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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 8h

thinking of Jane Goodall’s Netflix interview and how they asked her if she would be glad to see either of her husbands and she was like eh, naw, and they asked her who she would be happy to see and she named a couple animals, like, not literally choosing the bear, but choosing the gorilla which loll

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 8h

💯 it reminds me of the people who immediately jump to "we're not going back to lockdowns!" when met with Covid activists...none of us having suggested that

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

It’s also so unnecessary. Literally nobody is talking about universal public masking (even though we desperately need to), so you’re basically inventing a straw man to punch down at.

Which is also dick behavior.

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 8h

Just to be clear:
(1) The old guard (both literally the older ones but also the spiritually/ideologically/tactically older ones) of the Democratic Party doesn't seem to understand the moment we're in.
(2) The competitive primaries (which are good!!) are going to prove that out.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8h

Tbh when I see a prominent influencer caping for the Democrats at this particular point in time when they are literally popular with NO ONE, I have to assume someone is paying you to do it

And it makes me sad that you’re for sale

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 8h

The best solution I can think of is to talk to the young women in our lives directly. Not publicly. Understand the pressures they are facing. Share your experiences. Sow intergenerational harmony, not division. Share the lessons you’ve learned, personally. But let them make their own decisions.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 8h

Key!👇

Winning with #misinformation: people endorse easily disproven claims to prioritize symbolic strength theconversation.com/winning-with...

"...some people consider it a 'win' to lean in to known falsehoods."

"...mindset was also strongly associated with authoritarian attitudes."

Winning with misinformation: New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength

Conversations around misinformation that assume everyone cares about literal truth may be missing the point.

theconversation.com

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Addy Berry, PhD @addyberry.bsky.social · 1d

So I guess sex work is only ok if just tech oligarchs are profiting off it and not marginalized women or minorities who depend on it to survive?

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 1d

#Handcrafts as a scalable (fun!) therapy?

Knit one, purl two on the way to #mentalhealth healthydebate.ca/2025/10/topi... by Jane Caulfield (yep, might be connection!) via @healthydebate.bsky.social

Studies show #knitting has many potential benefits for "mental health & general well-being.”

Knit one, purl two on the way to mental health - Healthy Debate

Addressing rising mental health rates will undoubtedly require a range of different tools, both pharmacological and non-pharmaceutical.

healthydebate.ca

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 7h

I WONDDDDERR WWWHYYY

Next week will see a first in computer science, with the launch of a scientific conference in which all of the papers — and all of the reviews — have been produced by machines.

At the event known as Agents4Science 2025, to be held online on 22 October, the attendees will still be humans. It will feature presentations of the submitted papers — given either by the artificial intelligence (AI) agents themselves or by the humans who ran the experiments — and panel discussions by academics.

The conference offers “a relatively safe sandbox where we can sort of experiment with different submission processes, different kinds of review processes”, says James Zou, an AI researcher at Stanford University in California who co-organized the event. It is designed to capture a “paradigm shift” in how AI is used in science that has taken place over the past year, says Zou. Rather than using large language models (LLMs) or other tools designed for specific tasks, researchers are now building coordinated groups of models, known as agents, to act as “scientists working across the research endeavour”, he says.

AI models are already being used to generate and review research, but most publishers and conference organizers ban machines from being listed as paper authors or speakers. “We thought we’d flip it around, where both the authors and the reviewers have to be AI,” says Zou. Although humans can offer advice and feedback, according to conference guidance, AIs should be the primary contributor, akin to the first author.

The conference draws attention to “the fact that those of us in the AI world need to do a better job at understanding what the strengths and weaknesses are of using systems in this way”, says computer scientist Margaret Mitchell, who studies AI ethics at Hugging Face in New York City. “How to evaluate AI agents at all is an open research area,” she adds. A key question is how to factor in the frequency with which the model comes up with useless ‘false positive’ di…

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Gracie Ann (she/her) @ladyofflies.bsky.social · 8h

a recent graduate from UofA helped me make a video about my research. i love my team and then work that i get to for my PhD 🦟🩸🐦‍⬛ #westnilevirus #diseaseecology #wildlifeconservation #onehealth #publichealth #medicalentomology #womeninstem #arizona

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 7h

every. time.

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Nov 16

Honest question, (some of the most bad faith shit you've ever heard)

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plasmidsaurus @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social · 7h

🦖 Something HUGE just hatched.

