Just the other day I was saying this intersection I drive through regularly really should be an all way stop instead of just on the one side because of the hill being dangerous. Then I check and it is! Pretty great to see the street get safer. Thanks @freddieoconnell.bsky.social !

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/07/2026

this is the closest ICE has ever come to saying "yeah we just murdered a guy"

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It's a little known fact that all US presidents can access the avatar state

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

⚡️ WATCH — JUST NOW — 99% white Tennessee House Republicans pass a racist 9-0 map stripping majority Black Memphis of congressional representation

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This person should not hold any government office. This, along with innumerable other things, are clear evidence to any reasonable observer of his insanity. The other members of the United States government hold the power to remove him from office and have not. This is a clear moral failure.

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Listen, there's a lot of reasons why this is an incredibly stupid idea. The logistics of moving load from a tanker (2 million barrel capacity) to trucks (200 barrel capacity), the number of people needed, drones, pickup point being a village... But one easy visual is to zoom out the map a little.

The region surrounding the Strait of Hormuz, showing that the area they're talking about having as a dropoff point contextualized by the surrounding area and shape of the Persian Gulf/amount of land controlled by Iran.

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

As someone who spent the first 18 years of their life growing up on a farm, and whose family has farmed for generations, seeing someone reduce the difficult labor that is farming to "it's plants and fresh air!" is honestly somewhat offensive. It is work. My family worked, and works, extremely hard.

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Very curious to see how Claude Code works with the 1M token context in Opus 4.6

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university Formal Verification Prehistoric Archaeology Philosophy of Mind Natural Language Processing Applied Machine Learning

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

If anyone is looking for a position as an Assistant or Associate professor researching genetics, the Genetic Medicine division (where I work) is hiring! There's a lot of great resources here, we have very straightforward access to great resources, clinical+genetic data. apply.interfolio.com/177945

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/12/2025

Aftyn stands for science, and we are standing with her. All of America is watching. Will you do your part? tr.ee/sufs-aftyn

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Truly the way that extremely important guidelines should be decided, huh. Just based on what some guy with no qualifications feels like it should be. Vibes based medical policy.

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Piper Below @piperbelow.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Stuttering is the most common speech fluency disorder and is as heritable as many common complex traits. Yet, genetic research of stuttering has lagged behind other human traits. In collaboration with #23andme we conducted the first large-scale GWAS of stuttering. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Large-scale genome-wide analyses of stuttering - Nature Genetics

Genome-wide analyses in over one million self-reported cases and controls identify genetic variants associated with stuttering and find genetic correlations with autism, depression and impaired musica...

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This is the missing thing. If you touch real data or real problems enough, it's hard to fool yourself

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Flying to #Canada for summer vacation this year to go back and visit friends in Montreal (flying out of Nashville), and the price difference between flying now and a few months ago is stark. Canadians are certainly not flying to the US lately, for obvious reasons. That boycott is definitely hittin.

A price chart for two tickets flying from Nashville to Montreal, showing that the price for similar trips to Montreal (now priced under $600) was over $1000 dollars 60+ days ago.

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Objectively a really funny statement to make about a feature that you literally can't opt out of, which is forced to the top of the search results for the most market-dominant search engine on the planet.

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This proposal is a disaster. It's mind boggling how much this, alongside existing cuts, will irreparably slow the scientific progress of the human race, harm our children's education, and damage our health as a society.

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Very well attended town hall for @warren.senate.gov in Nashville Tennessee! It's great to see Democrats holding a real town hall in Tennessee to pick up the slack as the Republicans ignore all their constituents.

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I've been thinking of giving some blogging a try, so I wrote about an interesting phenomenon I've noticed over the years of tech workers often fantasizing about quitting their jobs to start a farm or a crafts-based job: tjmorley.com/blogposts/co...

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Cottagecore Programmers: The Idealization of Farming by Tech

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Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

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Solid Evidence @solidevidence.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Here's a quantitative illustration of what's happening with NIH funding.

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Great crowd today standing up for science in Nashville, TN! About 300 people I believe, lots of great signs and passionate citizens!

Crowd of citizens rallying for science on a set of stone steps at the capital building in Nashville, TN

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Catherine Sweeney @catherinejsweeney.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

About 300 people are outside the Capitol in Nashville for the Stand Up For Science rally. Similar demonstrations are happening across the country. Here are their policy goals: standupforscience2025.org/our-policy-g...

A kid getting a piggyback ride, carrying a sign that says, “Our infection research spreads across the country.”

Wider crowd shot in front of the Capitol

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/03/2025

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/03/2025

"In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet 'agency priorities'" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Wherever I go in life, I am proud to be a Vermonter.

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Genetics in Medicine @gimjournal.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Study finds incorporating PRS into clinical prediction models provides limited improvements in performance bit.ly/3EUjUJT #machinelearning #genomicmedicine #EHR

Screenshot of Figure 1: Performance metrics (top: AUROC, bottom: AUPRC) are presented within each institution (left: VUMC, right: MGB) for each model scenario. Colors represent whether the model included PRS (Blue) or was based only on EHR data (Red). Models run on the genetics sample required five-fold nested cross-validation and each point represents the on split that is consistent across all models for comparability. Dashed lines represent the baseline performance in each site for the given metric.

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Glad to announce that our paper examining the varying methods for combining genetic information with EHR-based features in prediction is now fully out in Genetics in Medicine: doi.org/10.1016/j.gi... I'll write some more details in the comments below!

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Roasted up some duck a l'orange, fingerling potatoes, and made some mochi from scratch for dessert as a Christmas dinner for my wife and myself. Tomorrow it's back to work setting up an RCT, but today is a day to relax. I hope everyone enjoys their holidays and spending time with their loved ones!

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I feel like I should post something on here but don't have anything science related I want to post right at this moment, so here's a picture I took while hiking in Colorado after AGBT Precision Health a little while ago!

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Theodore Morley @morleytheodore.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Hello world, figured I'd check out this app to see how it is since I saw a few people moving over!

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