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Alan R Kay
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Neurobiologist, osmo-electro-diffusion & other stuff. Views are my own.
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Armistice Day Observance
Tuesday 11th November 2025, Iowa City
Veterans for Peace, chapter #161
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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indivisibleia-joco.bsky.social
Sunday Night Community Event
“Growing Up in the Shadow of Jim Crow and the Light of the Civil Rights Movement”
📅 Date: Sunday, November 9, 2025
⏰ Time: 6:30-8pm
📍 Location: Zoom (online) - posted by Iowa City Catholic Worker
✅ RSVP: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 8, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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indivisibleia-joco.bsky.social
No Kings, Just Neighbors: Fill-A-Truck Food Drive
Saturday, Nov 15 🕙 10 AM – 1 PM
Downtown Iowa City
Join us for a day of music, food, & community as we come together to fill a truck with groceries & personal care items for families in need.
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
No Kings! Just Neighbors! Fill-A-Truck Food Drive · Mobilize
🛻 No Kings, Just Neighbors: Fill-A-Truck Food Drive 📅 Saturday, November 15 🕙 10 AM – 1 PM 📍 Downtown Iowa City (Exact Location TBA) After the powerful energy of our No Kings Rally, it’s time to ...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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NEW: The Director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, accepted an award over the weekend from an old ally who, just weeks earlier, had been the subject of a Politico story revealing how he’d left his previous job amid sexual harassment allegations.
NIH Director Accepts Award From Anti-Vax Dark Money Group Founded By Accused Sexual Harasser
Jay Bhattacharya reunited with his old ally Jeffrey Tucker weeks after the political operative was revealed to have faced a sexual harassment scandal.
www.importantcontext.news
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
alanrkay.bsky.social
The work of Marthe Gautier should be more widely known.
She had to fight for recognition after a male colleague took credit for her work in identifying an extra chromosome as the cause of Downs syndrome.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/h...
Marthe Gautier, 96, Dies; Had Key Role in Down Syndrome Breakthrough
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Thanks - perfect for my animal physiology class
October 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
alanrkay.bsky.social
Curious to hear from semiconductor chip boffins if this has any legs. The work is being supported by Peter Thiel, who has claimed that the rational approach to solving problems has failed, so why not try the opposite of that, the irrational.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/t...
Can a Start-Up Make Computer Chips Cheaper Than the Industry’s Giants?
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October 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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This is super relevant to all US academics - it's on Today!
October 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nanosensors for real-time intracellular analytics - Nature Nanotechnology
This Review provides insights into nanosensor technologies for monitoring cellular biomarkers, proposing a spatial framework to clarify their distinct advantages, challenges and performance for high-r...
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October 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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I want to go to Canada. Love the videos Canada is making. Y’all saw the one w Reagan narrating the video? #canada
October 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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indivisibleia-joco.bsky.social
​Essential viewing for all peaceful civil resistance warriors Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social‬ talking to Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...
Talking With Erica Chenoweth
Civil resistance: Does it work, and when?
paulkrugman.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Local Governments: Pass the Due Process & Safety Resolution Now!
This simple, common-sense resolution will help protect students, residents, workers, schools, & visitors from harmful ICE raids in our community. Contact your local elected officials today.
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October 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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New Cover for The @newyorker.com
For more go to www.christophniemann.com/detail/nyerc...
October 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Hyperlapse from the No Kings rally in Iowa City. Our town has a population of about 80,000 and this is a tiny sliver of the march. #nokings
October 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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indivisibleia-joco.bsky.social
Kudos to this Iowa City protester, who not only elevated the level of discourse, but also provided a source for the quote! "Truthfulness has fallen in desuetude." - Stereolab
@iowacityoflit.bsky.social
#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Happy "No Kings" Day!

I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya regarding the recently appointment of a new NIEHS Director.
Dear Director Bhattacharya: I saw your announcement about the appointment of Dr. Kyle Walsh as Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. It is hard for me to express how disappointed and saddened that I am with this turn of events. This has little to do with Dr. Walsh or his qualifications. Instead, my concerns are based on the damage that this appointment, with the complete lack of any reasonable process, does to the NIH and the ability of this agency. which matters so much to the American people. to recruit and retain the best people for the 13 institute and center director positions that are now vacant.
October 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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A university that signs the “compact” is one that acknowledges its own inability to compete and succeed based talent and merit. It would signal insecurity and mediocrity to current and future students and faculty. Say no. Recruit the best people, protect their freedom and support their hard work.
October 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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indivisibleia-joco.bsky.social
Iowa City we are on for tomorrow! If you have not done so already let us know that you'll be there via this link
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NO KINGS!! NO COVER!! IOWA CITY! · Indivisible
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this cou...
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October 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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THIS WEEKEND! Join us for No Kings Day nationwide, across 50 states, in DC and Puerto Rico, and internationally! We're standing up for science and democracy, and in solidarity with fired federal workers.

#standupforscience #nokingsday
October 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Great to see Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social writing on Substack - Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment
Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back donmoynihan.substack.com/p/deafening-...
Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment
Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back
donmoynihan.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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17 historians, archivists, profs, authors - including a U of Iowa archivist, U.S. Supreme Court historian, and state archaeologist, are suing the State Historical Society of Iowa for haphazardly & without public input deciding to close its Iowa City research facility & archives. - from the Gazette
October 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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October 5, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute. Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner. I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way. Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose. The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why. Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes. I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic). "To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus
October 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM