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Nicole La Gruta

@niclag.bsky.social
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Immunologist and Professor @MonashBDI and @MonashBiochem. More funding for basic biomedical research would be nice. Interested citizen.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/04/2026
The receipts. A complete timeline of the shifting rhetoric. More: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...
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Karen Jane Barlow @kjbar.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Very sad news about Jon Kudelka. He wrote this last year about what really matters. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/2025/04...
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Lessons from political cartooning
After being diagnosed with an inoperable glioblastoma, The Saturday Paper’s editorial cartoonist took time to consider what really matters – and it is not politics.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The world is so much poorer for not having Jon Kudelka in it
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Nicole La Gruta @niclag.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Please help tell the Government that Medical Research Matters! www.moniqueryan.com.au/medical_rese...
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Medical Research Matters
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/02/2026
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The first time a city's population has ever been nominated. www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...
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TweetLD @tweetld.art · 02/02/2026
A photo of Noah Feldman beside A quite with the ABC News logo “If we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office fir his personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy — we live in a monarchy, or we live under a dictator.@ Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Here’s a useful reminder of what our federal courts SHOULD be doing to uphold our constitutional traditions:
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Annotating the Judge’s Decision in the Case of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-Year-Old Detained by ICE (Gift Article)
Our critic annotates the barbed wordplay of a decision challenging the Trump administration’s theory of executive power.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
God bless Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney for saying what needed to be said in his Davos speech.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Martin Luther King Jr. understood better than almost anyone that racial justice and economic justice are inextricably intertwined. Watch his powerful call to end poverty from his final Sunday Sermon.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/01/2026
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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br00t4c @br00t4c.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
‘Cancel your tickets’: Calls grow to boycott US-hosted FIFA World Cup over Trump admin www.rawstory.com/world-cup-26...
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‘Cancel your tickets’: Calls grow to boycott US-hosted FIFA World Cup over Trump admin
With the 2026 FIFA World Cup set to be hosted in the United States this summer, calls have grown for a global boycott and ticket cancellations in protest of the Trump administration and its increasing...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 08/01/2026
Another “breaking news” moment where media takes the gov word as “official” when a) video evidence shows exactly what happened and b) the gov lies every time it opens its mouth. With all the good and important Big Media can and does do, its willingness to cling to “objectivity” is killing us.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
"Iron laws of the world"? Some of America's most important national accomplishments are about leading humanity away from this kind of bullshit. If we let ideologues like Stephen Miller drag us back into a world where brute force is all that matters, all of us will be less safe.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
This message hits hard.
Graphic with a blue background and large white text reading “DEAR AMERICAN FRIENDS.” Below is a screenshot of a post explaining that Canada does not have CBS, that a “60 Minutes” episode aired normally in Canada, and stating that Canadian networks are not subject to U.S. government interference. The post ends with “We’re not under a dictatorship. You are.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined. 56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people. Read that back.
theguardian.com
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
WHO reaffirms no link between vaccines and autism www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
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WHO reaffirms no link between vaccines and autism
The World Health Organization’s vaccine safety committee said on Thursday that new reviews of scientific evidence found no link between vaccines and autism spectrum disorder, reaffirming conclusions r...
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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
The man who is unwilling to wear a flu mask usually is of the kind who expects everybody to listen to him when he speaks
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
More of this !!
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
For Decades, Kids Drew Men When Asked to Picture a Scientist.
Not Anymore.
After half a century of bias in a crayon, children are tinally drawing women in lab coats proof that representation isn't just symbolic, it rewires imagination.
Original study: Joumal of Educational Psychology, American Psychological Association; November 2024.
HEAR HER STORIES
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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
A detailed run through of literature and claims concerning vaccines and autism. Long story shot: vaccines do not cause autism.
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No, Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism—Here’s the Proof Parents Need to See
Countless studies have shown no link between vaccines and an increased risk of autism spectrum disorder. But some parents still hold onto that belief.
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Yarwanaw @yarwanaw.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
For years they droned on about “the Deep State” - a powerful cabal that controlled everything. Then they set their sights on “the Epstein list” - a powerful cabal that preyed on children. (Spoiler: it’s the same cabal) Now they’re in power, guess who is protecting this cabal? They are. Odd.
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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
This Waitrose ad is better than the majority of movies I've seen this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOy...
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Keira Knightley stars in Waitrose’s Christmas ‘mini romcom’ ad
YouTube video by Daily Record
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I identify less with my astrological sign than I do with the way people describe my dog. Like, I guess I'm a Capricorn but I'm for sure "treat motivated."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Maybe don't start destroying the White House right before an election. Things the consultants don't tell you.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
THERE IT IS
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC. It didn't matter. Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.
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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Even winning this year’s Halloween costume prize couldn’t ease Carol’s existential ennui. “Another October, another ghost, another shiny prize. Maybe a pig’s ear would cheer me. Ah nuts, who am I kidding.”
Cute light beige dog dressed as a Halloween ghost.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 31/10/2025
☠️😭
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Nicole La Gruta @niclag.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
We can't translate what we haven't discovered. Fund the questions, not just the answers. @australianlabor.bsky.social, @mon4kooyong.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/10/2025
If your savings account can’t buy you a yacht, maybe stop voting like it can.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
One of my least rational beliefs is that if you pull off a heist without hurting anyone or getting caught within a day, that's your stuff fair and square.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Portland has fallen!
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Nicole La Gruta @niclag.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Discovery research is the sexiest 😛
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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Dear funding agencies, I know we all want to discover the wonder drug that will cure the horrible diseases, but to do that, we need to invest in basic, unsexy, foundational research on how the systems work. Funding can’t all be drug development. Sincerely, Looking for basic research grants.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
But also we’re terrified of the subway
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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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At least 29 Americans have sought asylum in Australia since second Trump presidency began
Applications from US citizens make up less than 1% of monthly applications but have risen steadily since Trump’s inauguration
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