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Here’s an updated list of students known to have been targeted by the Trump administration for speaking out about what Israel is doing to Palestinians in Gaza, in a clear attempt to chill/stop free speech: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19058...

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www.northjersey.com/story/news/t... It is kind of appropriate that MJ taxpayers are being taken for a ride, literally, by everyone involved. The state could have used the money to maybe run an extra bus into Manhattan and deliver tangible relief

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This was such a satisfying project, and one in which I realized for the first time how much my whole life had been spent in a manscape, in places where almost everything was named after men.

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I’ve come to the conclusion that the best case scenario is to have nearby neighbor volunteers “adopt” a seed dispersal station. If you live in Philadelphia and are willing to adopt a station, which involves checking it every day and refilling with seed packs (that I will provide), lmk.

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Seems like this sign should not be around mid march

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www.thecity.nyc/2025/03/18/f... Why would hhmi cut diversity initiatives ? Were they ever serious about this ?

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Thread. I'm largely paraphrasing the human rights lawyer @michaelsfard.bsky.social, who is key in this case & many others: A thing that happens a lot in Israel is that settler orgs + the Rabbinate take over properties in East Jerusalem owned by Jews before 1948, to "Judaize" the Palestinian part+

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🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Apparently randomly firing people, cutting aid to poor etc is not "carelessly ignorant and cruel" www.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu...

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Yoder Lab grad student @pwmilli.bsky.social went scouting this weekend and it looks like Joshua tree are really blooming! 🌿 If you're in the Mojave this spring, help us learn how weather affects the trees' specialized pollinators by joining our @inaturalist.bsky.social project buff.ly/Ep6ygNx

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Most potent substance known to science apparently........ "The tribunal accepted .... had entered his body by accidental contamination when he received a massage from his former physio, who had used a spray containing the steroid to treat a cut on his finger." www.tennis365.com/tennis-news/...

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Jeffries is an AI construct, created by the prompt " make some one who talks in cliches and says nothing memorable, and can put an adult to sleep in 5 minutes"

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www.bbc.com/news/article... When the current Indian government is praised by anyone, they should be asked about this

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the fraud, if any, usually involves hospitals and corporations ?

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did resveratrol help red wine or was it the other way round ? both seemingly magical helpers that would help us live longer and healthier......... www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/w...

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my new book SIMPLICITY is about a timid trans academic in the near future treks into the wilds of upstate new york to study a cult and winds up with way more than he bargained for. it’s is out 7/29. preorder it from your local! simplicitybook.xyz

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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

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They are now selling this as a "reachable moment". Skyscraper building is not new, and learning should definitely not be happening on the job, especially in a sense place like NY city decofond.com/leaning-skys...

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finance.yahoo.com/news/unitedh... UnitedHealth Group (UNH) is under fire over its Medicare billing practices. So their concern about limiting care to save money only goes so far.....

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Incredible stuff in here: They ID'ed him, in part, by going to court hearings and watching him post

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Doge is the equivalent of a cost-cutting academic chair who cancels bagels and coffee to close a $5million shortfall

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Trees have their own private niteogen-fixing microbiome ! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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He is probably happy about the fundraising he can do .....

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The problem with relying on rich person philanthropy, it can change direction based on whims and compulsions of the said rich person

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apnews.com/article/spee... These stories of single magical genes seem very quaint and outdated, but does not stop universities and researchers from touting them in this way

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Yesterday she said it sounded "undemocratic" to fire him. THE CALLS ARE WORKING. KEEP CALLING, Y'ALL. Tell her to fire Adams NOW. 1-518-474-8390

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Housing became way more unaffordable and unavailable, a fairly recent phenomenon, which probably makes comparisons to past data not very useful

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"The Treasury Department had previously stated that Elez was only granted “read-only” access to the payment system, although reporting by @wired.com and the financial newsletter Notes on the Crises had questioned that assertion." Vindication for our reporting from a week beforehand.

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Google has decided to go all in, when they didn't need to. It is the great tech race to bottom, no one is going to look good at the end of this It is funny that they claim they will be responsible developers of AI , unlike the evil undemocratic forces elsewhere www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/11/g...

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They are busy scrubbing anything that sounds like it might encourage diversity

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www.science.org/content/arti... Why would a charitable organization follow political directives ? And did they ever really care about diversity ?

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news.mit.edu/2025/study-s... This is a great study, highlighting practical versus theoretical knowledge

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Please governments, I'm begging you, just raise taxes instead of cutting services. We are the wealthiest society humanity has ever had. We have the resources to have nice things.

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I guess I would feel better about Google's new willingness to use AI for weapons and surveillance if I thought the country leading in AI development actually was a democracy guided by core values like equality and respect for human rights. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Ridership going up might be cause of crime going down. The article seems to imply that one would expect crime to go up with ridership NYC subway crime plummets as ridership jumps significantly in 2025 search.app/bP1dctPWsoL2...

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Can confirm. Adding the F word to your google searches turns off AI summaries. E.g.: "how do massively parallel reporter assays work?" vs "how do f*cking massively parallel reporter assays work?"

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My brother in Christ, one of us is in the Senate confirming his nominees. And it is not me.

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Maybe Microsoft should probe why they didn't do it themselves instead of just doing more of the same thing ("scaling laws" !!) Microsoft Is Probing Whether DeepSeek Improperly Accessed OpenAI's Data Outputs And If A Breach Has Occurred wccftech.com/microsoft-is...

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This sounds like sour grapes ? Why didn't openAI do this themselves if it was easy ? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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