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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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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

One time I manually looked for SV signatures in CIGAR codes to find a bug in some published software and I felt like Cypher reading the matrix

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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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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Yeah I haven't used it for any big research project or initiative yet but it is super helpful when you want to do some data exploration, visualization, or just try a bunch of stuff quick that you can refine later.

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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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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I heard he also popped like a balloon when this happened

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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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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Should be noted he misidentified the rattlesnake and probably broke some bones or ligaments in its neck when he grabbed it by the head like that in this 'rescue'

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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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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Thanks, I'm quite fond of it too. And last one! I've actually been working at an ag startup for a while now working on breeding drought resilient cotton among other things, mostly developing simulation-based methods for doing so.

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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

not sure if this is the weird you're going for but Silent Night Deadly Night 4 rocked my ass off when I saw it last year. And if you're wondering yes it is the best of the series

Image of silent night deadly night 4, initiation. Has the female protagonist's face behind a bowie knife and a christmas tree

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

Damn that's crazy thank god we stopped inventing new classes of intoxicants that ravage communities

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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 · 23/02/2026

In a working democratic system the idea that not voting for party members based on a policy would not influence party policy would sound insane.

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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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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Depends on the city (so not sure about NYC) but yes the police chief in many cities is appointed and regulated by the mayor

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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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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Since this account is run by interns, I would like to calmly suggest you try and find another internship soon so you don't have to explain to future employers why you worked for this joke of a company.

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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Strangest iteration of this was after days of troubleshooting we noticed searching the accession name in the text became unhighlighted when we got to 'a'. Turns out the samples were uploaded from China & some Chinese alphanumeric keyboards encode a as the greek alpha when typing english characters

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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

Genuinely enragjng to see this moron whose never once thought about what it's like to be in community judge people who are trying to build a better less selfish and individualistic world because its not good politics or whatever. Fix your heart.

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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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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Wow, not sure how I didn't put together Colin with the Pruitt scandal up until now. What a worthless little skeez

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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

To be fair they're generally not better than a coin flip at determining long-term success so this is just moving us into a lottery system

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