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Dave Sherry

@myonlyneuron.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist. Mostly useless.

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Dave Sherry @myonlyneuron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I notice that the blue flip flops in the background are empty…
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Henrik Larsen @henriklarsen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I charged my electric car on a public charger. I added one third of the full capacity. It gave me 160km of extra range or 100 miles. The cost 22 Danish kroner or 3,5$, or less than the cost of a gallon in the US.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If these stories feel incessant, and overwhelming… it is because they are. These stories are a drumbeat, telling you, telling America, telling the world that our government is being destroyed. This is indistinguishable from a foreign attack on our country. But the attack is coming from within.
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CtObserve @ctobserve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OpenAI’s Systems Meddled With U.S. Government Sites — It's not complicated, arrest the CEO and all of the investers. Gift Article🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...
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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy #FluorescenceFriday. The first time I imaged a 🐸 embryo, I didn't realise they had these ciliated cells on the outer surface. So you can imagine how surprised and curious I was! These cilia are similar to those found in the human airway. And yes, this is just a good old confocal + 🔥LUT!
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Science peeps: Looks like SciENcv updated the digital certificate used to sign Biosketch and Current & Pending documents without notification. The old certificate expires Saturday, September 26, 2026. SciENcv docs before that date may fail validation in eRA Commons delaying or blocking submission.
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Jonas Wietek @jwietek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two cillia, no AI, enjoy.
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Dave Sherry @myonlyneuron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anyone who is surprised by ANY of this has not been paying ANY attention. Reject the lies from the big orange lie machine. The integrity of the vote must be protected everywhere.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/09/2026
An Iowa district court dismissed a lawsuit by President Trump against pollster J. Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register, saying the Iowa poll and the newspaper’s reporting were fully protected political speech.
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Iowa court rules against Trump, citing First Amendment protections
The case centered on a 2024 poll that showed Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by three percentage points among likely voters in Iowa.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
more like this please. thanks. every member of congress has a nationwide tv network sitting in their phone. use it.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not only does the U of C educate traditional four year matriculants but it also has a robust pipeline for community college transfers. There's a lot of quibbling about math preparedness and SAT scores etc but don't miss that there are thousands of CA kids reaching Bachelor's degrees ever year.
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Dave Sherry @myonlyneuron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is Trump’s version of “Pull my finger,” which seems to be the Republican party platform.
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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nephew (age 4) came to visit lab today. He loves to hang out with Real Scientists and do Real Science at my lab. My lab members are very kind about welcoming him in as a valued colleague. He can’t stop talking about his science friends.
Overhead view of annika and a red haired child at a microscope. Annika is helping the child anesthetize fruit flies.
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We found out about Collins today:
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This warning from David Letterman to the media from just a year ago feels sadly too relevant today. He is right: You can't appease a tyrant.
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And ALSO because I am doing a food thread, vote these bastards out of office. Starving kids to fund tax cuts that billionaires won't even notice is a moral calamity. Obscene.
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gorgeous.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“A larger share of health care workers have health insurance than those in other fields… But even health care workers are feeling the pinch as health insurance costs rise each year, and employers expect that costs will jump an additional 8.2 percent for 2027.”
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Even medical professionals are skipping health insurance because of high prices
A larger share of health care workers have health insurance than those in other fields. But they are feeling the pinch as health insurance costs rise.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Still holds up today #MontyPython1975 IG: @thecinevoidclub www.instagram.com/thecinevoidc...
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I graduated med school in 2014. I was taught-and saw-how hard melanoma was to treat, like a death sentence Since then, new treatments have made it possible for people w/ the most advanced melanoma, like Jimmy Carter, to live to 100! We are killing ourselves by letting them destroy American science
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Dave Sherry @myonlyneuron.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Go ahead. Pull his finger and see what comes out.
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Dave Sherry @myonlyneuron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And the house and senate won’t do a damned thing that the country needs, like a sensible farm bill.
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Dave Sherry @myonlyneuron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Politico and CNN could file the exact same report every day and nail it every time with: “Today the Whitehouse spewed fetid sewage non-stop, but that just means the corruption has not slowed.”
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Dave Sherry @myonlyneuron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If only there was a simple, effective, and inexpensive way to prevent this. Like some kind of vaccine….
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Dave Sherry @myonlyneuron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Politicians this level of compromised health, should be removed from office for the good of the country, regardless of party. Inability to perform the duties of the office demands removal from the office.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🧵 Short thread: I give a seminar to 1st-year biomed PhD students in my program about how to critically read a paper, how to extract VAST amounts of information from the title, and why reading AI summaries instead of struggling with papers is *particularly* bad for trainees. 🧪
A comparative analysis of two paper titles, focusing what exactly we can expect to see in each paper. The verb choice alone shows that one is primarily a techniques paper.
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Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A drug 10 times more potent than fentanyl has arrived in San Francisco and killed someone: a 16-year-old boy whose mother found him in his bedroom. Parents, please read this and alert your kids about the dangers of counterfeit pills. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
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A Teen Autopsy Marks the Arrival of a Deadly Drug in San Francisco
City officials — and one determined mother — are working to stop the spread of cychlorphine, which is far more potent than fentanyl.
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Dave Sherry @myonlyneuron.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
N.K. Jemisin is a terrific writer and worth the read.
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Dave Sherry @myonlyneuron.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Impeach and remove. Repeat until the stain of the Roberts court is fully gone.
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Dave Sherry @myonlyneuron.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And the stupidity continues apace….
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 13/09/2026
A Cloudflare co-founder launched the company due to OPT. This crushing fee probably means Zatlyn starts Cloudflare or another company elsewhere. Add in all the int’l PhD grads who stay for postdocs, often on OPT. Lots of US Nobel Prizes come that way. This is a stupid and destructive policy
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“ABSOLUTE STUPIDITY. A man-made crisis caused by Trump. Period.” 🧑‍🌾 Soybean farmers tell @CNN about getting crushed by Trump’s pointless trade war. Soybeans are Tennessee’s #1 ag export. Why are Republicans like @MarshaBlackburn & former Ag commish Charlie Hatcher not asked about this every day?
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
More efforts at killing higher education in the United States. Good luck filling any of the specialized medicine training programs. And basic science? The engine that drives everything? This is bad. I’d argue even worse for businesses.
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Dr. Lesley Barron, MD, MPhil, FRACS @drlesleybarron.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My hot take on drivers encountering any vulnerable road user is that even if cyclists/ pedestrians etc aren’t following the law they still don’t deserve to be hit/injured/killed or honked at and actually should be yielded to in most situations. This is unpopular opinion in our society sadly.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Huh. Funny how I can publish dozens of papers with 100’s of cumulative citations and never have this happen to me. Turns out scholarship does need attention to facts and details 🤷🏻‍♂️. Who knew 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bringing this back to brains... we can't even model a single neuron right now. I'd argue we don't even really have the complete wiring diagram for one of the simplest organisms, c. elegans to model its behavior. Yet the human brain consumes a total of around 20 watts per day. GAI will not scale.
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PoliticusUSA @politicususa.com · 06/09/2026
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) clarified the urgency of the midterms by pointing out that Trump isn’t waiting to steal the midterm election. He is trying to do it right now.
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Jamie Raskin Warns That Trump Is Trying To Steal The Midterms Right Now
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) clarified the urgency of the midterms by pointing out that Trump isn’t waiting to steal the midterm election. He is trying to do it right now.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Routine reminder that Bhattacharya is an economics researcher who has never practiced medicine and whose best known publication is overtly fraudulent. He has never done infectious disease research and has never treated a single virus or infection in his entire career. He’s likely never seen measles.
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Dave Sherry @myonlyneuron.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’m surprised it took this long given the non-stop corruption running through all three branches of our current government. Fixing the problem starts by not voting stupidly in November.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
America does not exist in a vacuum. The rest of the world calls things by their commonly accepted names. This is how society progresses. We accept common definitions of things and agree upon common facts that we accept as truths. When we do not have common agreement, wars erupt and people suffer.
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Dave Sherry @myonlyneuron.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Remove, prosecute, incarcerate.
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
An I should add, billionaires should not be taxed the same way as people who live on their income they get for they work. Why? Because billionaires do not have an "income" and they depend on avoiding all taxes. So how about we tax their wealth?
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MRC-LMB Cell Biology Division @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Great tribute to the discovery by Barbara Pearce of clathrin, the first protein found to act in membrane traffic, along with her mentoring and support of the pioneers (many of whom were other women) who revealed the workings of this key player in cellular function.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Rural hospitals closing or shutting down key departments like obstetrics will be one of the biggest stories of 2027. Democrats need to make it one of the biggest stories of the next two months.
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Republicans Built a Medicaid Time Bomb. It Goes Off After the Election.
It's Democrats' job to explain what's coming and who must be blamed by November.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The ability of billionaires to influence our politics has destroyed our democracy. So much for one person one vote. They are buying elections. We need a constitutional amendment to rid ourselves of the poison of Buckley v Valeo and Citizens United. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Meet the Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2 Billion Into the Midterms (Gift Article)
The leaderboard of the top 20 donors is dominated by the tech industry and ultrawealthy Republicans.
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