Michael🦇
@thesnork.bsky.social
PhD student studying molecular biology, viruses, and bats. Myotis and Moomin enthusiast.
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2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll.....
13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/
13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/
August 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll.....
13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/
13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/
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Cannot stop laughing at this
August 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Cannot stop laughing at this
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If you have any following at all and shared the story about Harvard being willing to pay $500M to Trump, please read the below and share it and repost it over and over, because not doing so is being complicit in spreading fascist propaganda.
Important details from this story:
1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."
3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.
1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."
3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.
August 4, 2025 at 10:58 AM
If you have any following at all and shared the story about Harvard being willing to pay $500M to Trump, please read the below and share it and repost it over and over, because not doing so is being complicit in spreading fascist propaganda.
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Canceled Paramount and signed up for PBS Passport instead.
It’s only a few dollars but it’s putting my money where my mouth is.
Will you?
It’s only a few dollars but it’s putting my money where my mouth is.
Will you?
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
www.cnbc.com/2025/07/24/f...
www.cnbc.com/2025/07/24/f...
FCC approves $8 billion Paramount-Skydance merger
The Federal Communications Commission cleared the way Thursday for an $8 billion merger between Paramount and Skydance Media.
www.cnbc.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Canceled Paramount and signed up for PBS Passport instead.
It’s only a few dollars but it’s putting my money where my mouth is.
Will you?
It’s only a few dollars but it’s putting my money where my mouth is.
Will you?
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Finally finished this drawing of Duchess over at @pa_bat_rehab . ❤️🦇 Done in colored pencils and pastel pencils on pastelmat.
The original will be donated to The rescue but prints are available - www.grayghostcreations.etsy.com
#spookyArt #batart #NocturnalCreatures #hoarybat
The original will be donated to The rescue but prints are available - www.grayghostcreations.etsy.com
#spookyArt #batart #NocturnalCreatures #hoarybat
July 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Finally finished this drawing of Duchess over at @pa_bat_rehab . ❤️🦇 Done in colored pencils and pastel pencils on pastelmat.
The original will be donated to The rescue but prints are available - www.grayghostcreations.etsy.com
#spookyArt #batart #NocturnalCreatures #hoarybat
The original will be donated to The rescue but prints are available - www.grayghostcreations.etsy.com
#spookyArt #batart #NocturnalCreatures #hoarybat
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The stripping away $1.1 billion in already-approved federal public media funding is devastating for KALW, with a loss of over $400,000 in our annual budget.
If KALW has ever informed you, moved you, or helped you feel connected to the Bay Area—this is your moment to act.
Give now: kalw.org/donate
If KALW has ever informed you, moved you, or helped you feel connected to the Bay Area—this is your moment to act.
Give now: kalw.org/donate
kalw.org
July 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The stripping away $1.1 billion in already-approved federal public media funding is devastating for KALW, with a loss of over $400,000 in our annual budget.
If KALW has ever informed you, moved you, or helped you feel connected to the Bay Area—this is your moment to act.
Give now: kalw.org/donate
If KALW has ever informed you, moved you, or helped you feel connected to the Bay Area—this is your moment to act.
Give now: kalw.org/donate
Losing my mind listening to @npr.org describe their own defunding as "a win for the President's cost-cutting measures" this morning. No it fucking isn't!
It's a win for wasteful urban Republican elites who want to fuck over their constituents. #cpb #npr
It's a win for wasteful urban Republican elites who want to fuck over their constituents. #cpb #npr
Anyway I’m really fucking sad about this. It was like watching a 14-year slow motion train crash. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was everything that was right about government and its demise is everything that’s wrong with contemporary beltway politics. We all deserve better.
July 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It’s amazing how good this app is at connecting me (a 26 y/o screen junkie) with live local journalism.
Anyways, give this takedown of Corporate Sludge by @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social a listen! The local callers are the best part.
Anyways, give this takedown of Corporate Sludge by @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social a listen! The local callers are the best part.
🎧Listen to the podcast:
Journalist @chriscolin3000.bsky.social spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about poor customer service "sludge" and how it's become a feature of many business models.
🔗:
Journalist @chriscolin3000.bsky.social spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about poor customer service "sludge" and how it's become a feature of many business models.
🔗:
Is Customer Service a Bad Model?
KQED's Forum · Episode
buff.ly
July 15, 2025 at 4:25 AM
It’s amazing how good this app is at connecting me (a 26 y/o screen junkie) with live local journalism.
Anyways, give this takedown of Corporate Sludge by @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social a listen! The local callers are the best part.
Anyways, give this takedown of Corporate Sludge by @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social a listen! The local callers are the best part.
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To be fair, announcing you intend to fuck up an emu doesn’t have the same click bait value.
Colossal are likely trying to ‘de-extinct’ the moa by tweaking an emu genome. There’s 62 million years of evolution between an emu and a moa.
