Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

The Sandwich Guy’s prosecutor seems unfamiliar with both baseball and the meaning of the verb “spike”

🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...

WHAT A SPEECH. Read the whole thing via the link. My fave: “More than a million of us stood in our churches, in gymnasiums, in community centers, as we filled in the ledger of democracy. And while we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together.”

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Have you registered for our annual Scientific Conference on 8th December? Join @jeffbarrett.eu from @nightingalehealth.com and many more researchers, industry experts and the UK Biobank team for a day of innovation and discovery.

Collyhurst cowboy, Manchester, January 1968, photo by Dennis Hussey.

I am presenting updates on multiomic research and clinical risk prediction on behalf of @nightingalehealth.com at this year's @ukbiobank.bsky.social conference. Looking forward to joining the event, and catching up with other attendees! #UKBiobank #Omics #HealthData

Much respect for the LA Times. This is great work.

This racist Fallout-esque garbage is so beyond parody, that I first wondered if it was crafted specifically to enrage libs on Bluesky. But it turns out they posted exactly the same thing on X (presumably unironically).

"The American Dream belongs to the American People" is wrong. The American dream--a dream of freedom and self-government based on universal truths--is entrusted for now to the American people. But it belongs to mankind.

Ewan woke up on fire after an extra hour’s sleep! In addition to the good top line point about LLMs, this thread has nuanced insight into research in industry vs academia, and even a wry moment of introspection. 🔥

I am hiring! - looking for a Staff Scientist to co-run my research group with me. Staff Scientist is a senior professional scientist role at EMBL. Please forward to people you might know who could be interested! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

I hope fellow #ashg25 attendees respond to the survey, and provide unvarnished feedback on this year’s app. 🤨

This part of @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social ‘s piece is spot on. Another reason “No Kings” is better is because it’s a good Saxon word, whereas the others are effete Latin words. www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f...

As a Physics undergrad I was graded based on carrying out and writing up an experiment (among others) measuring the cosmic microwave background. The purpose was not to train me how to do that experiment, but to teach me how to think about experiments.

THE POINT OF LEARNING TO WRITE ESSAYS IS NOT THE ESSAYS YOU WRITE IN UNI.

Self-Portrait (c.1630) by Dutch Golden Age painter Judith Leyster. The artwork is significant for the relaxed and confident appearance of the subject which departs from more formal portrayals of women artists in self portraits #womensart

Saturday at ASHG is always bittersweet. Still listening to cool science, but many people have gone home, and the “see you next year” signs are up. It goes by fast! #ashg25

Dartmouth and Vandy looking pretty cowardly.

I haven't found it printed but there is a PDF link here: www.ashg.org/wp-content/u...

Has anyone at #ASHG25 found the traditional handy printed session overview guide (tables with all talks in each session)? It has always been my key to navigating the meeting, but I didn’t see any at registration, and the app totally fails to provide this kind of view.

Prez Kornbluth’s rejection of the “compact” was masterful (even better on the second reading). And it takes courage to go first! Time for the rest of these jokers to make themselves heard. #ihtfp www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

YES! 🦫

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Absolute boss move by the Norwegians to award the prize to the leader of a suppressed opposition against an authoritarian regime.

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale docs.google.com/document/d/1...

feels a bit weird that we keep having these stories about individual cyber attacks but without anyone really joining the dots and going "okay, shall we maybe talk about this as a major global story"

This only happens to you once

Meanwhile, science is awesome:

WHO statement on autism-related issues The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between #autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) during pregnancy Full statement bit.ly/47YsgwI

The science is, in fact, clear. Good studies [1] consistently show a weak association between tylenol & autism. Those studies are very careful to say they can't establish whether this is causal. A huge Swedish study used a clever sibling design to address this, and showed zero causal effect [2].

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Very cool new feature in @deciphergenomics.bsky.social - direct link from any missense variant to ProtVar @ebi.embl.org. This variant is in the binding site and likely interacts with the ligand, predicted using AlphaFold with AlphaFill!

“Hey Frank, we need some art for the lunar eclipse story, stat!” “I’ve got just the thing, boss.”

Find the love in your heart, awaken to it, and beam it to everyone you can.

This week, ~230 national and international FinnGen partner researchers came together in Helsinki for our annual F2F-meeting at Kalastajatorppa. The excellent scientific presentations and exchange of ideas will help shape the next phase of FinnGen and advance our scientific goals. Thank you!

You aren't developing good hands by taking a bootcamp, reading a book, or half-assedly pipetting while watching youtube. No more than you're becoming a world-class pianist or athlete that way. Talent helps, but skills are developed through practice, not exposure alone

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

This is essentially a scaled up sauna 🪨🪨💦

Scalpers Jack Up Price Of Colorado Rockies Ticket To $11 https://theonion.com/scalpers-jack-up-price-of-colorado-rockies-ticket-to-11/

Congratulations, @arambaut.bsky.social !!! royalsociety.org/news/2025/08...

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The bluesky ecosystem: the menswear guy being quote posted by a prof. of political science, being reposted to my timeline by an astronomer.

Among all the other things, "The President has screwed things up so badly that the world's other rich countries won't deliver mail to us anymore" really should end it immediately.

On August 25 1944, after General Leclerc led the 🇫🇷 2nd armoured division into Paris, the French capital was liberated. There was no negotiation. Choltitz, the commander of the German garrison, surrendered