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The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
December 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
Here's a llama there's a llama and another little llama fuzzy llama funny llama llama llama BERT github.com/yuzhimanhua/...
GitHub - yuzhimanhua/Awesome-Scientific-Language-Models: A Comprehensive Survey of Scientific Large Language Models and Their Applications in Scientific Discovery (EMNLP'24)
A Comprehensive Survey of Scientific Large Language Models and Their Applications in Scientific Discovery (EMNLP'24) - yuzhimanhua/Awesome-Scientific-Language-Models
github.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Here's a llama there's a llama and another little llama fuzzy llama funny llama llama llama BERT github.com/yuzhimanhua/...
MOAR CRISPR! MOAR TREATMENTS! gizmodo.com/diabetic-man...
Diabetic Man With Gene-Edited Cells Produces His Own Insulin—No Transplant Drugs Required
A proof-of-concept study finds that donated insulin-producing cells can be genetically modified to avoid provoking the recipient's immune system.
gizmodo.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
MOAR CRISPR! MOAR TREATMENTS! gizmodo.com/diabetic-man...
More of this news, less dumpster fire, please and thank you www.islandconservation.org/rare-gecko-s...
Rare Gecko Species Rediscovered in Galapagos Following Island Restoration Success - Island Conservation
A species once thought extinct just made its comeback. The Leaf-toed Gecko has been rediscovered on Rábida Island in the Galápagos, and a study just published in PLOS ONE confirms what our team has wi...
www.islandconservation.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
More of this news, less dumpster fire, please and thank you www.islandconservation.org/rare-gecko-s...
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Steve is excellent at hiding. Yep, he's in this picture. Look closely.
December 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Steve is excellent at hiding. Yep, he's in this picture. Look closely.
Well I missed that news story, which makes me giggle but honestly not bad science newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/06/17/n...
New Process Uses Microbes to Create Valuable Materials from Urine
Engineered yeast can produce artificial bone and other materials while lowering the cost of wastewater management
newscenter.lbl.gov
December 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Well I missed that news story, which makes me giggle but honestly not bad science newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/06/17/n...
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Harvard officials are reportedly secretly investigating two students for their roles in drawing scrutiny to the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and ex-president Larry Summers
Harvard Secretly Investigates Students Over Larry Summers Video on Epstein
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Harvard officials are reportedly secretly investigating two students for their roles in drawing scrutiny to the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and ex-president Larry Summers
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1-the one extended period where this ratio <2 (still >1 tho) *and* rates were low in absolute terms was post-peak pandemic in the Biden era (2022-4).
2-a target rate of 5-6% unemployment (policy for much of the last few decades) is a perpetual recession for Black workers.
2-a target rate of 5-6% unemployment (policy for much of the last few decades) is a perpetual recession for Black workers.
I hear there's discourse about race and employment in the US
December 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
1-the one extended period where this ratio <2 (still >1 tho) *and* rates were low in absolute terms was post-peak pandemic in the Biden era (2022-4).
2-a target rate of 5-6% unemployment (policy for much of the last few decades) is a perpetual recession for Black workers.
2-a target rate of 5-6% unemployment (policy for much of the last few decades) is a perpetual recession for Black workers.
PSA if your procurement ever asks why you need the super pure IPA, you don't.
US law prohibits precursors to chemical warfare agents, but isopropyl alcohol is a necessary precursor to the nerve agent Sarin. Hundreds of millions of US residents are, technically, felons. Because US "WMD" laws are badly written.
December 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
PSA if your procurement ever asks why you need the super pure IPA, you don't.
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My quote of the day
La guerre n'est pas une aventure. La guerre est une maladie. Comme le typhus.
[War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.]
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
La guerre n'est pas une aventure. La guerre est une maladie. Comme le typhus.
[War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.]
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
December 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
My quote of the day
La guerre n'est pas une aventure. La guerre est une maladie. Comme le typhus.
[War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.]
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
La guerre n'est pas une aventure. La guerre est une maladie. Comme le typhus.
[War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.]
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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This Day in Labor History: December 16, 1977. Eight women bank workers at Citizens National Bank in Willmar, Minnesota went on strike, charging sex discrimination they faced on the job. Let's talk about these brave women and their fight for justice!
December 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This Day in Labor History: December 16, 1977. Eight women bank workers at Citizens National Bank in Willmar, Minnesota went on strike, charging sex discrimination they faced on the job. Let's talk about these brave women and their fight for justice!
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Sooo...the entire US Military?
FOX: The ACA has never been more popular. Republicans are losing on this messaging. How do you talk to Americans who say the Republicans don't have a plan?
REP. BUDDY CARTER: You explain it by explaining it's not working. When the govt has to subsidize a program, that means it's not working
REP. BUDDY CARTER: You explain it by explaining it's not working. When the govt has to subsidize a program, that means it's not working
December 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Sooo...the entire US Military?
Hot Take: this had better be about the Eggonomics of 18th century France, and how eating 4 dozen eggs during a period of bread riots actually makes you an even worse asshole.
I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
Disney Developing Live-Action ‘Gaston’ Movie From Writer Dave Callaham And Producer Michelle Rejwan
Disney is in early development on a new live-action pic centered on the Beauty and the Beast character Gaston.
deadline.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Hot Take: this had better be about the Eggonomics of 18th century France, and how eating 4 dozen eggs during a period of bread riots actually makes you an even worse asshole.
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One thing that has troubled me about discussions of AI in science is that people will leap to the assumption we all agree science is fundamentally broken because of those reproducibility crisis takes. The problem of algorithmically reinforced information bubbles shapes what we see as problems.
“make a different question askable—not whether LLMs can ‘do science’ but how they get enrolled within a scientific system whose goals have already been displaced”
open.substack.com/pub/artifici...
open.substack.com/pub/artifici...
Context Widows
or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
One thing that has troubled me about discussions of AI in science is that people will leap to the assumption we all agree science is fundamentally broken because of those reproducibility crisis takes. The problem of algorithmically reinforced information bubbles shapes what we see as problems.
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DOE's Office of Science is making a big push into AI, and that includes our work at the @jgi.doe.gov . We want to hear your thoughts (+ and -) on AI-enabled biological data. Consider joining one of our interviews or focus groups by filling out this form!
🧪🧬🦠🖥️ #secmet
jointgeno.me/PortalStorie...
🧪🧬🦠🖥️ #secmet
jointgeno.me/PortalStorie...
Tell Us Your JGI Portal Stories
The JGI Portal teams (IMG, Mycocosm, Phycocosm, Phytozome, and SMC) would love to sit with you (over Zoom) to hear your stories relating to your usage of the portals, your unsupported use cases, and p...
jointgeno.me
December 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
DOE's Office of Science is making a big push into AI, and that includes our work at the @jgi.doe.gov . We want to hear your thoughts (+ and -) on AI-enabled biological data. Consider joining one of our interviews or focus groups by filling out this form!
🧪🧬🦠🖥️ #secmet
jointgeno.me/PortalStorie...
🧪🧬🦠🖥️ #secmet
jointgeno.me/PortalStorie...
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I think about stories like this a lot.
I have several friends who were USAID. They loved their jobs. Aside from being jobless, they have the grief of knowing that people, sometimes people they KNOW, WILL DIE and ARE DYING because their jobs are gone.
And for what.
I have several friends who were USAID. They loved their jobs. Aside from being jobless, they have the grief of knowing that people, sometimes people they KNOW, WILL DIE and ARE DYING because their jobs are gone.
And for what.
"They needed less than $20 mil to fund lifesaving health programs, including cholera response efforts, for 3 months — an eighth of what Trump recently approved to buy private jets for one cabinet secretary."
Awful, important story by @annamaria.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Awful, important story by @annamaria.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I think about stories like this a lot.
I have several friends who were USAID. They loved their jobs. Aside from being jobless, they have the grief of knowing that people, sometimes people they KNOW, WILL DIE and ARE DYING because their jobs are gone.
And for what.
I have several friends who were USAID. They loved their jobs. Aside from being jobless, they have the grief of knowing that people, sometimes people they KNOW, WILL DIE and ARE DYING because their jobs are gone.
And for what.
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I was trying to decide what kind of Christmas cookies to make this year, and it definitely felt like a good time to bring back my dumpster fire cookies from 2020 🙃
December 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I was trying to decide what kind of Christmas cookies to make this year, and it definitely felt like a good time to bring back my dumpster fire cookies from 2020 🙃
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US legal citizenship is a complex topic. Here's what I hope my book helps people understand. 1. Before the 14th Amendment included birthright citizenship, one's access to rights/privileges/protections was not based on legal citizenship--it was based on race, gender, social class, membership in 1/
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
US legal citizenship is a complex topic. Here's what I hope my book helps people understand. 1. Before the 14th Amendment included birthright citizenship, one's access to rights/privileges/protections was not based on legal citizenship--it was based on race, gender, social class, membership in 1/
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A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the release of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” and the advent of the late-2000s electro-pop era, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.
A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the invention of smartphones and the advent of social media, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
December 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the release of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” and the advent of the late-2000s electro-pop era, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.
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Off to commit shenanigans...
December 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Off to commit shenanigans...
Beautiful mermaid!
Found only in the Galapagos Islands the marine iguana is the only marine lizard species in the world, they can dive as deep as 30m (98 ft) and spend up to 30 minutes at a time underwater
📹Shelton Dupreez
📹Shelton Dupreez
December 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Beautiful mermaid!
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Found only in the Galapagos Islands the marine iguana is the only marine lizard species in the world, they can dive as deep as 30m (98 ft) and spend up to 30 minutes at a time underwater
📹Shelton Dupreez
📹Shelton Dupreez
December 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Found only in the Galapagos Islands the marine iguana is the only marine lizard species in the world, they can dive as deep as 30m (98 ft) and spend up to 30 minutes at a time underwater
📹Shelton Dupreez
📹Shelton Dupreez
We don't need more ideas. We just need to get Hank Green more logistics geniuses.
December 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
We don't need more ideas. We just need to get Hank Green more logistics geniuses.