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Rob O'Malley (he/him)

@robomalley.bsky.social
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(he/him) #Primatologist #biologist #anthropologist doing #SciComm with @acs.org. Also #Education Cmte co-chair @bioanth.org, formerly at @pged.bsky.social & @aaas.org. Dad, gardener, scientist, SFF fan. Striving 2B good human. Opinions r my own

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Thomas Cullen @thomascullen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With all the news of museums being closed and/or defunded, I feel the message of our paper on the importance of natural history research (and the collections housing those specimens) is just as relevant (or more) today as it was when it was published. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today was incredible. The fight to save the academy of natural sciences is far from Over
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal
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Wilson Cruz @wilsoncruz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In light of today’s Supreme Court ruling, PLEASE continue to go to handsoffourvote.net to CONTINUOUSLY check your registration, to register to vote, to work the polls and secure the vote during and after the election and to find ways to get involved locally.
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Hands Off Our Vote
In America, voters pick our leaders, and we decide our future.
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey chat has the shortage of bread and/or potatoes ever led to a massive social upheaval, asking for a friend
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026
In the latest round of pass the harasser, this Professor slept with students and now is moving into a leadership role at Arizona State University 🧪 #metoo madison.com/news/local/e...
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Records: UW-Madison professor engaged in sex with students, exploited 'power imbalance'
The records were released in response to a request from the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I don't think there's a better illustration of the incredible danger of people credulously and irresponsibly over-adopting generative AI than the use of it by DOCTORS to note vital information. This should be as illegal as fabricating notes by hand. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated
But that decision would cause her a lot of stress, with the AI scribe making up the serious but false claim that Ms Green was taking illegal drugs.

"I was gobsmacked and in tears … it made up that I take [psychedelic] mushrooms. I have never done mushrooms in my life,"  she said.
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It hasn’t rained since June. “The small ditches and even the rivers have dried up, which makes it extremely hard for us to put out the fires. Our only option is to gather at the edges of the plantation or the forest to keep a constant watch on the fire’s progress. It is extremely dangerous.” 🏺🌏🧪🦊🐒
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The women saving Borneo: battling fire, patriarchy and super El Niño on Indonesia’s peatland frontlines
Fire threatens Kalimantan’s rainforests. On the peatland frontlines, a group of local mothers is defending their community
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"The study of religion at a public university is not theology, nor evangelization. Religion is part of culture and vice-versa—hence, our department’s name." #academicsky
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Is it a big deal that the U.S. president is telling insane lies that he personally rushed to the site of 9/11 and heroically acted like a first responder himself? Sorta seems like it should be! Maybe?
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 05/09/2026
Two new NO AI ONLY BRAIN paintings in the shop artologica.etsy.com
2 brain watercolor paintings with black text: NO AI ONLY BRAIN
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/09/2026
The Streetcar tracks, protected cycle tracks, and red bus lanes were all added in the last 12 years. Good things are possible if we fight for it.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
HHS is canceling infant mortality and postpartum grants to focus instead on research related to what the department says are “root causes” like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction. www.notus.org/health-science/hhs-ca…
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HHS Cancels Infant Mortality, Postpartum Grants to Focus on Sperm Counts, ED
Officials at the Office of Minority Health told grantees that they’re prioritizing “root causes” of infertility and promoting exercise.
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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Any org would be so lucky to have Dr. Raven. I wish I had been exposed to science communicators like her when I was in school; I might have cared about science. As it was, all I saw was men taking dryly about science and I never got into it. Please hire her if you are in a capacity to do so.
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Dr. Earyn McGee @afroherper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A few Gila monster shot glasses fresh out the kiln. I’m obsessed with this concept! #lizard #pottery #ceramics #art
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is why most faculty cannot make sense of the 'woke' University trope. Our lived experiences bear little resemblance to it. This is far closer to the norm.
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Faith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“A prominent UW-Madison professor and artificial intelligence expert has resigned after an investigation found he violated a university policy on consensual relationships…Scheufele has since been hired by Arizona State University’s School of Social and Behavioral Sciences.”
