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David @crookedknight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rarely has this XKCD been more on point

Stick-figure comic of a man in a lab coat standing on a chair, pointing a pistol at a desk that has a tray and a microscope on it.

"When you see a claim that a common drug or vitamin 'kills cancer cells in a petri dish,' keep in mind: So does a handgun."

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What do authoritarians do when they are about to lose an election? I survey the big picture before the midterms - and investigate the struggle between authoritarian escalation and democratic resilience since the Trumpists took power. My new piece, for @blaetter.bsky.social:

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Autoritäre Eskalation oder demokratische Erneuerung: Die USA vor den Midterms

Die bevorstehenden Zwischenwahlen in den USA am 3. November sind ein wichtiger Stresstest für die US-Demokratie. Vieles hängt davon ab, inwieweit die Amerikaner für ihre Republik und deren Regeln eins...

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Grappling with Trump’s assault on the elections is a good reminder that his authoritarian desires are limitless, but his ability to impose them on the country is very much not. Obscuring that distinction is an act of defeatism that only serves the regime.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thomas is one of the sharpest writers out there, especially when it comes to the history and current politics of the global far right. I’ve learned a ton from him, and you will too if you sign up for his excellent newsletter.

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Rasmus Jensen @rasmusjensen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🎉 Out today in Cell: the paper I've been looking forward to sharing for a long time 🎉 We used cryo-ET to find a molecular machine nobody knew existed on the surface of a minimal bacterium, and worked out what it does. 🧵(1/7) #TeamTomo #cryoET

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Alex Noble @alexjamesnoble.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We finally built what I've always wanted: A cryoEM papers database that is updated continually, searchable, and categorized! It's live right now at www.cryoarcana.com/cryoem-papers

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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NIH funding decisions should be made by scientific experts, not political appointees. Protecting rigorous peer review safeguards public trust, biomedical progress and U.S. scientific leadership. ➡️Learn more: www.asbmb.org/advocacy/pos... #ScienceServesUsAll #ASBMBAdvocates

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Martin Pacesa @martinpacesa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ʙɪɴᴅᴄʀᴀꜰᴛ2 is out, and we're not waiting for the paper. The full code drops today, free for academic and industry use. We're releasing it early so you can start designing right now, and bring its full power to the current Adaptyv competition. github.com/PacesaLab/Bi...

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It’s amazing just how much some people want to believe the Grindr-RNC lie. Nothing will convince them it’s false. And they really don’t want to realize their own homophobia is the reason they want to believe it bc that would be way too uncomfortable. This video is helpful. youtu.be/GHeAJPbx0SI?...

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Why do "Republicans always crash Grindr"?

YouTube video by Caelan Conrad

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The widely debunked GOP-Grindr thing is a homophobic lie that @jessicatarlov.bsky.social should be embarrassed for indulging in. The fact that liberals do this relies on their barely hidden homophobia. Gay people see this and we learn you’re not really allies after all. @acyn.bsky.social

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Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Australian Structural Biology Computing Community is excited to host Tom Goddard from UCSF ChimeraX @chimerax.ucsf.edu on Wed 16th Sept. He will present: Predicting atomic structures with OpenFold 3 and ChimeraX—a practical look at predicting, visualising and exploring protein structures.

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Welcome | Australian Structural Biology Computing

This website is a virtual meeting place and hub for all users of **computing for structural biology research in Australia**. This is a collective community effort. It can be what...

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

As always, Thomas Zimmer hits the nail on the head.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

p.s. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that all of this acceleration in the hype is a reaction to the succesful and broadening opposition to their wasteful, polluting, noisy data centers.

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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Grindr: we didn’t have an outage, 3rd party self report websites aren’t accurate, and our servers don’t work like that. Liberals: hahaha fucking homophobic gop faggots

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 10/09/2026

It's the go-to liberal "criticism" of fascism. When blue maga libs wanna criticise red maga fascism, they use homophobia. Liberals are constantly spreading AI generated images of trump kissing putin, or giving him a blowjob. That's liberal praxis when they're not doing "resist" or "no kings" BS!

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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why do "Republicans always crash Grindr"? They don't. youtu.be/GHeAJPbx0SI

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Why do "Republicans always crash Grindr"?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is never true; it’s ultimately just a homophobic joke. (And it’s tired and worn out even if it is a joke.) Stop making it.

BREAKING:
There is a Grindr outage in Dallas at the Republican midterm convention

Image:

Grindr
Dot spray around Dallas with an arrow pointing to it.

My note on it: STOP IT

status.grindr.com
Past Incidents
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No incidents reported today.

