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Mark "Piprrr" Coletti
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scientist ∧ bagpiper ∧ gamer ∧ burner

Research areas: evolutionary computation, agent-based modeling, neuroarchitecture search

Likes: anime, tabletop games, hiking, beer, and all too much binge watching

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hookean.bsky.social
A classic ☢️😉
#iTeachPhysics
#Science 🧪
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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drspacejunk.bsky.social
'In anticipation of the proposed cuts – 25% overall and, crucially, a 47% cut to NASA’s science spending – NASA has flagged 40 major projects, including 23 active missions, for closure.'
🧪 🔭
Who will take the lead in space research as NASA cuts bite?
Proposed cuts to the NASA budget, which threaten US university-based space research programmes as well as joint space missions, have left internationa...
www.universityworldnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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sensoryecology.bsky.social
“A recent clinical trial of a treatment based on stem cell transplants has found the procedure may be able to safely reverse the cumulative damage to the hard-working macula – that part of the retina responsible for all you see directly in front of you.”

www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its...
🧪 👁️
First-of-Its-Kind Treatment Boosts Vision in Human Trial, Scientists Report
Taking a photo of a friend? You've probably got their face centered and focused.
www.sciencealert.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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drnereide.bsky.social
The Hubble image shows UGC 12591, a rare isolated S0/Sa galaxy – a giant hybrid between a lenticular and an early-type spiral.

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap17030...

Image by ESA/Hubble & NASA

🔭 🧪 #science #extragalactic #cosmology

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Imagine a pitch-black sky with one lone, soft glow floating dead center. It’s a big, slightly oval puff, creamy at the heart, fading gently into a huge, ghostly pale haze that’s almost lost in the dark. A very faint, thin shadow drifts across the upper part like a whisper of smoke. No arms or patterns, just smooth and fluffy. A handful of tiny star specks with little cross glints keep it company around it.
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Elon Musk, the guy who did two Nazi salutes in public and has previously described himself as a “free speech absolutist,” thinks it should be a crime to “falsely” call someone a Nazi or a fascist.
Elon Musk * x @elonmusk x.com Falsely labeling non-violent people as "fascist" or "Nazi" should be treated as incitement to murder * Not the Bee $@Not the_Bee • 2h The left labeled Charlie Kirk fascist, and he got shot. The left labeled the National Guard deployments fascist.... 3:46 PM • 11/26/25 • 1M Views
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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jimmerthatisall.bsky.social
Carpenters are only in it for them shelves.
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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democratswin.bsky.social
WTAF???

Georgia prosecutor drops charges in case against Trump and allies over their efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. cnn.it/4agwz7z
Georgia prosecutor kills the historic election interference case against Trump and allies | CNN Politics
A Georgia prosecutor on Wednesday officially dropped the historic racketeering case against President Donald Trump and others for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election, closing the cha...
cnn.it
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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nejm.org
Influenza remains an important cause of illness and death. In a phase 3 trial, a nucleoside-modified mRNA (modRNA) quadrivalent vaccine was found to be superior to a standard quadrivalent vaccine in preventing influenza illness. Full trial results and Research Summary: nej.md/43udoTG
The New England Journal of Medicine Efficacy, Immunogenicity, and Safety of Modified mRNA Influenza Vaccine A Research Summary based on Fitz-Patrick D et al. | 10.1056/NEJMoa2416779 | Published on November 20, 2025 Visual representations of the patients in the trial and the treatments they were assigned. Read the full Research Summary at NEJM.org.
November 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
piprrr.bsky.social
This is the start of a B science fiction horror film.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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jennanewman.bsky.social
Meta’s 2020 research project, Project Mercury, “gauge[d] the effect of ‘deactivating’ Facebook & Instagram, according to Meta docs obtained via discovery…’ppl who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness & social comparison,’ internal docs said.”🧪
In a 2020 research project code-named "Project Mercury," Meta scientists worked with survey firm Nielsen to gauge the effect of "deactivating" Facebook and Instagram, according to Meta documents obtained via discovery. To the company's disappointment, "people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness and social comparison," internal documents said. Rather than publishing those findings or pursuing additional research, the filing READ states, Meta called off further work an oN APP internally declared that the negative study findings were tainted by the "existing media narrative" around the company.
November 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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New research reveals that tumor cells in bone marrow exploit macrophages to extract iron from red blood cells, driving tumor growth and causing anemia. PMID:41172979, Cell 2025, @Cell https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01128-6 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01128-6
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November 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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It is unprecedented that 47 medical and public health organizations should come together to condemn the actions of the CDC.
www.apha.org/news-and-med...

1. American Academy of Pediatrics
2. Academic Pediatric Association
3. American Academy of Family Physicians ....
Statement on CDC autism website changes
Our organizations, representing autistic individuals, their families, medical professionals and public health workers, are alarmed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is promoting the ...
www.apha.org
November 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Chemist Rachel Fuller Brown was born #OTD in 1898. She co-discovered the antifungal nystatin while doing research for the New York State Department of Health, hence the name. (1/2) 🧪 👩‍🔬

Image: Smithsonian Institution
Black and white photo of Rachel Fuller Brown. She is older in this photo, with her graying hair pulled back. She wears a white lab coat over black pants and a light colored blouse. She holds a round-bottom flask in each hand and stands in front of a lab bench. There are rows to test tubes, an Erlenmeyer flask, and a microscope on the bench in front of here. There is another bench along the wall behind her, and glass cabinets full of flasks and other equipment on the wall behind her.
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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TIL we can use the waste brine from desalination plants to generate electricity, offsetting some of the power used by the plant www.earth.com/news/japan-a... 🧪
Asia's first 'osmotic power plant' generates electricity using only water, 24 hours a day
Japan launches Asia's first and only osmotic power plant, which generates energy 24 hours a day using salt water.
www.earth.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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gregdoucette.bsky.social
Trump's domestic Gestapo raided a job site, then handcuffed a US citizen born in Raleigh NC -- even after being shown the guy's REAL ID, which is only available to US citizens and LPRs

CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism

www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
Excerpt from the linked news story. Text reads: Fernando Vazquez doesn't understand why Border Patrol agents took him into custody Tuesday. Agents from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) pinned him to a gate at his Cary worksite, handcuffed him and pulled his wallet out. They saw his N.C. REAL ID. But Vazquez, 18, said they still kept him in handcuffs and ushered him into the back of a gray Chevy Tahoe. He sat next to another worker in his early 20s who was crying. Excerpt from the linked news story. Text reads: 'I was in shock' Vazquez was born in Raleigh and lives in Apex. His parents are from Mexico, and he works with his dad as a landscaper. He graduated from Vernon Malone College and Career Academy in Raleigh. He was detained close to his former middle school, Reedy Creek. Excerpt from the linked news story. Text reads: Vazquez said he saw eight agents — four from the Tahoe, and four from a Ford Explorer or Chevy Suburban. Agents put him in the back of the Tahoe and drove off. "I was in shock, basically," Vazquez said. While in the car, a different Latino agent asked Vazquez where he was from. "Here," Vazquez told him. "NO, where were you born?" the agent asked. Vazquez told him he was born in Raleigh. He said the agent got angry and cussed him out. Excerpt from the linked news story. Text reads: The agents eventually allowed Vazquez out of their SUV, and he caught a video of them removing his handcuffs and throwing his wallet out of the car, its contents scattering on the ground. The video has over 5 million views on TikTok.
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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bolsanaro reportedly upset about going to prison because it’s taking him away from his true passion, going to the hospital
November 23, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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"Where are the Black photographers?" Deborah Willis on how she turned that question into an artistic mission. n.pr/4pqMJQ5
'Reflections in Black' celebrates history of Black photography with expanded issue
"Where are the Black photographers?" Deborah Willis on how she turned that question into an artistic mission.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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"I am the pet with no name... Catt Brannigan at your service."

#Futurama #memes
A meme depicting a cat dressed as Zapp Brannigan from Futurama that says "I got your distress call and came as quickly as I wanted to."
November 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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teslatakedown.com
We're seeing some confusion about this, so let's talk about it.

Home Depot has been complicit as ICE snatches day laborers out of parking lots. At minimum Home Depot is turning a blind eye, and there have also been rumors they may be more actively complicit. Organizers including #weaintbuyingit 🧵
victinibcn.bsky.social Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 4d
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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piperformissouri.bsky.social
Twitter now displays where accounts are from and it has confirmed that too many of the political accounts are out of country bots.

Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth.

Delete your account.
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Aug. 28: In a letter to the Office of Postsecondary Education, the American Council on Education has pushed for changing the definition & adding:

🔹Architecture
🔹Accounting
🔹Occupational Therapy
🔹Physical Therapy
🔹Special Education
🔹Public Health
🔹Social Work
🔹➕

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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My doctor said I should avoid too much excitement so I won’t be using exclamation points for a while.
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Breaking news: Trump had a beer thrown at him during a press conference.
Injury was avoided however.
The beer was a draft beer and Trump was able to dodge it.
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM