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@davidpatterson.bsky.social
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Chemical biologist. Currently working on spatial omics for 10x Genomics.
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jfallows.bsky.social
A day to stand up, and stand together.

fallows.substack.com/p/stand-up-s...
Stand Up, Stand Together.
Two guiding principles of the No Kings movement, and for Americans meeting this moment.
fallows.substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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scottwiener.bsky.social
The level of kleptocratic corruption in this regime is breathtaking, e.g.:

—Selling off Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae to big banks

—Bribes from ABC & CBS

—TikTok sale to Ellison

—Everything Qatar: the plane gift, the Idaho military base

—Whoever has bribed him by buying his scam meme coins
October 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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jamellebouie.net
it is incredible to see the extent to which the Sensible Centrists are simply incapable of grasping the very simple and obvious fact that the president's concern with crime is a pretext, and that to deny claims of a sudden epidemic in crime is not to say that crime is nonexistent.
katz.theracket.news Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · Aug 16
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Thomas Chatt... @tho... • Aug12 ... Anand is full of it. I go to DC a lot. The last time I was there, I stepped outside my hotel in DuPont Circle and there were gunshots across the park where a jewelry store was being robbed in broad daylight. On a previous visit, the car I was in almost got hit by a speeding stolen vehicle that was abandoned in the middle of the intersection. A group of teenagers hopped out and fled police on foot. Near 14th street, also in broad daylight.
August 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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10xgenomics.bsky.social
Big screen. Big science. Stop by Booth #2456 at #AACR25 to see our single cell and spatial solutions like never before 🤩 From sample to insights—see what’s possible!
April 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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tristansnell.bsky.social
Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.

It is blatantly unconstitutional.
April 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social
Great article by @nobelprize.bsky.social laureate @ardemp.bskyverified.social outlining the health, economic and national security benefits of US biomedical research, and the devastation of government efforts to destroy our leading edge.

www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
www.cnn.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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bornmiserable.bsky.social
an executive order is not a law
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an executive order is not a law
an executive order is not a law
March 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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dereklowe.bsky.social
Harvard Medical School, are you OK with this outcome? Who will speak up for her?
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Mar 27
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.

A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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dconrad1.bsky.social
Happy to share that the preprint to our new scATAC-seq multiplexing method, MULTI-ATAC, is officially online:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reducing batch effects in single cell chromatin accessibility measurements by pooled transposition with MULTI-ATAC
Large-scale scATAC-seq experiments are challenging because of their costs, lengthy protocols, and confounding batch effects. Several sample multiplexing technologies aim to address these challenges, b...
www.biorxiv.org
February 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Right now, DOGE is saying that any new hires have to be approved by their office.
In 1980, when IL Governor Thompson said any new hires had to be approved by his office, the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional politicization of hiring.
What about now?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
When the case reached the Supreme Court, the Court held that systems of political patronage like the one established by Thompson violate the First Amendment. Quoting one of its first patronage decisions, the Court reaffirmed that “conditioning public employment on the provision of support for the favored political party ‘unquestionably inhibits protected belief and association.’” Doing so “pressures employees to pledge political allegiance to a party with which they prefer not to associate, to work for the election of political candidates they do not support, and to contribute money to be used to further policies with which they do not agree.” It is “tantamount to coerced belief,” something the First Amendment plainly forbids. Nor did it matter that Thompson had not issued a direct order specifying that only Republicans would be hired, because “what the First Amendment precludes the government from commanding directly, it also precludes the government from accomplishing indirectly.”
February 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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volts.wtf
Tapping this sign again. Gonna tap it every week.

Forget your savvy & your cleverness & your 3D chess. Just skip to the end, where you *fight*.
volts.wtf David Roberts @volts.wtf · Feb 3
There is nothing more obviously inevitable to me than everyone eventually concluding that, no, you can't work with the Trump admin., you can't "find areas of compromise," you can't treat this as normal politics, the only option is total, unremitting opposition. Everyone will get there eventually.
February 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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esqueer.net
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions: 1. Insults about: Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality. Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits. 2. Highlighted section: The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."
January 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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mnolangray.bsky.social
I'm endlessly kind of baffled by the lack of urgency on housing California. This is the state's number one problem—a crisis so bad that's imperiling national Democratic ambitions. And all we can pass are heavily compromised bills that take effect in like five years, if ever.
December 10, 2024 at 1:09 AM
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williambrady.bsky.social
New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇
November 28, 2024 at 7:07 PM