Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦
@merz.bsky.social
"There are no answers; only choices."
– S. Lem
I choose one [o] or two-cell [8] organisms and dissonant music.
Professor of Biochemistry @ UW-Seattle. Any coincidence of my opinions with my employer's is coincidental.
– S. Lem
I choose one [o] or two-cell [8] organisms and dissonant music.
Professor of Biochemistry @ UW-Seattle. Any coincidence of my opinions with my employer's is coincidental.
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Speaking truth can be liberating, and it’s clear Massie is enjoying his freedom.
Massie: “[Speaker Johnson is] trying to say the rich, powerful men who flew to Epstein Island are the victims now. The only way a ‘Christian man’ can stand up there and sell a lie like that is if he’s already decided in his head that protecting them is somehow okay.”
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Speaking truth can be liberating, and it’s clear Massie is enjoying his freedom.
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How I look reading your posts
November 19, 2025 at 4:22 AM
How I look reading your posts
How I look reading your posts
November 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
How I look reading your posts
shitshow nation on the international stage
I will not be buying any World Cup tickets or merchandise due to FIFA’s collaboration with the Trump regime.
Gianni Infantino has a dictator fetish. It’s grotesque.
Gianni Infantino has a dictator fetish. It’s grotesque.
Fifa agrees World Cup matches can be moved at Trump’s request
The president has been warning host cities under Democratic control that he will call on Fifa’s president to switch venues if he deems there is a problem
www.thetimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
shitshow nation on the international stage
Insanely cool discovery!
Excited to share our new preprint in collaboration with Ahmet Yildiz's lab. Check out how our team uncovers a novel binding footprint and motor regulation mechanism for MAP9 Congrats to Burak Cetin and @aryantaheri.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 19, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Insanely cool discovery!
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This makes me so angry.
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
Personalized Cancer Vaccines Are Almost Here—But Federal Funding Cuts Could Derail Them
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
www.scientificamerican.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 AM
This makes me so angry.
Fox really is America’s Official Coprophagia Network.
Fox chyron reads "ANTI-ICE PROTESTS ROCK CHARLOTTE" while in the background on their liveshot you can see people in frog and dinosaur costumes
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Fox really is America’s Official Coprophagia Network.
Trump should be treated exactly the way Obama would have been treated if he had stood next to a murderous foreign leader and all but praised that leader’s depraved murder of an American journalist.
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Trump should be treated exactly the way Obama would have been treated if he had stood next to a murderous foreign leader and all but praised that leader’s depraved murder of an American journalist.
Seconded.
DHS fascists are apparently coming to Durham, NC today.
I hate this so fucking much.
Much love to the beautiful people of Durham.
www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
I hate this so fucking much.
Much love to the beautiful people of Durham.
www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
November 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Seconded.
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
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Somehow Shelby Co. never gets enough hate in these discussions, but like, it's the only decision, I think, in between Bush v. Gore and Trump v. Anderson that I would say had no basis in legitimate law
November 17, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Somehow Shelby Co. never gets enough hate in these discussions, but like, it's the only decision, I think, in between Bush v. Gore and Trump v. Anderson that I would say had no basis in legitimate law
IANACL not do I play one on television but still, I think that's exactly right.
(For what it's worth, Citizens United is not close to as bad as Bush v. Gore, either in legal reasoning or in its effect on society)
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
IANACL not do I play one on television but still, I think that's exactly right.
These people have treasonous impulses animated by the fact that they *hate* the United States Constitution.
something else I’ve been thinking about a lot recently is that it seems pretty clear that their actual problem is with the reconstruction amendments themselves, and to extrapolate a bit, that there’s a significant neo-confederate impulse animating the American right.
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
These people have treasonous impulses animated by the fact that they *hate* the United States Constitution.
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Judge Just Blew a Gaping Hole in the Comey Prosecution talkingpointsmemo.com/news/james-c...
Judge Just Blew a Gaping Hole in the Comey Prosecution
The extent of the prosecutorial and investigative misconduct in the James Comey...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Judge Just Blew a Gaping Hole in the Comey Prosecution talkingpointsmemo.com/news/james-c...
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did a worm write this
November 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
did a worm write this
how in the hell is that woman a journalist with a career
November 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
how in the hell is that woman a journalist with a career
pigs
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
pigs
Rabid bullshitters.
Kristi Noem: "The Dept of Homeland Security is working on making sure people can travel here safely. They know they are welcome to the United States. Each of these events will be cooperative events with our cities."
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Rabid bullshitters.
The character of Charlotte is honest, loyal, and brave beyond measure. DHS officials, of course, would not understand these virtues.
Granddaughter of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ author criticizes use of book title in DHS immigration crackdown operation | CNN
In the popular children’s book “Charlotte’s Web,” the title character, a spider, uses her web as an instrument of good to help secure the freedom of Wilbur, a pig on her farm.
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The character of Charlotte is honest, loyal, and brave beyond measure. DHS officials, of course, would not understand these virtues.
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AI could be said to find cures for these things in the same way that calculators have found cures for things
The utterly fucked thing about this is that if any of that happens it's because of basic life science research investments (currently being gutted), not because of large language models.
Dario Amodei can eat shit and then do whatever it is that Bluesky would ban me for saying
Dario Amodei can eat shit and then do whatever it is that Bluesky would ban me for saying
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
AI could be said to find cures for these things in the same way that calculators have found cures for things
Harvard Crimson playing for keeps
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Harvard Crimson playing for keeps
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I cannot overstate how gleefully I will celebrate when unmentionably horrific Lovecraftian fates befall AI CEOs.
November 17, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I cannot overstate how gleefully I will celebrate when unmentionably horrific Lovecraftian fates befall AI CEOs.
The utterly fucked thing about this is that if any of that happens it's because of basic life science research investments (currently being gutted), not because of large language models.
Dario Amodei can eat shit and then do whatever it is that Bluesky would ban me for saying
Dario Amodei can eat shit and then do whatever it is that Bluesky would ban me for saying
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm
November 17, 2025 at 4:09 AM
The utterly fucked thing about this is that if any of that happens it's because of basic life science research investments (currently being gutted), not because of large language models.
Dario Amodei can eat shit and then do whatever it is that Bluesky would ban me for saying
Dario Amodei can eat shit and then do whatever it is that Bluesky would ban me for saying
I think winged rainbow unicorns are going to fly out of my ass
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I think winged rainbow unicorns are going to fly out of my ass