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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 02/07/2025

They're giddy.

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Srharacha @srharacha.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

May I ask, why r u a chicken?

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 17/05/2025

Star Wars has always been obsessed with mentor-mentee relationships ("do or do not," "trust the force," etc). But Andor is specifically about different ways of running a lab, and how they all go wrong.

A chart titled "Models of lab governance: the Andor guide," comparing two fictional lab leaders—Lio Partagaz and Luthen Rael—from the Andor TV series. The chart mimics academic lab structures using their leadership styles:

Lio Partagaz: Regular lab meetings, side collaborations encouraged, abundant public funding, focus on minimum publishable units, collective success/failure metrics.

Luthen Rael: One-on-one meetings, PI dictates research topics, funded by a shadowy private benefactor, pursues high-risk moonshots, PI aims to elevate successful students and “kill” weak ones.

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Gc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

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Srharacha @srharacha.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Bad reporting on Trump as usual from the Times - taking everything this administration does at face value

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Srharacha @srharacha.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I can’t believe this video is already almost a decade old 💀

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Srharacha @srharacha.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

No question, but I’d say be skeptical of any hype surrounding “sustainable” deep sea mining…. Those nodules are little islands of life in the deep sea desert, as the minerals in them support life in an otherwise relatively inert landscape. And once they’re gone they’re gone for good.

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Daniel Cardoso Llach @dcardo.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I was today years old when I learned that the Magic Schoolbus was an NSF-funded project.

Image of the TV series The Magic School Bus accompanied by the following text: Airing on PBS in the mid-1990s, this NSF-funded animated TV show follows Ms. Frizzle and her class as they set off on field trips out of this world, including careening across the solar system, traveling through the human body or visiting the late Cretaceous period.

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Srharacha @srharacha.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I get the flower and clownfish, but please can some explain what’s the non-binariness bees?? 🐝🌈

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11/05/2025

Also uhm at the risk of doxxing myself I've never seen fish from the "Russian federation" before

Screen shot of a label at hmart . It says wild caught atka mackerel. Product of the Russian federation

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

‘We had the same moral panic about TV’ is a common refrain when people bring up social media, but like, in terms of social-political impacts, it’s hard to not see the ‘moral panic’ about TV as at least partially vindicated! A reality TV star is president! He’s filling his admin with Fox News hosts!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 07/05/2025

Instead of ensuring that everyone had their basic needs met and could live comfortably no matter what they happen to do with their lives, we convinced ourselves that schools were magic boxes that would solve inequality for us fairly instead. That they would train people for success in the economy.

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Srharacha @srharacha.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

😬 the online YouTube/twitter/manosphere radicalization pipeline for young men is very real. I’m so sorry.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This Harvard comp sci prof laments Republicans’ declining public opinion of universities and blames it on professors who, unlike him, inject politics into their classes. As evidence of politicization, he references Google, Coinbase, Bud Light—ie not academia—and one email from one law school TA.

nytimes.com

Opinion | I Teach Computer Science, and That Is All

Politics has no place at universities or in the classroom.

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Srharacha @srharacha.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Do you have to rinse the machine out extra afterwards? Like do I have to worry about staining the next load?

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

When confronted by Trump, so many people and organizations look to polling for guidance, get paralyzed, talk in circles or just fold like a cheap suit. Disabled American Veterans, on the other hand, has taken the right approach. This is how you respond.

DAV statement on the proposal to rename Veterans Day:

No.

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Srharacha @srharacha.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

childhood neighborhood has been paved and built over. She says she misses cows and apple trees in her old neighborhood most. So nostalgia combined with the legitimate evils & corruption of many developers is hard to overcome. But ppl gotta live somewhere so the cows & apples have got to give 🤷‍♀️ 2

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Srharacha @srharacha.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It’s not so hard to imagine. Denser, taller buildings eat away at neighborhoods with quiet tree lined streets & cute single family homes. It’s a necessary transformation for densification but if you spent your whole life in it change is scary. My grandma in Belarus is still crushed about how her 1/

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Srharacha @srharacha.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Definitely - but that’s exactly what I mean. Idk your age, if you were around/remember 2008, but the vibe was so optimistic. Felt like big change & good future incoming. Obv he turned out more centrist. Trudeau turned out to be milquetoast. I suspect Carney will follow similar trajectory.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Once again, the main goal of Trump's tariffs is soliciting bribery. That is why all who go looking for a coherent (if misguided) economic strategy that aims to benefit the country come away confused. Make manufacturing boom? Stop fentanyl? Generate revenue to replace income tax? Nope. Corruption.

