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Paul Carman @paultcarman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Essential personnel only. Apparently, mascots are going to be the new sacrificial lamb for capitalism.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026

New York's economy grew by 4% in Q2 — more than any other state. Want to get your business off the ground? Hire only the best? There's one place to do it: New York. www.newsweek.com/new-york-lea...

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Map shows which state economies are growing and shrinking ahead of midterms

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

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Frank Van Haste @vanhaste.com · 04/07/2026

Merci.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

never lose this fierceness, kid

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/07/2026

Ranch, an edge-of-the-table dressing in America, has become the hottest commodity among World Cup tourists. “I’ve consumed, probably, three bottles of ranch dressing this week," a German visitor said.

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‘Who cares if we lose. I’ve found ranch dressing.’

Among World Cup tourists, the condiment has become the ultimate American export. If only TSA wasn’t such a killjoy.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Fun fact: I did the start of my postdoc in her old lab space. Funner fact: I used to talk to her ghost.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

BREAKING: Team Trump is 30 minutes from federal Contempt of Court—no letters have been removed. What may happen soon: work stops for the night; *all* letters are taken off the building; the Trustees announce it’s shuttering forever. But clearly his name won’t be gone by midnight.

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Possibly the best way to phish academics would be to just send them email that looks like a request to review an article and embed your malware in the "decline to review" link

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 01/06/2026

Our June issue is here! rupress.org/jcb/issue/22... The cover shows a maximum intensity projection from a confocal image stack showing an angiogenic sprout emerging from an engineered microvessel. From @lakynm.bsky.social et al. of the Matthew Kutys lab: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Cytoskeleton

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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 21/05/2026

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

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Paul Carman @paultcarman.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

When in Boston the freedom trail beckons. . .

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Anyway. I’m glad nobody was hurt and I’m sure the journalists who attended the WHCD will not center themselves and their personal experiences and instead remain focused on holding the powerful accountable and informing the people about their government.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/04/2026

How it started / how it’s going — Jay Bhattacharya edition. 2025: “We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree" 2026 : Bhattacharya “has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits”.

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"We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree": Director Jay Bhattacharya reflects on his pandemic-era censorship experiences & outlines his commitment to open scientific communication at the NIH.
April 1, 2025

A Health Department official said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya had met with the study's authors but that they had not wanted to change its design. Eric Lee for The New York Times
By Apoorva Mandavilli
April 22, 2026
The acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has canceled the publication of a study that found jthat the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter, a Health Department spokesman said.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A month ago, Brad Lander put a great video calling for the expansion of the Supreme Court. I (impertinently) responded “This but 29.” Today at 1:00, I’m hoping on Lander’s substack live to talk about court expansion, 13, 29, and all the reforms in between. Should be fun.

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Brad Lander | Substack

Dad Lander. Former Councilmember Lander. Former Comptroller Lander. Running for Congress because we need to fight, not fold. 🥊

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

You know what all teams in the men's Final Four (and both women's teams in so far) have in common? HERBARIA. UConn is threatening to cut the staff of our nat history collections (plus many other awful budget cuts). If only we cared as much about biodiversity as we do about buzzer beaters!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

These are the things that have historically led to revolutions. Not sustainable.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026

TAPPER: You know that if you vote against an additional $50 billion of funding for operations in Iran, that vote will be cast as you voting against the troops. CHRIS MURPHY: Come on. The American people do not want this war. If you support the troops, you should be voting against this war.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

There have been some very bad developments today.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

10 years ago, Bernie Sanders warned America of the unintended consequences that could emerge from a regime change war with Iran. Watch.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Any car that hasn't moved in the period between the last storm ending and the next storm beginning should immediately be towed, stripped of hazardous materials, and dumped into the Atlantic Ocean to become artificial reefs like they do with old subway cars.

Silver car on city street surrounded by low pile of snow.

black car on city street surrounded by low pile of snow.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
Open access
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Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

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allepasse.bsky.social @allepasse.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I’m happy to share the main result of my PhD, which you can find on bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... If you are interested in learning about a new way to perform DNA-PAINT multiplexing, which we call Combi-PAINT, or if you are interested in the study of mRNA conformation, keep reading! 1/10

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Paul Carman @paultcarman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I’m excited to witness the west coast flex this week with the #JPM2026 Biotech and Healthcare conference

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

"This is the look your well-respected math teacher gives you during a brutal discussion after they’ve tried their best to help you succeed and now they’ve caught you cheating on an exam and they’re beyond disappointed with your conduct."

charlotteclymer.substack.com

The Calm Dignity and Giant Balls of Jerome Powell

Trump picked the wrong one.

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Justin @ediparolev.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

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Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World

Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.

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Paul Carman @paultcarman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Philadelphia Fall from the BioEngineering Skirkanich Hall.

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ceej @ceej.online · 05/11/2025

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

This NYT map of election results is gorgeous, reader-friendly, and in the case of this 🎁 link, free. If you've ever lived in NYC, visited it, or watched an episode of Seinfeld or Friends, you'll want to spend time clicking around www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

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My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

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Paul Carman @paultcarman.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

No Kings NYC October 18th 2025

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/10/2025

Bring as many American flags to No Kings as you can.

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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

mitochondria from bipolar patients are closer to the nucleus in these images; control patients' are spread out further

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Paul Carman @paultcarman.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

A herbarium is a magical place if you’ve never been. it’s a library of our botanical past. Like most libraries it doesn’t incur much cost for the wealth of knowledge it preserves.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Four million people feel the same way. Every day.

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Office of NYC Comptroller Mark Levine @nyccomptroller.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings. This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

People immediately pivoting to slot Lander into a progressive primary challenge are missing the implicit deal in the cross-endorsement: he's going to be deputy mayor, essentially COO of New York City. He's going to use his experience with the inner workings of government to help Mamdani deliver.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Jesus Christ, Bill de Blasio is cooking here. nymag.com/intelligence...

The editorial board took numerous shots at you and your tenure as mayor. What’s your response?
It felt like the New York Times didn’t understand New York City. It was this strangely conservative law-and-order, traditionalist view that totally missed the reality of the city today. My view is people are hurting and affordability is the issue and the Times just does not understand what everyday people are going through. They’ve disconnected from New York City more and more with every passing year. Obviously, they decided they didn’t care enough about New York City to make an editorial endorsement and then they show up with this wimpy, disingenuous editorial basically justifying why people should vote for someone corrupt in Andrew Cuomo, and not even recognizing that other new leaders had worthy ideas. I mean, the whole thing was like, “Let’s invalidate new young leaders,” right? It was unbelievably ageist and out of touch.

I was immediately transported back to 2013 when they said in their editorial when I was running for mayor that my ideas, like Pre-K for All, were impossible. They were absolutely dismissive, and their whole attitude was, Big bold ideas can’t happen, so why vote for someone who wants to change things? And I feel what they have become is sort of a parody of the status quo. They, in their own curmudgeonly way, just tell people to swallow hard and accept the unacceptable. If you talk to everyday New Yorkers, as I do all the time, you know that people really, really can’t stand the status quo in the city. But it’s not because they want to go back to some good old days of strongman leaders. It’s that they think their leaders don’t care about them, aren’t helping address the extraordinary pain they’re going through and the challenge of making ends meet.

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Paul Carman @paultcarman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

New Orleans, the start of the Caribbean.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.

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