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is false and ultimately homophobic. Downdetector counts reports on twitter about apps being down and the “progressives” who wouldn’t be caught dead sounding anti-gay all thinks it’s funny to post that Grindr is down. They’re all MAGA=bad -> MAGA=gay. Stop spreading it.

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Congratulations to Prof. John Moult for winning the 2027 ASBMB Warren DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences! Well deserved recognition for his innovative leadership of the CASP structure prediction experiments held since 1994, as well as other similar blind experiments he began or inspired.

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 27/08/2026

Professor Dame Janet M Thornton DBE FMedSci FRS is awarded the Croonian Medal and Lecture 2027 for her pioneering work in protein structural and functional bioinformatics. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…

A scientist sits at a desk in front of a computer display with complicated graphics on the screen. She is turned slightly and smiling at the camera.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

No one likes to think of what they are doing as accommodating extremism. The pervasive calls to acquiesce are therefore inevitably accompanied by normalizing discourses that present the rightwing extremists as something other than what they obviously are.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There is a defeatist streak underlying these discussions, and it will only get more influential every time the AfD achieves a good election result. They are everywhere! They are so strong! The only thing left to do is to try and become friends with them! Don’t fall for it.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The notion that confrontational approaches had failed and indeed contributed directly to Trump’s victory was widely presented as self-evidently true. From there, commentators jumped to the conclusion that the only “reasonable” response was to switch to friendly coexistence instead.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A tendency to obscure, normalize, and legitimize rightwing extremism is a pervasive feature of our era. After the Trump’s election in 2024, America experienced a wave of frantic attempts to justify accommodation and acquiescence with the incoming MAGA regime.

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Read this thread please if you care about democracy.

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Someone should tell him North and South Carolina are named after King Charles I. Next time the UK pisses him off, he can change their names to North and South America.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

How having a disability became cool
Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

Young women are also more likely to get caught up in “social contagion” – the spontaneous spread of behaviours or emotions previously observed by sociologists in “outbreaks” of bulimia, self-harm and transgender ideology. What may have otherwise been transitory feelings are seized upon and obsessed over until they form a central pillar of a person’s identity. A chronic-illness influencer won’t want to get “better” any more than a female-bodied transgender person would want to re-identify with their sex.

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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

John, do you realize what you're implying here? That the people who hate gay people the most are actually gay themselves. It comes off like you're blaming gay people for the hatred expressed toward the gay community.

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Marvin Fein @pgh-1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Politics require you to hide your sexual preferences. There are probably as many closeted Democrats as Republicans in Congress. Instead of castigating them, do something positive that might make it easier for them to come out. This post is beneath you Jon.

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The current NIH Director’s animus against NIAID to sign away much needed research funds so we can continue bombing another country is… a staggering betrayal of Congressional intentions and authority. Not surprising but still staggering.

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Biochemical Society @biochemsoc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Looking to share exciting new findings quickly and concisely? The Brief Report article type at Bioscience Reports is designed for researchers who want to communicate novel insights without the length of a full Original Research paper. ow.ly/F3WG50ZIbR4 🧪

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Paxton gives people with strabismus (like me) a bad name. Pejoratively referred to as a “lazy eye.”

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

why are biologists like this

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Question answered. And question unasked also answered.

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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

JKR is on record as saying supporting Harry Potter is supporting her politics. She literally told her legion of followers to take pictures of women in public bathrooms *in case they might be trans. JK Rowling is an unremorseful, hateful PREDATOR, and needs to face criminal charges.

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

And let me guess - even though that Voldemort JKR said she thought Dumbledore was gay, that won’t be allowed in her anti-queer world now. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The part about the video conferencing always working will not become reality.

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“Critics call” is misleading and cowardly. Battacharya lies. He’s a liar. About public health. And it is killing people. And softening it with meaningless qualifiers helps him.

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

You can review "Lake America" on google. That's what they call it. I gave it 1/5 stars. www.google.com/maps/search/...

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Grindr does not crash at New York or SF Pride (we would hear about it). There are GOP closet cases/hypocrites but not enough to crash anything. This is just a progressive fantasy that is essentially based on homophobia. MAGA bad --> MAGA gay. Ha, ha, ha. It's not funny anymore.

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

And somehow Grindr never crashes during Pride. This is a made-story and "progressives" spread it because they think it's funny to call MAGA gay. It's not funny to many gay people. We see the subliminal homophobia in these jokes.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Now write the tandem piece about what is happening to public university funding & immigration policy in Canada, the UK, Germany, etc. These high-profile hirings are good headlines. The real story is no other country is coming to save higher ed & scientific research right now, including Canada.

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Canada poaches 48 US-based top academics

Trump administration’s assault on universities boosts Ottawa’s efforts to attract top research talent

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