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Brie Lindgren
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Origins of life bioorganic chem PhD candidate with a fluffy grading assistant
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astrobiology.bsky.social
A Small Polymerase Ribozyme That Can Synthesize Itself And Its Complementary Strand
astrobiology.com/2026/02/a-sm... #astrobiology #genomics #synbio #originoflife
A Small Polymerase Ribozyme That Can Synthesize Itself And Its Complementary Strand - Astrobiology
The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life.
astrobiology.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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bachynski.bsky.social
“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…

“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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hassansalem.bsky.social
How specific are heritable symbioses?

And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species?

We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social 🦠🪲 Out today in @natcomms.nature.com!

1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 16, 2026 at 7:24 AM
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sciworthy.bsky.social
Researchers from China and the US found a phylum of bacteria, CSP1-3, with genes for a streamlined metabolism and low-energy survival that are adapted to life in deep, nutrient-poor soils.
#SciComm #SciNews #microsky 🦠🧫
sciworthy.com/hidden-bacte...
Hidden bacteria dominate Earth’s deep soils – Sciworthy
Scientists showed that an understudied bacterium is widespread in deep soils worldwide and adapted to life with very little energy.
sciworthy.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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astrobiology.bsky.social
Deep-sea Microbes Get An Unexpected Energy Boost
astrobiology.com/2026/02/deep... #astrobiology #extremophile #oceanography #microbiology
Deep-sea Microbes Get An Unexpected Energy Boost - Astrobiology
the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes
astrobiology.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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narney.bsky.social
I started to make a document to list some alternatives for Discord that I’ll keep updating. It’s not necesserily to invite everyone to jump out but it’s good to know that they exist.

write.ellipsus.com/edit/5c78554...

Keep bothering Discord and inform yourselves.
February 10, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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sfpoetry.bsky.social
Eye to the Telescope issue 59

Immortality

edited by @ccraynewrites.bsky.social is now live!

read all the poems here:

eyetothetelescope.com/archives/059...
Eye to the Telescope
Eye to the Telescope, the quarterly online journal of SFPA, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, an international organization of speculative poets.
eyetothetelescope.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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zhugeex.com
Just saw that Xing Zhilei, the Chinese DIY influencer, posted an update on his self-built cat town which went viral last year.

youtu.be/i1savUPr-yU
February 15, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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annabookwriter.bsky.social
Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).
A valentine from Public Health of Seattle and King County. A man shivers in bed while a smiling lady in a red mask shows off her bandage on her arm. Text: Noses are red Ice packs are blue I'm vaxed so miss me with severe symptoms of flu. A valentine from Public Health of Seattle and King County. Two lady scientists shrug lackadaisically. Text reads: My love for you can't be explained by science. Just like the new federal vaccine guidelines. A valentine from Public Health of Seattle and King County. Protesters in Minneapolis wear thick clothes and hold signs of support for immigrant neighbors. Text reads: To the health departments in the Twin Cities: Love unites us. Our hearts are with you.
February 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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projectsaltbox.bsky.social
🚨ICE just got access to one of its biggest private detention center operators last night, thanks to a Navy contract.

The move lets ICE bypass normal contracting processes to tap GEO Group to operate its detention centers as they race to buy detention sites to house 92,000 detainees nationwide.
ICE Gains Fast-Track Access to Private Prison Giant as It Plans to Nearly Double Detention Capacity
Navy contract allows immigration agency to bypass normal bidding and hire one of its largest detention operators directly as it plans to add 92,000 beds by November
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February 14, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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patrlynch1.bsky.social
Bobcat illustration w a custom photo background shot for this plate. For my forthcoming book from Yale University Press, STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide, 9-2026. a.co/d/gAgXe4q
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm
Illustration of a Bobcat wading in a shallow stream.
February 14, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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rechelon.bsky.social
Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person.

Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:

