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Unstable Isotope

@unstableisotope.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 2h
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 5h
"Seven former Cornell students are accused of sexually assaulting another student who says she was incapacitated. Messages allegedly inviting other frat members were sent to a group chat during the assault. Everyone is talking about the seven. I keep thinking about the others." buff.ly/z7yWbR2
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An Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student
“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged...
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CBS Philadelphia @cbsphiladelphia.bsky.social · 7h
Dennis Hastert — the former House speaker who was later sentenced to prison time over hush money payments made to cover up sexual abuse of teen boys — has died at age 84.
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Dennis Hastert, disgraced former House speaker, dies at 84
Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died.
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Unstable Isotope @unstableisotope.bsky.social · 7h
Under Biden I had lower gas costs and also was not killed by a nuclear weapon
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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.
A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"
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Unstable Isotope @unstableisotope.bsky.social · 9h
The Incredible Hulk TV show scared me because there was a skull in the opening credits
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 22h
No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
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Gilly @gillyarcht.bsky.social · 15h
paint me like one of those French squirrels
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 9h
Peter Hegemann, one of the 2026 medicine laureates, cracked the biochemistry of how light can be used to regulate the activity of neurons. This research, using what is now called #optogenetics, has paved the way for others to create tools to track and map out neural networks. #NobelPrize #chemsky 🧪
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Peter Hegemann, a scientist trying to illuminate the brain
The photobiologist explains how careful manipulation of light has revealed a path to better understand how the brain works
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 20h
The reckoning is here…
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Do you know how much of a doofus you have to be to get thoroughly destroyed by JRM?
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­­ ­ ­ the­ ­­ ­ ­ ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 03/10/2026
whats your favorite bad joke. not bad like offensive but bad like "oh youre getting a haircut? which one?"
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Something big may be happening: Trump's world-historical misrule may be creating the conditions for the emergence of a coalition similar to the one that ousted Viktor Orban earlier this year: Anti-corruption, anti-authoritarian, pro-democracy. I made this case here: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
POOP ME IN, COACH
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
TIRED: Defund the police WIRED: Defund the police widows and orphans
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Unstable Isotope @unstableisotope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is so cute omg
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Brendan @chemscrapes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Does FIFA have a Chemistry prize? Asking for a friend. #chemchat
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes
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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dems’ 2028 platform should include stuff like letting soldiers have beards, letting TSA agents sit down, letting generals get their promotions, etc. The deep state isn’t real but civil and uniformed services are. We need them to know which side respects their human dignity before MAGA’s next coup.
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shenvi.bsky.social @shenvi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Totally legitimate concern. However, the software runs in your browser on your computer. In addition, there is a downloadable version available on the same page.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OPERATION: ALBATROSS is off to a roaring start.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Unstable Isotope @unstableisotope.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I guess I’m strange but I’m against feeding my research into the research-stealing machine
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Unstable Isotope @unstableisotope.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As someone who has worked in new product development, best of luck with that
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Unstable Isotope @unstableisotope.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Quite the endorsement there
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We already won the war, we just have to keep fighting the war so that we don't lose the war.
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Unstable Isotope @unstableisotope.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
War is peace - George Orwell and Donald Trump, apparently
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Unstable Isotope @unstableisotope.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Look at what this random streamer said is just such a hypocritical move too
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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 01/10/2026
We are at part of the cycle where Republicans are about to lose badly, and so they pivot to talking about the rhetoric temperature as if there is no pathology to it. Every dang time, hacking a real desire for dialogue but asking nothing meaningful of the most vicious voices in the right.
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Unstable Isotope @unstableisotope.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh no, consequences
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Unstable Isotope @unstableisotope.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is he telling Donald Trump this? Is he telling Mike Lee? If not he’s just howling into the void with a blindfold on.
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Unstable Isotope @unstableisotope.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
yeah basically who?
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Unstable Isotope @unstableisotope.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This story is so infuriating
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026
Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.
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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ
Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.
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Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
here's a nice, old example of a steric isotope effect showing faster hindered rotation in the heavy isotopologue: actachemscand.ki.ku.dk/pdf/acta_vol...
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Unstable Isotope @unstableisotope.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Super intelligence keeps asking to write my email Super intelligence told me to eat a rock daily Super intelligence is now sure how many r in strawberry
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Unstable Isotope @unstableisotope.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I too have perturbed equilibrium using deuterium, but on purpose
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Unstable Isotope @unstableisotope.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Honestly this is so cool
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Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump's own AI doing a better job of answering basic questions about his lawlessness than the New York Times or Washington Post is just so, so embarrassing. I love this for them.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
lmao (since reversed)
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Unstable Isotope @unstableisotope.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trying for a “plead the 5th” moment?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is the fridge of a person who doesn’t prepare a single meal
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waxmonkey @waxmonkey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ok so at this point we *dont* want the strait that we control open
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.
The Ebola virus doesn’t need to spill back. It abides in its reservoir host, and awaits its next opportunity. A virus can’t climb out of a bat or a monkey and fly off in search of human prey. It can only spill over. If humans left the reservoir host alone — not hunting it, not capturing it, not eating it, not exporting it live, not disturbing its forest habitat — the virus wouldn’t re-emerge in humans. It would remain where it is, harming no one. But of course that’s not what happens. And when viruses spill, they often spill into us, because the human population is such a big, busy target.
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Unstable Isotope @unstableisotope.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’ve been saying I don’t want to have to take a DNA test to use the restroom
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Unstable Isotope @unstableisotope.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump is making $1M/day as President and he’s stealing taxpayer money for ads.
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Unstable Isotope @unstableisotope.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Honestly my thought is good for her, break that taboo. But she looks atrocious but not nearly as bad as Trump in his tux that didn’t fit
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The Economist @economist.com · 24/09/2026
Deaths now outnumber births in reliably Republican counties for the first time since at least 1982. We explain how this may already be affecting voting patterns in America bit.ly/471apDL
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