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Medical device and scientific instrument marketer, grandpa, and fermenter of grains.
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sifill.bsky.social
Make it viral.
January 8, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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kaesser.bsky.social
Studying metabolism? Pay attention to time of day Nice collaborative review led by Satchin Panda www.nature.com/articles/s42...
The time is now: accounting for time-of-day effects to improve reproducibility and translation of metabolism research - Nature Metabolism
This broad group of authors summarizes the impact of circadian factors on metabolic biology and offers recommendations on how to account for and report biological, environmental and experimental facto...
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March 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
II. Credibility The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6] Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage. [FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Trump's mass deportations aren't just pointlessly cruel.

His own Labor Department is now warning they are "threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices" for Americans.

We should be offering the people who feed us a path out of the shadows — not demonizing them.
October 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
christopherkdaw.bsky.social
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Redmond WA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS Redmond WA · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** ** See up-to-date event details at: https://bit.ly/Redmond-Rally-Details ** Consider donating to help defray the cost of this and other events:...
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October 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
christopherkdaw.bsky.social
@mariners.com pitching batting practice tonight.
September 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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jilldlawrence.bsky.social
Nine former CDC directors: Americans should be alarmed. Their health and lives are in danger. Gift link 🎁
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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September 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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More scientists choose Bluesky over Twitter
It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…
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August 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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FUCK YEAH SCIENCE

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Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…
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August 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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kazaklab.bsky.social
Congratulations to our distinguished awardees at the inaugural #asiposebiology conference: Bruce Spiegelman, Yu-Hua Tseng, and Paul Cohen.

Your work continues to inspire and shape the future of our community
#ABC2025 @adiposebiology.bsky.social @sablesys.bsky.social @spiegelmanlab.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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sablesys.bsky.social
3/3 If you're interested in the physical principles that make the Sable Systems Promethion approach to metabolic measurement unique, here's a link you might find interesting - it contains other links too: 🧪 medium.com/@JohnLighton...
Why Promethion doesn’t need to remove water vapor from gas samples — & you don’t either!
TL/DR: the old-fashioned way of measuring metabolic rates accurately is to treat water vapor as an enemy to be exterminated. In contrast…
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August 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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sablesys.bsky.social
Interested in energy allocation - how an animal partitions its energy budget between simple survival, thermoregulation & activity? It's easy to measure with the Promethion metabolic phenotyping system! Read more here 🧪: medium.com/@JohnLighton...
A Simple, Elegant Method for Measuring Energy Allocation
Let’s talk about energy allocation, also known as energy partitioning! We’ll concentrate on animals that control their body temperature…
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August 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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sablesys.bsky.social
2/3 Here's our response to that letter - a long-form post on Medium: 🧪 medium.com/@JohnLighton...
Thank you, legacy Metabolic Phenotyping competitor!
It’s not every day that we have an opportunity to sincerely thank a metabolic phenotyping competitor. However, this is such a day! They…
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August 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
August 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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meganranney.bsky.social
A must-read, must-share piece - clearly deconstructing the shoddy science of the Geiers (who are inexplicably in charge of studies at HHS).

Consider this an early warning for what lies ahead. 🛟🩺🧪

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Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism (Gift Article)
Data can easily be manipulated to show a causation that doesn’t exist.
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August 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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johndavittontv.bsky.social
Monday night’s one hour rainfall in NYC ranked 2nd…Only behind Ida. That this happened without a tropical system is significant and shows our new reality. The top 3 wettest one hour rainfalls for NYC in the past 156 years have all happened in the past four years.
an aerial view of a city skyline with the words viralhog below it
ALT: an aerial view of a city skyline with the words viralhog below it
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July 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
This is 100% correct. NO ONE can sit at home and collect Medicaid checks.
July 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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sablesys.bsky.social
1/10 Are you following the NIH’s push to reduce or even eliminate animal models? As a UCLA PhD in comparative physiology with 100+ peer reviewed papers, I have thoughts. Read on.
July 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
“Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the FEMA did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line…The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers…”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
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July 12, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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miafarrow.bsky.social
Leading medical organizations sue Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the federal Department of Health and Human Services, charging that recent decisions limiting access to vaccines are unscientific & harmful to the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/h...
Medical Societies Sue Kennedy and H.H.S. Over Vaccine Advice
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July 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Republicans’ hands are full of blood. 🩸
July 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Raskin: "I found the preamble to this big ugly bill. 'We the billionaires and our king, in order to deform and sicken our union, establish injustice, ensure domestic servility, weaken our people's defenses, undermine the general welfare, and have staggering debt servitude for eternity ... '"
July 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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jamesmartinsj.bsky.social
And remember, 93% have no record of any violent crimes. This facility, then, is comparable to the internment camps for Japanese Americans during the Second World War. But let's call it what it is: a concentration camp. Jesus wept.
July 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!
June 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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radosh.bsky.social
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.

Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters. A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago. And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety. To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And- Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think- A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different. Q: They're not really. A: Those are like different genres. Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different. A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.
June 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM