Jay Treberg
@biologistsisus.bsky.social
A 'bit of a Neanderthal' who is interested in how energy and matter transform to drive living systems through time.
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
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I’m back.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I’m back.
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Once again, if you wrote a story in which the jetsetting corrupt FBI chief took a government plane to the "Boondoggle Ranch" an editor would tell you to get a different job, because you're not cut out for writing believable stories.
New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director
In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.
www.wsj.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Once again, if you wrote a story in which the jetsetting corrupt FBI chief took a government plane to the "Boondoggle Ranch" an editor would tell you to get a different job, because you're not cut out for writing believable stories.
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Oh, changing the time by one hour for Daylight Savings is messing with your sleep schedule? "Why is it dark at 5 p.m.," you ask?
Frilled sharks live in such deep water that they never see the sun at all! You didn't think about THAT, did you? No, you only ever think about yourself.
Frilled sharks live in such deep water that they never see the sun at all! You didn't think about THAT, did you? No, you only ever think about yourself.
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Oh, changing the time by one hour for Daylight Savings is messing with your sleep schedule? "Why is it dark at 5 p.m.," you ask?
Frilled sharks live in such deep water that they never see the sun at all! You didn't think about THAT, did you? No, you only ever think about yourself.
Frilled sharks live in such deep water that they never see the sun at all! You didn't think about THAT, did you? No, you only ever think about yourself.
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Come and work with us! We have a great group of faculty, amazing students, and excellent research facilities! mta.ca/about-mta/wo...
Assistant Professor - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Full-time continuing position
mta.ca
October 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Come and work with us! We have a great group of faculty, amazing students, and excellent research facilities! mta.ca/about-mta/wo...
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Donald Trump broke a promise and then ruined something?
Well, I never.
Well, I never.
Trump in July, on the WH $250MM ballroom project:
“It won’t interfere with the current building.... It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“It won’t interfere with the current building.... It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
October 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Donald Trump broke a promise and then ruined something?
Well, I never.
Well, I never.
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Remember the Year of the MOOC from a decade ago? The one where tech bros predicted the end of all but 3-4 universities because who needs campuses when everyone can just take MOOCs and learn everything? Hits a little different now after pandemic pedagogy, huh? The tech hype cycle is a helluva drug.
October 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Remember the Year of the MOOC from a decade ago? The one where tech bros predicted the end of all but 3-4 universities because who needs campuses when everyone can just take MOOCs and learn everything? Hits a little different now after pandemic pedagogy, huh? The tech hype cycle is a helluva drug.
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This isn't a new insight, but: the people who are always ready to put a Black teenager on trial as an adult sure do like extending the "youth will be youth" excuse in other contexts— not just to college students like Kavanaugh, but to, e.g., 35-year-olds on a Young Republicans group chat.
October 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This isn't a new insight, but: the people who are always ready to put a Black teenager on trial as an adult sure do like extending the "youth will be youth" excuse in other contexts— not just to college students like Kavanaugh, but to, e.g., 35-year-olds on a Young Republicans group chat.
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-80 freezer at -20
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
rm -rf ~/
rm -rf ~/
"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
-80 freezer at -20
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Sure, but if he’d stuck around for the PhD, nobody would be listening to him now. Checkmate
Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.
October 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Sure, but if he’d stuck around for the PhD, nobody would be listening to him now. Checkmate
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Oh. You don't say. I was told this sort of thing wouldn't happen in Canada.
Conservatives call for new limit on birthright citizenship
SARAH RITCHIEOTTAWA — The Conservatives are calling for a new limit
winnipeg-can.newsmemory.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Oh. You don't say. I was told this sort of thing wouldn't happen in Canada.
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“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”
October 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”
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October 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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My first ever non-peer reviewed science-related piece. Together with Howard Wolinsky and Holger Breithaupt @embopress.org
It's about how scientists critical of de-extinction are targeted by dark PR tactics: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
It's about how scientists critical of de-extinction are targeted by dark PR tactics: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Scientists targeted by dark PR tactics: Several academic scientists critical of de-extinction projects have become the targets of anonymous smear articles and weaponized copyright infringement claims:...
EMBO Press is an editorially independent publishing platform for the development of EMBO scientific publications.
www.embopress.org
October 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
My first ever non-peer reviewed science-related piece. Together with Howard Wolinsky and Holger Breithaupt @embopress.org
It's about how scientists critical of de-extinction are targeted by dark PR tactics: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
It's about how scientists critical of de-extinction are targeted by dark PR tactics: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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And this is our cover briefing. "Western countries are conscious that China and Russia are testing them, but unsure or, in some cases, in outright disagreement about how to respond. That is presumably one of the aims of such actions."
