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Dennis Hazelett

@vigocarpathian.bsky.social
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Prof of Computational Biomedicine. Cancer Research. Author of "Open letter to graduate students: it's time to write." www.nature.com/articles/s41587-025-… 200k+ downloads

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Campàs Lab @campaslab.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Nice technology feature in @natmethods.nature.com on how physical measurements in embryos are changing how we understand development and morphogenesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The physics of sculpting a living creature - Nature Methods
Cell biologists have long known that mechanical forces, such as tension and compression, influence tissue differentiation. Now, advanced methods are letting them observe and manipulate these forces in...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.
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‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)
A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.
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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 09/06/2026
Make no mistake: in California, our democracy is working as it should. But our President is doing everything in his power to make you doubt that with constant lies. His baseless, anti-democratic rhetoric has no place in our electoral process.
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
You laugh....
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor spread false conspiracy theories Monday about California’s still-ongoing primary vote count, suggesting that delayed results may be evidence of fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Top DOJ prosecutor is latest to spread lies about California vote counting
Though his jurisdiction lies nearly 3,000 miles from California, Jay Clayton also took aim at the state’s mail-in voting laws.
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Dennis Hazelett @vigocarpathian.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is so Orwellian--the government no longer requires evidence to persecute its enemies.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
WELKER: “You insisted no new wars.” TRUMP: “I didn’t guarantee no war.” @thebulwark.com : *RECEIPTS*
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Christos Constantinidis @cconstan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I just completed my service in my NIH study section. Some thoughts - with the disclaimer that these are personal, subjective impressions and do not reflect the opinion of any official body. Other than the one attached to my head. (1/10)
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
HHS is now weighing in on science in NIH grants. Staffers say comments coming after NIH’s own approvals are overriding peer review www.science.org/content/arti... #nih
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Exclusive: HHS is now weighing in on science in NIH grants
Staffers say comments coming after NIH’s own approvals are overriding peer review
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Dennis Hazelett @vigocarpathian.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Good morning ☕ to this #boldjumper who has taken up residence in my mailbox.
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026
President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...
So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 07/05/2026
There is something deeply pathological about Chief Justice Roberts insisting the Supreme Court isn’t political while sitting atop the most ideological supermajority in modern history.
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Chief Justice John Roberts says Supreme Court is not political
Chief Justice John Roberts says Supreme Court justices are not “political actors.” He says justices are making decisions based on the law, not their personal policy preferences.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
🚨BREAKING: The lead plaintiff in the case that destroyed the VRA has a history of promoting false election conspiracies and anti-voting policies, and was at the Stop the Steal protest at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Exclusive: Bert Callais, lead plaintiff in case that gutted Voting Rights Act, is an election conspiracist who was at Jan. 6 protest
Social media posts exclusively reviewed by Democracy Docket paint a far more troubling picture of Callais — suggesting a man who harbors a deep distrust of the election system, which he has called “ri...
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Chris Alexander @chrisa327.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
They call them "data centers" because “mass-surveillance centers” would be harder to sell.
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Can you say training data?
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Local humor
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Looks like foreigners don't want to risk being imprisoned by ICE just for a chance to see a soccer game.
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Hotels have a big World Cup problem: Bookings are running far below projections
Nearly 80% of hotels surveyed by a body representing the industry reported bookings were running below projections — a worrisome sign with only weeks to go before the World Cup.
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I missed this yesterday
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I defy anyone to explain this on neutral legal principles.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 03/05/2026
‘Pay The Fine Now’—Feds Issue Text Warning For iPhone And Android Users
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‘Pay The Fine Now’—Feds Issue Text Warning For iPhone And Android Users
New threat is now "spiking," Here’s how this scam works, the Feds warn, "and how to avoid it."
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 28/04/2026
Just got the news that Vanessa Ruta, Steve Liberles, and Uli Mueller are all elected to be members of the National Academy of Sciences @nasonline.org. All 3 are incredibly well-deserved. Congrats to all the new members! 🎉
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
this would fix the website
a dialog box reads:

Post reply?
You could probably just stay out of it.

