Ken Gilmore
@kengilmore.bsky.social
Australian medical doctor fascinated by evolutionary biology, ancient Near Eastern studies, Syro-Palestinian archaeology, biblical studies and vintage electronics. Eclectic is not a dirty word. He/his.
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April 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Like “every other scientist, I was not allowed to speak in any kind of scientific meeting or public setting,” Francis Collins, a geneticist who had worked for the biomedical research agency since the 1990s, said during an episode that aired Sunday.
Least surprising news ever.
Least surprising news ever.
Ex-NIH Director Says Trump Silenced Him, Others
A former director of the National Institutes of Health—who resigned in February—told CBS’s 60 Minutes that working at the agency became “untenable” after President Donald Trump started his second term...
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April 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Like “every other scientist, I was not allowed to speak in any kind of scientific meeting or public setting,” Francis Collins, a geneticist who had worked for the biomedical research agency since the 1990s, said during an episode that aired Sunday.
Least surprising news ever.
Least surprising news ever.
Turns out contemporary conservatives hate all of science. Being ignorant is now a tribal identity marker for them.
Study: Conservatives Hate Science (All Of It)
YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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April 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Turns out contemporary conservatives hate all of science. Being ignorant is now a tribal identity marker for them.
In the least surprising news of the day the Trump regime fakes evidence to justify their treatment of a person.
Trump fabricates a photo of Mr. Garcia with MS-13 tattoo on his hand. This is NOT a real image. Trump and his regime fabricated it. Please understand that Trump regime would fabricate evidence to put you or your family in jail. This is what FASCISM regimes do. www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-...
Trump Touts Seemingly Doctored Photo of Abrego Garcia’s Hand in Attempt To Prove Maryland Man Is Gang Member
President Donald Trump posted a photo of himself holding a seemingly digitally altered image of the left hand of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last month.
www.mediaite.com
April 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
In the least surprising news of the day the Trump regime fakes evidence to justify their treatment of a person.
That moment when you find sceptical figures you once respected think “woke ideology” is a far bigger threat to science than the right wing extremists in the Trump Administration.
The “Skeptics” Are Crashing Out HARD
YouTube video by Genetically Modified Skeptic
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April 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
That moment when you find sceptical figures you once respected think “woke ideology” is a far bigger threat to science than the right wing extremists in the Trump Administration.
I went crazy ages ago, and now I just watch the train run off the bridge for the dark side of the moon.
It is becoming unbelievably difficult to stay both informed and sane
April 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I went crazy ages ago, and now I just watch the train run off the bridge for the dark side of the moon.
Not a few Christian Nationalists have been vocal in calling for the repealing of the 19th Amendment. This is one way to achieve something like that. Gotta stop those handmaidens voting.
yeah man, please make my 85 year
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
🧵 There are a lot of misleading claims out there about the SAVE Act. Let me set the record straight: I voted for the SAVE Act for the simple reason that American elections are for Americans. Requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote is common sense.
April 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Not a few Christian Nationalists have been vocal in calling for the repealing of the 19th Amendment. This is one way to achieve something like that. Gotta stop those handmaidens voting.
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exhibits A and B in how lying all the time makes you stupid
April 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
exhibits A and B in how lying all the time makes you stupid
Making the Chinese look like the good guys and adults in the room isn’t hard when you’re dealing with couch boy, admittedly.
Think about how much of an entitled prick you’d have to be to think calling other human beings “peasants” when you’re the Vice President is an ok thing to do.
The world’s worst diplomat strikes again.
Also: we don’t borrow money from them. That is nonsense.
The world’s worst diplomat strikes again.
Also: we don’t borrow money from them. That is nonsense.
April 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Making the Chinese look like the good guys and adults in the room isn’t hard when you’re dealing with couch boy, admittedly.
Exactly. Remember, he’s a corrupt stupid conman and convicted felon. There’s no Machiavellian plans here. He’s just behaving like he always has in the business world.
April 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Exactly. Remember, he’s a corrupt stupid conman and convicted felon. There’s no Machiavellian plans here. He’s just behaving like he always has in the business world.
Now that those tariffs have been reversed or paused, are we now back in the emasculated free-trade wilderness? Curious minds want to know.
April 10, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Now that those tariffs have been reversed or paused, are we now back in the emasculated free-trade wilderness? Curious minds want to know.
The more she lies the smaller her nose gets and the larger her cross grows. It’s like an inverse Pinocchio of the far right.
It's almost impossible to imagine, after the first Trump administration, but do we have the stupidest, lying Press Secretary in history?
April 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The more she lies the smaller her nose gets and the larger her cross grows. It’s like an inverse Pinocchio of the far right.
The gestapo allusions can be taken as given.
“Mommy, no. Mommy.”
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
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Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
April 10, 2025 at 4:57 AM
The gestapo allusions can be taken as given.
“In derelict sidings the poppies entwine, with cattle trucks lying in wait for the next time.”
Seems less scary than in the original German, but don’t be deceived michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/i...
ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’ • Michigan Advance
The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American citi...
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April 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
“In derelict sidings the poppies entwine, with cattle trucks lying in wait for the next time.”
I have no problems with the research as such but we’re not resurrecting dead species. They’re gone forever and misleading hype like this is irritating.
This is not a dire wolf. It's a gray wolf with some fairly minor genetic modification to exhibit a few (presumed) dire wolf traits.
Similarly, this woolly mouse is not a mammoth. It's a genetically modified mouse exhibiting a mammoth trait.
Similarly, this woolly mouse is not a mammoth. It's a genetically modified mouse exhibiting a mammoth trait.
April 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I have no problems with the research as such but we’re not resurrecting dead species. They’re gone forever and misleading hype like this is irritating.
Away from the political madness; nice short article on respected archaeologist of 1st-10th century CE Palestine / Israel Jodi Magness.
The Archaeologist’s World: Jodi Magness and Her Ancient Discoveries - The Local Reporter
As the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 2002, Jodi Magness has established herself as a preeminent author...
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April 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Away from the political madness; nice short article on respected archaeologist of 1st-10th century CE Palestine / Israel Jodi Magness.
Exactly. Who would come to the U.S. to build a scientific career when future Republican regimes could deport your postdocs and grad students or just make them disappear?
I am increasingly convinced that there is no coming back from any of this, that whatever happens in future elections, the United States is never going to go back to being the country it once was. It is certainly not the country I came to 30 years ago.
Hard to overstate how lawless and also just fundamentally *untrustworthy* this country is, any promise we ever made anyone about anything turns out to have been fake www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
April 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Exactly. Who would come to the U.S. to build a scientific career when future Republican regimes could deport your postdocs and grad students or just make them disappear?
I’m quite happy for all of them to be cancelled forever, which is a shame because the Blind Watchmaker still remains my favourite evolutionary biology book.
Dozens of "scientists and scholars"—including Richard Dawkins, Jerry Coyne, Lawrence Krauss, and Jordan Peterson—are contributing essays to a right-wing publisher's book about "the war on science."
The focus? DEI and cancel culture. Not Republicans.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/prominent-...
The focus? DEI and cancel culture. Not Republicans.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/prominent-...
Prominent atheists are weaponizing the "War on Science" to push right-wing grievances
Republicans are waging a real war on science. But a new book, edited by Lawrence Krauss, thinks the enemies of science are DEI and "cancel culture."
www.friendlyatheist.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I’m quite happy for all of them to be cancelled forever, which is a shame because the Blind Watchmaker still remains my favourite evolutionary biology book.
Just waiting for the Trumpenführer’s American Jewish supporters to condemn this unreservedly. Any time now.
Trump Claims Nazis Treated Jewish Prisoners With “Love”
Donald Trump made the unbelievable claim during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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April 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Just waiting for the Trumpenführer’s American Jewish supporters to condemn this unreservedly. Any time now.
Charlie Kirk lies again. It’s all he can do.
April 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Charlie Kirk lies again. It’s all he can do.
The pathetic trigger control underlines the fact these are cruel morons cosplaying a government.
April 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The pathetic trigger control underlines the fact these are cruel morons cosplaying a government.
One third of America is fundamentally broken. It can only be outvoted and outlived.
this is just a level of sickness that i don’t think any society can come back from
April 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
One third of America is fundamentally broken. It can only be outvoted and outlived.
Tired of the Trumpenführer’s belligerent idiocy? How about a reminder about looming food insecurity?
Whistleblowing memo by anonymous food industry execs in the UK via @insidetrackuk.bsky.social
Link to full memo and media coverage here. It’s addressed to investors in the hopes they use their influence to demand action insidetrack.org.uk/foodmemo
Link to full memo and media coverage here. It’s addressed to investors in the hopes they use their influence to demand action insidetrack.org.uk/foodmemo
April 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Tired of the Trumpenführer’s belligerent idiocy? How about a reminder about looming food insecurity?
Pretty much this.
April 8, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Pretty much this.
That last paragraph needs to be branded on the foreheads of every pearl-clutching conservative who whines about drugs but dies absolutely nothing to address the root causes of the problem.
April 8, 2025 at 5:18 AM
That last paragraph needs to be branded on the foreheads of every pearl-clutching conservative who whines about drugs but dies absolutely nothing to address the root causes of the problem.