@berobie.bsky.social
RPI grad, APO brother, retired ObGyn, music lover, volunteer, climate enthusiast
True for non-academics as well!
Let's celebrate #DarwinDay by reminding ourselves that everyone has moments when they feel worse for wear.
Darwin wrote to Charles Lyell in 1861:
"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."
www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L...
So, hang in there, #academicsky!
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Darwin wrote to Charles Lyell in 1861:
"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."
www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L...
So, hang in there, #academicsky!
🧪🌏🐵
February 12, 2026 at 10:13 AM
True for non-academics as well!
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@deadder.bsky.social has so many great cartoons:
February 10, 2026 at 7:20 PM
@deadder.bsky.social has so many great cartoons:
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Big @bostonglobe.com / MassINC Polling survey out this morning. "They came to Massachusetts to cure disease. Now they’re packing up their labs." We surveyed NIH funded scientists in Massachusetts about federal funding cuts & policies. Here's what they told us. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...
They came to Massachusetts to cure disease. Now they’re packing up their labs. - The Boston Globe
In a first-of-its-kind survey, the Globe asked hundreds of scientists about the impact of federal funding cuts.
www.bostonglobe.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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Frightening and accurate
Since corporations have been given human status to lobby, their wealth has allowed them to gain so much power that regular humans have become almost powerless. If Trump gets everything he wants, it will be complete, and the rich will get to be dictators. 🧪 💡☠️ #Sociology #Politics #Population
February 11, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Frightening and accurate
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This should concern us all. You cannot speak of freedom and liberty and then support this regime’s actions.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern
Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.
www.nbcnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:05 AM
This should concern us all. You cannot speak of freedom and liberty and then support this regime’s actions.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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🚨 NEW REPORT & DATA RELEASE 🚨
GEM's (@globalenergymon.bsky.social) data shows a major surge in the global clean power pipeline in 2025! ☀️💨🔌💡🧪
#energy #renewables #solar #wind #opendata
Read our latest report here: globalenergymonitor.org/report/globa...
A short 🧵 with main findings below!
GEM's (@globalenergymon.bsky.social) data shows a major surge in the global clean power pipeline in 2025! ☀️💨🔌💡🧪
#energy #renewables #solar #wind #opendata
Read our latest report here: globalenergymonitor.org/report/globa...
A short 🧵 with main findings below!
Global wind and solar 2025: The G7 gap
Global prospective wind and solar reaches almost 5 TW, but the wealthiest nations account for one-tenth of the capacity Key points Prospective wind and utility-scale solar pipeline reached almost 5 TW...
globalenergymonitor.org
February 10, 2026 at 3:04 PM
🚨 NEW REPORT & DATA RELEASE 🚨
GEM's (@globalenergymon.bsky.social) data shows a major surge in the global clean power pipeline in 2025! ☀️💨🔌💡🧪
#energy #renewables #solar #wind #opendata
Read our latest report here: globalenergymonitor.org/report/globa...
A short 🧵 with main findings below!
GEM's (@globalenergymon.bsky.social) data shows a major surge in the global clean power pipeline in 2025! ☀️💨🔌💡🧪
#energy #renewables #solar #wind #opendata
Read our latest report here: globalenergymonitor.org/report/globa...
A short 🧵 with main findings below!
Because this will make us all healthier how??
Essentially, we are a country lacking any centralized environmental regulation. Until that changes, community groups are stepping up to monitor air pollution, with help from environmental engineers from area universities. #ScienceSky #HigherEdSky #ClimateSky 🧪🌤️ www.nrdc.org/stories/comm...
February 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Because this will make us all healthier how??
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So useful!!
A technology feature in Nature profiles Aletheia-Probe, which provides a one-stop shop to help you assess whether journals and conferences are trustworthy or predatory. #Academicsky 🧪
Is this journal legitimate? This tool can help you decide
Aletheia-Probe provides a one-stop shop to help you assess whether journals and conferences are trustworthy or predatory.
go.nature.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
So useful!!
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We The People need to repeatedly declare this government ILLEGITIMATE on these grounds:
1. It violates the Constitution and Our Inalienable rights daily, and
2. We do not consent and all governments derive their just powers from consent of the governed.
1. It violates the Constitution and Our Inalienable rights daily, and
2. We do not consent and all governments derive their just powers from consent of the governed.
February 8, 2026 at 12:08 AM
We The People need to repeatedly declare this government ILLEGITIMATE on these grounds:
1. It violates the Constitution and Our Inalienable rights daily, and
2. We do not consent and all governments derive their just powers from consent of the governed.
1. It violates the Constitution and Our Inalienable rights daily, and
2. We do not consent and all governments derive their just powers from consent of the governed.
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The median ticket price for Sunday’s Super Bowl is $7,497.
I don’t even want to know what a beer costs.
But even if you want to go to a regular-season sporting event, tickets and concession prices will cost you a small fortune.
Here’s one thing we can do about it.
I don’t even want to know what a beer costs.
But even if you want to go to a regular-season sporting event, tickets and concession prices will cost you a small fortune.
Here’s one thing we can do about it.
How Billionaires Are Ruining Sports
The median ticket price for Sunday’s Super Bowl is $7,497.I don’t even want to know what a beer costs.But even if you wa
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February 8, 2026 at 8:01 PM
The median ticket price for Sunday’s Super Bowl is $7,497.
I don’t even want to know what a beer costs.
But even if you want to go to a regular-season sporting event, tickets and concession prices will cost you a small fortune.
Here’s one thing we can do about it.
I don’t even want to know what a beer costs.
But even if you want to go to a regular-season sporting event, tickets and concession prices will cost you a small fortune.
Here’s one thing we can do about it.
Really interesting take on providing health care
“The field’s widely held North Star measure, life expectancy, has failed to catalyze public health action…fundamentally, life expectancy is too remote for most ppl to care about.It concerns a faroff eventuality—at what age we will die—rather than the sentiments, tensions &challenges of daily life”🧪🛟
February 8, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Really interesting take on providing health care
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I’m so proud of all the Olympic athletes speaking out about the bullshit that is happening here. That’s what patriotism looks like.
February 7, 2026 at 3:09 PM
I’m so proud of all the Olympic athletes speaking out about the bullshit that is happening here. That’s what patriotism looks like.
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February 6, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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February 6, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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"This is a story about incompetent leadership that destroyed the paper’s economic viability. It’s a story of self-mutilation....What happened to the Washington Post over the last three years happened because Jeff Bezos wanted it to be so."
The Washington Post Dies in Daylight
Civic vandalism and the mutilation of a great paper.
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February 6, 2026 at 7:00 AM
"This is a story about incompetent leadership that destroyed the paper’s economic viability. It’s a story of self-mutilation....What happened to the Washington Post over the last three years happened because Jeff Bezos wanted it to be so."
Scary. Insane. Can’t let this happen!
So the “elected” President with his elected majority House and Senate says they have to takeover elections because Dems cheat. Make that argument make sense.
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 AM
Scary. Insane. Can’t let this happen!
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Immigrants can’t vote unless they have become American citizens.
February 2, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Immigrants can’t vote unless they have become American citizens.
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An informative read for healthcare professionals & others.
ICE agents don’t have the same authority as police officers.
It is w/in legal rights, & professional ethical obligations, to refuse to hand over IDs or documents simply b/c ICE asks for them.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/i...
#Pinks
ICE agents don’t have the same authority as police officers.
It is w/in legal rights, & professional ethical obligations, to refuse to hand over IDs or documents simply b/c ICE asks for them.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/i...
#Pinks
Allowing ICE in hospitals is a public health catastrophe in the making
Allowing ICE to conduct raids in hospitals and medical clinics is not only cruel; it is a public health catastrophe in the making, writes Eric Reinhart.
www.statnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:37 PM
An informative read for healthcare professionals & others.
ICE agents don’t have the same authority as police officers.
It is w/in legal rights, & professional ethical obligations, to refuse to hand over IDs or documents simply b/c ICE asks for them.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/i...
#Pinks
ICE agents don’t have the same authority as police officers.
It is w/in legal rights, & professional ethical obligations, to refuse to hand over IDs or documents simply b/c ICE asks for them.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/i...
#Pinks
This is why we need independent thinking leaders at any agency that protects the welfare of Americans (EPA, CDC, NIH, FDA, etc.)
Good news: EPA regulations dramatically reduced lead exposure in the US since the org was established by Nixon in 1970. Bad news: Trump's EPA is trying to roll back many of those regulations now. 🧪
Preserved hair reveals just how bad lead exposure was in the 20th century
A new study reveals the dramatic decrease in lead exposure in the U.S. following the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency 55 years ago.
www.livescience.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:40 PM
This is why we need independent thinking leaders at any agency that protects the welfare of Americans (EPA, CDC, NIH, FDA, etc.)
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It was probably difficult to foresee that Trump would put the Kennedy Center out of business.
February 1, 2026 at 11:59 PM
It was probably difficult to foresee that Trump would put the Kennedy Center out of business.
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Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
www.cbsnews.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Amazing video - something awesome for your day
You may have seen pictures, but have you ever seen video of a gigantic jet #TLE from space?
Astronaut Jeanette Epps captured this incredible sequence on July 20th, 2024 for the DTU/@science.esa.int Thor-Davis experiment. 🧪🔭
youtu.be/xN2J7_rOBJY
Credit: ESA/NASA/J. Epps
Processing: Simeon Schmauß
Astronaut Jeanette Epps captured this incredible sequence on July 20th, 2024 for the DTU/@science.esa.int Thor-Davis experiment. 🧪🔭
youtu.be/xN2J7_rOBJY
Credit: ESA/NASA/J. Epps
Processing: Simeon Schmauß
January 31, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Amazing video - something awesome for your day
The Italians are protesting ICE coming to the Olympics- can’t imagine why
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Demonstrators in Milan protest ICE unit at Winter Olympics, criticizing 'creeping fascism'
Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Milan to protest the deployment of ICE agents during the upcoming Winter Olympics. Saturday's protest took place in Piazza XXV Aprile, a square named
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January 31, 2026 at 4:33 PM
The Italians are protesting ICE coming to the Olympics- can’t imagine why
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