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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

They actually released the whole harry potter series early and put it on youtube. No need to wait for it to release on HBO

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Wizard People, Dear Reader Full movie - YouTube

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It was apparently #ArmadilloDay on the 13th August.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The rumors are true. Stand by for more.

A black-and-white frog sitting on a stick in front of a pride flag

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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The way this is written makes me wish headlines could have guitar riffs

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Chantelle Chapman @chantellechapman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

‘No Songbird (Ivory-Billed Woodpecker). Traditional gouache painting on 22x30 inch white watercolor paper. From my ‘Extinction Stories’ solo exhibition, this piece is inspired by the disappearance of the ‘Lord God Bird’ from the Louisiana ‘Singer Tract’ in the mid 20th century. #sciart #birdart #🪶

The last breeding pair of Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers were documented in Louisiana in the late 1930s. Their best was located on a piece of land owned by the Singer Sewing Machine Company.

Legislative steps were taken to the defend the birds, but before they could take effect the land was clearcut. Protective restrictions would have ruined the economic value of the land to its owners.

The ‘Singer Tract’ birds were never seen again.

Diptych. On the right, a 1930s model Singer sewing machine stands upright on its end, echoing the posture of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker on the left, whose feet are tangled and ensnared by the machine’s electric cord.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 07/07/2026

In better news, John Oliver's three-day stint/stunt as a corporate villain on legendary soap opera "General Hospital" appears to be going... fucking brilliantly?? I have watched this clip on a loop for like 20 mins I really, truly need to see the full episodes NOW

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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I once met an RFK fan at a wedding that ate raw sticks of butter everyday and told me our brains were mostly cholesterol so doctors pushing diets that lowered cholesterol were part of a conspiracy to keep us stupid so I don't know if the result of this diet is actually a problem in their eyes

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onion person @junlper.beer · 25/06/2026

i love olivia reingold so much. she's a top contender for dumbest "journalist" in the entirety of human history

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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

First real post on the new blog! If you follow human genetics, you've likely of "missing heritability". If you look at twins to estimate heritability, you get values much larger than what molecular genomic methods produce. IQ, for example, goes from 50-80% heritability to 10-15%. Which is right?

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Dan Schrider @samurscicop.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Please circulate: I will have a postdoc opening soon, ideally with a start date sometime this summer or fall. If you're interested in empirical population genetics, computational methods development, and/or evolutionary modeling via simulation, don't hesitate to reach out. For more info on the lab:

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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

It took forever but my last paper as an academic is finally out. ironically this paper probably has the smallest audience, but I believe is my most impactful work. I think it provides some nice support for theories on polyploid origins, and has practical implications in crops and conservation

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Recombination and the role of pseudo-overdominance in polyploid evolution

Abstract. Natural selection is an imperfect force that can under some conditions fail to prevent the buildup of deleterious mutations. Small population siz

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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Honestly not hard to envision generative AI as an existential threat because of this outside of the major players going under prior to their general use becoming cost-effective

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Science Magazine @science.org · 04/03/2026

It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported in 2023. Learn more on #WorldWildlifeDay: scim.ag/4riUU1G

This Brazilian frog might be the first pollinating amphibian known to science
Nectar-loving tree frog likely moves pollen from flower to flower

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

A minor league hockey team had a wiener dog race. Zero thoughts, just vibes and absolute chaos. A thing of beauty

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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Jean-Claude Van Damme chopping up carrots and celery: CRU-DI-TÉS

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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I think maybe the entire concept of "alignment" is perhaps inadequate to plant genomes.

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This isn't shortread data, but alignments of genome assemblies with N50 > 100Mb. The plot is the # of bp per 100Kb window that are dropped because of missing data -- because those bp physically are not there in one of the other 25 genomes. This is what normal plant genomes look like, folks.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Jeffrey Epstein, shirtless and spinning in an office chair somewhere in Bethesda: "make them pay for Horse Armor."

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max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Imagine doing a PhD in electricity, just so you knew how to blow up nuclear power plants and heavy water-producing facilities. “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist.” A profile in absolute courage.

The A.N.C., in a statement, called Dr. Christie’s role “in disrupting and exposing the apartheid state’s clandestine nuclear weapons program” an “act of profound revolutionary significance.”

From the doctoral dissertation he had written at the University of Oxford on the history of electricity in South Africa, Dr. Christie provided the research needed to blow up the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station; the Arnot coal-fired power station; the Sasol oil-from-coal facilities that produced the heavy water critical to producing nuclear weapons; and other critical sites.

