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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Sharp argument from the chief scientific officer at @nature.com that promoting diversity in science is needed to get over misperceptions about where great research is happening and a tendency amongst some to just collaborate with ‘your mates’ www.thetimes.com/article/e5ee...

When they choose which scientists to collaborate with, cite or work with as peer-reviewers or editors, they still "pick people they know", she said. Her message is simple: "Don't pick your mates."
"More diverse voices being published in research literature leads to more diverse collaborations [between the west and Asia, and will lead to better science, better drugs,’ she said.
Dhand cited a study from UK Research and Innovation showing that when British scientists collaborate with their Indian counterparts, their joint research ends up having a greater score for its impact than either nationality achieves independently.
"Both were benefiting", she said.

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eBay mugs & glasses @dangmugs.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

moses: first man with a tablet who downloaded data from the cloud ☁️

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?' And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

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Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.

Wonder Woman defends herself from a Nazi as portrayed by Lynda Carter.

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Yeah, things are going great at the minute, thanks for asking

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Not "why was the tear gas in the toddler's neighborhood" but "why was the toddler in the tear gas's neighborhood"

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Got my first bag of potato chips in months. Cracked it open. The first chip out of the bag was... soggy? The second chip was almost fungal. Baffled, I explored the bag and discovered AN ENTIRE POTATO. Unsliced, brined, like a wad of seasoning juice. It had survived, and now was juicing the chips.

A flavor-blasted potato, like a gallstone from Satan's own bowels, sits atop the worst bag of Herr's Kettle Chips ever dispersed for public consumption.

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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods

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Matt Massarella-Gill @3788mg.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’ “A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles” BELGIAN WHISTLES

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Dogbert weighing Scott Adams’ heart against a feather

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

what the fuck are we doing here, @cnn.com?

The woman killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis last week served on the board of her son's school, which linked to documents encouraging parents to monitor ICE and directing them to
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 13/01/2026

Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]

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Gourmet Magazine

Gourmet is a worker-owned publication about food and the people who make and consume it.

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Andrew Mercer @awmercer.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Charlie has figured out how to make the printer print test pages and now it’s all he wants to do.

Charlie the orange cat standing on top of a laser printer investigating various buttons.

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 10/01/2026

In case you’re wondering whether the pro-ICE reactions to Renee Nicole Good’s murder are natural, here’s a comment that was just left on my video. My video about anti-transgender bias at the BBC. I haven’t made a video about Good yet. youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto

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In this video, it seems obvious why an officer could fear she was going to run into him with her vehicle. Wow! I hadn't seen this angle. He had a reason to feel threatened. It is done.
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Living well @thebestrevenge.info · 09/01/2026

Dog, look at how many times this gallery has been painted black and then white and then black and then white

Digging out a screw hole before patching reveals layers of wall paint from over the years

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Hmm ok like five countries are investigating me what if I upsold people to CSAM+

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Governor I was not familiar with your game

Hochul press office tweet:
This initiative extends mainly to 2-year-olds but intellectually you may be eligible

QTing Nick Shirley replying "What did we just learn about child care across the country?

It’s a great way to create fraud and launder money. Caution here…"

to Mamdani saying "ameen" to Hochul's "Universal child care is coming to New York."

https://x.com/NYGovPress/status/2009367062469058584

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

“The most pernicious aspect of ChatGPT is how it isolates minds.”

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Ian Casselberry @iancasselberry.blog · 08/01/2026

CNN graphics put the asterisk in the wrong place, it appears…

CNN graphic censoring the “bull” part of “bullshit” - “b*llshit”

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Ourania @ourania.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

This is like when Tractor Supply sells deer feed with a sign underneath noting that it is illegal to feed deer.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/01/2026

When you believe that everything that matters is Online, you will inevitably miss crucial information from that pitiless old bitch that is tangible reality. It's a lot like confidently walking into a forest full of hungry tigers at night, because you see, you don't believe in tigers.

The Death of Munrow, sculpture from India.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/708701?ref=little-flying-robots.ghost.io

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Stephen Miller: This whole period that happened after World War II where the West began apologizing and groveling and begging— Host: I don't even know what you're talking about right now. I asked you if there would be an election in Venezuela.

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AAUP Texas A&M-College Station Chapter @tamu-aaup.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

Ensures that all the diseases covered by the previous immunization schedule will still be available to anyone who wants them through Affordable Care Act insurance plans and federal insurance programs, including Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Vaccines for Children program. Families will not have to purchase them out of pocket. Among peer nations, the U.S. will continue to offer the most childhood vaccines for free to those who want them.

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Ourania @ourania.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Men have NOT changed since the 17th century.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 05/01/2026

What We Will Use as Weapons: A List of School Supplies. “This is a protest quilt. It was made by an artist whose day job puts her on the front lines of one of the most grotesque realities in America today. She is a teacher.” [kottke.org]

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What We Will Use as Weapons: A List of School Supplies

In 2024, schoolteacher Ginny Robinson won the Best in Show award at a quilting convention for her quilt called What We Will Use as Weapons: A List of School Supplies. This is a protest quilt. It was made by an artist

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Vegetarian Greek food restaurant called Don't Meat Your Gyros

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Starmer has said that what has been allowed to happen at X is "outrageous" and that those responsible should face the "full force of the law," calling their tactics "pathetic" no wait sorry, I got confused, that was him describing Just Stop Oil protesters who put some cornflour on Stonehenge.

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 05/01/2026

> In September 2018 ... Bloomberg News reported Amazon was considering plans to open as many as 3,000 Amazon Go locations across the United States by 2021 It's 2026. There are 20 Amazon Go stores.

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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

seems a little insensitive

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

you could ask AI to make the fairies move, present it as evidence that was covered up, and half a million people would buy it on Facebook.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

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Mamdani Called Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

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Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

By way of example, this may not have been the precise book that set off Harlan Ellison to mail a dead gopher to his publisher’s comptroller, but I definitely understand his feelings on the matter:

Front cover of the Harlan Ellison short story collection “From the Land of Fear”

Interior of the Harlan Ellison short story collection “From the Land of Fear,” with a cigarette ad reading “You don’t start with True. You change to True.”

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I’m cold stratifying the milkweed seeds, I’m caterpillarcore, we’re butterflymaxxing, in my Lepidopt-era

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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 02/01/2026

Folks, she brought a whole plate of spaghetti to the broadcast center to do her headshot. She then houses that spaghetti. Mattia sips on an espresso during his. Truly the heroes we need during these times.

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The hater becomes a waiter at the table of success

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

For their anti-immigrant, white nationalist post about 100 million deportations, DHS stole the artwork of a non-white foreigner: Japanese illustrator Hiroshi Nagai. Apparently no white Americans were available to design an image. View Nagai's work here: hiroshinagai.com/contents.html

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