Nathan A. Tanner @nathan-a-tanner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026people always gave us shit for playing Rocky Top too much but the cowbells are way worse 120
Reposted by Nathan A. Tannerrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life 462377357
Reposted by Nathan A. Tannersouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Executing prisoners is not a legitimate power of government, despite its long and barbaric history, and we should put an end to it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...nytimes.comTennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was. 181210226
Nathan A. Tanner @nathan-a-tanner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026definitely the most effective way to get bioavailable RNA is to eat it 000
Reposted by Nathan A. TannerUncleofJamiroquai @jessefarrar.com · 01/10/2026It seems quaint now that we do all our banking and race science there, but, nevertheless, it's true: at one time, people mostly wrote jokes on Twitter. 10 years ago, I wrote one about an old asshole and it kinda changed my life. Not his, though. www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...cnn.comThe tweet that defined a decade of Trump | CNNIt’s been 10 years since Jesse Farrar accidentally defined a political era with one pithy, prescient tweet. He wishes it never happened. 872233387
Reposted by Nathan A. TannerJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 11846891166
Reposted by Nathan A. Tannergeoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no 413185772
Nathan A. Tanner @nathan-a-tanner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Need to get some World Mosquito Programs trials in the Southeast ASAP 010
Reposted by Nathan A. TannerRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Can’t believe it got this far tbh. I think it’s a very bad bill and hope it fails the house 1037034
Nathan A. Tanner @nathan-a-tanner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Claude “discovered” enzymes in a guy’s lab notebook being fed to Claude to help study said enzymes 000
Nathan A. Tanner @nathan-a-tanner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Final commercial break before Pats kickoff was 3 straight Sununu ads and a Mike Minogue ad 000
Reposted by Nathan A. TannerCage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"why would I deceive you?" 131105482101
Reposted by Nathan A. TannerArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The Intimate Toilette (A Woman Urinating), by François Boucher, 1760s 353243536
Nathan A. Tanner @nathan-a-tanner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We have some dengue LAMP assays that were for collaborators abroad, maybe need them here now 000
Reposted by Nathan A. TannerMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026SCOOP: Top researchers at Columbia, Stanford, and others thought they were elected to elite scientific societies alongside Nobel laureates. The catch? The organizations are a sham. I spent the last month diving deep into a massive academic scam spanning continents, for @nature.comnature.comExclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchersA Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices. 10309186
Reposted by Nathan A. TannerColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why. 10529224
Nathan A. Tanner @nathan-a-tanner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I've had a hundred or so candidates interview for things, couldn't tell you if any had beverages at all, wouldn't have cared either way. Not being a weird asshole boss isn't hard either. 030
Nathan A. Tanner @nathan-a-tanner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I maybe watch too much TV…but Chernobyl #1 imo 000
Reposted by Nathan A. TannerBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It is so good to see @reportermatt.bsky.social, who was in like 80% of my classes in college, become the most influential reporter in Massachusetts. He just loves the place, and you can tell in everything he does. A truly wonderful man making the whole state better. 511863320
Nathan A. Tanner @nathan-a-tanner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’m sure this will make it in the next edition of The Anxious Generation 001
Reposted by Nathan A. Tanneranil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Confirming the White House’s planned EO to exert more political control on NIH seems to be “dead” www.statnews.com/2026/09/23/n...statnews.comWhite House plan to increase control of NIH grants appears 'dead'A planned EO that would have greatly enhanced White House influence over grants at the NIH is “looking dead,” a source said. 713360
Reposted by Nathan A. TannerMark Histed @markhisted.org · 23/09/2026Can confirm (see 🧵 ). But let me share some optimism. A NIH colleague said today that against all odds, NIH has been…winning. “We made this EO a necessity. We fought hard. We threw sand in all the gears. All the lowdown ways of blocking grants failed to produce the results Vought et al wanted.” 217876
Reposted by Nathan A. TannerJerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The full trailer for You Can See Everything is out today. And my first thought is that it should be required that Nathan Fielder film for 48 hrs at every tech CEO’s home. 411621283
Nathan A. Tanner @nathan-a-tanner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Kary Mullis wrote the foreword for "Inventing the AIDS Virus" and was a denialist too, will let Mike's "rest in piss" for Duesburg sprinkle over to him 010
Nathan A. Tanner @nathan-a-tanner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Really interesting look at a powerful new technology being denied to patients www.genomeweb.com/diagnostics/...genomeweb.com 000
Reposted by Nathan A. TannerAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends. 24948401999
Reposted by Nathan A. TannerCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"Hotty Fucking Toddy" Trinidad Chambliss 27926129
Reposted by Nathan A. TannerDerek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026How far can AI get you in designing and optimizing new antibodies? Not as far as you might have thought:science.orgThe State of AI Antibody Design 47022
Nathan A. Tanner @nathan-a-tanner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026this would have actually made my all time listens stats informative, not “your #1 artist is Kidz Bop!” 000
Nathan A. Tanner @nathan-a-tanner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026taking money from actual science for this garbage 000
Reposted by Nathan A. TannerSTAT @statnews.com · 14/09/2026Breaking: Judge blocks Trump administration plans to limit visa length for grad students, postdocs www.statnews.com/2026/09/14/c...statnews.comJudge blocks Trump administration plans to limit visa length for grad students, postdocsA federal judge halted a Trump administration plan to place a four-year cap on the kinds of visas used by graduate students and postdocs 013366
Reposted by Nathan A. TannerKristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Take a look at the examples Antrophic provides for research that they blocked, and it's immediately clear almost much all of it is just basic research - but research that has gotten scary-sounding names via the media. An example, put Ebola genomes into Claude Science and ask for a TMRCA > blocked! 1319475
Nathan A. Tanner @nathan-a-tanner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026no they didn't, and we need to stop just repeating this stuff 010
Reposted by Nathan A. TannerJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC. 7345143688
Nathan A. Tanner @nathan-a-tanner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026funny how effective altruism math doesn’t apply here, only to not giving poor people money 040
Nathan A. Tanner @nathan-a-tanner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Hope that “most” is a carve out for Found North 001
Reposted by Nathan A. TannerEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past. 5599473394