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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊
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She/her. I turn pictures into numbers so others can turn them into medicine. Also I yell about politics a lot. See the fantastic things my team does at https://ciminilab.github.io/WeMakeStuff . Views my own, awesome science from my amazing team.
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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · Nov 12
The highs of the conference yesterday and advising people on Twitter this morning have made me a bit reflective - I want to share some stuff I've never put online before, in case it helps others out.

In grad school, by any measure of academic success, I was a complete failure.
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Mamdani’s message is as American as apple pie, and that’s why he drives reactionaries of many different political stripes crazy.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h
Mamdani: Where else can you hear the sound of the steel pan, savor the smell of sancocho, and pay $9 for coffee on the same block? Where else could a Muslim kid like me grow up eating bagels and lox every Sunday?
January 1, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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joolia.bsky.social
huh so Google is kicking off the new year by pissing off knitters that’s fun
A Google doodle logo where the o’s in Google are replaced by a bad AI rendition of some non-anatomically correct bright pink knitting. The two needles look like a weird broken screw, there aren’t enough stitches, and it’s all very ugly and low effort. There’s a link: “Make a plan for 2026 resolutions with Al Mode”
January 2, 2026 at 12:47 AM
bethcimini.bsky.social
Happy New Year, may 2026 improve on 2025 in all ways!
January 1, 2026 at 4:50 AM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
[very monty python voice] WE’RE NOT DEAD YET
back on Jan. 9, 2025 some dope named @JaneOrrickMD on the hellsite posted: “All Covid Vaccinated will be dead by December 31, 2025 *According to United States of America, who lead the charge to kill 95% of the World in 1994, under UN Agenda 2021.” she included a screenshot of a bonkers conspiracy theory that’s the equivalent of this emoji: 😵‍💫 and then this was appended at the bottom of the post: * Readers added context It is December 31st, 2025, and we aren't dead worldometers.info/world-population/
January 1, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
There are only 45 million foreign-born people living in the United States right now, about half of whom are naturalized citizens. So this ridiculous edge-lord post by taxpayer-funded trolls is suggesting deporting 55 million native-born citizens.
3fecta.bsky.social Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 1d
This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.
Homeland security post The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world. A photo of an old 70's tan car on the beach with palm trees swaying in the wind as the surf comes in. with the text America After 100 million deportations.
December 31, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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whitneyzahnd.bsky.social
2025 Cartoon by Tiina Menzel
A cartoon showing a cat knocking “2025” off of a table.
December 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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lookitup.baby
HEBER CITY, Utah - An artificial intelligence that writes police reports had some explaining to do earlier this month after it claimed a Heber City officer had shape-shifted into a frog. However, the truth behind that so-called magical transformation is simple. "The body cam software and the Al report writing software picked up on the movie that was playing in the background, which happened to be 'The Princess and the Frog,” Sgt. Keel told FOX 13 News. "That's when we learned the importance of correcting these AI-generated reports.'
December 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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mattbinder.bsky.social
Elon Musk promised a lot of things by 2025

- colonists arriving on Mars
- xAI achieving AGI
- Tesla robotaxis serving half the U.S.
- completely driverless robotaxis
- a Tesla Roadster demo
- DOGE cutting trillions

none of them happened
mashable.com/article/elon-mus...
Everything Elon Musk promised in 2025, but didn't deliver
Musk is now infamous for his false promises, but even this is excessive.
mashable.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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thisone0verhere.bsky.social
Yes I know
December 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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maia.computer
we reproduce asexually, releasing clouds of spores at certain points in our lifecycles, like some species of fungi
December 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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florianjug.bsky.social
🚨 Alarm!!! 🚨
AI/ML course for microscopy image analysis!!! 🧐
In 2026 at Janelia (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social), no tuition, housing and meals provided! Isn’t that borderline unbelievable?!?

20 students, ~14 TAs and lecturers
🗓️ June 4-18 2026

✍️ Jan 15 2026 ✍️

🔁 pls!!

www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
Deep Learning for Microscopy Image Analysis
Topics The following will be covered extensively during lectures, exercises, and project work: Image denoising and restoration (fully supervised and self-supervised) Image translation (e.g.,
www.janelia.org
December 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Read Jim's whole thread! I also want to add some historical context. During the 1918 pandemic, there was so much confusion because many scientists still thought that a bacteria, not a virus caused the flu (because, as Jim notes, we couldn't even see viruses under a microscope yet).
jimalwine.bsky.social Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 5d
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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anildash.com
Remember:

When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.

When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.

ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
publichealthguy1.bsky.social public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 5d
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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grimalkina.bsky.social
Here is an example of what I mean in a simple illustration, from our New Developer project.

