Titus Brown
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I am not a deep man, but I have many shallows.
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Axis of Meh
about 3 hours ago
Excellent read. My general experience is that AI isn't going to create good, complicated code from scratch...but if you have specific things to do or translation like this, it does indeed save time. I just wish it weren't being marketed as the be-all/end-all...coders no longer needed solution.
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Ming Tommy Tang
about 3 hours ago
I just published my weekly newsletter to >10K subscribers: The truth about AI coding for bioinformatics
divingintogeneticsandgenomics.kit.com/posts/ai-po...
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AI ported 6,000+ lines of Python in 8 hours. Hereās the catch
https://divingintogeneticsandgenomics.kit.com/posts/ai-ported-6-000-lines-of-python-in-8-hours-here-s-the-catch
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Anna Kornbluh
about 5 hours ago
props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody
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Miriam Posner
about 15 hours ago
They unilaterally canceled a faculty hiring initiative so successful itās become a national model.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/career-development/2025/11/05/uc-stop-funding-systemwide-postdoc-program
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Veena Dubal
about 19 hours ago
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administrationās unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction!
@aaup.org
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Ann Aguirre
about 21 hours ago
Hey, Portlandia, did you know about this?!
allevents.in/beaverton/po...
I am so lucky to be hanging out with Kate Elliott next Friday night! You could be too if you live nearby. Heck, I'm driving 5 hours for this awesomeness! Come out and see us! We'll chat, sign books. Don't miss it, OK?
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Powells Presents: Kate Elliott in Conversation With Ann Aguirre
Find tickets & information for Powells Presents: Kate Elliott in Conversation With Ann Aguirre. happening at Powells Books, Inc. (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing), Beaverton, OR on Fri, 21 Nov, ...
https://allevents.in/beaverton/powells-presents-kate-elliott-in-conversation-with-ann-aguirre/200029140788414
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Sam DĆaz-MuƱoz (they / ella)
about 21 hours ago
Yearly reminder for letters of recommendation: Double and triple check your language for gender bias!! It is super easy to counter our unconscious bias. Check, be mindful, and use a calculator like this one:
www.tomforth.co.uk/genderbias/
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Gender Bias Calculator
https://www.tomforth.co.uk/genderbias/
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Alex Zalben
1 day ago
Glad BlueSky did this. When I saw Patton Oswalt saying Megyn Kelly should be fed into a woodchipper feet first for defending raping children based on what age she thinks is okay, I thought, "yes, comedian Patton Oswalt is going to, in real life, feed Megyn Kelly into a woodchipper feet first."
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Genetics Society UK
1 day ago
Congratulations to Richard Durbin on being awarded our Genetics Society Medal!
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Message from a student on lab slack: "Then I need to run it on 40000 samples and today I had to do a lot of changes to get it to run on 5 million." Yep, been there.
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Claus Wilke
2 days ago
My department at UT Austin is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology, broadly defined. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions you may have.
apply.interfolio.com/177547
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Nick Davis
1 day ago
i wonder if haidt will revise his thesis about the excesses of left wing universities or if he just chuckles while sitting on a mountain of cash
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Cameron Thrash
2 days ago
Introgression impacts the evolution of bacteria, but species borders are rarely fuzzy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#jcampubs
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Introgression impacts the evolution of bacteria, but species borders are rarely fuzzy - Nature Communications
It is commonly thought that bacterial species borders tend to be fuzzy, due to frequent exchange of DNA. Here, Diop et al. quantify the patterns of gene flow between core genomes across 50 major bacte...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64947-1
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Michele Okoh |š¤š©¶š¤š|šŗš
2 days ago
The only reason we know anything about the Epstein files is because the survivors refused to give up. This release is about the the bravery & tenacity of the survivors who continue to fight for justice in a system seeking to crush, silence, and erase them.
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Epstein accusers say they are compiling list of his associates
Victims of the disgraced financier give emotional accounts of abuse in a news conference on the steps of the US Capitol.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yvpgyjed8o
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Nicky Flowers
2 days ago
america has a 2 party political system filled entirely with pedophiles. if you are fine with voting for pedophiles, you vote republican. if you are fine with voting for pedophiles but know that you should feel bad about it, you vote democrat. at one point, the parties were opposite but who cares
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Elizabeth Spiers
2 days ago
If you have MAGA people in your socials maintaining that the Epstein files will never be fully released because Dems want to protect Bill Clinton, here's what I keep on hand to reply with:
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Kashana
2 days ago
Somewhere out there someone whoās the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world
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Cethan Leahy
3 days ago
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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Bethany Brookshire
2 days ago
CAN LLMs write about science?
@science.org
decided to find out, and they did it the curious, scientific way. They did an experiment. Love this thoughtful convo.
www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/12/w...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Why AAAS wonāt be using AI to write press releases anytime soon
https://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/12/why-aaas-wont-be-using-ai-to-write-press-releases/
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Seth Cotlar
2 days ago
If the Biden administration had sent federal agents to do a law enforcement operation 10X milder in a white suburban neighborhood in order to apprehend a serial pedophile and violent domestic abuser who happened to be a white Christian pastor, the MAGA crew would have reduced the country to rubble.
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Mike Shaw
3 days ago
"There were 13 races for statewide office on the ballotāin Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Democratic candidates swept all 13."
@taniel.bsky.social
has consistently had the best Election analysis this year- better than any pundits on mainstream media. He's my new go-to.
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Free Press
3 days ago
@safiyanoble.bsky.social
, UCLA professor and author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, explained how threats against educational institutions are intertwined with the threats against media and journalists. Watch the event recap:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Kq...
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Carlos Sanchez
3 days ago
Another great quote "Progressive Delivery: delivering what users need when they need it at the least cost and risk to everyone involved"
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Stephen Turner
3 days ago
I think this has to be the silliest thing I've read this week. And I've read a lot of silly things this week.
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JA Westenberg
4 days ago
When you're inside a moment of change, you can't see its full shape. The entrepreneurs of 1985 didn't know they were living through a golden age because they were too busy wrestling with 300 baud modems. (Via Kevin Kelly)
www.joanwestenberg.com/p/you-are-n...
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You Are Not Late
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/you-are-not-late
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Bree
4 days ago
If anyone is new since the last time I did the skittles, I have been freeze drying them and they are FREAKING AMAZING???
bsky.app/profile/most...
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Jenna Beet
4 days ago
What the fuck, bluesky
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)
Iāve been suspended from BlueSky. I donāt know why. I wasnāt online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explana...
https://substack.com/@sarahkendzior/note/c-175914197?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=6u7919
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Mark Harris
4 days ago
This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.
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Carrie Brown
4 days ago
Love this. Teens keeping the town informed in Pulaski, WI
wisconsinwatch.org/2025/10/wisc...
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Meet the teens keeping this northeast Wisconsin village from becoming a news desert
Pulaski News is a fixture of the community, a tool to prepare students for the workforce and the last official source keeping residents informed about hyperlocal happenings.
https://wisconsinwatch.org/2025/10/wisconsin-pulaski-school-newspaper-student-teen-journalism/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Holly Bik
4 days ago
This is terrible news - these kind of summer training courses are life-changing for many early career researchers. Thanks to
@titus.idyll.org
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@amydwillis.bsky.social
for ensuring that many course resources are still freely available on GitHub (I often adapt your slides to teach my grad courses!)
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Amy D Willis
5 days ago
With much gratitude to everyone who supported the wonderful
#STAMPS
summer course at the MBL, I share that STAMPS will not be offered in 2026. ššæ
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NujabWes
5 days ago
no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one
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Kate Elliott
5 days ago
Yes, I am going to keep re-upping this off & on until the end of the year because it is, alas, topical to the current situation in the USA (meant to take place a few decades in our future). Activism is also the small, ordinary, collective actions of people keeping their heads above water day to day.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! ⦠It's All For You!
6 days ago
Like⦠people want affordable groceries, housing, and healthcare, *And* they want their friends and loved ones the be alive and safe and free from persecution. These are not mutually exclusive ideas. They are in fact bound up together.
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Randall Munroe
5 days ago
Earthquake Prediction Flowchart
xkcd.com/3165/
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Darryl Mott
5 days ago
Going to repeat this every time I see the GOP "plan": I have kidney failure. I require dialysis to live. Three times a week every single week. It costs $1000 per treatment. So either they need to give me a MINIMUM of $156,000 a year...or I'm going to die.
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Adam Serwer
7 days ago
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Ella Dawson
6 days ago
Today is the one year anniversary of launching my podcast, Rebel Ever After! - 37 authors interviewed about writing progressive romance novels - over 10,000 downloads - 4.8 ā rating on Apple Podcasts Big thank you to everyone who has listened, subscribed and bought a book by one of my guests.
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Kevin M. Kruse
6 days ago
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7 days ago
Long. Live. Books. š
#books
#booksky
#booklover
#audiobooks
#bookban
#bangunsnotbooks
#bannedbooks
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Adrian Tchaikovsky
6 days ago
One of my all time favourite books, Holdstockās great classic of British fantasy. Join us to see what Emma made of it!
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A.R. Moxon
6 days ago
Today I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's historic win, the energizing power of holding to shared principles of decency, and a taxonomy of the endlessly intertwined relationship between shame and vision.
www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...
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The Extraordinary Power of Standing For Something
Winning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.
https://www.the-reframe.com/the-extraordinary-power-of-standing-for-something/
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein š
6 days ago
The thing is, there was a demand from a small number of students to not be exposed to certain ideas, and the academy completely resisted those demands. Yes maybe there were trigger warnings but the warnings were there because the stuff was being taught!!!!
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Sam Gershman
7 days ago
My reviewing style has changed over time. Rather than litigate every little thing, and pushing my own ideas, I focus only on 2 things: (1) Are the claims interesting/important? (2) Does the evidence support the claims? Most of my reviews these days are short and focused.
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Drug Monkey
6 days ago
This is the way.
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Standplaats Kraków
about 1 year ago
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Anil Dash
7 days ago
Hopefully youāve all read this excellent piece by Peter Coviello, about why you should never talk to the New York Times, or in general any media with a preconceived agenda. But also see his āIs there God after Prince?ā, written just after Princeās passingā¦
lareviewofbooks.org/article/is-t...
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Ian Holmes
7 days ago
People gush about how great the CSHL meetings are. And Iāve seen some great talks there. But Iāve also never been at a conference more obsessed with celebrity, glamor, and the elevation of hero figures
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Prisonculture
7 days ago
A few weeks ago I zoomed with a group of high school students and their adult mentor to discuss taking social action. I am thrilled to report that this group of 10 students raised $10,000 in two weeks to support their local food pantry. They sent me a photo and it has them all jumping and I tear up.
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