Marc Ruben
@marcrubwn.bsky.social
Asst Prof at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Pulmonary Medicine & Biomedical Informatics
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For the first time this semester I got a chance to read literature and think. It’s not ok.
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
For the first time this semester I got a chance to read literature and think. It’s not ok.
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When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
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feeling sorry for all the millionaires and billionaires who didn’t get to see this perfect NYC sunset because they fled the city forever today. 😞
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
feeling sorry for all the millionaires and billionaires who didn’t get to see this perfect NYC sunset because they fled the city forever today. 😞
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The way python and R foster inclusion directly contributes to their success: joyful places to exist, a steady flow of new maintainers, and a delightful collection of niche tools empowered by wildly different expertise coming together
Watch the new python documentary for more on PSF’s work here
Watch the new python documentary for more on PSF’s work here
October 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The way python and R foster inclusion directly contributes to their success: joyful places to exist, a steady flow of new maintainers, and a delightful collection of niche tools empowered by wildly different expertise coming together
Watch the new python documentary for more on PSF’s work here
Watch the new python documentary for more on PSF’s work here
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Mamdani up another two points on this alone
October 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Mamdani up another two points on this alone
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also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)
Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.
October 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)
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The truly perfect business model doesn’t exi-
September 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The truly perfect business model doesn’t exi-
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brett kavanaugh’s pretty little mind can’t be bothered to imagine the mother desperate to calm her sobbing child as ICE agents threaten to whisk her away to a secret jail for looking “illegal”
September 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
brett kavanaugh’s pretty little mind can’t be bothered to imagine the mother desperate to calm her sobbing child as ICE agents threaten to whisk her away to a secret jail for looking “illegal”
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I can’t believe medicine hasn’t come up with a better way to do mammograms. That is some primitive shit right there.
September 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I can’t believe medicine hasn’t come up with a better way to do mammograms. That is some primitive shit right there.
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I just love the way physicians,nurses, public health experts, scientists, etc, are standing on business defending vaccines and calling out dangerous BS publicly. I see you, keep fighting the good fight. Keep making good trouble.
September 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I just love the way physicians,nurses, public health experts, scientists, etc, are standing on business defending vaccines and calling out dangerous BS publicly. I see you, keep fighting the good fight. Keep making good trouble.
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SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov on fascism in 🇺🇸 : “There is not safety in keeping your head down… People who oppose public policy decisions but are too afraid of retribution from their government to speak their mind should send a chill down all of our spines.”
August 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov on fascism in 🇺🇸 : “There is not safety in keeping your head down… People who oppose public policy decisions but are too afraid of retribution from their government to speak their mind should send a chill down all of our spines.”
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dplyr::rows_update() and dplyr::rows_patch() continue to be super helpful functions when you want to fill missing data with data collected from another source. #rstats
More examples: cghlewis.github.io/data-wrangli...
More examples: cghlewis.github.io/data-wrangli...
August 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
dplyr::rows_update() and dplyr::rows_patch() continue to be super helpful functions when you want to fill missing data with data collected from another source. #rstats
More examples: cghlewis.github.io/data-wrangli...
More examples: cghlewis.github.io/data-wrangli...
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i'm actually kind of anti airport lounge. unless it comes as a perk with a first class ticket, it's not worth it. just find a solid airport bar.
August 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
i'm actually kind of anti airport lounge. unless it comes as a perk with a first class ticket, it's not worth it. just find a solid airport bar.
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Scientific fraud through paper mills and targeted journals is already occurring at scale. It is organized, orchestrated, and rapidly growing, far outpacing legitimate science
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
August 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Scientific fraud through paper mills and targeted journals is already occurring at scale. It is organized, orchestrated, and rapidly growing, far outpacing legitimate science
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Whoa!
Delighted to see this story out and collaborate with amazing teams led by @jdegregori.bsky.social Mercedes Rincon & @roelvermeulen.bsky.social. Proud to see science propelled by our lab @cdi-einstein.bsky.social expanded to better understand cancer dormancy. Congrats! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs - Nature
Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by epidemiological d...
www.nature.com
July 31, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Whoa!
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They immediately pulled up potential lifeboats for those most in need. And not to call out any individuals, but there has been deafening silence from some people who had been quite vocal previously. (Harmit excluded, of course!)
July 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
They immediately pulled up potential lifeboats for those most in need. And not to call out any individuals, but there has been deafening silence from some people who had been quite vocal previously. (Harmit excluded, of course!)
