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Natasha Mhatre

@natashamhatre.bsky.social
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I introduce Biology to Physics, Science to Art. Good things happen. I like thinking about thinking. Canada Research Chair in Invert Neurobio @ Western U. Views always my own.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 1h
Larry Ellison’s TikTok has shut down the promotional account for Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary. www.theverge.com/tech/1013453...
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TikTok bans Musk documentary account
Larry Ellison’s TikTok has shut down the promotional account for Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary.
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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Full time job opportunity for a scientific illustrator to work with us at the U-Michigan museum of zoology and herbarium! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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EEB Museums Digital Artist/Graphic Designer | U-M Careers
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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 16/10/2026
This is ethnic cleansing, plain and simple.
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
thread. Also: *STARES REAL FUCKING HARD AT ACADEMIA*
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/10/2026
No matter where you shop, you're getting screwed by Amazon. Amazon has found a way to make everything you buy - at Target, at a mom-and-pop shop, even direct from the manufacturer - more expensive. And they're not the only one: Expedia's done the same thing, but for hotel rooms.
A faded, scratched postcard advertising the 'Edge of Town Motel.' Next to the motel sign is a vast pink piggybank, out of whose slot rises a motel key on a diamond keychain, emblazoned with a metallic dollar-sign.
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Asher @skydome.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
G20 levels of police presence to remove a fucking bike lane. Absolute cowards. (Photo: @chanface.bsky.social)
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Natasha Mhatre @natashamhatre.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Always a good day to revive this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Qs...
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Torturing James Hetfield
YouTube video by Chumbawamba - Topic
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.
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JOHNNY THUNDER 500! @pablum.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
do you ever think about how many people would be protesting if they could afford the time off? sometimes i think student debt is the only true legacy of the 60s. the elite saw that and went, how can we make sure youth culture is TERRIFIED of being that politically active
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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Job alert: This is a fun one. At @ucs.org, we are looking for a Science Ambassador Fellow to advance our organization-wide initiative to fight back against the current attacks on science and democracy through mobilization of the science community. Join us! apply.workable.com/union-of-con...
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Science Ambassador Fellow - Union of Concerned Scientists
Science Ambassador Fellow TERM: 2-year fellowship Programs, Policy, and Advocacy Department Remote Bargaining Unit Position: Yes  Our Organization  The Union of...
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
#BREAKING | Yoel Feldshu, Former CEO of the Israeli airport company "El Al", was arrested by the IDF after protecting Palestinians in the West Bank from settler violence "What I experienced is 1/100 of what Palestinians experience - and the situation only worsens from week to week"
The article
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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Great article that lays out the context and the voter roll deletions that led to the current protests in India in detail
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"Real wages are shrinking year-over-year for the sixth month in a row. The Iran War brought an end to three years of real wage growth." -- @steverattner.bsky.social x.com/SteveRattner...
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Steve Rattner (@SteveRattner) on X
Real wages are shrinking year-over-year for the sixth month in a row. The Iran War brought an end to three years of real wage growth.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Labour has so far done nothing to undo this embarrassment. Sally Rooney "says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support
Irish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"they were furious that the taps at home had run dry, while the data centres in the new Nongsa Digital Park seemed to have enough water to protect their machines from overheating. "Not a single drop has come through our taps for the last three months...""
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
OK here are the 3 other #CROCOLOCOEVO jobs available; deadline 23 October; interview around 30 October. 3 year contracts, full tme. The postdocs might be extendable by +2 years. Research Technician - jobs.rvc.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... (1/2)
jobs.rvc.ac.uk
Job Opportunity at the RVC: Research Technician
This is a fixed-term, full-time position for 36 months.Applicants should ideally be able to commence by 1 December 2026, although some flexibility may be possible. The role will be based in person at ...
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Oops, #2 more computational biomechanics + 3D modelling postdoc URL was wrong; is jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at the RVC: Post Doctoral Researcher
This is a fixed-term, full-time position for 36 months.Applicants should ideally be able to commence by 1 December 2026, although some flexibility may be possible. The role will be based in person at ...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Guess WHEN was Beijings "three red lines" policy of deflating housing and inflating manuf.... "This is probably one of the most important charts right now about the Chinese economy. To offset the collapse in the real estate sector, Beijing has managed to surge credit to the manufacturing sector"
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
"Organizing Capital Is a Core Test of State Capacity" Why Some States Can Organize Capital, While Others Are Organized by Capital a brilliant comparative study of capital discipline in the experience of east asia, europe, US, india, vietnam leonliao.substack.com/p/why-some-s...
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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 01/08/2023
I guess I should re-post from the Bird Site "The Rules For Academic Success here": I always get asked for advice about starting/surviving the tenure track. Here are the rules I've found useful. Thought I'd put it out there for the masses... This list gets longer all the time
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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 13/10/2026
Here's a spider 🕷️ using a web 🕸️ like Spider-Man: it creates a thin line of web that can be used to yank something in towards you at VERY high speed! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 🧪 Hat tip to @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Natasha Mhatre @natashamhatre.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
They don't even have staff writers anymore.
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Natasha Mhatre @natashamhatre.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Mark, I wonder if you knew that Nat Geo got bought by Rupert Murdoch a while ago, and they laid off a lot of people, but especially the fact checking department. It's not what it used to be. www.union-bulletin.com/explore/arts...
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National Geographic Society sets big layoff
National Geographic Society sets big layoff
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scott daGHOSTtino @scottdagostino.ca · 12/10/2026
Everyone’s mad at Danny Trejo for signing on to Ben Shapiro’s pro-ICE movie but now his son reveals how Shapiro’s team tricked an old man into doing this 😡
For anyone seeing this shit with my dad...

