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@supercoiled.bsky.social
Experimentalist. Taxonomist. Builds things with twist most days.
So not good. I hope PubMed doesn't use AI - I'm not sure what else I would consider a valid database for papers.
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
So not good. I hope PubMed doesn't use AI - I'm not sure what else I would consider a valid database for papers.
Goddess save me from smacking this young woman with the loud and nasally voice who is disturbing my peace on this bus.
December 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Goddess save me from smacking this young woman with the loud and nasally voice who is disturbing my peace on this bus.
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Most accurate 2025 map I’ve seen yet
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Most accurate 2025 map I’ve seen yet
Better than reading the screed, here is the fact-checking:
www.factcheck.org/2025/12/fact...
www.factcheck.org/2025/12/fact...
December 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Better than reading the screed, here is the fact-checking:
www.factcheck.org/2025/12/fact...
www.factcheck.org/2025/12/fact...
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Many trees are wearing their holiday decorations, like this pond cypress, Taxodium ascendens. Happy Holidays!
December 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Many trees are wearing their holiday decorations, like this pond cypress, Taxodium ascendens. Happy Holidays!
Oh my goodness!
December 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Oh my goodness!
Lukovich never misses. 🎯
December 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Lukovich never misses. 🎯
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Over the long years, McSweeney's does not miss.
"In the last court term, I wrote ten dissenting opinions, more than any other justice. Have you previewed the horror show on the docket for this term? Alito just winked at me and asked if it’s too soon to joke that I don’t have the brain processing power to do this job."
With America on My Last Fucking Nerve, I, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Dissent
You know me as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Over the past three years, I’ve tried changing the system from within. I’ve wri...
buff.ly
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Over the long years, McSweeney's does not miss.
On PBS no less!
My visit to PBS's "Story in the Public Square," including some discussion of using words like "fascism."
www.pbs.org/show/story-p...
www.pbs.org/show/story-p...
Story in the Public Square
A weekly interview series where storytelling meets public affairs.
www.pbs.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
On PBS no less!
Posting to read while I wait for the dentist.
December 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Posting to read while I wait for the dentist.
Good distillation!
The Trump apologist checklist after Trump or his administration does something awful:
1. Fake news, it didn’t happen.
2. It might’ve happened, but it would be OK if it happened.
3. So it happened, so what.
4. Whatabout [insert names of various presidents here]
1. Fake news, it didn’t happen.
2. It might’ve happened, but it would be OK if it happened.
3. So it happened, so what.
4. Whatabout [insert names of various presidents here]
November 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Good distillation!
😂
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
😂
Quote posting for the graphic alone
The LAME DUCK Trump Presidency
Weakened by the Epstein scandal, the poor economy, and terrible poll numbers, MAGA is beginning to turn on its former King and Daddy Donald Trump, who will become more dangerous and desperate.
With @daniellemoodie.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Weakened by the Epstein scandal, the poor economy, and terrible poll numbers, MAGA is beginning to turn on its former King and Daddy Donald Trump, who will become more dangerous and desperate.
With @daniellemoodie.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Quote posting for the graphic alone
It's a stunner in that it is not remotely surprising.
An incredibly Trump-era headline theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...
Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say
Pardoned Capitol rioter Andrew Johnson tried to keep a child sex abuse victim quiet with claimed $10 million Jan. 6 reparations, police say.
theintercept.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
It's a stunner in that it is not remotely surprising.
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An incredibly Trump-era headline theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...
Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say
Pardoned Capitol rioter Andrew Johnson tried to keep a child sex abuse victim quiet with claimed $10 million Jan. 6 reparations, police say.
theintercept.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
An incredibly Trump-era headline theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...
Word.
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Word.
I finally understand my marriage
Beth Hapworth, 38, who needs clear and direct communication from others in order to avoid misunderstandings, has reportedly become an expert in dancing around, pussyfooting and eggshell-treading.
Autistic woman prefers direct communication unless she has to do it
An autistic woman who would prefer for others to deliver difficult truths to her without any ambiguity would also rather die than say a single stressful thing directly into another person’s face, it…
thedailytism.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I finally understand my marriage
Norman Rockwell would be proud.
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Norman Rockwell would be proud.
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@jvl.bsky.social took on Elon Musk's $1 TRILLION pay out to Elon Musk.
Read The Triad only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/welcome-to...
Read The Triad only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to Tesla Capitalism
Or: JVL explains why Americans are toying with socialism.
www.thebulwark.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
@jvl.bsky.social took on Elon Musk's $1 TRILLION pay out to Elon Musk.
Read The Triad only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/welcome-to...
Read The Triad only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/welcome-to...
Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Seriously, today is a good day to flip through your 1953 volumes of Nature and read the two papers by Franklin and Gosling, and the two papers by Watson and Crick.
Where's Wilkins in all of this?
Where's Wilkins in all of this?
November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Seriously, today is a good day to flip through your 1953 volumes of Nature and read the two papers by Franklin and Gosling, and the two papers by Watson and Crick.
Where's Wilkins in all of this?
Where's Wilkins in all of this?
BLUESKY LOVES ROSALIND FRANKLIN!
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
BLUESKY LOVES ROSALIND FRANKLIN!