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Roger Winters, PhD

@rawphd.bsky.social
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I am a GenX husband, father, scientist, music lover, and Missourian transplanted to New England. Doing what I can to fight against fascism, deliberate misinformation, and willfull ignorance.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Taxing the rich is absolutely essential to saving our economy and our democracy. Don't believe me? Look at this chart.
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The Hidden Danger of America's Wealth Gap
Taxing the rich is absolutely essential to saving our economy and our democracy.Don't believe me? Look at this chart.
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Roger Winters, PhD @rawphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Read this very well written essay, especially if you pride yourself on being non-political.
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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It is 2026. The number of measles cases is reaching a point where we are seeing deaths from measles complications. An unvaccinated 18 yo died from acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. That is a complication of measles. You get what you vote for.🧪
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Fourth measles-associated death reported in Pennsylvania
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
49 years ago today Talking Heads: 77, is the debut album by the American rock band Talking Heads, released on this day in 1977, includes the singles "Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town", "Psycho Killer" and "Pulled Up" #punk #newwave #postpunk #TalkingHeads #history #otd #punkrockhistory
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
46 years ago today Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is the debut studio album by the American punk rock band Dead Kennedys, released on this day in 1980. #punk #punks #punkrock #FreshFruitforRottingVegetables #deadkennedys #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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shanley @shanley.com · 28/08/2026
The ideology of tech fascism is capitalism. The cult of tech fascism is capitalism. Tech fascism is capitalism in the monopoly, imperialist stage.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I attempted to put words to what's been going on in my life:
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My miscarriage
A personal update from Marisa.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026
As LLMs get better at certain tasks and much more convincing, it's a useful exercise to ask about a subject you know intimately. Here, ChatGPT 5.6 diagrams the wrong game, doubles down, then finally admits its mistake. It cites a paper that doesn't exist, doubles down, and finally confesses again.
ChatGPT query: Diagram the enquist model of agonistic signaling

[poster output]User: This is fucked up. So you just made that up.

ChatGPT: Yes. I did, and you’re right to call it out.

My first description was not a faithful account of Enquist’s model. I supplied a plausible generic sequence for agonistic assessment—“initial assessment → signaling → reassessment → escalation”—without having verified that those were actually the stages or assumptions in Enquist (1985). Then, when you challenged the “prior information” point, I compounded the problem by giving another specific reconstruction instead of checking the source first.

I’ve now checked secondary material explicitly discussing Enquist’s 1985 model, and it describes the model as one in which players choose among possible displays/actions in an agonistic game, with the evolutionary question being when those choices can constitute honest signaling. That is importantly different from the staged assessment process I initially gave you.

So: do not use either of my previous stage descriptions as a representation of Enquist (1985). I should have looked up the paper/model before answering a source-specific question.ChatGPT: Yes. You’re right — again.

The poster actually says:

Enquist, M. (1985). “Communication during agonistic encounters.” In R. R. Hinde (Ed.), Advances in the Study of Behavior, Vol. 15, 65–106. Academic Press.

And that citation is not the original Enquist model paper I should have been using.

I made three separate errors here: I generated an unverified citation, then misreported what the poster said twice. That’s a basic source-handling failure.

If you want, I can now do this properly: verify the actual Enquist agonistic-signaling model from the primary paper and give you only the real sequence/stages, with no reconstruction.

User: The paper on the poster doesn't even exist.

