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A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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jeffvierstra.bsky.social
Surprised (but also not that surprised) that the AlphaGenome paper didn't officially cite any of the primary data used for training their model (see Fig. 1, thousands of datasets made with tremendous time and effort over >15yrs). What's up with that @nature.com ?

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome - Nature
AlphaGenome, a deep learning model that inputs 1-Mb DNA sequence to predict functional genomic tracks at single-base resolution across diverse modalities, outperforms existing models in variant effect...
www.nature.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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amarques.bsky.social
A new extreme of meiotic evolution:

✔️ 𝗻𝗼 crossovers
✔️ 𝗻𝗼 gene conversion
✔️ 𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 meiosis & fertility

Sex mimics clonality without becoming asexual, in the holocentric multicellular eukaryote 𝘙𝘩𝘺𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘴.

more about it:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 27, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
You can’t reform this.

Throw the whole department away.
mattmfm.bsky.social Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 7d
Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
January 27, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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atrupar.com
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
January 25, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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newyorkstateag.bsky.social
New York, did you see stores overcharging for essential goods during this winter storm?

We want to know.

Report illegal price gouging to my office:

1-800-771-7755
January 26, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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omicsomics.bsky.social
ONT Axes P2 Solo, Roiling Community
🧬🖥️

omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/ont-...
ONT Axes P2 Solo, Roiling Community
Oxford Nanopore has a serious case of user community unrest, triggered by the announcement that the P2 Solo (aka P2s) will be phased out sta...
omicsomics.blogspot.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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djbyrnes1.bsky.social
Crowd is massive, now overflowing Congress Plaza and taking up a block-long stretch of Michigan Avenue.

Reminder: this event was only announced yesterday.
January 25, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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startribune.com
This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.

Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
January 22, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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amarques.bsky.social
📢 Three new #bioRxiv preprints from our team on holocentric chromosomes.

Together, they connect centromere repeat evolution, karyotype dynamics, and meiotic recombination outcomes, revealing how holocentric genomes evolve and function. 🧬👇
January 21, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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startribune.com
An off-duty Brooklyn Park police officer was stopped by federal agents who demanded proof of her citizenship, the city’s police chief, Mark Bruley, said Tuesday.

Video: Allison Kite/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 20, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
ICE’s actions tear families apart, intimidate communities, & undermine the conditions that make education, research, healthcare, & public trust possible.

We’re calling on scientists to join the general anti-ICE strike in Minnesota on January 23rd.
Red protest-style graphic with bold white text reading “Scientists Against ICE.” Below, rows of black human silhouettes stand holding hands. Centered is the Stand Up for Science logo, followed by text: “Calls for a General Strike Jan 23, 2026, Minnesota.” Black starburst shapes frame the sides. Bottom text reads: “Mobilize the fight for science and democracy.”
January 19, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
“It’s basically a map of the United States. It’s kind of like Google Maps.” This is how an ICE agent described the app Palantir worked on for finding neighborhoods to raid.

I've seen the interface, it does look exactly like that www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
All right. And in this incident, in Woodburn on October 30th, what were you -- what were you working off of to identify targets? THE WITNESS: Either an Elite lead. THE COURT: Elite lead? THE WITNESS: Elite lead. THE COURT: As in E-l-i-t-e? THE WITNESS: Yep, Elite, E-l-i-t-e. THE COURT: Okay. So tell me -- THE WITNESS: That's -- that's an immigration system that -- it's basically a map of the United States. It's kind of like Google Maps. And then you -- you'll be like, "All right. In this area it's heavily -- the likelihood of -- of -- of this individual living," right? So if it's --
January 15, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
I have posted about this before, but...

Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.

graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

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Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines
The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced.
graphics.wsj.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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atrupar.com
RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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chicago.suntimes.com
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
trib.al
October 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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milesroberts.bsky.social
Got this email today that NSF is canceling the annual meeting for plant genome research (PGRP) awardees. I’m really sad that I’ll miss out on this amazing networking opportunity :(
Screenshot of an email saying that NSF’s PGRP awardee meeting is canceled
July 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
WOW. A lawyer told @miamiherald.com that a Florida Highway Patrol agent told her that they are calling Border Patrol to investigate anyone who "appears Hispanic" that they pull over.

That is direct evidence of racial profiling — said over the phone to a lawyer! They aren't even hiding it!
Magdalena Cuprys says she has three clients at the state facility. In the case of one of her clients – a Honduran man with a pending asylum application as a victim of human trafficking — Cuprys said she was able to land a bond hearing. But she remains puzzled by his detention. She said her client was originally held at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection building in Dania Beach for about a week after he was stopped at a truck weigh station by Florida Highway Patrol officers on June 25. He has a valid drivers’ license, Cuprys said. She still doesn’t know why he was detained that day. The Honduran man called her when he was stopped and an FHP officer took the phone and told her that anyone who “appears Hispanic” needs to be sent to CBP to have their license verified, she said. Cuprys didn’t name her client publicly, but the Herald/Times was able to independently confirm he is a detainee at the facility.
July 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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greatdismal.bsky.social
I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.
July 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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alexr.bsky.social
Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month.

Worked on novel antivirals.
June 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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hillarymonahan.bsky.social
Maybe it's called a corpse flower because that's a dead ballerina stuffed in a bucket.
San Diego's enormous corpse flower looking like aN upside down ballerina.
May 23, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Per Jose Olivares on X, here is a likely quid for the CECOT pro quo. Trump is dropping criminal charges against multiple serious MS-13 leaders we are currently trying to prosecute.

Many of them are “inconvenient” to Bukele, as they previously admitted to working with him before the truce broke.
Jose Olivares @jloscg NEW The Trump admin is trying to dismiss charges against top MS-13 leader Vladimir Antonio Arevalo-Chavez, to deport him to El Salvador, according to records unsealed today. Arevalo-Chavez was a key negotiator with Bukele's govt—he knows a lot about Bukele's pact with MS-13. Dear Judge Azrack: The government respectfully submits this motion requesting that the Court dismiss the above-captioned indictment against the defendant Vladimir Antonio Arevalo-Chavez (the "defendant" and "Arevalo-Chavez") without prejudice, pursuant to Rule 48(a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, because, as set forth below, the United States has determined that sensitive and important foreign policy considerations outweigh the government's interest in pursuing the prosecution of the defendant, under the totality of the circumstances, and therefore require dismissal of the case. A proposed order of dismissal is attached hereto.
May 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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leakey77.bsky.social
please share - 2 postdoc positions available - molecular physiology of stomata and plant water use of efficiency
lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/post-... @ripeproject.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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samwang.bsky.social
SCIENTISTS: The proposed Schedule F is out. It has potential to undermine or destroy merit-based science.

Rules/regulations have the force of law. This rule may put peer review in the hands of political appointees.

Make your public comment here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...
www.federalregister.gov
April 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM