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NIH Bear

@nihbear.bsky.social
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Am bear of science. Will bear for grant funding. The only official information outlet for the National Institutes of Health. Do not taunt happy fun bear.

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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
*gggrrrrrwwwlllllwlll*
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Look, we don’t need riffraff joining the ranks. If you don’t have a decent pedigree, you don’t train in my lab. Come from money or brains, or both. Neither doesn’t walk through the door.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I don’t give a fuck what issue matters most to you, if you are willing to withhold your vote from democrats who aren’t in perfect alignment with you you’re no better than MAGA trash.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Then if person A or B is wrong or obviously lying, say: “Person A or B is wrong or obviously lying.”
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Dear @nytimes.com @cnn.com @nbcnews.com @npr.org here is how you do news: [thing happens] “Here is what happened. Here is what person A said about it. Here is how person B disagreed.” Crucially: DO NOT STOP THERE FINISH WITH: “Here are the actual known facts and expert interpretation.”
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Look, if we educate and employ foreigners we risk them helping raise their own countries while also benefiting the USA. It’s a lose lose.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Tragically, over a quarter century, it has become clear that the larger villains of 9/11 are the right wing politicians who’ve exploited it for hatred, violence, protectionism, racism, and mass surveillance.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There’s no such thing as introverts and extroverts. There’s people who need to get the fuck over themselves and people who need to shut the fuck up. Sadly, you don’t seem to know which one you are.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
When we invented time travel, we sure ended up killing a lot of babies who didn’t turn out as bad as Hitler.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Just realized that if we want, Bryan, we can inject “masculine degeneration” into the manosphere.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Literally the only reason humans rule the world is you can’t lick your own genitalia.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It really sucks when you have earth shaking NIH gossip and Mrs Dr Bear tells you it absolutely cannot be “leaked to the blue skies or whatever, dipshit.”
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
75% of academic productivity is driven by a completely irrational fear of being scooped: that someone, somewhere, is doing your work faster and better than you. Yall are fucking NEUROTIC.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
There is nothing I love more than watching Trump turn on one of his true believers because they got caught between toadying and the law. And I’ve had a 6 day old cake while tanking an absolutely brilliant UM1 renewal app.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Strongly disagree. When critiquing a competing lab’s submission do your best to undermine the confidence and self-respect of everyone there from the PI to the lab manager’s kindergarten child.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
With Trump giving the eulogy, Graham is getting the ceremony he deserves. Full of lies, he’s an afterthought at his own funeral.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This could be incorporated.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
To answer your first obvious question: YES! They are also pursued by a shotgun-toting Courtney Love hellbent on revenge!
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Movie/series franchise pitch: Kurt Cobain and Mitch Hedberg team up to solve cold cases in a madcap, true-crime alternative-history show. By turns gritty (heroin!) and absurd (one liners!) K&M take on: The JonBenet Ramsey case! Chandra Levy’s murder! The 2001 Anthrax Mailings!
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I guess the good news is that dying suddenly on a return trip from Ukraine when it’s basically your only point of disagreement with Trump is unlikely to start any conspiracy theories.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
You think he’s not already in my Rolodex?
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I will not tolerate this remaining in British hands. Am going full-Stephen-Decatur. Patriots assemble!!! We sail on INDEPENDENCE DAY. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
‘Vanishingly rare’ copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archives
One of 11 surviving copies of ‘Exeter printing’ and only one known outside US was taken from American privateer ship
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“Bless the dogs today, Lord. Keep the barbarians at bay.” Better to cower behind a row of teeth and snarls Than risk sharing this miserable plot with a dark-skinned stranger. Better to bury our dead in a tomb of shit Than build a mausoleum with strange-accented fellow.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Hate, piety, and patriotism are all born of the same thick urge: The bilge water of terror, the sick-yellow sump we crouch at in the night, bright-eyed evil stalking outside a circle of traps and torches, while we squat pleading
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
If I’m honest, the Cambrian Explosion was a mistake.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
If 1000 J6 rioters each get a million dollars from this slush fund, 998 of them will be bankrupt in 18 months. I say this is worth it for the schadenfreude.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Seriously. I’m like 15 now and feeling old.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Before all this raveled fury spins into the swirl? Clenched too long into spools carefully wound, coiled potential Don’t be afraid. Ash is born in fire. And every thousand year forest grows pungent, rooted in the tomb of the last one, leveled by the voice unbound I howl sulfur at heaven
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I am bitter, strange, and violent A lungful of smoke Held quaking in the savage calm I cultivate at the forestep of impending How long can I tremble on the red limned edge of rage
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The owl balut is better.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I do love visiting socal.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Are you kidding? This is the best news ever. Toxically masculine dipshits injecting nonsterile fluids directly into their reproductive organs? It’s perfect. Bring on the Fournier’s gangrene!
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The Trump administration is teaceably responsible for millions of deaths, of disease and malnutrition, due to the elimination of aid with no structure to replace it. I applaud their acceleration of humanity’s population decline, and look forward to a greener Earth for my grandcubs.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Listen up, dipshits, ive solved science funding. Every October 1st, i will send invites to the 16,000 best scientists in America. You will gather in a major domed stadium. And I will drop $53B from the ceiling. After that, it’s up to you to fund your labs.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
You know what’s better than an LLM? What if I told you you have a tool right now that could ingest the world‘s great works of literature, science, history, and art, and then you could use those to generate new ideas anytime you wanted? Furthermore, it’s free.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It’s a shame that nobody manages the lactation of donkeys, so that we could say I want a nice cold glass of ass milk.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Never. Never. Let an opportunity to fuck with a friend pass by. @chrispickett5.bsky.social get ready for the replyallpocalypse for the END TIMES.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
What is correct? For open ended questions which must be graded by experts, unless your method is well blinded you inject a lot of bias into the analysis. May or may not make the LLM look better. But you can’t say “52% correct” for qualitatively scored answers. Need a qualitative rubric.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This graph is unclear, obviously but there is a profoundly muddleheaded understanding of the word “excels” for something that is correct 52% of the time. Yes, the other models seem to be astonishingly bad but “usually beats a coin flip by a small margin” is not worth crowing about.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
When someone accuses you of shaming them, they are saying: “I am already ashamed of this and I don’t want you to know it or see it.” You cannot shame someone for something they don’t think is shameworthy. It doesn’t work, it rolls off of them. But if they feel shame they despise? They attack.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
When I am president, and god forbid one day I should be, this entire administration would be extradited to Iran to face justice.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It’s kids doing what kids have always done: approaching difficult topics with offensive humor and frankly kind of impressive openness to toxic realities they face. Let them cook.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Ok. The “Five nights on Epstein island” game. Ready? Here’s the take: So fucking what. Is it offensive? Yeah. Is it desensitizing your kids to sexual abuse? No. If one of the bear cubs were playing would I have a convo? Yes. Would I worry for their soul? No. Get over it. Moral panic unjustified.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
OMGOMGOMG I HAVE A PENDING CASE STUDY INTHE NEJM!! “Mrs Dr Bear, unable to find tahini, asserts there was no more. Mr Dr Bear glances at pantry, finds immediately.”
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
You’re right. Come closer. Just come right over and approach the bear.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
And I want to be clear here: I’m not just talking about spiritual faith. Having faith in anything is bullshit. Even your fellows. If you don’t have evidence, a pattern? Don’t trust it. Don’t believe in it. If it’s supported by a stable track record it isn’t faith. It’s statistics.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Can we maybe finally admit that all faith is toxic, all religion is divisive, and ideologies inevitably drive salvageable people to commit vile atrocities? No? All right keep killing each other, dipshits.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
HAPPY PURGE DAY!!! Jesus is dead today, so all sin is legal.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Nothing lives rent free in my head. Every last thought I have pays rent. This is why you’re still living at home, Gen Z.
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NIH Bear @nihbear.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Me after discovering their hideout: KLAN FED
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