For context, there’s only 42 MY between humans and howler monkeys. You simply can’t make a human with a GM howler monkey
www.newscientist.com/article/2487...
For context, there’s only 42 MY between humans and howler monkeys. You simply can’t make a human with a GM howler monkey
www.newscientist.com/article/2487...
Colossal's plans to "de-extinct" the giant moa are still impossible
After a controversial project claiming to have resurrected the dire wolf, Colossal Biosciences has now announced plans to bring back nine species of the extinct moa bird
www.newscientist.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
To be fair, announcing you intend to fuck up an emu doesn’t have the same click bait value.
A wonderful Saiga thread (!!)
It's a good thing I'm not in charge of naming animals, because I would have called this thing a SNOZZALOPE.
Instead, they named it the Saiga, or Saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica). Let's talk about them, starting with the giant snozz...
(📷: Valeriy Maleev)
Instead, they named it the Saiga, or Saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica). Let's talk about them, starting with the giant snozz...
(📷: Valeriy Maleev)
June 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A wonderful Saiga thread (!!)
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Breaking news: The NIH yesterday moved to reinstate about 900 grants that a judge last week ruled had been canceled illegally because their topics, ranging from vaccine hesitancy or promoting diversity in the scientific workforce, had been blacklisted by the Trump administration. scim.ag/4lq9UrQ
NIH will reinstate 900 grants in response to court order
Projects touching on sensitive topics such as DEI had been illegally terminated, judge found
scim.ag
June 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Breaking news: The NIH yesterday moved to reinstate about 900 grants that a judge last week ruled had been canceled illegally because their topics, ranging from vaccine hesitancy or promoting diversity in the scientific workforce, had been blacklisted by the Trump administration. scim.ag/4lq9UrQ
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Davis Drewek sliding to make the final out of the game, securing the 6-5 Ballers win! #oakland #letsgooakland
June 19, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Davis Drewek sliding to make the final out of the game, securing the 6-5 Ballers win! #oakland #letsgooakland
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Hello Tuesday.
🖼️ Arnold Lobel
🖼️ Arnold Lobel
May 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Hello Tuesday.
🖼️ Arnold Lobel
🖼️ Arnold Lobel
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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
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If working to improve the health and well-being of our fellow man is not persuasive enough to convince people of how important scientific research is, I hope the economic role it plays will #standupforscience
NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org
February 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If working to improve the health and well-being of our fellow man is not persuasive enough to convince people of how important scientific research is, I hope the economic role it plays will #standupforscience
My Cityside subscription is worth every penny, I need the Swindled podcast ep of this @berkeleyside.bsky.social www.berkeleyside.org/2025/02/12/e...
Elmwood’s Tulanian Rugs claims impostor rug shop is unraveling their century-old family legacy
The Tulanian family sold their building on Berkeley’s College Avenue. Now they’re suing the new owner for naming his business Tulanian.
www.berkeleyside.org
February 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My Cityside subscription is worth every penny, I need the Swindled podcast ep of this @berkeleyside.bsky.social www.berkeleyside.org/2025/02/12/e...
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Our favorite bat-inspired looks from the GRAMMYs pt 2!
Who is your favorite? 🦇 💅🏽
Who is your favorite? 🦇 💅🏽
February 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Our favorite bat-inspired looks from the GRAMMYs pt 2!
Who is your favorite? 🦇 💅🏽
Who is your favorite? 🦇 💅🏽
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bats are immunologically "special", but bat species also differ in their immune response. we gather evidence for interspecific variation in bat immunity, propose hypotheses, and outline future comparative directions. i've really enjoyed working with this ECR team.
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Diverse hosts, diverse immune systems: evolutionary variation in bat immunology
ecoevorxiv.org
February 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
bats are immunologically "special", but bat species also differ in their immune response. we gather evidence for interspecific variation in bat immunity, propose hypotheses, and outline future comparative directions. i've really enjoyed working with this ECR team.
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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Bat1K has arrived, and there’s a new paper from the Hiller Lab! Big day for bat fans 🦇
🚨Bat1K Paper Alert🚨There couldn’t be a better first post for us on this app - excited to share 10 new bat genomes and groundbreaking insights into bat immunity and viral resistance! 🌍🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance - Nature
A systematic analysis of 115 mammalian genomes, including 10 new bat genomes, reveals prevalent positive selection in immune genes in bats and shows key adaptations in the antiviral gene ISG15 that ai...
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Bat1K has arrived, and there’s a new paper from the Hiller Lab! Big day for bat fans 🦇
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If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
USAspending.gov
www.usaspending.gov
January 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
Sorry for this guy, and this reaffirms my commitment to never step foot in a WayMo
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Man trapped inside driverless car as it spins in circles
Mike Johns was on his way to the airport when the Waymo robotaxi began circling a parking lot non-stop
www.bbc.com
January 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Sorry for this guy, and this reaffirms my commitment to never step foot in a WayMo
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
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A perfect comic panel.
January 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A perfect comic panel.