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
Why Russia’s micro-aggressions against Europe are proliferating
It is hoping to sap support for Ukraine and highlight America’s ambivalence
www.economist.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
And this is our cover briefing. "Western countries are conscious that China and Russia are testing them, but unsure or, in some cases, in outright disagreement about how to respond. That is presumably one of the aims of such actions."
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
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Just caught up on this fascinating paper in Science in August. It reports evidence of strong selective pressure from breeding of horses around 5000-3000 years ago in Central Asia. One reason it's interesting is that the selection is *really* strong... /1
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Selection at the GSDMC locus in horses and its implications for human mobility
Horsepower revolutionized human history through enhanced mobility, transport, and warfare. However, the suite of biological traits that reshaped horses during domestication remains unclear. We scanned...
www.science.org
October 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Just caught up on this fascinating paper in Science in August. It reports evidence of strong selective pressure from breeding of horses around 5000-3000 years ago in Central Asia. One reason it's interesting is that the selection is *really* strong... /1
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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September 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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If the Trump White House wants to ban all transgender people from owning guns because a handful were responsible for mass shootings, wait until they hear how many shootings straight cis white guys have done.
September 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If the Trump White House wants to ban all transgender people from owning guns because a handful were responsible for mass shootings, wait until they hear how many shootings straight cis white guys have done.
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It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
September 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
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For the eleventy billionth time:
Attacks on science funding and science jobs in the United States don’t mean that science will just move elsewhere.
It means a lot less science for everyone.
There aren’t enough jobs or funding everywhere else )combined) for US scientists to just move.
Attacks on science funding and science jobs in the United States don’t mean that science will just move elsewhere.
It means a lot less science for everyone.
There aren’t enough jobs or funding everywhere else )combined) for US scientists to just move.
Some are embracing the fantasy that the cuts to #NIH funding will only have an impact here in the USA. As Nature reports, the NIH is the largest global funder by far and dwarfs the rest of the world’s funders of biomedical research.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts
Abrupt cuts by the Trump administration to the US National Institutes of Health threaten progress in medical research globally.
www.nature.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
For the eleventy billionth time:
Attacks on science funding and science jobs in the United States don’t mean that science will just move elsewhere.
It means a lot less science for everyone.
There aren’t enough jobs or funding everywhere else )combined) for US scientists to just move.
Attacks on science funding and science jobs in the United States don’t mean that science will just move elsewhere.
It means a lot less science for everyone.
There aren’t enough jobs or funding everywhere else )combined) for US scientists to just move.
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A sense of doom among US biomedical scientists
@arghavansallesmd.medsky.social & team
www.statnews.com/2025/08/26/f...
@arghavansallesmd.medsky.social & team
www.statnews.com/2025/08/26/f...
We surveyed hundreds of biomedical researchers about the instability in federal funding. Here’s what they said
“The ship is going down and we are powerless”: What scientists are saying about cuts to federal research funding.
www.statnews.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
A sense of doom among US biomedical scientists
@arghavansallesmd.medsky.social & team
www.statnews.com/2025/08/26/f...
@arghavansallesmd.medsky.social & team
www.statnews.com/2025/08/26/f...
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Here the WSJ states plainly Trump’s retribution presidency is “worse than we imagined.”
No one had to imagine anything. He said he would do this. All you had to do was listen.
No one had to imagine anything. He said he would do this. All you had to do was listen.
At some point the WSJ editorial page just needs to admit they were wrong to support Trump’s re-election
www.wsj.com/opinion/john...
www.wsj.com/opinion/john...
Opinion | Trump’s Vendetta Campaign Targets John Bolton
This FBI raid makes clearer that second-term success for the President includes retribution.
www.wsj.com
August 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Here the WSJ states plainly Trump’s retribution presidency is “worse than we imagined.”
No one had to imagine anything. He said he would do this. All you had to do was listen.
No one had to imagine anything. He said he would do this. All you had to do was listen.
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The Pentagon is blocking Ukraine from using long-range missiles to hit Russian military targets.
No wonder Putin still thinks he can win the war
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
No wonder Putin still thinks he can win the war
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Exclusive | Pentagon Has Quietly Blocked Ukraine’s Long-Range Missile Strikes on Russia
The Defense Department has withheld approval for attacks as the White House has sought to entice Moscow to open peace talks.
www.wsj.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The Pentagon is blocking Ukraine from using long-range missiles to hit Russian military targets.
No wonder Putin still thinks he can win the war
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
No wonder Putin still thinks he can win the war
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...