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Technology Editor at Nature magazine (
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#rstats
#scicomm
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š³ļøāā§ļø TĆ”r-TĆ”r Binks
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Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears:
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Daniel Suitor
2 days ago
In 2019, I moved to Minneapolis for law school. My wife and I felt lucky to buy a house in a beautiful, vibrant part of the city. This is now the second murder by law enforcement in my neighborhood. to become national news. Two things are true: - Enough is enough - I am so proud of my neighbors
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Kyle Clark
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COMMENTARY: It seems an increasing number of Americans, including elected leaders and journalists, are afraid to tell the truth about what happened on January 6. That's dangerous.
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Connie Schultz
3 days ago
Jan. 6, 2021: Sherrod leaving for D.C. at 5:09 a.m. No amount of presidential pardons & shameful attempts to rewrite history will change what I remember about the violence on our Capitol that day. For nearly 45 minutes, we could not determine Sherrodās whereabouts, or whether he was even alive.
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Marisa Kabas
3 days ago
imagine telling yourself on january 6, 2021 that five years from now things would be so much worse
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Kevin M. Kruse
5 days ago
If you'd like to reduce your blood pressure and eliminate a lot of needless in-fighting, I'd recommend muting or blocking Axios, Politico and Semafor as they seem to specialize in promoting quotes from anonymous Democratic contrarians in hopes of generating rage and engagement.
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Amy Klobuchar
6 days ago
Yes, Maduro is a bad guy. But the President now says we will ārunā another country of more than 28 million people for an undetermined time. How many American service members will be put in harmās way ā without even a vote in Congress?
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Governor JB Pritzker
6 days ago
Donald Trumpās unconstitutional military action in Venezuela is putting our troops in harm's way with no long-term strategy. The American people deserve a President focused on making their lives more affordable.
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Mark Joseph Stern
6 days ago
1. Yes, Trump launching a new military operation overseas without Congressā prior declaration of war or authorization of force is almost certainly unlawful. 2. No, there is no real chance the courts will stop it. Unfortunately our Constitution means little when the judiciary wonāt enforce it.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
6 days ago
Itās not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldnāt have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. Itās about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isnāt. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks
9 days ago
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
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Kevin M. Kruse
12 days ago
A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.
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Dr. SkySkull
15 days ago
"Fuck all of you, everyone." -- Tiny Trump
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Parker Molloy
15 days ago
Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
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Pusheen
15 days ago
Have yourself a merry little PusheenāØšš
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LaurieWired
16 days ago
Why do programmers get confused around the holidays? OCT 31 = DEC 25
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
16 days ago
If only we had an amendment to the Constitution that protected speech . . .
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Mother Jones
17 days ago
The Trump administration has made good on its promise to ban abortion care for veterans. The new directive, obtained by Mother Jones, states that it wonāt prohibit care to āpregnant women in life-threatening circumstances, including treatment for ectopic pregnancies or miscarriages."
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Trump administration bans abortion care for veterans
The policy will even apply in states that protect abortion rights.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/trump-administration-bans-abortion-care-for-veterans/
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Jess Zimmerman
18 days ago
This is the best possible explainer on Bari Weiss
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
19 days ago
Happy light, everyone ā¤ļøāš„
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Happy Hanukkah, all!
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19 days ago
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Rabbi Rachel Barenblat
22 days ago
Night five.
#chanukah
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"These rules are a baseless intrusion into the patient-physician relationship," the AAP's Kressly said. "Patients, their families, and their physiciansānot politicians or government officials āshould be the ones to make decisions together about what care is best for them."
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Micah
23 days ago
absurdly, wildly influential, one of the first big viral YouTube videos and basically responsible for launching The Lonely Island (and especially Samberg) to stardom and you know what, they deserved every last bit of that success, this shit still slaps
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Rachel Maddow
24 days ago
LOLOLOLOL hahahahahahaha
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NY Times Pitchbot
25 days ago
Opinion | Trumpās crude remarks about Rob Reiner are unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner.
