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Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation @laskerfdn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“I’m probably the first high school-dropout to sit on this stage,” 2026 Public Service Award winner Michael J. Fox says during his #LaskerAward acceptance speech. Fox reflects on his journey from founding the Fox Foundation in 2000 to the ongoing fight to “defeat Parkinson’s & all brain diseases.”🧪

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This December, @emmanewman.bsky.social and I will be putting out another advent calendar - this time we’re talking about our favourite games (of all kinds). Meanwhile patrons get first shot at asking us stuff for our Q&A.

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Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm seriously considering doing more ST:TNG themed episodes for this year's Tea and Sanctuary advent calendar, as people seemed to enjoy those in 2024.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/09/2026

ATTENTION THE BEST THING ABOUT AUTUMN HAS FINALLY ARRIVED IT IS TIME FOR TINY DOGS IN TINY SWEATERS

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Snail Facts advent calendars are ready 4 u Scratch off a shell a day for facts about the snails of the world. Get one for you, for your kids, for your niblings, your neighbors' kids, hell, your grandma. Snails are for everyone! SquidFacts.net

An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail

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Random Trek @randomtrek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) Season 3, Episode 3: The Survivors Aired: 10/9/1989, Syndication 00:06:03.592

Caption: I guess a frontal assault is unwarranted.

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Season 3, Episode 3: The Survivors
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Aired: 10/9/1989, Syndication
Studio: Paramount Television

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

is it possible to bait the "user was blocked for this post" account into posting whatever i want?

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

“our ai broke out and hacked some organisations” = "we failed to set up appropriate safeguards, failed to continuously monitor our experiments, and ignored a basic principle of reinforcement learning: if hacking gets rewarded, the system learns to hack"

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think AI has already exceeded the intelligence of the type of person that believes AGI is imminent, which is why they believe AGI is imminent.

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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 29/03/2026

ICYMI: bsky.app/profile/stan...

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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Honestly it's really frustrating how hard it is to look up yesterday's weather. Like, I remember the forecast, but what actually happened, by the numbers???

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

it's all a bit "q1 goals: eat marshmallow" and "q2 goals: receive second marshmallow" and being held accountable for the absence of discipline when the second marshmallow doesn't arrive as hoped

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thebes @vgel.me · 05/09/2026

tfw your internet connected exobrain neuralink is assigned an ip address previously held by a now-terminated agent message board schelling point service and the agents are creating new ZZTaskHelpNeeded neikotic debris in your hippocampus faster than you can meditate them away

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jonny (leachate composite form) @jo.nny.rip · 05/09/2026

Scientists will be freed from the onerous labor of having to understand anything they are doing or being able to believe any published result, at long last.

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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What is the counter-argument to making a social media platform that actively places a limiter on the virality dynamic?

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

if companies see that democrats will punish them for abetting Trump-like figures, they will be more cautious about going all-in on someone who will disappear in 4-8 years

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the point here is not rendering justice, it is setting future expectations. we can't control thermostatic electoral behavior. we can teach a very painful lesson that Democrats will punish corruption when they take power

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2

A dinosaur on a white background with the text SAve the academy of Natural sciences museum rally Tuesday Sept 8 10am in front of the academy 1900 ben Franklin Parkway. "Tell Drexel University "Keep the museum open!" with the logos for Philly Science Action, Skype a Scientist, and Green Philly

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We have a handful of these left and I'd love to clear them out before the end of summer! (Also we're currently down 22k for the year because we've done a lot of projects lol so shirt sales are very helpful 😅) Get one before they're all gone at SquidFacts.net!

Adam takes a mirror selfie in a public bathroom wearing his shrimp city shirt, which is cream colored and has lots of shrimp on it including yeti crab (not a shrimp i know) and himbo shrimp and pistol shrimp in a cowboy hat

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly didn't just say be who you are and you are enough -- and she sure did, a lot -- her whole deal was, "whatever you are, BE MORE OF THAT, BABY, GO FOR IT, I LOVE YOU." all we can do is try to pass on a little of that energy in this mean world.

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

1/ You may have seen headlines that AI created this cancer vaccine, but that's not quite right. Merck and Moderna just announced strong Phase 3 results for a personalized melanoma therapy. Here's what AI actually did, and didn't do.

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

4/ A pattern to watch for future headlines: a real, narrow AI contribution gets flattened into "AI did X" because it's a better headline than "an algorithm handled one step in a multi-year pipeline built on immunology, chemistry, and clinical trial science." The boring version is the true one.

