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Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 12h

🤣🤣🤣

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

THESE are the promises I want to hear.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 12h

Will we have to close the border to prevent US-imported measles, covid, soon polio? Or should we allow our economic overlords to kill children in Canada for their self-aggrandizement ?
—Apparently, I feel a bit angry today.

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Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 13h

The naked mole rat lives in a hyper-sheltered environment. Thus, it might benefit from costly physiological/cell biological adjustments that organisms in more variable niches might not be able to afford.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

THESE are the promises I want to hear.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 1d

New @nejm.org
One-shot gene therapy for a type of congenital deafness enabled some children to hear for the first time, and 3 of 12 kids achieved normal hearing
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2400521

DB-OTO Gene Therapy for Inherited Deafness | NEJM

Genetic deficiency of otoferlin, a protein critical to synaptic transmission by the sensory hair cells of the ear, causes congenital deafness. Medicines to treat the condition are lacking; children...

www.nejm.org

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Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 4d

Giacometti in the woods.
Sort of.

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Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 5d

Who wouldn’t?

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Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 5d

My first language was German. Now my command of French and English might be better than that of German. But I still feel strongly that the real name of things is the German name. Weirdly, sometimes I feel the real word is the Italian word (maybe too much Latin in school).

Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 5d

In any case, the Hauberk papers were more exciting (for me professionally).

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Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 5d

No, John Gurdon, who just died (left), didn’t clone a sheep! Rather, he was dramatically ahead of his time.

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Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 8d

In the playing style of Claudio Colombo there is something that makes music music that is missing. But it is also fascinating and weirdly addictive.

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Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 9d

Backyard camping with my grandson Darius and the moon behind the spruce. Lifelong training to be in good shape finally pays off.

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Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 12d

Eh quoi! On peut toujours changer d’avis au dernier moment.

Michael Rera @michaelrera.bsky.social · 12d

C'est légal pour la direction d'un institut de demander aux employés prévoyant de faire la grève de s'auto-déclarer?

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Michael Rera @michaelrera.bsky.social · 12d

C'est légal pour la direction d'un institut de demander aux employés prévoyant de faire la grève de s'auto-déclarer?

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Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 15d

youtube.com/watch?v=YD65...

Why the planet is drying out much faster than before, according to a new study

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

youtube.com

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Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 16d

Right, we should have fewer Dirac and more lecturers who are chosen for their ability to make you feel good.

Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 16d

"That was not a question, it was a statement" said the famous physicist Paul Dirac after a long silence, in a lecture, when a student said to him, "I don't understand that equation".
That was a hundred years ago and not enough has changed since then in our 'welcoming' culture in science..

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 16d

"That was not a question, it was a statement" said the famous physicist Paul Dirac after a long silence, in a lecture, when a student said to him, "I don't understand that equation".
That was a hundred years ago and not enough has changed since then in our 'welcoming' culture in science..

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Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 20d

Finally a counter-argument 😉😉😉

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 21d

The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further.

Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.

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Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 20d

Obviously! I’ll be happy to chaperone the drinking club.

Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 20d

I’m thinking that universities could save money by relieving faculty of their duties and focusing on the important things. Semi-pro sports, semi-pro sorority rush, and allowing students to segregate themselves into “exclusive” clubs for the purpose of networking after college.

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Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 20d

By whom?

David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 20d

Any journalist or commentator who writes a wrap-up of this speech that suggests that any of it was normal, worthy of respect, not absolutely deranged, not an insult to the audience, not an embarrassment for the US, should be relieved of their jobs.

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Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 20d

Agreed. But I also knew there were no trucks circling Iraqi deserts while making weapon-grade anthrax.

Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 21d

As the brother of an autistic American, as a person who worked on US scientific integrity policy at the White House, and as human being, I'm boiling at the RFK idiocy. And though I have little to offer beyond surpassing rage and national shame, I did smile at this statement from NYU's Arthur Caplan:

Sept. 22, 2025, 5:46 p.m. ET3 hours ago
Christina Jewett F.D.A. reporter

My inbox is already lighting up. Arthur Caplan, the founding head of the division of medical ethics at N.Y.U. Grossman School of Medicine, wrote: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies and dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science.”

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Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 20d

Consumers are easily fooled. If you take off only next year, it just slips in.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21d

Jimmy Kimmel isn't returning to the airwaves because of "thoughtful conversations" with Disney executives.

He's back because consumers sent Disney a clear message: selling out our fundamental rights is not an acceptable cost of doing business.

Why Corporate Media is Bending the Knee

YouTube video by Robert Reich

www.youtube.com

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Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 20d

Maybe you should. They’ll bow to the bottom line anyways (fascism or no fascism).

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21d

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now."

ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

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Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 20d

I meant it’s music that I’m still capable of appreciating because I was there when the albums appeared in the shops. I don’t think I could deal with neo-zep 😄.

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Siegfried Hekimi @siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social · 20d

It’s a age thing.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20d

Universal childcare wouldn't just relieve working families of a massive cost burden. It improves the whole economy.

"There are a lot of reasons building a child care system that works for everyone is important to our children, to parents, to employers and to economic growth."

How Universal Child Care Could Change the Economy

www.nytimes.com

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 20d

I’m thinking that universities could save money by relieving faculty of their duties and focusing on the important things. Semi-pro sports, semi-pro sorority rush, and allowing students to segregate themselves into “exclusive” clubs for the purpose of networking after college.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20d

BREAKING: In place of Jimmy Kimmel’s return, Sinclair and Nexstar will broadcast 90 minutes of Ezra Klein criticizing you for not reading “The Bell Curve”

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 20d

Any journalist or commentator who writes a wrap-up of this speech that suggests that any of it was normal, worthy of respect, not absolutely deranged, not an insult to the audience, not an embarrassment for the US, should be relieved of their jobs.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20d

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

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