@nate13ailey.bsky.social
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Anybody who has watched the Times pull this shit for ages knows this game. Good piece.
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Anybody who has watched the Times pull this shit for ages knows this game. Good piece.
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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
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hii we’re the women behind this upstart book app taking on Goodreads (owned by Amazon, bleh) & yes you know we’re indie and humans because we literally turned our pets into avatars you can choose when you create your pagebound profile 😂
November 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
hii we’re the women behind this upstart book app taking on Goodreads (owned by Amazon, bleh) & yes you know we’re indie and humans because we literally turned our pets into avatars you can choose when you create your pagebound profile 😂
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There’s one local candidate running on a platform that includes ending the undervaluation of vacant land. bsky.app/profile/drak...
Property tax bill: say it three times, if you dare. Repost this video and sign up to volunteer using the link in the bio to help keep this monster behind the mirror. #chicago #illinois #cookcounty #urbanism #propertytaxes #happyhalloween
November 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
There’s one local candidate running on a platform that includes ending the undervaluation of vacant land. bsky.app/profile/drak...
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In bits of good news, the legislature passed parking reform in Illinois! I think the governor still has to sign it but this is cool
chi.streetsblog.org/2025/10/31/i...
chi.streetsblog.org/2025/10/31/i...
Illinois legislature adopts People Over Parking Act to right-size parking requirements in transit-served areas - Streetsblog Chicago
At about 4:22 AM this morning the Illinois Senate concurred with the Illinois House on bill SB 2111, approving a revenues and reform package that will avert the Chicagoland transit fiscal cliff, struc...
chi.streetsblog.org
November 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
In bits of good news, the legislature passed parking reform in Illinois! I think the governor still has to sign it but this is cool
chi.streetsblog.org/2025/10/31/i...
chi.streetsblog.org/2025/10/31/i...
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The Nanotyrannus debate has gotten heated at times. But what I truly respect about (most of) the people involved is that we've kept an open mind, tried to follow the evidence.
Here's what Thomas Carr and I wrote in our 2016 tyrannosaur phylogeny paper. This truly has been our ethos all along.
Here's what Thomas Carr and I wrote in our 2016 tyrannosaur phylogeny paper. This truly has been our ethos all along.
October 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The Nanotyrannus debate has gotten heated at times. But what I truly respect about (most of) the people involved is that we've kept an open mind, tried to follow the evidence.
Here's what Thomas Carr and I wrote in our 2016 tyrannosaur phylogeny paper. This truly has been our ethos all along.
Here's what Thomas Carr and I wrote in our 2016 tyrannosaur phylogeny paper. This truly has been our ethos all along.
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Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected
In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.
go.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
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In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped
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Looks like the science community has found a home.
academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
academic.oup.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Looks like the science community has found a home.
academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
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Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia Competitor.' It is the antithesis of Wikipedia in every possible way, and it is not going to work:
www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...
www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...
Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man.
www.404media.co
October 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia Competitor.' It is the antithesis of Wikipedia in every possible way, and it is not going to work:
www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...
www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...
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Once again, @mcsweeneys.net does not miss.
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"In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.'
Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.'
In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"
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"In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.'
Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.'
In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
www.mcsweeneys.net
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Once again, @mcsweeneys.net does not miss.
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"In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.'
Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.'
In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"
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"In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.'
Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.'
In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"
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I made www.reddit.com/r/bioinforma...
I did this because the r/bioinformatics channel doesn't like talking about tools, especially if you wrote it yourself.
If you build bioinformatic tools or want to learn more about it, join the subreddit and start posting :)
I did this because the r/bioinformatics channel doesn't like talking about tools, especially if you wrote it yourself.
If you build bioinformatic tools or want to learn more about it, join the subreddit and start posting :)
bioinformaticsdev
A community for building better bioinformatics tools. Share your open-source bioinformatics tools at any stage of development - from early ideas to stable releases. Get feedback on CLI design, code ar...
www.reddit.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I made www.reddit.com/r/bioinforma...
I did this because the r/bioinformatics channel doesn't like talking about tools, especially if you wrote it yourself.
