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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yeah…I guess this hit my feed because I’m in a unique position to comment: I am a long-term ADHD patient who happens to research Crohn’s disease professionally. As you say, they are in no way equivalent or connected.

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yeah, w/o extraordinary evidence it’s kind of difficult to see this as anything but slop/bs.

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I mean, FD1 was Dmitry for three times as many years as RD! That’s gotta count for something, right?

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Freddie plays the tuba. That's the post. [NOTE: none of that LLM bull-pucky here: image is clumsily selected, cut, and layered in Pixelmator like the Ancestors taught us]

A very silly, poorly shooped image of a tan dog to make it look like she's playing the tuba. Not generated by prompting a fancy auto-correct.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/01/2026

“I think what they’re doing here is they’re trying to destroy a gender group,” he added. “And so I do think it’s genocidal. I think that the objective here is literally, physically to destroy this group.” www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/...

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Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans

Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.Genocide scholars are sounding the alarm over what they describe as escalating attacks targeti...

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Saw this a few years ago at the National Museum of Natural History. Still can't decide if it's a sublime commentary on a fundamental challenge facing multicellular organisms or the product of an intern taking a silly joke a wee bit too far. #inandout #imeanthatis

A graphic from an exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History. It shows a side view of a dinosaur, with a cartoonish gut tube drawn over it, labeled "digestive tract." Said digestive tract has "in" and "out" points helpfully labeled.

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ah, life goals! To be that Mysterious Emeritus, running a long-term experiment that nobody else understands and are a little bit afraid to ask about...muahahaha

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🤣🤪🤣🤪 yeah I’m going with both! Cackle-worthy.

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ohkaaaaay…I have to ask. What’s with this thing (possibly new, possibly I just finally noticed) where people are bagging up their dog’s poop, but then leaving the bag next to the sidewalk? Seeing it a lot lately. I mean, you already did the hard part!!! Why not finish the job?!?

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I honestly, truly neither needed nor wanted the reminder that my car's "outside temperature" display has a third digit available.

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ridiculously good deal on a really enjoyable book! Was more than worth it at full price—for two bucks it's a no-brainer buy.

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Sometimes, only a bird gets it right. youtu.be/lRbZOr77Sbc?...

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Word Up

YouTube video by Chad The Bird

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

RIDICULOUS. If you painted this everyone would say you have no idea what a dog's tongue looks like. In a movie, they would say it was crap CGI. And yet this is the reality.

A honey-hued medium dog with an outrageous tongue flapping out as she stares at her ball, which is behind the camera and held aloft for flinging.

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

...and just to be clear: yes, of course my personal brain chemistry means that other people's noises in public spaces frequently make me exhausted and unhappy. But I'll be damned if I'm going to shame or blame a baby who can't help it or an exhausted parent who can't control it.

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Ran into this IRL on a flight. When queried, Yelling Guy admitted to being a neurotypical "trying to help." Enjoyed saying "thanks but I can speak for myself, unlike...A BABY?" Ostentatiously took my meds (luckily it was time), switched seats with him and played with the baby all flight. Fun times!

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

100% this—citing w/o reading is scientific malpractice. If you don't climb up on their shoulders, you cannot claim to have seen farther [yes, I'm fully aware that the metaphor rests on a catty insult, but the point still stands].

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Even a well-researched book can contain mistakes. You might have just found one.

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Congrats for the translation! Somehow has more gravitas (but maybe less gravity) than the English version.

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Exactly. Not giving up my em dashes just because some gooberhead wants to be lazy.

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The wily predator of the living room jungle stalks the landscape of piled-up squishies, waiting for the opportunity to pounce. Or nap. Yeah, probably nap. But there COULD be pouncing, mind you. There. Could. Be. Pouncing.

A light brownish, short-haired dog with alert ears and a ridiculous underbite sits on a beanbag, which sits on another beanbag, which sits on a chair. The whole thing looks more precarious than it probably is.

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Thanks—appreciate you as well!

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

#Booksky We’ll be at virtual WisCon @wiscon.bsky.social this weekend in the Dealer’s Room and Catherine will be on panels! I’ve just posted the coupon code for this weekend’s sale in the self promotion channel on Discord - get a great deal on our books! wiscon.net

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Many congratulations on another successful solar circumnavigation!

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

It's like people forgot that the point of a citation is "Hey, that thing I just said is true? Other people did the experiment to show it's true, and here's the evidence" or similar.

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The rise of what I call "vibe citing" in the last 15 years—i.e, an author does a quick search, sees some familiar words in title or abstract, and goes with it as a citation—is a real cancer on the literature and IMO opened the door to people just asking LLMs to provide refs.

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Freddie sez, it’s the weekend! Cut loose!

A honey brown colored dog stares into the camera. “Look into my eyes, she says.”

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Am I wrong though?

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American Physiological Society @apsphysiology.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

“This is why building on our national campaign is essential.”—APS CEO Erika Shugart #APS2026 #WeArePhysiology #FightForPhysiology fightforphysiology.org 🧪 15/21

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

My rental car counter in MSP is “in the terminal.” “In” is doing a whole lot of work there. I think I got my step quota for the day!

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Gen X moment: I used to pass a person who looks like someone I know in the airport, then get an uncomfortable feeling of “oh crap what if that WAS them and I just blew them off?” These days, the uncomfortable feeling is “oh crap, no, that’s what they looked like 20 years ago” 😬

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Violent disassembly at the elevator: apparently even my badge clip is upset with the state of the world today. It decided to channel those feelings into performance art.

An image on the left captioned "how it started" shows the author's work ID on a retractable badge clip. On the right captioned "how it's going" is the badge attached to a clip that broke in an exciting way, propelled by the spring ribbon that used to retract the badge.

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

That's supposed to be a bearclaw!?!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Exactly. All around the world, there are mice in laboratories that have been engineered to express human genes, but you don’t hear anybody running around saying those mice are actually humans.

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

JC? I dunno, looks more like Tom IMO. Handsome fellow either way.

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I’ve been thinking about those scenes a lot lately.

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Send help. Freddie’s need to sit on top of things is getting out of control (this is why she loves it when we vacuum the front room)

A brown dog lounging on a beanbag. That’s on top of another beanbag. That’s on top of a couch.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

There's a market tomorrow, so it's time for my pre-market ritual... My plea for you to buy a t-shirt right here & now so my box of t-shirts isn't as heavy tomorrow! THAT'S right! I want this box to be a manageable weight! Get 'em at SquidFacts.net! Currently trying to fund a biodiversity mural 😘

a black t shirt that says Biology is Bigger Than Binaries, with a bee, lily, and clownfish in a white and pink design

Sarah's wearing a black t-shirt that says "Plant Native Plants" with a lady surrounded by flowers in a stained glass window

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I'm a white GenX dude from Indiana. I know <20 Spanish words. I never heard Bad Bunny's music before watching his 1/2time show today. I'm bawling my eyes out. THIS is what, as a kid, I was taught my country stands for. The right to be who you are. Love of life and of difference and of neighbor.

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Mark Frey @squeakyanimal.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Yeah. When I review, my last step (every time) before submitting is to read the review and imagine what I'd think as an author if I received it. Then I modify if needed. It's not foolproof but if more people did this I think it would be a big improvement.

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