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Zack Hilt

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Studying host-pathogen interactions to perinatal infections at University of Toledo. 49ers fan and running nerd. “The Empire cannot win.”

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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 02/10/2026
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 8h
Trump corrupted America's most innovative institution, the National Science Foundation, by stealing $1.4B mandated by Congress for research. 🧪 🧵
A photo of Trump in front of the U.S. National Science Foundation entrance, overlaid headline that reads "Trump admin stole $1.4B for world changing science against the will of congress", with a Stand Up for Science logo beneath it.
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Zack Hilt @zackhilt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is an episode of Veep.
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Zack Hilt @zackhilt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Talanoa Hufanga still helping the 49ers 🫡
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Ian Rapoport @rapsheet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hook and ladder! Deebo to the house.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Deebo Samuel currently with 80 receiving yards and no receptions after the hook-and-ladder. If they can just avoid throwing him the ball all game, he can smash the record for most receiving yards in a game with no catches (65, set in 1961)
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Simon Cleary @simoncleary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In the original version of this piece the person/people writing for the Nikon competition also removed a mention of AI by the winner:
Original paragraph reads:
'His advice to other researchers considering entering the competition is straightforward: “Take care of the sample, use as little light as possible when working with living cells, and most importantly, keep recording. The best moment usually appears right after you decide to stop.”'New paragraph has added section on AI: 'His advice to other researchers considering entering the competition is straightforward: “Take care of the sample, use as little light as possible when working with living cells, and embrace AI to reveal the hidden beauty in your data. Most importantly, keep recording. The best moment usually appears right after you decide to stop.”'
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/09/2026
They even made DoorDash apologize.
DoorDash on Instagram: We messed up.
Our mistakes meant some NYC Dashers were underpaid or paid late. That's unacceptable, and we're deeply sorry to the Dashers we let down.
We've reached a settlement with the City of New York, and we will make this right by paying every impacted Dasher the amounts they are owed.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As you call members of Congress to raise concern about a Vought-led grant review panel, encourage them to sign onto proposed legislation that could help: 1) Follow the Science Act by @degette.house.gov would remove political appointees from the grant-making process: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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49ers on NBC Sports Bay Area @nbcs49ers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Brock Purdy became the first NFL quarterback in nearly five years to record a unique passing feat in today's win 🤩
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Brock Purdy the first NFL QB in five years to achieve unique passing feat in 49ers' win vs. Dolphins
Brock Purdy did something no NFL quarterback had done since 2021 during the San Francisco 49ers' 35-13 win over the Miami Dolphins on Sunday.
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Zack Hilt @zackhilt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lmaooooooo noooooo stop
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Zack Hilt @zackhilt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hollywood Smothers is an A+ football name
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026
The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.
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Rick does Math and Stuff @mathandstuff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Reminder that the annual budget for the DoD is $1 trillion while the budget for NIH is less than $50 billion. The DoD doesn't need to be taking money from the NIH. This is all about defunding the NIH.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 05/09/2026
Ok here we go: It DOES look like a major purpose of this NIH funding transfer to NIH is to circumvent NIH’s peer review processes so political appointees can have control. Check out the redacted agreement @maxkozlov.bsky.social released: 1/
AGENCY-AGREEMENT-NIH-AND-DOW-REDACTED v
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Federal departments, agencies, and offices with respect to the identification of additional priority virus families and other viral pathogens with a significant potential to cause a pandemic" (42
U.S.C. § 285f-5(e)(1)).
Through this agreement, NIH will leverage OASW ND-CBD's procurement, grants, and funding network to allow for critical basic science
I, related research pathways, and basic research to
support the translation and advanced development of medical countermeasures.
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
More thoughts: The relevant appropriations committee has already demonstrated it is quite capable of adding extra zeros to DoD accounts. Stealing funding from other agencies is completely unnecessary except to punish the agencies in question. This is vindictive illegality.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/09/2026
BREAKING: Democrats say Hegseth and the Pentagon is attempting to steal funds from the National Institute of Health to make up for the record amount of taxpayer money they’ve spent in their war on Iran.
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Vaughn Smider, MD, PhD @vvsmider.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Without notifying Congress or the American people, DoD has signed an interagency agreement that could give the Department access to billions of dollars that Congress provided to NIH for critical biomedical research.” Seriously?
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
absolute fuckers "Trump officials at NIH disclosed the existence of DoD’s efforts only after being pressed for information by House Appropriations Committee Democrats." democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BREAKING: OMB PROPOSED RULE IS PAUSED UNTIL DEC 11th. This is a direct result of OUR ACTIVISM! It's a critical step in the right direction AND the fight continues. NOW, it's time to revoke the rule. Email here: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/rev... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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House passes funding bill to avoid shutdown before midterms
Continuing resolution to approve government spending until 11 December passes 370-48 and will now go to Trump
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Zack Hilt @zackhilt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Deleted Google Maps this morning
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Kurianlab @kurianlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
dshb.biology.uiowa.edu We should support and make better use of hybridoma bank Maintained by a small team at the University of Iowa’s Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank
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Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank - DSHB
High quality, low cost antibodies.
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Here is the un-paywalled story about how UB/Roswell Park graduate students do not have access to health insurance. insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/ub-... @markpoloncarz.bsky.social @governor.ny.gov @reptimkennedy.bsky.social How are we going to fix this? It's been 3 years of nightmares for students.
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UB students research cancer at Roswell Park. But they struggle to afford health insurance
Emily Isenhart is wrapping up a project focused on developing a novel treatment for Ewing sarcoma, a bone cancer that affects children and young adults. Isenhart and Goralski are two of about 80 Ph.D. students in the Roswell Park Graduate Division of the University at Buffalo. Those in the division are students at UB, but are paid an annual stipend of around...
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Finally, an article about the University at Buffalo taking healthcare away from our students.
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The Buffalo News @buffalonews.com · 18/08/2026
UB two years ago discontinued its health insurance plan for domestic students, which has left students in the division annually scrambling to secure an affordable health insurance plan.
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UB students research cancer but struggle to afford insurance
UB two years ago discontinued its health insurance plan for domestic students, which has left students in the division annually scrambling to secure an affordable health insurance plan.
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Ian Rapoport @rapsheet.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Reunion: Free agent WR Deebo Samuel is signing back with the 49ers, sources say. The former Commanders and SF pass-catcher returns where it all began. 1-year, up to $7M in a deal done by Tory Dandy of Athletes First.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
You can tell a lot about a leader by listening to the people who worked for them. Those who worked for Tony Fauci uniformly respected him. Today’s congressional hearing was a witch hunt, part of a larger effort to undermine science and scientists. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment at Rand Paul-led US Senate COVID hearing
Anthony Fauci, the former top U.S. infectious disease expert, declined to answer questions at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, invoking his constitutional right against self-incrimination and accusing R...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/07/2026
What an honor to welcome world champion and Paralympian Brittni Mason across the finish line of the USATF women’s ambulatory 100m final at Icahn Stadium today — and to meet 5x world champion Melissa Jefferson-Wooden after the race.
Mayor Mamdani presenting a gold medal to world champion and Paralympian Brittni Mason at the USATF Outdoor Championships on Randalls Island. Mayor Mamdani poses with 5x world champion Melissa Jefferson-Wooden at the USATF Outdoor Championships on Randalls Island.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
👇🏽🤷🏼
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I’m so glad these same people think the private sector can replace the NIH. Money for “mammoths” but not real science.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This is the kind of idiocy you get on Threads. I think the main purpose of pursuing a PhD is to develop your thinking, research, and communication skills, which you can't do in 45 minutes on Claude.
Post on Threads from unfairclaudeprompts

