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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 5d

End qualified immunity.

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 5d

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says

The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade

www.independent.co.uk

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 11d

PubMed is running on autopilot during shutdown, but key independent committee has been abolished www.bmj.com/content/391/... 🧪

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Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social · 11d

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

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Devon Ryan @dpryan79.bsky.social · 12d

You know you work for a software company when the description of meeting room names in your new office comes with regex that they will all follow.

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Christophe 🔬 L @christlet.bsky.social · Sep 17

Our new preprint is up! This is the main postdoc work of @wiesner-t.bsky.social focusing on exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the sub membrane actin-spectrin scaffold: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read the thread below for a summary of our findings 🧵1/11

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Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · Sep 12

New blog post – A quick look at Roche's SBX
lh3.github.io/2025/09/11/a...

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Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · Sep 4

Now published in GigaScience with minor improvements: academic.oup.com/gigascience/...

* Download: zenodo.org/records/1490...
* More info: github.com/lh3/panmask

Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · Jul 8

Preprint on "Finding easy regions for short-read variant calling from pangenome data": arxiv.org/abs/2507.03718

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Jean-François Cudennec @jfcudennec.bsky.social · Aug 27

Plants phylogeny is a mess anyway

Credit : @xkcd.com

"Did you know the mighty redwood is actually the same species as brocoli and kale ? it's just a different cultivar"

"Every year or two, botanists add another plant to Brassica oleracea and see if anyone calls them on it"

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Stephen Farrell @lutzie.bsky.social · Jun 10

Always relevant.

A picture of William Adams, from the TV show Battlestar Galactica, with the quote:
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."

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Devon Ryan @dpryan79.bsky.social · May 27

My 6th grader is doing a survey for ethics class on the concepts of happiness and luck (or Glück for the German speakers). If you have a few minutes to submit your thoughts she’d appreciate it. docs.google.com/forms/d/1y2b...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · May 26

These are VERY rough estimates, but here's life expectancy after diagnosis of type-I diabetes over the past 150 years.

It was Banting and Best's discovery of how to isolate insulin in 1921 — not some fucking cooking class — that gave people including my daughter a new lease on life.

Plot of life expectancy after Type 1 diabetes diagnosis, 1850-2025.

After the discovery of insulin in 1921, life expectancies go gradually from zero to seventy years.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Apr 30

I’m overwhelmed by the expressions of sympathy and support.

And still this pales in comparison to what they are doing to immigrants and to undermine the Bill of Rights.

If you could do one thing for me, call your representatives and demand accountability for their white supremacist terrorism.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Apr 30

Just got mine.

Totally expected, but it still sucks.

Probably the most for all the work that so many of us put in on behalf of US taxpayers that is now wasted and will never come to fruition.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has undertaken a review of its award portfolio. Each award was carefully and individually reviewed, and the agency has determined that termination of certain awards is necessary because they are not in alignment with current NSF priorites.

Effective immediately, the following are terminated:

NSF Award Id

NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant to NSF Grant General Conditions (GC-1) term and condition entitled 'Termination and Enforcement,' on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities. This is the final agency decision and not subject to appeal.

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Devon Ryan @dpryan79.bsky.social · Apr 25

This seems like a good thing. Are we aloud to have good things? I feel like this is going to turn into a Charlie Brown and Lucy with the football sort of situation.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Apr 25

NEW: ICE says it is restoring the legal status of thousands of international students in the SEVIS database (used jointly by the govt and universities) after continuing court losses. (h/t @johnhawkinson.bsky.social) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Devon Ryan @dpryan79.bsky.social · Apr 16

Were you able to screenshot that? All I see is „blocked“.

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Devon Ryan @dpryan79.bsky.social · Apr 16

Anyone want to go in on an industry collab to fund this?

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Apr 16

what kind of doge disaster is this one?

the nnsa kind - where they oops!ed then tried to hire people back

the ebola kind - where they oops!ed then failed to hire people back

the lead poisoning kind - where they oopsed! then didn't even try to hire people back

www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/h...

Homeland Security funding for CVE program expires

: Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?

www.theregister.com

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Congressman Shri Thanedar @shrithanedar.bsky.social · Apr 16

I've seen enough. Donald Trump is not abiding by a lawful Supreme Court ruling. As a member of Congress, I fully support impeaching him. NOW.

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · Apr 15

How is this Python package real pypi.org/project/tari...

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Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Apr 13

Cruel Fate, 1525: Our cow died during the night. We will surely perish.

Cruel Fate, 2025: Our Keurig stopped working during the night. We will surely perish.

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Hilde Kuehne @hildekuehne.bsky.social · Apr 13

That’s a wild backdoor…

Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · Apr 12

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

David D. Levine @daviddlevine.com · Apr 12

LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."

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Devon Ryan @dpryan79.bsky.social · Apr 10

Burn

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Apr 9

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

Devon Ryan @dpryan79.bsky.social · Apr 3

I have yet to see a boring thread from you…

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Devon Ryan @dpryan79.bsky.social · Apr 3

Someone needs to do a dramatic reenactment of this

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Apr 3

Govt: Don't know what members of the admin who were listening in to call

Judge: You can't think of anyone else?

Govt: No?

Judge: Anyone you *believe* were listening in?

Govt: Maybe covered by atty/client privilege?

Judge: ... Why?

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Devon Ryan @dpryan79.bsky.social · Apr 3

Is this the legal equivalent of questioning a 4 year old that is denying having eaten chocolate while they have chocolate smeared all over their face?

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Apr 3

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Boasberg holds a "show cause" hearing on whether the government defied his orders when it deported Venezuelans accused of being members of Tren de Aragua to a nightmarish Salvadoran prison

MINUTE ORDER: The Court ORDERS that the parties shall appear on April 3, 2025, at 3:00 p.m. for a hearing on the Court's 47 Order to Defendants to show cause why they did not violate the Court's Temporary Restraining Orders. Members of the public may attend in person or by telephone. Toll free number: 833-990-9400.
Meeting ID: 049550816. Any use of the public-access telephone line requires adherence to the general prohibition against photographing, recording, livestreaming, and rebroadcasting of court proceedings (including those held by telephone or videoconference), as set out in Standing Order No. 24-31 (JEB).
Violation of these prohibitions may result in sanctions, including removal of court-issued media credentials, restricted entry to future hearings, denial of entry to future hearings, or other sanctions deemed necessary by the Court. So ORDERED by Chief Judge James E. Boasberg on March 31, 2025. (Icjeb2)

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Bérénice Batut @bebatut.bsky.social · Apr 3

#standupforscience #clermont-ferrand

A smiling woman holding a sign for Stand up for Science

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Devon Ryan @dpryan79.bsky.social · Apr 1

Great, let’s loosen controls on snake oil, just what we need more of.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · Apr 1

Big setback to regulate tests ProPublica wrote about:

How Prenatal Screenings Have Escaped Regulation www.propublica.org/article/how-...