zinelibrary.org
ZineLibrary
zinelibrary.org
February 14, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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notyour.dog
fuckin wild
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February 14, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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patrlynch1.bsky.social
What happens when you add an animal to a painting? A long consideration, but an important one, given how I’ve spent the last 50 years…
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #wildlifeart
open.substack.com/pub/alwaysso...
Art and the Animal—Beyond Sentiment to Seeing
Reclaiming the Natural World in Art
open.substack.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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damonberes.com
Egregiously cynical, even by the low standards of this company: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.” But I’ve had no doubt that such a feature is inevitable.
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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astrobiology.bsky.social
Microbiomes Interconnect On A Planetary-scale, New Study Finds
astrobiology.com/2026/02/micr... #astrobiology #microbiology
Microbiomes Interconnect On A Planetary-scale, New Study Finds - Astrobiology
microbes living in similar habitats are more alike than those simply inhabiting the same geographical region
astrobiology.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
A genuinely alarming piece in the NYT about how the developers, scientists and assorted techbros behind "AI companions"/"synthetic care" do not even know or understand the potential harms of the tech they're developing but they're too greedy to stop themselves from developing it.
“Confusion” doesn’t begin to describe our emerging predicament. Seventy-two percent of American teens have turned to A.I. for companionship. A.I. therapists, coaches and lovers are also on the rise. Yet few people realize that some of the frontline technologists building this new world seem deeply ambivalent about what they’re doing. They are so torn, in fact, that some privately admit they don’t plan to use A.I. intimacy tools. “Zero percent of my emotional needs are met by A.I.,” an executive who ran a team mitigating safety risks at a top lab told me. “I’m in it up to my eyeballs at work, and I’m careful.” Many others said the same thing: Even as they build A.I. tools, they hope they never feel the need to turn to machines for emotional support. As a researcher who develops cutting-edge capabilities for artificial emotion put it, “that would be a dark day.” Developers I spoke to said the same incentives that make bots irresistible can stand in the way of reasonable safeguards, making outright abstention the only sure way to stay safe. Some described feeling stuck between protecting users and raising profits: They support guardrails in theory, but don’t want to compromise the product experience in practice. It’s little wonder the protections that do get built can seem largely symbolic — you have to squint to see the fine-print notice that “ChatGPT can make mistakes” or that Character.AI is “not a real person.” “I’ve seen the way people operate in this space,” said one engineer who worked at a number of tech companies. “They’re here to make money. It’s a business at the end of the day.” But even if companies can curb serious dependence on A.I. companions — an open question — many of the developers I spoke with were troubled by even moderate use of these apps. That’s because people who manage to resist full-blown digital companions can still find themselves hooked on A.I.-mediated love. When machines draft texts, craft vows and tell people how to process their own emotions, every relationship turns into “a throuple,” a founder of a conversational A.I. business said. “We’re all polyamorous now. It’s you, me and the A.I.”
February 13, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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azalben.bsky.social
Dude regularly works for Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix and CN so speculate away. But this sucks no matter which studio is doing it, and gross to think some major movie this year is running with a plagiarized image from ChatGPT.
Post from Art Director Bill Robinson on LinkedIn saying: Welp, it finally happened. I was hired to work on a MAJOR live action Hollywood film (and I mean it’s one of the biggest anticipated films of the year). They needed a small animated sequence and wanted a character designer. I was handed a ChatGPT image and told “make it different”. I did - I spent hours finessing the design into something better and more specific for the character in the film. Waited a week for notes - then was told they got clearance from legal to use the original AI image instead. No need for any further work. This is what the director wanted. What are we doing as a society? What’s the endgame here? Replace every human until we are all homeless? I just don’t get it. If a major Hollywood film with a huge budget doesn’t see the need to work with real artists, is there any hope left?
February 13, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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ramirez.house.gov
Another win in the courts!

While I am glad that Venezuelan refugees will be returned to safety, they deserve justice. They were beaten, tortured, sexually assaulted, and starved at CECOT under Noem and DHS.

We must MELT ICE, impeach Noem, hold those responsible accountable, and dismantle DHS.
Judge Boasberg orders return of Venezuelans citing 'flagrancy' of due process violations
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of the Venezuelan migrants who were deported to El Salvador's CECOT prison last year.
abcnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
In other words, long enough that habeas petitions can be filed on their behalf in Minnesota before they're whisked off to an immigration detention facility somewhere in the Fifth Circuit (where, under that court's current law, they wouldn't be eligible for a bond hearing).
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d
Incredibly powerful opinion chronicling the awfulness in Whipple and the ways it interfered with the right to counsel.

One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest.
February 13, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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polphilpod.bsky.social
pure elite capture - the uk just folded to a hardline anti-trans campaign pushed by a tiny number of people

www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight
An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.
www.thepinknews.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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kylietcheung.bsky.social
These cases continue to arise, reminding there’s seemingly no ‘correct’ way to dispose of pregnancy remains that will protect us from criminal investigation—not while abortion bans and fetal personhood laws exist:
Breaking: Another Kentucky Woman Arrested for Miscarriage
She's sobbing in her mugshot
abortioneveryday.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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jmfenner.bsky.social
Officially got the finished copies of my artbook! So thrilled with how they turned out.

As a reminder - they'll be at ECCC with me, but I'll be putting the overstock up on an online store after the convention (mid-March). I'll give more specifics when that gets closer!
February 12, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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lettersofnote.com
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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toddalcott.bsky.social
February 12, 2026 at 5:29 AM