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sobering, insightful essay on how chatbots mangle historical primary sources. 🗃 www.hnn.us/article/ai-i...
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AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.
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Gabrielle Gozo @gabriellegozo.com · 03/09/2026
CHATGPT AND CLAUDE ARE DOWN!! Teachers, time for an exam
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Rob O'Malley (he/him) @robomalley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@ifbookspod.bsky.social Ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment
Newly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Hoff Crab is neither a crab nor is it David Hasselhoff. It is a Yeti Crab, which is neither a Yeti nor a Crab but a sub-group of Squat Lobsters, which are not lobsters, they're Anomurans, like Mole Crabs, which are neither moles, nor crabs.
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
THIS
Long before the first grant was frozen, graduate students were noticing a quieter set of contradictions. They were told that teaching matters while watching excellent teachers struggle for recognition. They were encouraged to engage with the public while learning that public scholarship rarely counts toward career advancement. They were told that mentorship is central to academic culture while watching faculty who pour themselves into students get passed over for colleagues with longer publication lists. They entered science hoping to improve society and discovered that the system rewards productivity more reliably than it rewards care.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/09/2026
New York City Public Schools, the largest school system in the country, has banned student-facing generative AI tools in classrooms through eighth grade for this school year, adopting one of the most aggressive AI policies in the nation. wapo.st/46EjUbw
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I know the fault of the closing of the Academy of Natural Sciences lies with Drexel University but I called to complain to the Mayor anyway. If I learn of something more useful to do I'll let you know. Her office number is (215) 686-2181 Saving the museum would be great PR for her (she needs it).
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I've been seeing a lot of "well I guess this is the way things are now" "ah another line of evidence that we are a fallen empire", attitude that I am begging people to shake off. There are people working their butts off to make things better. Please don't give up. Join us.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
not that they’re doing it correctly or well or rigorously or competently, but it is funny how these guys spend all their time doing gender studies
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Too much modern culture only understands politics as a form of performance art and not as a form of individual and/or collective action, even though the latter is what politics actually is.
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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 27/08/2026
The real American 🇺🇸 “brain drain” isn’t that a few established scholars might get new jobs outside the US, it’s the enormous number of grad students - particularly international grad students - who can’t or won’t study in the US now or in years to come. That’s the body blow.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026
If you just happened to pick this week to start yelling about the importance of academic freedom, I sure hope you did more than watch silently for the past 18 months as the Trump administration assaulted everything from mRNA vaccine research to gender studies to the very idea of having universities.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One thing that makes this administration particularly dangerous is that it is filled with people who, like the president himself, have committed very many obvious crimes in the last 18 months and who know that the only way to stay out of prison is to stay in power.
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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 26/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: More than four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, fungi scientists at the M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany have been forced to adapt to increasingly difficult working conditions. A dispatch by our Editor-at-Large from Kyiv, Ukraine: www.thexylom.com/post/ukraini...
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Ukrainian Mycologists Are Not Giving Up
As the Russo-Ukrainian war continues, Ukrainian mushroom scientists struggle in their quotidian work.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
like the reason Dolly feels like an exceptional human being is because all the things we're talking about today in her lifetime of philanthropy trace back to just .... having empathy and we live in the era of "I Don't Know How to Explain to You That You Should Care About Other People"
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Rob O'Malley (he/him) @robomalley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
very grateful for the opportunity to help pilot a #chemistry themed #TTRPG game session at #ACS2026 today as part of @comscicon.bsky.social programming! Building human connections and community is the heart of #SciComm!
man standing next to sign reading "ACS 2026 chemistry and critical hits: a beginner friendly, chemistry themed TTRPG session"game board with player figures and a fire monster
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Rob O'Malley (he/him) @robomalley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Attending my first #ACS2026 w/ @acs.org & having a familiar #SciComm experience - learning of amazing, impactful, sustained & community-centered programming deserving wider recognition & support. Congrats to Ky kythechemist.com & ChemWest chemwest.wixsite.com & thank you for sharing your work w/us!
