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Asher
@discens.bsky.social
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Aspiring biologist 🧪🧬 🏳️‍🌈 KU Biotechnology student ▪️ Kansas City
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aaandmoore.bsky.social
It's not a repost if it's a new platform, right? right??
Lattice light sheet movie of actin in mitosis. Blebby.
November 15, 2024 at 6:04 AM
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alexandredizeux.bsky.social
Ultrasound Localization Microscopy #ULM pushes cardiac imaging to the next level: Coronary hemodynamics revealed in 3D down to the micron scale published in #JACCImaging, the paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Animation made with #houdini #sidefx. #scicom #dataviz #cardiology #science
November 13, 2024 at 10:56 AM
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jwstfeed.bsky.social
High definition image of a dead star.
This is Cassiopeia A, a star that died 320 years ago.
This image was presented today on AAS Nova (ApJL).
aasnova.org/2024/11/12/t...
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A roughly circular cloud of gas and dust with complex structure. The inner shell is made of bright pink and orange filaments studded with clumps and knots that look like tiny pieces of shattered glass. Around the exterior of the inner shell, there are curtains of wispy gas that look like campfire smoke. Around and within the nebula, various stars are seen as points of blue and white light. Outside the nebula, there are also clumps of dust, coloured yellow in the image.
November 12, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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spinellicross.bsky.social
people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙
November 13, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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mjafreeman.bsky.social
Waves of new BlueSky arrivals in last few days!

I’ve been tracking starter packs relevant to molecular/mechanistic/genetic/cellular…etc biology

Hope it’s helpful but warning: now a v long thread!

Probably the last time I can do this...
November 12, 2024 at 3:03 PM
discens.bsky.social
Main character energy ✨ #cat
Cat looking up at camera with front legs crossed over one another
November 11, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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francesmeh.reviews
one of the reasons bluesky works differently is because early users waged a successful fight to get the devs to prioritize safety features to protect communities at risk

as a result bluesky now has a suite of controls that i think are unmatched on social media

here’s the list, lmk what i’ve missed
A Probably Incomplete List of Bluesky User Safety Mechanisms Protecting your posts • disabling replies on your posts • limiting replies on your posts to people you follow, mention, or include in specific lists • disabling quote posting on your posts • detaching your post from someone else's quote • changing the above interaction settings even after a post is sent hiding replies to your posts for yourself or for everyone • self-labeling your media for adult or graphic content to protect other users • limiting account visibility only to logged in users • note: this is not 100% enforceable but all major bluesky clients and apps support it Limiting your interaction • blocking users from seeing or interacting with your posts • if you block after an interaction, they vaporize • if they've replied already, the entire thread below their reply is cauterized for everyone, floating in space detached from your post • note: your blocks are publicly visible via 3rd party apps • muting users to remove them from your notis and feeds, and hide them in replies • note: your mutes are private • muting or blocking entire moderation lists of users • note: inclusion in a list is public via third party apps. muting a list is private, blocks via a list are public • subscribing to other people's mod lists • note: your subscription is private, muting & blocking work the same • subscribing to labelers (moderation services) from bluesky or third parties o decide whether to show, warn, or hide posts that have been labeled in each category • report content that should be labeled to bluesky and/or third parties labelers
November 10, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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luckytran.com
Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
November 9, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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apthickory.bsky.social
There's a bunch of different lists, this is the one I've blocked and it's been good so far:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 8, 2024 at 2:08 PM