Dr Darren Abbey
@thebiologistisn.bsky.social
@thebiologistisn on various other systems. PhD Genetics, UMN.
I do bioinformatics/genomics with a university lab.
I work unofficially to make new interesting varieties of food plants. I've made distinctly blue colored dry beans.
I make/sell art, too.
I do bioinformatics/genomics with a university lab.
I work unofficially to make new interesting varieties of food plants. I've made distinctly blue colored dry beans.
I make/sell art, too.
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Someone on the Minneapolis subreddit caught Waymos being delivered. We need the City Council need to ban the use of driverless cars. The technology isn't there. Our city cannot be a testing ground for 1.5 ton autonomous projectiles.
November 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Someone on the Minneapolis subreddit caught Waymos being delivered. We need the City Council need to ban the use of driverless cars. The technology isn't there. Our city cannot be a testing ground for 1.5 ton autonomous projectiles.
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“High deductibles” just mean poor people are left behind.
Disabled people are left behind.
People with pre-existing conditions are left behind
Disability & poverty aren’t moral failings
They can happen to anyone no matter how healthy they are
Enough blame. Healthcare for all.
Disabled people are left behind.
People with pre-existing conditions are left behind
Disability & poverty aren’t moral failings
They can happen to anyone no matter how healthy they are
Enough blame. Healthcare for all.
November 17, 2025 at 4:54 AM
“High deductibles” just mean poor people are left behind.
Disabled people are left behind.
People with pre-existing conditions are left behind
Disability & poverty aren’t moral failings
They can happen to anyone no matter how healthy they are
Enough blame. Healthcare for all.
Disabled people are left behind.
People with pre-existing conditions are left behind
Disability & poverty aren’t moral failings
They can happen to anyone no matter how healthy they are
Enough blame. Healthcare for all.
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“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
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No justice, no peace is a fact, not a threat.
Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
November 15, 2025 at 3:08 AM
No justice, no peace is a fact, not a threat.
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btw, have you looked at etymonline.com ? One of those fantastic, crap-free, labor of love websites. I learned stuff about late antique / early medieval cross-borrowing between Romance and Germanic while I was looking up spy, espionage, sabotage, sabot
Online Etymology Dictionary
The online etymology dictionary (etymonline) is the internet's go-to source for quick and reliable accounts of the origin and history of English words, phrases, and idioms.
etymonline.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
btw, have you looked at etymonline.com ? One of those fantastic, crap-free, labor of love websites. I learned stuff about late antique / early medieval cross-borrowing between Romance and Germanic while I was looking up spy, espionage, sabotage, sabot
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ok you know what? in this instance i fully support anish kapoor being aggressively litigious
In the official photo provided by Bongino, the faces are blurred out.
That's ... not how any of this works.
That's ... not how any of this works.
'The Bean' artist, Chicago nonprofit respond to Border Patrol photo op: report
www.fox32chicago.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
ok you know what? in this instance i fully support anish kapoor being aggressively litigious
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Plant geeks giddy about finding a parasitic flower.
It's really lovely.
It's really lovely.
Resurrecting Wellington's Flowers of the Underworld episode of Our Changing World
Until late 2024, nobody had seen te pua o Te Rēinga “the flower of the underworld” in the Wellington region for more than a hundred years. A chance discovery of a small struggling population has kick ...
www.rnz.co.nz
November 15, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Plant geeks giddy about finding a parasitic flower.
It's really lovely.
It's really lovely.
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Two true things.
1. Marjorie is crazy and has no greater ambition than self-promotion.
2. She has a keen understanding of where the Republican base is, and moves there before her other colleagues do.
(1) is why I don’t trust her. (2) is why Trump is scared of her.
1. Marjorie is crazy and has no greater ambition than self-promotion.
2. She has a keen understanding of where the Republican base is, and moves there before her other colleagues do.
(1) is why I don’t trust her. (2) is why Trump is scared of her.
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Two true things.
1. Marjorie is crazy and has no greater ambition than self-promotion.
2. She has a keen understanding of where the Republican base is, and moves there before her other colleagues do.
(1) is why I don’t trust her. (2) is why Trump is scared of her.
1. Marjorie is crazy and has no greater ambition than self-promotion.
2. She has a keen understanding of where the Republican base is, and moves there before her other colleagues do.
(1) is why I don’t trust her. (2) is why Trump is scared of her.
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Republicans have "won" the right to uninsure millions of Americans, nearly all of them self-employed, farmers, and business owners, the exact people they pretend they want us to be.
Millions of Americans are going to be destroyed by their insurance costs, at best, or lose their insurance and possibly die at worst. And millions more every year of Trump's term due to Trump's bill. This has never happened in American history, and I don't think anyone can predict what happens next.
A deal that does nothing to lower costs does not serve my constituents and it is not what the American people want. They need relief ASAP.
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Republicans have "won" the right to uninsure millions of Americans, nearly all of them self-employed, farmers, and business owners, the exact people they pretend they want us to be.
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I would not say the voicemails I just left for Wyden and Merkley were particularly charming or articulate but I do think my panic was clear, as a freelancer who only has access to healthcare at all because the ACA exists
If you have a Dem senator and you're seeing this right now, CALL THEM RIGHT NOW and tell them NO. If you don't know anyone who would be affected by this, call them for my friend Lisa. She cannot afford insurance without ACA subsidies and without health insurance I'm terrified she will die.