Many of his family members fought with the Allied forces against the Germans in World War II, and “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I had the honor to introduce my replacement on 9NEWS

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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

A few years ago, through luck and vibes, I managed to produce this blue colored bean variety. This was an early step in trying to answer the question, [paraphrased] "Why isn't blue as common as red in beans, even though they're both anthocyanins and the plant has the genes for both?"

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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Yeah man when our town was flooded & elderly or disabled people were stuck in their home an instantantly activated mutual aid group getting them out into hotels and shelters so they didn't get sick from mold and their lifelong belongings into storage was definitely not effective. Shut the fuck up.

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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 11/12/2025

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

The hardcore screaming guy I posted about a few weeks ago, the one who was posted outside the Heritage Foundation, is back! Tonight he's making a LOT of noise outside of Butterworth's, a MAGA hot spot on Capitol Hill. Closed event in there tonight.

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Silas Tittes @silastittes.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Popgen folks, Jiseon, Nate, and Andy, along with Yuxin Ning and Franz Baumdicker, just released a really cool new method for simulation based inference (think ABC) using normalizing flows. It seems to work really well! full joint posteriors ftw! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Neural posterior estimation for population genetics

Simulation-based inference methods are increasingly being used in population genetics due to their flexibility and ability to be applied in settings where likelihood-based methods are intractable. Per...

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

'Everything has its proper name. I shall call it “Armadillo” till I found out the real one…’ Illustration for The Beginning of the Armadillos, from Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, published by The Folio Society, 2012. Watercolour on Saunders Waterford hp, 140 x 240mm. #ArtAdventCalendar

Watercolour illustration of a pair of armadillos in a vertically-oriented composition, with the armadillos towards the top, and the grassy environment leading the eye downward in gestural, impressionistic brushstrokes. The palette is predominantly in warm ochres and oranges.

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Rob Denton @rddenton.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Now in Evolution: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... This paper started when @3rdreviewer.bsky.social, Mike, and I had a lunch at which there was a lot of, "What do you mean when you say X?" Fun to spend time thinking about when terms get too muddy, and great work by Drew to pull it all together!

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Reconsidering cytonuclear discordance in the genomic age

Abstract. Historically, phylogenetic datasets had relatively few loci but were overrepresented for cytoplasmic sequences (mitochondria and chloroplast) bec

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worm adderall (feral) @wormmo.de · 01/11/2025

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it

the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I buy this argument and you all know I'm very critical about studies about the effect of using AI but this one makes a ton of sense. The design of total ease and agreeableness has always been bad for our rigorous thinking. It is bad when it comes from people too!

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Yuval Simons @yuvalsim.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Why do complex traits differ in their genetic architecture? In our new PLOS Biology paper, we will try to convince you that two simple scaling laws drive differences in the number, effect sizes and frequencies of causal variants affecting complex traits. Thread: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Simple scaling laws control the genetic architectures of human complex traits

Genome-wide association studies have revealed that the genetic architectures of complex traits vary widely. This study shows that differences in architectures of highly polygenic traits arise mainly f...

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Arthropod Photo of the Week: October 22, 2025 Jagged ambush bug Phymata sp. Hemiptera: Reduviidae By Tom Astle (@tjalamont.bsky.social), Montana, USA #arthropodPOTW

A close-up image of a yellow insect with textured, bumpy skin perched on a bright yellow flower. The background is blurred, highlighting the details of the insect and petals.

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

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emlowz @emlowz.com · 17/06/2025

Barren Planet (Part 1) - Sopranos: The Next Generation #startrek #sopranos #edit

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

This is truly an incredible breakthrough IMO. Really exemplifies what you get when deep domain expertise (popgen/evolution/disease genetics in this case) fuses with cleverly crafted ML. What u get r sleek, well thought out architectures that absolutely destroy the behemoths. Wow!! 1/

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

truly one of the most unintentionally funny things i've ever seen someone post online about themself

Colin Wright
@SwipeWright
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Convincing my left-wing former close friends on
Facebook that Charlie Kirk wasn't a Nazi or a
fascist is completely futile because I can't even
convince them that I'M not a Nazi or a fascist, and
many have known me since early grade school.
1:20 PM • 9/15/25 • 850K Views

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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Oh goddamn hell yea they got the dome-a-dillo

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