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Hi friends! Would anyone who has won the HHMI Gilliam Fellowship in evo/eco be willing to share their materials with my lab mate/chat with her about crafting a successful app? I think she’s a strong candidate but would appreciate all the help! pls RT. 🧪🌎🌱🧬

Astonishing quote from Varmus about public money "limiting activities" relative to donor money, when the entire premise of private money is that they control the research agenda and in many cases own the outputs.

these orgs are being played for fools. of course his 'personal views' (which isn't really what this is about anyway) will impact his policies. the entire purpose of right wing Democrats is to normalize and destigmatize far-right policies.

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looking at all the basic social and familial relationships that weird paid losers are telling us they delight in using chatbots for, and — if you believe them, anyway — I guess I’d say you can forget about reading and writing, because simply interacting with human beings is going to be a niche skill

How is People’s magazine doing better coverage than most legacy media? people.com/former-miss-...

After 1.5 years of pouring my heart into my very first game, I'm so excited to finally announce that... Drawquarium is coming to Steam on November 13! 🥹 Draw your own fish, bring them to life, and create your little underwater world, even as a live wallpaper! Like+RT = ♥️ #IndieGames #Cozygames

i hate having to talk to the computer like its a person instead of sand we forced to do math using lightning

if we’ve made the process of creating and codifying scientific knowledge so onerous that we outsource it completely to a rock we tricked into thinking, perhaps we need to start doing and codifying science differently.

JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"

its insane how not many people are talking about how republicans with the help of several moderate democrats are building out the largest abusive medical conversion therapy operation in modern american history

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

"hypocrisy is a virtue to fascists, because the point of being in the dominant in-group is that you dominate, and holding others to standards from which you excuse yourself demonstrates domination like little else can"

In multiple instances, the Mississippi Free Press found that information listed in the statewide elections database was incorrect, including erroneous polling place addresses. That can cause voters who use the state's polling place locator tool to go to the wrong location on Election Day.

These people don’t want to win; they don’t even want to persuade. They want a world where they are a pure and rarified elite, with none of the responsibilities of actual power, only the smug gratification of being right.

Homeland Security agents knocked on doors in nine states asking people about voting. Some carried guns. Nurses sued. A federal judge ordered DHS to stop until the polls close. Trump’s regime needed a court order to quit scaring voters. Think about that.

All they need to do is interrupt key roads to limit who can get to voting places due to ‘road works’, or ‘security’. The armed guards don’t need to go to the actual polling booths. They simply need to stop voters getting to them.

Wow Ghana has reduced malaria related mortality by 98% Vaccines, nets, educations - throwing everything at it consistently is helping www.gavi.org/vaccineswork... #malaria #idsky

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

I wrote it. Feel free to reprint it. Mike Rogers' Religious Bigotry Threatens All of Michigan’s Jews An urgent plea to Jewish Michiganders against the hand-picked suit who runs on hateful smears and away from Trump’s record.

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

‘Prairie Populists’ fight to win back rural voters long ceded to Republicans

In Serbia, MAGA influencers from the US were dispatched to Serbia to whip up enthusiasm for the hard-right Alexsandar Vucic who had held power for 12 years. They failed too and the students' movement won.

Imagine if Democratic leaders had this kind of grit.

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

We must expect that Meta's interference is happening in other elections around the world *right now*. This isn't just a one-off. Meta has proved repeatedly they are committed to advancing far-right agendas worldwide, are serial liars, and are flagrantly indifferent to the dismantling of democracies.

It's time for other people to start investing too. I know I'm asking for a lot, but this isn't about me, it's about LUSID being strong enough to stand on it's own. Please help build the kit, because we aren't using mine anymore. I am invested. Your turn. 🧡 Taryn www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

"If university bots graded bots, you would no longer have a university. You’d have a tomb, an academic mausoleum in which digital phantoms murmured emptily" theconversation.com/friday-essay...

men will literally bring about the end of humanity as we know it instead of go to therapy and address their misogyny

The elite hate us being educated, us educating you, you educating each other, and you having time to do this. Stop granting that it's the university that is elitist inherently: it's been made that way for a reason. Some more points below also on the marriages between patriarchy, AI, capitalism...

After Google *illegally* hacked down the forest. Please stop or minimise Google. Protonmail etc. have free tiers and there are other search engines now. futurism.com/future-socie...

I need to get on this level

every male college professor apparently needs to be given a starter pack here is your office, here is your chair, here is a buzzer that will shock you every time you think about fucking one of your students

teaching right after the 2024 election:

People like Matt Yglesias treat the militarized border as an unchangeable reality and an automatic political loser when in reality it is an incredibly recent lurch to the right whose consequences are now in full view of the citizenry.

striking how WaPo can write a headline with such moral clarity when they want

If you are a white person and a non-white person repeatedly tells you what their name is and you insist on calling them a name of your choosing, you are engaging in racism, regardless of you feeling you hold no racial animosity or malice.

In 2005, Time Magazine did a cover story on “The Battle Over Gay Teens.” It’s the same handwringing we see now from “concerned” adults on behalf of young people. “Kids are disclosing their homosexuality with unprecedented regularity–and they are doing so much younger.” time.com/archive/6596...

Trump’s lawyers want to block Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola’s victory in an election that is more than a week away. www.vox.com/politics/507...

This is one of the most powerful depictions of health research-driven progress. No statistics required.

There has been a lot of confusion recently around trans employees’ rights at work. Here’s what you need to know! transactual.org.uk/law/workplac...

Who is the capitalist class? This new calculation shows that only about 1% of humanity has income from capital ownership greater than the median wage in their country. The rest of us - 99% of the world's population - live mostly on wage labour. Sources here: globalinequality.org/global-incom...

Take back your morning news-for-38-year-olds.onrender.com/home/

History doesn't reset the day after Trump. It's not automatic back to normal, yay democracy won. We will still have a republic that is gravely wounded and bleeding out. Defeating the current assailant doesn't mean you've stopped the bleeding. The wounds are still there and still potentially fatal.

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.