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Kim Bellard
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Just a curious guy. I write a little, usually on Medium. Health care, tech, the future - those kinds of things.
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Appreciate this write up from @kimbbellard.bsky.social! Thank you for your continued support of @standupforscience.bsky.social ✊🏼
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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We've seen what government run by politicians is like. Maybe it's time to see what a government run by scientists would be like.

H/T @cdelawalla.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social @314action.bsky.social @shaughnessy2025.bsky.social @katherinejwu.com

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Support Your Neighborhood Scientist
These are, it must be said, grim times for American science. Between the Trump budget cuts, the Trump attacks on leading research…
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November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Med school definitely should be rethought and reformed, but making it shorter is one of the smaller changes that need to happen.

I have some thoughts...

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Opinion | Make Medical School Three Years
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November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Visualized: The Shrinking Future of Western Populations share.google/VAVcuOtzg9je...
Visualized: The Shrinking Future of Western Populations
A clear look at fertility rates in the west: most countries are below replacement, with Israel as the lone outlier.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
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November 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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@downing.bsky.social - I just read @timbl.bsky.social 's new book and was interested in his thoughts for the future, such as @inrupt.bsky.social and the Solid Project. Curious to see if you are following these and what your thoughts are.

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Inrupt's wallet infrastructure solutions power Agentic Wallets™ and Data Wallets, enabling AI-driven experiences built on consented customer data.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Is health insurance a matter of life and death? Scientists may have an answer.
The surprisingly tricky question stumped researchers for decades. But they think they finally have an answer.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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As a scientist once said, the universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. 😲

Quantum nonlocality may be inherent in the very nature of identical particles share.google/HudnJbeiF2UQ...
Quantum nonlocality may be inherent in the very nature of identical particles
At its deepest physical foundations, the world appears to be nonlocal: particles separated in space behave not as independent quantum systems, but as parts of a single one. Polish physicists have now ...
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November 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Is there a health care version of this?
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
Vigilante Lawyers Expose the Rising Tide of A.I. Slop in Court Filings
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November 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 3d
Many people who work in health and science are fighting against the Trump administration's politicalization of those issues. Others are running for office. Katherine J. Wu reports: https://theatln.tc/1PnMG923
November 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Well, not really about mRNA but thanks to @boltyboy.bsky.social for publishing anyway!
boltyboy.bsky.social Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 3d
Once again America turns to @kimbbellard.bsky.social to explain all that stuff about mRNA you missed by not reading the science journals....

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Life Is Geometry – The Health Care Blog
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November 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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rasushrestha.bsky.social Dr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 3d
🤯 Half of new US companies disappear within five years, and only one in three make it to year 10.
Half of new US companies disappear within five years, and only one in three make it to year 10 Roughly half of new US startups make it to their fifth birthday – and the most recent cohort have even dodged the recession curse (so far). According to an Axios analysis on the latest BLS data, 51.6% of private sector firms founded in March 2019 were still operating as of March 2024. Zooming out, the typical life cycle of an American startup follows a familiar curve.
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d
ProPublica identified 20 segregation academies in Mississippi that received almost $10 million over six years through a state-funded program.

At least eight opened with an early boost from state-funded vouchers in the 1960s.

(Published Nov. 2024)
Segregation Academies in Mississippi Are Benefiting From Public Dollars, as They Did in the 1960s
ProPublica identified 20 schools in the state that likely opened as segregation academies and have received almost $10 million over the past six years from the state’s tax credit donation program.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Why Trump’s cuts to scientific research are a big win for China
China is attracting American scientific talent, especially in STEM fields, partly due to funding cuts and immigration restrictions under President Donald Trump.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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What do Euclid, John von Neumann, and Crick & Watson have in common? Ask your genes. 🤔

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Life Is Geometry
In 2025, we’ve got DNA all figured out, right? It’s been over fifty years since Crick and Watson (and Franklin) discovered the double helix…
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November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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npr.org NPR @npr.org · 4d
Migrating wild birds are spreading the virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human outbreak. Scientists are troubled by the muted federal response. n.pr/4913a0E
Bird flu surges among poultry amid a scaled back federal response
Migrating wild birds are spreading the virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human outbreak. Scientists are troubled by the muted federal response.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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charlesornstein.bsky.social Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 4d
The U.S. is on track to have the fewest foreign food inspections since 2011, except during the Covid pandemic. 65% of the staff in the FDA divisions responsible for coordinating travel and budgets left or were fired in the name of government efficiency. www.propublica.org/article/fore...
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Exclusive | The Next Big Quantum Computer Has Arrived
Quantinuum unveiled its latest system, Helios, inching the industry toward the day the technology will deliver meaningful commercial value.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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“Mostly it causes harm,” said Dr. Emmet Hirsch, an obstetrics professor at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. “It’s really the worst test in medicine.” 😟

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/h...
The ‘Worst Test in Medicine’ is Driving America’s High C-Section Rate
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November 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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I don't think I like that. 😟
nature.com Nature @nature.com · 5d
A new technique called ‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity, with impressive accuracy.

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‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text
A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Many people lament that they just don't have the "math gene," but it turns out that math is integral to how genes function. And that math is geometry. 🤔

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Life Is Geometry
In 2025, we’ve got DNA all figured out, right? It’s been over fifty years since Crick and Watson (and Franklin) discovered the double helix…
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November 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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According to new research, it turns out that, when it comes to the genome, we knew the words, but not the language. And that language is geometry.

Mind. Blown. 😮
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Life Is Geometry
In 2025, we’ve got DNA all figured out, right? It’s been over fifty years since Crick and Watson (and Franklin) discovered the double helix…
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November 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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ddiamond.bsky.social Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 8d
Wow: George Tidmarsh, brought in by Trump admin to lead FDA’s drug division, is on leave after he says he questioned FDA’s plan to speed drug approvals, @by-cjewett.bsky.social reports

Also says he clashed with Vinay Prasad and blames him for a toxic environment at FDA
F.D.A. Drug Unit Chief Is Placed on Leave, and Cites a ‘Toxic’ Environment
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November 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Think we've got DNA all figured out? Nope. Researchers at Northwestern University say our genome has a geometric code, and we may be "living, breathing computational systems." 😲

H/T @kylemacquarrie.bsky.social @physgencenter.bsky.social @nuintmed.bsky.social

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Life Is Geometry
In 2025, we’ve got DNA all figured out, right? It’s been over fifty years since Crick and Watson (and Franklin) discovered the double helix…
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November 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM