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Ivan Aprahamian
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Chemistry Professor at Dartmouth. Into adaptive materials using tiny switches and machines
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Ivan Aprahamian @aprahamian.bsky.social · Aug 6
🎉Congrats to David @anbismillah.bsky.social the whole crew + collab Albert Wong on the new @cp-chem.bsky.social paper bit.ly/3J5FFse What started with an effort to tune the activation thresholds in negative #feedback loops so we can couple them took a wild turn #ChemSky #molswitch #chemsky ⚗️🧪
Coupling synthetic negative feedback loops
While coupled biochemical feedback loops are optimized over millions of years of evolution, the rational design of synthetic counterparts, not possess…
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Ivan Aprahamian @aprahamian.bsky.social · 9h
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Jonathan @frakitall.bsky.social · 13h
So, there's an FBI update due to Portland. 😂
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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.writes.news · 13h
Wild story from @carolinehaskins.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/a-plan...
A Plan to Rebuild Gaza Lists Nearly 30 Companies. Many Say They’re Not Involved
A presentation that has been shared with the Trump administration references Tesla, Ikea, TSMC, and more in its plan to rebuild Gaza. Some of these companies say they had no idea they were mentioned.
www.wired.com
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14h
Israel Warns Gaza Still Harboring Hundreds Of Doctors https://theonion.com/israel-warns-gaza-still-harboring-hundreds-of-doctors-1850964439/
Israel Warns Gaza Still Harboring Hundreds Of Doctors
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21h
Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert explains why Trump's peace deal for the Middle East really isn't a peace deal at all, but rather a roadmap for endless conflict that settles nothing. www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump...
Sorry, Donald Trump, but that’s not what I call a peace deal
No other world leader could have brought about this sequence of events to end the war in Gaza – but what happens when the US president’s boastful speeches stop, asks former Israeli prime minister Ehud...
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d
A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday.
Parking Signs
If you want to print out a poster for October 18th, here are two; fully-guaranteed countrywide but maybe especially suitable for in and around New York. No King Anytime sign ...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d
About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages
Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3d
ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! 👎

Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org

#BeThere 👍
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 3d
Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
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The Onion @theonion.com · 3d
Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis
Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis
CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d
"The University of Zurich said the married couple, who currently work at MIT, would join its economics faculty …. [They] will be moving … at a time when experts are warning that Trump's cuts to research funding and attacks on … freedoms could lead to a brain drain …."

www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Ivan Aprahamian @aprahamian.bsky.social · 4d
a man in a white shirt is standing next to a red van and says " not jealous "
ALT: a man in a white shirt is standing next to a red van and says " not jealous "
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 4d
There it is: $20 billion for Argentina at the same time they’re taking markets away from our farmers.

But no $ for health insurance for Americans?
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Ivan Aprahamian @aprahamian.bsky.social · 4d
😂 What are you having?
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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 4d
Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 4d
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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d
The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 4d
The Nobel Peace Committee sent a clear message to someone else in awarding the Prize to Ms. Machado:
”But democracy is also in retreat internationally. Democracy – understood as the right to freely express one’s opinion, …is the foundation of peace both within countries and between countries.” 👏
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Naomi Moris @nmoris.bsky.social · 5d
The Crick is looking for new junior group leaders! Any postdocs or early career researchers wanting to be our colleagues should apply 👍
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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 5d
We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.

Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.

Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d
antifa in portland just announced they will be hosting a counter halftime show to counter turning point's counter halftime show
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d
Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.
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Michael Pittelkow @pittelkowlab.bsky.social · 6d
I have a fully funded PhD position available in my group in Copenhagen: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
PhD fellowship in Organic Synthesis and Supramolecular Chemistry
The Department of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen invites applicants for a PhD fellowship in Organic chemistry with a particular focus on supramolecul
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Ivan Aprahamian @aprahamian.bsky.social · 5d
You sure? :)
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