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Russell Neches

@ryneches.bsky.social
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Assistant professor at Kyoto University: Evolution & ecology of viruses & microbes with a side of graph theory & machine learning. with open( access, code, data, hardware ) as x : science( x )

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Aide Macias-Muñoz @aidemm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Please share! My lab is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar in evolutionary development. For more details feel free to email me.
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Archaea Biology Vienna @archaea-vienna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our paper on the dynamics of Asgard archaea (Promethearchaeota) is now out in Nature! Huge thanks to the reviewers for helping make the manuscript stronger. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Two “Lokis” stained for Lokiactin (FastAct, magenta), reaching toward each other to celebrate 🎉 #archaea
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just got an email from a former student who took my class a decade ago, asking me for the reading list because she enjoyed the course so much and wants to revisit the texts. And she *apologized* for making the request. Are you kidding me?
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Sad Old Man Crying
ALT: Sad Old Man Crying
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The White House and OMB's diminished vision for science and medical research undercuts discoveries to come... ... and will lead to significant, near-term economic losses totaling tens of billions of $-s and tens of thousands of jobs. scienceimpacts.org/fy27
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SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
View Projected Impact of the FY2027 Budget Cuts to the NIH and NSF
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Holly Bik @hollybik.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We’ve been doing lots of fieldwork lately - my favorite deep-sea nematode we’ve collected this year is this giant purple Oncholaimid from Lau Basin hydrothermal vents on the #SnailsRising expedition. It was basically neon purple IRL, and we think the color is from sulfur granules. #MeiofaunaMonday
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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Update: I am now in possession of a future family heirloom #qapla #martokismysouschef
A Le Creuset box that has a nebula on it, plus the Star Trek logo and the Le Creuset logoA Le Creuset Dutch oven that is a rich blue, with a Klingon symbol as the lid handle and an embossed Klingon bird of prey on the lid.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Tired: Boring people think that there's a 10% chance AI could wipe us out in a decade. Wired: Our Age of Bronze is Relapsing, Become the Sea People.
A bronze khopesh resting on an anvil.
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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
*whispers in analysis of political economy and science and technology studies* Frankly, no. If your technology relies on massive capital consolidation to function at all, then the problem is the technology, not simply who wields it.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/08/2026
Woah.
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 29/07/2026
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Frank Force @frankforce.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Walls of Code 🚪 www.dwitter.net/d/35982 a tiny javascript raycasting engine with text instead of pixels. for(c.width|=A=128;A;T+=.1)for(X=A/(e=64/T)-T,i=(X+t^T)%5>0||(--A,T=1,20);i--;x.fillText(code[(X+t)*30&T+i],A*15,560-(i-9)*e))x.font=e+'px"'
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 25/06/2026
1) Open this image up 2) Find the small, blue feature in the very middle Congratulations, you've spotted the Perseverance rover on Mars, photographed from orbit! 3) Trace the rover tracks as they wend their way across the surface
A complex landscape of buttes, hills, hummocks, and sand dunes, in tones of gold and teal. In the middle, a small, beetle-blue feature. Around it, faint parallel tracks.
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Mark Somers @marksomers.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Over the course of my 20 year career, Every other nation with major ocean research programs has dramatically expanded their research fleets. The US has net lost 17 ships, mothballed 2 DSRVs plus the Sealinks, and critically underfunded NOAA.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Now imagine scaling up a single costly, wasteful, and flawed project to tens of billions of dollars in award decisions at NIH, NSF + more that are currently made by domain experts and at risk - via proposed OMB rules - of being made by political officials to fulfill administration priorities.
Picture: National Park Service workers clean the reflecting pool. 
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https://www.notus.org/metro/trump-american-flag-blue-reflecting-pool-is-green-with-algae
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Thirteen years ago, Kersey, Russell, and I set out on a quixotic quest to create a low-cost, open-source CTD for ocean knowledge seekers. The premise was simple: if the Ocean Belongs to Everyone, then the tools to study the ocean should be available to anyone. The next OpenCTD is here!
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The next OpenCTD is here!
Thirteen years ago, Kersey, Russell, and I set out on a quixotic quest to create build a low-cost, open-source CTD for marine scientist and ocean knowledge seekers. The premise was simple: if the O…
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
More Ignorance than Political Ideology….
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Russell Neches @ryneches.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
@zerotier.bsky.social After using ZeroTier literally every day for years, I received an email from you with an ultimatum threatening to delete my account in one week if I don't... use it? Yeah, I know I'm not a big-shot account for you guys, but this is a pretty much unforgivable breach of trust.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Happy hopping Tuesday 😺
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10/06/2026
Nostalgia Content xkcd.com/3256/
Comic. [Person in front of images of pogs, a Tamagotchi, and huge fungal tower over mossy ground.] PERSON: Who else remembers pogs? Tamagotchis? Vast forests of prototaxites towering over the mossy landscape as armored fish stir in the deep? [caption] Due to a database error, millennial nostalgia now includes a portion of the Early Devonian.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/06/2026
"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).
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Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption
Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026
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Andrey Kislyuk @kislyuk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints
Those ousted included ADA journal editor-in-chief Steven Kahn and former ADA president Desmond Schatz...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/06/2026
Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I wish I could write like this. And I wish Lindy West wrote tutorial papers in psychometrics. (Source: Lindy West, 2019 essay collection 'The Witches Are Coming')
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
We are speed-running a Warhammer 40k future and, friends, as a 40k fan, we do not want that.
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 26/05/2026
I well recall the online debates where the majority of debaters opined that zero traffic deaths is an utopian goal and would require methods that would kill Helsinki, if not bring about totalitarian communism
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Russell Neches @ryneches.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Since my old static site generator finally slipped over the event horizon of bitrot, I started over with mkdocs-material. It's not really intended for running a research blog that make heavy use of Jupyter Notebooks, so I built a tool on to of it to make it easy. Introducing... mkprof. Blogs away!
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Science Magazine @science.org · 22/05/2026
Jasmine Clark will become the first Black woman with a science Ph.D. to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. scim.ag/4dDZe6P
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Microbiologist wins Georgia primary for U.S. House seat
Jasmine Clark is set to become the first Black congresswoman with a science Ph.D.
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Idrees 🌓 @idreesinc.com · 11/11/2024
Got my Bluesky feed displayed live on my 40 year old Apple IIc by wiring it directly to the server running the #indietechfeed and configuring the computer as a terminal!
Indie Tech + Game Dev feed being displayed on my Apple IIc on my desk
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Russell Neches @ryneches.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This is, I think, the hardest hitting campaign launch I've ever seen in my life. youtu.be/rYE10gacxiE
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Austin Ahlman Launches Insurgent Independent Campaign in Nebraska
YouTube video by Ahlman for Nebraska
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Russell Neches @ryneches.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I've been slowly getting in shape, but I don't like fitness tracking apps and I kinda hate the gym. So, I've using #Obsidian to stay somewhat organized. And... I accidentally built a fitness tracker. So, here's a fitness tracker for people who hate fitness trackers. github.com/ryneches/obs...
The hub note for my Obsidian fitness tracker
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Orhun Parmaksız @orhun.dev · 13/05/2026
New version of Ratty is out! 🎉🧀 🐀 Ratty — A GPU-rendered terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics. 💯 Now supports SSH-friendly object payloads, transform control and keyboard scrollback navigation! 🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui.rs ⭐ GitHub: github.com/orhun/ratty #rustlang #ratty
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
As always - @firefoxx66.bsky.social is on the case for phylogenentics of emerging pathogens ...
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Russell Neches @ryneches.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I bought I car! It looks (and is) tiny, but thanks to clever design and an EV powertrain, it's very comfy even for my 6'3" (190cm) self. I'm still going to be commuting by train, bike and foot, but now I can go exploring on the weekends. Also... access to Costco unlocked!
A Honda N-ONE e with happy new owner doing a goofy pose.Interior photo of a Honda N-ONE e showing plenty of headroom.
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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, 2025A 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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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
These incredible Buff Tip Moths blend in so well with branches that you might mistake them for sticks. Nature's masters of disguise are truly fascinating!
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
This is what a timelapse of sleeping seals looks like. Seals can hold their breath for up to 19 minutes and even nap underwater. While sleeping, they sink and periodically swim to the surface to breathe. Original post
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 19/04/2026
It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you
A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
New reporting on what has happened to science under the Trump administration and HHS leadership, building on publicly available NIH grants data. Take-away: across-the-board cuts are reducing our capacity to discover & serve. Out today, via @pratik-p.bsky.social 🎁 www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The US slashed medical research grants in nearly every field, Pratik Pawar/Vox - https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/482363/nih-medical-research-grants-cut-2025?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6ImJsVWFZMk1PSzEiLCJwIjoiL2Z1dHVyZS1wZXJmZWN0LzQ4MjM2My9uaWgtbWVkaWNhbC1yZXNlYXJjaC1ncmFudHMtY3V0LTIwMjUiLCJleHAiOjE3NzQ2MTkyOTIsImlhdCI6MTc3MzQwOTY5Mn0.DntsxOVbCb9ha3Xw0ZBEvzobSo4z6K2EWfc1qfJk728&utm_medium=gift-link
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The thing James Cameron did with dogs always knowing who the Terminators were was a warning.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A reminder: ICE vehicles waste a whopping 80% of energy in their fuel. EVs are propelled by entirely different mechanisms. Energy enters the vehicle as electricity, which directly powers the drivetrain making it 3-4x more efficient.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
🚨 H.R. 261 would remove oversight and risk harm to our National Marine Sanctuaries. Don't let Big Tech undermine our marine protected areas. Call your Rep today: Say NO to H.R. 261! 🐚🐋 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This is outrageous, and (though it was completely obvious he should never have held this spot), Vinay Prasad needs to go. This vaccine candidate deserves review, not ideologically motivated rejection. Lives are at stake. www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...
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Prasad overruled FDA staff to reject Moderna's flu vaccine application
The rejection is the latest instance of Vinay Prasad overruling career FDA scientists to place vaccines under harsher scrutiny.
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