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Michael P 🧬🏳️‍🌈
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Postdoc in the Simon Lab working with carrot genetics 🥕🥒
Gene editing 🧬
Anthocyanins 🫐
Purple corn breeder 🌽
UIUC, Iowa State alumnus
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uwmadison.bsky.social
For the first time in more than a decade, UW–Madison ranks among the top five universities in the U.S. for research expenditures in the National Science Foundation’s latest Higher Education Research and Development Survey. On, Wisconsin!
UW–Madison 5th in national research ranking for first time since 2014, surpasses $1.93B in research expenditures
The annual rankings, which cover fiscal year 2024, "highlight the importance of the decades-long partnership between universities and the federal government," says UW–Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnook...
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December 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
mnp47.bsky.social
Trump is giving all federal workers 2 extra days off for the holidays to distract us from the Epstein files release. Funny enough, we usually got those days off in years past because our previous admins were not heartless monsters 🤷
December 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I'm always down for a ginger three-way 😎
nanascookbooks.bsky.social Nana's CookBooks @nanascookbooks.bsky.social · 17d
Instead the the usual Saturday meal plan, how about another cookie recipe? This 1943 recipe provides 3 options for ginger cookies. Don't you think we should try all 3 options and compare? 🍽️ 🍜 #FoodSky #Cooking #Recipes #RecipeOfTheDay
From 1943, The Modern Family Meal Plan by Meta Givens THREE-WAY GINGER COOKIES 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 cup sugar ½ teaspoon salt I egg, beaten 1 teaspoon soda ¼ cup dark molasses 11 teaspoons ground ginger 1 tablespoon vinegar ⅓ Cup butter or other shortening Sift flour, measure, and resift twice with salt, soda and ginger. Cream shortening until soft and smooth, and add the sugar gradually, creaming thoroughly. Add egg and beat until smooth and fuffy. Add molasses beat hard, and then stir in vinegar. Add four mixture and mix thor-oughly. Drop by half-teaspoonfuls or teaspoonfuls onto lightly greased cookie sheets, and bake in a moderate oven (350° F.) for about 15 minutes, or until delicately browned. Remove to cake racks to cool. Makes about 5 dozen of the larger-sized cookies. Variation 1. Shape teaspoonfuls of the dough quickly into balls by rolling them lightly between buttered palms of hands. Drop balls into ½ cup chopped nuts spread out on waxed paper or a plate. Transfer to greased cookie sheets, nut side up, and bake as above. Variation 2. Make balls of the dough and drop onto a mixture of 3 tablespoons granulated sugar blended with 1 tablespoon grated orange rind. Transfer to cookie sheets, sugar side up, and bake as above.
December 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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theonion.com
Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids
Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Full goblin mode
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18d
From @theathletic.com: “This is truly one of the great honors of my life.”

FIFA President Gianni Infantino awarded President Trump a new golden trophy, a golden medal and a certificate, and told him: “This is your prize, this is your peace prize.” nyti.ms/44Gy4s6
President Donald Trump in a navy suit and red tie picks up a medal with two fingers during a ceremony. Text reads: "President Trump Awarded Inaugural FIFA Peace Prize"
December 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Saw one of my favorite soundtracks performed live this weekend at the CSO. Truly one of the best concerts I've ever seen in my life
How to train your dragon live I concert at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Two gays posing in front of the lion statue at the Chicago Art Institute that's decked out in a Christmas wreath.
December 1, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Obsessed with her. LUX is a masterpiece

youtu.be/2bFquRBvonc
ROSALÍA, Dougie F - Porcelana (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by RosaliaVEVO
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November 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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I finally got paid today! Happy birthday to meeeee
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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A pair of snowy owls on the coast of Chicago
November 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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This is my chance
Account claiming to be Matt Rogers followed me.
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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markscherz.bsky.social
Former lab member @njorisfleck.bsky.social and colleagues just showed that some carnivorous plants do CAM photosynthesis! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Yes, we CAM! First evidence of CAM photosynthesis in a carnivorous plant
Evidence for weak, facultative CAM is reported for the first time in a carnivorous plant, i.e., in Mexican representatives of Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae).
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November 12, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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uwmadison.bsky.social
Last night, the Northern Lights showed their true colors over campus and bathed the sky in Badger red. We’re still in awe.