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

5/ Also worth knowing: this program started in 2016, years before today's AI wave. The kind of algorithm typically used for this task (predicting which tumor mutations will trigger an immune response) is older-style machine learning, not the type of LLM/chatbot people now picture when they hear 'AI'

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DanTechnik @dantechnik.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” This line hits different at the moment. Dune.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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Bartholomew Collins @bigfatbartolocolon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

everyone who ever complained that a new technology was going to make people dumb and lazy was correct, because being dumb and lazy is amazing. smart and industrious sucks.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The blue whale has been officially dethroned as the longest animal on earth*. In 2020, Schmidt Ocean Institute spotted this galaxy-shaped creature while doing an ROV dive off the coast of Australia. Based on their laser measurement system, they estimate the outer ring is 154 feet long...

Siphonophore imaged by Schmidt Ocean Institute

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is rape culture

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If you got a bat stuck in your hair on August 9th at Olympic National Park, please go to the hospital immediately and then contact the Mason County Health Department, they're worried about you.

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Search is on for woman who got rabid bat caught in her hair at WA park

Olympic National Park says an unknown woman got a rabid bat caught in her hair on Sunday. Other visitors could be infected.

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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is about 80% correct IMO -- denying revenue to individuals or businesses who may depend on it is bad; on the other hand, reducing the number of advertisements in the world is a social good.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My first introduction to this actually real phenomenon was Acerfur. Ever after, whenever an online discussion of Lean gets too technical, I realize every avatar is in a fursuit. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fur PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

5-panel SMBC comic update. Two women talk as they walk on a beach. The first asks "why do people say furries run every IT department?" This leads the second to start a passionate explanation over 4 panels, where she states: "that’s an outdated stereotype. The internet is indeed sustained by furries, but your modern furry is also the core user of automated proof solvers tied to machine learning. Furries don’t just run IT. They run math itself. Soon we will open nature’s book, written in the language of god, and only the furries will know how to read!" After the speech, the first woman reacts by saying "woof," as an expression similar to "yikes" or "wow," and the second woman responds "precisely," associating it with the sound of an animal.

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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Just pre-ordered, this sounds so cool!

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026

The problem that they always claim they are gonna solve is ‘the need for human labor’ but human labor is not the problem. Human labor is beautiful. It’s what we do regardless of societal structure. The problem is human need. Which, ending human labor but continuing capitalism would only exacerbate.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Maybe getting older and having a bunch of lived experience and neural circuits is GOOD, actually. Imagine that.

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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 30/07/2026

None of you were like: "Hey, numbnuts, July has 31 days," huh? TODAY is the final day. 2515 to go.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Ok so this lady says solar panels are getting built on "the most productive farmland" in her area. Which just ain't true at all. It ain't true here in NC either. Where I ALSO hear that talking point over & over again. Smells like astroturf! So let's get the dirt on solar farms & dirt ✨

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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Is also just *so easy* to be on the right side of.

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ashley (birthday month) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

America is an integration engine. Even our mullahs be recording sunglasses selfie videos in they truck

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Bari Weiss is a liar who wants to force others to be liars.

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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 24/07/2026

Here are some of my non-digital #SciArt paintings. I don't do this stuff anymore. Maybe I should. 1. Flight of the Eagle. Pastel and acrylics 2. Global Mortification. Oil pastels 3. Beyond Magritte's Door. Acrylic 4. Aurora Planet. Acrylic. Please reskeet

Illustration. The Eagle lunar module is seen in orbit above the moon. The background is a sea of craters.

The Grim Reaper opens his cloak. Inside is the universe including the earth and a nebula in the shape of a skull

Rocky Landscape. In the sky are two spotty stars and aurorae

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hannahcole04.bsky.social @hannahcole04.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Do humans and birds share an eye for design? 🐦🎨 For my Master's diss, I’m testing if we share aesthetic tastes with bowerbirds. I need 100 responses to finish! Visual, anonymous & under 5 mins. Link: exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🧪 cc: @scienseed.com #AcademicSky #SciComm

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Arlo ⚔️ @arlohawthorne.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It's my birthday today 🥳!! If you want to celebrate by sharing my art, that would be greatly appreciated 💖🎉 #art

Illustration of a tiefling with a foreshortened arm letting go of a sword that caused them pain

Drawing of the same tiefling from before running to the right with their longsword in one hand and a spell forming in the other.

Oops all tieflings I guess, a bust drawing of a one with a ticket aesthetic, he's got a big crown around his neck and a mullet

Character sheet for a goat bard character who is based on metal bands in the 80s. He has a pipe organ keytaur, a crystal ball, tarot cards and a long sword.

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I'm looking for women who have lost weight on GLP-1s. I'm interested in how it's affecting you emotionally. Are you relieved to find something that works? Grumpy from side-effects? More confident in a thin-oriented society? Elated? Disappointed? DMs are open. I won't use names. RTs appreciated.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

PHASE ONE of our fight against the OMB rule is complete and YOU ALL SHOWED UP!!! HALF A MILLION COMMENTS is WILD. We absolutely exceeded our goal of 100,000! So, what happens next??? Welcome to PHASE TWO: Pressure and Preparation! 1/x

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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