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Fred Volkert

@fvolkert.bsky.social

Clinical microbiologist > virologist > yeast geneticist > med school professor & administrator. Once a scientist always a scientist. Also always a music lover. Watch the sky.

156 Followers  |  294 Following  |  134 Posts  |  Joined: 04.12.2023  |  2.3185

Latest posts by fvolkert.bsky.social on Bluesky

Why?

19.08.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The headline is funny. β€œGut check” and β€œDemocrats” in the same sentence. LOL.

19.08.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hakeem’s gotta go.

15.08.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not just Brookdale, either.

15.08.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If a judge signs off on flagrantly illegal maga actions, what difference does it make if they don’t wear a Trump lapel pin? If it walks like a duck…

13.08.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In not so sure.

13.08.2025 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

God I’m glad I canceled my subscription. Imagine platforming this person.

13.08.2025 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A Triscuit is a wonderful blast of salt and texture. A Wheat Thin is a little cardboard square. Easy to distinguish.

10.08.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And I’m very glad you are feeling better now. The world can be a hard place to live.

10.08.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There’s nothing better than friends and music. Ordinarily I listen to music by lots of favorite artists, but during peak pandemic depression I had 2 albums on almost total repeat, at first Jane Lui’s SURRIJA and later Regina Spektor’s Home Before & After. Some special magic there I guess.

10.08.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What does that verbiage even mean?

03.08.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is it reasonable to think that the SMBH formed as a result of matter falling into the COM and that’s why it’s located there? Makes intuitive sense.

29.07.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I never understood why the moon causes 2 tide cycles a day on earth until I understood the barycenter concept.

29.07.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a great review! Almost makes me want to read the book. Almost.

19.07.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great shot!

12.07.2025 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

AI is just hype. An informational scam to accompany crypto, a financial scam.

08.07.2025 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Enough journos have moved over to make cord cutting reasonable. I have. Let the others catch up.

08.07.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Brother, were there.

05.07.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And now I’ve got Indian Caribbean co-workers in East Flatbush.

04.07.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Always loved eating Chinese Cuban food when I lived in Washington Heights, a million years before the Heights got gentrified.

04.07.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If we haven’t learned by now, it’s on us. Carry on with your excellent art reporting!

03.07.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I got hooked on Ayn Rand as a nerdy teenage boy; not unusual. The cure was Kurt Vonnegut.

03.07.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not so. It was not even a majority of those casting ballots. No candidate won a majority of the vote last fall, and among people eligible to vote, those who failed to vote outnumbered any candidate.

01.07.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is age really salient? I’m an awful lot older and had I watched it would have been beabadoobee. Old is what you make of it. 😊

29.06.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œAdults”

27.06.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our political system is corrupt to the core, is what it says.

26.06.2025 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was gonna say. Same tangential thought process.

26.06.2025 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚

26.06.2025 02:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Does he have any spares for my senators? (Gillibrand & Schumer)

23.06.2025 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They came to DC to get rich. Many people enter Congress with little and leave multimillionaires…somehow.

22.06.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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