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Geneticist here: she’s not alone, either. I can pretty much guarantee that there’s someone reading about Imane Khelif right now, right this instant, who has chromosomal “abnormalities” and who will never know because it won’t ever matter for them and they’ll never be tested.

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So he takes an argument for being vegetarian and just recycles it to promote AI? That’s just lazy

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My graduate school experience would not have been so rich and fulfilling if it was not for the international students - including students from India. I hate that this experience is being stolen from the next generation.

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Unless you’re a Nobel laureate, the brain drain will be away from science and not to other countries.

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The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--

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Happy pride month ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Jonathan Joss was MURDERED. Words matter here. He was MURDERED. it was a HATE CRIME because he is a gay Indigenous man. Say those words. Do not dance around it. He wasn't "killed in a shooting." He was murdered in a hate crime.

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Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

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Post a banger that’s not in English m.youtube.com/watch?v=vXhh...

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The “teach every student to code” era replaced by AI should be a reminder to university administrators that tethering university education to corporate demand is dumb

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Please post this far and wide. People need to know the truth about where their taxes go and who is really taking their hard earned money!!

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Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.

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Small liberal arts colleges aren't unique to the US, but they’ve developed into something distinct here. Harvard and the other Ivies will weather this political moment, but the fallout might end up dismantling one of the most extraordinary parts of American higher education.

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You're smart. You totally won't fall for reverse psychology.

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Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2 Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1 Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7

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I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...

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Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.

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One thing we never talk about is how NASA was not allowed to fail in the same ways that SpaceX does. For NASA, they’ve been under a strict microscope of not wasting taxpayer dollars in their pursuits. The bar was always high. SpaceX has a lower bar, all while still using taxpayer dollars.

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Some time back there was much lamentation about the fact that there were towns without plumbers. An economist pointed out that if the town had enough work to support a plumber, it would have one.

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Concepts like diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are simply elements that need to exist for well-led, sustainable high-performing teams to thrive.

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"Getting permission from Chanel would kill the fake handbag industry"

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“in a world that would sooner shatter mirrors and blind itself than face the truth” Please read this excellent thread about where we are and where we could have been. And try to do something in your corner of the world, however small that corner might be.

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Indiana-Oklahoma City will be the first NBA Finals where you can't legally bring a James Baldwin book to any of the games.

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