Plasmidsaurus now offers RNA sequencing for gene expression analysis:
• As fast as 3 day turnaround
• $50/sample for academia, $80 for industry
• Up to ~10M unique transcript 3’ end reads per sample
• Interactive results

Explore Plasmidsaurus RNA-Seq today.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 7h

University administration:
"We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible."

Also university administration:

Stolen from the Internet, a sign that says "If Elevator does not move do a small jump it should move after", and a dirty-white freight elevator wall and aged elevator controls with only floors 1 and 2."

I have no idea where this really is, I just stole it off Wikimedia.

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𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖜 𝖑𝖊𝖊 瀬川 @crowlees.bsky.social · 20h

the takahē is a large flightless swamphen from New Zealand! The first of my NZ bird selection for Armageddon con

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chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · 6h

thank you. i guess most people stopped paying attention to covid news once they were told they could vax and relax, which… sadly… is a recipe for everyone getting covid over and over again.

chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · Apr 14

2020: i see headlines that say covid is damaging our immune systems.

2021: i see headlines that say covid is damaging our immune systems.

2022: i see headlines that say aging our immune systems.

2023: i see headlines that say covid is damaging our immune systems.

2024: i see headlines that say c

Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · Apr 14

I saw a headline
which asked: “Is Covid
quietly sabotaging
our immune systems?”
and while the article
(unfortunately)
answers that question
in the affirmative,
should you try
to inform people
about such findings
they will tell you
to just be quiet.

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David Eccles 🌻🇵🇸7x🩹🛡️ @gringene.org · 5h

📌 COVID-19 pathology

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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 6h

So for everyone who has said that comparisons between HIV and COVID-19 are inflammatory and irresponsible, I’m sharing this new article in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine that does just that and finds some clear parallels:

www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

A screenshot of article highlights:

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HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 are preventable infectious diseases with chronic systemic impacts including immune system dysfunction.
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Chronic inflammation, immune exhaustion, and accelerated biological aging are shared hallmarks of HIVI/AIDS and Long COVID/PASC.
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Tissue reservoir persistence drives long-term damage in both HIV and SARS-CoV-2. SARS-CoV-2 mirrors HIV-1 in its ability to evade immune defenses and cause chronic infection.
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SARS-CoV-2 -associated neurological disorders (SAND) parallel HIV-associated neurological disorders (HAND).
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Both pandemics exhibit failures in global solidarity and reveal inequities in healthcare access.

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Ronlyn Domingue @ronlyndomingue.bsky.social · 5h

HIV is transmitted through body fluids and requires direct contact. COVID is airborne, so a person could just go into an area with a high viral load and get it. How many more human beings are likely to be exposed to and spread COVID compared to HIV?

Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 6h

So for everyone who has said that comparisons between HIV and COVID-19 are inflammatory and irresponsible, I’m sharing this new article in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine that does just that and finds some clear parallels:

www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

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Dan Portik @dportik.bsky.social · 6h

Another #metagenome assembly algorithm for #PacBio HiFi data - introducing Alice!

I'll be very interested to see how this performs on some of our trickier datasets.

More broadly, I'm happy to see continual development of tools for long-read #metagenomics.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Alice: fast and haplotype-aware assembly of high-fidelity reads based on MSR sketching

We introduce Mapping-friendly Sequence Reduction (MSR) sketches, a sketching method for high-fidelity (HiFi) long reads, and Alice, an as-sembler that operates directly on these sketches. MSR produces...

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Martha Bhattacharya @marthabhattacharya.bsky.social · 6h

This is my district. We elected Adelita by a huge margin. We want representation NOW.

Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 22h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 6h

Not ashamed to admit this clip (I posted the wrong one a second ago) is giving me such a delish little thrill, my apology to these white ladies I was unfamiliar with their game

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Cracked Lemonade @crackedlemonade.bsky.social · 7h

Yea, idk I remember saying something about how a lot of people's bar for racism is overt racism it makes a lot of problems invisible. If you're not actively on the receiving end, sure it's invisible and it seems like times were better when you were not actively confronted to take a look at yourself

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 8h

I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.

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Sebastian Speer @sebospeer.bsky.social · 19d

@falklab.bsky.social wrote a nice summary of our hyperscanning work on how people form social connection and find agreement through conversation: www.scientificamerican.com/article/good...

Good Conversations Don’t Require Everybody to Agree, Neuroscience Shows

Brain imaging is illuminating the patterns linked to productive, positive dialogue, and those insights could help people connect with others

www.scientificamerican.com

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 1d

Well now, would you look at that?

A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

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