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“Why Doesn’t Trump Pay a Political Price for His Racism?”
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Applications now open for the International Travel Stipends to attend #Evol2026! Funds cover registration, travel, food, and lodging. Apply by January 30: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... @evolmtg.bsky.social
26.11.2025 13:16 — 👍 13 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 0“The other Steve”
22.11.2025 06:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In a night filled with much bigger and grander stories and moments, for some reason I feel compelled to note that Gavin Newsom quoted Walt Whitman in his speech this evening.
05.11.2025 07:20 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Assuming that the Japanese leaders don’t understand the situation sells them short.
29.10.2025 02:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
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"Join ISME’s #UnityinDiversity 2025 Virtual Meeting on 21 October, which will elevate diverse voices in microbial ecology and affirm the importance of equity, inclusion, and global collaboration"
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WE ARE BACK!!! Archaea Power Hour will return this coming WEDNESDAY, Oct. 22nd at 10AM EST/4PM CET. Check your email for the Zoom link (coming soon) or register here: forms.gle/6QvCjHH2H4pxro…. Take a look at the exciting talks we have planned to kick off our fall seminar series:
17.10.2025 15:50 — 👍 15 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1But even these don’t arise in a true vacuum. Instead they build upon discoveries, the true value of which often remain unrecognized for years even decades. It’s the scientific ecosystem that enables the forward momentum of science. It can be excruciatingly slow and frustrating but is critical. 2/
16.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 71 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 1Our Plant and Microbial Biology Graduate Program (cbs.umn.edu/pmb/graduate...) is organizing two Zoom Admissions open houses where you can learn about preparing a strong application and get advice about graduate school from current PMB students.
Drop in at any point on either or both days, see below
Just putting this here for anyone who might like to hear Bobby Kennedy's remarks to a predominantly black audience in Indianapolis on the evening of April 4, 1968, after the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I should not minimize another important element of the Trump foreign policy: stupidity. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
12.03.2025 12:51 — 👍 315 🔁 38 💬 9 📌 2Trump, Vance, Musk, Patel, Hegseth, RFK, etc. are the comic book villains that we’ve seen in movies, but brought to real life. And their colleagues are just as pathetic as the followers in the movies, that I used to think were so unrealistic. What a nightmare.
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No. Having a Russian asset for the President of the United States is hurting Ukraine.
24.02.2025 17:53 — 👍 326 🔁 45 💬 15 📌 4Today’s assault on is way beyond your usual cut-government-spending-to-give-tax-breaks-to-billionaires bullshit. I suppose they think it’s some kind of retribution, but what we are seeing directed toward health and medicine is outright cultlike behavior.
15.02.2025 00:37 — 👍 205 🔁 35 💬 16 📌 1Putting 22 highly motivated and accomplished individuals in a room and asking one of them defect is going to lead to bad outcomes. For the DOJ leadership.
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Cry me a river.
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h/t @scalzi.com
It’s a zero sum world for Trump. But eventually everyone going to play w/o the U.S.
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It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
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