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Erin Biba
26 days ago
Steve isnāt here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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Happy Hanukkah š!
26 days ago
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Erin Biba
26 days ago
Itās the first night of Hanukkah and the world seems like a very dark place. But we can bring light to the darkness. We can fight for each other and make goodness, love, and community shine through. Show me your menorahs and letās light up the timeline!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein š
26 days ago
May their memories be for a blessing May we mourn for the dead and fight like hell for the living, all of them
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
26 days ago
Thereās a whole thing in Hanukah about how youāre supposed to āpublicize the miracleā except that there are all sorts of exceptions in times of danger. Because the times that the Jews have lived under have not always been safe. May the souls of the murdered in Australia be for a blessing.
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Charlotte Clymer
28 days ago
"In lieu of having a health secretary who is committed to keeping American citizens safe and healthy, weāve been offered the tepid consolation prize of an expired midlife crisis thatās been in slow decay since the mid-90s."
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RFK, Jr. Can't Do Pull-Ups
He sucks at them.
https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-cant-do-pull-ups
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Kelly Bodwin
29 days ago
Back in the top 10, baby! Eat your heart out, "#rstats is dying" thinkpieces. š
www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
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TIOBE Index - TIOBE
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
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rainbowR
about 1 month ago
Today is the last day to submit proposals to speak at the rainbowR conference š Deadline is midnight, Anywhere on Earth time.
#RStats
#QueerData
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Another gem from
@lyz.bsky.social
in her latest Dingus of the Week (with a bonus honorable mention!)
about 1 month ago
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Mark Joseph Stern
about 1 month ago
Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
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Stephen Wolf
about 1 month ago
The Supreme Court just handed Texas Republicans at least 2 more House seats & possibly up to 5 despite the state GOP explicitly justifying their remap based on an unconstitutional use of race in redistricting. Unsurprising from this court, and it's a bad sign for the upcoming Voting Rights Act case
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Here's another nifty study! Julia Schaepe & Will Greenleaf
@stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
, and colleagues repurpose an Illumina sequencer to probe the biochemistry of the transcription factor KLF1. š§Ŗ
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Thermodynamic principles link in vitro transcription factor affinities to single-molecule chromatin states in cells
In vitro-derived insights into features that drive transcription factor binding to DNA, including motif-adjacent sequence, enable prediction of chromatin states and transcription factor occupancy in c...
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01300-5
about 1 month ago
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Amazing study.
@hhmi-science.bsky.social
researchers use cryo-electron tomography to probe the structure of compacted DNA. š§Ŗ
www.hhmi.org/news/chromat...
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Scientists Capture First Detailed Look Inside Droplet-like Structures of Compacted DNA | HHMI
A team of researchers led by HHMI Investigator Michael Rosen has captured the most detailed images yet of the molecules in chromatin condensates ā droplet-like structures of compacted DNA.
https://www.hhmi.org/news/chromatin-condensates-dna-structure-imaging
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LaurieWired
about 1 month ago
This...is Programming Like a Fighter Pilot. A single unhandled exception destroyed a $500 million rocket in seconds. The F-35 wasn't going to make the same mistake. By carefully slicing C++, engineers created one of the strictest coding standards ever written.
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Annalee Newitz
about 1 month ago
There are still a few tickets to this incredible event tomorrow!
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Absolutely beautiful <3
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Ann Telnaes
about 1 month ago
Trump wastes no time targeting Sen. Mark Kelly after the indictments he orchestrated against James Comey & Letitia James are dismissed
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Kate Marvel
about 2 months ago
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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Alexandra Witze
about 2 months ago
What it was like inside last weekās MAHA Summit, by
@maxkozlov.bsky.social
who was there:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
(The š§Ŗemoji doesnāt seem right but Iām using it anyway)
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Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of whatās driving US health policy.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03790-2
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This week's Dingus of the Week from
@lyz.bsky.social
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www.patreon.com/posts/dingus...
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Dingus of the week: Lindsey Halligan | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz
Get more from Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/dingus-of-week-144045291
about 2 months ago
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