! A key group of Senate Democrats is leaning toward voting for a deal to end the shutdown, provided final details can be worked out like worker protections (Gift link)
(Deal does NOT include an ACA extension.)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
(Deal does NOT include an ACA extension.)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I would not say the voicemails I just left for Wyden and Merkley were particularly charming or articulate but I do think my panic was clear, as a freelancer who only has access to healthcare at all because the ACA exists
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I just.
we were WINNING
we were WINNING
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I just.
we were WINNING
we were WINNING
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Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care?
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care?
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
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STAY. AWAY. FROM. WILDLIFE. Keep your trash locked up. Do not feed wildlife or otherwise encourage it to hang around human habitation.
Apparently missing out on some exciting rabid fox neighborhood drama
Got this photo via two different group chats
Got this photo via two different group chats
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
STAY. AWAY. FROM. WILDLIFE. Keep your trash locked up. Do not feed wildlife or otherwise encourage it to hang around human habitation.
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Such a good negotiator! “If you don’t end the shutdown, I’ll blow up the filibuster! If you do end the shutdown, I’ll… blow up the filibuster anyway.”
November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Such a good negotiator! “If you don’t end the shutdown, I’ll blow up the filibuster! If you do end the shutdown, I’ll… blow up the filibuster anyway.”
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In 2024, ACA was approx. 125B. There are 340M Americans. If trump has his way, we’ll each get about $368 to pay for our healthcare each year. 🧐
November 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
In 2024, ACA was approx. 125B. There are 340M Americans. If trump has his way, we’ll each get about $368 to pay for our healthcare each year. 🧐
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If you don’t schedule time for maintenance, the instrument will schedule the maintenance for you.
A study in Nature Neuroscience shows that the moments of failed attention we experience after sleep deprivation reflect brief ‘sleep-like’ episodes in the brain, corresponding to a brain- and body-wide event with altered brain activity, pupil size and brain fluid movement. #neuroskyence 🧪
Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics - Nature Neuroscience
Yang et al. show that moments of failed attention we experience after sleep deprivation reflect brief ‘sleep-like’ episodes in the brain, corresponding to a brain- and body-wide event with altered brain activity, pupil size and brain fluid movement.
go.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:10 AM
If you don’t schedule time for maintenance, the instrument will schedule the maintenance for you.
An amusing thing from my bioinformatics work... If you can re-frame your problem as a sort problem, you get to leverage the decades of effort put into making sort algorithms efficient rather than having to do a lot of deep math yourself.
November 8, 2025 at 6:07 AM
An amusing thing from my bioinformatics work... If you can re-frame your problem as a sort problem, you get to leverage the decades of effort put into making sort algorithms efficient rather than having to do a lot of deep math yourself.
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Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
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And then a hero comes along…
Thank you Turkey!
Thank you Turkey!
Turkey issues genocide arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli PM, ministers and army chief accused of crimes against humanity ‘perpetrated systematically’ in Gaza
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:39 AM
And then a hero comes along…
Thank you Turkey!
Thank you Turkey!
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I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
Almost the full harvest from my runner bean (ayacote, Phaseolus coccineus) project.
I still have a small number of pods that are resting a bit more before shelling. Once these have all dried a bit more, I'll sort them out by color.
I still have a small number of pods that are resting a bit more before shelling. Once these have all dried a bit more, I'll sort them out by color.
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Almost the full harvest from my runner bean (ayacote, Phaseolus coccineus) project.
I still have a small number of pods that are resting a bit more before shelling. Once these have all dried a bit more, I'll sort them out by color.
I still have a small number of pods that are resting a bit more before shelling. Once these have all dried a bit more, I'll sort them out by color.
"Tomorrow Before After" (2024): Yet another sci-fi film with the Adam & Eve inspired incest colony ending.
Cool.
Cool.
November 4, 2025 at 4:50 AM
"Tomorrow Before After" (2024): Yet another sci-fi film with the Adam & Eve inspired incest colony ending.
Cool.
Cool.
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They claim they want to deport the worst of the worst criminals, yet “Carmen” helped law enforcement catch a criminal and was punished for it.
She reported her abusive & violent husband and he was deported.
Then they deported her too. Right back to the man who abused her.
She reported her abusive & violent husband and he was deported.
Then they deported her too. Right back to the man who abused her.
She helped get her violent husband deported. Then ICE deported her — straight into his arms.
Carmen's abusive husband came home drunk one night last summer. He pounded and kicked the door.
www.latimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
They claim they want to deport the worst of the worst criminals, yet “Carmen” helped law enforcement catch a criminal and was punished for it.
She reported her abusive & violent husband and he was deported.
Then they deported her too. Right back to the man who abused her.
She reported her abusive & violent husband and he was deported.
Then they deported her too. Right back to the man who abused her.
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Sad irony that you immediately ceased to deserve it.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Sad irony that you immediately ceased to deserve it.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott says that after the NYC polls close he will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.
Governors can’t impose tariffs.
Also, Mamdani scares the crap out of these guys and I think that’s awesome.
Governors can’t impose tariffs.
Also, Mamdani scares the crap out of these guys and I think that’s awesome.
November 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Texas Governor Greg Abbott says that after the NYC polls close he will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.
Governors can’t impose tariffs.
Also, Mamdani scares the crap out of these guys and I think that’s awesome.
Governors can’t impose tariffs.
Also, Mamdani scares the crap out of these guys and I think that’s awesome.