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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 1h

I'm sure @elmcitytree.blacksky.app means well.

Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 3h

White people’s insistence that other white people—especially the ones exhibiting morally questionable behavior—deserve the benefit of the doubt is going to kill us all.

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 4h

Try to use it.

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 9h

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 11d

It’s because people lack any ability to conceive of a world without meat - even the people who study why it’s bad.

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 18d

@arseblog.com EDDIE!!!!!

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 19d

"Loyalty Purge" is a good name for a Kegger.

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 19d

Technically correct, but proper way to say that is that AAAS and Cell Press publishing policies are incompatible with the open research sharing policies of HHMI.

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 19d

Assuming you're in Colorado probably a short-horned walkingstick - Parabacillus hesperus

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 19d

thescientistpapers.substack.com/p/open-lette...

Open letter to HHMI on their Immediate Access to Research Policy

The following is in response to a letter sent to the HHMI community on September 24, 2025 and refers to HHMI’s new Immediate Access to Research Policy. The original letter appears at the bottom below ...

thescientistpapers.substack.com

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 23d

I agree he can't bring on subs in the first half and that his subs were right after that. But I still think he starts a too stylistically inflexible side - I would prefer starting with a side that can adjust better in the course of play, which is IMO Arteta's big weakness.

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 23d

@gunnerblog.bsky.social #arsecastextra curious what you think of the theory that Arteta's problem isn't that he's too cautious, it's that he overcommits in lineup selection to a specific theory of how the game will go and as a result we aren't in a good position to adjust when things go wrong

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 23d

This game was a perfect example. That was the right lineup to control the game early, frustrate City, maybe hit them with a set piece or Madueke, and then hit them with a more attack oriented lineup when they have to open up to chase the game. But when the opposite happened, we wasted the 1st half.

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 23d

Arteta's critics are right that he overthinks things, but wrong about HOW he overthinks things. He's not cowardly. Rather he imagines the game going one way and sets the perfect lineup to accomplish that, but he overcommits, and when things don't go to plan, we're inflexible and can't adjust.

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 26d

First they came for the Immigrants.
And I wrote a memo.
Then they came for trans people.
And I wrote a memo.
Then they came for the comedians.
And I wrote a memo.
Then they came for me.
And there was no one to write a memo for me.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27d

House Democratic leadership are accusing Trump FCC Chair Brendan Carr of a "corrupt abuse of power" following ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel and are calling on Carr to resign.

"House Democrats will make sure the American people learn the truth ... This will not be forgotten."

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · Sep 9

We're in this shit because people have been saying "i don't think this is the time" for 30 years....

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · Sep 8

@mbeisen.bsky.social and I have already been operating without journal proxies throughout our careers and, tbh, every aspect of it is better. Both the experience of doing science and the potential outcomes for science.
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Mike Lacy @mlacyphd.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thoughtful and powerful advice from @pracheeac.bsky.social and @mbeisen.bsky.social

Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · Sep 8

While journal publishing has always been deeply problematic, hurting both the pace and trajectory of science, something is happening in this moment that is finally causing the system to crumble under its own weight and cost.
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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · Sep 8

While journal publishing has always been deeply problematic, hurting both the pace and trajectory of science, something is happening in this moment that is finally causing the system to crumble under its own weight and cost.
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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · Aug 27

Absolute football hilarity.

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · Aug 27

I have never wanted to be in a pub with the @arseblog.com gents more than right now.

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · Aug 25

i was going to add "and kills cows" just for you :-)

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · Aug 25

This is for you, @benlindbergh.bsky.social

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · Aug 25

A fly that gets everyone to say "screw worms" is the perfect animal.

NPR @npr.org · Aug 25

JUST IN: U.S. officials confirmed a case of the flesh-eating parasite in a person who traveled from El Salvador. Screwworm typically affects cattle in South America, but has spread north in recent years.

The U.S. confirms its first human case of New World screwworm. What is it?

U.S. officials confirmed a case of the flesh-eating parasite in a person who traveled from El Salvador. Screwworm typically affects cattle in South America, but has spread north in recent years.

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · Aug 25

She asserted that cis-regulatory evolution was unimportant. What choice did I have?

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · Aug 17

COYG!!!!!

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