Photos by Paige Valley and Xiaomeng Shen | UW–Madison
Northern Lights seen over the Memorial Union Terrace. Northern Lights seen over Lake Mendota with the Well Red Bucky statue in the foreground. The Northern Lights seen over the Carillon bell tower and Social Sciences building. The Northern Lights seen over Bascom Hall.
November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Beautiful timelapse of the Northern Lights in Madison tonight courtesy of @uwmad-aos.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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The aurora is so strong right now. My brother in law saw it as far south as St Louis
Northern lights in full force
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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I've played taps at more funerals than I can count. When I graduated, they started playing recordings. It isn't the same. Maybe I should volunteer again.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Nov 11
Thousands of musicians — civilians, veterans, teenagers, retirees — travel to play taps at military funerals, many distressed by the idea of a recording performing the duties. Some are seasoned musicians with an in-demand skill. Others are lapsed players who felt compelled to restart.
The Volunteer Buglers Giving 24-Note Salutes
Thousands of musicians — civilians, veterans, teenagers, retirees — are playing taps at military funerals in a rebuke of technology.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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earlysprocket.bsky.social
www.whiskeyriff.com/2025/11/08/a...
An AI-Generated Country Song Is Topping A Billboard Chart, And That Should Infuriate Us All
A RIFF on what country is really about.
www.whiskeyriff.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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govevers.wisconsin.gov
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.

My response ⬇️
No.
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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discounttotebag.bsky.social
found some aurora !
Aurora Borealis near Winnipeg
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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They're moving in herds
Dr Alan Grant and Dr Ellie Sattler from Jurassic Park
November 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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ashs-hort.bsky.social
New research provides a comprehensive annotation of cucumber lncRNAs using RNA-Seq data and offers insights into their potential regulatory functions in cold stress responses.

#JASHS https://doi.org/10.21273/JASHS05517-25
#plantscience
A heap of fresh green cucumbers showcasing their vibrant color and natural texture.
November 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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atinygreencell.bsky.social
Plant bioengineering can be quite annoying. Look at this crap; the type of agar drastically impacts transformation efficiency. The geometric complexity of all these variables makes for one hell of a ride to find the ideal brew…for each stage of regeneration stage.

Lord help us.
October 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Happy gotcha day to the best baby boi out there, Leif Eriksson
October 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Damn that movie was good. Exactly what I expected from @realgdt.bsky.social The soundtrack was exceptional as well
Frankenstein (2025)
October 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
well this kicks ass www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
NOVEMBER 3, 2025 THE ART WORLD RECONSTRUCTED In "Monuments," the Confederacy surrenders to nineteen artists. By Julian Lucas 6:00 AM Picture is the statue described in img 2 •he hirst thing you see is a horses - ass, protruding, upside down, trom the thorax of a monster. A man's arm descends from the beast's stomach, his gloved hand clutching the blade of a fallen sabre. There's no sign of a rider's face, but a head of well-coiffed hair dangles from the creature's eyeless muzzle. Every part of the work comes from a statue of the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson that was removed from Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2021. It was subsequently given to the artist Kara Walker, who carved it up in accordance with a butcher's diagram. The finished sculpture, "Unmanned Drone"—on view at the Brick, in Los Angeles, as part of a joint exhibition with MocA called "Monuments" —is at once an act of carnivalesque retribution and a recognition of the Confederacy's zombie-like persistence. A rebellion defeated more than a hundred and sixty years ago refuses to stay dead; between the creature's legs, a horse head emerges from a gape in the bronze, like a new Jackson already foaling.
October 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM