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"You ask too many questions, boy." he/him
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Science Magazine
about 7 hours ago
"The critical question is not whether AI can 'do' science but whether science—as a social, evolutionary system that generates trustworthy knowledge—survives the way AI does it," write Julio M. Ottino and Brian Uzzi in a new
#ScienceEditorial
.
https://scim.ag/4wDybRP
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Dominique Baker
2 days ago
Getting short stories published used to be big business!
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Emily Ramshaw
2 days ago
“Georgia has the potential to have a government that reflects the ideals of Jimmy Carter and Martin Luther King, our two Nobel Prize winners who were born and raised in this state,” she said. “I think that is the majority that exists.”
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Georgia is the main character of 2026
Multiple Black women have a chance to make history in an election year shaped by affordability and the Supreme Court’s decision on political maps.
https://19thnews.org/2026/05/georgia-elections-democracy-affordability-history/
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Tanya Lewis
3 days ago
I talked to the researchers at the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory about their race to develop a PCR test for hantavirus in a weekend, before passengers on the MV Hondius arrived
@sciam.bsky.social
🧪
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
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How scientists developed a hantavirus PCR test in a weekend Inside the race to develop a hantavirus PCR test
Researchers at the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory worked round the clock to develop a test for the Andes virus at the center of the deadly cruise ship outbreak
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-scientists-developed-a-hantavirus-pcr-test-in-a-weekend-inside-the-race-to-develop-a-hantavirus-pcr-test/
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Alex Ip 葉清霖
4 days ago
If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)
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Support Alex's Emergency Relocation + Next Steps on Give In May
Alex is leaving the US after his work permit renewal was wrongfully denied by Trump's USCIS.
https://www.giveinmay.org/story/alexip718/
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High Country News
7 days ago
In a state that’s already short on the resource, Los Alamos National Laboratory expects to double water use.
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Nukes and AI require 1.4 million gallons of water a day at New Mexico lab - High Country News
Los Alamos National Laboratory plans to use over a million gallons of water per day for A.I. and nuclear weapons research and production.
https://buff.ly/BVXX5RW
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El Lower
7 days ago
#GLANSIS
got a facelift, go check it out! My whole team will be at
#IAGLR26
, so if you want to talk
#GreatLakes
invasive species data and where to host it, come find us in person in Winnipeg!
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Sandra Newman
8 days ago
Writing tip: Before submitting your manuscript, read it aloud to yourself from beginning to end. Then go to the refrigerator and open its door. If the manuscript is good, all the potatoes will have turned into birds who fly out singing your name.
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8 days ago
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University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
8 days ago
#AI regulation, #biotech, and #energy policy are moving fast. The
@stpp-um.bsky.social
post-graduate fellowship places technical experts with Michigan lawmakers to provide nonpartisan research and analysis. Read more in State & Hill: https://myumi.ch/n15QN
@mollyak.bsky.social
@shobitap.org
#AI
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Danielle Kurtzleben
8 days ago
Inside you are two wolves. One says “I want everyone to read my story.” The other says “oh God everyone is reading my story” and also that wolf is vomiting.
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Katrina Miller
8 days ago
"I have made you a book with a bunch of tidbits on the oddities of the universe,"
@chanda.blacksky.app
said. "The universe is stranger and more queer and more wonderful and more full of possibility than whatever limitations you might be experiencing."
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...
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A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry From the Cosmic Edge
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/science/physics-prescod-weinstein.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iFA._qca.yLN1bYAQx03u&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
8 days ago
Anyone who knows me, knows that I am not a fan of genAI but this piece, from what I can only assume is an AIslop website (about our paper on the Alaskan megatsunami
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), is gold. 🧪⚒️
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Don Moynihan
9 days ago
New from
@econroy.bsky.social
at Can We Still Govern? FAFSA is a big deal for college access. Progress has been uneven, but over the last decade policymakers and a government team have made it significantly less burdensome. It is possible to fix things. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/good-news-...
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Good News! FAFSA is Actually Working
It is possible to fix burdensome administrative systems
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/good-news-fafsa-is-actually-working
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽
9 days ago
A 10-year-old wrote MAGA Congresswoman Virginia Foxx for a school project. He chose to write about an electric vehicle tax credit. He thought it was good for the environment. Virginia responded by attacking him and his teacher for being propagandized. These people have power over your life.
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Anna Clark
10 days ago
"The chief of staff for a Michigan congressman has a side hustle running a political consulting firm in Michigan, and his taxpayer-funded House pay is structured so that he has avoided having to disclose his business or what he's made ..." via
@melissaburke.bsky.social
/
@detroitnews.com
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Michigan congressman's top aide defends what critic calls 'shady' side gig
The chief of staff of a Michigan congressman is running a side business that has raised ethics questions and that has avoided financial disclosures.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/07/jack-bergman-top-aides-moonlight-as-political-consultants-northern-michigan/89925599007/
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Jeffrey Mervis
12 days ago
USDA says it's simply due diligence, but Indiana U. plant biologist who's been locked out of his lab thinks the US government is punishing him.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school
Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs
https://www.science.org/content/article/after-usda-request-indiana-plant-biologist-locked-out-lab-school
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Marisa Kabas
13 days ago
like i said
www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...
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bioGraphic
13 days ago
Last week the bioGraphic team learned that, owing to an ongoing financial deficit, the California Academy of Sciences—where we’ve made our home for the past decade—will no longer be able to provide us with financial support, including support we were expecting this year.
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Joshua J. Friedman
14 days ago
Photo by
@nicolehester.bsky.social
for The Tennesseean
www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...
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On the Media
14 days ago
@micahloewinger.bsky.social
spoke with Flora Lichtman, host of the
@scifri.bsky.social
, all about FEMA — and how the far-right militia movement has used climate disasters to gain a recruiting foothold.
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Colin Schultz
14 days ago
I really, really hate to sharing this, but last week, we
@biographic.bsky.social
learned that the California Academy of Sciences will no longer be providing the magazine with financial support, including money we were expecting to receive this year. We're in a real bind.
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Brian Lyman
15 days ago
Alabama Legislature is meeting on redistricting; we are under a tornado watch, and it’s flooding in the building. These metaphors are too on the nose.
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Philip Ball
15 days ago
I could look at this for hours.
magnifiedsand.com/sand-under-m...
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Sand Under a Microscope Photo Gallery - Magnified Sand
Amazing photos of magnified sand grains from around the world.
https://magnifiedsand.com/sand-under-microscope-photo-gallery/
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Katie O'Reilly
16 days ago
In the lower
#GreatLakes
, whitefish numbers have been declining in part due to invasive mussels - now a bill under consideration in the Michigan state Senate would allocate funding to the state's DNR for a rearing/stocking program to support whitefish recovery
www.greatlakesnow.org/2026/05/05/m...
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Michigan lawmakers may fund last-ditch effort to save whitefish - Great Lakes Now
Lawmakers move to restock the iconic fish that are disappearing from the lower Great Lakes.
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2026/05/05/michigan-lawmakers-may-fund-last-ditch-effort-to-save-whitefish/
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John Z. Ayanian, MD, MPP
16 days ago
Our newest poll of people over 50 focuses on how Michiganders feel about the services available to them, and reveals differences by region, health/disability status, race and more. It provides data we hope policymakers and senior service organizations will find useful. Learn more:
michmed.org/RMXDW
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Dr. Evan J. Gowan
17 days ago
Can we use bird puke to reconstruct past ice sheets? Yes!