BREAKING: Claude can now help you RESEARCH any topic better than a PhD in 45 minutes. For free.

Here are 8 prompts to master research: 1/10
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Analysis of the performance of Dr. Erica Schwartz at her hearing yesterday to be CDC Director. Very disappointing. She seemed sane and competent. The CDC needs someone with those characteristics soon. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/she-blew-i...
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She blew it. CDC Director nominee tanks in Senate hearing.
She was supposed to be good. But Senator Bill Cassidy lost his mind in real time as Dr. Erica Schwartz crashed and burned before the Senate HELP Committee yesterday.
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 14/07/2026
Comments closed on OMB's proposed rule that would require political appointees to review federal grants... So what happens next? @csmarcum.bsky.social @colesci.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social www.medpagetoday.com/washington-wat…
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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Scientists--if your funding was cut over the last year (for research on climate, global health, DEI, LGBTQ or womens health, etc) but you managed to keep the research going, I want to talk to you for an upcoming article! Plz contact me: gewin at me dot com. Re-posts appreciated!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...
The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas.

No older than 3, she was trying to smell the flowers.

At her side, a pink rolling bag.

Her father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, had just been fatally shot and yanked from a car he’d been driving. Now, he lay handcuffed in the street, where he would remain for five hours.

 “You took her dad, you took her dad!” a woman nearby yelled, according to Cecelia Humiston, 22, who witnessed the interaction in Biddeford on Monday morning.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo called Houston home for 35 years. On Tuesday, an ICE agent shot and killed him. His family learned of his death from a video before anyone bothered to knock on their door.
New York City stands with the Salgado family in demanding a full, independent investigation and real accountability. To the Salgado family and any immigrant family in this city living in fear: we grieve with you and we will continue to stand beside you in the pursuit of justice.
Abolish ICE.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A statement from the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee on the proposed OMB regulations. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit... 1/3
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Sen. Collins Asks OMB to Withdraw Parts of Grant Rule, Extend Comment Period | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 07/07/2026
An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Afghan national who fought with U.S. forces died of allergic reaction in ICE custody
Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis and exacerbated his asthma, the death report shows.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
UPDATE: We learned that the folks behind Project 2025, are encouraging their base to write comments in favor of the rule. This suggests our efforts are working and they are shaken. IT ALSO MEANS WE NEED TO GO OUT WITH A BANG. MAKE YOUR COMMENT TODAY!!!
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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
My contribution to the ongoing "1%" science discourse is this picture you can send to your favourite preprint author(s) after reading their papers to tell them you liked their work! #SciArt #PawReview
Cartoon of a red panda (Ailurus fulgens) looking forwards with a paw raised. Around the panda is written "THIS PREPRINT IS 100% PAWESOME!"
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Glad to see this story and coverage of an important paper. www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n... 1/16
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NIH diversity programs doubled undergraduates’ odds of getting a Ph.D., 20-year study finds
A new study found that two diversity-oriented programs supported by the NIH doubled the odds that an undergraduate would earn a Ph.D.
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I wanted to like QED's new 1% preprint ranking. I really did. But the more I looked at the data, the more uncomfortable it made me. Here is my full peer review. open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...
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My Peer Review of The 1%
I wanted to like QED's new 1% ranking. I don't.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Another great reason to never publish in an MDPI journal
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Zack Hilt @zackhilt.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Not believing in science really comes back to bite you, doesn’t it?
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