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Bill Bradley

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Retired former medical researcher. Still love wet bottom sailing.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
GOOD NEWS! A new cancer treatment has demonstrated unprecedented results in a large trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.” Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it. Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.
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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
© Laurin McCracken. 'Jars on Quilt.' Watercolour, 2020. 20 x 22 inches.
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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 28/08/2026
🇳🇵 The devastating flooding in #Nepal and #Tibet has claimed more than 400 lives and left hundreds missing, with ongoing conditions complicating rescue efforts. Watch for a closer look at how the disaster unfolded ⤵️
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
How to go straight from dinner to cake. [📹 josephsmachines] Original post
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Here's a fact that may surprise you. Until recently, nobody had managed to sequence the complete genome of a human being. Then, a landmark paper in 2022 reported end-to-end (telomere-to-telomere) coverage of all chromosomes. The new era of T2T genomics is showcased today in @cp-cell.bsky.social: 🧬🧪👇
cell.com
Filling the holes in whole genomes: A vision for personalized genomics from telomere to telomere
Two decades after the Human Genome Project, we finally have the ability to read the complete genome of any human and (nearly) any species. These sequences provide the ideal foundation for training pre...
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Bill Bradley @wbradley43.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Infuriating.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Do we need to explain to GOP senators how 5th Amendment works? Disgusting lawless attack to scapegoat Dr. Fauci to score political points. Another distraction from the real issues our government should be addressing. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Senate Panel Votes to Hold Fauci in Contempt for Refusing to Answer Questions
Legal scrutiny is mounting on the former top health official after he repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment during a hearing about the pandemic response.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
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A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 05/08/2026
🧪 #MedSky 🛟 Direct link to the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
Virus reactivation in acute and long COVID-19 - Nature
Chronic reactivation of distinct herpesviruses and anelloviruses occur during acute and long COVID-19, and track with disease severity, inflammation and outcomes, revealing immune signatures with…
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AAUP @aaup.org · 04/08/2026
BOOM. The AAUP is suing Texas A&M University System over their censorship policy that prohibits faculty from discussing topics & viewpoints related to race, sexual orientation, & gender. www.aclutx.org/app/uploads/... 1
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, LEONARD BRIGHT, VANITA REDDY, LANDON SADLER, and AARON GEORGE,
Plaintiffs,
V.
ROBERT L. ALBRITTON, JAY GRAHAM, DAVID
C. BAGGETT, JOHN W. BELLINGER, JAMES R.
BROOKS, MICHAEL A. HERNANDEZ III,
WILLIAM MAHOMES JR., KELLEY SULLIVAN GEORGIADES, and SAM TORN, in their official capacities as members of the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents,
Defendants.
CIVIL ACTION NO.
COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF
COMPLAINT
Plaintiffs American Association of University Professors ("AAUP"), on behalf of
its members in the Texas A&M University System ("Texas A&M"), and individually named member professors Leonard Bright, Vanita Reddy, Landon Sadler, and Aaron George (collectively, "Plaintiffs") challenge Texas A&M System Policy ("System Policy") 08.01's prohibition on teaching "gender and race ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation, and gender identity" in academic coursework (the "Censorship Policy" or the "Policy").
On its face, the Censorship Policy imposes a complete prohibition, in all core-
curriculum courses, on courses "advocat[ing]" particular disfavored views of race or gender, or
any topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity, but the Policy does not impose any corresponding ban on opposing views on these issues.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Azerbaijan contains nearly half of the world's mud volcanoes. TT: @laperladelcaucaso7 Gobustan National Park, Azerbaijan
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Bill Bradley @wbradley43.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
thelancet.com
Adjunctive metformin for obesity and frailty in older people—puncturing inflated expectations?
Metformin, a biguanide that has been used to treat diabetes for over seven decades, has attracted considerable recent attention from researchers in the field of ageing. Metformin’s mechanism of action...
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Trump's mail voting EO exposes election officials to prosecution for mailing a ballot to an eligible voter The voter's offense? Not appearing on a federal list that doesn't exist yet 56 former judges, most appointed by GOP, want the Supreme Court to keep it blocked 👇 -TN
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56 Former Judges Urge Supreme Court to Block Trump Order That Could Disenfranchise Mail-in Voters
Former state and federal judges filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to reject the administration’s attempt to revive mail-voting restrictions that would force states to overhaul election sy...
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A meaningful resolution of Blanche’s IRS deal would have been: - Immunity is rescinded: Trump can refile his lawsuit when he leaves office to avoid conflict of interest; - Blanche agrees DOJ will make no payouts to J6 defendants and other criminals prosecuted by Biden DOJ without court oversight.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
How did I miss this until now?
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Vinay Prasad too
news.ohsu.edu
OHSU physician awarded $2 million to investigate health care practices that 'don’t work'
Vinay Prasad, M.D., M.P.H., has been awarded a $2 million grant to support an effort to uncover treatments and tests that are contradicted by reliable evidence. The three-year project calls for sharin...
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Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Drought forcing the shutdown of nuclear power plant - this time not in France but in Romania.. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
reuters.com
Low Danube river levels force Romania to shut down both of its nuclear power reactors
Romania will shut down its ‌second nuclear reactor on the Danube river, the energy ministry said on Wednesday, three days after decades-low river levels forced it to shut down the first.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 29/07/2026
Federal prosecutors are going after an Atlanta-based protester, allegedly in connection with the use of a "duress" passcode that wiped his phone during a border search. Read our digital security newsletter to learn about border security risks, and what you can do about them.
freedom.press
Protester targeted by DOJ over phone-wiping ‘duress’ passcode
A security-focused mobile operating system, GrapheneOS, allows users to wipe their device with a “duress” passcode
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/07/2026
⚠️ Trump is weaponizing federal resources against states that did not vote for him. In June, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright said federal grant decisions are not based on how a state votes. A recently publicized court document contradicts his statement. See it here:
democracydocket.com
Energy Dept. admits cancelling federal clean energy grants in blue states, in yet another Trump blow to democracy
The Energy Dept. cancelled clean energy grants in states that didn't vote for Trump--another case of Trump weaponizing funds against non-supporters.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026
The centrality of discernment to productive AI usage is obvious, and that's why I find the insistence that AI can be used as a teaching assistant (or worse, a *teacher*) so baffling. By definition, a student *isn't* an expert on the subject they're studying. 44/
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 28/07/2026
It’s like — instead of doing the ultrasound/MRI/whatever is needed, you just ask the disease if it’s spreading
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Understanding the Genetics of Autism www.brainfacts.org/diseases-and... (posted as a counter to anti-vaxx nonsense...)
brainfacts.org
Understanding the Genetics of Autism
“The genetics underpinning autism is extremely complex. But the evidence for primarily genetic causation is overwhelming…” writes Kevin Mitchell.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026
interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Today, in violations of the rule of law that would be sufficient for impeachment in any other American presidency but aren't in this one because pathological partisan loyalty has rotted the constitutional order:
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Today Zohran is announcing that the New York City-owned grocery stores his administration is piloting will discount staple items 30%. Core groceries like produce, meat, seafood, pasta, bread, yogurt, butter, nuts, rice and beans will all receive this price cut.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is what happens when you let the “go fast, break things” types who disdain long established process and safety regulation take over.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"I’m not calling for a news blackout on Trump. I’m calling for telling it straight. And without kowtowing to him." @sulliview.bsky.social demolishes the self-serving, Trump-serving arguments for attending that dinner, and sanewashing the mad king. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-predic...
margaretsullivan.substack.com
The predictable disgrace of the White House Correspondents Dinner
And why I reject every specious argument that encourages the media to keep normalizing Trump
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
One immunization may protect newborns against 2 serious diseases Newborns immunized against RSV also had a 36% lower risk of infection with a life-threatening illness called invasive pneumococcal disease. Read more: bit.ly/4yTZY1s
A close-up of a newborn's feet in a hospital bed.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
A graph showing how the edsel and Cybertruck both performed based on their sales target and actual year one and year two sales. The edsel was expected to sell 200k units in its first year. It sold slightly over 50k, and less than 50k the next year

The Cybertruck had a sales.target of 250k in its first year. They sold around 40k, the next year they sold about half as many.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.
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Journal of Clinical Investigation @jci.org · 24/07/2026
SEC16B identified as a regulator of VLDL secretion and lipid accumulation in the liver: doi.org/10.1172/JCI2... Hossein Ardehali @hosseinardehali.bsky.social provides a commentary on Lu et al. doi.org/10.1172/JCI2... @the-asci.org
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 24/07/2026
RFK Jr is killing us
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Huge congratulations to Professor Jacob Tsimerman of the University of Toronto on receiving the Fields Medal — one of the highest honours in mathematics. Nearly a century after Canadian mathematician J.C. Fields established this award in Toronto, it comes home.
Screenshot of an article from CBC News. The headline reads: University of Toronto mathematician Jacob Tsimerman wins Fields Medal
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Astronomer Vera Rubin was born #OTD in 1928. Her work on galactic rotation curves became one of the main pieces of evidence for the existence of dark matter and she deserved a Nobel Prize for it. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: Vassar College / Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
Black and white photo of a young Vera Rubin – likely in her teens or twenties – looking through the eyepiece of a long telescope. She wears a blouse or dress with short sleeves and a grid print. Her wavy hair is shoulder length, and there is a wall behind her composed of two-by-fours and wood boards. Her right hand touches the eyepiece, and her left hand is turning a small adjustment knob on the side of the telescope.
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Study: Antibiotic resistance in children is rising and likely to get worse. Data from 82 countries show resistance rates in pediatric bacterial infections have risen significantly over the past two decades and will worsen over the next decade. Read more: bit.ly/4ftPsVL
Close-up of newborn baby foot with peripheral intravenous catheter
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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/07/2026
OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵
aaup.org
New Report on Extorted Compliance Charges “Massive Extortion Racket” Against Higher Ed
A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/07/2026
😂
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Wow.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Yalow's assay made the entire field of endocrinology rigorously quantitative that advance led to the discovery and understanding of feedback control loops, central versus peripheral sources of dysregulation, and (crucially for type II DM) tissue resistance a prescient example of molecular medicine
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
In a typical pattern, to the dismay of many scientists the National Academy of Sciences leadership had been going out of its way to try to placate the Trump Administration to avoid being targeted. Worked as well as usual.
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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The menopause transition is a cardiometabolic inflection. We have tools to improve the health of women, but they are often not fully used. A new study wants to find out how much we can improve women’s cardiometabolic health if we employ all those tools correctly. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
open.substack.com
What Happens When Women ACTUALLY Get State-of-the-Art Medical Care in Menopause?
A new study is recruiting to answer that question
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It’s always been arrogant to assume that we can predict even most of the costs of #ClimateChange. Let alone presume that we can properly quantify them, and successfully adapt to them. A key word with a lot of our climate failure is arrogance. Along with selfishness and greed. #ClimateCrisis
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Another idiotic move from the Trump regime: Capping foreign student visas at 4 years is a massive mistake. Most PhD programs take 5 to 7 years to complete. This will force top global talent into constant bureaucratic extension loops, or drive them away entirely.
bbc.co.uk
Trump administration tightens visa rules for foreign students
Students will need federal permission to stay longer than four years in the US and universities will lose the power to extend visas.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 18/07/2026
I have met with dissidents, the president, and people from across the political spectrum in Cuba. Everyone agrees that the collective punishment of the Cuban people is wrong. The US must lift the embargo, allow fuel into Cuba, and build a relationship that benefits all of us.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The grasshopper gets it — divide and conquer. Today's oligarchs use the same playbook. But together, we have all the power. Watch.
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Trish 🇨🇦 Sorry! 🍁 @trishly.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Here is some Canadian Trivia: 1) For every person in Canada, there are approx 9,000 trees. 2) Canada's boreal zone spans roughly 1.3 billion acres or approx. 55% to 58% of Canada's total landmass. 3) 70% of Canada's boreal forest zone has no road access, remaining as pristine, intact wilderness.
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