If you build bioinformatic tools or want to learn more about it, join the subreddit and start posting :)
I did this because the r/bioinformatics channel doesn't like talking about tools, especially if you wrote it yourself.
If you build bioinformatic tools or want to learn more about it, join the subreddit and start posting :)
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Two back-to-back stories on mitosis led by my incredible postdoc @krunovuk.bsky.social at @institutrb.bsky.social, in which we challenge the gliding model of CENP-E-driven chromosome congression! Today in @natcomms.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
October 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Two back-to-back stories on mitosis led by my incredible postdoc @krunovuk.bsky.social at @institutrb.bsky.social, in which we challenge the gliding model of CENP-E-driven chromosome congression! Today in @natcomms.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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A long blog post to explain the artificial complexity of XLSX files, as compared to ODS files: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09... @opendocument @LibreOffice
The artificial complexity of OOXML files (the XLSX case) - The Document Foundation Blog
The post, published on 18 July 2025, which explained why an artificially complex XML schema, such as that used by Microsoft 365 (formerly Microsoft Office) files, is in fact a subtle tool for locking ...
blog.documentfoundation.org
September 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A long blog post to explain the artificial complexity of XLSX files, as compared to ODS files: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09... @opendocument @LibreOffice
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Did you know that access to government records was one of the many grievances enumerated in the Declaration of Independence. That's right, transparency and access to government archives and records has been a paramount value of the US from day one! #AskAnArchivist
October 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Did you know that access to government records was one of the many grievances enumerated in the Declaration of Independence. That's right, transparency and access to government archives and records has been a paramount value of the US from day one! #AskAnArchivist
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Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.
October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.
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If that’s not enough, we threw in a complete, T2T giraffe genome! Giraffe genomes are pretty cool. Almost all of their chromosomes are Robertsonian fusions of the typically telocentric ruminant chromosomes. 🐄 vs. 🦒...
October 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If that’s not enough, we threw in a complete, T2T giraffe genome! Giraffe genomes are pretty cool. Almost all of their chromosomes are Robertsonian fusions of the typically telocentric ruminant chromosomes. 🐄 vs. 🦒...
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ironically this wasted even more time, but by GOD it felt nice
October 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
ironically this wasted even more time, but by GOD it felt nice
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1/10 In his famous “Chinese room” thought experiment, John Searle (1932-2025) argued there must be more to minds than computation. Let's look at the objections to that argument -- but first, a 3-min clip from my 2001 interview w. Searle, in which he lays it out: 🧵 #philosophy
youtu.be/21Cv2h77xm0
youtu.be/21Cv2h77xm0
John Searle on the "Chinese Room" thought experiment. How are minds different from computers?
YouTube video by danfalkscience
youtu.be
September 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
1/10 In his famous “Chinese room” thought experiment, John Searle (1932-2025) argued there must be more to minds than computation. Let's look at the objections to that argument -- but first, a 3-min clip from my 2001 interview w. Searle, in which he lays it out: 🧵 #philosophy
youtu.be/21Cv2h77xm0
youtu.be/21Cv2h77xm0
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This is the single most overrated image on the internet. Pisses me off how every time I see it, it has thousands of Likes.
September 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is the single most overrated image on the internet. Pisses me off how every time I see it, it has thousands of Likes.
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Excited to share our EvANI benchmarking workflow, published in Briefings in Bioinformatics doi.org/10.1093/bib/...
Computing average nucleotide identity (ANI) is neither conceptually nor computationally trivial. Its definition has evolved over years, with different meanings and assumptions (1/5)
Computing average nucleotide identity (ANI) is neither conceptually nor computationally trivial. Its definition has evolved over years, with different meanings and assumptions (1/5)
September 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Excited to share our EvANI benchmarking workflow, published in Briefings in Bioinformatics doi.org/10.1093/bib/...
Computing average nucleotide identity (ANI) is neither conceptually nor computationally trivial. Its definition has evolved over years, with different meanings and assumptions (1/5)
Computing average nucleotide identity (ANI) is neither conceptually nor computationally trivial. Its definition has evolved over years, with different meanings and assumptions (1/5)