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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 10h

Cold dew, soaked in shoes Dog poos in the gloaming light Breath fog, there and gone.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Really thrilled to see the Shokat lab get this recognition. His structure-guided mutation assays opened up a completely new field in kinase studies.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

do I have any followers that are cetacean experts? I got a few shots today of a dolphin (looks bottlenose to me) that is either extremely well-fed or pregnant and would love some more informed opinions

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov day! He saved the world from nuclear annihilation on this day in 1983. My freshman year in college would have been so much worse without his courage.🧵

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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Enter your ocean photos! 🌊📸 5 Days left to enter our 2026 Ocean Photography Competition! 📅 Deadline: Friday 30th September 2026🔗 Details & Submission: www.mba.ac.uk/ocean-image-collection/ Thank you to Framed Picture Company, CRC Press, MacLehose Press and @princetonupress.bsky.social

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Cells & Development @cellsdev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We heard through the vines that #cilia are hot (or not?) right now so here is a cool article by the Saxena lab about how Notch signalling inhibit zebrafish olfactory multiciliated cells differentiation 🐟 AND we got a cool movie with it too! #FluorescenceFriday www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 25/09/2026

FYI to everyone submitting this October NIH cycle You need to re-certify your ScienCV AFTER Sept 26 (tomorrow) for your application or it may not be accepted. Great timing!

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A fisher of souls, a bowler of pins.

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh for fuck's sake.

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Here’s an interesting question: how old do you have to be to remember why gas stations all have a window-cleaning squeegee by the pump? It’s not (just) road dirt. I’m approaching 50, and I remember some seasons you had to squeege off the bugs from your windshield even after short trips.

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If it were Zip disks, you could call it volatile memory.

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Can anyone help me with marine tardigrade ID? I have the guide but I can’t pinpoint it! #marineplankton 🦑

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My 9/11 developed like an apocalyptic movie does. I’m in grad school doing some early TA work on the department copier, and the admins are talking about some plane accident at the WTC. Then I drive across CT to main campus hearing Steve Inskeep on NPR slowly lose his sh*t as the story devrlops.

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Laurel Oldach @laureloldach.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If you were at this #acsfall2026 session, I’d be interested in learning more for potential C&EN coverage. L_oldach@acs.org, or Signal (in bio)

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

So, why are laptop makers pushing masochist machines with inadequate RAM? Because AI data centers bought all the RAM. As a result you can’t afford memory because AI ate it, and your laptop won’t run because all the little perma-installed AIs eat all the memory.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/08/2026

This is 100% why people who've been on X for years now get so weirdly bummed out by Bluesky or any other site. It isn't that bsky is a 'bubble', it's that being a shithead in the replies gets you an immediate nuclear-block, rather than immediately rewarded with Skinner-box treats

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X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds

X is driving engagement by making users fight in the replies.

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

What is the klutziest thing you’ve ever done in your life? Socially, dear god. Do you want alphabetically, or in order of importance? Physically, trying to gravel-boot-ski down a scree slope on some over-tall mountain, overcooking it, going ass over teakettle, and rushing far off to get stitches.

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Luis Alberto Bezares Calderón @lbezarescalderon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Our team is recruiting a PhD student to investigate the evolution of pressure sensation in Zooplankton! The project will use marine invertebrate larvae to explore the molecular, cellular, and neuronal mechanisms behind this fascinating sensory system. More details here: bit.ly/3TTeF4Q

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Damian Dudka @damiandudka.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My lab just opened at Lehigh University - we study the origins, mechanisms, and impacts of the rapid evolution of the chromosome segregation machinery. I'm looking for 2 team members (postdoc and lab tech) who are passionate about evolution and cell division! See the opportunities at dudkalab.me.

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Dudka Lab — Home

The Dudka Lab at Lehigh University studies how rapid evolution of chromosome segregation machinery impacts health, fertility, and disease.

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Seeing rage-aholics go nuts at the idea of a trans actor playing someone who canonically spent nine years living as a woman to dodge the draft will never stop entertaining me.

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Had an incredible interaction with a guy over the weekend who went to see The Odyssey and told me he was pissed that Elliott Page played Achilles, a character Elliott Page did not play that was not in the movie

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I consider myself blessed to share my life with a woman who creates a mosquito-free zone for other people with like a twenty foot radius. I think what she’s considering involves Agent Orange.

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The scene in Silicon Valley where Richard uses the prototype app to violate the whole board’s privacy and reveal all their dirty secrets, and the board looks at each other slack jawed and they all go “holy sh*t we’re going to make billions”

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Call me the lamest gen X-er who ever had an opinion on social media, but I think Achtung Baby and Metallica’s Black album are bloody close to perfect albums. Unfollows understood completely.

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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

For #FluorescenceFriday - maybe not the prettiest ever, but scientifically just super cool - zoom in to see DBH transcripts 🔵, marking noradrenergic neurons in locus coeruleus of human 🧠... w/ unexpected boatload of CARTPT 🔴. Image/data credits @berniejmulvey.bsky.social @heenadivecha.bsky.social

Image from Xenium spatial transcriptomics showing transcripts of dopamine beta hydroxylase (DBH), marking noradrenergic cells in a section of tissue at the level of the locus coeruleus in human brain, that are co-expressed with red transcripts marking CARTPT.

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Someone at the dog park literally just told me today that she picked up the Emily Wilson translation, like I’d right away know what that is. I nodded sagely, as one does, and then looked it up on my phone. I hope the printer is ready for more runs!

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I, Timothy Feinstein, am widely credited with starting the use of ‘dude’ in the eastern US.

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

So SO this. I’d be grateful and off the charts happy if everyone reading this post put in a request to their local public library to get A Pox on Fools. I wrote that book in the hope it might make a difference in our civic conversation, and that means I want readers far more than I want sales.

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A Pox on Fools by Thomas Levenson: 9798217155002 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

An urgent and profound history of vaccine skepticism, seeking to understand how our three most common fears about vaccines hardened into a lethal ideology—from a leading science writer “Brimming...

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Funny thing, if culture warriors took a five minute break from their earwax enemas, Nolan’s Odyssey argues that the loss of classical morality, via respect for “Zeuss’s law”, collapsed the old civilizations, not drought-driven climate refugees, as current scholarship understands the Sea Peoples. >>

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Pittsburgh people - do you see fewer bees this year? My plants have almost no visitors this year, even the fan favorite mountain mint, and I’ve seen the same all over on my dog walks. The only exception is this bush, Deutzia I think?, that was hopping with bumbles. No other bees there either.

A green bush with dentate, opposite-type leaves and small whitish purple flowers, likely a Deutzia variety.

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I’ve got all kinds of feelings about the guy who buys a Jaguar E-type, maybe the most elegant car ever made, and says I’m going to take this thing to vintage races and drive it like I stole it.

A Jaguar E-Type couple, black, #44, taking a sweeping right turn unconscionably fast at the corner of Hobart and Greenfield

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Tatiana Moiseeva @tat1anamoiseeva.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Our lab at Pitt is looking to hire a technician. Ideal candidate would be a recent graduate with some cell biology skills, looking to expand their experience before applying to a PhD program in a couple of years. If you are this person, interested in DNA replication, please email me. moiseevalab.com

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Tatiana Moiseeva Lab

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I passed through the locally famous bookstore Spine and Label, during a business trip to Nigeria, and just fell in love with this book of poetry by Abdulkareem Baba-Aminu. www.amazon.com/Kill-Poet-Wo...

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Kill The Poet, Save The World [Aminu, Abdulkareem Baba] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Kill The Poet, Save The World

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

A short stanza from A Gathering of Enemies: Halt! Who are you? Past promises oaths possessed, and vows whispered under intoxication, from tainted blood drawn from days yet to come.

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Verify your age If you stretch that curly phone cord any farther, you’ll get kinks in it that never come out

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

No joke, the ability to pull ten pages out of my @ss in a panic at the last minute after skimming the first and last chapter might be one of the most important skills I learned in school.

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Doop de doo watching the game on Canal M6 by VPN, with a Cotes du Rhone. Allez bleus, but Morocco’s defense is showing up to work.

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I understand it upsets some orthodox groups to see the model for Michelangelo’s David was not circumcised. Although it’s asking a lot to find a really good stone mohel, Italy could clarify the situation by adding a statue of David’s mom reminding him it’s not too late to apply for medical school

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Science writing is shrinking, risking becoming niche and insider when we need to find new ways to reach the public. This week's free newsletter, out now. Sign up and read on Buttondown! buttondown.com/restingdinof...

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Friday Fragments #19

If science writing is going to have a future, it has to evolve.

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

All sincerity, if any feds want a 30-minute powerpoint on how diatoms and cyanovacteria work, I’m game. Microalgae are awesome. People love talking about their research subjects. You don’t have to flail around blindly.

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Tactical culture in Italy.

A bottle of chocolate syrup and a chocolate bad, for sale at a bodega in Rome, labeled CHOCOLATO MILITARE

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