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nmatasci.bsky.social
Opinionated evolutionary geneticist, computational biologist, hat wearer · Views are my own · Pronouns: he/his/him
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Anyone you see on your timeline right now praising RFK Jr. is a person you never need to take seriously on anything ever again. It is difficult to overstate just how extreme, conspiratorial, and insane RFK’s views are, on vaccines, microchips & beyond. He’s Alex Jones in a suit.

wait why does the dept of government efficiency have two co-chairs

Just to clarify, a President cannot set up a real Department. This requires an Act of Congress. He can set up an office, or commission, but this will not be a real Department, and should not reported as such. But with Schedule F, they could fire a lot of career civil servants.

Oh my fucking god he picked a random Fox News guy for secretary of defense we are so unbelievably fucked holy sweet merciful shit

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #419,110!

President HarriS, of course

I managed to keep my family healthy: we were visiting my mother and as soon as I learned it was COVID we started a strict isolation protocol. Something I would not have done with other respiratory viruses. I spent a week in my room and avoided visiting my elderly relatives. That's why we test.

Day 7. Still going strong

Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social gives great plenary “Polyploidy, Diploidization & the Evolution of Plant Diversity“ w/ point that #polyploidy drives plant #genome diversification from macro- to micro- #evolution ; new insights: diploidization rates & paleolog fates #ibc2024 #Botany 🌾🧪🌱🌍🌿🍄🌻🔬

NIXON: And this Kah-ma-la, she’s the uhh, the 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 vice president then? HALDEMAN: Yes sir. NIXON: With [INAUDIBLE]—coconuts? EHRLICHMAN: And Venn diagrams. HALDEMAN: The GOP ticket, sadly—[METALLIC SOUNDS] rumors about a couch. NIXON: [INAUDIBLE]—meaning of 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘵. [LAUGHTER, COUGHING]

lol no way

Stuck in bed with a bad case of COVID, feeling my brain is runny eggs. Checking the news: there is going to be a skibidi toilet movie and JD Vance fucked a couch. My brain must be gone for good.

LAX is where all the bad ideas get tested. I really think that when organizations fail so badly, executives should be physically punished.

Airline executives and board members should only be allowed to fly economy. That way they can experience the brilliance of their ideas.

That's my regular "this meeting is on Teams" face

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Tired: I hope this email finds you well Wired: I hope this email finds you Inspired: This email knows where you live

Woot! Go Nemo! #eurovision

EBU should stick to Charpentier's Te Deum, because this really ain't it. #eurovision

Latvia was going to enter the Blue Man group, but unfortunately ran out of makeup. #Eurovision

Estonia should have taken a page from Spain and shown more booty. Could have been a winner!

So, the northern lights were just an ad for the Eurovision?

If you've spotted the Aurora tonight, report it to aurorasaurus.org! It's crowdsourcing aurora location and intensity data. This kind of citizen science is genuinely valuable!

USC Valedictorian Asna Tabassum was honored with a standing ovation at the university's awards ceremony.

Uh, yeah

Love this.

Soon, the last trustworthy place to look a fact up will be media printed prior to 2020. Hold onto your encyclopedia sets, my friends. They are going to be the low-background metal of the future.

RFK's doctors like

Sales email: Let's connect! Me: let us not. Let's pretend we are ships passing in the night, blissfully unaware of each other's existence, just like we were five minutes ago.

Technically, it was a phone call

I've attended a couple of those where some graybeard launches into a "more of a comment" tirade.