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rileyhannan.bsky.social
Kirschstein-NRSA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UVA studying B1 cells in various diseases w focus on fibrosis. Likes making tools. Flow cytometry + microscopy + data wrangler. Wannabe polymath. Leftist/anti-authoritarian hot takes are my own.
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Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards. Me, via “One First”:

Last time I was embarrassed, I played videogames and avoided introspecting until my shame was less fresh. But going to war against Iran is also cool ig

good morning friends 💚✨

Do not use LLMs to comprehend or contextualize; they will fail to parse at a fundamental level and then obsequiously slop words together anyway to try and make you happy.

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

Exactly a year ago, a paper claimed apple cider vinegar was as effective as Ozempic for weight loss. *Clearly wrong.* This is the story of exactly one year of dealing with this paper. And the very normal, very complete failure of governance that resulted. open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...

Uh: HHS considering new NIH grant language that would 👉 allow NIH to terminate *and claw back* grants at unis w/ DEI programs 👉 expand DEI to DEIA--so now we're prohibiting accessibility (ADA?) 👉 prohibit all BDS initiatives 1A lawyers gonna have a field day w/ this one. @kenwhite.bsky.social

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Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

born too late to get a two Western blot Nature paper, born too early to be a science TikTokker, born just in time to start a postdoc during a global pandemic and look for faculty positions during a historic hiring freeze

This makes me cry - the magnitude of preventable suffering is so, so huge.

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps block the path

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Fuck you, Glenn Youngkin, fuck you, UVA Board of Visitors, fuck you Jim Ryan, and fuck UVA. Great and Good!* *cishet white men only