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Srharacha @srharacha.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

People are hopeful for the first time in a decade, perhaps since the first Obama and then Trudeau elections ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the criticism will come as we hit the bumps in the road

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Srharacha @srharacha.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I don’t know that refugee visas are going down - I think this seems to be targeting temporary foreign workers and similar? Or have the specifics not even been ironed out?

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Srharacha @srharacha.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Sounds almost exactly like BC’s Public Service messaging at the moment..

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 02/05/2025

oh god, it’s true, we’re living in an era of Clippy Maxing

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 01/05/2025

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

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Srharacha @srharacha.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I haven’t seen anyone yet say this, but reducing constitutionally violating, terrifying Brownshirt seizures of human beings off the street and sent to a foreign gulag with no recourse reduced to just… “the El Salvador stuff” is INFURIATING. It’s like calling Auschwitz “the camp stuff”.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects

A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

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Srharacha @srharacha.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

You can conclude it comes from Wuhan lab if you live in an alternate reality where you believe the map of the first cases are *actually* clustered around the lab, but the Chinese government suppressed that information, and then also fabricated the data to make your map 🙃

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Srharacha @srharacha.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

@timothysnyder.bsky.social , could you point to resources and/or write about withholding taxes to defund authoritarian regimes? How feasible is this? Is there a reason tax protest does not seem to be widespread?

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Srharacha @srharacha.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social got any other headlines about the “MAGA body”? You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like….

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Srharacha @srharacha.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

If one candidate says it’s sunny And the other candidate says it’s raining The journalists role isn’t to regurgitate what they say, but determine whether it is indeed raining or not. Somehow, that’s turned into “bias/activism”.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

Due to maintenance, Research.gov (including access to NSF-PAR, GRFP, PES, and ETAP) will be unavailable from Fri., 4/25 at 10:00 PM ET to Sat., 4/26 at 1:00 PM ET. NSF apologizes for any inconvenience.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 24/04/2025

Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The region’s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation.

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The Last Hospitals in Gaza

In the ruins of a health-care system, many medical facilities have become graveyards. Doctors continue to deliver lifesaving care—but they risk their own lives in the process.

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evil queen jolene @queenjolene.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Before there were trains there was ship autism

Maréchal Pinard @skankstank64
yfw plane/train autism existed in ancient greece but it was with ships instead
25. Thrasyllus of the deme of Aexone suffered a strange new form of madness. He left the city and went down to live at the Piraeus. He imagined that all the ships coming into harbour there were his own. He made a list of them, attended when they departed once more, and was delighted when they returned safely to the harbour. For a long time he continued to suffer from this mania. But his brother, returning from Sicily, handed him over to a doctor to be cured, and in this way he recovered from the illness.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...

The (translated) Ostsee Zeitung headline:

High school graduates in prison

Rostock women end up in Trump's deportation prison in the USA: "We felt so powerless"

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

A Border Patrol official arrested a 19 yo citizen from Albuquerque in Arizona who didn’t have ID on him, claimed he ‘admitted’ to illegally crossing the border, abducted + ICE imprisoned him for 10 days, and would have deported him to Mexico if his family hadn’t tracked him down and provided his ID.

His girlfriend’s aunt Grace Layva says she and her family made numerous calls looking for him before they found out he was being detained in the Florence Correctional Center, which Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses to detain people.

Another family member drove to the detention center, about 70 miles northwest of Tucson, but said officials wouldn’t provide any information or release him.

ICE did not respond to a request for comment about the wrongful detention.

The family later provided officials with his birth certificate and social security card.

“He did say he was a U.S. citizen, but they didn't believe him,” Layva said. “I think they would have kept him. I think they would have if they would have not got that information yesterday in the court and gave that to ICE and the Border Patrol. He probably would have been deported already to Mexico.”

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

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John Alroy @johnalroy.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Evenness is dead. Long live species richness. If you want to use an index, try this R calculation. Where n is a list of species counts: length(n) / mean((n %o% (n - 1))^0.5 / (n %o% n)^0.5) advance.sagepub.com/users/363764...

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⚡️Derek⚡️ @derekheartsbflo.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

“There’s nothing naive about moral clarity.” @ayanaeliza.bsky.social words on Atmos’ “Nature Is” podcast hit hard this morning. Useful phrase that I’ll be putting in my toolkit, and great inspiration when you’re feeling a little defeated. Also reading “All We Can Save” helps.

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