ChatGPT: Correct. That poster citation is fabricated. I generated a title and book chapter that do not exist.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
NEW: CNN is reporting as an "exclusive" that the former CFO of SPLC, Heidi Beirich, was arrested in California today. They have a quote from Blanche at a news conference and say this is "part of a superseding indictment," but the docket does not yet reflect the superseding indictment.
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Exclusive: Former Southern Poverty Law Center CFO arrested on fraud charges | CNN Politics
A former chief financial officer at the Southern Poverty Law Center has been arrested in California and for her alleged role in overseeing secret payments to informants inside of White supremacist gro...
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It's also our job as scientists to listen to critical evidence and revise our understanding based on it. But when Dr. Hooven received evidence that conflicted with her thesis, instead of revising her ideas, she ignored the evidence and double down. That's not science. That is ideology.
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Slashdot @slashdot.org · 07/08/2026
Dress Made of Living Mycelium Can Renew and Repair Itself science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/06…
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Dress Made of Living Mycelium Can Renew and Repair Itself
Researchers in China have developed a living mycelium textile that can self-clean, renew its surface, and partially repair holes when treated with a nutrient solution and fresh fungus. The material can also gain added properties such as blue pigmentation or UV resistance by co-culturing it with yeas...
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 07/08/2026
The plans – not yet been officially confirmed – would allow a two-year tariff-free window for firms to move production to the US, after which a 100% duty will be applied, stepping up to 200% a year later. #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/trum...
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Trump threatens generic drug tariffs
Plan aims to encourage domestic US supplies, but will it work?
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
41 years ago Talking Heads’ bassist, Tina Weymouth, from the August 1985 issue of Vogue. Photo by Oliverio Toscani #punkrock #newwave #postpunk #basswoman #tinaweymouth #talkingheads #history #punkrockhistory
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Roger Winters, PhD @rawphd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There is also a mountain of credible evidence that vaccines are very safe and effective and have saved countless lives. I think vaccination has been the greatest medical innovation that humans have made, and one of the greatest innovations of any category.
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NewWaveAndPunk @punkandnewwave.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Released on this day in 1979: Fear Of Music #TalkingHeads youtu.be/8al5cSQNmME?si…
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/08/2026
I’ve seen a lot of my colleagues’ interactions with Claude working on research problems & it would be easier for me to accept it as a serious scientific tool if it didn’t end every single response with the LLM equivalent of “you want fries with that?” — constantly trying to goad you into asking more
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Roger Winters, PhD @rawphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I hope there are no Sciex sales reps reading this.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Elon Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.014 percent of his current $702 billion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.
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R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Here’s to 40 years of Lifes Rich Pageant
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The South African trust-fund billionaire wockaflocka brought in to gut our country's infrastructure, whose cuts to aid have already killed a half-million children, is now offering $100-million to make an all-white remake of a movie. This is all totally normal and whatnot.
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Roger Winters, PhD @rawphd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I don't know who Craig Spencer is. I haven't read any papers from him - guess he works in a different field of science than I. But I do know he is very, very fucking wrong.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
lmfao
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is bull***. I have a PhD and 40 years experience. I founded and led a nonprofit and never made more per hour than the guy who just fixed my oven.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
People captured by a supremacist spirit want to dominate humanity to prove to themselves that they are the Good Ones. They want it so badly it's made them hate everything human; their own humanity most of all. I really think we ought to defeat this ghastly fucking spirit with a better humanist one.
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
41 years ago Salad Days is the final EP by the American hardcore punk band Minor Threat, released in July 1985 through Dischord Records, 2 years after the band's breakup Cover by Glen E. Friedman #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #minorthreat #saladdays #history #punkrockhistory
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Trump will present his bogus conspiracy theories about voter fraud and the 2020 election once again tonight. The only reason he's doing so is to lay the groundwork for his midterm voter suppression scheme. Be warned.
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Trump's Scheme to Rig the 2026 Midterms
Voter fraud is so rare that a person is more likely to get struck by lightning than to cast a fraudulent ballot.So why d
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Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander @goodlander.house.gov · 17/07/2026
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 17/07/2026
Rather than repeating debunked election conspiracy theories, in a better world, a President would be addressing... this:
Air Quality index:
747 Chicaco
678 Aurora, Colo.
534 Toledo, Ohio

Heat Index
Dangerous: Jacksonville, Fla
Dangerous: Phoenix
Extreme caution: New York
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/07/2026
i have never seen someone as clearly vacant behind the eyes as tuberville. there is nothing going on in there. if the electrons are firing they are moving through molasses
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Roger Winters, PhD @rawphd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It doesn't matter if every cubic centimeter of the van was filled with meth. Still not an excuse for murder.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 14/07/2026
PSA: If you're taking an SSRI and it's helping you: don't stop it suddenly because of a politician's comments. Abruptly stopping antidepressants can cause withdrawal symptoms and relapse. If you're thinking about making a change, talk with your healthcare professional and make a plan. 💚
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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Peter Mcullough, a grifter cardiologist spreads Covid vaccine misinformation about Lindsey Graham’s death. I guess Lindsey Graham didn’t take his $84 “spike protein detox supplement” when he got the vaccine FIVE years ago. Here we are. .
https://www.threads.com/@petermcculloughmd/post/DaswIjjkUpr
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Roger Winters, PhD @rawphd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
He's selling a 28 kDa enyme in pill form? The "wellness" grifters really piss me off.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"slipped and fell into an enormous pickle jar full of yellowjackets while trying to reach a package of malomars from the tippy top shelf today, dead at the tragically advanced age of 71 ..."
Dana Carvey as Dan Rather in the famous "Gerald Ford Dead Today" skit. Lindsay Graham's horrible face has been superimposed over Ford's in the background graphic.
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AMERICAN RAIN @americanrain.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Talking Heads by Marcia Resnick 💙
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My piece on Lindsey Graham from late November 2019... "The conversion of Lindsey Graham did not occur on the road to Damascus, like Paul of Tarsus, but on the back nine of the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia. And he did not come to Jesus, but to the Antichrist."
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Lindsey Graham is Trump's Hostage
There is no other rational explanation for his complete 180.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 12/07/2026
“If votes aren’t even accurately counted, democracy is a fraud.” Lindsey Graham’s death closes one chapter, not the Republican campaign against voting rights. As the 2026 midterms approach, the lessons of the stolen 2000 election remain urgent.
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Republicans Never Wanted a Fair Fight
Lessons from the tumultuous election in 2000 are still relevant 20 years later.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My kids have measles, I lost my job, and a parasite that the CDC no longer monitors has given me explosive diarrhea. But at least now there’s no plaques honoring Black scientists at the Smithsonian.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/07/2026
How two punk icons are giving the Cramps a second life
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How two punk icons are giving the Cramps a second life
“If you lose culture," Henry Rollins explains, "the society dies.”
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 08/07/2026
I spoke to Mitch McConnell for twenty minutes this morning. He said, in a weak but firm voice, "workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!"
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Released 44 years ago today "Bleed for Me", the sixth single by the Dead Kennedys Bleed For Me - Dead Kennedys - Urgh! A Music War - Santa Monica Civic Auditorium - August 15, 1980 #punk #punks #punkrock #deadkennedys #bleedforme #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
44 years ago today Dead Kennedys at the Whiskey A Go Go, July 4, 1982. T.S.O.L. was also on the bill, and the Butthole Surfers were added at the last minute based on Jello Biafra's recommendation. 📸 Edward Colver #punk #punks #punkrock #deadkennedys #history #otd #punkrockhistory
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
🚨 PHILLY STRIKE ALERT 🚨 As of 12:01pm, 1600 IBEW Local 614 PECO workers are on strike—the first in the utility company’s 145-year history. “PECO's lack of seriousness over six months of bargaining has forced us to this point. We are officially on strike. We strike strong, and we strike to win.”
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
Mark Twain hated the Fourth of July. He was often invited to speak at Independence Day festivities. His audiences assumed that his reliably unpatriotic remarks were tongue-in-cheek jests. But he meant that shit. 1/9
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
NEW: Todd Blanche claims the DOJ won’t produce additional docs or unredact them b/c the original redactions & withholdings were appropriate & he wants to protect the privacy of victims…despite already repeatedly violating that privacy. My reply to his asinine arguments: youtu.be/f0GaVdXLrfM?...
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🚨AG Blanche DESPERATELY Files LAST MINUTE Response In MY Epstein Lawsuit!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer.com · 02/07/2026
As Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche fired me for doing my job, then subjected me and my family to months of retaliation. My story is one of many reasons the Senate should not confirm Blanche again. Read and share my letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. www.lawyeroyer.com/p/my-letter-...
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My Letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee Concerning the Nomination of Todd Blanche for Attorney General
As Deputy Attorney General, Blanche fired me for doing my job, then subjected me and my family to months of retaliation. My story is one of many reasons the Senate should not confirm Blanche again.
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 03/07/2026
For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The number alone should land him in prison, without any consideration to how it was gained. It should be illegal to vastly increase your wealth while holding public office. Any capital gains ought to enter an inaccessible public trust to be used on public good. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...
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Trump Pulled in at Least $2 Billion After Returning to the White House
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