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Scott Barolo

@sbarolo.bsky.social
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he • biology prof & PhD program director 🧪• not representing my employer • ill-qualified to recommend myself to strangers • hearing impaired • romance, sff & other 📚 • #9ReplyGuys • no terfs

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 42m
This is a free PDF to my article about trauma-informed, survivor-centered teaching. It's all about how to talk about sexual violence with the assumption your class is full of survivors who are eager to have that conversation--as long as you can do it without victim-blame or rape myths.
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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 1h
(hey, remember when people's tongues were always fighting for dominance? that was an era of our reading lives. I think it's over now! the tongues came home from war. I hope their dogs still recognized them.)
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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 2h
“Willfully ignorant” is exactly right. These men understand power dynamics juuuust fine when they’re the vulnerable ones
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/09/2026
I'm thinking about this partly because of the Cornell news but also partly because of The Love Hypothesis, which is being pitched as a cute romance but is personally horrifying to read / watch as a woman in STEM. (I know the author is also a woman in STEM and honestly I don't get that at all.)
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 5h
Common Yellowthroat in the yard, fueling up for migration #birds 🌿
A small yellowish beige bird with a yellow throat and black and white mask around its eyes stands on a thin branch, looking down intently at something out of frame.
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Princess Buttercup: You Mock My Pain
Alt: Princess Buttercup: You Mock My Pain
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Corey Beckner @captaincorey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ
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Pressure Drop
YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
MR DARCY: Please disregard my last email. At the time I believed myself perfectly calm and cool, but I am since convinced that it was written in a dreadful bitterness of spirit, during faculty meeting
Mr Darcy (Colin Firth) from Pride and Prejudice 1995 BBC, writing a letter
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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chat let's look forward to something. I'm not doing the bonne maman advent calendar this year, but I still want to open a little present that's nice every day. Please share with me advent calendars that are not exclusively sugar themed that you think I should know about
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Simon Cleary @simoncleary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nikon seem to have admitted awarding an AI-generated video 1st place in the Small World in Motion contest, which has a rule forbidding AI-generated entries:
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think I'm going to lose it being lectured on microscopy image presentation integrity by the winner of the Small Artificial World in Motion competition
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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i'm so jaded by the internet i had to double check mvlouisemichel.org
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M.V. Louise Michel
The M.V. Louise Michel is an independent high speed lifeboat that patrols the Mediterranean
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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
terminator reboot but it’s humans going back to 1999 to make sure Y2K happens so the internet dies forever
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 23/09/2026
Local Transphobe Not Sure How Much Longer He Can Pretend to Care About Women’s Sports: tinyurl.com/mry79s75
Man looking panicked, stressed, and burned out with a hand on his forehead at a girls high school basketball game
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Nitro 🐻‍❄️ 🔜 Asfurmeet @es.nitrobear.gay · 06/08/2026
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Anthropologal @anthropologal.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Evergreen post:
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Reader, I was in fact not prepared
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The Princess Bride (1987) @princessbride1987.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You mean he wins? Jesus, Grandpa, what did you read me this thing for?
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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
PASSIONATE VEGETARIAN cookbook by “Crescent Dragonwagon”
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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
me the second it gets down to 60 at night
toad asleep comfy in his bed
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: two sharks are sitting in a cafe. A smaller shark holding a teacup says discreetly to the other, “okay, look at this couple behind you - but don’t make it obvious.” Panel 2: the other shark, a Great White shark, turns its gigantic head in the most obvious way possible to look across the room at some sharks chatting at another table.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hello everyone following after I was added to a "defend democracy" list. First, I don't know who did that or if you can trust the list. However I shall use my soapbox. My proposal for defending democracy is Defend trans rights as if they were your own rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Because they are 💫
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
lol there are a lot of people talking about AI who, frankly, shouldn't so here are people to listen to and then some: @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @alexhanna.bsky.social @rajiinio.bsky.social @ruha9.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Years ago I complained to a senior admin about Pinker giving a big public talk because he's unserious and dishonest in his public facing work. This person happened to be in his field, and was like "he's always been unserious, even in his supposed area of expertise."
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A gentleman and a scholar
Him: is that not allowed
Me: oh no it's fine I was just amused lol
Him: fair enough. Thank you for the education
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would like to point out that the local people in Bolivia were already familiar with the new cat species, traditionally calling it "Tilcayo", a name honored by the scientists who carried it over into the formal scientific name Leopardus tilcayo.
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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If lichen this is a crime, lock me up
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🧪 I have a 1-hour and a 2-hour version of this seminar/workshop on effectively analyzing papers. I think it’s the best and most original piece of teaching I’ve ever done. (And there’s only a few minutes of ranting about AI.) If you want to invite me to come talk to your trainees, email or DM meeee
A slide dissecting the experimental logic of a series of figures in a paper
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The difference between a catacomb and a basement is skulls. Catacomb without skulls? Thats a basement. Skulls in your basement? Thats a catacomb. Tired of having to keep saying this
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are.
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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour
A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 16/09/2026
idec what youve done when you put "i'm not complicit" in your album tour statement notes app apology youve already fucking lost, there is no good outcome there
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 15/09/2026
I, as a US taxpayer, am paying a quarter of my income to drop bombs on starving children in Gaza & Yemen. Meanwhile, another person just died of measles in Pennsylvania. I am in a constant state of boiling rage
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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A grad student thanked me after the workshop for making this point. They said they get way too much pro-AI advocacy from faculty and they appreciated some counterbalance.
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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🧵 Short thread: I give a seminar to 1st-year biomed PhD students in my program about how to critically read a paper, how to extract VAST amounts of information from the title, and why reading AI summaries instead of struggling with papers is *particularly* bad for trainees. 🧪
A comparative analysis of two paper titles, focusing what exactly we can expect to see in each paper. The verb choice alone shows that one is primarily a techniques paper.
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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I dreamed about hearing a country cover of Hall & Oates’ “Say It Isn’t So”, a slow boozy twangy version with a deep country voice. Folks, it was beautiful and I’ll never hear it again
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I want to be friends with a fluffy bumblebee
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I dreamed about hearing a country cover of Hall & Oates’ “Say It Isn’t So”, a slow boozy twangy version with a deep country voice. Folks, it was beautiful and I’ll never hear it again
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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“There’s a mental health epidemic in America” yeah there’s a drowning epidemic at the bottom of the ocean too you dumb fucking cracker. “eVeRyBoDy’S bUmMeD oUt dOwN aT tHe sAdNeSs fAcToRy” do you even realize how stupid you sound right now
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
my worry about ai isn’t that it will become sentient, it’s that the cognitive impact of outsourcing critical thinking to computers combined with the proliferation of slop making it increasingly challenging to validate information will dissolve society’s already-tenuous grasp on consensus reality
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Really good stamp from @bittelmethis.bsky.social
Possum playing possum stamp
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Otto von Biz Markie @donachaidh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lol my buddy just sent me another angle and it's somehow even more ridiculous
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