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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 3h

If you’re a parent of a child with a disability, you’re worried about how your family will be impacted by SpecEd Department of Education layoffs and you want to talk to a journalist about it, please DM, email (sluterman at 19thnews dot org) or Signal (slooterman.18).

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dl2409.bsky.social @dl2409.bsky.social · 18h

Fun piece- insightful. Really about product marketing and snobism about something (beer) that is just the opposite

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 18h

The craft beer industry, focused on hoppy brews and wacky brands, is in trouble — but Mark Robichaux argues that “the pint glass isn’t empty. It just needs something worth raising again.”

Opinion | How to Save the Craft Beer Industry

Drinking is down, but there are a few simple fixes that can get people hoisting their cans again.

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dl2409.bsky.social @dl2409.bsky.social · 1d

“I have no idea what’s going on. I am only the Speaker of the US House of Representatives.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder: Thiessen started out working for Roger Stone and Paul Manafort. Many have left the Post or been fired. Thiessen is still there.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 4d

A columnist still at WaPo.

Headline: "Yes, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize."

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dl2409.bsky.social @dl2409.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing! I do Mon and Tue and I’m done for the week. Now yoga until game time I guess

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 4d

Thoughtful and well-informed op-ed from @ianlmorgan.bsky.social

Definitely worth a read!

www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...

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NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers

Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.

www.the-scientist.com

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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 4d

Por su tamaño, el ratopín rasurado no debería de vivir más de dos años, pero suelen acercarse a los cuarenta. Además, envejecen de forma saludable, sin enfermedades. Ahora un estudio desvela el secreto de su longevidad

Científicos chinos encuentran en el ADN del ratopín el secreto de su asombrosa longevidad

Un estudio da con las claves de la extraordinaria capacidad del roedor para vivir diez veces más de lo que debería sin cáncer ni enfermedades degenerativas asociadas a la edad. Aplicado en moscas, obtuvieron ‘supermoscas’

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 4d

Showed my students the perfectly balanced chaos I had before and I think they are both inspired and scared lol. #newpi 🧪

a pic of tube arrangement of 11 tubes in the centrifuge but it did not look balanced at all (although it is). the 11 tubes were broken down into 3+2+6 groups and within each group it's perfectly balanced on its own.

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 5d

Among the reasons I absolutely loathe genAI is the fact it devalues and undermines skills like learning how to research, fact check, and communicate. It’s like answering a question with a print out of search engine results, taking it as truth because the computer said so.

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 5d

A French Jewish Girl, age 12, was gassed together with her mother and younger sister as soon as they arrived iin Auschwitz. Every time I see these photos I imagine the fear and horror these young people experienced as they were herded, nude, into the gas chamber, and then died from cyanide.

Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 5d

9 October 1932 | A French Jewish girl, Rose Aboulafia, was born in Paris.

In April 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her mother Victoria and younger sister Odette. They were murdered in a gas chamber.
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Ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

Vintage black and white photo featuring two young girls, one seated and the other standing, posing for a portrait with a blurry background.

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dl2409.bsky.social @dl2409.bsky.social · 5d

Yes- our abs are being checks right now. In many ways- military in the streets, freedom of speech, war on science and on academia and more

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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dl2409.bsky.social @dl2409.bsky.social · 5d

“It is a resegregation of the work force, and an attack on the Black middle class.” —>

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 5d

for example:
-the NSF budget
-scientific peer review of grants
-independence of scientific advisory committees
-the value of foreign collaborations
-benefits of inclusion of all groups in science

i know the list is longer but the silence is awful

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 7d

A reminder: 40% of US Nobel prize winners since 2000 have been immigrants.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on quantum mechanics

Trio led experiments demonstrating that bizarre properties of quantum world can translate into measurable effects in the everyday The Nobel prize in physics 2025 has been awarded to British, French and American scientists for their work on quantum mechanics. John Clarke, a British physicist based at the University of California at Berkeley, Michel Devoret, a French physicist based at Yale University, and John Martinis, of the University of California Santa Barbara, share the 11m Swedish kronor (about £871,400) prize announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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NPR @npr.org · 6d

Special gifts. Great stories. And economics too!? Can it be true? The Planet Money book is available for preorder.

Why preorders are such a big deal for authors

Special gifts. Great stories. And economics too!? Can it be true? The Planet Money book is available for preorder.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 6d

Screw you, MLB, for licensing your games on a case by case basis and not including them in your own streaming package. I had to buy 5 different services to catch all of the playoff games.

But switching the Mariners game to a channel that I don’t have midway through the fourth inning? Unreal.

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 7d

Fwd: Fwd: “I hope this email finds you well”

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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 9d

The HPV vaccine is doing what had been promised.
17 years after it became available, HPV infections decreased significantly in vaccinated people and unvaccinated people because of herd immunity. buff.ly/WvjQ1BS

h/t @boghuma.bsky.social

#medsky #pedsky 🛟🧪

Light blue background. Young woman with dark hair makes a sign of strength with her arm and she has a vaccine bandaid on her upper arm. It says "The HPV Vaccine Works!"

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Science Magazine @science.org · 9d

A 2024 study found that ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence.

Learn more on #WorldAnimalDay: https://scim.ag/42nMvQJ

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 11d

The Trump admin has been targeting whistleblowers, from the #FEMA36 to the countless other patriotic public servants and scientists across NIH, CDC, NASA, and more who spoke out about the danger posed by the chaos in our federal agencies. This is an concerted, autocratic effort to silence dissent.

RFK Jr fires top NIH scientist weeks after she files whistleblower complaint

Jeanne Marrazzo’s complaint reportedly involved the Trump administration’s hostility toward vaccines

www.theguardian.com

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dl2409.bsky.social @dl2409.bsky.social · 11d

A “redrum” plot? Good idea!

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 11d

More NIH chaos.

NICHD, NIMHD and NIAID Directors are all dismissed.

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 11d

Jeanne Marrazzo, director of NIAID, claimed that the Trump Administration’s actions
endangered research subjects, defied court orders & undermined vaccine research.

Earlier, Kennedy fired Susan Monarez of the CDC.

Resisting unethical policies costs you.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

www.nytimes.com

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dl2409.bsky.social @dl2409.bsky.social · 11d

Outrageous!! 👇Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

www.nytimes.com