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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 2h
This type of behavior is beyond reform. www.wbez.org/education/20...
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To protect immigrant students, a Chicago-area college told Flock to remove its cameras. The company refused.
Elgin Community College resorted to covering the surveillance cameras with trash bags and zip ties. Public records show that federal immigration authorities have accessed Flock data at other Illinois ...
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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Only 42% included completed proofs and 3 of those have already been retracted due to obvious errors. It seems more like trying to DoS mathematicians into scoring an RL run than constructively working in the math domain.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A couple quick observations here, which should be obvious. 1) insurance “risk pools” work by requiring younger/healthier people who make few or no claims to sign up and pay premiums alongside older/less healthy people who do, essentially covering their costs.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 22/09/2026
Schools across the state started offering free breakfasts and lunches to all students in the fall of 2023. The number of students eating school lunch went up 15 percent the first year. The number of kids eating breakfast at school went up 40 percent.
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Fewer skipped meals, less stigma: New data on the impact of Minnesota’s universal school meals
A trio of new studies shows Minnesota’s universal school meals program is providing a sense of relief to Minnesota families and students who are no longer skipping lunch and worrying less about family...
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 27/08/2026
counterpoint: we do not need to re-think polio if we eradicate it.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026
Because if you didn't say a word about DOGE eliminating every federal grant with any element that Grok thought had anything to do with LGBTQ health, climate change, health disparities, and most of all DEI? I don't think you give a shit about academic freedom. I think you're just a racist.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/07/2026
2. Remarkably, given how universally unpopular this would be, the intent seems accept the ruination of US health and medical research as collateral damage.
Mr. Kratsios’ proposal to reduce the role of universities would upend that system, which has been in place since the end of World War II. His call for the administration to de-prioritize “life sciences,” which encompass molecular biology, genetics and other fields in biomedicine, as well as clinical trials aimed at testing new therapies, raised alarms among biomedical researchers and academic medical centers. They fear it will mean less funding for the National Institutes of Health.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
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Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Andersonville’s Chicago Dance Supply, which is co-owned by an alderperson, is closing after 23 years. blockclubchi.co/4wdzZ34
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵
a graph of US gambling losses
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Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...
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Eli Lilly gave extraordinary obesity drug access to a 79-year-old patient. Who was it?
Exclusive: STAT has learned that Eli Lilly and the FDA allowed a 79-year-old to gain extraordinary access to an experimental obesity drug through the agency’s “compassionate use” program.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Late pass, obviously, but this to me is a fantastic blog in the classic sense. High-quality language and real insight directed at an otherwise shitty news story, by one of the all-time greats at doing all that. www.nytimes.com/athletic/735...
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Giants pitchers' Bible verses on Pride Night caps show how they've missed the point
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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I think by now everyone knows rideshare apps suck, but this book is full of examples of this model infiltrating every corner of society it can. I didn’t know this about apps preying on nurses, for example
In 2024, Katie J. Wells and Funda Ustek Spilda from the Roosevelt Institute published "Uber for Nurs-ing: How an AI-Powered Gig Model Is Threatening Health Care," a report on hospitals' use of apps to procure the labor of contract nurses, who are hired by the shift to cover staffing shortfalls (hos-pitals having sliced their unionized staff nurse cohort to the bone, these shortfalls are a normal occurrence).
Contract nurses used to find work through regional nurse staffing agencies. There were several of these competing in each market. However, with the rise of app-based "Uber for nursing" digital hiring tools, the regional staffing agencies have given way to a cartel of four nurse-hir-ing apps: CareRev, Clipboard Health, ShiftKey, and ShiftMed.
In Wells and Spilda's report, they describe how these apps buy nurses' credit history from data brokers before offering them a shift, and then reduce the wage on offer for nurses with a lot of credit-card debt. Those nurses, after all, are more economically desperate and thus likely to accept a lower wage.
This is a place where AI can really wring out some intensive wage savings. The goal of this system is to accurately guess the lowest wage a nurse will accept. Because these apps dominate the market for contract nursing nationwide, they getmany chances to lowball a nurse for a shift, and because the United States has no privacy rules to speak of, the outcomes of these offers can be compared with rich, deep dossiers on nurses' financial lives. Locating the biographical and financial correlates of economic desperation and quantifying their implications for eroding nurses' wages is a perfect task for AI.
The business world loves the idea of surveillance pricing. Economists have long dreamed of a day when every purchase and every labor contract is personalized, precision-formulated to the penny, so that everyone who buys your products pays the maximum they're willing to part with and everyone you pay is given the minimum they're willing to accept.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026
"911, what's your emergency?" "Hello, Police? Yeah, our highest award recipient is at our meeting handing out copies of an article that we published. And uh....we....well....shit, nevermind." (gift link)
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Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is extremely chilling - virologists being targeted for what appears to be minor (if any) "offenses". We all know _why_ this is happening, so I'm not going to belabor that point - but I want to provide some context on the technical details. 🧵 www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH scientists plead not guilty to smuggling monkeypox viruses into U.S.
Defendants face prison time for criminal charges but samples may all have been inactivated and used for routine diagnostics
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
"The document itself is an odd grab-bag of micromanaging grant processes, assertion of presidential power, and airing of cultural grievances... Its lack of coherence, however, will not prevent it from causing staggering damage to the US scientific system." 👇 arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time
Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/05/2026
My technopolitics faction - the faction associated with EFF, where I've worked for a quarter-century - has an answer: the role of encryption is to provide a measure of privacy and security that is best used to organize political struggles to demand the rule of law and respect for human rights. 15/
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Halloween III: Season of the Ben @franzferdinand2.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
In all the discussion of a singular "millennial anthem", we all did overlook this particular entry for a particular kind of too-online person.
The Album cover of Girl Talk's 2008 release Feed the Animals
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I see his point. Zero times two is still zero.
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The Screens of Pete and Pete @peteandpete.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Season 3, Episode 13: Saturday
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/05/2026
MIT is doing less research and enrolling fewer graduate students as a result of federal actions, the university president warned. Federally funded research on campus is down more than 20 percent compared to this time last year, she said.
washingtonpost.com
MIT president blames federal policy shifts for big drop in research on campus
Federal funding cuts have curtailed research at elite universities such as MIT, dulling America’s competitive edge globally.
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 12/05/2026
slightly increase a name OLED Soundsystem
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 09/05/2026
Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has said that a defendant getting a conviction thrown out doesn’t necessarily mean that person isn’t guilty. Her office has objected to most people seeking certificates of innocence after being exonerated.
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In Chicago, Prosecutors Fight to Keep Exonerated People from Clearing Their Names - Bolts
Under State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, Cook County prosecutors have tried to block nearly every exonerated person who has sought a certificate of innocence. It
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The Verge @theverge.com · 06/05/2026
The new Ultimate Child Shield batteries also dye a child’s mouth blue indicating a battery may have been swallowed.
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Energizer’s new coin batteries won’t cause ingestion burns if swallowed
Energizer’s new coin batteries are safer to swallow, but please avoid that.
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J. Craig Venter Institute @jcvi.org · 30/04/2026
It is with great sadness that we announce J. Craig Venter has died. 🧪🧬 www.jcvi.org/media-center...
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J. Craig Venter, genomics pioneer and founder of JCVI and Diploid Genomics, Inc., dies at 79
La Jolla, California—April 29, 2026—The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) announced that J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., the Institute’s founder, board...
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 27/04/2026
Here's the CDC report -- on how effective the Covid vaccines are -- that was censored by Jay Bhattacharya. Good for @jeremyfaust.bsky.social getting the leak: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
insidemedicine.substack.com
Exclusive: Here's the Covid-19 vaccine paper the CDC censored.
RFK Jr. and the CDC’s top official, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, don’t want you to read this. That’s exactly why you should.
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 28/04/2026
A radio button clicked that says "I'm in this photo and I don't like it."
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 21/04/2026
This is, objectively, very funny
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Feels like this paper on protein-templated DNA synthesis by a natural enzyme warrants some comment. So here's a 🧵. /1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Science | AAAS
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 11/04/2026
I know it's beating a dead horse, but HHS is absolutely off the rails.
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ReadJack🇺🇸 @readjack.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I missed this in February — this is what Chicago organizers worked for from 2010 to 2018: closing Chicago’s trauma desert. People say “game-changer” but this is a LIFE-changer. One of the great Chicago community stories ever. blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/26/a...
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After UChicago Trauma Center Reopened, Nearby Shooting Deaths Fell Nearly 4 Percent: Study
Shooting victims arrived for treatment about 10 minutes sooner and traveled about 3 miles fewer to receive care after the center's 2018 relaunch, according to a study published this week in the journa...
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.
