Niles Donegan

Niles Donegan

@happypig.bsky.social

Microbiologist working on Cas12-mediated viral genome editing at the VA Medical Center in WRJ, Vermont. NH based. Views are my own. "Practice every day has made Pangur perfect in his trade; I get wisdom day and night, Turning darkness into light."

289 Followers 981 Following 188 Posts Joined Dec 2023
3 days ago

Does he have to grow a 60s goatee to if he gets funded?

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3 days ago

Best of luck! My money’s waiting if you ever change your mind about a Mac version.

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3 days ago

I bet you’ll love it. Adam Savage did a really cool video with the set designer on his Tested YouTube channel about the interior of the Hail Mary ship. Definitely worth a watch, but only after the movie though.

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3 days ago

Yes! Loved it as well. Both made me proud to be a microbiologist. Only one glaring science lab blooper in the movie, where Grace spins a VERY unbalanced centrifuge. I’d say I still liked The Martian more as a movie.

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3 days ago

George RR Martin spoiled the book with his back cover blurb!

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3 days ago

I saw it at a free screening at Dartmouth last Sunday (directors are alums) and it was fantastic. Full house (900 people plus folding chairs).

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4 days ago

Back when Wired and Mondo 2000 edgily competed for who had the most pictures of people with wires or tygon tubing taped to their heads.

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4 days ago

I wish Consumer Reports didn’t shut the Consumerist down. It was such a good site.

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4 days ago

No way. Awesome. Can’t wait to read this.

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5 days ago
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RFK Jr.’s FDA may take cues on stem cells from red-state laws, clinic doctors A soft FDA, state laws permitting non-FDA-approved biologics, and a country full of stem cell clinics could be a dangerous combination.

Wait, he’s not going to inject stem cells into his rotator cuff from one of the unregulated and noncompliant clinics his FDA has been advocating so hard to legitimize? Roll the dice on what expands in cell culture flask and inject it, you coward www.statnews.com/2025/07/17/r...

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5 days ago

Rep Vose is lackwitted, reactionary, anti-science, Dunning-Kruger writer of garbage code, and his mother dresses him funny.

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2 weeks ago

Scouting has always been staffed with ex-military ready to comply. My firmer Engineer scoutmaster told me and the rest of his scouts he’d throw gas on us if he saw any of us protesting the first Gulf War.

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2 weeks ago

Now do (Leon) Black Family Visual Arts Center at Dartmouth and (Howard) Lutnick Library at Haverford.

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1 month ago

I have too many astronomical speeds and distances memorized from that song.

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1 month ago

“They say that money corrupts you, but I can’t really tell”

- Weird Al, “This is the Life”

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1 month ago
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Unproven stem cell 'therapy' blinds three patients at Florida clinic After three patients were blinded following a treatment marketed as a stem cell clinical trial, Stanford ophthalmologist Jeffrey Goldberg calls for increased patient education and regulation.

This immediately jumps to mind from 2017 - med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

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1 month ago

George Gallup wasn’t afraid to report low poll numbers. “Only 31 percent say they approve of the way Mr. Nixon is handling his job as President, a drop of 9 points […] since his high point in January following the Vietnam peace settlement.” By George Gallup, The Boston Globe, August 15, 1973. A25.

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1 month ago

Catapults? Like the mass driver catapults in Robert Heinlein’s 1966 sci-fi novel “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”? The catapults the moon inhabitants use to throw rocks at Earth cities and gain independence? Musk has said he’s read that book.

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1 month ago
A humorous take on rebranding various aspects of the United States from Tom Weller's book "Cvltvre Made Stupid."

Good lord, that proposed branding. It made me think of Tom Weller's Cvltvre Made Stupid...

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1 month ago
YouTube Music With the YouTube Music app, enjoy over 100 million songs at your fingertips, plus albums, playlists, remixes, music videos, live performances, covers, and hard-to-find music you can’t get anywhere els...

Olbermann’s 1/22/26 podcast gamed this idea out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KuZ...

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1 month ago
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Haverford College Libraries

Maybe time for the trustees of Haverford College all read this and then stare at the words “Lutnick Library” on one of their buildings. www.haverford.edu/libraries

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1 month ago
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Haverford College Libraries

Maybe time for Haverford College to think about renaming Lutnick Library. www.haverford.edu/libraries

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1 month ago
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Trammell Crow Company TCC provides leading-edge development services to investors, owners and occupiers, with a wide variety of services and solutions for nearly every product type.

Trammell Crow owns the warehouse being sold to ICE in Merrimack, NH. Let them know there’s opposition to it. www.trammellcrow.com

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1 month ago
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ICE Warehouse Plans for Merrimack Confirmed The Merrimack warehouse property at the center of concern about Immigration and Customs Enforcement operating in New Hampshire is on a list of properties the federal agency wants to acquire, according...

A 325,000 sq ft warehouse at 50 Robert Milligan Parkway in Merrimack NH as well. indepthnh.org/2026/01/30/i...

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1 month ago

Leon Black, former CEO of Apollo Wealth Management, signatory of Epstein’s 50th bday book, financial enabler of all this, also Dartmouth trustee.

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1 month ago
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Ballad of the 20th Maine YouTube video by The Ghost of Paul Revere - Topic

“Stand fast, ye are the boys of Maine.” youtu.be/5PZvIAtneug?...

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2 months ago

It’s about to add a control group of terrorizing stoic yankee downeasters.

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2 months ago

“Stand fast, ye are the boys of Maine.”

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2 months ago

What bucket of money are those grants coming out of, and how big is it? Is it A&S only or extending to all the College’s schools?

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2 months ago

I really need a Waze navigation voice pack featuring these pronunciations.

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