A Black woman in a colorful lab coat measures colored chemicals into glass vials next to a brightly decorated sneaker.a presentation slide that reads "ChemWest: a teaching resource in Chicagoland. Teachers Sharong with Teachers"
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
No. The case against Cofnas is quite clear and strong. It is simply not a matter of academic freedom. He violated his employment terms. He violated university conduct. He is a crisis for the university's ability to function and public image. An academe that includes Cofnas is fundamentally broken.
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It's cool to look into new technology. It will find its place where it will be useful. Maybe in 10 or 20 years it will be every where But slow adoption is okay too and that means not shifting massive amounts of resources to the shiny new thing that is out there [6/?]
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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Beginning my research seminar, as always, with Lynn Hunt's essay How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around). Should be mandatory reading in light of the impact of AI. www.historians.org/perspectives...
Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words, whether I am writing an essay like this one, a book chapter, a letter of recommendation, or an email message to a friend. Writing is time-consuming. It’s a great way to pass the time on a long airplane flight because you lose track of the passage of time altogether. It’s even better, from that point of view exclusively, than watching an episode of Mad Men on your laptop. Writing means many different things to me but one thing it is not: writing is not the transcription of thoughts already consciously present in my mind. Writing is a magical and mysterious process that makes it possible to think differently.
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The Climate Science & Communications Fund (CSCF) has provided emergency funding support to 31 scientists & science communicators across 18 American institutions in 14 states. These unconditional gifts are designed as flexible, rapid-response interventions in extraordinary times.
First page of a 2-page flyer describing the Climate Science and Communications Fund. It shows a map of gift recipient locations, and also summarize statistics regarding the program thus far (including over $3 million disbursed to date), with testimonials from individual recipients.Second page of a 2-page flyer describing the Climate Science and Communications Fund. It further describes the need for and goals of the program. It also includes a point of contact email: roshan@climate-talent.org
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"AI prompts are discoverable" is going to lead to so many funny lawsuit outcomes, my god
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.
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Rob O'Malley (he/him) @robomalley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Roses are red Dune stars Timothee Chalamet www.science.org/content/arti...
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Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet
“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Every six months a writer goes on parental leave, is driven insane by watching 10,000 hours of Paw Patrol, and writes another one of these articles, and they're always great.
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Dr Briana Pobiner @brianapobiner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The American Museum of Natural History (New York) @amnh.org is conducting a search for an open-rank Curator of Biological Anthropology, with a focus on human origins. careers.amnh.org/postings/4876
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Open-rank Curator and Professor of Biological Anthropology
The Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) seeks an outstanding colleague to join the Museum on or after July 1, 2027. This is an open rank tenure-track or tenured a...
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Rob O'Malley (he/him) @robomalley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I'm rounding out my 1st month working in #scicomm at @acs.org! In this new role I'll be attending #ACSFall2026 as well as the free #MarketingElementsSummit2026 on Aug27, moderating a #scicomm panel with some amazing practitioners. Explore the agenda and register at acsmediakit.org/marketing-el...
I'm speaking at 'Forever Evolution: Science Marketing for a New Era', 2026 Marketing Elements Summit, August 27 Chicago, sponsored by ACS Media group.  Photo of a white man with glasses and a link to acsmediakit.org/Rob
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Your Evil Twin, Skippy 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @twinskippy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It sometimes feels like we're living in a ridiculously exaggerated folk tale with wildly implausible villains. For example, as the president takes billions for himself and his family and *coats his things in gold,* the soldiers fighting his war can't get toothpaste, hot water, or a clean toilet.
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Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln
The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.
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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If you’re a science communicator and you use AI, read this. This is about what’s happening to Hank Green.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Mayo Clinic is being sued by its former AI compliance lead, who is alleging the hospital network tried to hide its AI tool’s 67% error rate at patients’ expense. /1 futurism.com/health-medic...
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Lawsuit Claims the Mayo Clinic's Use of AI Is Butchering Patient Care
A former director at the Mayo Clinic claims she was fired in retaliation for reporting the network's horribly inaccurate AI tools.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
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