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Pedro Brandão-Dias F Pinto @pedrobd.bsky.social · 13h

🚀 The @ednacollab.bsky.social just launched the DIYNAFLUOR Microgrant 2025!

They’re offering materials + support to build a low-cost DIY fluorometer for eDNA quantification.

It can be as effective as Qubit at a % of the cost.

Great opportunity for anyone in #eDNA, #DIYBio, #CitizenScience 👇

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CG Partridge @partridgecg.bsky.social · 1d

Now that the one grant that I've always wanted has been funded, I'm out of ideas. 😂

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 1d

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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CG Partridge @partridgecg.bsky.social · 1d

This is one reason why I hate companies.

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CG Partridge @partridgecg.bsky.social · 1d

Multiple papers are like, "Add 0.5 uL of 60X primer/probe mix". I mean, okay but what is the actual concentration so that I know how to make it 60X???

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CG Partridge @partridgecg.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite thing in Molecular Ecology is how we've all stopped adding concentration information for our primers/probes and only talk about how many microliters we added per reaction so that nobody knows the actual needed concentrations.

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CG Partridge @partridgecg.bsky.social · 1d

OS update means I've lost my ability to connect to the network and I can no longer print things.

a man with a mustache and a striped shirt is saying `` i hate everything '' .

ALT: a man with a mustache and a striped shirt is saying `` i hate everything '' .

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CG Partridge @partridgecg.bsky.social · 2d

Should I watch Culinary Class Wars for the 4th time?

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 2d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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CG Partridge @partridgecg.bsky.social · 2d

I've just updated my OS. R may never work again.

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CG Partridge @partridgecg.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know why this makes me sad, but it does.

Shaun @zooropean.bsky.social · 2d

So much for another relic from my childhood:

cordcuttersnews.com/mtv-is-shutt...

MTV is Shutting Down Its Last Music Channels, Marking the End of an Era | Cord Cutters News

Paramount Global has delivered a devastating blow to music fans worldwide, announcing the permanent shutdown of five iconic MTV music channels by December 31, 2025 according to the BBC. For 44 years, ...

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CG Partridge @partridgecg.bsky.social · 2d

Downloading sequence files.

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ALT: a little girl is crying and saying `` i 'm so excited !! ''

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 3d

Either one person is lying or hundreds of people are lying about the streets of Portland being overrun...

...by people in adorable inflatable animal constumes.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3d

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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CG Partridge @partridgecg.bsky.social · 3d

Can anyone recommend some newer alt-rock or alt-punk bands to follow?

CG Partridge @partridgecg.bsky.social · 3d

$26K per year + tuition waiver. It isn't the best stipend but at least it is better than the university base of $13K.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 3d

I DEEPLY resent that I have to take seriously the stunted, juvenile political and theological opinions of Peter Thiel

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CG Partridge @partridgecg.bsky.social · 3d

Our departmental stipend is double this for MS students and it still isn't enough. If we were to transition to a PhD program we would have enough funds for 1 PhD student every 4 years for the entire department.

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CG Partridge @partridgecg.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, I feel like no one making these decisions has any idea about the long-term costs of PhD program nor do they have a long-term plan as to how to secure those funds.

CG Partridge @partridgecg.bsky.social · 3d

When your university can only afford to pay their master's students $13k per year, yet they want to start bringing in PhD programs.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3d

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 4d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

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.

www.cbsnews.com

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CG Partridge @partridgecg.bsky.social · 4d

Things I learned about myself today: I like dark books, but I'm not a fan of dark romance.

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CG Partridge @partridgecg.bsky.social · 4d

My current feelings about AI

Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 4d

stop thinking right now

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Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 4d

UNC just removed their long-standing space for the Black Student Movement to gather, in yet another stunning capitulation to the toddler-man’s anti-DEI demands.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

www.dailytarheel.com

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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 4d

I'm the incoming SSE president and am behind this idea -- if you're interested in putting together an app and have questions, pls reach out!

Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 7d

Now accepting proposals for new Research Synthesis Working Groups! Each funded group will present a symposium at the Evolution meeting, collaborate on a publication, and establish a lasting research network. Submit your proposal by January 6: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Call for Proposals: Research Synthesis Working Groups. Deadline: January 6.

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