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Only institutions can generate outrage that matters. But mostly they think appeasement and putting their heads in the sand to fly under the radar are safer options. It’s sickening.
July 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Only institutions can generate outrage that matters. But mostly they think appeasement and putting their heads in the sand to fly under the radar are safer options. It’s sickening.
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"A time of deep division".
Even when your funding is being cut by a lawless regime, you guys are obsessed with both-siding and false equivalence.
Division isn't the problem. Fascism is. Being divided against Fascists is good and important, actually.
Even when your funding is being cut by a lawless regime, you guys are obsessed with both-siding and false equivalence.
Division isn't the problem. Fascism is. Being divided against Fascists is good and important, actually.
July 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"A time of deep division".
Even when your funding is being cut by a lawless regime, you guys are obsessed with both-siding and false equivalence.
Division isn't the problem. Fascism is. Being divided against Fascists is good and important, actually.
Even when your funding is being cut by a lawless regime, you guys are obsessed with both-siding and false equivalence.
Division isn't the problem. Fascism is. Being divided against Fascists is good and important, actually.
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as moral thinkers, we struggle to comprehend what makes people become willing if not enthusiastic instruments of evil
it's not too soon to re-read Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem" in search of these answers, unsatisfying as they may be
we are more broken than not
it's not too soon to re-read Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem" in search of these answers, unsatisfying as they may be
we are more broken than not
Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape.
Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.
Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.
July 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
as moral thinkers, we struggle to comprehend what makes people become willing if not enthusiastic instruments of evil
it's not too soon to re-read Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem" in search of these answers, unsatisfying as they may be
we are more broken than not
it's not too soon to re-read Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem" in search of these answers, unsatisfying as they may be
we are more broken than not
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Many people have complained over the yeas that the US promotion of democracy, free speech and rule of law have been hypocritical and feckless.
Now they are about to find out what it's like when the US is actively promoting dictatorship and censorship.
This change is very dangerous.
Now they are about to find out what it's like when the US is actively promoting dictatorship and censorship.
This change is very dangerous.
I think authoritarian censorship of dissent is bad, and that conspiracies to overthrow the results of free and fair elections are bad.
The current US government and its tech oligarch allies disagree on both. They think those things are good—when they like who’s doing it—and fight to help them.
The current US government and its tech oligarch allies disagree on both. They think those things are good—when they like who’s doing it—and fight to help them.
July 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Many people have complained over the yeas that the US promotion of democracy, free speech and rule of law have been hypocritical and feckless.
Now they are about to find out what it's like when the US is actively promoting dictatorship and censorship.
This change is very dangerous.
Now they are about to find out what it's like when the US is actively promoting dictatorship and censorship.
This change is very dangerous.
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To me, part of this is that these “billionaire geniuses” are so bought in to the myth of their own brilliance that their ego can’t acknowledge how they just happened to be standing next to a money making machine at the right moment in history, and that their contributions rest on the work of others.
July 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
To me, part of this is that these “billionaire geniuses” are so bought in to the myth of their own brilliance that their ego can’t acknowledge how they just happened to be standing next to a money making machine at the right moment in history, and that their contributions rest on the work of others.
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The hurdle of self-improvement: self-awareness.
Most of the time, we are blind to our weaknesses.
That's why getting feedback is important.
Most of the time, we are blind to our weaknesses.
That's why getting feedback is important.
July 9, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The hurdle of self-improvement: self-awareness.
Most of the time, we are blind to our weaknesses.
That's why getting feedback is important.
Most of the time, we are blind to our weaknesses.
That's why getting feedback is important.
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if you're old enough to drink, you're too old to care about someone's SAT score
July 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
if you're old enough to drink, you're too old to care about someone's SAT score
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Did u know that when we blocked assholes instead of arguing with them Bluesky was cool and awesome and fewer people saw the assholes’ posts? now u know
you are not going to convince them or make them feel bad and there’s no scoreboard
You’re just smearing shit on the camera lens
you are not going to convince them or make them feel bad and there’s no scoreboard
You’re just smearing shit on the camera lens
July 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Did u know that when we blocked assholes instead of arguing with them Bluesky was cool and awesome and fewer people saw the assholes’ posts? now u know
you are not going to convince them or make them feel bad and there’s no scoreboard
You’re just smearing shit on the camera lens
you are not going to convince them or make them feel bad and there’s no scoreboard
You’re just smearing shit on the camera lens