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michaelhoffman.bsky.social

Chair, Computational BIology and Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network. Associate Professor, Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto. Disclosures: https://github.com/michaelmhoffman/disclosure/

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If Gen Z really wants to dunk on millennials, they should learn about Foursquare and go around saying stuff like, "I hear you're the mayor of this Panera Bread."

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“Some of y’all cant handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows”

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Roses are red Litter will clump

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Sir we've lost the Catturd army

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.

submitted 1 day ago • 165 comments

Folks don’t sleep on this The CMOH implying this baby only dies of measles bc they were premature and had other health conditions is unabashed ableism Justifying the death of a disabled child is as low as it gets People with healthy children: I promise you it doesn’t stop here

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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 2 days ago • 644 comments

Quick. Somebody tell Trump that the best way to own Elon is to restore all research grants and double NSF funding.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

BREAKING: HAHAHAHA

submitted 2 days ago • 678 comments

We used to be a society

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DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

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I thought I might die from a miscarriage in a Texas ER. The doctors wouldn’t do a D&C — not because I didn’t need it, but because they were afraid of the law after Dobbs. I wrote about that experience last year. Now Trump has gutted EMTALA. More women will face this. That should terrify us all.

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Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

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Gov. Walz: “I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected.” www.startribune.com/gov-tim-walz...

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Alex Jones, who spent years ranting about shadowy government mass surveillance technology, is now stanning for Palantir

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Berkeley's NIMBYs on Nextdoor: we must carefully study this zoning proposal to ensure equity for the disadvantaged. Berkeley's NIMBYs on Airbnb: $50/day to sleep in my yard.

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@rzaichkowski.bsky.social @mlongfield.bsky.social Have you noticed there are like five zillion comms about tomorrow's Parkdale traffic circulation item at TEYCC. I don't know what they say. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

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Somehow the "We need to support policies that are popular" crowd never land on the very popular polices like "taxing big corporation more," "making health care more affordable," or "paying teachers more." It's always just "be 10% more racist."

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Ono was a victim of the politicization of higher education but at least he can feel happy that he stuck to his principles and maintained his dignity touches earpiece OK, we have an update on that

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Now taking bets on how long before a rehabilitating puff piece appears in a major publication. Winner gets 1 million internet points.

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In case you needed a smile this Tuesday: 10-month-old baby KJ, who received a bespoke gene-editing therapy after a six month scientific sprint - "graduated" from the hospital @childrensphila.bsky.social today and went HOME! YAY SCIENCE! Here's his story: wapo.st/451ZQjT