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Ashwin Varma @ashwinvarma97.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Here are a couple of examples. Lung cancer survival rates for EGFR+ mutated Lung cancer.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Full story:
thelettersfromleo.com
Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights?
Pope Leo XIV carried the cross through all 14 stations at the Colosseum. Simon of Cyrene would have understood.
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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Super excited to be launching two things today: #RustQC 🦀🧬 and rewrites.bio 🚀 I used AI to rewrite 15 RNA-seq QC tools into a single Rust binary (I've never written any Rust). It ended up being over 60x faster. Here's the story 🧵 seqeralabs.github.io/RustQC/
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Welcome to RustQC
Fast quality control tools for sequencing data, written in Rust.
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 31/03/2026
Best nickname in the association, fwiw
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Recently wrote about the Chicago neighborhood tourism posters created by Steve Shanabruch, who has no affiliation with any city agency, he draws them just because he wants to! They’re done in the style of those old WPA posters for the national parks and they’re just gorgeous. The Superdawg one is 😍
A poster for Norwood Park with a deep purple background suggesting its nighttime, featuring the iconic Superdawg hot dog stand that has two life-size hotdog people ok the roofA poster for Englewood featuring the sunny yellow atrium of the Yale Building, which is a residential wA poster featuring the Chicago Cultural Center, a view up a flight of stairs to an arched room with elaborate tile work, molding and other adornments on the ceiling A poster for Chinatown featuring the gateway entrance on S. Wentworth Ave, which is the main thoroughfare of the neighborhood
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2
A line graph of the number of NSF awards in fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves and increasing only very slowly.
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
TIL www.data-to-viz.com
data-to-viz.com
From data to Viz | Find the graphic you need
A classification of chart types based on their input data format.
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 04/03/2026
New post! It may seem ambitious to ask for individual patient data from clinical trials to be shared, anonymized, for use by other researchers. But the history of medicine shows us that clinical trials have already undergone a series of transformations that once seemed equally bold:
clinicaltrialsabundance.blog
Clinical trial reforms that once seemed radical
How randomized controlled trials, preregistration, and results reporting became standard practice.
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 02/03/2026
This has always been the ultimate problem with AI whatever - who gets the bill when these things inevitably screw up?
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 08/09/2025
“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
this, but more than this –– we need to inculcate in everyone the principles of enlightened skepticism "how do we know that? why should we think that? how do we test that?"
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 11/02/2026
tbh, for anyone familiar with the Michigan/Canada bridge saga, it was very obvious what happened here. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...
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Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up
But Liam was scared and frequently asked what they had done wrong, where they were and what happened to the little blue knit hat he wore the day he was detained, Conejo said.

There wasn’t much he could say to his son, “except hug him and tell him everything would be OK,” Conejo said.

Worried about further upsetting his son, Conejo said, he was forced to bite back his own tears.Liam has since been reunited with his hat and continues to wear it, even inside the house, his dad said Thursday. Asked how he might one day explain to Liam everything that has happened, Conejo said he would tell his son that he had become the face of hope and change.

"He was the global figure who did all this so that the voices of the people demanding freedom would be heard, especially those of the children who are still locked up," Conejo said. “I would tell him he was very brave and that I am very proud of him.”
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I Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
Cumulative US measles cases
As of January 27, there have been more cases than there were by the same week last year.
Fairly horizontal lines for 2023 and 2024, a steep diagonal line for 2025, and a vertical line for ytd 2026. 
2026
478 cases
2025
2253 cases
2024
283 cases
2023
63 cases
Note: Data updated on January 27, 2026, at 3 p.m. ET.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Johns Hopkins University, Center for Outbreak Response Innovation Graphic: Alex Leeds Matthews and Matt Stiles, CNN
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 28/01/2026
blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/27/c...
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Chicago Nurses, Veterans Grow Memorial For Alex Pretti Outside VA Hospital, Rally Against ICE
Chicago hospital workers and union members came together Tuesday after the killing of one of their own: Alex Pretti, an intensive-care nurse at a VA hospital, shot at least 10 times by federal agents ...
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ATS Early Career 🫁 @atsearlycareer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Bronchiectasis Education Center: Ask the Expert with Anne O’Donnell, MD Join leading expert, Ashley Losier, MD, from Yale University, for an interactive “Ask the Expert” session on bronchiectasis at 1 p.m. ET on January 28, 2026. Registration is required and is free – ow.ly/1Bcs50XWGES
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