He was booked on a film, it's not pro-ice, it's not overtly pro anything. His agent described it as "a complicated story about a complicated time, where everyone looks bad except you, the hardworking Mexican shop owner who just wants peace.”

He jumped at the idea of playing a good guy.

About 2 weeks into shooting everyone, including us, found out Ben Shapiro was involved.

My 82 year old dad has never heard of Ben Shapiro, I had to explain to him who that is, and what kind of guy he is.

My dad contractually can't bad mouth him, the film, or walk away without being sued for breach of contract. He couldn't even release the statement he wanted to.

It's fucked up. He's handcuffed to this stupid project, and swaths of people have instantly turned their back on him without knowing any of the facts.

Ben Shapiro got Mexicans to abandon one of their heroes, got his own name to the top of google's searches, and made us look like angry fools lacking any nuance. He wins.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
*Cackles!* www.tomshardware.com/software/mic...
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Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications — Autodesk tools and other subscription-based services may come next
It's a protest now.
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Northern Saw-whet owl feathers contain porphyrins, which fluoresce under UV but break down over time. Older feathers thus glow less intensely than newly-molted feathers. Here you can see three generations of feathers, making this an after second year bird. 🧠
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 11/10/2026
Canada’s new grocery benefit does nothing to address the root cause of high food prices: corporate greed “All levels of government continue to ignore their regulatory responsibilities, enabling unchecked price-gouging on essentials like food and housing.”
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Canada's new grocery benefit does nothing to address the root cause of high food prices: corporate greed
Canada's new grocery benefit does nothing to address the root cause of high food prices: corporate greed
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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Friends are being detained across the country and I am in awe of their determination.
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What the fuck
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What the fuck. Somehow America made prison worse 🤯
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 11/10/2026
“Much of the behavior…is plainly harassment and bullying, often filmed without the subjects’ knowledge or consent…every single one of the many smart glasses videos we found were captured by teen boys — and their bad behavior was overwhelmingly directed at girls.” futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🇮🇹🇵🇸 Tens of Thousands protest against Israel in Italy, marking 3 years for Gaza Genocide. Marches reported in Rome, Turin, and Milan.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🇬🇧🇵🇸 #BREAKING | UK Police arrested 20 Pro-Palestine protesters, The police moved them to Walworth police station and shut down it’s enterance
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 11/10/2026
Israel is preparing to give settlers access to a main Palestinian thoroughfare in Ramallah, a move that would bring checkpoints and gates to one of the West Bank’s last spaces of free Palestinian movement and affordable urban growth. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/isra...
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Israeli settlers target a Ramallah road, and the city’s future with it
Israel is preparing to give settlers access to a main Palestinian thoroughfare in Ramallah, a move that would bring checkpoints and gates to one of the West Bank’s last spaces of free Palestinian…
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.
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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Turns out these guys are real
A fish like a child would draw, no fins, just a tail an eye and a little smile
