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@pranama.bsky.social
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Father, Husband and a Scientist
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Here's a selection of new features in #LibreOffice 26.2, which we released on Wednesday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WeQ...
LibreOffice 26.2: New features
YouTube video by LibreOffice - The Document Foundation
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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brbarrett.bsky.social
Meet the brain geniuses that RFK Jr has put on a key US government autism committee. from @davidgilbert.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...
Among those appointed last week was Daniel Rossignol, a doctor who was sued for alleged fraud after prescribing a 7-year-old autistic child a debunked and dangerous treatment. Tracy Slepcevic, an appointee who Kennedy calls a “dear friend,” offers exposure to a wide range of bogus autism cures at her annual Autism Health Summit, including one that involves the injection of animal stem cells into children. Another appointee, Toby Rogers, has claimed that “no thinking person vaccinates” and that vaccine makers are “poisoning children.” Rogers is a fellow at the Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research and has also called vaccines “one of the greatest crimes in human history.” He has written articles for Children’s Health Defense (CHD), the anti-vaccine group founded by Kennedy that has linked autism to vaccines. Other appointees are no different: John Gilmore founded the Autism Action Network and has said that his autistic son is “vaccine injured.” Gilmore is also the founder of the New York chapter of Kennedy’s Children’s Health Defense group. Ginger Taylor, the former director of the Maine Coalition for Vaccine Choice, has publicly claimed that many autism cases involve “vaccine causation.” Elizabeth Mumper has written for Children’s Health Defense and is a senior fellow with the Independent Medical Alliance, a group formerly known as the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance that has promoted ivermectin as a treatment for Covid.
February 6, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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profgalloway.com
I'm unsubscribing from something every day.
February 6, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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aneelee.bsky.social
my kiddo’s first published journal article for your not-so-light weekend reading
The 1582 Registro de Mulatos and the Politics of Labor and Race in Early Colonial Cusco, Peru | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
The 1582 Registro de Mulatos and the Politics of Labor and Race in Early Colonial Cusco, Peru
www.cambridge.org
February 7, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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admirablewomen.bsky.social
Made me want to share it. You?

#WomenInSTEM
histoftech.bsky.social jennifer uncoolidge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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wbur.org
“Growing up, I spent a lot of time at the factory,” Nicole Bernard Dawes, the founder's daughter, said in an interview with WBUR. “After school I would very frequently go to the factory and do my homework there or occasionally help out sorting the chips. I just was there all the time.”
A goodbye to the Cape Cod Chip factory in Hyannis
“Growing up, I spent a lot of time at the factory,” Nicole Bernard Dawes, the founder's daughter, said in an interview with WBUR. “After school I would very frequently go to the factory and do my home...
www.wbur.org
February 6, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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gaffa.bsky.social
Thank you for bringing up the Transit app on @twit.tv "Macbreak Weekly" @shelly.brisbin.net

I used it today, and was curious if it was accessible for those with low or no vision. I wish they were more active here on BlueSky.

I can confirm that they have responded to my corrections about Chicago.
A screenshot of the transit app for Kansas City Missouri. At the bottom it shows the next three buses, at 3, 23, 43 and 63 minutes. Above that is the text "go in 3 minutes". Above that is a map showing the user's current location and the relative position of the upcoming bus, and an estimate of the arrival time at the destination.
February 6, 2026 at 1:27 AM
pranama.bsky.social
Also support alternatives like @pbs.org , @proton.me and @surf.social
February 6, 2026 at 1:38 AM
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admirablewomen.bsky.social
Dr. Patricia Bath & Marian Croak were the first two Black women inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2022.

Bath saved the sight of millions with her Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment. Croak did pioneering work in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology.

#WomenInSTEM #BHM
Color photograph of pioneering ophthalmologist and inventor Dr. Patricia Bath (1942–2019), the first Black woman to receive a medical patent, smiling warmly in a white lab coat over a blue blouse, sitting next to her invention in a research lab surrounded by books and scientific equipment. Dr. Bath invented the Laserphaco Probe (U.S. Patent No. 4,744,360), a revolutionary laser device and technique for removing cataracts that restored sight to millions and advanced minimally invasive eye surgery. She was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2022 as one of the first two Black women honorees. #PatriciaBath #Laserphaco #InventorsHallOfFame #WomenInScience Professional color portrait of engineer Marian Croak, a trailblazing innovator in telecommunications, standing confidently in a blue tweed jacket with black trim against a blurred indoor background. She has short hair and a warm smile. Croak pioneered advancements in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology (including U.S. Patent No. 7,599,359), enabling modern audio and video conferencing used in tools like Zoom, FaceTime, and WhatsApp, and holds over 200 patents. She was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2022 as one of the first two Black women honorees. #MarianCroak #VoIP #WomenInTech #InventorsHallOfFame
February 5, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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admirablewomen.bsky.social
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February 5, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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joannastern.bsky.social
Some personal news. For real. After 12 years at @wsj.com I’m leaving.

I’m starting my own consumer tech media company, building a new home with the same mission I've always had: help real people navigate the tech changing their lives + have fun while doing it.

Sign up! www.thisismynexthing.com
Home | This Is My Next Thing
Joanna Stern
www.thisismynexthing.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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8 companies that actively support ICE:
- AT&T
- Comcast
- Charter
- Dell
- FedEx
- Lowes
- Marriott
- UPS
What is 'Resist and Unsubscribe' boycott? What to know about February ICE boycott
Consumers across the U.S. are being urged to boycott nearly a dozen tech companies this month. Here's why.
www.jsonline.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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deadder.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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profgalloway.com
Unsubscribe from Amazon. Plus, my thoughts on Mark Zuckerberg’s monopoly. www.resistandunsubscribe.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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snell.zone
A really good one, folks. Hire her.
heatherkelly.bsky.social Heather Kelly @heatherkelly.bsky.social · 2d
I was laid off from The Washington Post today. I know, real original sentence. My first plagiarism in 20 years of journalism.

My job was stupid fun and I loved every minute of it. I’m sad for my talented colleagues but sadder the world will not get to read, watch and listen to their amazing work.
February 5, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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admirablewomen.bsky.social
Remembering Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani on #WorldCancerDay.

Dr. Mirzakhani was first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in #mathematics. She died in 2017 from #breastcancer at the age of 40.

stanford.io/2C0io2A #WomenInSTEM
A vibrant, composite portrait of the brilliant Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017), the first woman and first Iranian to win the Fields Medal. She is shown in a close-up head-and-shoulders view, facing the camera with a gentle, thoughtful expression—short brown hair, bright blue eyes, and a calm smile. She wears a navy blue fleece over a teal/green collared shirt. Overlaid transparently behind and around her is a dense blackboard filled with intricate handwritten mathematical equations in white chalk, featuring complex expressions involving binomial coefficients (e.g., n! / (k!(n-k)!)), factorials, summations, powers, and terms suggestive of hypergeometric series or combinatorial identities. The equations partially surround and frame her face, symbolizing her deep immersion in advanced mathematics, particularly in hyperbolic geometry, Teichmüller theory, and dynamical systems, while evoking the creative, exploratory nature of her work as a Stanford professor and groundbreaking researcher.
February 4, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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sciam.bsky.social
As Arctic air plunged into sunny Florida this past weekend, it made for a mesmerizing sight in a satellite video: parallel lines of clouds colloquially called “cloud streets” streamed from the land over the ocean. ☁️ spklr.io/6047DMmOX

📷: NOAA GOES East
🎵: Muzaproduction
February 4, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
> @ruthmarcus.bsky.social @newyorker.com

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
February 4, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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sciam.bsky.social
Scientists just discovered a key brain network affected by Parkinson’s disease. The finding could change how doctors understand symptoms and lead to better treatments. 🧠 bit.ly/4qdpLMf
"Parkinson’s is not just a movement problem involving one body part. This study shows it is a whole-body brain network disorder that links movement, thinking, arousal and internal body control." —Michael Okun, neurologist at the University of Florida and medical director of the Parkinson’s Foundation
February 4, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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sciam.bsky.social
As temperatures plunged across the eastern U.S., a breathtaking cloud pattern took shape off the coasts of Florida
Watch as frigid air creates mesmerizing ‘cloud streets’ around Florida
As temperatures plunged across the eastern U.S., a breathtaking cloud pattern took shape off the coasts of Florida
www.scientificamerican.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
But of course.

@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/p...
February 4, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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wired.com
“Too many GPUs makes you lazy,” says the French startup's vice president of science operations, as the company carves out a different path than the major US AI companies. www.wired.com/story/mistra...
A New Mistral AI Model's Ultra-Fast Translation Gives Big AI Labs a Run for Their Money
“Too many GPUs makes you lazy,” says the French startup's vice president of science operations, as the company carves out a different path than the major US AI companies.
www.wired.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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admirablewomen.bsky.social
Rosa Parks was born #OTD in 1913.

She was arrested (1955) for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person (the law when a bus was full).

This sparked the Montgomery bus system boycott & led to the 1956 SCOTUS decision banning segregation on public transportation. #CivilRights #BHM
Black-and-white photograph from December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks, standing and wearing glasses and a coat, calmly has her fingerprints taken by a white police officer in Montgomery, Alabama, shortly after her arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger—an act that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and became a defining moment of the Civil Rights Movement. Color photograph of Rosa Parks (1913–2005), the civil rights icon known for her pivotal role in the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, taken in her later years. The close-up portrait shows an older Black woman, smiling warmly and broadly with genuine joy, her eyes crinkled behind large, round, gold-framed glasses. Her silver-gray hair is neatly styled in an elegant braided updo or bun. She wears a deep purple or blue patterned high-necked blouse or dress with a subtle floral or abstract design, set against a neutral indoor background that keeps the focus on her radiant, dignified expression and infectious smile. The image captures her gentle strength, warmth, and enduring spirit in a candid, uplifting moment.
February 4, 2026 at 2:58 PM
pranama.bsky.social
pbs.org/video/the-sc...
Be Smart | The Scientific Lie That Damaged Generations of Men | Season 13 | Episode 15
Here is the REAL science about "alpha males."
pbs.org
February 4, 2026 at 9:46 AM
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admirablewomen.bsky.social
Cardiologist Dr. Helen Taussig founded the field of pediatric cardiology.

Co-developed the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt in 1944. This groundbreaking surgical procedure treated "blue baby syndrome" saving thousands of infants who previously had no treatment option.

#WomensPhysiciansDay #WomenInSTEM
Black-and-white photograph of Dr. Helen Taussig, an older woman with short, wavy gray hair, wearing cat-eye glasses, a pearl necklace, and a white medical coat over a dark blouse. She stands in a clinical setting, holding up a large chest X-ray film to the light with her left hand, examining it closely with a thoughtful, focused expression as she looks slightly upward and to the side. Behind her, multiple other X-ray images of torsos and rib cages are displayed on a viewing box or light panels, illuminating the scene.
February 4, 2026 at 12:06 AM