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Map to the corners; all of them. Life in the science mines.
Pinned
my first test of a social science hypothesis:
If you leave a sizable bucket near a public path people will fill it with small bags of shit.
If you leave a sizable bucket near a public path people will fill it with small bags of shit.
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This is exactly what I thought the nepo baby who wrote the Olivia Nuzzi article looks like
November 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This is exactly what I thought the nepo baby who wrote the Olivia Nuzzi article looks like
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Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up.
Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
NIH program officer @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social has been placed on admin leave, sources say.
Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration.
Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".
Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration.
Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up.
Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
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The problem with lying as a strategy is; the truth.
November 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The problem with lying as a strategy is; the truth.
what the fuck Canto, what does that shit even mean, who talks like that
Extremely beside the point but “American Canto” is such a preening dogshit title
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
what the fuck Canto, what does that shit even mean, who talks like that
This is truly the Bullshit Age.
Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.
November 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is truly the Bullshit Age.
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We need a complete and total shutdown of the New York Times until we figure out what the hell is going on
I am sentencing the author to 10 years in horny jail
November 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
We need a complete and total shutdown of the New York Times until we figure out what the hell is going on
I may hurl
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I may hurl
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my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
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November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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This number is completely made up. There are not 30 million undocumented immigrants. The most recent estimates are around 14 million, of which roughly 8 million people have been here for over a decade.
Vance is not a fool. He knows this. DHS produces official estimates. They don’t say 30 million.
Vance is not a fool. He knows this. DHS produces official estimates. They don’t say 30 million.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 AM
This number is completely made up. There are not 30 million undocumented immigrants. The most recent estimates are around 14 million, of which roughly 8 million people have been here for over a decade.
Vance is not a fool. He knows this. DHS produces official estimates. They don’t say 30 million.
Vance is not a fool. He knows this. DHS produces official estimates. They don’t say 30 million.
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Nearly ten years in the making and finally out in print!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Entotheonella are insanely biosynthetically rich bacteria, but few genomes were available.
Working with far-flung collaborators, we obtained genomes for 14 candidate species from 8 sponges.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Entotheonella are insanely biosynthetically rich bacteria, but few genomes were available.
Working with far-flung collaborators, we obtained genomes for 14 candidate species from 8 sponges.
Chemical richness and diversity of uncultivated ‘Entotheonella’ symbionts in marine sponges - Nature Chemical Biology
Marine sponges host bacteria that produce diverse bioactive compounds. Here, the authors conduct a large-scale metagenomic, single-bacterial and biochemical study to reveal the untapped biosynthetic p...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Nearly ten years in the making and finally out in print!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Entotheonella are insanely biosynthetically rich bacteria, but few genomes were available.
Working with far-flung collaborators, we obtained genomes for 14 candidate species from 8 sponges.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Entotheonella are insanely biosynthetically rich bacteria, but few genomes were available.
Working with far-flung collaborators, we obtained genomes for 14 candidate species from 8 sponges.
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The European Drosophila Society #flyEDS extends the condolences on the passing of Antonio García-Bellido, considered the founder of the Spanish school of #Drosophila genetics and an influential figure in developmental biology research worldwide. May he rest in peace.
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The European Drosophila Society #flyEDS extends the condolences on the passing of Antonio García-Bellido, considered the founder of the Spanish school of #Drosophila genetics and an influential figure in developmental biology research worldwide. May he rest in peace.
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100%. It's one thing that becomes crystal clear in every masters of universe email dumps. there is no access to better information. rumors, wild ideas from people popular in their social circles, absurdities. to be all powerful, even for evil, you need access to good information. they mostly don't.
Ironically you can see this very dynamic in the Epstein emails themselves, where the power elite all email each other absurd rumors and semi-literate political scuttlebutt and theorizing. The boys’ club exposed in those messages is the same one that controls the brains of the top Times editors.
November 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
100%. It's one thing that becomes crystal clear in every masters of universe email dumps. there is no access to better information. rumors, wild ideas from people popular in their social circles, absurdities. to be all powerful, even for evil, you need access to good information. they mostly don't.
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They dropped in from a Black Hawk helicopter and zip-tied kids and all we got was some stupid ICE commercials.
"Federal prosecutors have not filed criminal charges against anyone who was arrested. Nor have they revealed any evidence showing that two immigrants arrested in the building belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang, or even provided their names."
November 14, 2025 at 4:04 AM
They dropped in from a Black Hawk helicopter and zip-tied kids and all we got was some stupid ICE commercials.
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these are not even the files lol
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
these are not even the files lol
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The real purpose of “herd immunity” was to serve as justification for inaction, letting Americans die for the economy.
That ideology—and it is an ideology—has been carried forward into Trump 2.0.
That ideology—and it is an ideology—has been carried forward into Trump 2.0.
"It's as if it stopped raining, so why fix the roof?https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-administration-dismantling-efforts-fight-next-pandemic
The Trump administration is dismantling efforts to fight the next pandemic
A retreat from investments in drugs and vaccines leaves U.S. less prepared for the next viral scourge, experts warn
www.science.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The real purpose of “herd immunity” was to serve as justification for inaction, letting Americans die for the economy.
That ideology—and it is an ideology—has been carried forward into Trump 2.0.
That ideology—and it is an ideology—has been carried forward into Trump 2.0.
Trump thinks Epstein did nothing wrong. This will soon be the official GOP position.
I was off by 49 days
November 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Trump thinks Epstein did nothing wrong. This will soon be the official GOP position.
Also pets are super expensive now because immigrants eat them up
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Also pets are super expensive now because immigrants eat them up
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It’s cool how government agencies can just destroy evidence with zero consequences these days
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
November 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It’s cool how government agencies can just destroy evidence with zero consequences these days
We have friends everywhere
There are so many professors/scientists y'all
November 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We have friends everywhere
The person she’s referring to is Donald Trump.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The person she’s referring to is Donald Trump.
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Educated Person: At long last, I have the chance to ask the author about a provocative viewpoint regarding his classic literary novel You Should Be Ashamed of Your Provocative Viewpoint
There's an interview somebody did with Nabokov where the interviewer said "you know, Hollywood actors get married to young girls all the time and everybody thinks it's cool, what's so bad about Humbert Humbert?" and Nabokov is like "he is evil and she is 12 what the fuck is wrong with you?"
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Educated Person: At long last, I have the chance to ask the author about a provocative viewpoint regarding his classic literary novel You Should Be Ashamed of Your Provocative Viewpoint
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this dweeb doesn't even seem to be a US citizen. He's a student from the UK. hard to prove from the evidence online that he's not naturalized. (even then the below would be pretty rich). But he seems to be some posh brit here on a student visa.
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
this dweeb doesn't even seem to be a US citizen. He's a student from the UK. hard to prove from the evidence online that he's not naturalized. (even then the below would be pretty rich). But he seems to be some posh brit here on a student visa.