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technically it's a polyghoul

Question for the #gardensky tomato pros… I have dozens of volunteers from last year’s plants (Mountain Magic). I know hybrids don’t reseed true to original 🍅 though. Should I let some of these grow, or weed ‘em all out?

Posting a pic of coffee with 14 hashtags - what’s the goal there

Love this - yes, you can garden in the city and the creativity is contagious 🌱

Doctor here. I want my COVID booster.

People rate AI-generated medical answers as more trustworthy & complete—even when wrong. Low-accuracy LLM outputs were seen as valid and actionable, often indistinguishable from doctors’ advice. Unchecked trust in fluent hallucinations poses serious risks. NEJM AI: ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

“Americans die earlier and are sicker than people in other high-income countries. This has been true for a long time, and the trend is getting worse.” gift link www.wsj.com/health/welln...

@brucespringsteen.net Epic. 💜 youtu.be/6ZHWIYHlXOs?...

One Song w/ @dialloriddle.bsky.social @luxxury.bsky.social is far and away the best podcast out there right now. Listen, don't wait. Go now. Pure brilliant music-nerd wizardry and so much fun. #OneSong 💜 pod.link/1696154359

Re-reading "Emergency Skin," my fave story by @nkjemisin.bsky.social -- my 5th or 6th listen but feels more relevant now than ever, and always gives me a spark of hope in humanity. Audio version has great narration by Jason Isaacs. 🪐📚https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48717543-emergency-skin

🤩 #bloomsky

Academia isn’t perfect, but it offers a rare space to pursue knowledge for its own sake. If research were fully privatized, only profit-driven questions would get asked. Yet many of the most transformative discoveries began as curiosity-driven inquiries whose value wasn’t clear for years.

If you have a dictionary that you don't show love Oh, yes, son, we're talking to you.

The hellebores are up. 🌺 ‘Paris in Pink’ #bloomsky #bloomscrolling

the solution is simple, we edit wikipedia to say that america is not in trade deficit to anyone, and wait for chatgpt to be updated and re-run in a few days

Sometimes in this fast-moving and complex modern world, it’s hard to know what’s right and what’s wrong. But here’s a handy rule of thumb: If you are ever on one side of an issue, and Sesame Street is on the other, YOU’RE the bad guy.

This week, the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy, which means the genetic data the company collected on millions of users is now up for sale. If you do not want your data included in any potential sale, it’s a good time to ask the company to delete it.

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

Well that’s a headline I did not except to see. Ever.

Where does TrumpElon think innovation for all their favorite biotech corporations comes from? PCR only exists because somebody was looking for bacteria in hot springs at Yellowstone. I’m just a private practice ophthalmologist who barely understands p values but even I know this shit is important.

I see they started with the copyeditors.

An oldie but still one of my favorite Valentine’s Day stories: Sarah Vowell on June Carter Cash’s rendition of “Ring of Fire” www.thisamericanlife.org/247/what-is-...

“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.” The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av

Well, shit.

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Yes there was an #earthquake off the coast of #Maine. You weren't imagining things.

How is this production technology?

it’s perfect

Clinical trial storytime 👏

A day which will live in infamy.