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UCLA microbiology PhD, now clinical research scientist Also the original creator of the @HarrisFootball.com Yacht Club Dictionary: https://harrisfootball.github.io/dictionary.html. Hoping Bluesky will eventually allow us to mute specific accounts’ reposts
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@bsky.app had a pretty good beta test showing trending topics. Then they changed it to supposedly show the user’s preferred interests and suddenly I’m getting all kinds of junk I couldn’t care less about. Like Formula One racing.

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Better late than never. Let’s hope other universities stand up to fascism too

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Next-level sociopathy from Netflix execs, who apparently don’t see the connection between their ad tier and “Common People” (the first episode of the new Black Mirror series, with Rashida Jones and Tracee Ellis Ross). I can’t keep watching. It doesn’t seem the slightest bit fictional anymore.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

chag sameach to everyone who changed the last line of their Passover Seder this year

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

I've seen some people saying how "AI"-generated text is now as good as certain published authors, and honestly I think it's really brave for these folks to admit in public how poor their reading comprehension has to be

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Lol, sure, Trump is the same height and weight as Deshaun Watson (apt comparison, I know)

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There are things those of us who aren't Jewish are not allowed to do. Weaponizing Passover is one of those things.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Big biotechs (which Trump et al claim to fight but clearly just want $ from) are MUCH WORSE at taking risks and funding innovative research. What little they do almost all comes from academia, at least in major part.

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When faced with a pretty damning malpractice suit, these ‘Catholic’ hospital admins no longer believe in THEIR OWN posted guidelines (approved 2018) committing to “respect the sacredness of every human life from the moment of conception until death.” Almost like it’s actually just forced birtherism…

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

RFK Jr. has repeatedly shown he has no interest in actually making Americans healthier. It’s all a grift to him.

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