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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Continuing my celebration of two and a half decades of FOXP2 research, please enjoy this fact-checker thread on why the gene doesn’t tell us anything about extraterrestrials (a topic I never thought I’d have to address in my career as a geneticist, but these are strange times).👇

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Sisuthefin @sisuthefin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If Democrats don’t punish the GOP for all the illegal shit they have done if the retake power then history will repeat itself

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Random Trek @randomtrek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Star Trek (1966) Season 1, Episode 22: Space Seed Aired: 2/16/1967, NBC 00:49:11.756

Caption: Yes, Mr. Spock.

Star Trek (1966)
Season 1, Episode 22: Space Seed
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Aired: 2/16/1967, NBC
Studio: Desilu Productions

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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I got the one about EELS because ... Well, because my wife really likes Eels, that's all there is to it

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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I do sometimes! It's very strange to me. I don't remember ever doing this when I was ... say, under 30, but in the last 10 years or so I definitely notice myself doing it sometimes.

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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I hate that shit, like, just say you ran out of time and you're coming back tomorrow, it's at least honest, but don't tell me I wasn't at my house

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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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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hmm, what if vampires are just nocturnal because they live longer than regular old people? 🤔 You live to 150, you start going to bed at dawn...

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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good grief, it's barely even AI, nevermind "super" anything

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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When you have as many B wings as there are stars in the sky ...

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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've gone back and played Star wars rebellion every few years and it holds up surprisingly well. I can't think of a single modern game that is as ambitious and good and scratches the same itch

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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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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good grief has $2 / lb happened in this CENTURY

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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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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Also, I imagine that for any students who are interested in how to apply machine learning or AI (broadly, not LLMs) to historical research, there's probably existing focused coursework for that!

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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yeah I briefly forgot about your openly posting about your sleep schedule in the rush of "oh I have that thing!" 😅

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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hope you get some rest in the meantime 💚

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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I got a take home study from my ENT, having a CPAP is amazing, highly recommend

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

"oh you're getting 10% a year in index funds? I know a guy who gets 50% a DAY"

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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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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

That's actually a hazing ritual, it's how car people interact

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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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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Welp, I chose to Google that, I don't know what I expected

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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sci Fi take on LOTR where the rings are orbital habitats

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Steve Ryan @stevejohnryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

But they were all of them deceived, for another planet was made ...

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