Loops

Loops

@mad4sci.bsky.social

Feminist and Scientist 👩🏽‍🔬🤔🧐. Here for science and political goings on. Enough carping and complaining about us. Let’s inspire and build. No DMs please.

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Hyacinth Macaw 100cm Largest Parrot Central and E South America Diet Palm nuts, variety of nuts fruits seeds Pairs mate for life and are always seen together Nest in a tree cavity female incubates 30days, male feeds her, they feed chicks 4 months inside the nest, and up to a year after fledging

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The same US president who treats our friend Canada as an enemy is trying to give Alaska to Russia, a country whose absolutely overt foreign policy is to destroy us. This superpower suicide has to be stopped. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

ft.comUS executives quit $25bn gas venture over claims of secret Russian controlFormer CEO of Polar Train LNG tells FT that energy giant Novatek financed and held reins of strategic Alaska project without Washington’s approval

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Wow! Make Amy Acton governor. “I am making a promise to Ohioans...that no one in my state will ever, ever be invisible to me."

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This is the big one! Black voter turnout actually dropped in places like Atlanta and when I was in Georgia in 2024, older Black voters said they were trying to convince young people to go vote.

Greg Bluestein@bluestein.bsky.social

A new analysis shows early in-person voting among Black Georgians is up 33% compared with the first nine days of voting in 2022, while turnout among voters under 30 has jumped 54%. Among young Black voters, the increase is an eye-popping 80%. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

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“Pete broke the world Eisenhower built.”

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social

Hegseth: We are banning reporters from the Pentagon. Washpost: We have exclusive photos of the historic Dwight Eisenhower globe that was damaged in Hegseth's zeal to move it out of storage and into his office. Gift link ⤵️ wapo.st/3WF2YQo

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The answer is yes. He can win. Because he doesn’t throw trans folks under the bus, for one.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

NEW YORKER: “Republicans eliminated the state’s only Black-majority district, in Memphis, so @justinjpearson.bsky.social took a campaign about economic inequality to rural white voters.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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NSF funding is delayed. Last year, all applications for 2026 were suspended. Grant applications for high-power equipment for cutting edge research are sitting in purgatory. Instead of transparency, there is lack of clarity. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

scientificamerican.comScientists left in the dark by National Science Foundation grant application delaysThe Major Research Instrumentation program offers grants of up to $4 million to scientists buying or developing research equipment

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The Common Green-Magpie 34-39cm (Corvidae) lives across South and Southeast Asia Diet insects, invertebrates and vertebrates Mate for LIFE Share building their nest Female incubates 20days male feeds her Parents feed chicks 30days and 2 months after fledging they then stay together as a family

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Just in time for Halloween, we've posted a new preprint on zombie deubiquitinases! As it turns out, standard #DUB catalytic mutants aren't truly dead - they've just become zombies that are still capable of removing noncanonical, ester-linked #ubiquitin signals...

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"Almost none of his net worth is held in cash. Nearly all of it is **unrealized equity** in companies he still runs, and he draws no salary. His wealth is not money he extracted and stored. It is the market’s estimate of promises he hasn’t yet kept." fortune.com/2026/06/23/e...

fortune.comElon Musk's trillion dollars aren't real — and that's the point | FortuneHe draws no salary, can't sell his shares without collapsing their value, and his net worth depends on bets that haven't paid off yet.

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That whole Cambridge Analytica thing came back to bite you in the ass, didn’t it, Mark Zuck-A-Fuck? 25 billion. That’s gonna sting. “The award comes after a jury in Santa Fe determined that Meta had violated the state’s consumer protection laws over 43 million times.” #Pinks

apple.newsMeta to Pay Historic $25 Billion in New Mexico Deception Case — Bloomberg LawMeta Platforms Inc. was ordered to pay a groundbreaking $25 billion civil penalty to the state of New Mexico in a consumer deception case spurred by the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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This October there's a lot going on. Please remember it's Domestic Violence Awareness Month. #BelieveHer #DomesticViolenceAwareness #Pinks

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Replying to @wsj.com

Elon Musk is a national security threat to the US and it's allies. We're now at the stage of capitalism where the CEO of a company providing national security services to the government can decide to shut it down anytime he wants. This is alarming and shouldn't be without consequences.

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