#Paleoclimate
#IceSheets
#geology
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Novel rock luminescence dating of snow petrel stomach-oil deposits from East Antarctica
The discovery of long-term accumulations of snow petrel stomach-oil deposits in Antarctica have provided an excellent opportunity to reconstruct chang…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1871101426000233
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Sam Bagenstos
17 days ago
I urge people to read both what Derek Peterson actually said in his commencement speech -- the whole thing -- and what he says in this article responding to the controversy.
www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...
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Natalia Jagielska (娜塔莉)
17 days ago
Awards isn't something that happens to you. In most cases, you have to actively self-nominate yourself, or have someone to do it on your behalf. Treat them as you'd treat grants. Self nominate yourself! You're worth it.
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Evan Urquhart
17 days ago
Huh. You'd think a comprehensive 6 episode audio investigation of youth gender medicine by a major US newspaper would include at least one interview with a trans young person or their parent.
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Brandon Bird
17 days ago
"Never touched my per diem, Mando."
#Maythe4thbewithyou
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Megha Satyanarayana
17 days ago
so exhausted took me three days to post this
@sciam.bsky.social
story
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-th...
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Americans are exhausted, a new CDC report shows
Nearly a third of all U.S. adults are sleeping fewer than the recommended seven hours per night on average
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-third-of-u-s-adults-dont-get-enough-sleep-new-cdc-report-warns/
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McSweeney's
17 days ago
"I sense much fear in six. Fear of seven. Why? Because nine, seven ate."
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Yoda Botches Five Classic Jokes
“I sense much fear in six. Fear of seven. Why? Because nine, seven ate.” 5/4/24 (twitter only) 5/2/25 5/4/26
https://buff.ly/VM0sQGL
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UM Population Studies Center
18 days ago
One in five women will experience a mental health condition during pregnancy or the first year postpartum. PSC affiliate
Kara Zivin
's new book, Persevered, blends personal narrative with research insights. RSVP to join her in conversation with Molly Spencer May 6:
https://myumi.ch/3RZgk
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Matt Davenport
CNN
20 days ago
Astronomers using radio telescope observations to get an inside look at an interstellar comet have gleaned new insights into when and where the celestial object formed.
https://cnn.it/48zJHmI
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Kate Wong
20 days ago
We're in peak spring bird migration! Here's my guide to making the most of this incredible spectacle, for
@sciam.bsky.social
🧪🪶🦉
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The spring bird migration is here and it's glorious. Get out and see it!
The migration of birds from their southern wintering grounds to their breeding grounds in the north is in full swing
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-spring-migration-of-birds-is-peaking-heres-how-to-watch/
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Rodrigo Pérez Ortega
21 days ago
Breaking my social media hiatus to share a story I've been pursuing for about a year. Last week, officials from Brazil and Germany announced the skull of the magnificent
#Irritator
will finally go home. Complex story with
@tmitchellbrown.bsky.social
in
@science.org
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Famed Brazilian dinosaur fossil finally heads home
Germany and Brazil reach agreement over controversial spinosaurid fossil, heralding new collaboration between the two nations
https://www.science.org/content/article/famed-brazilian-spinosaurus-fossil-finally-heads-home
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Dads/of/Metal
21 days ago
Looking for recommendations for good mid-tier record players...or tried and true models you've been using. I recently purchased a low-end player to replace an ancient but effective one I received from my parents...and I regret doing so...
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21 days ago
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Kory Woods, MSW
22 days ago
NEW: Skyler Gill-Howard didn’t have 32 NFL hats at his draft party. Just one — his grandfather’s Detroit Lions cap. What happened next was either coincidence or fate, depending on who you ask.
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‘It’s meant to be’: Grandpa’s Lions hat was all this sixth-round pick needed
Skyler Gill-Howard didn't have 32 NFL hats while waiting to hear his name called, just one — the one he needed.
https://www.mlive.com/lions/2026/04/its-meant-to-be-grandpas-lions-hat-was-all-this-sixth-round-pick-needed.html
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Elizabeth Preston
23 days ago
My book is out in less than a week!! I tried to make a video about why you should buy it for Mother's Day, but now I'm not so sure. 🧪 Ordering options here:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741329...
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Luis Salazar Manzano
27 days ago
When we pointed ALMA at 3I/ATLAS, we never expected just how unique this object would be. Our findings, recently published in Nature Astronomy, tells us that 3I/ATLAS's home system was formed in extremely cold conditions, remarkably different to our own Solar System. Links in the comments.
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Jonathan Overpeck
23 days ago
“Only two states — Michigan and North Dakota — are completely drought-free.” Don’t forget that warming global temperatures are acting to dry things out more and more too.
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
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More than 60 percent of U.S. is covered by drought as impacts worsen
Stretching from Oregon to Florida and northward to the nation’s capital, the U.S. is facing drought conditions just shy of the most widespread this century.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026/04/29/us-drought-worsens/
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University of Michigan News
23 days ago
24
#UMich
school of education students recently went to Ecuador to see how culture, language and geography shape learning. From urban centers to rural Indigenous schools, this interdisciplinary cohort didn't just study education—they experienced it. Read their story: 🔗
https://myumi.ch/E79P3
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McSweeney's
28 days ago
"We’re only seeing two great lights in the sky… a greater one for day and a lesser one for night? Thinking that maybe we weren’t clear in the original briefing. Definitely need more than just two great lights. Need to make this a memorable, high-value experience for our users."
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Client Feedback on the Creation of the Earth
“Appreciate the work on the sea and ground, but right now, there’s way too much sea. The ground is getting lost in it. In general, the sea does not resonate ...
https://buff.ly/ooQVq2U
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Kara Gavin
27 days ago
I've written about research on health care for 26+ years, always following
@apstylebook.com
style. For 15 of those years I've covered the work of faculty who belong to the
@umich.edu
Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, whose name violated AP style. Today, the Stylebook caught up.
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Grist
28 days ago
As federal climate action stalls, cities and states are stepping up. Join Grist and
@climatemayors.bsky.social
on May 4 for a live virtual conversation with local leaders who are proving that meaningful progress happens closest to home. 🌎 Sign up to join us:
https://luma.com/a3qnk7s8
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Local Power, Global Impact: How Cities and States Are Leading on Climate Solutions · Zoom · Luma
As federal climate action stalls, cities and states are stepping up by advancing bold, practical solutions that reduce emissions, protect communities, and…
https://luma.com/a3qnk7s8
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Dan Garisto
28 days ago
NEW: NSF has been funding research at a fraction of its historic rate. Last week, the agency finally began distributing money to its directorates and is now likely to pick up the grantmaking pace. But these allocations also amount to substantial cuts across the sciences. My reporting:
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Delays have kept new NSF grants to a trickle — that could be about to change
The agency is finally ready to distribute a spate of new grants, but it is also preparing substantial cuts to areas such as biological and social sciences.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01287-0
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Nature Astronomy
29 days ago
ALMA observations of 3I/ATLAS provide the first measurement of a water D/H ratio for an interstellar comet. A markedly high deuterium level suggests its water formed in a cold environment with minimal thermal processing in its protoplanetary disk
http://dlvr.it/TSBL1H
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Water D/H in 3I/ATLAS as a probe of formation conditions in another planetary system - Nature Astronomy
ALMA observations of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS provide a limit on the deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio in water. This ratio is a sensitive probe of temperature, suggesting that comet 3I formed in an ultracold environment with minimal thermal processing in its home system.
http://dlvr.it/TSBL1H
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Carol Thompson
29 days ago
If you read anything today, I recommend this:
www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
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Michigan teen's brain bleed changed her life, but not her spirit
Path Appleton, 17, suffered a massive brain bleed due to a birth defect that left her unable to move or speak. Now, she's finding her voice.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2026/04/23/michigan-rugby-playing-teen-path-appleton-fights-improve-birth-defect-rupture/88414364007/
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