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Craig Kaplan
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Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. RNA polymerase II mechanism, classic films, #classiccountdown once in awhile
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Even King’s hometown is irritated
Protest in Brunswick ME Tuesday, November 11
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Looks like it is gone. But this pic has yucky facade on an even cooler old brick one underneath
2712 Minnesota Avenue pic Billings MT. Abandoned brick building.
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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The sorting reveals one of each!!!
Sorted Halloween candy revealing one Payday and one 100 Grand bar!
November 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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I was cruising and would ah e been safer just going T all the back half but I was leaning on “did not vote”. Love that the quiz had participation of AEI! We are in hell
Score on voting quiz 8/16
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Clock is at zero - let’s just remember it this way
Scoreboard at UM-CU game showing Michigan with the lead and no time on the clock (Kordell Stewart has just completed a 70 yard throw for a Hail Mary TD to win). Scoreboard has not been updated yet. Photo credit: me
October 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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The Difford’s tasting notes is hilarious www.diffordsguide.com/beer-wine-sp...
Link to the tasting notes. Text is copyrighted https://www.diffordsguide.com/beer-wine-spirits/3155/jeppsons-malort
October 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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I didn’t have the guts to try an entire bottle for the first taste
Jeppson’s Malört for sale now in PA
October 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Pretty popular 70s and 80s!
Graph showing the peak of popularity of the name Stephanie
October 16, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Not much information there, but this is what is indicated for reviewers/peer review grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Most of the above text with some elisions Initial Peer Review Meetings: For the duration of the funding lapse, the NIH will not be able to conduct initial peer review meetings – whether in-person or through teleconferences or other electronic media. Also, during this time, the NIH staff will not be able to send or receive email messages or update website information. When operations resume, those meetings will be re-scheduled, and the pending applications will be processed and reviewed as soon as possible. Also, the results, including final impact scores and summary statements, of some peer review meetings that took place prior to the orderly shutdown of operations may not be available until operations resume. Therefore, applicants with applications going through the peer review process should stay tuned to the national news to determine when operations of the government resume and then check the NIH website for information on any review meetings that may have been extended or re-scheduled. The results of meetings held prior to a potential funding lapse will be released as soon as possible after resumption of operations. Individuals who had agreed to serve on NIH review panels ("study sections") that were scheduled to meet during the funding lapse will have access to the Internet Assisted Review (IAR) site and will be able to upload initial critiques and initial scores, but technical support will not be available. ..... Therefore, peer reviewers should stay tuned to the national news to determine when operations of the NIH will resume and then check the NIH website for information on meetings that have been re-scheduled. As soon as possible after operations resume, the NIH Scientific Review Officer in charge of the review meeting will contact those reviewers with more detailed information.
October 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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blink blink blink
In office, the Republican president has maintained a high-tempo schedule and a fondness for red meat. On Sunday, he plans to travel to the Middle East after brokering a Gaza ceasefire deal. "Trump remains in exceptional health, exhibiting strong cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, and physical performance," Trump's physician Sean Barbabella said in the memo, which was made out to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. Trump also received preventive health screenings and immunizations, including annual flu and updated COVID-19 booster vaccinations, in preparation for his upcoming international travel.
October 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Happy to participate in Pittsburgh SCADaddle 5K for SCAD research. SCAD is the kind of heart attack that mostly affects healthy women >40 without traditional risk factors. Can be associated with peri or postpartum and commonly SCAD patients also suffer migraines @scadalliance.bsky.social
Cute young at heart couple earring race medals from a 5K charity run/walk on a sunny day in Pittsburgh
October 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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I don't want to post the whole image because I don't know the young lady, but Bronson Arroyo
Bronson Arroyo and friend
October 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Redid this thanks to @james-gagnon.bsky.social reminding me about NIH Databook. R01 applications numbers are dropping greatly at NIGMS but success rates (after being flat) dropped greatly last year. Suspect this will be even more drastic in 2025
September 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I think the R01 is basically a non-starter at NIGMS now. Data from NIH Reporter for new and competing awards, comparing number of R01s issued relative to R35s (MIRA). This has major ramifications for basic science and basic science investigators that are not yet in the MIRA pool
Graph showing total R35+R01 awards issued by NIGMS from 2020 to 2025. R01 in black showing a steep decline. R35 showing an increase. Total awards in 2025 slightly up from 2024 but these years are lower than 2020-2023
September 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Anyone know what this perfect little guy is? (I don’t know the badge and had no markings on back)
Sea foam green two seat roadster vintage car. Right hand drive
September 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Love that the entire internet will soon be this AI garbage
Text that appears to claim that 95 calories for Michelob Ultra is less than 101, 102, and 110 calories for other light beers
September 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Here are the proposed dates
Screenshot of estimated post date for NIH MIRA R35 research grant program for established investigators (11/3/2025) with applications anticipated as due 1/27/2026
September 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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I meant to provide you with this that I saw with my own eyes recently
Sandwiches labeled as Banh mi that are very far from it. A pile of sandwiches on a white. Platter. Sandwiches are on square buns
September 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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21 SOLITAIRE –•– The Carpenters

Am...am I...am I old?? [jokes about flipping over a table] [hurts back while thinking about joke about flipping over a table]
What happens when you get old you first ask "Is Gordon Lightfoot good?" then "Is Steely Dan good?" then "is Bob Dylan good?" then "ARE THE CARPENTERS GOOD" (galaxy brain meme)
September 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Also wow
With respect to the difficult jurisdictional issues in this case, the Court has done its best to follow the Supreme Court’s limited recent guidance, which is preliminary and might well change over the course of this litigation (and the many other cases involving similar issues)—an outcome that seems not unlikely given the seeming lack of consensus in APHA and the procedural challenges posed by having substantially similar cases proceed in two different forums. Although the doctrinal framework that applies to these threshold issues is certainly important, the issue of jurisdiction is something of a red herring. Whether this case plays out in this Court or in the Court of Federal Claims, what lies at the core of this dispute is the fact that Defendants are trying to pressure Harvard to accede to the government’s demands in a way that squarely violates Plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights and ignores the procedural requirements of Title VI and, to a certain extent, the APA. The idea that fighting antisemitism is Defendants’...
September 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Wow
It may well be that these differences would not distinguish these claims in the eyes of the Supreme Court, although that remains unclear under existing caselaw. But this is not Calvinball and there are rules. Under those rules, which are set by existing Supreme Court precedent, this Court cannot conclude that core First Amendment claims or pure statutory violations fall within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Court of Federal Claims.
September 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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The Pirates gave actual squashmallows to PPS school kids for back to school!
Hamburger squashmallow named Carl looking through window of front door
August 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Last night. It was my last Luxardo cherry
1919 Cocktail in vintage coupe glass with green stem and flared top. A cocktail cherry is skewered on a cocktail pick with a mahjong tile holder. Various bottles are in background
August 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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@stirlingchurchman.bsky.social I was given this as a gift and I had no idea or maybe forgot that this was what the bottle would look like
Bottle of “Old Monk” rum from India, which is in the shape of an old monk’s head
August 2, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Saying that the previously language should apply
Screenshot of Senate Appripriations bill for NIH stating that 2017 indirect cost language is still in force
July 31, 2025 at 8:57 PM