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Kerry Lannert
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Seattle-based scientist studying the molecular biology of hemostasis, also I take photos and run marathons. Not vengeful but can hold a grudge.
All opinions are my own, etc.
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Kerry Lannert @klannert.bsky.social · Nov 10
Intros: Research scientist/lab lead for Jill Johnsen’s lab at U. of Washington. We study inherited bleeding disorders and modifiers of hemostasis using NGS (long & short read, targeted and WGS) and in vitro assays. My main role is building the molecular and biochemical tools to do our research. 🧪🧬🩸
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itsafronomics.bsky.social
lol folks are suggesting women who would "make a difference" here when the fact of the matter is your own relatives wouldn't vote for them.

And therein lies Michelle's point.
November 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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lyndab08.bsky.social
TW: video showcasing a violent display of force by federal agents

From Charlotte, NC. Seen it shared on a few NC based IG pages. Based on this video, federal agents using the same tactics we’ve seen the last few months in Chicago.
November 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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markhisted.org
A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.

A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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joshgondelman.bsky.social
Peter Dinklage Guest Star Emmy campaign starts now (or I guess four weeks ago, but I just saw the episode now)!
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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dangaristo.bsky.social
After a bruising 42-day shutdown, the government has finally reopened. We took a look at what's next for federal science—how quickly things will get back up to speed and whether there will be long-term consequences.

With Jeff Tollefson and @alexwitze.bsky.social:
The US government shutdown is over: what’s next for scientists
Government researchers are heading back to work, but questions about the size of research-budget cuts will extend into next year.
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
credit to Larry Summers, doing the “you can’t even hit on women anymore” thing while talking to a full pedophile is next level stuff
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d
Larry Summers had an "insight" in an email to Epstein.
November 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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cheryllynneaton.bsky.social
How to get rid of black officers while pretending to target white officers. This is fooling no one. No one black, anyway.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Hegseth: "We don't need to be a military of beardos anymore. Do you know how many troops claim to be Nordic Pagan? No, suddenly it's become this real fake religious affiliation inside the Pentagon where troops came to be Nordic Pagan so they can grow a beard and nobody challenges them on it."
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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bloodjournals.hematology.org
FIXa and FX modulate mechanisms of FVIIIa inactivation. buff.ly/xvrGgTw #hemesky
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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jezebeldotcom.bsky.social
Three days after the University of Washington lost its star goalie to a rare and aggressive kidney cancer, the Huskies won the Big Ten Tournament.
www.jezebel.com/bawling-wome...
Bawling: Women’s College Soccer Team Honors Late Teammate With Wildly Inspiring Win
Three days after the University of Washington lost its star goalie to a rare and aggressive kidney cancer, the Huskies won the Big Ten Tournament.
www.jezebel.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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ericblanc.bsky.social
Starbucks workers this Thursday 11/13 are starting a long strike to win a first union contract

*** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY***

Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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chadloder.bsky.social
On Wednesday, Montgomery watched as the agents unsuccessfully tried to break down the stairwell door with a battering ram. Smith, who followed along on the video call, said he marveled at their ineptitude. “The door opens outwards,” he explained.
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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esqueer.net
Just in case you thought this was about trans athletes. This was solely about creating a fascist and racist gender bureaucracy over what constitutes being feminine enough to be considered a woman.

They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.
A screenshot of a social-media post. At the top, a user’s profile photo and name are shown with a verified checkmark. The post text reads, “It took a bit of time but we didn’t miss!” Below it is another embedded post from a different user, also verified, dated August 9, 2024. The embedded post reads, “If you come for the Queen, you best not miss!” followed by emojis. The photo in the embedded post shows a boxer in a red athletic uniform with a flag patch on the chest. The athlete stands in a boxing ring, looking serious and saluting with one hand. They have braided hair pulled back and wrapped hands. A screenshot of a social-media post by a verified account. The text of the post criticizes male athletes competing in women’s sports and calls for medals to be stripped. Below the text are two side-by-side photos. The photo on the left shows a boxer on a podium wearing a white jacket and holding a gold medal with one hand placed over their chest. The photo on the right shows another athlete wearing a white jacket holding up a gold medal and a tall award box. Both images appear to be from medal ceremonies at a sporting event.
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.

Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Katie Wilson is ahead by 91 votes
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
I don’t want to hear how bad this is from senators. Save it.

I want to hear demands for Schumer’s resignation.
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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cantwell.senate.gov
This bill doesn’t address the core issue that millions of Americans will no longer be able to afford ACA insurance coverage next year. I’m willing to work with anyone to create a path forward but this isn’t it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8d
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
lyndab08.bsky.social Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 8d
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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jcsalterego.bsky.social
bluesky branding refresh unveiled
"WEBSITE FOR 38 YEAR OLDS" in the style of Zohran Mamdani's campaign logo
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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biblioraptorphd.bsky.social
I have somehow never read Breakfast of Champions and holy hell in three pages Vonnegut sums it all up - colonialism, racism, income inequality, and a guy who owns a car dealership who reads a scifi novel and takes away the wrong idea
The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them. Actually, the sea pirates who had the most to do with the creation of the new government owned human slaves. They used human beings for machinery, and, even after slavery was eliminated, because it was so embarrassing, they and their descendants continued to think of ordinary human beings as machines. • The sea pirates were white. The people who were already on the continent when the pirates arrived were copper-colored. When slavery was introduced onto the continent, the slaves were black. Color was everything. tonster. Here was the core of the bad ideas which Trout gave to Dwayne: Everybody on Earth was a robot, with one exception-Dwayne Hoover. Of all the creatures in the Universe, only Dwayne was thinking and feeling and worrying and planning and so on. Nobody else knew what pain was. Nobody else had any choices to make. Everybody else was a fully automatic machine, whose purpose was to stimulate Dwayne. Dwayne was a new type of creature being tested by the Creator of the Universe. Only Dwayne Hoover had free will. Trout did not expect to be believed. He put the bad ideas into a science-fiction novel, and that was where Dwayne found them. The book wasn't addressed to Dwayne alone. Trout had never heard of Dwayne when he wrote it. It was addressed to anybody who happened to open it up. It said to simply anybody, in effect, "Hey-guess what: You're the only creature with free will. How does that make you feel?" And so on. It was a tour de force. It was a jeu d'esprit. But it was mind poison to Dwayne.
November 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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brittanytrang.com
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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gregpak.net
graphic in the style of mamdani's posters reading: ARE YOU DOOM SCROLLING?
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 AM
klannert.bsky.social
Every time I hear Chicago my heart is at Demon Dogs. #chisky #🌭
A photograph of the former location of Demon Dogs, a hot dog stand under the Fullerton L stop in Chicago. They played music by the band Chicago exclusively.
November 9, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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jamellebouie.net
yeah i'm gonna make a youtube video on the filibuster
November 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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essonniandragon.bsky.social
BABY SHOES FOR SALE NEVER WORN (typeset in the style of Mamdani's campaign logo)
November 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM