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Excellent work from @restingdinoface.bsky.social as usual, and is my favorite sort of science writing: the kind that answers a question I hadn't even thought to formulate but had always sort of wondered about

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having the kind of Bad Time that can only be cured by watching tom cruise leap out of a helicopter with a burning parachute

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Grateful to @sabs.bsky.social @defector.com for amplifying this termination. I am just one of a hundred + predocs whose NIH fellowship was wrongfully terminated this spring.

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I spoke with Patrick Kelly, a graduate student whose research concerns improving the lives of people who use drugs. Kelly's federal funding was taken away only because of his identity as an underrepresented student in science. defector.com/an-interview...

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WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews! ⭐ "Chou is gifted at storytelling with a surrealistic bent ... Sharp storytelling that bends and blurs genre expectations." Out August 19 from @penguinpress.bsky.social www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

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it's so fucked up that AI has appropriated the imagery of sparkles....that Jeff Bezos has appropriated the name of the one of the planet's greatest rivers...if you're making an evil product you should only be allowed to name it something like Scabb or have your logo be an abscess.

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suppose it's the time of day when I can only think about Sandwich

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I fucking hate that I have to type -ai after every freaking google search to remove the stupid AI overview. I hate all the extra work that is required to opt out of a vile feature that no one asked for and actively makes my life worse, let alone the planet!

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Put this on billboards

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dang it this blog is so good you've got crazy writing like this and also "yoinking" and "winklevii" -- patty can do it all!! defector.com/what-world-d...

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this is tonight @ 7pm!! come pick up a paperback copy of The Other Olympians and enjoy my presentation on Sexually Active Popes

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I spoke with Mamta Patel Nagaraja about her 24 years of working at NASA in which she trained astronauts and designed instruments that explored the moon and Venus, and how slashing funding for space research harms everyone living on Earth. defector.com/an-interview...

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I admitted that I knew nothing at the beginning of my career in journalism. I still don't know much but at least I know how to install air conditioners!!

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I bet it feels so good, as a bird, to sit on top of your baby

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Thought @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social’s coverage of That Track Meet was really, really strong and lovely

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Absolutely devastating and affecting a lot of my colleagues here at @scripps.edu who dedicated their whole careers to coming up with a vaccine for HIV. Which, btw, outside HIV, has led to a whole field of much better vaccines and vaccine platforms.

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cannot overstate how much this song is hitting www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjZH...

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I spoke with Becca Beckham, a fired AmeriCorps portfolio manager, about the agency's life-saving work with vulnerable populations, and how this all makes us less prepared for the next natural disaster. defector.com/an-interview...

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Just in time for tonight’s Spelling Bee Finals, I write about my service in the Bee trenches — as the pronouncer for the Boston competition. defector.com/confessions-...

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Fish At Pretty Good Place In Its Life Right Now theonion.com/fish-at...

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“The federal government announced Wednesday that it is cancelling a contract to develop a vaccine to protect people against flu viruses that could cause pandemics….citing concerns about the safety of the mRNA technology being used.” Courting mass death to own the libs.

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yesterday I caught bugs for the first time with a net. this has revolutionized all my summer goals to catching more bugs with a net. there is, dare I say, no better feeling than running around in a field and catching a real-life bug in a real-world net! I love catching! bug! with! net!!!!

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cannot wait for this beautiful and inevitably horny event

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A problem many over-hyped companies have: "This whole strategy—making enormous claims to guarantee wall-to-wall coverage in the press, only to later quietly correct such claims in an interview with a single publication—is not just dishonest, but also patronizing." Read @sabs.bsky.social's story:

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"the most acute problem the United States has with presidential age, capacity, and fitness is not about what people didn't know or wouldn't say about the last president. It's about what they can't bring themselves to say about the current president." defector.com/what-do-you-...

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"It seems to me that Shapiro and Colossal are trying to have their cake and eat it too. They want the breathless, unquestioning coverage from all the mainstream outlets who are unprepared to ask the right questions" All. Of. This. By @sabs.bsky.social defector.com/colossal-bio...

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I wrote about how irritated I am by the latest Colossal misrepresentation. defector.com/colossal-bio...

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oh come the fuck on! www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

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Returning with two online craft seminar classes this summer. The first meets on two Sundays in July, a look at several approaches to creating an essay collection, and includes suggested readings and writing prompts for essays, 3 per class. www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...

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