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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 8h

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 7h

Said this before, but at a church mtg my BFF was at (topic: protect trans kids) they were deciding on public actions. Two white dudes (25-35) were worried about violent reactions by cops. Oldest white woman there asked "Who here has been tear gassed?" and every woman over 50 raised her hand.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 6h

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 9h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6h

When they keep emailing you that the VIP tickets for a band you’ve never heard of are going fast

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 6h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

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UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics @uhnsm.bsky.social · 10h

UH Assistant Professor Dr. Quentin Vicens co-authored a Protein Science paper showing that cromolyn, an FDA-approved drug, binds to the Zα domain of ADAR1p150, reshaping our understanding of RNA structure and immune signaling.

🔗 Read the study: http://bit.ly/47a9wIt

#GoCoogs #UHResearch

Dr. Quentin Vicens, Assistant Professor of Biology & Biochemistry at the University of Houston, smiling in a professional portrait. The cover highlights a new publication in Protein Science about the RNA-editing enzyme ADAR1p150 and Cromolyn as a novel pharmacophore.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 15h

It’s great to be paid for protesting and everything but let me tell you the whole antifa reimbursement process is just terrible

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 3d

Guy who is zip-tying American children and shooting pastors on the head with pepper balls wants Peace Prize.

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, normal people, tracking disease and keeping people from unnecessarily getting sick and dying is a "Democrat-thing." Vote accordingly.

Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 2d

RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.

Figure showing the largest measles outbreak in the US in decades. There are over 1500 cases as of October 7 2025

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Manny Ares 👀 @mannyares.bsky.social · 2d

I remember the buzz the faculty got from her visits (was ug researcher '77). Srb's text General Genetics was required reading. I recall he smoked in his office, holding his cigarette between his 3rd & 4th fingers, which we all thought was cool then.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social · 2d

Please join us in congratulating ASBMB member Jennifer Doudna, who has been awarded the prestigious 2026 Joseph Priestley Medal for her groundbreaking work on #RNA molecules with enzymatic functions by @acs.org.
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Doudna wins Priestley Medal

She will receive a $20,000 research grant and will formally accept the honor at the ACS Spring 2026 conference.

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Danny IncaRNAto @incarnatolab.bsky.social · 2d

So excited to see this out in @natgenet.nature.com! An amazing collaboration with @gagneurlab.bsky.social, I am happy I was (a small) part of. Nucleotide dependencies can capture regulatory elements, including #RNA structures! Congrats to the whole team! Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nucleotide dependency analysis of genomic language models detects functional elements - Nature Genetics

Mapping pairwise nucleotide dependencies by leveraging genomic language models highlights functional genomic elements and predicts deleterious genetic variants more effectively than alignment-based conservation metrics.

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 2d

Accurate.

#academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 4d

If I were choosing this year’s Nobel Peace Prize

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 4d

The global whaling industry experienced a boom c. 1840-1950 as technology allowed whalers to hunt the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Under standard models, we would have expected krill populations to have *exploded*.

Instead, they DROPPED exponentially.

Let's talk about the KRILL PARADOX.

Change in distribution and abundance of southern right whales. (A) Shows historical and contemporary wintering distributions (Figure 1 from Carroll et al., 2018), and (B) shows decline in abundance and subsequent recovery (solid line is the mean, dashed line shows upper and lower 95% CI). Modified Figure 1 from Jackson et al. (2008). Contemporary sightings are divided into regions where large aggregations are seen during winter: Argentina (ARG), Brazil (BZL), South Africa (SAF), southwest Australia (SWA), south central Australia (SCA), and New Zealand sub-Antarctic (NZSA) and regions where sightings are typically of small numbers of individuals per year. The large aggregations are IWC management units and correspond to historical whaling grounds, although another 5 whaling grounds show little sign of recovery. Summer feeding areas are poorly described and so not shown.

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Manny Ares 👀 @mannyares.bsky.social · 4d

Classic BS reply! True expertise. Pass. 🤣🎖️

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Manny Ares 👀 @mannyares.bsky.social · 4d

I think you mean 1,6-phospho-mississippiramaladadingdongase.

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Manny Ares 👀 @mannyares.bsky.social · 4d

I like how the order of those particular consonants rolls the word out, especially when followed by Boulevard. It’s a tiny poem about LA.

Manny Ares 👀 @mannyares.bsky.social · 4d

Sepulveda same

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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 5d

Current Purdue RNA researcher @kylecottrell.bsky.social and former Purdue graduate student (Kasinski Lab) and RNA researcher Esteban Orellana together at the FASEB - RNA Processing in Cancer meeting.

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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 5d

Hear FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor on A Public Affair with host Dana Pellebon! 🎙️

She talks about decades of fighting for women’s rights, keeping religion out of government, and why it’s a great time to be nonreligious.

www.wortfm.org/theres-no-tr...

There’s No True Democracy Without Separation of State and Church - WORT-FM 89.9

Annie Laurie Gaylor says that more Americans than ever identify as non-religious, but Christian nationalists are endangering our democracy.

www.wortfm.org

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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 5d

"But thou, when thou prayest, set up thine camera, and when thou hast chosen a flattering filter, pray unto thy Father which is in the cloud; and thy Father which seeth thy engagement shall bless thee with many subscribers"

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 6d

Kristi Noem praying before sending her secret, masked goons out to harass the people of Portland

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Manny Ares 👀 @mannyares.bsky.social · 5d

People sometimes forget that Cornell has an Ag school - I would check them out!

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