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wow 🌟 what an exuberant fireworks display for #ProtistsOnSky 👏

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As I have come to realise over lo, these last 30-odd years since really big viruses started to be discovered, that there is a continuum between virocells and ribocells (aka viruses in their hosts and the hosts themselves), with coding of whole ribosomes being the only real distinction.

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They did it. They finally bloody fucking did it. South Africa won a world cup in Cricket. I still remember Ali Bacher on TV the day after Donny dropped his bat and Klusener saying he'd rather go fishing when he got man of the tournament. Now I may die.

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Bluebonnet Landscape with Catci, Road and Mountain Laurel https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-julian-onderdonk/bluebonnet-landscape-with-catci-road-and-mountain-laurel

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Apart from the Taliban hyperbole what's to be so upset about here? Sweden ran a differelt experiment and embaressed everyone. Given our ignorance at the time (a new disease and new technology) this is when you do want heterodoxy to search solution space.

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"The reaction among all the crews was: doesn't the country realize what they're losing here?" "This was a neat machine, there wasn't anything wrong with it, but we had to shut it down" Have you ever teared up watching a reactor film? Well get ready to! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf7O...

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I teach a class on film and politics and include docs that offer insight into protest movements and the challenges they face. Some recommendations: Eyes on the Prize: Canonical series on civil rights movement. Shows how ordinary people created extraordinary change. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGVL...

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

I have an article in UnHerd on Trump’s war on American science and how it shows where populism goes wrong. unherd.com/2025/06/trum...

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Another reason I don't worship at the alter of DEI. Including J Haidt's advocacy for ideological diversity. Sometimes it's important, but it's not a law of nature. We don't need disdain for routine vaccination just like NASA doesn't need flat earthers. Some people should be excluded.

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Me: Most of the atoms in the Earth were made by suns, but other suns, not ours. 13 yo: So you're saying our sun is really our stepsun?

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Mass FMDV vaccination of cattle to start in S Africa to control on going epizootic. www.news24.com/business/eco...

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Iirc David Shor lost his job for tweeting about this during the Floyd protests. There needs to be a study on how those turned voters to Trump and his cultural revolution against biomedicine.

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I’ve been studying gene regulation in primates for over 20 years, and using RNA-seq since 2008 to compare expression across species. We thought we were being careful. We used curated orthologous exons to minimize alignment bias and focused on biologically meaningful comparisons. We were wrong.

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It was dumb to worship at the alter of diversity. There's no law of nature that says more is good. It just matters sometimes. That's all. And some people should be excluded from science and medicine. Like RFK, post modernists, flat earthers and young earth creationists.

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This interesting piece from @mjrobbins.com is about crime and public perceptions of it, but this part of could also apply to scientists/science communicators and our audiences. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/stop-gasli...

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It's simple: run the experiment. With conditions. Allow them to compete, but: 1) For now trans women aren't eligible for medals or prize money. 2) For contact sports they can be held liablbe for injury. Get data, but the burden of proof is on them. (I try to make everyone unhappy)

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What is Life? In her Long Now Talk, astrobiologist and theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker (@saraimari.bsky.social) explores the fundamental nature of life and how can physics help shape our understanding of how it arises in the universe. Full talk here: youtu.be/zhzxQraB2m0?...

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Heinrich Klaasen shocked the cricketing fraternity on June 2 by announcing retirement from international cricket. Hailed among the most destructive batters of the modern era, his international career spanned just seven years, having debuted in 2018.

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China is about to become first to drill into Earth's mantle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dGf...

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Trump administration: We’ll beat China by destroying everything that makes us competitive with China.

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

And the Cultural Revolution

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Birds doing bird things. Spotted in Exeter

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Finally got to watch this. Lovely film. Another case of finding a film via music. I became a Dirty Three fan before I knew Warren Ellis was also a Bad Seed. I'd pay to download high res photos for 4k. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7k4...

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I guess the rainbow lawn signs didn't work. I wonder why?

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NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.

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This year is the hundred-year anniversary of many events that changed the search for human origins. The Taung skull was the first fossil evidence rooting our lineage in Africa. For years, wrong ideas about human races kept many scientists from recognizing it. www.johnhawks.net/p/the-circum...

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Remember when that NPR CEO idiot said "seeking the Truth is a distraction"? Ja. Well. This your what get when you endorse that shit. Alternative facts. Now it's just becoming automated.

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"The Story of The Atomic Airplane": 13 hours of first-hand presentations and interviews from the team that did the nuclear-powered aircraft project in the 1950s, now digitized and online thanks to Dr. Jake Hecla! whatisnuclear.com/the-story-of...

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Make Hemagglutinins Great Again.

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“Officially, German rations allowed each ghetto inmate 180 daily calories, or less than one-tenth of the daily calories needed to remain healthy.” www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-docto...

submitted 21 days ago • 32 comments

I wonder if anyone working there who didn't support Biden, Harris or Trump would've been allowed to publish their own endorsement? Or must they just pretend to like BS like "ways of knowing"? "Diversity" and "Inclusion" hey.

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It might produce less overall societal neuroses if hyper elite educational places like Harvard had much more relaxed admissions standards but were way more willing to fail people. right now the most difficult parts of getting into elite education all take place prior to 18.

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

submitted 28 days ago • 379 comments

This thread is incredibly relatable. There have been so many times I've tried to find the original source of a statistic, only to find that it comes from nowhere.

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

Reminds me of how I used to devour pop sci books. But now I'm more picky now cos I don't get to dig like these lot can on so many topics.

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