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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️

@jeymccreight.bsky.social

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🧬 Genomics PhD & As. Director of #scicomm at Tempus (All views my own) 🧑‍🔬 Founder of @beyondxandy.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ (they/he) Trans progressive atheist feminist 🎲 Gamer 🖖 Trekkie 🌱 Plant gay 😻 Cat dad 🏠 Chicago https://www.linkedin.com/in/jey-mccreight/

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · Mar 28

As someone whose PhD was in human population genetics and evolution:

Race is a social construct

Gender is a social construct

Both have biological *components* but are incredibly complex - not neat, discrete, immutable categories

Fascists are the ones denying scientific reality

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · Mar 28

So the official position of the white supremacist government is, unsurprisingly, that “race is a biological reality.”

Apparently, not believing this is “insane.”

Important to note that for fascists, ALL the identity categories (race, sex, etc.) have to be “real” and frozen so they can manage them

“Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”

Apparently it’s bad that the Smithsonian has an exhibit that “promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct”

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Girl, I Guess @mikellestreet.bsky.social · 4h

Very sad to have published this obituary tonight, but tried to do her legacy justice

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78

www.them.us/story/miss-m...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78

Miss Major continued fighting for trans rights even after two strokes and other health concerns.

www.them.us

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 4h

Kicking off #ASHG25 with the annual tradition of having the printer mess something up when my flight is the next morning 🤪

I can't even bring myself to show you how laughably bad these Staples business cards are. Just hideous lmao

Time to find some local Boston printer to save me

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 9h

These people really don't grasp the connection between "gleefully forcing a bunch of highly educated and highly motivated people out of their jobs" and "those people now have a lot of free time and hate you even more than they did before," do they

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 10d

Last minute update, but work will be sending me to ASHG @geneticssociety.bsky.social in a couple weeks! 🧬

Excited to be back for the first time in 2022. If you'll be there, let's connect!

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 9h

@thewarningses.bsky.social & I talked about the CDC. So what if it's not functional? Does it matter? They screwed up the pandemic!

It matters a lot. We need the CDC for the same reason we need the Army: save American lives & defend national security
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

A conversation with Dr Angela Rasmussen about the CDC

The CDC is being systematically dismantled. So what? What do we need public health for anyway?

rasmussenretorts.substack.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 13h

Today's newsletter is all about this brilliant ad www.readtpa.com/p/a-politici...

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Irina Bezsonova @irinabezsonova.bsky.social · 1d

This October I’m drawing 1 molecule a day inspired by proteins in pdb @rcsbpdb.bsky.social

Day 11
Prompt STING
Pdb: 6MZT

Scorpion venom protein Urotoxin.

Next:SHREDDED
Suggestions?

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 14h

“The scientific Nobels announced this week underscore that point. All three awards — granted each year in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry — honored achievements rooted in fundamental research…Decades of inquiry paved the way for the technology, treatments and toys of tomorrow.” 🎁

Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 12h

Having blackhawk helicopters constantly circling overhead when you're someone with PTSD is not great 🫠

Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 1d

It’s been said but it bears repeating: in addition to the people being abducted, all Chicagoans are being psychologically terrorized. Seeing feds driving/walking around and videos of violent attacks in places you know and love will fuck you up. Get ready, it’s coming to all of America soon.

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 1d

Some of the anti-ICE posters I spotted today in Chicago

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Beyond X&Y @beyondxandy.bsky.social · 13h

This is a phenomenal resource on the complexity of sexual development in humans. A simple binary model of sex does not capture the nuance of actual biology!

Thank you for your hard work @claudistics.bsky.social 👏

Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 4d

new article is up in full-text in #AJBA @bioanth.org! 🧪 💀

I predicted expression levels for skeletal sex indicators for 9 forms of #intersex, based on what we know ab these intersex variations (and which traits are most likely to affect bone growth, development, & remodeling) #SexualPolymorphism

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 16h

what did she call us | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: MATTIE and one other person are handcuffed on a platform over a big cylindrical vat full of glowing liquid. Behind them, TWO ARMED TROOPERS stand. One is shouting, next to a big lever.
TROOPER: You have all been charged with sexual deviance under the new statutes!
TROOPER: You are hereby sentenced…

PANEL 2: Closer in on MATTIE and the person next to her.
TROOPER (VO): …To being dropped into a big vat of acid, thus dissolving your perverted bodies!
MATTIE: I sure did prefer life before we were overrun by fascist stormtroopers.

PANEL 3: The TROOPERS look at each other.
TROOPER 2: Sorry…What did she-he call us?
TROOPER 1: NOT Cool…

PANEL 4: The other TROOPER from panel 3. He's crying, and pulls the lever. Some acid splashes into the frame.
TROOPER: STOP BULLYING ME!
SFX: CLUNK
SFX: SPLASH

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

"Although the dismantling of the CDC has cost the country its oldest, most stalwart resource for vaccine information, there remain many other resources for reliable, trustworthy & evidence-based information on vaccines." TY @tarahaelle.bsky.social for the list :

healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/10...

Where to find accurate vaccine information amidst the CDC’s ongoing collapse

With the CDC no longer a trustworthy source, use these resources to find reliable, accurate, evidence-based information about vaccines.

healthjournalism.org

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Autistic Science Person @autsciperson.bsky.social · 1d

"Non-Binary Passport Designations: Passports issued with “X” or other non-binary markers will be rejected by CBP systems, requiring resubmission with valid documentation showing “M” or “F” designation."

Nonbinary people will not be able to travel internationally 🙃

Persephone @apatilonia.bsky.social · 1d

www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/u-s-customs-...

Anyone who has an X gender marker won't be allowed to use their passports to travel after Oct 25th

CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIS

CBP enforces binary sex codes and stricter US passport validation in APIS effective October 2025. Key compliance updates for business travelers and airlines.

www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 17h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 16h

I have found this to be true with basically every scientist I know. It's only the business people and marketers who are touting AI. It's a cultish scam

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 17h

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

futurism.com

Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 1d

Bike trails? Gay kickball? Delicious Chinese food??? How scary!

The only people turning Chicago into a warzone are ICE

Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 1d

Some of the anti-ICE posters I spotted today in Chicago

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 1d

The deployment of tear gas throughout the Chicago area is a growing health concern. ICE is deploying tear gas in residential neighborhoods, near children, playgrounds, stores, etc. What are the health implications on our communities?

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

I hate profiles of conservatives who are worried that their country is changing and would welcome profiles of liberals and leftists who are afraid of same thing from the opposite direction and treated their concerns the same kind of reflexive deference

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 2d

How the media are gaslighting trans people

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 3d

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 3d

It really feels like one of the purposes of AI video is to get us to a point where no video we see on social media and no photograph can be trusted or assumed to be true, and we fully enter a post-truth world.

Truth is used to fight oligarchs, so they seek to destroy truth itself.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 3d

rib, and i cannot emphasize this next part enough, bit

Silence 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @b-dogood.bsky.social · 3d

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