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genetics | political economy

📸 Lament of the Images - Alfredo Jaar 📸
*completely* missed this

oh to be a father of a baby
Spending all morning (happily) digging through the 8.5 kajillion northern lights photos/videos/timelapses you sent in.

Thank you!

📸: Tyler Wahl

#COwx
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
good lord if I had to listen to Alex Karp talk for five minutes I’d kill myself like they do in the Smile movies
November 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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i’m not sure the US can still produce national vital statistics (live births, deaths, etc). this is a shocking thing to say for a high income nation. very short thread.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
October 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Senator Schumer has failed to lead this party in one of its most critical moments, and Americans will pay the price. It’s time for him to step down from leadership and make way for a new generation willing to fight for the people instead of the powerful.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Chuck Schumer has failed us.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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uh huh yeah sure whatever
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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One good thing: seeing so many abled folks angry on behalf of disabled and chronically ill people. Not just angry for themselves. Specifically speaking out for us.

If we care about each other, we can win.
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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i don't say things like this often, as i find them hyperbolic to the point of extreme dilution, so please believe me when I say this is the most severe, graceful dissection of Musk I've seen. Swift, effortlessly deep, like piano wire through tofu. If someone spoke of me like this I’d be abed a week
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
it seems like the "don't die" pervert had fun on psilocybin mushrooms, and to be honest, good for him. mushrooms are great.
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
hold up lmfao
Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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We're extremely dishonest about the realities of aging in this country. The older I get, the more this becomes apparent to me.
November 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I also have a loved one with Alzheimer's and same.
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
every now and then my wife will give me a head/neck massage that fixes everything
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
been getting into ear plugs recently

there is soooooo much to not hear
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
keffiyehs at NSGC, what a time to be alive
November 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
so people are lip synching to some remix of “what’s going on?” that features maybe Nicki Minaj rapping? do I have that right?
November 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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This just into the newsroom

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court issues emergency order temporarily blocking full SNAP food aid payments.
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I am begging the genetic counseling community to use their imagination
November 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Here’s the thing: this guy wasn’t wrong. He’s got a better grip on “the truth” than most people around him. But you don’t want to *be* him.
February 18, 2025 at 4:29 AM
CPT codes are proof that we’ve failed as a civilization
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
why does the chatgpt that tells people to kill themselves sound exactly like the startup guy from rejection
November 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
gene guy dead
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM