Mark H. Forsyth
microbemark.bsky.social
Mark H. Forsyth
@microbemark.bsky.social
Microbiologist, Birder, William & Mary Biology Faculty member, and proud I was born in Maine!
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The country thats still defending is winning, the country that is breaking out tanks from WW2 in storage and attacking on donkeys and lost 900,000 men and got kicked out of Kyiv and begs NK for troops and Iran for weapons, isn’t.

youtu.be/lvVI64jVXuI
Still Think Russia Is Defeating Ukraine? Watch This
YouTube video by Adam Kinzinger
youtu.be
May 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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He sure did!
May 4, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Ours, by a mile.
May 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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This is about all of us. Never forget that.
May 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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March 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.
March 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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March 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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And straight into a tariff wall at that.
March 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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March 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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OPINION: “This CR takes away any remaining restraints and guardrails from the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle our government.”

Rep. @delauro.house.gov voted against the GOP’s funding bill and writes why the Senate should do the same.

READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The House just gave Musk and Trump a blank check. The Senate should tear it up.
Republicans would rather let an unchecked billionaire and the president seize taxpayer funds intended for families and businesses.
www.msnbc.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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OPINION: “How can Canadians end these trade tensions if the reason Trump is slapping tariffs on their country keeps changing?”

@speechboy71.bsky.social notes how Trump’s economic war on Canada looks like a first step toward annexation.

READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion: Trump isn’t joking about wanting to annex Canada
Trump’s tariff war seems intended to weaken Canada to the point that he can take it over.
www.msnbc.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Once in awhile you glimpse something rare in nature and realize what a moment can do for your mindset.
January 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Can’t wait t’git my hands on nem cheap eggs!
January 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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It will be a long four years.
January 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present.
The future is only a projection of our present conceptions.
The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it.
So why bother with attempting to establish an illusion of solid ground?

~Dilgo Khyentse
#mindfullness #buddhism
December 2, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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There are no principled senators left on the GOP side. The MAGA takeover is complete.
January 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Paige back in the starting lineup!
January 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Regardless of your politics, Rep Mike Turner was among the best Intel committee chairmen. The fact that he was fired from Mar-A-Lago proves one thing: there is no oversight, just a rubber stamp congress
January 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Every year, foxes suffer unimaginable cruelty during hunts. This is not justifiable in any way. We demand stronger laws and better enforcement to end this disgrace once and for all.
January 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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♨️Hot off the press! Proteolysis-targeting influenza vaccine strains induce broad-spectrum immunity and in vivo protection

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Proteolysis-targeting influenza vaccine strains induce broad-spectrum immunity and in vivo protection - Nature Microbiology
Diverse cellular E3 ubiquitin ligase–degron pairs are used to generate live attenuated influenza vaccines. Attenuation and humoral, mucosal and cellular immune responses were characterized in mouse an...
www.nature.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Mark Zuckerberg Insists Anyone With Same Skewed Values And Unrelenting Thirst For Power Could Have Made Same Mistakes
theonion.com/mark-zu...
January 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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The Q226L mutation can convert a highly pathogenic H5 2.3.4.4e virus to bind human-type receptors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.10.632119v1
January 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Out now: Exploiting the fitness cost of metallo-β-lactamase expression can overcome antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens

by Eric Brown, Jon Stokes & co

#microsky

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Exploiting the fitness cost of metallo-β-lactamase expression can overcome antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens - Nature Microbiology
Expression of VIM-2 leads to physiological trade-offs for bacterial pathogens that can be exploited to treat infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria.
www.nature.com
January 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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It’s wrong to allow someone like this to be in charge of our country, and decisions that impact all our lives!

If people would have simply done their jobs to hold him accountable he wouldn’t be!

It’s wrong, and now we are all going to pay the price!
January 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Trump knew what he was doing. He will exploit any tragedy to stoke anti-immigrant rhetoric, even when there’s no basis for it.
January 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM