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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 3h

We’re not here to re-litigate Aaron Swartz. If you’re here to point out that Aaron was a an actual criminal, I’m not going to debate you. But I do want to know why you’re not pursuing Altman et al with a proportional level of energy for the levels of intellectual property theft they have committed.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 10h

“This is not muddy water: we can use Black babies to further pseudoscience or we can save children’s lives with a 20-cent shot,” one pro-science advocate says, pushing back on this RFK-backed experiment on the newborns of Guinea-Bissau

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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · 10h

Breyer's Ewok impression. Sound on for full #timelinecleanse experience #dogsky

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 21h

What I would give to sleep like a little cat who cannot even fit the concept of university administration in her head

A little tabby cat curled up asleep on a rumpled knit blanket

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 19h

Liquidambar leaf palette. This tree puts on such a stunning show in October. If you know of one growing near you maybe go and visit it -they look like a sycamore or maple that’s part of a Pride parade…intense leafy dopamine fireworks 🍁:

Liquidambar leaves from a tree in Dullingham, arranged on buff coloured linen so they create a colour gradation

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 19h

⚡️ 'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says. Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

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'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says

Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

Excellent piece by @jamellebouie.net

Rank-and-file Democrats — and, I’d wager, a substantial portion of the voting public — do not want compromise and cooperation. They want accountability. And if we hope to confine Trumpism to the ash-heap of history, then accountability is the only choice there is to make.

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 14h

The only way to prevent geoengineering turning into a giant shitshow is to have a robust and credible planetary governance structure, but if we had one of those we would have already stopped climate change

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/10/2026

I want people to believe in themselves too — like believe they can put in the hard work. Not believe they are entitled to the credit of having done something without putting in the effort of actually doing it.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13/10/2026

The NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences Division funded my doctoral degree. I only applied to 1 program, & only got in off the wait list when SBE funded a climate project. Another grad student & I published one of the 1st life cycle assessments of electric cars: pubs.acs.org/esthag/artic...

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Life Cycle Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles: Implications for Policy

Abstract. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), which use electricity from the grid to power a portion of travel, could play a role in reducing greenho

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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Public support of education bring many returns in human capital and knowledge. Congrats to Professor Hall.

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 09/10/2026

Congratulations to lawyer and human rights activist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay on her Nobel Peace Prize. Few have devoted their lives to justice, peace and human dignity like she did.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"US health care is the best!" My health records are in 4 different websites w/diff logins I pay for insurance, but have a >$300 bill for an ER visit last summer I drove myself several miles from my docs office to an imaging office when I broke my leg in 2021 None of my docs talk to each other

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Purple Finch for a kind anon! Thank you for the #Waymakers donation! 🪶🎨 #SciArt #BirdArt Waymakers raises funds to benefit @theyoungcenter.bsky.social 's critical work to help unaccompanied immigrant kids in the US. Join us again next September!

Illustration of a male Purple Finch on a branch, perched and alert but comfortable with his belly toward us and his head pointed to our left. He has a very thick gray bill and a rich raspberry-red color all over the rest of his body except for a white lower belly. The background is mostly dark but with bright warmly-lit berries, blurred in the distance.

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ranked responses to winning the Nobel: 3. Anne Carson (see below) 2. Peter Higgs (Went for a walk in order to hide) 1. Doris Lessing www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBO...

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British author Doris Lessing reacts to Nobel win

YouTube video by ReutersLC

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“She asked the powers at NASA to let her add a safeguard to prevent that error in a real flight, and they laughed it off as too unlikely… When an astronaut did make that blooper during the Apollo 8 mission, it caused necessary navigational data to vanish, and they called Hamilton in to get it back.”

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Its now been confirmed that Mason and some others at FHSU decided to talk to a london based middle east antiquities dealer that Mason heard on a podcast. So instead of talking to someone in-house or even in the US about ethical deaccessioning, she does this. www.hdnews.net/2026/10/07/b...

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BREAKING NEWS - Salomon Aaron Identified as FHSU’s Outside Museum Adviser; Sternberg Fundraising Goal Raised to $1 Million - Hays Daily News

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The right has been gloating that the #MeToo era ended, but we're due for a reckoning that's going to make that look like nothing by comparison.

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Eos @eos.org · 07/10/2026

In Finland, rewetting forestry-drained peatlands could yield climate benefits within decades, a @restorationecology.bsky.social study suggests. eos.org/articles/res... Read more in our October issue: eos.org/themes/secre...

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Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades - Eos

That’s much faster than what most scientists thought.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Anyway--your science (yes *yours*) deserves more than being in some cluttered hell or smashed into a 3-minute lightning talk. Your science is just as good as ours was when we started 15 years ago and we had a full 15 minutes to talk about it and when we had a full poster board to show it.

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I posted this last week without comment, but I'm going to comment now. The people who established the system of museums in the West had a very specific reason for doing so: they thought that having an appreciation for the wonders of the world was absolutely necessary for being a good citizen.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Look at this, a nation state, nationing and stating.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/10/2026

"We don't want to turn into a banana republic, so we won't try to rein in corporations" is the kind of thing you say if you don't know what makes a banana republic a banana republic, and instead want to be a banana republic where the bananas are data centers.

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Dr. Evan J. Gowan @evangowan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today's Nobel Prize in Chemistry celebrates the explanation for spontaneous homochirality (where a molecule will convert to its mirror image). This is the process that is behind amino acid racemization dating, which we have used for dating shells in beach deposits. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 was awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.”

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Sarah Hird, PhD @sarahhird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That time I put almost all the chipmunk species in the western USA on one map. Did you know there’s 1 species of chipmunk in Asia, 1 in eastern USA & >20 in western USA? (I’m not the crazy one here. The chipmunks are the crazy ones.)

Map of the western USA with 20 overlapping chipmunk species distributions in different colors.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've been at a non-flagship public institution for 22 years and the one immutable truth I've learned is that every year the university will tell my department to do more and every year they will give us fewer resources to do it with.

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

"Well if that is wrong, everybody is guilty!" Yes. That's why it's called rape "culture."

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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

From six years ago, the sentiment holds. If you have a GC, give her some love from me today 🩷 #instrumentappreciation

Screenshot of an Instagram post from October 2020 - a woman with a 500 women scientist hat on and a cloth is lovingly patting the top of a gas chromatograph

The text reads:" it's important to appreciate your instruments. Giving the GC some much deserved love pats today"

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Esther van Hulsen wildlife art @esthervanhulsen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Having fun with a batch of new scale drawings for the upcoming book about prehistoric birds. :)

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏

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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's been a long day protecting mom from men on the roof and beneath the house (my piglet is truly exhausted from so many hours on guard) #dogsky

Photo of a white pibble w black spots looking sleepy on a sage green couch

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whoa, one of the pedophiles responsible for the GOP's political power just died. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other wgntv.com/news/chicago...

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Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84

Former U.S. House Speaker John Hastert has died at the age of 84 from natural causes.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 05/10/2026

Spooky bird stories. My Halloween comic from 2024.

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??" In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!". In panel 3, A screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!". In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My message to the Drexel (and ANSP!) administrators who were ashamed that the Academy was perceived as "Philly's Dinosaur Museum":

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026

A tiny bit of gentle advice for the men: before you try to explain or pontificate anything about the Cornell 7 to a woman, please remember chances are she’s already an expert 🙏🏻

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Cried through my breakfast yesterday when I got the news. Andrea was a warm and encouraging soul, and I was lucky to spend over a decade in various writing circles with her. We have lost one of the great ones.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

2026 Maine Fall Foliage Tour

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026

NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

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