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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

New Interview: I talked to the Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt, who was Biden’s special envoy on antisemitism, about why she doesn’t oppose some student deportations, and why she wanted to keep some of her comments off the record. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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The Biden Official Who Doesn’t Oppose Trump’s Student Deportations

Why the Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt blames universities for “opening the door” to the Trump Administration’s professed campaign to tackle antisemitism.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/04/2025

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 04/04/2025

They girlboss yassified Gilded Age space tourism. It's not a "crew." These people are not astronauts, they are passengers. This is not feminism. This is not anywhere in the neighborhood of feminism. This is the glossy capitalist influencer ripoff known as "empowerment" and it's just gross!

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How Katy Perry and Blue Origin's all-female crew are preparing for space

Katy Perry and an all-female crew will launch on the New Shepard rocket on April 14.

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I saw this. Incredible. Thank you so much for thinking of me.

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

thanks so much, will DM! in case anyone else would like this info: he’s at MD Anderson and just finished his 11 out of 12 rounds of chemo (paclitaxel, gemcitabine, & cisplatin). he’s BRCA2+ and previously had prostate cancer. other option was standard rad (25 sessions). PARP inhibitor to follow.

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

i’m listening to a recording of his meeting with the rad onc so unfortunately don’t have all the info i should, but here’s what I have: nanoparticle: NBTXR3 the study: A Phase I Study of NBTXR3 activated by Radiotherapy for Locally Advanced or Borderline-Resectable Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

hey folks - my dad is considering a nanoparticle trial in conjunction with radiation post chemo for locally advanced pancreatic cancer. anyone familiar with this approach or trial? would love to hear thoughts, even tangential.

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

ahh i hope you enjoyed. thank you so much for reading 🙏🏽

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

oh my goodness!!! you finished it already?! wow!! thank you so very much, this is just the best note. i am so humbled my story touched you. thank you for reading 🙏🏽

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Thanks so much, Sean. Sending hugs of gratitude from me and my dad 💛

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Timing, as with all things cancer, is in flux. But I’ve been thinking a lot about how to create lasting memories with my dad since his diagnosis, especially ones that can transcend generations. This is one way he’ll live forever on— for me, and for our future family.

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Like my dad, I carry the hereditary BRCA-2 mutation, which increases cancer risk. I’m doing IVF with genetic testing to screen out embryos that carry the BRCA-2 mutation so that my family’s long lineage of cancer ends with me.

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

It’s a gift for me, but also for my future child, to get to hear their mom’s favorite book read in their grandfather’s voice.

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I grew up, especially when I was really young, reading Harry Potter with my dad. In between chemo treatments and with the help of my radio-savvy uncle, my dad recorded himself reading THE ENTIRE Sorcerer’s Stone book. All 320 pages, culminating in a 9 hour and 40 minute “audiobook”.

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

He’s fatigued, occasionally nauseous, and overall exhausted. Still, amongst the incredible chemo schedule he found time to create magic.

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

My dad is receiving fantastic treatment at @mdanderson.bsky.social and, thankfully, has been responding well to chemo thus far. That said, he’s on an extraordinarily difficult regimen. Every 2 weeks, he receives an infusion of 3 chemo drugs for 6-7 hours. He’s on chemo #10 out of 12. My hero.

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

This Christmas, I received the best gift of my life. Here’s the backstory: my dad is my best friend and truly a fulcrum of my life. In August 2024, after battling metastatic prostate cancer for 9 years, my dad was diagnosed with Stage 3 pancreatic cancer. My world, for the second time, shattered.

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

thank you so much, this is so very kind 🙏🏽

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

so looking forward to hearing your thoughts 🙏🏽

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

ah! I started reading said article yesterday. looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the book!

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

your writing is astonishing and your story heart wrenching. thank you so much for sharing this with me. i’ll be following your blog now ❤️

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

i’m so sorry to hear about your daughters. sending hugs, thank you for your support 🙏🏽

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

with my dad for the holidays in between his chemo sessions. grateful for this precious, invaluable time together ❤️

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

thanks so much for your support 🙏🏽. i hope he enjoys the book!!!

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

thanks for sharing, @marshall.sh — he sounds wonderful. and i’d bet he’s so proud of the work you’re creating, too

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

my dad has locally advanced pancreatic cancer. for those who have lost their parents, what’s something you’ve done (or wish you’d done) with them before they passed on?

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

It is the honor of my life to share that Starstruck has been selected for the Longlist of the 2024 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Impossible to sum up all of the emotions, but for now, gratitude and wonder eclipse the rest. Thank you to every person who has championed this book.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20/11/2024

Sen. Bernie Sanders and a handful of Democrats will force the Senate on Wednesday to vote on a measure to block the sale of some $20 billion in U.S.-made weapons to Israel, in a last-ditch effort to limit the carnage, suffering and destruction caused by Israel’s now 13-month war in Gaza.

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Senate Democrats force Israel weapons vote, citing Biden inaction

The Senate will vote on measures brought by Sen. Bernie Sanders and a handful of Democrats to block the sale of some $20 billion in U.S.-made weapons to Israel.

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

i do not think we can seriously laud the advancements of space, science, and tech without also, in the same breath, acknowledging how they are intimately intertwined with the horror unfolding in Gaza and Lebanon.

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

and my PhD thesis will be just like that in about 6 months lol my life rn is bananas

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Dr. Sarafina El-Badry Nance @starstrickensf.bsky.social · 30/04/2023

I used Twitter for years to build community and expand my network for work, but have watched with disgust and despair as it’s morphed into a nationalist machine that platforms those with the loudest voices spewing vitriol and hate. I hope this place is better.

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