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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 4h

15 October 1910 | A Czech Jewish woman, Hildegarda Nettlová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 4 October 1944. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz

Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

Vintage portrait of a woman, smiling, in a white dress with a necklace.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 4h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 9h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 1d

We used live-cell imaging with plus-end binding protein EB3 to determine microtubule polarity in astrocytes for the first time. They are ~88% plus-ends out.

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Samara Reck-Peterson @samreckpeterson.bsky.social · 15d

We are hiring an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. Come join our collaborative research environment with state-of-the-art facilities in NYC! Application review starts Oct 22.
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Join our Faculty | Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics

Call for applications:We invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the newly established Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. We are conducting an open search for ou...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3h

Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined a near-unanimous outpouring of news organizations rejecting new rules for journalists based in the Pentagon.

News organizations, including Hegseth's former employer Fox, reject new Pentagon reporting rules

Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined a near-unanimous outpouring of news organizations rejecting new rules for journalists based in the Pentagon.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 3h

And there’s this guy. I’ll keep adding as I find more…

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3h

Here's a link to the full story
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...

Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid dispute over student newspaper's content

The director of student media was fired after he pushed back against a university directive over what gets printed in the Indiana Daily Student.

www.indystar.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Marguerite/Peg Turley @margueriteturl2.bsky.social · 4h

Yay!! And I think this is a Carolina mantis! I haven’t seen one of these in years!! #insects

Carolina praying mantis giving me the look on the steps

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 11h

Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing.

Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!

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John Berlinsky @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 6h

This is the life-saving work that the Trump Regime is doing its best to destroy.

I have to add: please note that this work is the result of long years of university research, much of it federally funded. And note that the years (decades) of less-successful attempts that have led up to these papers are in the same category: NIH and NCI money are all over this field. This is the very thing that the Trump administration has been working tirelessly to destroy. I am not exaggerating. They have been hitting these funding agencies over and over with layoffs, budget cuts, and whatever obstacles they can dream up, and they are also ripping into the universities where these funds have been granted. The exact phrases that J. D. Vance, Stephen Miller, Russell Vought and their henchmen have used is "universities are the enemy" and federal workers "need to be put into trauma". More specifically, the attitudes of our HHS head (RFK, Jr.) and his own minions toward mRNA research and vaccination are easy to summarize: they hate it and they want it to stop. It seems bizarre and insane and almost impossible to believe, but that is exactly what is happening. Every time you see scientific progress being made from US universities, remember that our elected officials are trying every day to defund it, to cripple it, to kill it outright. They are hitting it again and again in the hopes that it will finally stop moving. Act accordingly.

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 6h

Big news! Our week-long #bioimageanalysis bootcamp is BACK! Learn how to think about bioimage analysis like the pros do, learn what corrections you should (and shouldn't!) apply to your images, learn open source tools, and more. Apply NOW at broad.io/BAB3 for our January 2026 course!

A flyer for the Bioimage Analysis Beginnings Bootcamp - blue and white with a picture of cells on the top. It says "Learn core bioimage analysis skills using open-source tools for light microscopy. Open to participants at all skill levels." It also says it will be held a the Broad Institute, 415 Main Street, Cambridge MA USA, on Monday to Friday January 12th-16, 2026, from 9-5pm. Registration is $750 academic, $1250 industry, and applications are open at broad.io/BAB3

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John Hawks @johnhawks.net · 5h

The “Thorin” genome from Mandrin Cave, France, comes from a Neanderthal individual that might not have attracted much notice from the teeth and jawbone on their own. His DNA shows a deeper story of dynamic movements of some groups and long stasis of others.

www.johnhawks.net/p/surprising...

The impressive genetic diversity of the last Neanderthals

The new “Thorin” genome from Grotte Mandrin represents a previously-unknown Neanderthal deep history.

www.johnhawks.net

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 4h

Roy--you need to take on Trump and his minions head on--not just spout platitudes--show some damn leadership

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 5h

The servicemembers who are conducting these strikes need to be told, explicitly, by Dems in Congress that they have criminal liability, because they do

Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 6h

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 6h

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 6h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 5h

How to recognize a Young Republican douchebag in the wild.

Young Republican douchebag oozing towards the camera

Young Republican douchebag blabbering from a lectern.

Young Republican douchebag smarmying smarmily.

Young Republican douchebag, or possibly an incel. It’s hard to distinguish. The glasses sort of imply “Youth Minister” and therefore pedophile but hopefully he’s just a racist dick.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 4h

Pardon me..... I'm a borderline boomer, and neither have ever used ChatGPT nor voted tor his highness

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Texasippi Hippie @texasippihippie.bsky.social · 10h

Annie KayKaty New York’s National Committee woman said she was “ready to watch people burn” these people are evil down to their core.

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 13h

Or if Jeff’s too corny for ya, come work with me in more messy plant genomes! ;) JK - I’d run to work with either of us.

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 21h

Sweet pdoc fellowship! Would be really excited to work with someone interested in applying ancestral recombination graphs to messy, real-world data in plant genomes. Happy to chat if you might be interested!

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 5h

Here is GOP Rep. Mike Lawler, all smiles with the Chair of the NY State Young Republicans Peter Giunta who:

*Said ‘I love Hitler’

*Referred to blacks as ‘the watermelon people’

*Said ‘if your pilot is a she and she looks ten shades darker than someone from Sicily, just end it there.’

#NY17

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 13h

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Michael Battalio @battalio.com · 4h

Just heard about a 30-yr JPL scientist that was laid off. Had an email from them about one of our projects at 1PM. Three hours later: fired.

Again, if JPL leadership were actively trying to destroy morale, would they be handling the layoffs any differently?

Eos @eos.org · 10h

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off 11% of its staff today, including many people working on an active Mars rover mission. “There’s no whitewashing the ‘doomsday-eve’ feeling that's looming over all our heads,” wrote one JPL’er. eos.org/research-and...

JPL Workforce Decimated - Eos

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., laid off 550 people, a roughly 11% reduction of its workforce.

eos.org

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