The two buttons are:
- Mind my own business (default)
- Reply anyway
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The corruption is just stunning. www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...
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Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report
At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.
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Dennis Hazelett @vigocarpathian.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
watching rw accts on X post about Trump's "insane, unhinged rants" as if he hasn't been doing that since 2010 what a time to be alive
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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Dennis Hazelett @vigocarpathian.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Saw a post on linkedIn saying what AI practices count as #plagiarism that using #AI to "improve your draft" is fine and died a little inside. Not because I disagree, but because I can not accept the now pervasive premise that AI can "improve" anything at all.
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I know armageddon is starting but I am giving a workshop tomorrow
slide showing a ruined train in the desert. Title: A Guerrilla Approach to Scientific Workflow
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Dennis Hazelett @vigocarpathian.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The NIH common form website is a complete nightmare right now. You can't manually generate a biosketch, the NIH won't accept it, but you also can't use this website. It's a travesty.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
"Results from experiments with N = 4 or less are shown to be highly misleading (...). For a cut-off of 2-fold expression differences, we find an N of 6-7 mice is required to consistently decrease the false positive rate to below 50%, and the detection sensitivity to above 50%"
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Optimized murine sample sizes for RNA sequencing studies revealed from large scale comparative analysis - Nature Communications
Determining the appropriate sample size (N) for bulk RNA sequencing experiments is critical to ensure reliable results. Here the authors perform an unusually large N experiment (N = 30 per group), ana...
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
From prompt engineering to agent engineering: expanding the AI toolbox with autonomous agentic AI collaborators for biomedical discovery biodatamining.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #artificialintelligence #agenticAI #agentengineering
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From prompt engineering to agent engineering: expanding the AI toolbox with autonomous agentic AI collaborators for biomedical discovery - BioData Mining
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Brennan Spiegel, MD @brennanspiegel.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
🌍 Gravity was here long before us—and it’ll be here long after we’re gone. Every part of our bodies evolved to manage this force. 💫 So excited to announce my new book, PULL, which uncovers the force that shapes your body, mind & health. 📖 Releases 10/7: static.macmillan.com/static/smp/p...
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Indeed, I fear the tech industry and our government are pushing this further apart
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Dennis Hazelett @vigocarpathian.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
It's been a day
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 10/10/2025
The Nobel Peace Committee sent a clear message to someone else in awarding the Prize to Ms. Machado: ”But democracy is also in retreat internationally. Democracy – understood as the right to freely express one’s opinion, …is the foundation of peace both within countries and between countries.” 👏
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Dennis Hazelett @vigocarpathian.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Today in our @cedarssinai.bsky.social PhD program, I am lecturing about the history of #epigenomics. We cover seminal experiments by the labs of Allfrey, Kornberg, Allis & Grunstein, ending with ENCODE, Kellis and the histone code. Such an amazing field and a beautiful, revolutionary story!
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/they...
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Rachel Bedford, PhD @rachelbedfordphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Come do neuroscience in Oregon! 🌲🧠 @uoregon.bsky.social University of Oregon has 3 TTF neuro positions open across departments, with applications due around mid-October. #UOResearch #Neuroskyence #academicsky
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Dennis Hazelett @vigocarpathian.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I really enjoyed this perspective on Cancer journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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The end of the genetic paradigm of cancer
Genome sequencing results and single-cell transcriptomics continue to produce findings that challenge the idea that cancer is purely a ‘genetic disease’. This Essay delves into cancer omics data that ...
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Dennis Hazelett @vigocarpathian.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
MS Word let no one accuse you of lacking a sense of humor... #spellcheck
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Dennis Hazelett @vigocarpathian.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
A fun #scifi piece looking at timely issues at the intersection between #AI and Biology by my colleague Patrick Martin www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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A rude awakening
Just breathe.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Well, I'm just gonna change topics and note that my expensive new ASUS router is bathing my house in so much WiFi that I just got a tan and the cat is losing her fur
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emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Visit the Strengthen UO dot org site to find out more and for links to petition, pre-filled letter to UO administrators (all very highly paid), and links to contact state legislators about this undermining of University goals and state well-being.
Flyer from United Academics of University of Oregon: Get the latest information about faculty layoffs, which departments might get cuts, and what we can do about it.  QR code links to StrengthenUO dot org.
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Dennis Hazelett @vigocarpathian.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
No Boundary Thinking (NBT) emphasizes the need for training in #MachineLearning and #ArtificialIntelligence across disciplines, not just in Computer Science and Math. We must build a Human Infrastructure to address this need #NationalAICampus biodatamining.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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No-boundary thinking in bioinformatics research - BioData Mining
Currently there are definitions from many agencies and research societies defining “bioinformatics” as deriving knowledge from computational analysis of large volumes of biological and biomedical data...
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The Struggling Scientists @thestrugglings4.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I will be sleeping like a baby 😴
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