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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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With people using AI for writing fiction, maybe none of us will ever have to hear the phrase “humans only use 10% of their brain” again

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I keep thinking @hankgreen.bsky.social Hank Green’s brother is named Frank Green. Somehow the rhyming overrides my memory.

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Just learned that if you #google meteorite, a meteor will shoot across your screen.

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Incredible that i got this for 25 dollars. Just an amazing bargain for the sweetest (and sassiest) dog. #rescue #husky

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Just a kind reminder that when you make fun of certain traits of someone’s appearance, the people close to you who share those traits get hurt as well.

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The Trump administration’s hobbling of the NIH can only be read a statement of its power and an act of intimidation. After all, their stated goal of tuning communications and removing DEI programs could easily be achieved without these arbitrary and disruptive tactics. 🧪

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Hard to be a biophysicist who’s bad with money, as cruel irony hath made my stock portfolio looks like a lennard-jones potential #compchem #biophysics 🧪

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So I've given a bunch of feedback on Specific Aims the last week or two & as has always been the case, for new PIs there are very paradigmatic mistakes almost always made.

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“Dont ever talk to me or my son ever again” - Freya

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I really wish 1) more people knew which scientists and health professionals had which type of expertise and 2) said professionals didn’t create content they don’t have relevant expertise in. It confuses & misleads the public, BUT also increases misinformation that circulates. 1/

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He’s a ten but he thinks The Count of Monte Cristo is about a Muppet’s obsession with sandwiches.

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The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is an anti-science activist group. They lie every year about “harms” of conventionally-grown produce with their Dirty Dozen list - solely for profit. BUT EWG ALSO propagated the lie that vaccines cause autism. 1/

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Unused barbie movie joke: you call me bro, but I’m actually broKen 😔

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Jimmy Carter didn’t quite manage to outlive the last Guinea worm, but he did a hell of a lot to spare people from the debilitating parasite. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/jimm...

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Synthetic #biology question 🧪: With the advent of tools like AlphaFold and ESMFold, I’m curious about the largest protein that can be predicted to fold with minimal amino acid diversity. EG can we fold an 800 amino acid protein with just ATCG?

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For WHY H5N1 influenza is a particular risk for cats, read today’s newsletter ⬇️ 🔗 news.immunologic.org/p/the-death-... Spoiler: cats have the same sialic acid receptors that birds have, which means they are high risk for infection. HPAI mortality in cats can near 100%. 1/

submitted 61 days ago • 6 comments

Merry Christmas🎄 Raw milk isn’t safe & doesn’t have health benefits. Vaccines save millions of lives every year. No one is hiding cancer cures GMOs are safe & reduce pesticide use. Organic farming uses pesticides & isn’t better. Supplements are unregulated. Food dyes aren’t banned in Europe.

submitted 63 days ago • 14 comments

The language around AI "alignment" has gotten to a point where it makes the underlying issues needlessly more opaque and muddled. Like, you could also talk about SQL injection as a "database alignment" problem but that would just be very confusing with zero upside.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Freya is hoping Santa will bring her 37 gifts this year

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Recently took a peek at Twitter and the disinformation is getting substantially more dangerous. Someone could get killed. The tactics of constantly repeating outright lies, targeting specific people, repurposing years-old footage and presenting them as new is getting to another level. It’s scary.

submitted 65 days ago • 3673 comments

Spreading Christmas chaos! #husky

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#boston is kind of weird because rich people will street park their Porsche in front of their 2 million dollar shack

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🎄 xmas preprint 🎄 we are excited to share our cryo-EM structure of UBR4 in complex with KCMF1 and CALM1. the PQC ligase forms a massive ubiquitination arena, primed to amplify ubiquitin chains (E4 activity) and boost degradation of defective proteins. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

This is the trans athletic scare that has half the nation in a tizzy. It’s manufactured fear, playing off of ignorance and bigotry.

submitted 69 days ago • 167 comments

AI safety is important but the conversation seems to be driven by people who know very little about AI

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Tbf this is just the plot of Gattaca

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To the 137th dimensional being, everything in the third dimension appears flat

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Two things i learned about science 🧪 during my #phd: 1. Everyone has their “eureka” moment. 2. The worst thing you can do is not ask a question because you feel silly

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What dark wizardry is this

submitted 85 days ago • 629 comments

The switch from noise transparency to noise cancellation on airpods pro is smashing

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The problem with YouTube music is sometimes you’ll be listening to a nice song that seems a little too long but its actually an 11 hour version that youre only 11 minutes into

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Always judging #husky

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[post-covid hobbies] Me: i really like peephole watching. Friend: you mean people watching? Me: no peephole watching. I just moved into a new apartment and i like watching people move in through my peephole. Friend: stop saying peephole

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