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is not "a controversial vaccine trial," it's biological warfare, conducted by European researchers on African infants. It's imperialism, racism, eugenics, and the hubris of incredibly stupid people. It's denying vaccines to newborns! In what fuckin universe is this a "vaccine trial"?
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“California billionaires saw their net worth rise roughly 25%, or $432 billion, in <2 years Gains were especially pronounced for 22 CA billionaires who’ve publicly opposed the one-time, 5% wealth tax; they saw their net worth rise nearly 65%, or $280 billion” @sacbee.com @bpaviour.bsky.social
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California billionaires opposing Prop. 40 saw their wealth soar, report says
Prop. 40 supporters call the tax a small price for billionaires. Critics warn wealthy Californians may flee.
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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Look at that! My play I Dream of Theresa May is up for an award 😍: www.asianmediaawards.com/asian-media-... Many thanks to @taratheatre.com and @natashakchandra.bsky.social for their amazingness! And @livetheatre.bsky.social for their support! Play details here: taratheatre.com/whats-on/i-d...
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Asian Media Awards 2025 Finalists
Asian Media Awards 2025 Shortlist was announced on Tuesday 23 September.
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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
After 12 years of seeming invincibility, the Modi regime is showing cracks due to widespread youth protests. This is the story to watch!
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A friend just wrote me about what is happening right now with AI decompiling games and applications (e.g., Adobe Photoshop) and it has really shaken me because the implications for the free market are staggering Basically closed source software is over forever and it happened overnight
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Open-Source Guru Raymond: AI Ends Closed-Source Software
Open-source co-founder Eric S. Raymond explains closed-source software is effectively over thanks to AI-powered reverse engineering.
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Prof Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
'15,095 Palestinian-owned structures have been demolished on the #WestBank since 2009, resulting in 23,683 displaced people'. #Israel #Palestine #IHRL #IHL www.jurist.org/news/2026/10...
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Israel’s demolition of residential buildings in East Jerusalem leaves 69 Palestinians displaced, OCHA says
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Tuesday condemned new building demolitions in the West Bank that have displaced 69 Palestinians, calling it the largest single-demo...
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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Link to ads: Postdoc position: nextcloud.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/s/... PhD position: nextcloud.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/s/... We’re also both at @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social and happy to chat!
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Otti Croze @otticroze.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨 New review paper on swimming snow algae 🦠. We survey interaction with crystals ❄️ and relevant taxes ↗️ for know snow species. Great first PhD paper by Caitlin de Vries! doi.org/10.5194/bg-2... #algae #snow #biophysics #MicroSky
Diagram showing algae moving through a matrix of snow crystals. The liquid in between the crystals has a gradient going from white to blue to denote a gradient in chemicals up which the algae are biased to move
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New episode of Sandy and Nora is out! We talk about riots! Young people are rising up in France over the state of their education system, and in Spain over the high cost of living. Canada would prefer if you didn't know about this. sandyandnora.com/episode-395-...
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Episode 395 – Canada hopes you don’t notice Spain and France right now
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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