AI Skill Threat is how acutely developers anticipated identity-based and skill-based loss and Contest Culture is how much they rated software as demanding punitive, ruthless competition norms.
Dot plot showing 2,178 developers grouped by contest culture level. Each dot represents one developer, colored by their AI skill threat level. In low contest cultures, 58% feel low threat. In high contest cultures, 49% feel high threat, showing contest culture amplifies AI anxiety.
December 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
This is the "SEA SHEEP" (Costasiella kuroshimae) & it took the old axiom: "you are what you eat" VERY literally.

It eats algae & rather than just digest them, it harvests the chloroplasts & becomes PHOTOSYNTHETIC. Solar slug!

Also, some of its cousins can rip their own heads off.
a close up of a green and white sponge with purple spots
Alt: A green and white sea sheep grazes on a green lawn of algae on a surface underwater.
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December 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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rincewind.run
even if the Supreme Court says we can never touch Trump for any of this shit, the next admin should go after everyone involved in buying and selling pardons and they should do it loudly and aggressively
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d
New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
December 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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mcopelov.bsky.social
Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.
December 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
bethcimini.bsky.social
Episode 21 - when we talk about doing image augmentations for deep learning, what do we MEAN? @erinweisbart.bsky.social uses CellProfiler to demonstrate exactly how we transform images to make neural networks more robust. PLUS (1/2)
December 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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harmitmalik.bsky.social
Very important 🧵 🧪

Amplifying for greater reach
needhibhalla.bsky.social Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 13d
Hey all, I reached out to the PO of my NIGMS MIRA to ask if the gov't shut down, and rescheduling of study sections, might allow for some accommodation to the standard rule that PIs cannot resubmit a MIRA while their MIRA (or other RPG) is under review (waiting in scores or summary statements) 🧪
December 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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crick-ia-team.bsky.social
Less than a month to go before applications close for the Introduction to Image Analysis workshop in Cardiff (deadline 16th January)!

@royalmicrosoc.bsky.social

www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...
crick-ia-team.bsky.social Crick Image Analysis Team @crick-ia-team.bsky.social · Dec 1
Applications for the next @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social “Introduction to image analysis” workshop are now open!

Join us for 3 days in Cardiff in May to learn the foundations of #bioimageanalysis using Fiji, Python and @napari.org

www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...
Introduction to Image Analysis 2026
www.rms.org.uk
December 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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deniswirtz.bsky.social
We wrote two reviews on cell migration, published today in Nature Methods.

They provides practical guidelines how to select a cell-migration assay and how to analyze cell-migration data

Review 1: nature.com/articles/s41...

Review 2: nature.com/articles/s41...
December 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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parkermolloy.com
They updated the website today to remove the word "independent"

Before (left), after (right)
The FCC's Mission The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. An independent U.S. government agency overseen by Congress, the Commission is the federal agency responsible for implementing and enforcing America’s communications law and regulations. The FCC's Mission The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. A U.S. government agency overseen by Congress, the Commission is the federal agency responsible for implementing and enforcing America’s communications law and regulations.
December 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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isabelott.bsky.social
the sort of canonical raison d’être of NSF funding, of course, is that it supports research efforts that do not appeal to the venture capital/industry/near-term profit-motivated set,
dangaristo.bsky.social Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 15d
The National Science Board, which oversees NSF, has published recommendations to update the foundation's merit review (which was just updated).

Below are the main points. www.nsf.gov/nsb/updates/...
The Board recommends that NSF: Boost participation and invite expert reviews from a wider range of industry, research institutions, venture capital, and regions of the country. Emphasize that NSF-funded research must deliver societal benefits, including research that advances the nation's economic competitiveness and national security. Build NSF's award portfolio at the agency level for greater nimbleness and strategic alignment with national priorities, both current and emerging. NSF previously announced operational changes to its Merit Review to streamline, clarify, and harmonize agency funding strategies to achieve top scientific and national priorities, similar to those made by the National Institutes of Health. In the coming year, the Board will continue working with NSF leaders to implement NSB recommendations for Merit Review policy changes, such as encouraging verification of previously reported results and pursuing more bold research with high reward potential. "We can't succeed in a new era with yesterday's playbook," says McCrary. "For our nation to win the race for the future, NSF must develop transformative partnerships with the private sector, states and communities. Together, we can blaze a trail to the next frontiers of science, usher in a Golden Age of American Innovation, and deliver on the promise of science and technology for the benefit of all Americans."
December 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
American Academy of Pediatrics has grants cut by HHS

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American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr.
HHS cuts key AAP grants, citing concerns about “identity-based language” and insufficient focus on agency priorities. The organization said the cuts could harm child health.
wapo.st
December 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM